We live in a day and age where people are struggling to build healthy relationships. This appears to be getting worse as new generations emerge. Some have blamed the rise of the digital world where a majority of interactions are online through twitter and facebook. ...
Knowing our Achilles matters. Being unaware or cloudy about our vulnerabilities leads us wide open to destruction. Usually, the destruction we experience is relational. Our children our damaged, our spouse is assaulted, and our communities are injured. The impact of our weaknesses that become exploited...
Consentia Group is seeing marriages transformed through our Soulmates For Life Couples retreats in amazing ways. Recently I led a retreat for experienced retreat leaders and the response was overwhelming. One presenter said, “I have attended and led marriage retreats for more than 15 years...
In the book, Atomic Habits by James Clear, he claims that remarkable results are caused by tiny changes. I believe he is right. There are habits that when implemented on a regular basis will impact your future in unbelievable ways. If you can focus on...
What is the most common conflict trigger for people? I don’t have scientific research to prove what I am about to say, but after training groups for ten years, I can tell you what pops up most frequently. The issue that triggers conflict for most...
Listening has such a powerful effect on people that listening is often confused with love. Paul Tillich, the famous theologian states that, “The first duty of love is to listen”. You cannot express love unless you are a great listener. If you want to love...
One of the greatest needs we have as human being is to be heard and understood. Dr. Leon F. Seltzer* says that being heard and understood is foundational to feeling loved. Depression, loneliness, and isolation are all a result of people feeling that they are...
If you are reading this blog post, you probably have someone in your life that exhibits controlling behavior. Controlling people are not difficult to find. You can find controlling people as parents, bosses, co-workers, at church, romantic relationships, or just interacting with strangers. Controlling people can...
A well-known quote from Peter Drucker is “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”. Success of organizations are more tied to the organizational culture than developing correct strategy. But many organizations, (churches, mission organizations, non-profits), pay little attention to developing culture. They are focused on vision and...
We all have preferences for the way things should be done. But there are people in our lives that insist things be done a certain way and are quite adamant about it. They tend to be the kind of people that like schedules, detailed plans,...
