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How Speaking Circles® Transformed My Ministry

How Speaking Circles® Transformed My Ministry

Dear Lee, Yesterday I had my first real world opportunity to practice the methods I learned at the workshop. I delivered the message at both services at Spiritual Life Center. Ironically I spent more time than usual in preparing the message yet I still did not have a...

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How Speaking Circles® Cured My Stage Fright

How Speaking Circles® Cured My Stage Fright

From the time I was about 8, I started to develop anxiety in group interactions. I was always a high achiever, however put in any situation where the "spotlight" was on, I became overwhelmed with self-consciousness that seemed to get worse with age, rather than...

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Speaking Circles® and Adolescent Development

Speaking Circles® and Adolescent Development

The psychologist Erik Erikson identified the search for identity as the primary developmental task for adolescence. According to his theory, the primary milieu for this search was in peer relationships. Speaking Circles seem to be one optimal setting for young people...

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