Masterclass on Shrewdness (2025)

“Cultivating Holy Spirit-led shrewdness and endurance in risk for Gospel advancement where Christ is not known.”
— Anna Hampton

How can we become practically shrewd yet innocent like

Jesus commanded us in Matthew 10:16,

especially in hostile situations?

 

SUMMARY

This 14-Session course is taught by faith-based risk specialist, Dr. Anna Hampton.  This course will address the twelve critical components comprising risk shrewdness, resulting in better risk decision-making under threats and pressure. This course will use Facing Fear: The Journey to Mature Courage in Risk and Persecution as the main text.

These sessions will be a combination of lecture (input), reflection (integration), practical projects to implement in your team or organization. It is most helpful if you are able to complete the assigned reading before the class session, but it is not required.  Additional reading suggestions, reflection questions, and practically applied integrating activities are suggested but optional.

 

Who Is This For:

  • Anyone working cross-culturally

  • Member Care - you will learn better questiosn to ask

  • Executive Teams = this course guides you in implementing shrewd ERM through the whole organization and diminishes silo thinking and decision making

  • Field and Team leaders - implementing the skills taught will result in increased “buy-in”

  • Security Professionals - learning hard skills is not enough. This course attaches the “why” to becoming risk literate and risk shrewd and how risk assessment, mitigation, and shrewdness skills are missional

  • Clinical Counselors - learn how to assist people to risk antifragility, PTSG and PTSF. Don’t stop at resiliency.

For More Information:

(and to process your learning as you move through the course) Contact us.

Purchase:

WCP Summer/Fall 2025

If you and your team desire to do the course together, please contact me to discuss consultation. Discounts may be available.

 

Course Objectives:

(Course and Session objectives are scaleable to both individual and organizations)

  1. Articulate the three critical issues of risk literacy

  2. Utilize the twelve components of Christo-centric practical shrewdness.

  3. Implement critical skills and tools to create a personalized risk decision agile guide.

  4. Identify biases, mental errors, dangerous attitudes, and risk myths impacting decision making.

  5. Recognize and name fears, cowardice, attachment style, and integrate the fear management tool.

  6. Develop a personalized plan toward risk literacy and shrewdness.

Topics

Session 1 – Foundations and Overview

Session 2 - Assessing our Thinking  

Session 3 - Fear Management and Attachment Theory

Session 4 - Applied Antifragility Across Sectors

Session 5 - Applied Risk Ethics: Duty of Care

Session 6 - Situational Awareness vs. Situational Understanding

Session 7 - Information & Threat Analysis    

Session 8 - Risk Communication

Session 9 - Critical Aspects for Long Endurance

Session 10 - Organizations and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Session 11 – Developing the Risk Intelligent (RQ) Leader

Session 12 - Member Care in Risk

Session 13 - Risk Decision Making

Session 14 - Human Rights and the Law; Mature Courage and Nobility