This five-session course with leadership coach Alan Briggs offers practical, actionable guidance for overwhelmed leaders seeking clarity and balance. Through 15 short teachings, reflection questions, and tangible assignments, leaders will gain wisdom on key issues like decision-making, delegation, rest, margin, and overcoming feelings of failure—equipping them to lead with confidence and intention today.

The best definition I’ve heard for burnout is from a researcher who calls it “Voluntary self-exploitation”. Perhaps the most helpful burnout definition for ministry leaders is this; “A syndrome of emotional exhaustion and cynicism that occurs in individuals who do ‘people work’ of some kind”. I asked a group of friends who have experienced burnout,“What did it feel like?” Emptier than empty. Freezer burn. Full, yet completely empty. Depleted mentally and emotionally. Ice skating uphill. Numb.