CERTIFYING PROFESSIONALS AS
MORAL COURAGE MENTORS
A remarkable journey designed for professionals in K-12 schools,
higher education, and organizational culture anywhere.
These are the details:
PHASE 1 (IN-PERSON)
Your people participate in the Moral Courage core skills workshop, which features a team-based game that makes learning and practicing a trip.
This interactive experience will reveal a counter-intuitive truth: that airing and engaging divergent views is key to bringing people together.
As participants, you’ll draw from your own experiences to explore the 5 key skills of Moral Courage. Simple yet powerful, the Moral Courage skill set equips you to hear others — and be heard by others.
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Then, you’ll all practice your Moral Courage skills by playing an innovative game that taps into the human desire for winning, yet turns the tables on what it means to win.
Time-outs are called. Substitutions can be made. Even spectators are participants: using scorecards, they award or withhold points.
Top-scoring teams transform the impulsive “us-against-them” mindset into an intentional “both-and" approach to problem-solving.
The consistent outcomes? Team spirit from playing together and then discussing the unexpected insights that emerge from what everyone realizes about themselves.
You’ll all leave the workshop with a tangible tool that helps you use your newly acquired skills. Energized by the gamified workshop, participants may now enter Phase 2.​
PHASE 2 (VIRTUAL / LIVE)
Phase 1 introduced the Moral Courage skill set to you. During Phase 2, you’ll learn to apply those skills in a world that’s messy, unpredictable, even irrational — in a word: complex.
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This phase consists of LIVE virtual classes, one per week, each lasting 90 minutes.
Taught by the Moral Courage Project’s behavioral scientist, Allison Gerrard, every class explores basic (and utterly eye-opening) research about complexity. Participants use these learnings in breakout rooms with other members of the cohort.
Between classes, candidates spend one hour per week reading, viewing, or listening to prep materials provided by Moral Courage. Which brings us to the final phase.​
PHASE 3 (CAPSTONE)​​
​​Over the final 4 weeks, Mentor-candidates deliver a capstone project that demonstrates Moral Courage as a skill set for flourishing. Participants may choose from two capstone options: one with wide impact and the other with deep impact.
Wide Impact: You'll screen the Moral Courage Project's award-winning 30-minute film, Mississippi Turning, for an audience within your organization.
Right after the screening, you'll lead a vibrant discussion about the film, folding in the 5 core skills of Moral Courage. You'll also learn to craft your own story about applying this skill set, creating trust with your listeners by traveling the journey alongside them.
Mentor-candidates who deliver this capstone are inspiring wider groups of people to adopt the "both-and" method of problem-solving, a much more dignifying and therefore unifying approach than "either/or" ultimatums.
Deep Impact: You'll answer the question, “What’s keeping me up at night?” Then you'll use foundational complexity science to map the next doable step towards a solution.
Since durable solutions require buy-in from more than one side, next steps will have to involve difficult conversations. That, in turn, means ample opportunity to practice the Moral Courage skill set.
Mentor-candidates who deliver this capstone are deepening their capacity to be agile, adaptive, and therefore action-oriented leaders.
Whichever option you choose, Allison will offer personal mentorship during this capstone phase.
POST-CERTIFICATION
Upon certification, graduates become the in-house Mentors of Moral Courage skills for their institutions.
They receive a framed certificate, membership in our curated community of practitioners, and access to unique resources that range from multi-media content, to new training opportunities, to our continued one-on-one mentorship.
Whenever Mentors want to go wider or deeper with the practice of Moral Courage to benefit their organizations, Allison and Irshad will serve as their thought partners.
Professionally, it’s a win-win: your work environment gains talent who can leverage Moral Courage skills for trust-building. And your talent gains leadership opportunities, preparing everyone they teach to excel where AI can’t — in the profoundly human project of fostering unity while respecting different points of view. ​​
BOTTOM LINE
​​Your organization gets:
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Evidence-based skills that become effortless habits for unifying your people.
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Unique resources that reward your commitment to taking a journey rather than checking a box.
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Ongoing support for the most unique resource of all, your organization’s certified Moral Courage Mentors.
