CRM: Empowering Leaders
S[c]ENT//Advent 2011.
DOWNLOAD THE ADVENT 2011 READING GUIDE I WROTE FOR 3rd PLACE HERE. S[c]ENT//ADVENT 2011 Scent |sent| noun: a distinctive smell, esp. one that is pleasant. From Old French sentir, meaning to ‘perceive or smell.’ Sent |sent| verb: cause to go or be taken to a particular destination; affect with powerful emotion; put into ecstasy. What if the [...]
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1.November.2011
A Little YouTube Love.
My first editing effort. Pretty proud of this (totally imperfect) effort to capture the Life Compass project we are carrying! Read the full [60* Second Field Stories] here. Increasingly, Maxie and I have found ourselves facilitating Life Compass training, a holistic developmental tool that uses a narrative story driven process to empower and individual or [...]
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27.October.2011
God Is At Work In Kenya!
God is at work, BIG TIME, here in Nairobi, Kenya. Maxie and I have been working with almost 40 Kenyans this entire week, facilitating the Life Compass process for them. Today was so fun, challenging, and profound, as we opened up a conversation on vision, calling, and the stories we are to tell with the [...]
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24.October.2011
Life Compass Is…
Attempting to describe the unfolding story God is having Maxie and I carry forward in mission right now…Life Compass is increasingly the central tool we are using to help empower others to discover and live into the story of their lives, through an emerging vision that is grounded in a holistic sense of who I [...]
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24.October.2011
The Wisdom of Margin.
The last in the series of Ordinary Time write-ups in our 3rd Place liturgical year. Download here! 
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7.October.2011
The Wisdom of Descent.
Grab 3rd Place’s September take on Ordinary Time, “The Wisdom of Descent,” which I wrote, here: 
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9.September.2011
Autumnal Resolutions.
It seems to me that January resolutions are about will; September resolutions are about authentic wants….The beauty of autumnal resolutions is that no one else knows we’re making them. Autumnal resolutions don’t require horns, confetti and champagne. September resolutions ask only that we open to positive change. [Sarah Ban Breathnach] Source: herondance.org via trsavage.com Where is the [...]
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6.September.2011
Gesit By Die Huis.
Sitting with our friends in Enthomjeni Youth Prison this morning working through our Life Compass curriculum with them, Maxie was beginning to explain how each of the guys should take a personality assessment (Extrovert/Introvert stuff..) that a local educational psychologist would score this week in preparation for her visit with us to explain how personality [...]
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2.September.2011
Under Construction.
Incarnation is extremely difficult within the context of one’s own family, let alone towards neighbors next door. To deliberately choose to live among fellow South Africans in Soshanguve, a township just outside Pretoria, is another matter entirely. I have great respect and admiration for my dear friends within InnerChange, an incarnational order made up of [...]
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30.August.2011
Keeping Hope, Shedding Complacency.
How do you encourage people to keep their hope, but not their complacency? [Barbara Kingsolver] A semi-nasty bout of flu + fever (hopefully brought on by the imminent arrival of spring!) kept me prone most of today, trying to prevent getting sicker before the week has really begun. This afforded me a rare privilege throughout the [...]
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29.November.2011
Chris Kamalski, South Africa