CRM: Empowering Leaders

A Playground In Vancouver.

‘Vancouver is a playground awaiting your leadership + vision.’ Rob Yackley’s words continued to ring around our ears as we processed all that we had just dialogued about. Had Maxie and I been invited into a process of discernment and dialogue or was it just our imagination? Barely a month removed from our honeymoon, we [...]
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30.November.2011

Chris Kamalski, South Africa

Life Compass With Oasis ZA (September 2011).

The Unfolding Story: 18 Oasis ZA First-Year Change Agents (primarily college-age South African youth from local townships) spending an entire week (September 19th-23rd, 2011) developing a vision of their preferred future in the context of a creative community development organization birthing fresh stories of transformation and change all through Cosmo City, a suburb of Johannesburg [...]
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29.November.2011

Chris Kamalski, South Africa

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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10.November.2011

Joe + Natalie Reed, South Africa

The Silence of Christ

This comes from a reflection I offered our community recently.  It has been a source of deep communion in my own heart and I wanted to share it wider. “Go pray about that, and you will find your answer.”  The … Continue reading
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1.November.2011

Chris Kamalski, South Africa

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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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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25.October.2011

Curtis Love, South Africa

From San Diego with Love

  So I arrived back from an amazing trip to San Diego, California last week. Although I was only there for a week it was a experience-crammed week! It was so good to see my friends Rob and Laurie (Founders of NieuCommunities, amazing hosts and all round good people) and the NieuCommunities San Diego people. [...]
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24.October.2011

Chris Kamalski, South Africa

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

Chris Kamalski, South Africa

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

Chris Kamalski, South Africa

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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