Concept Mapping Servant Leadership

On my return from a week of retreat and enrichment in the principles and practice of contemplative servant leadership, I reviewed my notes and slides from the presentations. It was a challenge to fully appreciate them in relationship to each other and their gestalt when they were being presented sequentially at the retreat.

In order to provide an overview of the concepts in a singular view to myself, to explore some of the relationships between the concepts, and in general to better understand the material, I created the concept map below - a work-in-progress.

As some concepts seemed to me more related to groups as a point of focus and others seemed more focused on describing individuals, I divided the concepts accordingly (others mileage would surely vary in such an exercise). The division is somewhat artifical however, as are conceptual maps in general and as observed in both General Semantics ( "the map is not the territory") and Zen ("the finger pointing to the moon is not the moon"). Contemplative servant leadership takes place within an integrated process where God-Spirit, the group and the individual ideally co-evolve through discernment, the discovery of consensus and follow-through to manifestation and outer expression - and contemplation by its nature is of course nonconceptual in character.

The map below is best viewed in Fullscreen mode, Slide view, then Zoom in (or you can download the PDF file).

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Ron - sorry to say that even in full screen mode, the text was quite small. Do you happen to have this in another media you might be able to send along?
Bruce - You can download it in a PDF file.


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Also try clicking the Zoom - its a + (plus) command once you go to
fullscreen - let me know the outcome.
Great visual, Ron. I'm trying to locate the 10 dispositions that relate to the theological principles which Susan Komis talks about in her remarks on the video. Would they be the factors listed as part of the dispositions for discernment (9 are listed), the factors listed as part of the principles of spiritual leadership (12 are listed), or something else?
Mike - the dispositions are new and were developed by Fr. Thomas, who
was scheuled to present them but needed to cancel due to his
recuperation. I'll send them to you.