Trainings for Focused Living
These trainings are built to help you intentionally grow—both in how you lead and how you live. Each one gives you practical tools, thoughtful frameworks, and guided reflection to help you develop a clearer sense of purpose in your everyday leadership.
MENTOR COACHING SEMINAR
Take this short course as your first step in your mentor-coaching journey. We don't pretend you'll be a master mentor-coach at the conclusion. That takes ample study and practice. We do, however, promise that you'll get your feet wet, become familiar with the paradigm, and spark some ideas of how you can be a better leader by being a better mentor-coach.
Mentorship, Coaching & Leadership Development at Grandview University
The Center for Mentoring, Coaching and Leadership Development at Grand View provides a unique opportunity to receive high-quality training in compassionate listening, mentor-coaching skills, and leadership development. Directed by Dr. Paul Leavenworth, the Center’s seminars, workshops, and certifications are developed from his decades of leadership experience and body of work and are offered through the Adult Education Department.
The Compassionate Listener
Discover how Compassionate Listening can transform communication, strengthen relationships, and help others grow. Dr. Paul Leavenworth introduces practical skills including active listening, powerful questions, discovery learning, and the IDEA Methodology for understanding the “story within the story.” Through real-world applications and reflective exercises, you’ll learn to listen and lead with greater empathy and effectiveness. Leave with a proven framework for creating environments where people feel heard, empowered, and equipped to thrive.
The Compassionate Leader
Lead with humility, strengthen relationships, empower teams, and create lasting impact
building compassionate communities
Build belonging through compassion, communication, culture, and collaborative leadership
STARTING WELL
This teaching series on Starting Well by Dr. Paul Leavenworth and Richard Clinton is designed to share Biblical principles and practical life lessons that will help you in your process of Christian growth and ministry development, particularly in the early stages of your life in ministry. We believe that there are biblical principles, if applied, that will help Christian leaders to start, live and lead, and finish well in their lives and ministries.
LIVING & LEADING WELL COURSE
Live and lead well in the middle season of ministry so that you can someday finish well.
FINISHING WELL
End well in ministry so you can pass the baton to the next generation and live in the afterglow.
