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Loving-Kindness Leadership: A New Paradigm for Personal and Global Transformation Pubblico Deposited

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  • This Doctor of Ministry project presents Loving-Kindness Leadership as a practice-based theological framework for cultivating sustainable transformation in leaders and the systems they serve. The project addresses a recurring ministry and leadership problem: a gap between leaders’ professed moral and spiritual commitments—such as care, dignity, and justice—and the operational practices that shape organizational life, often resulting in relational harm, burnout, and diminished trust. Employing a Practical Theological Method grounded in an iterative praxis cycle, the project engages lived leadership experience, critically reflects on the spiritual traditions of Metta, Agápē, Chesed, and Ubuntu, and integrates interdisciplinary insights from psychology, neuroscience, and organizational studies. The findings reveal that loving-kindness is not a passive or sentimental posture, but rather a disciplined, boundary-honoring leadership ethic that requires clarity, accountability, and just structures. To support implementation, the project offers an original Operating Model incorporating Four Levels of Leadership (Self, Others, Leaders, and Organizations) and seven core Loving-Kindness Leadership Practices. The project demonstrates that when loving-kindness is operationalized, it bridges belief and practice, fostering relational safety, ethical presence, and durable human and organizational flourishing.
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  • 05/06/2026

MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Weathers, Brenton T. Loving-kindness Leadership: A New Paradigm for Personal and Global Transformation. meadville.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/88ce8d40-6ea5-45f6-8171-2fef31eef1ed?locale=it.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

W. B. T. Loving-Kindness Leadership: A New Paradigm for Personal and Global Transformation. https://meadville.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/88ce8d40-6ea5-45f6-8171-2fef31eef1ed?locale=it

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Weathers, Brenton T. Loving-Kindness Leadership: A New Paradigm for Personal and Global Transformation. https://meadville.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/88ce8d40-6ea5-45f6-8171-2fef31eef1ed?locale=it.

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