Qualities of Discerning Leaders

Written By Katie Harmon-McLaughlin

Discernment is more than a process and practice. It is a leadership posture. Which of these characteristics are calling to you in your leadership?

•Ability to facilitate in structured fluidity

•Ambiguity Tolerance

•Attention and Deep Listening

•Capacity to tend emergence without a clear outcome

•Refusal to bypass– what is here and happening is where discernment is taking place

•A non-anxious presence at the wild edge of faith in the God who is here and now

Katie Harmon-McLaughlin
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