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Joe Mathews Dissertation on John Wesley
by Wendell Refior 14 May '19

14 May '19

Colleagues - We now have a digital copy of JWM's Dissertation on Wesley. A Study of John Wesley, turned in and rejected by Niebuhr and never rewritten or approved. Wendell Refior for the ICA Global Archives Chapter 1: The Human Constitution https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/21219.pdf Chapter 2: The Life of Love https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/21220.pdf Chapter 3: The Knowledge of Faith https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/21221.pdf Conclusion: Concluding Remarks https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/21222.pdf -- Thanks until later. "To believe what is true for you in your private heart is true for <everyone> -- that is genius." - Emerson in "Self-Reliance" Wendell

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JWM Dissertation
by Terry Bergdall 14 May '19

14 May '19

Stories surrounding Mathews' unaccepted dissertation have long been the stuff of mythology and his mystic persona that he cherished and propagated. That's certainly true in regards to the stories about the burning of the dissertation. Back in the day I did PLC recruiting in Oklahoma and northern Texas and met many pastors who had been students of his at Perkins. On at least two occasions I heard stories about the "burning." Surrounded by some of his faithful students, the story goes, Joe marched down to the basement of the Seminary and ceremoniously threw a draft of the dissertation into the building's furnace. The point, as related to me by students who were there, was that there's a clear distinction between doing the mission, i.e., "the necessary deed," and being distracted from it by things that didn't really matter, i.e., status and recognition that comes with a PhD. He created a teaching moment through his orchestrated ceremony and it made a lasting impression on those pastors who told me about it ... as well as on me who heard the story secondhand. Mathews was first and foremost a masterful teacher, one who dramatically altered images, and he used his dissertation to do that job. Marshall Jones got it write when he wrote: That's SO like him to say, 'I'm not gonna jump through that hoop again!' and risk another rejection. He WAS stubborn that way. And very proud of his research and writing and masterful teaching. So I would say, 'Good on ya, Joe. Got more important fish to fry!'

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Fw: published on Amazon!
by W. J. 12 May '19

12 May '19

Subject: published on Amazon! Colleagues and friends, I am so pleased to announce that Jim Campbell's new book, Facilitating Authentic Participation, has just been published on Amazon.com! It's 8.5 x 11 inches, 164 pages, and packed with insights and wisdom from a lifetime of teaching and practicing group facilitation skills, including the Technology of Participation©. Before his recent retirement Jim taught college courses on how to engage in 'The Cycle of Facilitation'. This book captures his core insights from his teaching career and his practice of facilitation on four continents. This is Jim's capstone contribution to the field of professional facilitation. It offers the most comprehensive approach to facilitating group decision-making, including details of every step of the process of preparation, delivery, and followup. Jim is offering a not-for-profit preview price of just $5.00 per copy until May 31, after which the list price of $19.95 will take effect. Click on this link to Amazon.com now to take advantage of this special offer! Please order your copy before the discount expires and post your review on Amazon.com. This price is available to Jim's colleagues, students, and friends who appreciate the value of his contribution to the field of facilitation. And if we get more than fifty reviews on Amazon.com, they will pay more attention to Jim's book! It's a must-have for all who aspire to sharpen, broaden, and deepen their facilitation skills and increase the value of their engagement with clients! Plus all who want to be more effective in managing conflicts in groups will want to use Jim's non-confrontational methods of releasing group creativity and creating consensus. A comprehensive and invaluable resource, highly recommended! —Martin Gilbraith It is really about what it means to fully love the whole journey of enabling the creativity that is released in the short time of actually being ‘on stage’. —Jack Gilles A comprehensive context for facilitation, plus great practical tools for every stage of the facilitator’s work, grounded with stories of experience at every stage. Anyone planning to become certified as a facilitator—or just to become a highly competent facilitator—will benefit from Jim’s experience. —Jo Nelson Scroll down to read more about Facilitating Authentic Participation. --Wayne Marshall Jones, editor About Facilitating Authentic Participation All too often, asking any group to work together without effective facilitation is a shortcut to disaster. —James M. Campbell In this revealing step-by-step guide, master group process facilitator James M. Campbell takes you behind the scenes of the usually hidden planning and diagnostic process leading up to the “magic” of guiding a group process that allows the group’s deepest wisdom to be shared in a feasible action plan that everyone is motivated to accomplish. What may look simple, effortless, and easy to accomplish is the culmination of an intensive series of consultative stages of preparation requiring the listening, analytical, and collaborative skills of a master facilitator. This is the text that shares the process that the author taught in university-level courses in Europe after a lifetime of innovative process work with groups on four continents. Jim has written elsewhere: ...people know that participating in creating their destiny is an essential part of their humanity... The process whereby people are enabled to experience this combination of the freeing of their humanity and the ownership which generates commitment and motivation is truly transformative. By the force of their own experience people realise that they can participate in creating their future and the future of their organisation or community. Thus people experience themselves as responsible for their destiny, and so resignation and despair are transformed into hope and belief-in-self. People’s anger and frustration at their disenfranchisement is transformed into energy invested in creating their destiny. This conviction—that authentic participation is transformative—has been the foundation of Jim’s work as a facilitator. Praise for Facilitating Authentic Participation Not just driving the process or holding the space, responsible facilitation requires skillful care and attention to the whole of the facilitation cycle. In this book Jim Campbell, a pioneer of our profession, draws on fifty years of diverse experience in the field to share practical examples and models, tools and tips to empower you, your clients and your groups—not least, as you navigate the too-often-overlooked early phases of the facilitator's role, before the process is designed or the space is opened. A comprehensive and invaluable resource, highly recommended! —Martin Gilbraith, IAF Certified Professional Facilitator; former Chair of the International Association of Facilitators; former President of the Institute of Cultural Affairs International. Just as the students in All Hallows College found Jim Campbell’s facilitation courses to be life- and career-enhancing, so too will the readers of this manual find much food for thought as they prepare to facilitate groups. In this new, so-called ‘post-truth’ age the facilitator who appreciates the need for responsible and ethical facilitation will find this manual extremely useful. —Margarita Synnott MTh, facilitator in adult education (retired), All Hallows College, Dublin. This is a book about being a disciplined facilitator. It is step by step guide to embracing the task of caring; for a client, the task, the process, the group, and oneself. It is really about what it means to fully love the whole journey of enabling the creativity that is released in the short time of actually being ‘on stage’. It is a serious advanced book for those who are learning the art of facilitation. Jim has taken his years of diverse experiences and distilled it into the essence of facilitation Mastery. —Jack Gilles has been doing Strategic Planning and Leadership Development for over 35 years, 22 of which were in India. He has also done work in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Zambia, Nigeria, Egypt, and Indonesia. Most of his work has been with the Private Sector. He resides in Mexico. A comprehensive context for facilitation, plus great practical tools for every stage of the facilitator’s work, grounded with stories of experience at every stage. Anyone planning to become certified as a facilitator—or just to become a highly competent facilitator—will benefit from Jim’s experience. —Jo Nelson, IAF Certified Professional Facilitator; ICA Certified ToP Facilitator; founding member of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF); ICA Associates, Inc., Toronto. Learning the facilitation cycle and its corresponding processes has given me a set of transferable skills that I will carry through my personal and professional life. —Elizabeth McBride MSc, Personal and Leadership Coach and Facilitator, Dublin. >From the Author There are many people and groups who have made it possible for me to do what I have done as a facilitator. I learned the basics of facilitation working with my colleagues in The Ecumenical Institute (EI) and the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA). Every group I ever worked with taught me more about being a facilitator, always challenging me and keeping me searching for how I could do better with the next group. The hundreds of people who trusted me in training sessions asked probing questions and pushed me to understand more deeply and more clearly the task of being a facilitator. Strangers on trains and airplanes asked me what I did and then: What does a facilitator do? While checking my passport, a U.S.A. Immigration officer asked me what I did, and when I told him I was a Group Process Consultant asked me what that involved, resulting in a ten-minute conversation. This book is dedicated to all of them, for they all shaped me and enabled me to learn and grow as a facilitator. About the Author - As one of the pioneers who helped define and develop the professional field of process facilitation, James M. Campbell has practiced and taught facilitation skills at the university level since 2004. He has designed and facilitated group process work in North America, Europe, Africa, and Latin America for local community groups, international corporations, United Nations agencies, and in the NGO sector, including groups such as CARE International in the Balkans. He was a planning consultant with the administration of ICTY (the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia). - Jim’s undergraduate teaching and his writing of this book based on his university courses is the capstone of a lifetime of work in the developing field of facilitation across four continents around the world. - Jim extended the International Association of Facilitators’ outreach in Europe and Middle East region starting in 1996. He has served on the IAF’s Global Board and was the European Regional Representative during the four years when the IAF’s European membership grew from around seventy-five to almost five hundred. He has contributed to IAF’s publications. - As a staff member of The Ecumenical Institute and the Institute of Cultural Affairs, Jim was instrumental in facilitating EI/ICA’s work with local community leadership in comprehensive socioeconomic reformulation, beginning with the Fifth City Human Development Project on Chicago’s West Side and extending the Fifth City Model to work with rural and urban communities in Kenya and Brazil. - Jim is a key contributor in developing the Technology of Participation (ToP)®, ICA’s proprietary structured facilitation methods for group work that draws upon more than a half century of experience in facilitating group processes, forging community consensus, developing locally based community organizations, and teaching imaginal education and group process methods in fifty nations around the world. - A native of western Pennsylvania, USA, Jim is a graduate of Pennsylvania’s Edinboro University. He joined the staff of The Ecumenical Institute after teaching high school in Iquique, Chile for three years. After his recent retirement as the director of the ICA’s Brussels office, Jim returned to Latin America where he lives with a Columbian family and pursues writing, consulting, training, and teaching. His memoir, A Journey of Beginnings, is forthcoming from Amazon.

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Just watched the movie “First Reformed”
by James Wiegel 11 May '19

11 May '19

Is a good look at the theological crisis of our century. Anyone else seen it? We got it from the library Sent from my iPad > > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net

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Re: [Dialogue] Just watched the movie “First Reformed”
by Ellie Stock 11 May '19

11 May '19

Yes, saw it when it came out...thought-provoking, disturbing, Ellie -----Original Message----- From: Richard Alton via Dialogue <dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Richard Alton <richard.alton(a)gmail.com>; Sally Stovall <sallystovall(a)gmail.com> Sent: Sat, May 11, 2019 8:15 am Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Just watched the movie “First Reformed” Yes, saw it for possibly earth fest showing but was considered too heavy...maybe drastic action needed Dick Sent from my iPhone > On May 10, 2019, at 10:48 PM, James Wiegel via Dialogue <dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: > > Is a good look at the theological crisis of our century. Anyone else seen it? We got it from the library > > Sent from my iPad > >> >> http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net > > _______________________________________________ > Dialogue mailing list > Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net > http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ Dialogue mailing list Dialogue(a)lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/dialogue-wedgeblade.net

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Global Buzz for May
by ICA International 08 May '19

08 May '19

Enjoy catching up with what is happening in ICAs across the globe.... Global Buzz Report: May 2019 Click above or copy and paste this URL into your browser's address bar http://globalbuzz.icai-archives.org/7dayreport-19/2019-05-01.php And: read the latest ICAI Winds & Waves Magazine brought to you now on Medium.com See here: https://medium.com/winds-and-waves ICAI Communications

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