PASSPORT TO ACCELERATING MISSION

This certificate course offers an opportunity for participants to engage with the content in of The State of the Great Commission Report, join facilitated conversations, reflect on implications, and make applications to each participants’ participant’s context.

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM FOR MISSIONAL SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR

--> Become a Certified Spiritual Director to guide others in their spiritual journey. <-- The program provides participants with the necessary skills, knowledge, and practicum to guide others while directing them to integrate mission and calling into their practice of spiritual discipline.

CERTIFICATE IN THE IGNATIAN EXERCISES

--> Experience a deeper relationship with God as you practice Ignatian Spiritual Exercises in a group setting. <-- Our focus is to share and pray over what God has been revealing to us during the week from our meditations on Scripture and contemplations will enable us to enter the story using our five senses.

WRITING WELL AS STEWARDSHIP

This course is intended to help BGU students who need additional help with conveying their ideas effectively in writing. It covers organizing ideas; writing paragraphs, transitions, and sentences; spelling, grammar, and punctuation; and measuring readability.

APA 7

The course is designed to position students to become proficient in applying the APA 7 formatting style to their academic writing. The audiovisual mix of the presentations will be enabling to diverse learning styles.

CERTIFIED ARBITRATOR CERTIFICATE (CertArb)

--> Become a Certified Arbitrator capable of serving as a professional arbitrator in domestic and international cases. <-- 50 hours of arbitration skills acquisition training based on robust instructions, case studies, and hands-on arbitration of live dispute(s), followed by an equally in-depth professional debriefing by a highly experienced senior arbitrator.

CERTIFIED MEDIATOR (CertMed)

--> Become a Certified Mediator capable of serving as a professional mediator in diverse conflict resolution settings. <-- 45 hours of mediation skills acquisition training, based on and robust conceptualization, case studies, and hands-on resolution of live conflicts from diverse backgrounds, followed by an equally in-depth professional debriefing by a highly experienced senior mediator.

CONFLICT RESOLUTION CERTIFICATE

--> An introduction to the skills required for effective conflict resolution. <-- Based on the book, How to Resolve a Conflict by Olajide Olagunju, this course is an introduction to the skills required for effective conflict resolution both at home and at work.

DISCOVER YOUR GIFTEDNESS

--> Go on a journey of discovering your own unique giftedness. <-- What were you born to do? Everyone everywhere was created to do something. We call that something your “giftedness.”

DISCOVER YOUR GIFTEDNESS - IN THE BUSINESS SETTING

--> Experience the journey of discovering your giftedness for use in a business community. <-- It is created to guide individuals and teams to discover and use their giftedness in ways that transform their work, learning, relationships, and lives in communities everywhere.

DISCOVER YOUR GIFTEDNESS - IN THE CHURCH

--> Experience the journey of discovering your giftedness for use in a church community. <-- What were you born to do? Everyone everywhere was created to do something. We call that something your “giftedness.”

GIFTEDNESS GUIDES ACCELERATOR

--> Become a Certified Giftedness Guide to be equipped to walk others through the journey of discovering their giftedness. <-- Most people need a person to help them understand what they’re looking at and then act on it in meaningful ways. By training as a giftedness guide, you can become that person.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

So much of community development and ministry work unveils the need for Christians to help people attain living wage jobs, or to create more economic opportunity in communities. This course prepares you to work for the economic development of your community through a combination of reading, writing assignments, integration and application.

CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

Loving one’s neighbor is difficult when whole communities are struggling to thrive. This course prepares you to serve your community in order to better love your neighbor through a combination of reading, writing assignments, integration and application.

PEACEMAKING AND STORYTELLING

The social aspects of community development and ministry are more critical than ever. Making peace through building empathy and storytelling is a core competency for Christians wanting to serve their local communities. This course prepares you to serve as a Peacemaker in your Community through a combination of reading, writing assignments, integration and application.

THE CAPSTONE IN ECONOMIC PEACEMAKING

This capstone course is the culminating experience for students who have completed the Christian Community Development, Economic Development, and Peacemaking and Storytelling certificates. It provides an opportunity to integrate knowledge from previous coursework and apply it to a research project and proposal.

RESPONSIBLE ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP

From a renewed thinking of the human person, this program equips entrepreneurs, corporate leaders, policy makers, and development practitioners to create sustainable, profitable solutions to developmental challenges while prioritizing the vision of the locals and maximizing on their gifts, skills, and available resources.

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP CERTIFICATE

This Executive Development Program aims to prepare executives to face future challenges with confidence and agility, ensuring their organizations thrive in a dynamic landscape.

HIGH IMPACT PUBLIC SPEAKING

A unique Certificate Course in Presentation Skills tailored specifically for credit union professionals in the Caribbean.

WORKPLACE TRANSFORMATION CERTIFICATE

You will be exposed to the Biblical purpose of work, your unique calling, and the meaning of human dignity within the context of a fast-changing & culturally diverse world.

Professional Development in the Seven Pillars

A practical, step-by-step guide to lasting social change using the Seven Pillars framework, as taught by Rev. Dr. Lauren Speeth and used by social entrepreneurs worldwide.

Professional Development in the Spiritual Holistic Inquiry Process (S.H.I.P.)

This S.H.I.P. Certificate provides practical skills, knowledge, and experience that can be used to improve your current efforts or shift them in a new direction.

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION

--> Become proficient in mediation, arbitration, negotiation, and peacebuilding at the graduate level. <-- It is designed for leaders who are interested in being exposed to: scriptural and related secular principles, practice and procedures in conflict resolution and conflict transformation applicable at work, in business, at home and in the church.

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR THE GLOBAL CITY

--> Become a student of the global city through theological reflections on global urban issues and make application to your own context. <-- A total of 12 graduate credits where the participant must take either one Immersion of the Transformational Leadership class plus the remaining credits chosen from the following list of courses provided.

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN TEACHING THEOLOGY OF WORK

A Graduate Certificate in Teaching Theology of Work may be obtained by professors who would like to improve their understanding of this vital area of Christian theology in order to teach it in their own contexts.

GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN LEADERSHIP IN THE ARTS

This Graduate Certificate Program equips ministry, civic, business and artistic leadership with the understanding and activation potential of the arts to influence, heal and transform.