The Ward Consultation

The Ward Consultation honors Ted Ward, consultant, teacher, and friend of many around the world. The series focuses on issues reflective of Ted's concern for intercultural competency and educational practice in a variety of settings. Each theme is dealt with in a three-year series to allow for significant thought and action. Each year one or more specialists with significant experience related to the theme will facilitate the session. Each session will be more informal than formal, and the structure is intended to encourage interaction and problem solving related to the theme. See the links to the left for further information on the series.

"The Consultation opens the door to in-depth and cordial dialogue . . . The unique informal setting provides a relaxed environment in which to initiate and renew collegial friendships, continue the learning journey, and benefit from the stimulus of stepping again into the halls of higher learning."
Joe Cookston, Ph.D.,
Administrative Pastor of Salem Church of God, Clayton, Ohio

The European Initiative for Educational Leadership:
For students and leaders interested in Church based and other non-formal theological education initiatives.
Symposium Brochure (English) (German)

The theme of the April 2008 Ward Consultation: “God at Work: A Continuing Story,” produced two major streams of inquiry. The first had to do with story or narrative as a source of truth, a method of inquiry, a means of sustaining culture. The second had to do with where we might discover God at work in the world through our own stories. R ead more..

Linda Cannell is Lois W. Bennett Distinguished Professor of Educational Ministries at Gordon- Conwell Theological Seminary, in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. Formerly, she was professor of Educational Ministries and director of the Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Studies program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Illinois. She has served as a Minister of Education, as a faculty member at Winnipeg Theological Seminary (now Providence Seminary), Regent College, Vancouver, Ontario Theological Seminary (now Tyndale Seminary) in Toronto, and as a guest lecturer at colleges and seminaries in Canada, the United States, the Philippines, Kenya, Brazil, among other countries. In Canada, she directed EEQUIP Ministries for eight years serving as a consultant to churches, denominations, and theological schools in Canada and the United States. She is currently director of CanDoSpirit Network, (www.candospirit.org) which involves her in education and development internationally and direc tor of the Ward Consultation (www.wardconsultation.org) a dialogical forum for leaders internationally to exchange ideas related to issues of local concern. She is a member of the Executive Board for the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) (www.ats.edu).