Learn how to set faithful boundaries
Many social workers and nonprofit leaders entered their vocation out of deep compassion, but the work is relentless and often underpaid and unseen. It’s easy to slip into survival mode and exhaustion.
This webinar replay is hosted by Rev. Dr. Tanner Smith as an opportunity to pause and rediscover faithful limits — the kind that make long-term, Christ-like service possible.
You’ll learn:
- How to recognize your personal reactivity pattern (fight, flight, fix, freeze)
- Simple practices and spiritual rhythms for when you feel overwhelmed
- How to see boundaries not as failure, but as faithfulness
Demanding work requires daily renewal
For those carrying a lot of responsibility at work — whether it’s emotional weight, constant pressure, or the needs of others — it’s easy to become exhausted. The Tired Leader’s Daily Calm Journal is a five-day guided journal designed to help you:
- Understand the stress and pressure shaping your reactions
- Discern what’s yours to carry and what you need to release
- Return to God’s presence with greater peace, clarity, and awareness
Each day includes a brief Scripture reflection, prayer, emotional check-in, and guided prompts for praise, lament, and renewal.
Leading when values compete
Whether you’re navigating donor pressure, staff disagreement, or tensions between personal conviction and organizational expectations, leadership can feel complicated and isolating. On the Practicing Hope podcast, we’re having conversations to help nonprofit and organizational leaders navigate competing values with greater wisdom, steadiness, and integrity.
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Competing Values Within Yourself
In the first episode of our new segment, Systems and Shifts, Rev. Jess Shults and Rev. Jeffrey Munroe talk about the challenges leaders face when their personal beliefs change, but their jobs and organizations expect them to stay the same. -
Competing Values in Leadership
In this episode, Jess and Jeff draw from real-life examples and Scripture to unpack how non-anxious leadership can change the tone of an entire community. You’ll hear stories of the power of curiosity, and how laughter, shared meals, and guiding values can help us reconnect when division threatens to pull us apart. -
Competing Values in Fundraising
What do you do when funding opportunities come with tension and tough choices? In this episode on The Practicing Hope Podcast, Rev. Jess Shults and Rev. Jeff Munroe dive into the real-life tension between staying true to your mission and accepting the money that helps make it happen.
Help your organization become more like Christ in conflict
Leading faithfully feels increasingly complex.
Organizational and nonprofit leaders are navigating change, stretched resources, team dynamics, difficult decisions, and competing priorities. Our workshops help leaders, staff, and boards learn to love like Christ as they navigate conflict and challenges together.
Some of our most requested workshops include:
- Cultivating Resilience — helping leaders remain calm, clear, and connected under pressure.
- Beholding — discovering hope and faithful next steps in difficult relationships.
- One Anothering — cultivating curiosity and love across political differences.
Whether you’re planning a staff retreat, strengthening your leadership team, or navigating a challenging season, we’d love to help you discern what would serve your organization best.
Encouragement for workplace tension
Subscribe to our newsletter, Hope in Your Inbox, for encouragement, practices, prayers, and honest reflections to help you navigate staff dynamics, difficult conversations, and the relational pressures that shape non-profit and organizational environments with wisdom, compassion, and hope.