The Healer Leader

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For  a lot of my life, when the topic of leadership comes up in conversation or in classes, the concept of servant leadership was often held in high regard. It was a far less authority-based form of leadership that brought the leader down to the level of his or her subordinates in terms of action and activity while still maintaining the position of leadership. 


It is often considered in many Christian circles as the most Christlike form of leadership one can engage in. However, for me there is one form of leadership that transcends even servant leadership while also including it, and that is the form of the "healer leader."


The difference between a servant leader and a healer leader is that a servant leader is focused on service that doesn't always include acts of restoration and repair, while a healer leader actively and consistently looks for opportunities to repair brokenness within the system they lead and within the missions and objectives they are trying to achieve.


A healer leader is always also a servant leader, but a servant leader isn't always a healer leader.


A healer leader is greater. They are always on the lookout for opportunities to restore decayed and corrupted parts of their worlds or the systems they lead, and they are always looking to heal wounds and bitterness within the people they are in charge of. They look to fix and solve problems for the betterment of their mission and even the world as a whole.


Healer leaders are never authoritarian. They are never dictators, and they only exercise hard power when it serves the objective of restoration, and punishment is only dealt within the context of correction and repair. Power, to them, is solely a means to restore and improve the world and it's use as a tool of wrath or retribution is a distant second tier, if it is used at all in that way.


The goal of a healer leader is simple. To fix, improve, restore, and strengthen, never to degrade or devalue people or nations. Oppression is out of the question for a healer leader, because oppression never healed anything. They never see mistakes as unfixable, weakness as unstrengthenable, or brokenness unmendable, and their entire objective is to do those things as well as they can.


A healer leader's glory is not in conquest or domination, but in liberation and restoration. He knows that these are far more glorious.

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