We all need tools in our life toolbox for the times we are sharp with the ones we love or “difficult” relationships at work. Level 5 is a tool, a skill to have ready for emotional moments. It is about managing emotions and learning the ability to avoid regrettable outbursts. A workshop to get tooled up.
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Writing a sermon can feel like a wrestling match between the preacher and the text; a match in which the preacher should not walk away before demanding a blessing from that text for their community. But perhaps we shouldn't walk away from 2,000 years of Christian preaching just because it's so often done poorly. Nadia Bolz-Weber explores the office of preaching within an emerging post-modern Christian community, and the role it can play in transformation.
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I can't decide whether Greenbelt's Dreams of Home theme has felt like a ray of light or a punch in the stomach. It seems most people, including fellow bloggers, have been a-grappling with it. I'm still mid-grapple. About six months ago, my husband and I (I always feel like the Queen when I say that) left our [...]
"haaaaaaailing from Atlanta, GA and weighing in at twoooooo hundred and twooooo pounds and one ounce; in the bluuuuuuue corner, sporting the white shorts with the gold trim, please welcome: the Baptist brawler, the Civil Rrrrrrights rrrrrrinser, 'King of the Ring' – Dr Martin Luther King Juuuuuuuniorrrrrrr. his opponent, fighting out of Kolkata, India and [...]
Everyone has their own Greenbelt tactic. Or at least returnees do. For once you are called out of the initial chaos of trying to see absolutely everything, you gradually begin to realise that being selective and strategic is your best ticket to festival success. I’ll admit it; I’m a bit of a controversy junkie and [...]
So, I've been set the unenviable task of summing up the whole my Greenbelt experience, in one post. I'll try to keep it short and sweet. Despite the temperamental weather (which I'm not really entitled to complain about as I cheated this year and didn't camp), my time at the festival has been unfettered fun [...]
By the time Last Orders comes around, it’s most likely that I’m approaching my soggy and/or haggard mode of being. Alas, long gone are the days where night was just another shade of day and sleep was merely a past time for the bored or needy. Even so, I insist on resisting the diktats of [...]
“Greenbelt does it differently” says Ben Whitehouse facilitator of the Greenbelt Writers' Network and one of the guys pulling the strings behind the scenes. Huddled together on the grassy, Friday floor of The Hub was a a crowd of lonely writers – it seemed that even amongst a room full of peers, each individual was [...]
The Mousehole Cat worked its magic in The Playhouse yesterday. I turned up a little early, rightly anticipating a capacity audience of children and their hangers-on. I'd learnt to be in good time after the crushing disappointment of the day before, when I couldn't get in to see Elmer the Elephant. I sulked for a [...]
As a long-time Greenbelter, the notion of Greenbelt as home isn't a hard one to take on board. Arrival on site is always accompanied by a sense of homecoming, immediately being surrounded by familiar faces, familiar food, familiar smells. There's something new every year, with new delights in the programme, and around the site, but [...]
[Image by Sean MacEntee] I thought this talk was going to be about Facebook and its huge impact on the relational landscape of our country. It wasn't. Greenbelt speakers, or perhaps programmers, have an incredible knack for coming up with original titles for talks, however I've come to learn that you don't always get what [...]
It says in the Greenbelt guide that some of the best moments of the festival will be those that are unplanned. Turns out the guide was right – today I managed to stumble upon what appeared to be one of the most popular events on the programme and I found the experience both thoroughly enjoyable [...]
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I can't decide whether Greenbelt's Dreams of Home theme has felt like a ray of light or a punch in the stomach. It seems most people, includingfellow bloggers, have beena-grappling with it. I'm still mid-grapple.About six months ago, my husband and I (I always feel like the ...
"haaaaaaailing from Atlanta, GA and weighing in at twoooooo hundred and twooooo pounds and one ounce; in the bluuuuuuue corner, sporting the white shorts with the gold trim, please welcome: the Baptist brawler, the Civil Rrrrrrights rrrrrrinser, 'King of the Ring' - Dr Martin Luther King Juuuuuuuniorrrrrrr.his opponent, fighting ...
Everyone has their own Greenbelt tactic. Or at least returnees do. For once you are called out of the initial chaos of trying to see absolutely everything, you gradually begin to realise that being selective and strategic is your best ticket to festival success. Ill admit it; Im ...
