Ignite Reconciliation Collaboration

As advocates of biblical reconciliation on college & university campuses we often find that our tanks need to be filled as our energy begins to run low. The IGNITE collaboration is the annual gathering place for Christian professionals to come together to receive spiritual renewal and practical tools that will reignite their hope that reconciliation is possible!

 

The Power to Transform Culture
ReIGNITE...ReFUEL...ReFOCUS...ReCONNECT
Moving your campus from Compliance, to Conversion, to Commitment!

 

Ignite 2011 Video Highlights

The video below is of participants speaking about Ignite 2011. Hear their experience and what they felt was powerful and pertinent from this year's conference!
 

Ignite 2011 Photo Gallery

Here are some photos which captured some of the emotion, people, and learning that took place at this year's collaboration.

 

 

Past Ignite Reconciliation Collaborations

The purpose of this weekend conference is to provide a collaborative context for educational and academic leaders to increase their intercultural competency skills. Ignite offers participants cutting-edge best practices for developing, shepherding and fostering a multicultural campus as well as provides opportunities for networking and community building.

Drs. Brenda Salter McNeil & J. Derek McNeil facilitate the annual Ignite Reconciliation Collaboration, and along with other professionals, work with participants to create a peer-learning environment to facilitate transformation.

 

Cross-Cultural Conflict Resolution

One of the primary concerns of Christian leaders across the country is how to resolve conflicts between people from different cultures. We seek to help campus and academic leaders answer best equip the people they serve to move toward those who are different and resolve conflicts when they occur?

Exploring Intercultural Competency

This collaborative learning experience will provide participants with the opportunity to share their journeys of ethnic identity formation. It involves identifying the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to interact in a meaningful way with people whose lives have been shaped by cultures different from our own. Participants will learn how to define intercultural competency and clarify ways to measure it. We will use these insights to attempt to understand our successes as well as our failures in the transformative work of reconciliation. We will discuss this topic of intercultural competency within the framework of God's call upon our professional as well as personal lives.

Benchmarking Progress: How to Measure Intercultural Competency

Increasingly, there is a need for Christian institutions to find ways to benchmark their growth in ethnic diversity and intercultural competency so that quantifiable results can be demonstrated. At Ignite, we will explore research-based benchmarking tools that can be used to assess our diversity needs. It will also help to guide our strategies to increase intercultural competency and evaluate our progress in racial reconciliation.

Specifically, we will learn how to:

• Isolate and address diversity-related challenges
• Identify and evaluate organizational progress
• Determine appropriate training interventions and activities
• Measure proficiency and growth in racial and ethnic diversity