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Want to improve your knowledge of world faiths?
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Keen to develop your leadership skills?
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Want to meet men and women in positions of leadership from different faith backgrounds?
The LSE Faith Centre runs an extra-curricular Faith & Leadership certificate. The course has no preparatory reading or examination, and will deepen your understanding of different religions, develop your leadership skills and enhance your CV.
What’s it all about?
LSE forms future leaders. Our students come from all over the world and go on to positions of leadership in business, finance, government and civil society. 34 have become world leaders.
To lead successfully in today’s world it is increasingly clear that you need a sophisticated understanding of religion. Three quarters of humanity now profess a religious faith. That is set to rise to 80 per cent by 2050. But we’re increasingly aware that religion can be used for the bad as well as the good. The twenty-first century requires leaders who are sufficiently informed to understand the complex relation of religious narratives to social and political change and relate their own faith commitments wisely to the responsibilities they bear.
(The LSE Faith & Leadership alumni at last year's weekend residential)
What’s involved?
The course will run on seven Monday evenings beginning early in the Lent Term, and will include one residential weekend. It will include:
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Short, creative introductions to the main world faith traditions from expert scholars and community leaders.
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Consideration of the changing dynamics of religion in the world today and evolving models of secularism and religious pluralism.
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Training in decision-making, mediation and reconciliation by people experienced in the field.
Sessions with leaders in the different sectors studied at LSE (e.g. business, politics, law) from a range of different faith backgrounds.
(A Faith & Leadership group discussion)
What is the commitment?
The course is free of charge with no preparatory reading and no final assessment.
But commitment to the sessions is imperative. They run on a weekday evenings usually from 6-8pm, with a closing residential. You will be required to attend all the evening sessions and the residential. If you have concerns about the residential owing to religious observance please speak to us. Missing more than one session without good cause will disqualify you from the certificate.
How do I apply?
The applications round begins late in the Michaelmas Term. Numbers are limited, and will be looking for enthusiastic participants who will benefit most from the programme. We may interview some applicants in the last week of the Michaelmas term.
The application form can be downloaded here. Please submit to Faithcentre@lse.ac.uk by December 6th 2015.
The Faith Centre Leadership Certificate can be added to your LSE Personal Development Aide Memoire. (PDAM)