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Freed To Lead

Effective Identity-based Leadership
in a 10-week Discipleship Course

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What to expect

Freed To Lead is a 10 session discipleship course that will help you become the leader God has created you to be

Freed To Lead will transform your leadership. It will free you from drivenness and burnout; enable you to survive personal attacks; use conflict positively; and overcome other barriers to effective leadership.

Perfect for a leadership retreat or for a weekly leadership meeting, involving indepth bible studies, 30 minutes of DVD-based teaching and 'Pause for Thoughts' to allow you to really apply the principles to your own leadership context.

Includes The Steps To Freedom For Leaders - a "spiritual MOT" to help ensure you have dealt with any of the spiritual roots that may be holding you back in your leadership

An overview of each session

Session 1 | The Adventure of Leadership

Christian leadership is the leadership the world really needs today. Yet the very people who need true leadership are the ones consciously or unconsciously undermine, attack, sabotage and destroy leadership. As Christians, we have a great advantage when approaching this dilemma - Jesus, the greatest leader who ever lived, lives in us by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Session 2 | Real Christian Leadership

Every single one of us can be a real Christ-centred leader. True Christian leadership is distinctively different from other forms of leadership. It's an issue of discipleship - if we are following Jesus well, we will lead others well.

Session 3 | Being And Doing

In both leadership and discipleship, the primary issue is not doing: it's being. Our 'doing' always flows from our being. Our tendency is to either forge ahead and do things in our own strength, or to hang back too much and not do what we should. The biblical principal is that we can do "all things" but only "through Him who strengthens" us.

Session 4 | Leading In Your Context

Being a healthy leader alone does not determine our fruitfulness as a leader. Our people-system will determine our leadership effectiveness far more than we realise. A healthy people-system will often help make an unhealthy leader effective; an unhealthy people-system will often render a healthy leader ineffective.

Session 5 | Building Healthy People-Systems

Leadership is the primary determinant of whether people-systems remain healthy or become even more fruitful. The power to influence our people-systems towards health comes from our being: our spiritual health and our genuine commitment to our people. The greatest bane to our leadership is anxiety. To the degree we have unmanaged or unresolved anxiety, we cannot lead effectively.

Session 6 | Overcoming Personal Anxiety

Resolving anxiety is a choice. This session includes a number of practical ways of reducing anxiety, from examining our 'Godly Goals' to practising different spiritual disciplines. The dilemma is that anxiety always hides or disguises itself, so we can be completely unaware of the corrosive influence it is having on our leadership.

Session 7 | Overcoming Group Anxiety

We must be anxiety-resistant leaders if we are to lead our people-systems to resist and resolve chronic anxiety. This session looks at five classic behaviours of anxious people-systems and how to overcome them. The challenge is that authentic, healthy, connected leaders are the only hope for chronically anxious people-systems - and yet those people-systems will always try to expel the healthy leader before the anxiety is resolved.

Session 8 | Building And Keeping Trust

This session looks at indicators of low-trust and high-trust people-systems, and signifcantly the 'trust environment' that God places us in. It goes on to explore trust building behaviours of being and trust building behaviours of doing, and examines how to regain trust in a people-system when it has been eroded.

Session 9: Overcoming Personal Pitfalls

We face five different types of personal pitfalls - temptation, self-centredness, emotional, communication and exhaustion. Even though we have been given everything we need in Christ to avoid these pitfalls, we still tend to fall in them. This session examines each one, and offers strategies for overcoming them.

Session 10: Overcoming Group Pitfalls

Group pitfalls are a set of predictable, but not inevitable reactions within your people-system in response to effective leadership. They invariably present as dilemmas, rather than problems, and commonly fall into one of four camps: selfishness, sabotage, strife and suffering. This session explores effective (and ineffective!) ways of dealing with Group Pitfalls.

The Steps To Freedom For Leaders

The Steps To Freedom For Leaders focus on the personal and spiritual issues common to people in leadership - whether it's in the church, the marketplace, the home or the community. They will help you identify and resolve personal and spiritual issues that can weaken, undermine or even destroy your leadership. The steps can be used in a group setting, through personal appointments or individually. We strongly recommend using them in a personal setting with an encourager and prayer partner.

"An outstanding retreat – inspirational and motivational, affirming and encouraging."

"It has reinforced my conviction that my identity is first and foremost in Christ,
whatever leadership role I may hold."

"I’m thankful for the opportunity to have received the training and excited at how God
will use it to transform me into the leader He has created me to be."

"Such an amazing journey over 3 days."

""The best course I have been on to date."

""Inspirational and timely. Perfect balance between teaching and sharing practical experience."

Buy resources!

Freed To Lead Starter Pack for 20 - With DVD

Freed To Lead Starter Pack for 20 - With DVD

£179.00

Freed To Lead Starter Pack for 10 - With DVD

Freed To Lead Starter Pack for 10 - With DVD

£139.00

Freed To Lead Starter Pack for 5 - With DVD

Freed To Lead Starter Pack for 5 - With DVD

£109.00

Freed To Lead Starter Pack for 20 - NO DVD

Freed To Lead Starter Pack for 20 - NO DVD

£129.00

Freed To Lead Starter Pack for 10 - NO DVD

Freed To Lead Starter Pack for 10 - NO DVD

£89.00

Freed To Lead Starter Pack for 5 - NO DVD

Freed To Lead Starter Pack for 5 - NO DVD

£59.00

The Freedom In Christ Prayer Manual

£10.00

Freed To lead Course Leader's Guide

Freed to Lead Course Leader's Guide

£12.99

Freed to Lead Participant's Guide

Freed to Lead Participant's Guide

£7.99

Freed to Lead Participant's Guide Pack of 5

Freed to Lead Participant's Guide Pack of 5

£35.00

Freed to Lead by Rod Woods

Freed To Lead - The Book

£14.99

Freed To Lead DVD

Freed To Lead DVD

£75.00

Freed To Lead - Leaders Guide and The Book

£25.00

Setting Your Church Free

£14.99

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Freedom In Christ Ministries is a registered charity (no. 1082555) and company limited by guarantee (no. 3984116) that exists to support church leaders to make fruitful disciples of every generations. Founded in the USA by Dr Neil T. Anderson in 1989, the UK Ministry was established in May 2000. We are a member of the Evangelical Alliance and Global Connections... (more)

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