Collaborative Learning Groups
When you register, you select one of the following facilitated learning groups to join. This will be your learning community for the journey leading up to the Soularize 2007 event in the Bahamas.

Jordon Cooper
Jordon's group will be looking at the metaphors from both the perspective that comes from inside the traditional congregation as well as from the viewpoint of leaving that behind to plant a church.

Dwight Friesen
The lens through which Dwight will facilitate this conversation group’s exploration of the transformational metaphors the may best be described as a social-network theological lens.  This conversation will draw in psychologists, theologians and leadership consultants as we explore the interanimation of living/organic social network self-organization and relational theology and from that starting point, the conversation will evolve as the participants shape it with their presence.

Todd Littleton
Join Todd for the next seven months as he facilitates conversations around the possibilities that come with living in new metaphors. Following the course charted in Spencer Burke’s Making Sense of Church, Todd will facilitate calls with practitioners with a Soularize learning group through the transitional matrix that has been described as an impossibility to abide.

Tim Parsley
This group will explore the 7 metaphors through a specifically artistic lens. We will speak with artists of various forms, key thinkers and leaders, authors and professors, from both inside and outside the Christian context. These perspectives will offer a unique dialogue as well as exploring questions such as: How does artistic practice inform spiritual practice? What does Christian art history have to say about contemporary concerns? How does form relate to content? How can a faith community incorporate the arts into its ethos in a way that is formative, and not simply decorative? The artist stands in a place where the view is different. This group will seek to capture that view as it relates to the spiritual journey.

Mark Scandrette
Mark Scandrette is the executive director and cofounder of ReIMAGINE, a center for spiritual formation in San Francisco. ReIMAGINE sponsors city-based learning initiatives, peer learning groups and The Jesus Dojo, a year-long intensive formation process inspired by the life and teachings of Jesus. Mark is a founding member of SEVEN, a monastic community working as advocates for holistic and integrative Christian spirituality. With extensive experience providing leadership in churches and community based organizations, Mark has a B.S. in Applied Psychology, studied theology at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, MN and has been a minister, writer and spiritual teacher for 15 years. Mark is also a senior fellow with Emergent Village, a growing generative friendship among missional Christian leaders. He is married to Lisa Scandrette, the educator and textile artist. They have three children and live in an old Victorian in San Francisco's Mission District.