Schweitzer UMC

Mentoring Basics

• • January 2017 - Upgrade Your Mentoring - The 45-minute seminar by Jason and Mark
  • August 22, 2018 - Upgrade Your Mentoring 2 - The 45-minute seminar by Jason and David
  • August 2018 - Mentoring Sermons
    • • August 12, 2018 Sermon, Mentors Shape the Future
        • • David
          • Jason
      • August 19, 2018 Sermon, You Don’t Have to be a Superhero to Mentor
        • • David
          • Bob
  • March 3, 2019 - The “first date.” - How much should the mentor talk during the first meeting, and what should the mentor say?”
  • September 6, 2018 - Jim Mason Tips 1 of 3 - My Ten Commitments as a Mentor
  • September 25, 2018 - Jim Mason Tips 2 of 3 - Top 10 High Impact Questions
  • October 18, 2018 - Jim Mason Tips 3 of 3 - Mentor Questions
  • March 27, 2019 - Disciple’s Toolkit - Many growth tools for different personality types
    • • Print Version
      • Digital Fillable Version
  • April 25, 2019 - ESDA, Evangelical spiritual directors association
    • • “The brain is a scary place, don’t go in there alone.”
      • https://www.graftedlife.org/spiritual-direction/find-a-spiritual-director
  • June 17, 2019 - Colette’s book Review of Helping Others on the Journey

Prayer

• • November 6, 2018 - Pray when feel anxious in conversation - Phil 4:4-8

Listen

• • November 27, 2018-  Listening Part 1 - “When you speak what do you want others to do?” Put their thoughts aside to give your thoughts equal consideration in their mind; painting the picture you are describing.
  • December 18, 2018 -  Listening Part 2 - Breathing,  the main challenge - control the mind and adrenaline dump.
    • • The training video referenced has been replaced by a series of shorter videos, available at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46sTFACq1yQ&t=14s. For more training on listening and controlling the mind's adrenaline rush freak out, watch videos 3 (Adrenaline) and 7 (Love the Lore Your God).
  • January 15, 2019 - Listening Part 3- The Fundamentals
    • • The Equipping Ministries Listening Sheet mentioned in the video
  • February 6, 2019 -  Listening Part 4 - Practice, practice, practice
  • May 6, 2019 - Save the Date - Relationship Revolution June 5, 2019

  • November 18, 2019 - A Framework for understanding poverty, middle class, and wealth

    • • Class Rules chart
        
      • Class Rules Quiz

Emotional Bank Account

• • July 15, 2019 - Advice vs Encouragement 1 of 3 - the basics
  • August 8, 2019 - Advice vs Encouragement 2 of 3 - when to give unasked for advice
  • August 26, 2019 - Advice vs Encouragement 3 of 3 - How to respond when mentee, or anyone, asks you for advice  

Spiritual Formation

• • September 16, 2019 - Celebration of Discipline - Teaser quotes from Richard Foster’s spiritual formation classic.
  • October 7, 2019 - Questions for Jesus App Recommendation by Colette Freeman

    • • The app link - http://www.questionsforjesus.net/app.html

• • October 28, 2019 - You need less willpower - Habit trumps willpower
    • • The article referenced in the video is, “Why Willpower is Overrated.”