May Reading: Create Dangerously
Due to some scheduling conflicts with our planning team, our group will not be hosting a servant leadership meeting in May.
Instead, we invite you to think about why servant-leadership matters in a changing world. In the introduction to the 2023 edition of the International Journal of Servant-Leadership, Shann Ray Ferch and Jiying Song give us a vision of servant-leadership grounded in art and optimism.
They write: “Life is shot through with the art and science of servant-leadership, and once we encounter it we see just how directly servant-leadership informs, deepens, and shapes us here and now. As for our mutual quest for the essence of servant-leadership, let’s show care for each other and our work. Sisterhood. Brotherhood. Good intention and good humor.”
In this short essay, you have the chance to look at servant-leadership through a new lens that resides in justice, art, vision and love, finding a way to navigate the darkness “not only with bravery and courage, but with love, and to do so not alone but in the company of others.”
While we will not be meeting in May, we hope you have a few moments to think about your place in servant leadership and reflect on the essay. You’ll find it here: https://repository.gonzaga.edu/ijsl/vol17/iss1/3/
The Servant-Leader community of practice will meet again on June 20 via Zoom.