Curriculum
The curriculum for Arrow is designed around four modules, delivered over a 2-year period, utilising four main vehicles: residential retreats (live-in, Monday to Friday), reading programme, community and coaching.
Each residential retreat includes:
- Worship, Word & Prayer - as a community centering ourselves to learn and grow
- Personal development tool - each module contains a significant tool that will help you grow and strengthen your leadership competencies
- Presentations with Q&A - we select presenters who can unlock a topic and provide discussion opportunities, so that the learning is robust and embedded. Presenters at the Arrow residentials are all passionate about empowering and equipping leaders for the long haul. They bring their own real experience as leaders, with their own nuances, shared with integrity.
- On the Couch - behind the scenes stories from the frontline of ministry
- Peer groups - a key part of the learning journey is the opportunity to go deeper with a peer group for shared learning, understanding, prayer and mutual resourcing
- Staff team - we are ready and willing to discuss challenges you are facing, pray, connect you with resources, and support you in any way we can
- Fun & food - residentials are famous for their good food and a lot of laughter!
Reading & Learning Programme:
As part of deepening and embedding the learning we are doing in each module we assign readings which support the topics taught. In between residentials, we have a personal journal to record your learnings and discussion groups to help us hear each other's perspectives and to ensure we are engaging fully. We seek to include texts that are both classics and ones you might not have personally chosen - this helps us stretch our perspective and develop a practice that will stand us in good stead for our leadership in the long term. We are also in the process of developing an app that will help us connect with podcasts, blogs, and share resources together.
Coaching:
Each Arrow participant is provided with a professional coach for the duration of their two-year journey. This coach will help you set your goals and provide accountability and support to achieve them. This personalises the learning and input gained in each module, as well as being able to respond to events that occur in your own unique context.
Community:
Arrow is far more than a 2-year journey, we believe that the way we will see leaders flourish and achieve what God has for each of us is in community. As you complete your residential programme, you become part of the Arrow alumni - both nationally and globally. We are building this to be a connected community of leaders who continue to resource one another across the country through both planned events and organic connection.
Accreditation
Arrow Leadership NZ has partnered with both Carey Baptist College and Laidlaw College to have the programme be accounted as Recognised Prior Learning (RPL).
- Carey Baptist College provides RPL to graduates of the Arrow Leadership NZ programme that elect to fulfil the Arrow programme requirements, and can grant between 15 and 30 credits towards an appropriate undergraduate qualification
- Laidlaw College provides RPL to graduates of the Arrow Leadership NZ programme that elect to fulfil the Arrow programme requirements, and can grant up to 30 credits toward an appropriate Level 7 Theology qualification.
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