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Doctor of Leadership in Global Perspectives: Crafting Ministry in an Interconnected World

Are All Threshold Concepts (And Liminality) Created Equally?

By: on January 24, 2023

The challenge with this week’s reading—beyond the hard work of engaging in areas of study that are well outside of my understanding—is narrowing down the numerous thoughts I had while reading these papers (some of that reading more ‘inspectional’ than others!). Here are a few places my thoughts went to as I read: First, while…

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Threshold Concepts in Ministry Development

By: on January 23, 2023

Recently I watched the 2016 film “The Arrival” in which 12 extraterrestrial spacecraft visit Earth. Mild spoiler alert: It turns out that how people engage with the aliens leads to a major threshold moment for humanity and alters the course of history. Last week I read the story of Jacob in Genesis. Jacob sent everything…

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Oh, Now I Get It!

By: on January 23, 2023

I considered titling this blog post “Threshold Concepts for Dummies” because after reading these two extensive and comprehensive books I felt like, well…a dummy. I’m not being self-deprecating; I honestly felt dumb. I’ve been reading, thinking, studying, and pontificating large biblical/theological concepts for many, many years, and yet I have not been exposed to this…

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A New Way of Seeing

By: on January 23, 2023

The term threshold concepts inherently speaks of movement and flow from one place to another. Learners have a “transformative” experience where they understand previously “troublesome” knowledge, often by “integrating” concepts from multiple disciplines. The result of this experience is an “irreversible” clarity that is nonetheless “bounded”[i]. If that definition was a bit opaque at first,…

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Trouble’s Coming!

By: on January 23, 2023

This week, I finished my LCP Assessment. If you have done yours, you know it asks for names of people who have influenced you in your career path. One of the names on my list is Don Harrison[1], who is a consultant we have used in the past, and from whom I have received various…

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Learning why to drive

By: on January 23, 2023

a young man behind the wheel of a car I wondered while watching the TEDx video if Dr. Coven has the gift of prophecy as he described the idea of a threshold concept as he used the example of a new driver learning to drive. My son is 17 and about to embark on in-car driving lessons. However, the journey to get him to…

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Бар’єри для навчання та момент «Ага»

By: on January 23, 2023

Бар’єри для навчання та момент «Ага», (Ukrainian) Barriers to Education and the Aha moment Part 1 – Barriers to Education (from an ESL perspective) I teach Ukrainian refugees on job training on Wednesdays. Mondays and Wednesdays I teach Central and South Americans in Intermediate Grammar. As an English as a Second Language teacher, I am…

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Empowerment: Modeled or Read?

By: on January 20, 2023

Reading Mining for Gold by Tom Camacho brought back strong memories of Bill Burnett’s and Dave Evan’s New York Times best-selling book, Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived Joy-Filled Life. The similarities between the two books are almost identical in theme: True happiness comes from designing a life that works for you.  On…

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LEARNING TO RIDE A BICYCLE

By: on January 20, 2023

“Thriving kingdom leaders are like pure gold. They are very valuable and they are quite scarce. Loving, fruitful and multiplying leaders are works of art, masterpieces fashioned by the hands of God himself. Like trees bearing fruit in season, their leaves don’t wither and they fulfil the call God has for their lives (Camacho, Tom.…

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To Thrive and Thriving Others

By: on January 19, 2023

Many people in the world, including Christians, struggle with what is their purpose in life. People often ask themselves or their pastors this question. The difficulty in discovering the goal of life can have further harmful effects on many people. We can say feeling worthless or feeling empty without direction and purpose in this life.…

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Looking under the hood

By: on January 19, 2023

I am a PK…in other word’s a Pastor’s kid.  In fact, I’m (or was) a pastor’s Grandkid, Pastor’s niece, Pastor’s sister-in-law, Pastor’s wife and Pastor.  I have grown up inside the fishbowl of a ministry family. I start this way because I want to orient why I am a harsh critic of the church and…

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God of Love, Give Me Ears to Hear and Eyes to See

By: on January 19, 2023

In his book, Mining for Gold: Developing Kingdom Leaders through Coaching, Tom Camacho presents leaders with an invitation to mine for the gold hidden within the people around us. Mining for gold is a mindset and a heart attitude to see the immense treasure and image of God in others. Camacho’s premise is that God…

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Questions Are Powerful

By: on January 19, 2023

Anyone ever told you there are no stupid questions? Mining for Gold may challenge that idea. Tom Camacho claims “There are great questions, OK questions, and terrible questions.” (Camacho, 70)  At least when it comes to coaching. The journey that introduced Tom to coaching was raw and inspiring. It involved some real pain and I appreciated…

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Beautiful, Pure, Soft, and Rare!

By: on January 19, 2023

“It is beautiful. It is pure. It is soft. It is rare.” Honestly this book grabbed me with these twelve descriptive words, and I kept reading until I reached the end. I had no intention of reading every word, but this book was well-timed and really spoke to some struggles that I have been currently…

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LIKE A KID ON CHRISTMAS MORN’

By: on January 19, 2023

Oohhh, Mining For Gold by Tom Camacho had my heart racing for days. I literally felt it was Christmas as I read through many of the pages. Just over a year ago, I founded Restore Counseling Center. We have 1, 3, 5, and 10-year goals. Part of those goals include multiplying our counseling center in…

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When to Say Yes and When to Say No

By: on January 19, 2023

Reading Mining For Gold by Tom Camacho reminded me of a time when I was planting a new church and my husband was planting a new community center. When anyone would approach me or my husband with a new idea my husband’s first instinct would be to say, “Yes! That’s a great idea! Let’s try…

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Skeptical at first

By: on January 18, 2023

I’m a big believer in coaching. In fact, I have two coaching appointments with two pastors scheduled for tomorrow morning, and I plan to look over my coaching questions as soon as I finish writing. Research clearly demonstrates the helpful nature of coaching across multiple industries and disciplines. That’s not even a debate at this…

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Gold Digger

By: on January 18, 2023

A few times while reading “Mining for Gold” by Tom Camacho, I found myself humming the song “Gold Digger” by Kanye West and Jamie Foxx. It’s a rap song from around 2005. Disclaimer:  it’s moral TRASH. Don’t Google it. Don’t Shazam the lyrics. Don’t listen to it on Spotify. It’s morally debased, and I hesitate…

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Striking Gold

By: on January 18, 2023

The book Mining for Gold: Developing Kingdom Leaders through Coaching by Tom Camacho contains frequent historical stories about people who struck gold, and after reading this book, I feel like I could add my name to the list. The book provides a philosophy and framework for healthy Leadership Coaching, which is helpful, but my ‘Eureka’…

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