Master Class on Becoming Shrewd As A Serpent (2025)
(Updated changes to start time and cost)
“Cultivating Holy Spirit-led shrewdness and endurance in risk for Gospel Advancement where Christ is not known.”
How can we become practically shrewd yet innocent like
Jesus commanded us in Matthew 10:16,
especially in hostile situations?
This 14-Session Zoom course is taught by faith-based risk specialist, Dr. Anna Hampton. Through a combination of lecture (input), small group and big group discussion (integration), and personal reflection, we will discuss the twelve key practical aspects to becoming risk shrewd, 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. (Ebook and paperback available on Amazon and the WCP websites).
The recordings and course format will be used as the basis for a course made available for purchase through the William Carey Publishing website. If security is an issue, you may attend with your video off (coordinate with class administrator).
Who Should Attend: Anyone working cross-culturally, member care, organization leaders, field and team leaders, security professionals, clinical counselors, etc.
Translation: This class is taught in English. If you desire translation, contact the administrator.
Time: 8:00 am – 9:30 am Chicago; 14:00 – 15:30 London, 15:00 – 16:30 Berlin, 16:00 -17:30 Cape Town, 20:00 -21:30 Bishkek
Dates: Tuesdays, February – May 29, 2025, Zoom.
Make-Up Class Dates: June 3 and June 10
Costs: Early Bird: $100 by February 1, 2025 for all 14 sessions. Otherwise, $10/session. If you pay for a session but miss it, you will have access to the recording.
For More Information and registration: Write to ramworkshops@gmail.com
Course Objectives: (Course and Session objectives are scaleable to both individual and organizations)
1. Be able to articulate the relevant theologies for risk literacy and Christo-centric shrewdness
2. Learn and understand all 12 aspects of practical shrewdness.
3. Assess your risk tolerance change through the course and create a personalized discipleship and accountability plan for your (and your organizational) growth to risk literacy and shrewdness
4. Gain confidence in risk decision-making with the necessary skills and tools.
5. Increase personal awareness of your biases, mental errors, dangeorus attitudes, and weakness under pressure.
6. Ability to recognize and name your fears, cowardice, attachment style, and apply the fear management tool.
7. Develop your personal growth plan for Risk literacy and shrewdness.
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