Category: retreats
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Content Planning and Strategy for your Podcast, Retreat, or Blog
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This week on the show, I’m explaining the basics and tactics of content planning and strategy for your podcast, retreat, or blog on this solocast. Learn how to take your idea to a solid plan that you can execute using project management and inspiration. It’s one of my favorite topics:…
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Dream Into Action: Commitment and a Tiny Acorn
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This morning, as I got to work, I reached into my coat pocket and found a tiny acorn. Every time I reach in and find the little acorn, it surprises me, even though it’s been in my pocket for five years. Five years ago, I was on a business trip…
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How to Plan a Retreat: Coming up With a Theme
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The last time we chatted about how to plan a retreat, we talked a little about the beginning of the process. What kinds of roles you might need, what kinds of things to think about before you jumped in, feet first. If you’d like to tune in to a podcast…
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How To Market a Retreat
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Marketing for a retreat is one of the key pieces that can also take a lot of time. If you’ve been following along on my “How to Plan a Retreat” series, you’ll note that most of my posts have to do with the retreat itself. Marketing a retreat is an…
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Lent: The Dance of Trying New Things
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On Saturday, Zoom (my son) and I headed up to San Damiano to help my best friend Tammy lead a two hour session with a group of about ten children. The unusual thing about this is that in it’s fifty one year history, this was the first time that San…
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How to Do a Centering Prayer Meditation
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My next retreat is on “Living in The Present Moment,” and much of what I’d put in the initial outline had been about meditation, learning to live in the now instead of allowing oneself to get stuck in the past, truly facing what’s in front of you. Meditation is an…
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Reflection on a Retreat Activity: Rocks, Pebbles, Sand
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At a recent about “Balance,” I introduced a retreat activity called “Rock, Pebbles, Sand.” This itself story was featured in Stephen Covey’s book First Things First, but has also made it’s rounds all over the internet. A lecturer was leading a seminar, and announced “Okay, it’s time for a quiz.” Reaching…
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2015 is The Year of ‘No Toggle’
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“No Toggle” is a phrase I first heard in a Jess Lively’s podcast, during her interview with Kris Carter. In a nutshell, Kris is striving to live his life as authentically and intentionally true to his purpose as possible. It means that he strives to be the same person at…
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A Recap on the Balance Retreat
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Saturday was one of those wonderful, life affirming days. We had a large group of participants, so many participants! There was a point during the day, when leading one of the sessions, that I felt so fully present and engaged. So in the moment, and so full of gratitude to…