Virtual Summit:

Leading During Polarizing Times

FAQS

How long do I have access to the videos?

Each session will be available to watch from the time the stream starts until 12PM (noon) September 11th, 2025. After this time, you will have the opportunity to purchase lifetime access to all video sessions, downloads, and giveaways.

How do I watch the session videos?

You can find the direct link to each session after it has launched to watch on demand by visiting the full schedule page, or the main lobby page.

What if I have technical issues?

If you are experiencing technical difficulties, please visist this page and fill out a short form. We are standing by during the free summit experience to make sure you are able to have any issues resolved quickly. Of something is not working correctly, please take a screenshot to send with your request to make it easier to troubleshoot.

How do I purchase the summit videos?

You can upgrade the Summit and watch all six sessions on demand with a 6-month access period for $47. Click here to purchase the Summit. 

How do I find more information on the Center for Transforming Engagement

At the Center for Transforming Engagement, we equip leaders and communities to reclaim well-being, reimagine their roles, and reinvent how they serve others in our complex culture. We know firsthand the discouragement, disillusionment, and burnout that often accompany ministry and community leadership—yet we remain clear-eyed and hopeful, committed to building a future marked by resilience, belonging, and generativity. Our work bridges the wisdom of Christian tradition with the insights of social science, offering tools and spaces that help leaders engage today’s challenges with courage and compassion.

Two of our flagship offerings, Resilience Circles and Leaders Circles, provide spaces for transformation and renewal. Resilience Circles invite participants from diverse backgrounds to cultivate self-compassion, manage stress, and deepen connections across differences. Over eight months of shared learning and storytelling, these circles foster emotional growth and spiritual depth, offering a “safe enough” place to bridge divides and rediscover hope.

Leaders Circles are designed specifically for clergy and ministry leaders navigating uncertainty, trauma, and congregational division. Offered in three focused modules, these small-group cohorts combine theology and social science to strengthen leaders’ inner lives, build trauma-informed practices, and equip them to guide divided communities with grace. In both programs, participants find authentic community and practical tools that help them move from fragmentation toward wholeness, for themselves, their congregations, and the wider world.

Find out more about the Center here. 

Virtual Summit Home

The main hub of the virtual summit: Leading During Polarizing Times.

Speaker Info

Meet each of our session speakers and how their unique backgrounds give them the expertise to lead ministry leaders.

Full Schedule

Click here to see the schedule of events, containing all the speaker session details.

Full attendance and participation during all sessions are expected to complete the program.
Terms / Conditions. By registering for a Resilience or Leaders Circle, you agree to the following (scroll down and click agree)
Please consider the schedule closely to ensure you will be able to participate in the virtual meetings, and block off your calendar to ensure your attendance. Should you have an emergency (illness, situations out of your control) that will impact your participation please email transforming@theseattleschool.edu
Time commitment:
Two hours one day per month for 8 months, dates to be determined by majority of registrants' availability and adjusted as needed during the first group meeting.
Your feedback is immensely valuable!
As an essential component of your participation in this program, we ask that you provide us with your honest, candid, and timely feedback in program surveys and conversations, and consider providing reviews or testimonials of the program for promotional use.
Code of Conduct:
The Center for Transforming Engagement strives for intentionality in the ways we relate to one another - how we as a team relate to each other, how we relate to participants, and how we hope participants will relate to us and one another. To that end, we hold cultural norms about the ways we interact with one another. Your participation in this program is contingent on your agreement to abide by these cultural norms. i. For growth to happen, we all need to be able to share about the deeper challenges we face. To provide that atmosphere of openness and support, you commit to not sharing personal information that is shared in program meetings. ii. In our interactions with each other and our communities, we practice the humility of not-knowing that is required to listen and discover. iii. Be aware of different cultural and characterological ways of communicating, and invite others’ voices. Respect theological differences: the river of Christian orthodoxy is wide, and while the streams of that river are distinct, they are not inherently better or worse. Even if you can’t respect the belief, treat the person with respect. iiii. We value both thoughts and feelings as valuable pieces of information that inform one another, and inform our learning and discerning together. iv. Be in the here and now (not mentally somewhere or some time else), with the people who are sharing their time and stories with you. Eliminate any distractions possible.
Fair Use Policy
All program content, recordings, and materials are the intellectual property of The Seattle School and may not be presented, distributed, or replicated. The Seattle School retains the copyright for all recorded content. Some print materials (PDFs, worksheets, journal prompts, etc.) will be licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike. Those materials will be available for download on our website, and may be used as long as the following conditions are met: (1) attribute to the Center for Transforming Engagement even if remixed/modified; (2) do not use for commercial (paid) purposes; and (3) anything you make that remixes or builds upon this material, you must also distribute under Creative Commons. More information on this license is available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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(scroll down and click agree) Full attendance and participation during all sessions are expected to complete the program. Please consider the schedule closely to ensure you will be able to participate in the virtual meetings, and block off your calendar to ensure your attendance. Should you have an emergency (illness, situations out of your control) that will impact your participation please email transforming@theseattleschool.edu Time commitment: Two hours one day per month for 8 months, dates to be determined by majority of registrants' availability and adjusted as needed during the first group meeting. Your feedback is immensely valuable! As an essential component of your participation in this program, we ask that you provide us with your honest, candid, and timely feedback in program surveys and conversations, and consider providing reviews or testimonials of the program for promotional use. 2. Code of Conduct The Center for Transforming Engagement strives for intentionality in the ways we relate to one another - how we as a team relate to each other, how we relate to participants, and how we hope participants will relate to us and one another. To that end, we hold cultural norms about the ways we interact with one another. Your participation in this program is contingent on your agreement to abide by these cultural norms. Confidentiality. For growth to happen, we all need to be able to share about the deeper challenges we face. To provide that atmosphere of openness and support, you commit to not sharing personal information that is shared in program meetings. Curiosity. In our interactions with each other and our communities, we practice the humility of not-knowing that is required to listen and discover. Respect differences. Be aware of different cultural and characterological ways of communicating, and invite others’ voices. Respect theological differences: the river of Christian orthodoxy is wide, and while the streams of that river are distinct, they are not inherently better or worse. Even if you can’t respect the belief, treat the person with respect. You are invited to be a whole person, with both thoughts and feelings. We value both thoughts and feelings as valuable pieces of information that inform one another, and inform our learning and discerning together. Presence. Be in the here and now (not mentally somewhere or some time else), with the people who are sharing their time and stories with you. Eliminate any distractions possible. 3. Fair Use Policy All program content, recordings, and materials are the intellectual property of The Seattle School and may not be presented, distributed, or replicated. The Seattle School retains the copyright for all recorded content. Some print materials (PDFs, worksheets, journal prompts, etc.) will be licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike. Those materials will be available for download on our website, and may be used as long as the following conditions are met: (1) attribute to the Center for Transforming Engagement even if remixed/modified; (2) do not use for commercial (paid) purposes; and (3) anything you make that remixes or builds upon this material, you must also distribute under Creative Commons. More information on this license is available at creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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