Workshop: The Colossian Forum

Practicing Peace: Cultivating Emotional Maturity for Leading Across Difference 

What it is: Exhaustion, uncertainty, and conflict take a toll on every leader. Under pressure, we default to avoiding, appeasing, or pushing through—but these responses often leave us stuck. Emotional maturity offers another path: staying grounded, connected, and courageous when it matters most. This workshop will explore how moral, spiritual, and/or religious convictions can help you do this. 

What you’ll learn:

This interactive workshop will give participants space to: 

• Identify what happens “inside of me” when I encounter difference or conflict.
• Practice staying true to myself while remaining connected to others.
• Explore strategies for sustaining growth and maturity when change is hard.
• Draw from leadership research, social science, and moral resources across traditions, to practice concrete skills for navigating tension with steadiness and clarity. 

Facilitators: Michael Gulker, President, Colossian Forum; Heidi De Jonge, Associate Interfaith Chaplain, Queen's University 

About Colossian Forum: The Colossian Forum works with people to cultivate connection across difference. We teach leaders how to proactively identify and lean into potential areas of conflict and how to better care for people when conflict arises.