STaff and Leadership Training
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The Staff and Leadership Training is for those who are ready to join one of the largest missions movement in the world.
Staff and Leadership Training
All YWAM Nashville staff are required to go through this leadership track to prepare them for staff life and instill in them the YWAM Nashville DNA!
What is SALT?
All YWAM Nashville staff are required to go through this leadership track to prepare them for staff life and instill in them the YWAM Nashville DNA!
What is SALT?
Ready for Missionary life?
The Staff and Leadership Training is for those who are ready to join one of the largest missions movement in the world. SALT is a 4 month training program that is split into 2 sections: Mentorship Phase and Leadership phase.
Our YWAM Nashville staff at our 2024 staff retreat
What is SALT?
Ready for Missionary life?
The Staff and Leadership Training is for those who are ready to join one of the largest missions movement in the world. SALT is a 4 month training program that is split into 2 sections: Mentorship Phase and Leadership phase.
Our YWAM Nashville staff at our 2024 staff retreat
Our YWAM Nashville staff at our 2024 staff retreat
Mentorship Phase
Mentorship phase is 2 months of intentional mentorship and apprenticeship alongside one of our amazing YWAM Nashville staff. You'll spend time in class learning the history of YWAM and YWAM Nashville, as well as practical leadership skills. During Mentorship Phase you will be assigned a staff member to apprentice. Whether this be on the worship team or the hospitality team, you will spend this 2 months learning all the ends and outs of a staff department.
Here's what to expect
- Get equipped in Biblical Leadership Skills
- Hear from a variety of speakers about leadership
- Understand YWAM and YWAM Nashville history
- Learning how to work in a team
- Get one-on-one discipleship post-DTS
- Get ready to take on leadership at YWAM Nashville
- Practice speaking and preaching in front of a variety of groups
Leadership Phase
The last 2 months of SALT is the Leadership phase. During this time, you and your fellow SALTies will band together to lead several of our summer mission trips. YWAM Nashville runs 5-6 summer mission trips annually, each year we put our salties to work in planning, phacitating, and leading groups at our base and into Nashville. This will put into practice all the leadership, planing, and speaking qualities you will have cultivated the last 2 months. Don't worry! You'll walk alongside our seasoned mission trip department during the whole process. At the end of Leadership Phase the SALT will travel to and help with our annual Staff retreat where we commision our long term teams and welcome new staff.
Here's what to expect
- Get hands-on training in planning, facilitating, and leading a mission trip and outreach
- Continue your apprenticeships and training here at YWAM Nashville
- Experience average daily life on staff and move into our staff housing
- Join us for our annual staff retreat
- Get one-on-one discipleship post-DTS
Mentorship Phase
Mentorship phase is 2 months of intentional mentorship and apprenticeship alongside one of our amazing YWAM Nashville staff. You'll spend time in class learning the history of YWAM and YWAM Nashville, as well as practical leadership skills. During Mentorship Phase you will be assigned a staff member to apprentice. Whether this be on the worship team or the hospitality team, you will spend this 2 months learning all the ends and outs of a staff department.
Here's what to expect
- Get equipped in Biblical Leadership Skills
- Hear from a variety of speakers about leadership
- Understand YWAM and YWAM Nashville history
- Learning how to work in a team
- Get one-on-one discipleship post-DTS
- Get ready to take on leadership at YWAM Nashville
- Practice speaking and preaching in front of a variety of groups
Leadership Phase
The last 2 months of SALT is the Leadership phase. During this time, you and your fellow SALTies will band together to lead several of our summer mission trips. YWAM Nashville runs 5-6 summer mission trips annually, each year we put our salties to work in planning, phacitating, and leading groups at our base and into Nashville. This will put into practice all the leadership, planing, and speaking qualities you will have cultivated the last 2 months. Don't worry! You'll walk alongside our seasoned mission trip department during the whole process. At the end of Leadership Phase the SALT will travel to and help with our annual Staff retreat where we commision our long term teams and welcome new staff.
Here's what to expect
- Get hands-on training in planning, facilitating, and leading a mission trip and outreach
- Continue your apprenticeships and training here at YWAM Nashville
- Experience average daily life on staff and move into our staff housing
- Join us for our annual staff retreat
- Get one-on-one discipleship post-DTS
Mentorship Phase
Mentorship phase is 2 months of intentional mentorship and apprenticeship alongside one of our amazing YWAM Nashville staff. You'll spend time in class learning the history of YWAM and YWAM Nashville, as well as practical leadership skills. During Mentorship Phase you will be assigned a staff member to apprentice. Whether this be on the worship team or the hospitality team, you will spend this 2 months learning all the ends and outs of a staff department.
Here's what to expect
- Get equipped in Biblical Leadership Skills
- Hear from a variety of speakers about leadership
- Understand YWAM and YWAM Nashville history
- Learning how to work in a team
- Get one-on-one discipleship post-DTS
- Get ready to take on leadership at YWAM Nashville
- Practice speaking and preaching in front of a variety of groups
Leadership Phase
The last 2 months of SALT is the Leadership phase. During this time, you and your fellow SALTies will band together to lead several of our summer mission trips. YWAM Nashville runs 5-6 summer mission trips annually, each year we put our salties to work in planning, phacitating, and leading groups at our base and into Nashville. This will put into practice all the leadership, planing, and speaking qualities you will have cultivated the last 2 months. Don't worry! You'll walk alongside our seasoned mission trip department during the whole process. At the end of Leadership Phase the SALT will travel to and help with our annual Staff retreat where we commision our long term teams and welcome new staff.
Here's what to expect
- Get hands-on training in planning, facilitating, and leading a mission trip and outreach
- Continue your apprenticeships and training here at YWAM Nashville
- Experience average daily life on staff and move into our staff housing
- Join us for our annual staff retreat
- Get one-on-one discipleship post-DTS
DATES
Costs
Details
Arrival Day:
Outreach Start Date:
Annual Staff Retreat (End of SALT):
April TBD, 2026
June TBD, 2026
End of July 2026
Mentorship Phase:
Leadership Phase:
The cost during SALT is the same as being on staff: $225 for housing per person and $50 for staff fees per person
Food:
Housing:
The Dining hall won’t be providing food during SALT
Housing is dormitory-style
Dates
Arrival: April TBD, 2026
Outreach: June TBD, 2026
End of SALT: July TBD, 2026
Costs
The cost of SALT per month is the same as being part of our staff: $225 for housing per person and a $50 staff fee per person each month.
Details
Food: The dining hall will not provide meals during SALT.
Housing: Accommodation will be dormitory-style.
Dates
Arrival Day: April TBD, 2026
Outreach Start Date: June TBD, 2026
End of SALT: End of July 2026
Costs
The cost during SALT is the same as being on staff: $225 for housing per person and $50 for staff fees per person each month
Details
Food: The Dining hall won’t be providing food during SALT
Housing: Housing is dormitory-style
About YWAM Nashville
YWAM Nashville is a missional community that is located on a 136-acre property 40 minutes north of downtown Nashville. We are statically located between Logan County where the second great awakening started, and the city of Nashville which was birthed out of revival. Our campus has been sending missionaries into the nations since 1996, with long-term teams currently in the Horn of Africa, Romania, Central Asia, and West Asia. YWAM Nashville’s focus is on Worship, Revival, Family, and reaching unreached people groups in the city of Nashville. We currently have 29 amazing staff serving our campus and reaching the nations.
Frequently Asked Questions
Because SALT is a Staff onboarding program as well as leadership training, we want to prepare each participant for staff life. There are many times each year when a School is not running, and our dining hall is not running. In those times it is up to you to shop for and cook your own food.
During SALT each participant will lead a summer mission trip at YWAM Nashville. Each participant will get a week to lead and shine, each Mission trip will be 5-7 days including training youth in sharing their faith, Jesus and the cross, and what it means to be a missionary. The Leadership Phase will last for 2 months of outreaches.
The only requirement for SALT is the completion of a YWAM DTS. Our leadership team will discuss and pray over every application.
An average Mentorship phase day would go like this:
7:00 Breakfast
7:30 Quiet time
8:30 Corporate Worship
9:30-12:30 Leadership Training Lecture (11:15 Break)
12:30 Lunch (Pack your dinner)
2:00 Apprenticeship/staff duties
5:30 Dinner
YWAM is an interdenominational apostolic missions movement. We accept people from all parts of Christ’s Body.
At YWAM Nashville we will help students raise the funds for SALT. That said, SALT is a program that prepares you to be on staff with a YWAM Campus. All YWAM Staff are volunteers and raise their own funds. our suggestion is that Staff raise AT LEAST $1,000 per month per person in support funds.
SALT is a leadership training school and our leaders pray through every application that comes in. So the answer is “yes”. We would suggest you don’t come to SALT unless you are willing to at least pray about joining the staff at YWAM Nashville.
Yes! At YWAM Nashville, each staff member makes a 2-year commitment when first joining staff. After 2 years our staff can stay on staff, or move on to whatever Jesus is calling them to.