Grace and Associates
Inspiring Courage, Hope and Action for Just Communities
vSeminars and Keynote Addresses
Grace and Associates can provide Keynote Speeches or Lectures that touch listeners' hearts, capture their imaginations and inspire them to commit to expressing their deepest values at home, work and community. Listeners find renewed passion for being their best selves in all life settings.
Interactive seminars create opportunities for groups to dream together and gain foundational skills to create their desired future. Sample topics include, Values Based Leadership for the Common Good, Staying Grounded in Difficult Times, Ethical Decision Making, Turning Public Space into Gracious Space, and Spirit-Informed Leadership.
In these workshops, participants build a learning community with others where they discover the heart and soul of leadership, and the practice of integrity for the sake of advancing the common good. They learn a practical model for integrating values into everyday life. Utilizing this model, they can become more effective individuals, employees, and citizens.
Grace and Associates works with clients to customize the seminar content so that it is relevant and practical for the particular setting in which it is delivered.
vCommunities of Practice
Regular, disciplined relationships with others can offer insight about ourselves and our roles in life and work that equips us to live more effectively. In reflective conversation, we gain clarity, courage and hope to persevere on our chosen path.
Grace and Associates offers two types of facilitated learning communities. Leaders support one another in developing awareness of how they are being called to exercise positive influence in their unique settings.
In a year-long series of monthly gatherings, participants deepen their understanding of key leadership principles and engage in reflective practice with others in order to ground this knowledge in real-life experience Learn More
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In regularly scheduled small group phone conversations, participants share current leadership experiences in a safe, confidential setting, in order to gain greater self-awareness and increased competence. Create your own group with 3-4 colleagues or email to be placed on the list for the next group that forms. Participants commit to 6 sessions over a 3-month period, with the option to renew that commitment.
vLeadership Coaching
vOrganizational Development Consulting
Leaders who seek personal integrity also yearn to see a greater sense of integrity demonstrated by their institutions and communities. While they affirm their organizations' noble purpose, they are also aware that the pressures of everyday business can cause them to lose touch with what is most important. Grace and Associates develops an ongoing relationship with organizations committed to serving their noblest purpose. We work with you to understand your needs, then walk with you on the path of discerning your highest purpose and developing freedom to achieve that purpose. Email to request a complimentary phone consultation to explore the possibilities for your organization.
One-on one Leadership Coaching helps individuals call upon their own depth of being in order to exercise positive influence in the organizations of which they are part. Applying this reflective practice to the interplay of personal and organizational life helps them take action consistent with deeply held values, call and purpose. Individual coaching appointments may be held by phone or in person (in the Seattle area). Email to request a complimentary introductory session.
Programs and Services
Grace and Associates offers a range of programs and services, all designed to assist you in building institutions and communities of integrity by forming individuals of integrity. Each offering is customizable to your group's specific need or situation.
Our Core Programs
vCompact for the Common Good
The Compact for the Common Good is a public promise by community leaders to continue to work for a future informed by social justice, compassion and stewardship and to manage resources and social structures so that all people in their communities may thrive. This is a national movement bringing together leaders from cities, counties, states and regions to examine the challenges facing their communities. In the context of gracious space, they chart a courageous path forward based on a clear commitment to the common good.
Gathered leaders are guided through a carefully designed process that builds a common vision of a social structure that works for all, a common understanding of the impediments to achieving that vision, and a common set of principles that will form society for coming generations. Grace and Associates stands ready to offer ongoing consultation to communities on the journey of bringing their commitments to life. Read More
vValues Based Leadership
Values Based Leaders are guided by a sense of vocation to advance the Common Good, the state of existence where resources are stewarded justly to ensure the well-being of all. By creating a collaborative climate where often overlooked perspectives are included, they generate a sense of hope and possibility, grounded in a realistic appraisal of current reality.
They are conscious of their most deeply held values and intentionally integrate them into their lives. Inspired by a vision of how these values might be more fully manifest in their individual, organizational, and communal existence, they give voice to their aspirations, inviting others to join them in pursuit of the greater good, sustained by the virtue of courage.
We support this program by offering seminars and training, organizational consultation, leadership coaching, and communities of practice for Values Based Leaders. Read More
vSpirit Informed Leadership
Spirit-informed Leaders find meaning in relationship with their deepest source which liberates them to act courageously for the renewal of their institutions and communities. They view themselves and all social entities as complex spiritual entities, called by a Spirit within and beyond to fulfill a noble purpose. Recognizing that organizations often become distracted from this ultimate purpose, they work to increase organizational freedom to fulfill this purpose. We offer an intensive seminar on Spirit Informed Leadership, organizational consultation, coaching, and communities of practice for Spirit Informed Leaders. Read More
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