Extension
For Clergy
The Shepherd Who Has No Shepherd
You preach about rest on Sunday. You have not rested in three weeks.
For the clergy person who gives pastoral care to everyone and has no peer structure, no shepherd, and no documented guide for holding themselves.
The Name It First Experience
You carry the congregation. Nobody built a system to carry you. Your Clergy Identity Charter changes that. Through seven chapters, you examine what you inherited about the role, what you want from the calling, and what sustainable ministry looks like with your name on it. This is the document that belongs to you, not the flock.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- Name the moment in your ministry or spiritual leadership that reminded you of the calling — and describe what that moment still means to you.
- What do you absorb from your congregation or community that has no formal place to go — and what do you notice about where it ends up?
- What do you need that you are not getting — from your institution, your peers, your own inner life — and what has kept you from asking?
Research basis
The Duke Clergy Health Initiative longitudinal research on clergy burnout and role boundary collapse / Figley's compassion fatigue framework applied to pastoral care / Maslach and Leiter's burnout dimensions in clergy departure / Nouwen's wounded healer framework / Cruess, Cruess, and Steinert on professional identity formation / Savickas's Career Construction Theory applied to pastoral vocation
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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
$19.99
eBook + journal
The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Hardcoverpersonalize
The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
$9.99
Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
Full depth
Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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