CEIE Leadership Academy
The CEIE Leadership Academy cultivates as a path of Ignatian discernment—beginning with core purpose, growing in awareness, and unfolding into collective transformation. We're rooted in the conviction that leadership arises from inner values and external impact, where we: Engage. Learn. Grow. Lead.
Engage. Learn. Grow. Lead.
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Year Round: Self-Paced Courses
The Leadership Academy designs accessible, on-demand learning opportunities available at Religica Theolab to support communities and classrooms in building deeper interfaith understanding and responsible action. Stay connected with CEIE for the launch of our first self-paced course for lifelong learning this fall. At CEIE, we Engage, Learn, Grow and Lead.
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Summer: Residential Leadership Certificate
CEIE's Discerning Leadership Certificate (CDLC) successfully launched in 2025. The certificate focused on spiritual formation, personal formation as a leader, and leadership in the public square. CDLC was facilitated in a method of Ignation discernment and guided by spiritual directors and coaches, and is taught next June 21-26, 2026.
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Winter: Seeking Religious Literacy
Seeking Religious Literacy is a course that aims to enhance one's understanding of religious worldviews. The course is virtual and self-paced, taking the student on a journey through accessible multi-media content. Join us for our next iteration in Winter 2026. For group registration (e.g. registering for your congregation), contact markellk@seattleu.edu.
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Participants are invited to discern their responsibilities: to themselves, to their communities, to the environments where they serve, and to the places they call home. In this way, the Leadership Academy becomes a pedagogical laboratory where values meet practice, wisdom informs purpose, and collaborative discernment inspires leadership that is ambitious, honest, and transformative.
Gratitude, Injury, and Repair in a Pandemic Age presents twelve reflections on the pandemic and its impact from the Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, nonbelieving, and Christian traditions.
A multi-media public canvas study resource that accompanies CEIE’s eponymous publication. Order the Book Here Today!
This Resource provides you opportunities to reflect on learnings from the Covid-19 global health emergency and the features of a Pandemic Age. In addition, it asks you to consider new work being carried out through the Inner Development Goals that addresses societal challenges around the world today. The Resource includes a free study guide.
This Resource is a guide to a book titled Faith for Earth: A Call for Action, created through the Parliament of the World’s Religions and the United Nations Environmental Program, Faith for Earth Initiative.
The Seeking Wisdom Series is a multi-media platform that is committed to wisdom across all disciplines of learning for the greater good of both university and society. Use the free study guide today!
The Response to Violence resource is a multi-media platform that responds to the roots and continued aggravations of violence, and how individuals can respond in ways that heal our shared future. Use this valuable study guide at no cost today. Created in cooperation between the Seattle University School of Theology and Ministry, the Parliament of the World’s Religions, and Religica.org.
From 2016-2019, CEIE convened scholars, practitioners, and those who have experienced homelessness and shelterlessness, in order to provide background and insights on the complexities of these challenges. This Homelessness Learning Resource invites you, the viewer and listener, into these important conversations for educating both oneself and the community.
CEIE's Theolab - Engage With Us
The Religica Theolab is CEIE's dedicated educational laboratory, providing a repository of our resources and forthcoming courses.