The Emotionally Healthy Leader

One of the goals of this course is to develop leadership that is both spiritually healthy and emotionally healthy. Most of the time we
can articulate a description of what a spiritually healthy leader looks like. However, are we able to describe what an emotionally
healthy leader looks like.
Upon successful completion of this assignment, you will be able to:
 Hypothesize the characteristics and virtues needed for healthy emotional leadership.

Background Information
Peter Scazzero is a leading voice in the movement to articulate emotional leadership for Christian leaders. For further reading, we
recommend his book The Emotionally Healthy Leader. For this concluding workshop on emotional leadership we have
supplemented your readings with several videos from Scazzero.

Instructions

Review your notes from all chapters of Emotional Intelligence for Religious Leaders and watch the two assigned videos:
The Emotionally Healthy Leader(new tab)” and “The Emotionally Unhealthy Leader(new tab).
Prepare for your essay by compiling one list of the virtues and attributes that you consider healthy in a leader like empathy, compassion, self-control, and the ability to lead people through difficult decisions. Then, make a second list of the negative

attributes you have experienced or heard reports of in ministry, like emotional manipulation, temper tantrums, or abuses of power.

Write a 7-page essay describing the Emotionally Healthy Christian Leader. For this essay:
First, personalize the title to reflect your context of ministry. (Change the Emotionally Healthy Christian Leader to the Emotionally Healthy Pastor, the Emotionally Healthy Chaplain, ore the Emotionally Healthy Youth Leader, etc.)
Write an essay describing emotional health in your chosen context of ministry that includes topics like emotional self-control, empathy, organizational awareness, or any of Peter Scazzero’s four pillars of emotional health (from the video), between the texts
and the videos, there are many topics to choose from. It is important that your selections reflect your ministry context and paint a clear picture of what emotional intelligence (or emotional health) looks like where you are serving.
Remember, this is an academic essay and not a first-person narrative. For this assignment, proper Chicago Style(new tab) formatting is expected that includes a title page, headers, page numbers properly formatted footnotes, and a bibliography.

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