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The end of the year always brings lots of lists:
Daniel Pink does homage to a "facty-holiday" on his blog this month. He gets his info from "Uncle Sam's Almanac." And he helps make the case that the world is changing. Fast.
As if we didn't know that.
We know that in today's world you have to make every action matter and every resource count. That's why we want to remind you that our rates are changing in 2010 and there is just one week left to register for the upcoming tour dates at 2009 prices!
Our fall tour sites were received so well that we added 5 more dates to start off 2010. And the $59 rate is available only one more week! If you want to explore how being a Renewable Organizatioin can change how your faith-based congregation or organization is working, be sure to check these out. You'll get a day of continuing ed, a lunch and a copy of the new ARE workbook The Renewable Organization for Faith-based Groups.
Here are the sites - click now to register!
We're excited about the response - hope to see you at one of these upcoming workshops!
Whatever your religious persuasion (or lack thereof) this is a season of wonderment, of dreams and goodwill toward all. It's a time of year that makes you want to be a better person, to pitch in for the sake of making the world a better place, to spend your life doing what matters.
Hi everybody,
Remember, there are only a few days left to get 2009 prices for 2010 workshops - join us in Cleveland, St. Louis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Janesville/Beloit WI, or San Diego! Click HERE to register.
Register (yourself and/or a friend) today and get the early-bird rate for our first ever ONLINE workshop: "Seeing With New Eyes - Learning to Use the PAWN Process." This six-session workshop meets ONLINE on Tuesday and Thursday mornings beginning January 14, 2010. Click HERE to register and/or for more info.
And THIS WEEK ONLY get 20% off everything in the ARE store. Buy yourself (or someone you care about) a Christmas gift that will make a difference in the new year! Click HERE to get to the ARE store.
–Your friends at ARE
Helping people and the organizations they care about be who they are and see what they have for the sake of doing what matters.
These are very tough times for a lot of the organizations we care about. Thanks to our friend Colleen for reminding us that the most powerful force in the universe is love. And that love grows when people laugh and play together. She sent us a link to this great video of The Pink Glove Dance. The staff at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center clearly had a lot of fun putting it together. Their goal was to generate breast cancer awareness throughout their system. We're thinking it was good for them, too. And it's just the thing some of us need to be reminded that even when facing the most difficult issues of all, when you come together in love good things happen.
Love one another today.
Is anybody else out there sick of hearing about Tiger Woods? The other day we heard a story about what a big story the Tiger Woods scandal is.
It’s time to put this baby to bed.
OK, so it's December. And that means a lot of people who work in religious organizations are even busier than usual. But how come so many of them feel like the life is being sucked out of them during the OTHER 11 months of the year, too??
Too many faith-based organizations are captive to the consumable practices that have characterized life and work in this modern industrial era. We recognize them by their valiant but exhausting efforts to fill-in-the-blank for the sake of doing what they think they're called to do. You know how it works:
If we only had ______________________ (e.g., more money, more members, etc.),
then we could (e.g., be more effective, grow, etc.).
If you're a faith-based leader, filling-in-the-blank in the midst of this economic and cultural climate is probably becoming more and more difficult. It's time to begin making the shift from a consumable to a renewable way of doing life, work, and ministry together. It's time, in other words, to learn how to be who you are and see what you have for the sake of doing what matters.
Let 2010 be the year you decided to start making this shift.
You know what "white space" is, right? In design, it's the space on a page that isn't all filled in with text or graphics. It's important to have enough of it in a newsletter, website, book, etc. that the important stuff has room to breathe. Without enough white space, it's hard to focus on what really matters.
Steve Roesler, blogging at All Things Workplace, suggests that your work life probably needs more white space, too. He offers some helpful suggestions for how to make sure you have enough "white space" in your day to tend to the things that are important to you.
We think that making sure you have enough "white space" is also pretty good advice for your life. And that might be especially true during the holiday season.
We are very excited to announce that we are expanding our Treasure in Clay Jars tour to include a HEARTLAND EXTENSION! Although we kicked off the 2009 tour in Chicago and we made a stop in Winnipeg, we spent the rest of the tour on the coasts. Lots of you emailed, called, and texted to say "When are you coming to the heartland?!"
Well, here we come!
