Listening – Learning – Aligning

Mission is a result of taking time to listen and to trust, to learn and care for our communities, and to create work that serves and makes meaning.

When we partner in our organizations, our communities, we can live out our mission.

Craig Morton, the founder of The Missionplace, sitting in a green chair next to a large window wearing a blue suit and holding a disposable coffee cup.

About The Missionplace

For over twenty years, Craig Morton and The Missionplace have partnered with organizations to bring their missions to life. Through attentive listening and collaboration, challenges transform into creative solutions, hopes turn into actionable strategies, and unclear goals become opportunities for discovery and renewal.

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The Missionplace Listens.

Creating opportunities to listen together and share in the creation of hope-filled consulting processes, transforming challenges into mission. Listening and learning from each other is the first step.

The Missionplace Coaches.

Resourcing leaders through counsel, advice, and education; spiritual direction, and discernment skills; transforming and mediating conflicts; from experienced practitioners. By building a partnership with clients, we build trust and develop creativity.

The Missionplace Partners.

Listening, learning, developing, all take time and move through paths and processes. And there’s always a need for adaptation, plan again, and learn for the iteration. We don’t do “content specialization.” You have the specialization; we help align it.

The Missionplace Teaches.

Serve mission-driven organizations, small businesses, nonprofits, and faith communities. Missionplace believes that complex ideas, ancient wisdom, and the principle of treating others as we’d want to be treated guide us toward wholeness, joy, and community.

The Missionplace founder Craig Morton sitting at an outdoor table talking to a woman while they both eat lunch.

How We Help

The Most Important Thing is Listening

Through conversations and questions, we learn the dynamic relationships that affect, guide, and sometimes misguide organizations. With an academic background in philosophy, theological ethics, and organizational leadership, Craig Morton leads organizations in shared discovery.

Process consulting, appreciative inquiry, and other disciplines allow clients to shape a consultation process that serves their needs and develops capacities for growth.

Our Services

“Craig is a collaborative leader focused on helping individuals and organizations align with their mission. His work has consistently produced desired outcomes resulting in resolution of conflict, greater missional clarity, targeted programs/services, and team coherence. Craig is collegial and listens well to his clients. I have always enjoyed my work with him and look forward to partnering in the future.”
— Trey Doty, Well-Being and Resilience at the Federal Bureau of Investigation
“Craig Morton served our congregation with love, integrity and a listening…Craig came to us at a time when our congregation was hurting from trust being broken with previous leadership and he gently worked to help us repair trust within our community and with how we saw those in positions of perceived power.”
— Beth Sell, Congregational Leadership, Salem, Oregon
“Craig brings an impressive array of gifts to helping groups seeking deep cultural change. He is a thoughtful theologian, a non-anxious presence among often anxious leaders….As a consultant, he brings years of experience and wisdom, as well as a down-to-earth sense of humor, to even the most challenging organizational problems.”
— Liza Long, Author, The Price of Silence: A Mom's Perspective on Mental Illness
“Craig has lots of energy and is very creative—at the same time is a good listener. He understands “missional” like few others. He is also a great person to have working in an ecumenical setting since he understands the dynamics well of working at missional challenges from such a context—that is his current reality and he grasps the importance of approaching the missional journey across denominations.”
— Conrad Kanagy Associate Professor of Sociology, Elizabethtown College
“Craig is a gifted, observant, and competent problem-solving, advisor and coach for individuals, but more particularly for systems … and… organizations. Craig is relaxed, very knowledgeable, and communicates well. He is reliable and works collaboratively with a group to understand and then move through and beyond their stuck places. I widely recommend him for groups who need coaching, conflict-resolution, help with systems and organizational structures, and discernment about future directions.”
— Mary Kate Morris, Professor of Leadership