One Rock Institute

Are you a Christian, aged 20-40, who wants your life to make an impact for the Kingdom? If so, this could be a great opportunity for you. We’re looking for people who are not afraid to take a risk and pioneer something new in order to serve God.

The Institute is ideal for business owners, church planters, social entrepreneurs, youth workers, artists, NGO workers – for people leading or pioneering Kingdom ventures. If that’s you, then get in touch.

We’re also ideal for people who have an idea (or think they may have an idea) they want to put into practice, but who want more clarity on it, or don’t know where to start.

The sessions take place regularly on Tuesday evenings, from 7.30pm – 9.30pm (Kigali time). You need to regularly set aside this time to join our online workshops. Dates are set out below.

In addition there are coaching calls, videos to watch and books to read – these can all be scheduled for when works for you. You should plan for an extra two hours per week for these calls, videos and books.

The cost is $12 per month for the year of the Institute’s duration, from October 2023 to August 2024.

Over the year you will gain knowledge (of self, God and leadership) and strengthen relationships (with God, and with fellow Institute members). Specifically you will:

• Cover the best knowledge available in leadership, team dynamics, spiritual formation etc, taken from academia, business and the church. We’ve combed through the resources out there to bring you the best from leading thinkers and practitioners.
• Understand how your unique personality & strengths helps you best connect with God, points towards your calling, and reveals your leadership strengths and weaknesses.
• Learn from and be inspired by missional entrepreneurs who have already lived this out and changed the world.
• Gain a deep relationship with a successful leader to help you grow, coaching you through how to implement all this in your own life.
• Develop deep relationships with like-minded leaders to learn from and be inspired by.
• Join a course hosted by speakers with decades of experience who have taught all over the world, and are respected experts in their fields as authors, trainers and coaches.

You will have three overall outcomes from the Institute year:

• A personal rhythm of life, helping you to grow towards health, energy and maturity in every dimension of your being, and ensuring you lead from the security of knowing who you are in Christ.
• A personal vision and mission profile, helping you know with clarity the direction God is calling you towards, and your own unique role in helping make those visions become reality.
• A personal leadership plan, built around your own inherent leadership strengths, and covering the key areas of strategy, communication, team dynamics, and coaching skills to others.

Going through this process will draw you closer to God, improve your leadership capacity, and so help you in fulfilling God’s vision for your life.

There’s a few things that we think make us unique compared to other courses and resources:

• We combine spiritual formation and leadership skills together in a way few others do. We cover not only what you do, but look at your character and who you are in Christ, to make what you do all the more effective.
• We’re not tied to a particular curriculum. We constantly scour the world for the best resources so we can bring them to you, wherever or whoever they are from.
• Our model of training plus coaching plus community has been proven to get results.
• We lead you through a specific process of developing a rhythm of life, discerning the vision(s) God has for you, and then helping you put together a detailed leadership plan to turn those visions into reality.
• We bring Christian leaders together from different spheres of society to learn together and learn from each other; church, NGO, business, arts, politics, media, education, etc – all studying missional leadership together.
• You will receive a PEAKS personality profile, helping you understand how your unique personality impacts your spiritual formation and your leadership style. PEAKS is a 5-factor personality model based on the latest academic personality research, and developed by Research Communication in Singapore. Imagine the best of DISC and StrengthsFinder and you’re starting to get close…