Circles of Life

Description:

This book was written in 1989 and is intended to help facilitators and ministers do their life work. It focuses on four key processes. The first process promotes an in-depth study of humans. The second process captures how to establish human relationships that promote safety, belonging, and significance (our basic human goals). The third and fourth processes equip the reader-leader-facilitator to establish, plan and conduct learning events that can change people's lives.

Excerpt:

Native Americans see life in terms of fours. The four cardinal directions. The four winds. The four seasons. There is a balance and wholeness implied in the fours.

This training program is a program of fours. The individual is balanced by the group. The process of learning is balanced by the ministry process. Planning and spontaneity are balanced toward promoting individual growth through learning. The behavioral approach to objectives is balanced by the mystery of what will happen during the implementation of the program, and the mysterious stirrings and insights that come to life in each person.

If as ministers and facilitators we approach this training as something to be conquered we will feel overwhelmed. To approach it as an adventure or journey is to befriend all of the discoveries and possibilities and we will get excited and surprised. You can choose your approach.

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