The seven couples in the group included three individuals who had had previous
growth group experience.
Insights from reading, lectures, and training courses can illuminate and make more functional
your growth group experiences.
To utilize this opportunity, seminary teachers themselves need clinical training and
growth group experiences to release their potential as creative teachers.
Longer - term pre-marital counseling and
growth group experiences can prove to be excellent investments in a couple's future happiness and marital creativity.
Not exact matches
A report by Aberdeen
Group finds that businesses with social customer service
experience around 7.5 percent year - over-year
growth (compared to 2.9 percent without social customer service), so don't underestimate its value.
But both
groups experienced above - average
growth.
Our museum has worked hard over the last several years to improve our reach into the African - American and Hispanic communities, since the region has a large population of the former and is
experiencing rapid
growth among the latter
group.
The founders of Addison
Group sought out to recruit the best candidates for the area's best companies and has since
experienced widespread recognition and
growth thanks to its strategic investment partner, Trilantic Capital Partners.
His prior
experience includes working with high -
growth technology startups and advising corporate venture capital
groups at Silicon Valley Bank.
With over 20 years»
experience, Carrie specialises in providing effective total solutions for real estate and media, and has created sustainable business
growth with better consumer and customer
experiences for Century21, Knight Frank, JLL, Colliers, CBRE, Henderson Land Development, Sun Hung Kai Properties, Sino
Group, and more.
Addressing the media on the sidelines of the on - going Spring Meetings of the World Bank
Group in Washington DC, United States of America, yesterday, Lagarde warned that while most of the nations around the world are
experiencing growth, they should endeavor to get ready for a downside effect sooner than later.
The
experience of the last five years and a decade of experimenting with small
groups before that have convinced me that
growth groups are on the cutting edge in counseling, education, and community - building.
But, all things considered,
growth groups seem to be the most effective means for the maximum number of persons to
experience enlivening within themselves and in their relationships with others!
Their feelings of self - worth will be enhanced both by
experiencing and internalizing esteem from significant others (e.g., the therapist or
growth group members) and from increasing their competence and power to meet their basic needs.
This overall agenda would not differ from those of most liberal Protestant or Jewish
groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared values» (rather than theology or personal
growth or social change or
experiences of transcendence).
In the post-series evaluation, participants expressed appreciation for the new communication tools they had learned, the
growth they had
experienced, and the warm support that had developed in the
group.
This phase of training has two purposes — continuing your personal
growth and learning various styles of
group facilitation through
experience.
In addition, three procedures on the leader's part reduce the risk of serious problems — working with a co-leader, having regular supervisory conferences with a more
experienced growth facilitator, and continuing in one's own
growth group.
Some beginning
groups without a designated leader become productive because one or more members possess facilitative skills acquired in previous
growth experiences.
If one recruits a
growth group, using these criteria, the
group experience itself will identify several people who have both the inclination and the aptitudes to lead
groups themselves.
Supervision in a small
group of leaders - in - training is especially valuable, providing as it does both a continuing support /
growth group and a place to learn from others»
experiences in leading
groups.
Field education should be offered in lively churches (which have a mental health program) where small
groups of students are supervised by
experienced clergymen (with faculty status) who are themselves instruments of
growth and healing.
Family - related
growth groups engage adults in life - changing spiritual formation because this
experience can change attitudes about family life.
A spiritual
growth group is a learning opportunity for individuals who are
experiencing a time of unusual stress.3 The pastor or lay leader with gifts for guiding a particular
group should be the organizer and initial leader of the
group.
To
experience grace in relationships — with one's spouse, one's spiritual search
group, one's counselor — is to
experience growth, healing, and trust renewal.
Discovering natural
growth facilitators and offering them a depth
group experience is an efficient way of developing creative leadership for
groups (
growth and otherwise) within the organization.
My
experience with professional
growth groups for theological students over the last decade has convinced me that the quality of professional services could be raised significantly in a few years if
growth groups were used widely in professional education.
The director of this program describes why they prefer to use the
growth group approach: «It is in the dynamics of a small
group that we
experience the interactions, feeling responses, and behavior patterns of our own family's relationships — and others.
At the close of two weeks of daily
growth group sessions, participants in one workshop could identify these biblical themes in their shared
experiences: bondage and liberation, salvation by grace, judgment, death and rebirth, alienation and reconciliation, mutual caring, the transforming power of love, becoming a spiritual unity,
growth.
(3) Personal
growth experiences in a small
group where the integration of ideas and skills can occur.
Growth groups can help make the power of authentic relationships — the people dynamic — a liberating
experience in community after community for the greening of the world.
(7) Applying learning from
group experiences to relationships outside the
group is encouraged as an essential part of personal
growth.
Discuss your
experience in checking out your plans, including how you might continue to use a sharing
group for mutual support and
growth.!
Some
groups are
experiencing substantial
growth, such as HTB's church - planting network and Pentecostal denominations such as the Redeemed Christian Church of God, which now boasts 800 churches throughout the UK.
Growth groups for children can facilitate a child's development by providing fulfilling
experiences.
Experiences in a
group are most likely to help a marriage become an ongoing stimulus to
growth if these guidelines are observed: (1) The couple agrees on certain things both want (goals) and decides how to attain them (strategy).
One way of acknowledging its revisability is to say that it can survive the critique laid for it by Wayne Proudfoot in his 1985 Religious
Experience and, more importantly, by the postmodern culture for which Proudfoot speaks.13 If it ignores that kind of postmodern critique, I am suggesting, it will not deliver on the promise it has shown recently in the
growth of The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, in the founding of The Highlands Institute for American Religious Thought, in the resurgence of Columbia and Yale forms of neonaturalism and pragmatism in the work of Robert Corrington and William Shea, 14 and in the American Academy of Religion
Group on Empiricism in American Religious Thought — as well as in the growing independent scholarship of those working out of the empirical side of process theology and the Chicago school.
An
experienced growth facilitator reports that in the «Marriage Effectiveness» weekends which he and his wife co-lead, they have found it important to balance the emphasis on nurture and handling conflict constructively.3 Focusing only on love - support - nurture makes marital
groups one - sided and increasingly irrelevant to real relationships which inevitably blend love and conflict.
The teaching function of a
growth group usually evolved as members and leaders reflected on their
experiences together.
All of these create and use small ad hoc
groups to help individuals
experience healing and
growth.
In an enrichment
group couples can
experience that blend of caring and confrontation which will help them move through their conflict to a better relationship built on an active commitment to each other's
growth.
The high school girl quoted at the opening of this chapter compared her
experiences with marijuana and a
growth - in - sensitivity
group:
A vital function of
growth groups for all ages is to help people break out of «the heavies» and
experience «little moments of ecstasy» — in playfulness, joy, celebration, worship, deep sharing, mystery, and pain.
With the whole
group and the small
groups, focus on learning skills which couples can use to help themselves and others
experience crises as incentives for
growth (see below.
Experiences in marriage counseling and marital
growth groups indicate that the struggle for increased relatedness may become intense at any time in a marriage.
He organized students into
groups, something like the later human potential
growth groups, in order that they might actually
experience the working of God in their lives.
Reporting that they «wanted this
experience» for their church, they announced the formation of an eight - session Couples»
Growth group in the newsletter.
If you're in an organization with ongoing educational, task, or fellowship
groups, an efficient start might be to see whether persons in one or several of those
groups would be interested in a special six - to eight - week
growth experience.
Actually, the relatedness
experienced at the start is only a foretaste of the caring of a mature
growth group.
Whether they became so via previous therapeutic or
growth experiences or as a result of having «chosen their parents well,» they invariably help a
group develop a
growth climate.