Sentences with phrase «not encourage conversations»

«We can not encourage conversations and activities that are meant to discourage us, to divide us, to weaken our morale or limit our potential in this particular moment, or to quote a popularly expression, we can not afford to cut our nose to spite our face.

We can not encourage conversations and activities that are meant to divide us, to weaken our morale, or limit our potential in this particular moment.

We can't encourage conversations that will discourage us and weaken our morale.»

Not exact matches

The first conversations about diversity, she said, «were not very encouraging.»

If your team members haven't made it a habit to write down everything they've done so far, you will want to encourage them to spend some time retroactively reproducing their sales conversations and processes.

However easy it is to demonize and to hate from a distance (I won't provide links, but, trust me, the demonization and the hate was quite evident online), it's a bit harder to do so in the context of a small college, where habits of conversation are encouraged, where people talk the talk (even if — sinners as we all are — we don't always walk the walk) of fairminded openness to the truth, and where Others (not «The Other,» which, as a colleague rightly suggested, is too abstract) are people we encounter day in and day out.

I encourage you not to engage HeavenSent in conversation.

Kinda makes a poor judge of character, so if you are willing to debate freely in a conversation on life, the world, the pursuit of knowledge, and all the unknowns in the world with an underage male, then I encourage you to continue the debate freely, but if you feel outmatched in a knowledge criteria and you wish to avoid shame of not understanding enough or even not knowing enough (because they are different) then i will gently step aside as not to harm your ego.

When normal life events like teen - parent alienation, marital stress, mid-life crises, and decisions about elderly parents are hidden behind superficial relationships in a congregation, conversations that will encourage families to minister to one another are not likely to happen.

Places where dialogue, conversation and questions are encouraged, not shunned.

It appears that the end result of recent conversations is that evangelicals appear to want to understand the continualist movement, not caricature it, and that's encouraging.

Perhaps we ought to encourage our pastors not to think of themselves as «above» such mundane conversations as gossip or as prohibitors of gossip, but rather as those who help us to gossip well in the congregation.

It's hard acknowledging the limits of a medium through which my own writing career has flourished, but I want you to know: The conversations we have here — as encouraging, informative, and life - changing as they can often be — are meant to be brought to dinner tables, coffee shops, AA meetings, parks, church fellowship halls, long car rides, dorm rooms, and diners, among people who (whether they agree or disagree) can look you in the eye and take you in, not as a brand but as a human being.

Christians are supposed to encourage each other, and simply sharing insights in conversation is not the same thing as positioning oneself as a «teacher», as in a spiritual mentor, and the responsibility that comes with that.

The ecumenical conversations between the World Alliance of Reformed Churches and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity distinguished three contemporary Reformed attitudes toward the Roman Catholic Church: of those who remain unconvinced that the Catholic Church has actually dealt with the fundamental issues that divided Rome and the Reformation, those who «have not been challenged or encouraged to reconsider their traditional stance» and remain «largely untouched by the ecumenical exchanges of recent times,» and those who have engaged «in a fresh constructive and critical evaluation both of the contemporary teaching and practice of the Roman Catholic Church and of the classical controverted issues.»

This is human nature, of course, but what I've been telling myself lately is it's not fair to the 199 readers who took the time and effort to add something personal, thoughtful, wise, and encouraging to the conversation when I only remember and engage that single negative comment.

Having engaged in far too many seemingly endless and usually fruitless discussions about the word «inerrancy,» I am both convicted and encouraged by McKnight's reminder here that «having the right view [of the Bible] isn't the point of the Bible... We must begin an entirely new conversation that gets us beyond the right view of the Bible to one that seeks to answer this question, «What is our relationship to the God of the Bible?»

The Vatican's statement drew criticism from David Clohessy, executive director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests «The pope should be encouraging, not forbidding, more open conversation about cover ups of clergy sex crimes by bishops,» he said in a written statement.

Our clergy are not being taught about or encouraged to value direct experience and conversation with young people.

i always feel so frustrated with the Christian POV of no, i understand that not everyone agrees on this issue, but it is encouraging to see actual conversation over the issues and not running into stone walls of unflinching refusal to debate.

Respond to comments you do get — even if the person who comments doesn't come back and read it - the next person to comment will see and may be encouraged to join in the conversation.

So don't be afraid to encourage your teen to start a conversation with the guidance counselor.

It may seem to be a challenge to get the conversation past the idea of babywearing being a fad or fashion statement, but I encourage you to use this assumption as an icebreaker, so to speak, about the benefits of not only babywearing but also attachment - based parenting.

Not only does this encourage further smiles, it begins to teach about a give - and - take relationship, as well as back - and - forth conversation.

Of course, you don't want to encourage your preschooler to «need» you every time you strike up a conversation with someone, so say something like: «If you need to tell me something very important, you may politely interrupt me without whining.»

Nobody really warned me about the not - so - fun parts, though, because encouraging women to breastfeed has become so pervasive that honest conversations about using your body to nourish another human being, have fallen by the wayside.

Just make sure you follow the mantra of social media: do not over-promote, keep the content interesting and meaningful, encourage engagement, and monitor conversations for meaningful opinions and trends to help you continuously improve your social media presence.

What is known is that Mr Osborne - nicknamed «Oik» because he was deemed not to be quite posh enough - allegedly encouraged media reports about the details of a private conversation at a dinner in Corfu, during which, it is claimed, Peter Mandelson poured poison into people's ears about Gordon Brown.

This avoidance interfered with mothers» ability to talk with their children about the child's emotions, leading to shorter, less in - depth conversations; those mothers also used closed - end questions that did not encourage child participation.

Conversation I would love to see this project encourage dialogue within a culture and a sub-culture that doesn't talk about money.

And instead of my doctor having an uplifting, encouraging conversation with me on ways to cure it, I was simply thrown into a statistic, a statistic that could not be changed because there is no known cure for it.

«[According to a survey by Playtex Sport], about 75 percent of teenage girls actually stop sports or stop exercising because of their period, so I think it's really important to start that conversation with kids, with teenagers, with women, so we can encourage the younger generation to not let your period get in your way.»

I'm also sharing a list of topics to bring up around your family that encourage conversation that doesn't turn angry or awkward.

I did have several experiences with a number of individuals who did not share my interests and most importantly refrained from even encouraging me in a conversation just because I was always on a bike.

I did have several experiences with a number of individuals who did not share my interests and most importantly refrained from even encouraging me in a conversation just because I was always on a bike.Read More >>

Take her somewhere on a first date that encourages conversation - perhaps for meal and a nice glass of wine - but in a bar or restaurant that isn't too noisy.

You do not have to meet anyone in person and are absolutely encouraged to use QuestChat for talking and conversation only.

Nothing says you are boring faster than responding to questions in a way that do not encourage further conversation.

Whilst we don't encourage late night / early morning learning binges, this achievement does act as a great conversation piece.

And so Superintendent Johnson volunteered to give the young cellist a ride home; she learned a lot from their conversation: he had never ridden the downtown trolley, he had rarely been in downtown Memphis, and he didn't know what a cello was before a teacher encouraged him to join the orchestra.

It isn't just about ensuring a family has the opportunity to learn about the school; it's about ensuring we are doing everything we can to encourage those conversations to happen.

Since these students sometimes don't have anyone encouraging them or taking an interest in their lives, have a real conversation about their future or dreams.

As valuable as it is to encourage kids to be creators and not just consumers of all that media, it's equally important to open the conversation around intellectual property rights and legal issues when you're remixing pop culture.

If you weren't able to connect during that week, every moment of the #PennFinn13 trip was captured on our team's blog of 30 + entries to encourage continuous dialogue, learning and relationship - building among trip attendees and those students, teachers and leaders who continue to carry the conversation on Twitter and our Facebook page.

At the same time it also means extending one's listening skills repertoire to become an active or committed listener who does not take over the conversation but instead knows how to encourage and extend the dialogue in order to co-construct meaning.

That's where an improved form of evaluation — not meant to force teachers out but to encourage them to reflect, self - assess, and hold professional conversations about new skills — is needed.

• Responding to strong postings with complementary feedback, asking follow up questions that redirect the conversation, encouraging more depth in student responses, playing devil's advocate, clarifying confusions, offering insights, etc. • Removing any postings that are not conducive to maintaining the safe space, then using the incidence as a teachable moment where safe space expectations are revisited.

This attempt was not our first to encourage praxis - oriented conversations through the development of an online professional learning community.

«I have a kaleidoscope of memories of Jerry,» writes Howard Gardner, «sitting with a group of students and colleagues, raising questions in a broader way than most of us would, then asking us to connect the dots, and then offering his own connections, NOT in a way of closing the conversation, but rather encouraging us to stretch our minds, our emotions, our passions; as my colleague Steve Pinker reminded me, making...

Also recalling a memorable conversation with her over coffee at an annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference during which he encouraged her to write a multicultural education textbook, Jim describes Sonia's initial hesitation and insistence that another book in addition to his own was not needed in the field at the time.