The Sanctuary shall be a two-hour program that involves 8-10 participants. There will be a separate Sanctuary for different clients: cabinet members, the military, local chief executives, members of Congress, young Ateneans in government and other groups of public officials.

Leadership Development Training Program

    The LDTP shall answer the need for an in-depth program that integrates the sense of leadership with the skills of leadership, since participants will be required to develop an action plan on a selected project during the course of the program. It is designed as a step-wise learning process that starts from a clarification of values in leadership, moves on to the development of skills for management and leadership, and ends with an enhancement of both through an indoctrination into the theory and the practice of the spiritual aspect of leadership. However, the components can also be designed as stand-alone programs to suit the specific needs of interested participants.

    The first component (Foundations of Leadership) consists of four modules that lay the grounding for the whole program. It introduces the participants to theories of leadership, clarifying their own values as leaders, and integrating these with their different functions and roles as figures of authority, makers of history, and as leaders of their constituencies towards development goals.

    The second component (Building Blocks of Leadership) consists of four modules that focus on capacity-building as a necessary ingredient to effective leadership through the development of requisite management and organizational skills.

    The third component (The Soul of Leadership) seeks to integrate the participants' enhanced awareness of themselves, of others, and as leaders with inner discipline skills toward increased ability to respond to the personal challenges of leadership.

    To ensure the effectiveness of the interactive techniques applied in this program, each training batch will be composed of 15-20 participants only. Initial target participants are local government officials, especially local chief executives from the municipal to the provincial office level.

Leadership Research

    The program's research component shall serve to build the School's intellectual capital on leadership. Initially the research will include generating cases and reading material to be used in the short courses on leadership as well as the School's other degree and non-degree programs.

    The cases will be leadership profiles - stories of former public officials who have pushed for reform in their pursuit of new politics. There will also be cases that focus on ethical dilemmas in public office.