DISCIPLESHIP
PERSONAL AND SPIRITUAL FORMATION
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God honouring priorities
Living a life of worship and prayer. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Ensuring appropriate care of family and healthy relationships.
I recognise the need for healthy life balance and try to schedule time for regular personal prayer and worship. I understand the need for holistic well-being that balances the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of health/wholeness. I have a mutually beneficial network of friends and family.
I demonstrate holistic life balance, healthy lifestyle, and time management that honours family commitments alongside my appointment and ministry. I maintain regular sabbath and rhythms of prayer that includes prayer with family and visitors. I invest in friendships with neighbours, people in the community, and colleagues.
I avoid over working and ensure others are not pressured. I look after myself and my significant relationships. I signpost resources that offer good teaching/guidance. I notice and draw attention to the temptation to extremes and imbalance, supporting and coaching and mentoring.
I shape a culture that recognises the challenges of life, ensuring procedures and processes validate all states of ‘being’ in ministry, enabling thriving ministry in all personal circumstances. I continue to listen and understand people’s experiences and invest in wellbeing.
Spiritual formation and receiving grace
Taking responsibility for a deepening love relationship with Jesus, through commitment to spiritual disciplines, and receiving ministry from others.
I understand the importance of personal spiritual formation and have begun to explore spiritual disciplines to develop this further. I am part of a community of faith within the body of Christ and I receive ministry from others in this community. They belong to a corps/local church.
I invest in my spiritual development and make it a priority in time and energy. I embrace spiritual disciplines individually and with others (including being grounded in the body of Christ in my local corps). I build and engage with supportive networks and fellowships. I allow God to minister to me through the ministry of others. I take responsibility to seek and engage in Care and Equip meetings, Annual Reviews, and Accompanied Development.
From my own deepening relationship with God, I provide for spiritual formation in my context with prayer and space to receive grace. I initiate conversations in support/challenge of the spiritual growth of others, remembering couples are formed of individuals. I create individual and community relationships of trust, with safe spaces to speak truth, to be vulnerable, and explore issues. I signpost to support and resources.
I continually engage in the transformation process (Romans 12). I recognise both my position to encourage deep reflective living and my responsibility to influence the spiritual temperature of my context. I demonstrate humility in leadership which enables me to receive grace, forming an environment of honesty, transparency, and accountability that supports spiritual growth.
Self-awareness and resilience
Seeking feedback, increasing mindfulness, developing our personal wellbeing.
I have a growing self-awareness and am beginning to receive and act upon feedback more readily. I am willing to explore reflective practices to understand my behaviours. I am becoming aware of ways my relationship with God should influence my relationships with others. I notice what energises and drains me seek to manage this towards a balanced life.
I seek to develop emotional intelligence, graciously receive feedback, and engage in self-reflection to increase self-awareness. I commit to reflective practices to deepen my relationship with God and influence how I act. I am aware that the depth of my spiritual life impacts the life of others and changes the community which I lead. I am mindful of my personal wellbeing and life balance/equilibrium. I create space for those things which feed, fill and energise me.
I help build a culture of wellbeing, resilience, and accountability, supporting people to engage with wellbeing provision. I support others to acknowledge outcomes of situations and learn from the lessons they provide.
I advocate a systemic culture of self-awareness and help create a healthy working culture, mitigating impacts of adversity, building capacity for resilience, using qualitative and quantitative data and insights. I ensure principles and resources are in place for wellbeing support and update as appropriate.
Personal impact
Understanding the impact on others of my use of personal power and influence
I can articulate my understanding of Salvation Army values and behaviours and try to demonstrate these in my interactions with others. I recognise how power and influence can be misused.
I demonstrate personal confidence, passion and authority, with humility and grace, role-modelling Salvation Army values and behaviours and promoting inclusivity. I am aware of the risk of manipulating others and imposing myself or my personal views because of my position within The Salvation Army.
I am a role model for my team, acting ethically and with integrity. I handle personal information of others in a professional and transparent manner. I take a stand with senior colleagues when it is the right thing to do despite significant opposition or risk. I am conscious of the need to share power with people rather than over people.
I ensure that practices and procedures demonstrate proper treatment of others, both inside and outside of The Salvation Army, being aware of potential unintended negative impact on others. I take responsibility for decisions and actions, to ensure they are ethical and can be explained. I use power in a mutually transforming manner, to enable the flourishing of individuals, communities, and The Salvation Army.
Lifelong learning
Through welcoming developmental feedback and using reflective practice, contributing to self-awareness, personal growth and development
I seek opportunities to learn new things. I engage in discussion with a range of people about my personal growth which informs my ongoing development.
I reflect on my performance, respond to feedback, and can identify my learning and developmental needs. I commit to continuous learning and development.
I model commitment to lifelong learning. I actively seek and apply learning from feedback to adapt my practice to support my development in maturity as a leader and inspire others to do the same.
I contribute to advancing The Salvation Army as a strategic learning organisation, developing culture and practice. I ensure continuity of learning and development provision in my context.
Adaptability and time management
Managing self, existing and evolving situations
I apply strategies to manage my workload and can change my plans in response to new situations. I am beginning to put in place appropriate boundaries and can prioritise.
I effectively manage my workload and circumstances and any associated pressure and can adapt to new and evolving situations. I am aware of what is reasonable and know when to decline requests, create appropriate boundaries, and when to choose sacrificial service.
I manage multiple workloads and can adapt to new and evolving situations with creativity and innovation. I influence others to more effectively manage their workloads.
I work to embed adaptability and build a systemic culture of effective time management that promotes the importance of a healthy life balance.
