Spiritual Leadership Meets Transformative Learning
A Story Out of Africa
Abstract
The purpose of this essay is to help illustrate the integration of spiritual leadership and transformative learning theories. The intent is to suggest how this integration promotes the process of human inner development leading toward actions that contribute to a better world. After offering key points from the two theories, the essay presents the author’s narrative on learning to employ the theories for educating and training non-profit leaders, including assisting with the creation of a modular training program for Catholic sisters based in Kenya. Finally, brief narratives illustrate how that program’s input, practices, and processes positively and sustainably impacted several sisters’ leadership and, through them, their organizations.
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