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Types of ProSocial Leaders
Every leader who signs onto ProSocial must designate themselves as one of three primary categories (below). After choosing a primary category, a leader can then add nuance to their profile by choosing secondary and tertiary categories to fully represent the breadth of their thinking. In this way, the primary designations are malleable and often overlap with each other, allowing for a leader to interact with a broad range of seekers.
Religious Leader
Leaders who often, but not always, have credentials provided by an organizing religious body (e.g. clerics, rabbis, imams, pastors, priests, etc.). The key factor is that they are recognized as a leader within a specific religious tradition and will be teaching primarily out of that tradition.
Spiritual Leader
Leaders who are part of spiritual movements that lack an organizing body. Often these leaders are part of New Religious Movements (NRMs) with relatively recent origins (e.g. Wicca, Thelema, Druidism, etc.) or represent a conglomeration of various religious and spiritual traditions.
Thought Leader
Leaders who operate within the secular realm. They often come from the academy or are considered leaders who promote a worldview or a philosophical movement (academics, authors, counselors, life coaches, etc.)
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