Ecumenical Similarities between Ignatian and Quaker Dialogic Leadership Principles, Processes, and Application within Large Secular University Contexts

precis: This essay seeks to articulate the relationships between Ignatian and Quaker "seeking that of Go[o]d in all things" and the "servant leadership" method, and between "communal discernment" and the "service-based participative group decision-making" process methods. These core principles and processes are related to what has been termed "wider ecumenism," "bottom-up ecumenism," and "tactical ecumenism." Large Jesuit and Quaker universities have experienced similar marginalization and even the disappearance of meaningful Ignatian and Quaker presence and mission. These process methods can incorporate the key ecumenical principles within large secular university contexts and help preserve, adapt, harmonize, and partner with core cross-tradition and ecumenical foundations, even when the core principles are at some disconnect from contemporary secular organizational cultures and systems

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