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Our 7-month program will focus on:

• Self-Discovery: Explore your identity as both an individual and a leader, gaining insight into how you invest your time and energy.

• Meaningful Connections: Forge deep relationships with fellow participants and mentors through shared experiences and guided discussions.

• Inspiring Engagement: Interact with guest speakers and leaders from diverse professional backgrounds, drawing inspiration and insights from their expertise.

• Entrepreneurial Mindset: Embrace an entrepreneurial perspective to develop solutions that benefit society as a whole, spanning various sectors.

• Leadership Development: Cultivate leadership skills rooted in the principles of Jesus, integrating them into your career and daily work life.

• Guidance in Leadership Principles: Learn to apply Jesus' leadership principles to address societal challenges, aligning them with your vision for positive change.

• Comprehensive Leadership Training: Explore key aspects of leadership, including vision, strategy, problem-solving, communication, conflict management, and change management.

• Special Project: Undertake and complete a special project, to be presented or published at the program's conclusion, with a weekly time commitment of 1-3 hours.

• Community Engagement: Gain insights into community management and innovative problem-solving approaches to address specific societal needs.

• Character Building: Be challenged and equipped to develop strong character and entrepreneurial solutions that contribute to the common good across all spheres of society.

Zebr Leadership Program is a 7 Month Program and includes:

• Two 48 Hour Weekend Modules - In Person

• Two 24 Hour Weekend Modules - Virtual on Zoom

• Bi-Monthly Readings with Reflections

• Guided Small Group Sessions between Modules

• Available coaching and aid in finding mentor relationships to help you grow in specific areas

• Self Knowledge Assessments 

• Occasional Special Evening Seminars with Inspiring Speakers

• Guidance and Coaching on a Special Project - Example: Learning to Write and Publish an Op-Ed.

The dates for the four weekend modules for 2024/2025 are: 

• Module 1: Sept 13th -15th 2024 OSLO

• Module 2: virtual on zoom: Evening Friday Oct 25th - 26th (wrap-up mid-day Saturday)

• Module 3: virtual on zoom: Evening Friday Jan 17th - 18th (wrap-up mid-daySaturday)

• Module 4: virtual on zoom: Evening Friday Feb 28th

• Module 5: May 2nd - May 4th Where: To be announced

Presenters:

In addition to our team, you will meet leaders from diverse sectors including business, politics, media, and other social fields throughout the leadership program. These individuals will provide invaluable insights into leadership, offering inspiring teachings and sharing their life experiences of integrating Jesus' principles into their leadership journey.

We are looking for participants who:

• Are between 21 and 30 years of age (can turn 21 during the program year)

• Have shown leadership initiative (during studies, in organizations, politics, business, communities of faith, etc.)

• Want to follow Jesus in life, work, and relationships

• Have a high degree of motivation

• Will commit to fully participating in the program, including two virtual weekends, and two in person, completing one special project (approx 1-2 hours of time per week) to be presented and/or published at the end of the program, participate in small group sessions, and participate in occasional evening seminars.

Why Focus on Jesus’ Leadership?

A central focus of the program is learning from current and historical leaders such as Hans Nielsen Hauge, William Wilberforce, Mahatma Gandhi, and Mother Theresa. One would be hard pressed to find a leader who made a more lasting global impact than Jesus of Nazareth. The life and teachings of Jesus continue to impact our world in positive and powerful ways and his model of servant leadership is just as relevant today as it was 2000 years ago

In regards to Jesus’ impact as a leader, consider the following:

• 2000 years after he walked the dusty roads of Galilee, several billion people can recite major portions of his principle speech, the “Sermon on the Mount.”

• Billions of people on all continents continue to study his words and seek to follow him.

• Our calendar is dated from his birth, and major worldwide holidays like Christmas and Easter center on events in his life.

• Jesus achieved tremendous global influence in only three years of public life.

• His influence was accomplished without money or mass media, without writing any books, without holding an elected office, and without commanding an army. Yet, his teachings transformed the world.

Today, Jesus is regarded by many as a great prophet, a healer, a teacher, an avatar, and/or the savior.  Despite what one believes about Jesus, his example of innovative leadership is unique and universal. We will study key principles of Jesus’ teachings including: reconciliation, servant leadership, integrity, purpose, love, clarity, and freedom.

What is Entrepreneurial Leadership?

Entrepreneurship is usually defined as the creation of new products or services and as such is limited to the field of business. Over the past decades, the notion of social entrepreneurship has developed, which broadens the scope to creating goods and services to solve social, cultural or environmental issues, either for-profit or as NGOs. In our course, we aim to empower young leaders aiming for careers in all sectors to develop a more entrepreneurial mindset.

Examples of this use of entrepreneurial leadership:

• In the city of Turku, Finland, one of the universities training nurses includes a mandatory course in business start-ups, including starting a student business. The reason: The expected percentage of old people in most European societies will grow in the next decade, requiring nurses to have a more innovative way of approaching their jobs in order to serve the growing number of older patients.

• Among the most important minds behind the establishing of the European Coal and Steel Union in 1952 (what became the European Union), the frenchman Jean Monnet used his entrepreneurial skills in shaping the solution and connecting government leaders in order to see the solution to the centuries-long feuds between Germany and France settled for good. Being from the french cognac producing family Monnet, where he in early age worked to increase the firm's global exports, he utilized his entrepreneurial skills in the field of politics.

• Drawing from our Norwegian heritage, the case-study of Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771-1824) and the first nation-wide grassroots movement he initiatied between 1796 and 1804 is especially inspiring. Seeing a population subdued by the king and around him a small elite, Hauge stirred the population to a new level of faith both in God and in their ability to create. He personally helped initiated more than 50 businesess and the friends around him and in the decades to follow would start many more, in addition to schools, civil organizations, hospitals and social work, and helped bring about democracy through the 19th century. Historians acclaim Hauge to be one of two pivotal figures in bringing Norway into modernity.  

As the world is facing unprecedented challenges such as the weakening of democratic institutions, migration, climate change, decreasing resources such as water and species of the world`s insects and animals, we believe the ability to enhance one´s entrepreneurial thinking is pivotal. The course aims to do just that.  

Any questions? Drop us an email to amanda@zebrinstitute.com

Practical information

Location: The program modules will take place both virtually via ZOOM and live in two separate locations in Europe. One city will be Oslo, Norway and the second is to be announced. 

Price: The program cost is €390 which includes room and board during the two in-person weekends, fee does not include travel expenses to and from the two meeting locations. The course is conducted with a high degree of sponsorship and has an estimated value of at least €3000 per person, per year. Zebr is investing in you!

Application: Information about applications for 2024/2025 will come in spring 2024. You can register your interest already today by sending an email to amanda@zebrinstitute.com.

Application Deadline: August 25, 2024 (NB! NEW - EXTENDED!)

Number of Participants: Space is limited to 15 spots, and we encourage both women and men to apply. The number of applicants has been high in recent years, so we recommend that you spend time writing a complete application.

Application should include: Motivation for participation in the program, shed light on previous leadership experience from study organizations, society, or business, what you as a leader have delivered and achieved and your aspirations for the future. Please also include date of birth, CV and photo, and provide at least two references.

Scholarships: We are pleased to offer scholarships for our program. While not guaranteed, we encourage those in need to apply for consideration. For more details and to apply, please contact: amanda@zebrinstitute.com Scholarship Need: Please explain your financial need for this scholarship. How will receiving this scholarship help you achieve your goals? Additional Information: Are there any special circumstances or additional information you would like us to consider?