Graduate Certificate in Leadership

The Graduate Certificate in Leadership allows students to focus on the spirituality of organisations and to integrate spirituality, leadership and organisational transformation.

Graduates are equipped to meet the challenge of new moral imperatives facing the world.

The Graduate Certificate in Leadership consists of 72 points comprised of one of the following programs.

1. Program: Leadership, Spirituality and Organisational Practice [Jesuit College of Spirituality]

Candidates must complete the following units:

• either DS8041J or DS8049J Organisational Behaviour and Spiritual Leadership
• either DS9111J or DS9119J Leadership, Spirituality and Organisational Practice

Candidates must also complete one of the following units:

• either DS9161J or DS9169J Organisational Transformation and Ignatian Spirituality
• either DS9121J or DS9129J Apostolic Leadership and Entrepreneurial Practice

2. Program: Leadership in Christian Education [Australian Lutheran College]

Candidates must complete the following units:

• DA9001L Leadership for a Christian Context
• DE9016L Education and Theology in Dialogue

Candidates must also complete one of the following units

• DE9035L Ethics, Values and Decision Making for Educators
• DS9001L Spiritual Dimensions of Leadership in a Christian School

3. Program: Living Leadership [Pilgrim Theological College]

Candidates must complete 72 points selected from the following units:

• DP800P Self and Other in Pastoral Relationship
• DP8004 Integrative Leadership Formation
• either DS9010P or DS9019P Discernment and Authority in Christian Tradition
• DP9005P Educating and Ministering through Life’s Passages
• DP9805P Effective Christian Leadership and Ministry
• DP8002P Living Leadership: Managing Organisational Change Faithfully
• DP8003P Formation for Christian Leadership

4. Program: Stirling Theological College

Candidates must complete the following units:

• either DA9016S or DA9716S Spiritual and Self Leadership
• either DA9018S or DA9718S Leading People and Teams
• DP8011S Reflective Practice

Successful completion of an undergraduate degree, or an approved equivalent.

Graduates of the Graduate Certificate in Leadership:

1. have knowledge of how processes, structures, skills and attitudes impact on organisational development at different stages;
2. have skills in reflection, research and communication required for effective engagement in organisations;
3. have engaged with conscious and unconscious processes in self and other, informed by the pedagogy and dynamics of theological and spiritual reflection as applied to groups as well as to individuals;
4. apply key concepts of organisational behaviour, systems thinking and spirituality to the task of leadership, including processes which facilitate healthy organisational development and transformation.