Moving Forward with 4-Words
Getting conversations off to a good start is a basic skill everyone should possess.
Getting conversations off to a good start is a basic skill everyone should possess.
Keeping conversations active and ongoing – even after it seems like they’ve hit their end – is an art that every minister should develop. And by minister I mean every Young Life, WyldLife, YoungLives, Young Life Capernaum, and Young Life College leader or staff person.
The basic tool for advancing conversations is deeply active pastoral listening in which you truly engage, intently pay attention, make eye contact, take the speaker seriously, nod your head in acknowledgement, and remember everything that was said.
Beyond that, here are additional back-pocket tools that you can use throughout a conversation with kids (or adults) to move it forward to the next step and move it deeper to the next level.
What other 4-word tools do YOU use? Send them to crystal.kirgiss@comcast.net.
Remember last month? We asked you for the names YOU use for your Campaigner groups. Well, we got a TON of great, creative names submitted and we thought we'd share. You can see all of these HERE.
Written by Crystal Kirgiss (crystal.kirgiss@comcast.net)