GraceRoot Course | KALI Elective

When the Ass Speaks... You Should Listen!

Overcoming Narcissistic Spiritual Abuse from the Pulpit

A faith-integrated educational course for recognizing harmful spiritual leadership patterns, rebuilding discernment, strengthening boundaries, and practicing accountable relational repair. Designed for individual learners and available as an optional KALI elective.

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This course is educational and reflective. It is not a diagnostic instrument, therapy, legal advice, pastoral adjudication, or emergency support.

What the Course Helps Learners Explore

The curriculum uses the Balaam narrative as a framework for examining pride, correction, spiritual authority, power misuse, repentance, accountability, and recovery after spiritually harmful relational systems.

Leadership Discernment

Recognize patterns where charisma, authority, or spiritual language can be used to avoid correction or accountability.

Boundaries and Recovery

Practice reflection around safety, emotional responsibility, codependence, interdependence, and rebuilding trust over time.

KALI Elective Fit

Supports KALI participants who want a deeper elective focused on spiritual leadership risk, humility, repair, and organizational discernment.

Course Outline

The course includes 12 instructional modules and a final assessment center for educational self-reflection.

1
When the Ass Speaks: Lessons from BalaamLeadership, humility, correction, and transformation.
2
Narcissistic Leadership in MinistryPatterns of control, image protection, and spiritualized manipulation.
3
Building the FoundationDiscernment, identity, Scripture, and psychological safety.
4
Recognizing the SignsWarning patterns, impact, and relational clarity.
5
When Power Is MisusedPower, authority, accountability, and harm prevention.
6
The Negative A.S.S. in LeadershipAmbitious, selfish, and sociopathic leadership patterns.
7
Biblical Narcissistic A.S.S. LeadersScriptural case studies for discernment and reflection.
8
Inauthentic Repentance and Genuine RedemptionDistinguishing repair from image management.
9
Changing GarmentsIdentity, restoration, and the movement from survival to integrity.
10
Breaking the SilenceVoice, truth-telling, documentation, and support-seeking.
11
Boundaries, Codependency, and Emotional ResponsibilityInterdependence, limits, and emotional ownership.
12
The Path ForwardHealing roadmap, safe community, purpose, and hope.
13
Assessment CenterEducational self-reflections for awareness and discussion.

How Enrollment Works

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If taken as a KALI elective, this course supplements the KALI curriculum. It does not replace required KALI courses or Rooted & Restored prerequisite guidance unless GraceRoot staff approves an exception.