Annual Formation Review

A free 90 minute guided reflection and ‘silent coaching’ session to review your growth over the past year, plan ahead for your continued spiritual, theological and leadership development, and share ideas and encouragements with a small peer group. Led by Crosslands faculty, designed for Crosslands alumni and other Christian leaders committed to their own ongoing formation.

In the busyness of frontline ministry it can be very difficult to pay attention to our own formation and to set aside time to reflect on all that we’re navigating: to give thanks for the growth God has worked in us and work out how to build on it; to take account of the cost of ministry and be intentional about recovering our reserves; to anticipate what’s coming up and proactively set ourselves up with the patterns, learning, support and accountability we need to sustain us through it.

Book yourself in for Crosslands’ Annual Formation Review workshop: 90 minutes of guided reflection and personal development planning. It takes place online, alongside other Christian leaders – but mostly in silence!  It’s an unusual but valuable process.  We’ll provide the reflection prompts. You’ll make your own private notes, taking stock first of how the Lord has brought you through the year past before you look ahead and start to map out what you need to prioritise, and what actions you want to take or commitments you need to make to focus on those priorities well, as you embark on the year ahead.  

There won’t be any requirement to report your reflections to others; it’s entirely private. Towards the end of the session there will be a brief small-group breakout to pray together. If there are others from your former tutor group, or just a group of friends joining the call together, we will arrange for you to be in a breakout room together.  If you’re attending without a peer group there will be others to pray with.  We’ll leave the rooms open at the end of the scheduled time for any peer groups who want a bit longer to connect and catch up.  And then you’ll go away to pick up the conversations you want and need to have, with your spouse, your fellow church leaders, or anyone else whose partnership you depend on in your ongoing leadership and ministry.

We recommend that you block out a whole morning for this, making yourself unavailable and switching off distractions.