Building Empowerment and Stewardship Through Community

In today’s rapidly changing and evolving global village we need not only to be concerned about education and employment for young adults, but with their life of faith, understood in the broad sense of how they make meaning.

Leadership is not at all about position and power. Real leadership, according to Maxwell, is being the person others will gladly and confidently follow.

Gardner’s observation that the development of intelligence is dependent on cultural and environmental factors, means that each of us may differ quite markedly in the types of intelligence in which we excel.

“An important dimension of wisdom is perspective – the ability to see different aspects of a situation and how they fit together. The more different facets of a situation we can take into account, the more inclusive, appropriate, effective and benign – in other words, the wiser – our

In The 7 Habits and his later books, Principle-Centered Leadership and The 8th Habit, Covey puts forward a new – or rather “reclaimed” – paradigm of leadership.

Leonard Doohan suggests that “all leadership development is ultimately self development.”

Is there a connection between the teachings of the Catholic Saint of the 17th Century, Vincent de Paul, and the ancient practice of mindfulness meditation espoused by Zen Buddhism?

Vincent de Paul encouraged his companions in mission to cultivate five virtues: simplicity, humility, meekness, mortification and zeal. The first, simplicity, he described as “my gospel.” To reflect on how we might interpret Vincent’s focus on simplicity as Vincentian leaders today, w

Though they lived centuries apart, Vincent de Paul and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi are viewed as examples of transformational leadership.