Lead Bite: Recent Episodes
Graeme M.
Be equipped, not alone. That's my intention. By partnering with you, as someone in your corner. My heart? To be a body that extends the arms of others. By chatting about: influence, books, evaluation, small groups, leadership and just a few other thoughts.
Making space for other people can be difficult, when we’re at the centre of our story. How far can we go if we better understand each other?Main idea: The goal of conversation is understanding.
How do you see the world and interact with it? In both the conscious and subconscious areas of our experiences, we have to go back to relationships as the starting point for understanding truth. Let’s build a new relationship, with a new lens, for a new story.Main idea: Relationship is the primary way we evaluate ideas.
Continuing on from last week, where does our power and powerlessness show up? Whether you’re ready or not to make changes in your life, our character always has a home it goes back to you. Main idea: Power is found in connecting, both with and from.
What is in your head, your heart and hands to realistically live more fully alive in the stories you evaluate? You know you better, when you witness yourself, as yourself, as honestly as you can, with wisdom and direction. Let's flip through that story together, and get healthier for those who need it next.
In many ways, our internal world, external world, eternal world, gives us a run for our money. There's so many aspects of life that change and others that stay the same. What is it that's most important, that helps us to take next steps? What do we consider in that process.
Main idea: healthy, holy change is stubborn.
You're new to the crew, and now what do you do? You have to catch up, when you start smaller then everyone else, but what catches your attention as you learn? Growing deeper, is a thorough, slow, explorative, and new process for everyone. How does that look and why?
It's difficult for anyone to predict what will come down the road, but we can be built for it. Together and individually, when can we recognize and accept the invitation we have to change before we have to, with those who need us now, and to come?
Conflict usually punctures holes in our gas tanks, and it can be hard to recover. Every group experiences conflict in some form, and yet requires each other to go the distance. What can we pay attention to, when we're stuck between personal values and group commitments?
Humans are like fountains that flow with many things. Shame is one of them. It's not just a smart term, a term for the mentally ill, those in academia, or a play-on word for something others experience. Part 2 continues from last week to introduce a few thoughts on how close we are to shame and it's activity in our life.
Some people eat cereal, others eggs, and others pancakes, but how do you prepare to show up for others? The process of relationships are a journey that we don't always have answers for, but we can show up and be present. What does that currently look like, in you, for others?
Are you stuck, swimming or searching? Life get's muddy, and we can allow ourselves to build a home of fear with the materials at hand.
What if there was more to live for and those to share their flame with our souls?
Leading a group requires a destination. All people are different, but every group requires us to meet people where they are.
What do we need to keep watch over in this process?
Inspired by "The Cure for Groups" by Robby Angle.
Things you do + Things they do. Which comes first in your experience as a small group leader? Maybe growth means something more specific then what you seek.
Everyone has an image of what's ahead of them. Whether that's clear or not, you will look a particular way in that image. What does it mean to you, to be where you are, with others, in the image you hold? If vision involves people, then it can be embodied. So what do we need to juggle all that?
Being in High School is full of twists and turns of the day-to-day. Many of us know that it's hard to know what to pay attention to when everything is new to us. Though friendships aren't new, they can set a momentary, and yet lasting impact on us.
As I reflect on this experience 7 years removed, I think students have more to offer.
Are you leaving High School soon?
Everyone asks the questions: WHAT am I doing? & WHEN am I doing it?
Here's a small FRAMEWORK for working through, not just the short-term but those LONG-TERM decisions.