for diverse, sustainable communities
Training leaders to create gracious space for courageous conversations and consulting to heal and transform organizations.
Our Services
The Kaleidoscope Institute offers a wide range of opportunities for individuals and communities to create missional and sustainable ministries. Contact us for more information.
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We offer customized opportunities for your community including:
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Check out our Events Page for current offerings. We regularly offer workshops on:
Becoming a Conversation Guide (Spanish & English)
KBS For Preachers
Facilitator Training
Financial Literacy
Sacred Decisions (Spirituality of Consensus)
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Our Associates are available to meet with you or your team to guide you through your efforts to:
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This is at the heart of KI’s work. For more information see our
What People Are Saying
It was such a privilege to observe the moment of transformation, when a community struggling to communicate beyond past hurts and misunderstandings, suddenly took ownership of the process toward authentic relationships, with a hopeful future.
— Cindy Burkert
KI brought me to hope that through the embodiment of Holy Currencies, churches could do sustainable, transformative, subversive, and revolutionary ministries beyond capitalism.
— Nayoung Ha
The KI Way
The Kaleidoscope Institute believes change happens in the space between comfort and fear – what Eric Law has described as the Grace Margin. Our work is based on respectful communication, building relationships where persons can change and learn in developmentally appropriate ways. Our disciplines include: dialogue, noticing and wondering together, questioning assumptions, tell the truth about ourselves and our organizations, and modeling alternatives to present patterns and problems.
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The Kaleidoscope Institute honors the values and tradition of the organizations with which we work.
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The Kaleidoscope Institute creates a gracious respectful environment in which all participants are invited to become a community of trust.
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Transformation (adaptive change or profound change) sometimes requires the community to look beyond the surface to reveal and name the deeper issues that need to be addressed.
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The Kaleidoscope Institute strives to strike a balance between getting the job done by helping participants to set achievable, realistic, and measurable goals, and providing processes for dialogue for understanding and trust- building.
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When appropriate, the Kaleidoscope Institute provides the appropriate leadership skill training to enhance intercultural competency and sustainability so that our clients can accomplish the goals they set and continue the work beyond the scope of the proposal training/consultation.
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We are committed to creating environments that will not favor one group over another, but will support and affirm each group, enabling them to dialogue constructively for the purpose of building a stronger, more faithful community.