[Ailist] RE: Non-profit board

[Rob Voyle]

Hi Folks 

Thanks for the kind words and I am glad the material was useful. 

I am digging out from all those things left undone after just sending a book to 
the printers. Its a 48 page booklet called "Core Elements of the Appreciative 
Way: An introduction for work and daily living." It is designed to introduce 
people (in both secular and religious settings) to some of the more basic ideas 
behind appreciative living such as positive goals, focusing on strengths etc for 
daily living rather than on organizational development processes. 

The other big Church resource that is now in final editing is Yes!3: creating a life 
in which you can say Yes! to God, Yes! to your neighbor and Yes! to yourself. It 
is a five week study program including an all day retreat designed to introduce 
church members to appreciative living by having them conduct an appreciative 
inquiry into their own life and work and clarify for themselves how they want to 
say the 3 Yes!s. It is a soup supper, presentation and a structure conversation 
type small group process. Part of my goal was to create appreciative cultures in 
churches. I have been teaching clergy how to live appreciatively for several 
years but they often go back to problem oriented places. So Yes!3 is designed 
as a resource for them to teach and grow an appreciative cultures in their 
church. 

Both resources should be available for sale on my website in a couple of weeks. 

Rob 
   
Robert J. Voyle, Psy.D.
Director, Clergy Leadership Institute
For Coaching and Training in Appreciative Inquiry
http://www.clergyleadership.com/
503-647-2378 or 503-647-2382