Community Building
and Leadership

yakir Englander teacing

Consulting and teaching for nonprofits, religious communities, and organizations seeking to maintain mission unity without uniformity.

I help communities that are:

  • Navigating internal tensions
  • Seeking to grow and strengthen their foundations
  • Ready to develop leaders from within


General Approach:
I listen to the complexity of your context, then design a strategic approach tailored to your specific challenges. I work with community leaders, nonprofit boards, and lay leaders – facilitating organization-wide changes and designing leadership programs.

01

Facilitating Transformative Dialogues

For communities facing specific tensions and seeking a guided process toward mutual understanding and inclusion.

Topics include:
  • Israel-Palestine Conflict
  • Navigating Openness and Boundaries
  • Gender, Sexuality, and Our Traditions
  • Political Disagreement
  • Intergenerational Gaps
  • Our Relationship with God
  • Spirituality: Individual and Communal
What's Included:
  • 90-minute preparation session with leadership to understand context and goals
  • Pre-session analysis of the specific tensions and their roots within your community
  • Facilitated dialogue using ancient wisdom texts as mirrors for contemporary dilemmas
  • Structured space for participants to voice conflicting perspectives safely
  • Concrete frameworks for holding difference without demanding resolution
  • (suggested) Post-session summary with recommendations for continued community work
Pricing:
  • In-person: Half-day $1,300 | Full-day $2,000 | Full weekend $3,000. Travel expenses for all in-person events are additional
02

Community Building and Leadership

Tools, Strategy,
and Program Design

For communities seeking to strengthen their foundations, acquire practical tools, or develop a comprehensive leadership program.

Examples of tools and topics:
  • Active listening
  • Storytelling
  • Community assets mapping
  • Community resilience and hope
  • Philanthropy
  • Intergenerational connection
Strategy and Tools Workshop:
  • Virtual: Full-day $1,200
  • In-person: Full-day $2,000 + travel | Full weekend $3,000 + travel
  • All options include a 90-minute preparation session
Custom Leadership Program Design:

$6,000–$10,000 (Price depends on program length and number of leadership tools included)

  • Developing a leadership strategy tailored to your community
  • Writing a custom leadership curriculum
  • Training sessions for community leaders on implementation
03

Inspirational
Lectures

Customized keynotes for events, and guest teaching sessions for communities and organizations.

Lecture topics vary according to the community’s needs. Over the years I have delivered hundreds of presentations.

Here are just a few recent examples:
  • “The Courage to Wonder: Building Hope After War Through Curiosity”
  • “Sacred Rebellion: When Saying ‘No’ to God Becomes an Act of Love”
  • “Desire and Sexuality as Tools for Spiritual Growth”
  • “Interfaith Encounter as an Opportunity for Intergenerational Healing”
  • “‘I Seek My Brothers’: Communal Apology and Healing”
Pricing:
  • Guest teaching: Virtual (up to 90min) $400
  • Keynote speaker: Virtual: $900 | In-person: $1,800 + travel
Life Begins Where
Judgement Ends