So many messages become imbedded during our youth. "You are loved." "You are trusted." " You are good." These assurances often remain through a lifetime and build us up. What does one do to shed the negative, destructive messages sent? Is it even possible? In Ollie, Ollie, Oxen Free, Matt Turner dedicates his life to the service of others, as a priest and teacher and director, only to discover that the messages of his past haunt him. Carol Triton has learned to survive by her wits and good...

Jesus defines what it means to be human.What are we as human beings? That question might seem simple and obvious, until you start trying to answer it. The church has always had a default teaching on human ontology, but not an orthodox confession. And the current debate regarding the "what" of human being seems to be locked in a stalemate between dualist and physicalist perspectives on body and soul, which is unable to provide a foundation to address the deeply anth...

STOP WASTING TIME DEVELOPING STRATEGIC PLANS THAT DON'T GET IMPLEMENTED!Far too often, people experience strategic planning as a wasted activity—painful, unproductive, and irrelevant to the issues at hand. And once planning is done, the product usually gets put on a shelf, never to be looked at again.The Executive Guide to Facilitating Strategy delivers the Drivers Model, a powerful tool to help you facilitate your organization through the development of a strategic plan fr...

The revised edition of this facilitation classic offers a wealth of targeted techniques for facilitators who seek effective, consistent, and repeatable results. Based on Michael Wilkinson's proven SMART (Structured Meeting And Relating Techniques) approach, The Secrets of Facilitation can help to achieve stellar results when managing, presenting, teaching, planning, and selling, as well as other professional and personal situations.This expanded edition includes new chapte...

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How much time does your organization waste in unfocused, unengaging and unproductive virtual meetings?Virtual meetings are on the rise. Unfortunately, most meeting leaders don't know the strategies for executing masterful virtual meetings. As a result, most virtual meetings:• Don't start on time because people have difficulty with the technology• Don't have a defined purpose due to lack of preparation• Don't keep people engaged due to escalated multi-tasking

The Effective Facilitator is the Leadership Strategies highly-acclaimed course for both beginning and veteran facilitators. The course is based on the Ten Principles of Facilitation and includes over 90 specific techniques for success. The Principles provide a highly structured framework for guiding the facilitator, from preparing for a successful session, through achieving buy-in and commitment, to session wrap up and close.     Preparing for Success – Cover all the...

A recent phenomenon of charismatic renewal took place in Toronto in the mid-1990s. Commonly known as the "Toronto Blessing" and operated by the former Vineyard Church leaders John and Carol Arnott, the renewal was defined by reports of uncontrollable laughter, weeping, speaking in tongues, animal noises, and falling on the floor during worship. Sympathetic Christians embraced these practices while others who believed that this form of worship boarded on spectacle rejected ...

Are you struggling to find your true personality type to discover who you really are but the answer seem too complex or just doesn’t have enough depth? Then keep readingYou’re not alone!Thousands of people are asking the exact same question and have yet to find the answer they’re looking for. They’ve been through multiple books and online information, but it just doesn’t seem to stick.It all seems too complex or it’s a bit too dry.They’re all looking for tha...

Just as they do on those television cooking contests when the bell rings and the contestants’ hands go up, at four o’clock on Friday afternoon, the column is filed—ready or not—to the columnist’s horror, discomfort, or self-satisfaction. Regardless, one exigent and unrelenting thought remains: what you wish you’d said.Such is the life of a weekly newspaper columnist.Unable to ignore the urge any longer, in What I Wish I Said: Confessions of a Columnist, author Jaim...

This innovative, introductory text is authored by key subject leaders in clinical neuroendocrinology with decades of research and teaching experience. Addressing the need for a concise description of human neuroendocrine systems, this important review of various significant basic science advances is relevant for all levels of experience. An indispensable resource for a variety of learners, this book will also enable biomedical science graduate students to extend their knowledge using its v...

Do you care too much about what other people think and just want to be happy? If you want to feel comfortable in any situation around any person while feeling strong and alive, then keep reading...Did you know that every year millions of people with empath are misdiagnosed with bipolar, social anxiety and other conditions?Hundreds of 1000's of people go about their lives thinking they have a problem when really they have a gift.Are you one of those ...