mX platform – training ecosystem
The mX Platform is our Training Ecosystem that offers training processes, resources, and environments in all of the mDNA to uncover the latent movement potential in leaders, teams, and organizations.
The training is led by a collection of movement practitioners and training organizations. The MLC Training Ecosystem team consists of expert practitioners who are applying mDNA readily within their organizations and training many others in a scalable way to do the same within their organizations.
All the ecosystem has to offer is designed to work with you to release movement potential, empower leaders, and spark movement dynamics in teams, churches, and organizations.
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Webinar Series
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MOVEMENT DNA
Join the MLC Training Ecosystem for the first of a series of webinars focused on the DNA of movements. The DNA of movements, referred to as mDNA, are proven to form the foundation and framework for movemental Christianity and are leverage points for an organization to release movement potential.
As leaders and organizations, we are facing multiple challenges with a fast-paced, ever-changing, increasingly disrupted reality. We have to look deep within ourselves and our systems and dream again to reimagine church for the 21st Century in a more movemental form.
Our organizations need a shift from a reactionary, formulaic, and often centralized or solo leadership paradigm, to embrace a movemental approach that is more innovative, adaptive, transformational, and dispersed in our leadership and communal expressions.
MONTHLY WEBINAR SERIES
This webinar series will give you an introduction to “what movement is” and explore the six key elements that help us to pursue movement in our leadership, organization, and life. Come and see – and accept the invitation to take a first step towards a different future.
- An Introduction to The DNA of Movement, September 2021, with Rich Robinson
A high level overview of the mDNA elements and how they work together to fuel kingdom movement; serving as an introduction for other upcoming monthly webinars where a deeper dive will be taken on each mDNA element.
Webinar Recording - APEST: Unlocking Potential and Purposes in the Body of Christ, October 2021, with Joshua Johnson
Watch this deep dive into how APEST can be an interpretive key to unlock potential and purposes in disciples, leaders, and organizations.
Webinar Recording - Disciple Making: Missional Formation that Unleashes the People of God, November 2021, with Michael Beck
The practical ways we can find a fuller life in Jesus by cultivating new Christian communities in everyday spaces and rhythms.
Webinar Recording - Understanding the mDNA Element: Organic Systems, January 20, 2022 @ 1:00 p.m. EST, with Bryan D. Sims
An introduction to the mDNA Element, Organic Systems.
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Training Offerings
Webinars
Communal learning around a key mDNA topic. Wisdom from an experienced practitioner or mDNA trainer in the mDNA Ecosystem team.
Resources
Tests, books, modules and tool kits written around the mDNA – individually and the whole system – to have an initial engagement with the theology and theory of mDNA and movement thinking.
Accelerators
10-25 leaders engaged in an intentional short, sharp, and dynamic training process over 3-6 months with a designed framework & focus. Short, bootcamp training in Movement Dynamics or around an mDNA component. An individual leader can engage or communal learning as a team or organization in a cohort.
Learning Community
10-25 leaders in a longer, deeper, holistic training process over 6-12 months with a designed framework & focus. Deep dive training in Movement Dynamics or around an mDNA component. An individual leader can engage or communal learning as a team or organization in a cohort.
Train-the-Trainers Accelerator
6-12 leaders in an intentional short, sharp and dynamic training process over 6 months with a designed framework & focus. Short, bootcamp training in Movement Dynamics or around an mDNA component to be trained & equipped to multiply this and lead it out, in a contextualized form, in your organisation or relational network. An individual leader can engage or communal learning as a team or organization in a cohort.
Consultancy
An intentionally designed process, environment, and outcomes for a leader, team or organization to be trained & equipped to multiply this and lead it out, in a contextualized form, in their organization, or relational network.
Training areas
We have training organizations which can focus on any one the 6 elements of mDNA (see below). You highlight the component part of mDNA on which you need training, then we will work in training you around the specific mDNA component.
Jesus is Lord
The recovery of the central role and significance of Jesus for discipleship, spirituality, theology, community, and mission.
A radical & unwavering commitment to the Way (ethos) of the Founder Jesus at the very center of it all. Rather than maintaining a generic “Jesus is Lord” confessional intent or promotion of badge or brand, leaders cultivate a clear and compelling vocabulary and focus that declares their identity and intent as the radical minimum standard of following Jesus together.
Discipleship & DISCIPLE MAKING
The practice of becoming more like Jesus and enabling others to do so; seeking to do the same things that Jesus did for the same reasons that he did them.
A clearly articulated vision for discipleship, as well as a clear process to ensure that disciple-making happens throughout the organization. Rather than aiming for attendance at programmatic offerings and the passing-on of information in classes, leaders create practices, processes, language and models for “becoming like Jesus” as the irreplaceable core task of the community in all components of ministry design.
MISSIONAL-INCARNATIONAL IMPULSE
Recovering the sent-ness of God and living incarnationally within the context that we are seeking to be good news to.
A commitment to extend the movement by going out and going deep into various cultures and interpreting the Gospel into these settings. Rather than attracting new attendees to the services through advertising and invitation practices, leaders train every believer to embrace the dynamic outward thrust (being sent) and deepening impulse (to stay with and amongst) to embody the gospel in the different cultures, people groups and places where they live, work and play.
APEST CULTURE
APEST as the DNA and latent potential within God’s people, realized and expressed to bring fullness, unity, and maturity to the body of Christ.
A missional ministry (and by extension, leadership) equal to the task of initiating, developing, and maintaining movement. Rather than recruiting volunteers to serve the organisational programming and only a few expressing leadership across the community, leaders help identity and deploy the APEST capability of every believer, leader, team and ministry to develop unity, release a diversity of gifting and together pursue maturity.
LIMINALITY & COMMUNITAS
The dynamics of Christian community inspired to shake off their collective securities and form themselves around a common mission that calls them to an adventurous journey to unknown places.
An inbuilt culturally embedded willingness to regularly dare and to take risks in the cause of the movement. Rather than allowing an inward focus to reinforce a culture of safety and security, church leaders intentionally design risk-taking practices, environment and process to cultivate cause-based community as the normative expression of community.
ORGANIC SYSTEMS
The church organizing itself as a living organism, viewed as a movement rather than an institution.
A system designed around internalized movement DNA, committed to empowering every agent in the system by pushing power and function to the outermost limits, along with a resolute pre-commitment to system-wide reproducibility and scalability. Rather than organising around the addition of members, groups, services and campuses with highly centralised control, leaders structure for empowerment at the grassroots level, orientated towards the edge, and through high accountability and low control allow for rapid multiplication at every level.
CONTACT
If you'd like more information about the Movement Leaders Collective or would like to talk with a member of our team, we would love to learn a little more about you and your organization. Simply fill out the brief form below.