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Learn • Immerse • Experiment • Lead

We believe leadership is formed through learning in community, shaped through experience, refined through experimentation, and expressed through service.

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PURPOSE

Equip and empower YMCA leaders to allow the Christian principles reflected in the historic YMCA mission to shape leadership practice in complex modern contexts.

MISSION

To equip YMCA leaders to skillfully put Christian principles into practice in a manner that values difference, creates community and strengthens healthy spirit, mind and body for all. 

VISION

A movement of transformational leaders who embrace the heritage of the YMCA and strengthen Christian presence as they meet contemporary needs, nurture connected communities and enrich the lives of the members they serve.

Learning Journey

Learning Journeys

onPrinciple offers three distinct but complementary leadership development pathways designed to help YMCA leaders allow the Christian principles reflected in the foundational YMCA mission to shape leadership practice and programs in complex modern contexts.

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Learning
Cohorts

Immersive formational experiences designed for transformational leadership development, practical application, and organizational impact through peer learning, experimentation, and international or domestic immersion. (see below)

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Learning Communities 

Learn with peers through shorter cadence experiences designed for individual participation and topical exploration around a focused leadership concept, challenge or opportunity.

CEO Learning Community

Leading Change Learning Community

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Movement Wide Resources 

Practical tools and digital resources designed to help YMCA leaders infuse Christian principles into everyday leadership practice

Christian, AI Advisor

Objectives

onPrinciple Learning Cohorts

LEADERSHIP FOCUS

Heritage & Innovation

IMMERSION

England

AUDIENCE

CEOs & Senior Leaders

STATUS

Open

LEADERSHIP FOCUS

Reconciliation & Community Flourishing

IMMERSION

American South & Minneapolis

AUDIENCE

Leaders at All Levels

STATUS

Forming

LEADERSHIP FOCUS

Adaptive Leadership & Christian Principles

IMMERSION

Bible Lands (Israel & Palestine)

AUDIENCE

CEOs & Senior Leaders

STATUS

Open Enrollment 2028

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Contact Information

onPrinciple

YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly

84 Blue Ridge Circle

Black Mountain, NC 28711

Email: connect@onprinciple.org

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