The PAX Fellowship 2025 - 2026 Cohorts
Applications for the 2025-2026 PAX Fellowship are now CLOSED.
Join our waitlist for next year’s cohorts, please fill out our Waitlist Form.
Each cohort is led by a world-class expert with a minimum of 5 Fellows and a maximum of 15. Read the Facilitator bios on our Leadership Page or within the Syllabus linked.
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Led by Jenai Auman
Ideal for leaders from varied disciplines, therapists, those in helping professions, spiritual formation or discipleship pastors or leaders.
The Contemplative Activism + Spiritual Formation Cohort will help fellows embody what it means to love God and love your neighbor as yourself (Matt 22:37-39). Spiritual formation is the work of being and becoming while we live with the effects of a fractured world. Contemplative activism is the work of belonging. We extend belonging as agents of reconciliation, helping mend the fractures of the world. Becoming a person of wholeness, holiness, and healing includes tending to the fractures within so that we can extend peace to a world in pieces.
Due to the strong interest in this cohort, we have established two separate groups for Contemplative Activism & Spiritual Formation to accommodate more participants.
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Led by Josué Perea
Ideal for leaders from varied disciplines, therapists, those in helping professions, spiritual formation, or discipleship pastors or leaders.
The Contemplative Activism + Spiritual Formation Cohort will help fellows embody what it means to love God and love your neighbor as yourself (Matt 22:37-39). Spiritual formation is the work of being and becoming while we live with the effects of a fractured world. Contemplative activism is the work of belonging. We extend belonging as agents of reconciliation, helping mend the fractures of the world. Becoming a person of wholeness, holiness, and healing includes tending to the fractures within so that we can extend peace to a world in pieces.
Due to the strong interest in this cohort, we have established two separate groups for Contemplative Activism & Spiritual Formation to accommodate more participants.
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Led by Brian Oliva
Anyone interested in deep diving into the nuance of words, storytelling, and the poetry that binds it all together.
Collaborative learning through the sharing of each other’s stories and sharpening our storytelling ability through the art of poetry. Our objectives will include: creating new work, gaining or heightening our ability to evaluate and analyze art, deepen understanding of poetry and self, and to create new pathways to and accessible creative memories.
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Led by Chenoa Daniels
Poetry B is for eligible poets with a desire to take their poetry from hobby to passion. This course is designed for persons with at least an associate degree-level (or equivalent) of education as topics explored will be profound and extensive. Additionally, the course is intended for an audience with an open-mind towards facilitations involving culturally diverse nuances viewed through a Christian lens.
This cohort explores various philosophical and psychological approaches to contemplative poetry and how culturally specific ideas of identity have shaped the social and cultural realities writers create within. It analyzes the inner workings of one’s self-talk regarding works of art, focusing on desired poetry goals. This cohort examines literary tools to explore untapped methods of writing, both individually and collectively. -
Led by Jalen Seawright
Songwriting is for aspiring Songwriters seeking to grow, explore, and develop their songwriting skills.
The Songwriting Cohort, “Praise & Protest”, will walk its fellows through the concepts of justice-centered songwriting. Together we will explore the impact that songwriters have historically had on the social constructs of our world all while learning the principles needed to write our own songs in efforts to amass societal change.
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Led by Tracey Gee
This cohort is for women in leadership (formal or informal) seeking a space to explore their leadership identity, navigate challenges confidently, and make a meaningful impact from their unique strengths.
Leadership is so much more than a role. It comes from who we are. This cohort is focused on helping you navigate your approach to your leadership development that grows from the inside out. We will utilize a strengths-based approach that enables you to identify and leverage your unique strengths and perspectives. This cohort will be interactive and practical, as well as a chance to learn new frameworks and principles of leadership.
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Led by Michael Stalcup and Chanté Griffin
This Writers Cohort is a community of writers seeking to deepen their spiritual foundations, engage writing as a God-given vocation, and develop their craft, platform, and publishing. It is for writers who want to grow through developing spiritual rhythms, engaging in community, and thoughtfully engaging platform and publication.
Learning Objectives
Establish spiritual and practical foundations for taking next steps in writing/publishing and preparing for a healthy lifelong writing journey.
Participate in a vibrant community of fellow Christian writers of color.
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Led by Dominique Gilliard
Designed for writers who want to inspire social change, faith rooted activism and advocacy.
Learning Objectives
To discern your inspirational impulse for writing
To clarify the missional purpose of your writing
To determine the praxis outcomes that you hope will flow from our writing
To identify and build your specific authorial brand
To discern how your writing can help inspire readers to pursue Jesus, justice, and transformation.
To explore how writing can help us become more reflective, centered, versions of self.
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Led by Christopher Cruz Osorio
Cohort funded by Tenx10.The Youth Leadership Cohort is designed for justice-minded leaders who work with teenagers and are committed to providing spaces of and implement strategies that engage and disciple youth toward service and justice as informed by their growing faith in Jesus.
The Youth Leadership Cohort will provide youth leaders with a space to gather, learn from one another and other experts in the field, and be empowered to return to their communities and serve the next generation through embodied values of service and justice informed by their faith.
This program is made possible through a Faith and Service Grant from the TENx10 Collaboration at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, with funds provided by Lilly Endowment Inc.