orgl 600: personal development skills process group student guide

ORGL 600: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT SKILLS PROCESS GROUP

STUDENT GUIDE

Concordia University Irvine 1530 Concordia West

Irvine, CA 92612 www.cui.edu 800.229.1200

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ORGL 600: Personal Development Skills Process Group Concordia University Irvine

COURSE RESOURCES


NOTE: The following is a comprehensive list of all the resources you will need to complete this course. All of these items, except for items you must purchase, are available via the Blackboard course shell under Course Resources. Please review each of these items are they come up in the course.

Textbooks

Townsend, J.S. (1991). Hiding from love. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Files

Program Files

1. Scott and John’s Vitae, bio and picture 2. Welcome and Tips for Excelling in the Online Experience 3. Important Information in Preparation for the Virtual Classroom 4. Autobiographical and Life Markers 5. Guidelines for Writing RIGs (Really Important Goals) 6. Relational Needs of a Leader and Character Structure 7. Character Structure 8. Primacy of Affect 9. Creating Mismatching Experiences

Course Files

1. Competence-Plus-Character model for leadership 2. Relational Themes That Build Character Structure 3. Primacy of Affect 4. Creating Mismatching Experiences 5. Process Group Guidelines 6. Liability and Confidentiality Statements 7. Affirmation and Challenges Guidelines 8. Affirmation and Challenges Feedback Sheet 9. Final Session – Saying Goodbyes

Videos and Audio

1. Welcome to the Course 2. Competence-Plus-Character Model for Leadership 3. Character Structure 4. Grace, Truth, Time 5. Attachment 6. Separation 7. Integration 8. Adulthood 9. Process Group


EVALUATION


Item Due Points Leaning Activity #1: Opening Virtual Classroom Week 1 35 Leaning Activity #2: Homework Partners Report Week 1 25 Leaning Activity #3: Introduction to the Townsend Competency-Plus-Character model for Leadership

Week 1 35

Leaning Activity #4: Building Attachment into Your Life Week 1 35 Leaning Activity #5: Building Separation into Your Life Week 1 35 Leaning Activity #6: Building Integration into Your Life Week 1 50

Leaning Activity #1: Reflections on Day One Week 2 35 Leaning Activity #2: Reflections on Day Two Week 2 35 Leaning Activity #3: Reflections on Day Three Week 2 35 Leaning Activity #4: Reflections on Day Four Week 2 35 Leaning Activity #5: Building Adulthood into Your Life Week 2 50 Leaning Activity #6: The Mind of Christ, Made in God’s Image, Being Full of the Holy Spirit and Character Structure

Week 2 35

Leaning Activity #7: Action Plan for Continued Support Week 2 35 Course Total 500


COURSE SCHEDULE


PRE-CONFERENCE WEEK TOPICS

• Opening the Class • Homework Partners, Autobiography and Life Markers, RIGs • Townsend Competency-Plus-Character Model for Leadership • Character Structure • Building Attachment into your life and those you lead • Building Separation into your life and those you lead • Building Integration into your life and those you lead • Preparing for the Kick-Off Conference

PRE-CONFERENCE WEEK OVERVIEW

Integration with the Christian Faith: Often we view the church as a place the is primarily about worshipping God with fellow believers. The writers of the New Testament had a different view when they talked about the church and how we are to gather as believers. The two most used metaphors for the church was family and the body. These metaphors emphasized the role relationships with each other are just as key alongside our relationship with Christ. If we look at Acts 2 and 4, and I Corinthians 12:26ff we are given the only three glimpses of the church meeting. Romans 12:1 tell us we should be worshipping God all the time. So there is another reason Jesus left the church to finish his work when he ascended. If we take all the “one another” verses and these above metaphors, we will see that gathering together on Sunday is about growing in our intimacy and support of each other as the family and body of Christ. We are to be vulnerable with our needs, enter into each other’s pain, give encouragement and strength, exhort, use our gifts, grow in our understanding of Scripture and find ways we can make things right as a body and join God in ushering in the new Kingdom “on earth as it is in heaven.” What you will experience in process groups starting Sunday will be New Testament Christianity as it was practiced in the first century. This isn’t something just in this program but we believe this is normative Christianity.

PRE-CONFERENCE WEEK LEARNING ACTIVITIES

PRE-CONFERENCE WEEK


LEARNING ACTIVITY #1: Opening Virtual Classroom

Overview: Students will have a chance to meet their professor and fellow classmates in a virtual classroom setting. Students will gain a good understanding of the syllabus, what is required of them and learning strategies on how to be successful in this course. Students will discover information about each of their classmates and professor on which they can build a relationship. (PLO4)

Directions: 1. Complete the Confidentiality and Lability Form. A unique distinctive of the

Townsend Institute curriculum is the emphasis on personal growth and practical application. You are encouraged to be as vulnerable as you feel comfortable in the different assignments you complete. In order for there to be a safe atmosphere online, we ask you to read our confidentiality and liability form. Then sign it and send it to your professor before the opening virtual classroom this week.

2. Reading: You have completed N.T. Wright's Simply Christian. N. T. Wright is one of the leading theologians in the world and will provide a general theological foundation for discovering the relationship between the Christian faith with organizational leadership and executive coaching. What makes this book stand apart is Wright's explanation of the Christian faith within the Jewish culture (as expressed by the Old Testament writings) and the first century historical, Mideastern culture where Christianity developed. You probably will be challenged in some of your viewpoints since often our understanding of the Christian faith developed within the individualistic American culture of the 20th and 21st century. We hope you will be open to examining this unique biblical perspective.

3. Sign in to the Virtual Classroom 15 minutes early as per the instructions in the Course Components section. Read the overview and how to best be prepared for the opening of class. You will definitely not want to miss this time. This sets the tone for the class in many ways.

4. Write a post (250 words, 15 to 20 sentences) that includes the following: a. The most intriguing idea you appreciated from N.T. Wright's book and one

idea you disagree with. b. What it was like to meet your professor and classmates in the virtual

classroom and to hear about what they were most excited about or most apprehensive.

c. One way you will contribute to make this learning environment what you would like it to be.

5. Read and Reflect on at least 5 to 7of your fellow students’ initial posts. Write two response posts (at least 75 words).

Deliverables: • Submit your Confidentiality and Liability form by Sunday @ midnight • Initial reflection post due Friday @ noon • Two response posts due Sunday @ midnight


Grade:

• You will receive 35 points for these deliverables. 15 for the initial and 20 (2 * 10) for the responses.

LEARNING ACTIVITY #2: Homework Partners Report

Overview: Students will connect with this week’s homework partner for at least 15 minutes and discuss any of the following:

1. RIGs, 2. Autobiographical and Life Markers paper, 3. One thing they are learning, 4. Work on any of the assignments together or to clear up questions they might

have, 5. Talk about a personal or professional matter in which they need support and

prayer.

Don't do this course alone; you have plenty of support available in your classmates and your professor. A key purpose of this time is to get to know each other at a more intimate level.

Directions:

1. Watch the Video by Dr. Townsend on how homework partners, stretch goals, and the autobiography and life markers paper will help you grow and be successful in this program.

2. Identify your homework partner on the Homework Partner List which is posted under the Course Resources section.

3. Email your Homework Partner for this week (if you didn't connect to him/her during the online classroom session) to establish a time for your call (or you can use Zoom/Skype if you want it to be even more personal, we highly recommend this) and get the number where you should call. We are not able to put the phone numbers of students online unless you give permission to your professor.

4. Complete the Autobiographical and Life Markers paper. Most likely you will have completed this for a previous course. You can submit what you have already written. Some students will adjust this paper as they continue to understand themselves more fully.

5. Complete your RIGs (Really Important Goals). See the RIGs Guidelines file. Most students will have completed this if they have taken a previous course. You can submit what you have already written. You can adjust any of your RIGs if you want to add a specific focus for this course.

6. Send your Homework Partner both your RIGs and your Autobiographical and Life Markers paper so he/she can review them before your call. You can post them in the discussion board if you want to share these with your classmates.

7. Make the phone/skype call.


8. Write a reflective discussion post (minimum: 250 words, 15-20 sentences) about the

following: a. Which RIG you are most excited about and the first strategic step you plan to

take; b. Which RIG will be the most challenging and the first strategic step you plan

to take; c. One thing you learned about your Homework Partner (either from his/her

Autobiographical and Life Markers paper or your phone call) and any other aspect about your call that was encouraging.

9. You do not have to make a response post (but you can) to your classmates’ post on this discussion board. If your professor chooses to respond to your post, make a response post (minimum: 75 words, 4-5 sentences).

Deliverables:

• Initial post due Friday @ noon • Response post to faculty is due Saturday @ midnight if applicable

Grade:

You will receive 25 points for this post.

LEARNING ACTIVITY #3: Introduction to the Townsend Competency-Plus-Character Model

Overview: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the Townsend Competence & Character model for counseling. They will comprehend how this model is different than other models because it focuses on the deepest part of human personality - character structure - in order to resolve the symptoms which the clients presents in counseling. Students will begin to understand how this model applies to their character structure: the deficits and ways they learned to cope.

Directions:

1. Read the file: Competence & Character model for Leadership. 2. Read the file: Character Structure. This file will give you an in-depth look at the

four elements of character structure. After reading the file, go back and focus on attachment. Identify the behaviors that indicate when this character piece is missing. Identify what a person didn't get from their family of origin that creates a deficit in attachment. Discover the biblical themes that show the importance of attachment.

3. Watch the video by Dr. Townsend, Competence & Character model for leadership. 4. Read chapters 1-3 (pages 17 to 58) in Hiding from love by Dr. Townsend.


5. Watch the video of Dr. Townsend: Grace, Truth and Time. 6. Write a post (250 words, 15 to 20 sentences) to the following:

a. Which character structure element do you have the most deficit in? b. Describe one way you are hiding from the very relationships you need. c. How does Dr. Townsend's concept of focusing on the soil and the roots

instead of the fruit challenge your view of what to focus on as you lead your team or be an influence on others?

7. Read at least 5 to 7of your fellow students’ initial posts. Write two response posts (minimum: 75 words, 4-5 sentences). If your professor chooses to respond to your post, make a response post (minimum: 75 words, 4-5 sentences) and only one post to classmates.

Deliverables: • Initial reflection post due Friday @ midnight • Two response posts due Sunday @ midnight

Grade: • You will receive 35 points for these reflections. 15 for the initial and 20 (2 * 10) for

the responses.

LEARNING ACTIVITY #4: Building Attachment into Your Life and Those You Lead

Overview: Students will understand more deeply the character structure of attachment (and the dimensions of bonding and emotional regulation). They will also identify the biblical themes that reflect the importance of attachment. They will comprehend the early childhood experiences that create deficits in attachment and what neuroscience says about this.

Directions: 1. Read pages 59-72 in Hiding from love by Dr. Townsend. 2. Watch the video of Dr. Townsend on Character Structure. 3. Watch the video of Dr. Townsend on the Attachment Character Structure. 4. Read the file: Primacy of Affect. This will show you how affective neuroscience

developed over the last 10 to 15 years and changed the way we view the brain. We have a social brain and deeper affect within attachment relationships is key to changing our brain. The key to change is the bottom-up approach (start with the limbic system, subcortical area, right side of our brain) instead of a top-down approach (neo cortical, left side).

5. Read the file: Creating Mismatching Experiences to Build Character Structure: Attachment. This paper will give you the strategies and skills to build attachment into the lives of those you lead.

6. Read the file: Relational Needs of a Leader and Character Structure. Focus on the kinds of relationships that build in attachment.


7. Write a post (minimum: 250 words, 15 to 20 sentences) your response to the

following: a. As you contemplate the upcoming Kick-Off Conference, especially the

process groups, how can you build more attachment into your life? These strategies can come out of the Creating Mismatching Experiences paper and the Relational Needs of a Leader and Character Structure paper.

8. Read at least 5 to 7 of your fellow students’ initial posts. Write two response posts (minimum: 75 words, 4-5 sentences). If the professor chooses to respond to your post, make a response post (minimum: 75 words, 4-5 sentences) and only one response post to your classmates



the responses.

LEARNING ACTIVITY #5: Building Separation into Your Life and Those You Lead

Overview: Students will comprehend the character structure of separation and the mismatching experiences and types of relationships that will build this into their life and their followers' lives. They will also identify and explore the biblical themes that reflect the importance of character structure. They will comprehend the early childhood experiences that create deficits in this character structure and what neuroscience says about this.

Directions: 1. Review the file: Character Structure. Focus on separation. 2. Review the file: Relational Needs of a Leader and Character Structure. Focus on

the separation area. 3. Read pages 73-85; 121-146; 215-232 in Hiding from love by Dr. Townsend. 4. Watch the video by Dr. Townsend on Separation. 5. Watch the video by Dr. Townsend on Process Groups. This will give you an idea of

what the process groups will be like at the Kickoff Conference. You will participate in 10 of these over the course of 4 days. This is where most of your personal growth will take place. You will see the process group is a unique distinctive of Dr. Townsend's model for growth and healing.

6. Read the file, Creating Mismatching Experiences to Build Character Structure: Separation.

7. Write a post (minimum: 250 words, 15 to 20 sentences) your response to the following:

a. As you contemplate the upcoming Kick-Off Conference, especially the process groups, how can you build more separation into your life?


b. These strategies can come out of the Creating Mismatching Experiences

paper and the Relational Needs of a Leader and Character Structure paper. 8. Read at least 5 to 7 of your fellow students’ initial posts. Write two response posts

(minimum: 75 words, 4-5 sentences). If the professor chooses to respond to your post, make a response post (minimum: 75 words, 4-5 sentences) and only one response post to your classmates.



the responses.

LEARNING ACTIVITY #6: Building Integration into Your Life and Those You Lead

Overview: Students will comprehend the character structure of integration and the mismatching experiences and types of relationships that will build this into their life and the lives of those they lead. They will also identify and explore the biblical themes that reflect the importance of character structure. They will comprehend the early childhood experiences that create deficits in this character structure.

Directions: 1. Review the verses used in Relationship between Christian Faith and Psychology -

Acts 1 through 4 and I Corinthians 14:26-40 - to see how the early church was a small group movement. The unique distinctive of the Townsend Institute is our model reflects how God used small groups and relationships to change the world. Our curriculum and your experience with us will evolve our relationships and as many small group experiences that we can create. It is a new way of doing Christian higher education. We would like you to spend 15 to 30 minutes in solitude and prayer focusing on these verses, what the process groups will be like for you and what you hear God calling you to do during this time. This can be one of the most impactful experiences you have ever had. Take this time to allow God's spirit to speak to yours on how He wants to use this in your life. We encourage you to take as much time to prepare for your time with us during the Kickoff Conference. Being proactive in this way will pay off. Your professor can answer any additional questions you might have since he/she will be joining you there to facilitate your process group experience. He/she has already been through one of these Kickoff Conferences and knows what it is like.

2. Review the file: Character structure. Focus on integration. 3. Review the file: Relational Needs of a Leader and Character Structure. Focus on the

integration area. 4. Read pages 87-103; 147-164; 233-250 in Hiding from love by Dr. Townsend.


5. Watch the video of Dr. Townsend on Integration. 6. Review the file, Creating Mismatching Experiences to Build Character Structure:

Integration. 7. Write a paper (2 to 4 pages; APA style: title page, running head, headings if

appropriate, and if you cite any references in your paper - a "References" list) in which you develop an action plan on how you plan to grow integration in your character structure during the Kick-off Conference and beyond.

Deliverables: • Submit your Building Integration paper by Saturday @ midnight

Grade: • You will receive 60 points for this paper.


CONFERENCE WEEK TOPICS

• Reflections and Learnings from the Process Group Experience and Trainings • Adulthood Character Structure • The Mind of Christ, Made in God’s Image, Being Full of the Holy Spirit and Character Structure • Action Plan for Continued Support

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CONFERENCE WEEK OVERVIEW

Integration with the Christian Faith: After the birth of Jesus and all the events that surrounded it, Mary “pondered these things in her heart.” Paul in 2 Corinthians 7:5-7, said, “as [Titus] told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.” Paul’s joy was increased as he remembered and heard how the Corinthians had Paul in their mind rejoicing in the relationship they experienced when Paul was with them. This is how new neural pathways are forged and get internalized that we are loved, accepted and pleased. So after your time with us and your process group who are now a part of your heart, “ponder these things in your heart” just like Mary. This is one way God gave us to rejoice.

CONFERENCE WEEK LEARNING ACTIVITIES

LEARNING ACTIVITY #1: Reflections on Day One of the Kick-Off Conference (CLO 1, 2, 3,)

Overview: Students will begin the process group experience and the various trainings. They will take risks in vulnerability and begin to work on the deficits in their character structure. They will develop trust and safety with group members. They will apply the principles and skills given during the training times.

CONFERENCE WEEK


Directions:

1. Start an electronic journal (or paper if that is easier) and after each process group jot down your experience – what you felt, where you grew and the next risk you want to take. It is very easy to forget key experiences if you wait until the end of the day.

2. After the day’s events we recommend you take at least 30 minutes to reflect on your experiences throughout the day around these themes below. You can also get with a member of your process group to dialogue about this.

a. What is one thing you learned from the trainings? b. How did you see yourself grow during process group in one of the four areas

of character structure and how will you use this in leading others? c. How you will continue this growth after these four days so it becomes a

regular habit of your life? d. What’s the next area you want to take a risk in order to grow?

3. Write a post (250 words, 15 to 20 sentences) on parts of your journal you feel safe enough to share.

4. Read and Reflect on at least 5 to 7 of your fellow students’ initial posts. Write two response posts (at least 75 words, 4-5 sentences).

Deliverables: • Initial journal post due Sunday @ 9pm • Two response posts due Monday @ 7:30am


the responses.

LEARNING ACTIVITY #2: Reflections on Day Two of the Kick-Off Conference (CLO 1, 2, 3)

Overview: Students will continue the process group experience and the various trainings. They will take risks in vulnerability and begin to work on the deficits in their character structure. They will develop trust and safety with group members. They will apply the principles and skills given during the training times.

Directions: 1. Continue your electronic journal (or paper if that is easier) and after each process

group jot down your experience – what you felt, where you grew and the next risk you want to take. It is very easy to forget key experiences if you wait until the end of the day.

2. In preparation to the Affirmation and Challenges process group session tomorrow morning, listen to this song from the Broadway Play, Wicked, called For Good, sang by Kristen Chenoweth and Idina Manzel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ0pXUb5jVU. Listen to the lyrics and see if they don’t capture the experience you have had with your process group members. This URL is part of the live performance on Broadway if you want to see them in


costume - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fR4JotwwWo. This URL is the song with the lyrics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxIf2PV7yPI.

3. In preparation for writing your affirmations and challenges for each group member, we recommend you take at least 30 minutes to reflect on your experiences so far with your group around these themes below.

a. Reflecting on the lyrics of Wicked, what is it like to experience how your group members “have come into your life for a reason, bringing something you must learn, and being lead to those who help us most to grow, if you let them, and you help them in return”?

b. What have you learned from them so far and how have you’ve been “changed for good” because of those in your group? What “handprints on your heart” are beginning to develop?

c. How does – “I know I am today who I am because I knew you” – apply to what you have been learning about the power of relationships and “mismatching experiences.”

4. Affirmation and Challenges in Tuesday’s Process Group a. In Tuesday’s morning group you will have a chance to give affirmations and

challenges to each group member. We have found this to be one of the most meaningful experiences for deepening the intimacy in your group.

b. Read the file called Affirmation Challenge Guidelines on how to fill out an Affirmation Challenge Feedback Sheet for each group member. Do not fill one out for your process group leader.

c. Take the Affirmation Challenges Feedback Sheet and make copies for each person in your group. Then fill it out. You will have 1 minute to tell the person what you wrote so make this succinct but deeply personal.

d. You will start with one person and each group member will take one minute to share what they wrote. You will use a lot of eye contact and just glance at your sheet to remind yourself of the key points you want to share. The group member will just say “thank you” when you are done and the next person shares. Your process group leader will also share his/her affirmation and challenges. After everyone has shared the person will have a couple of minutes to share what that was like for them.

e. At the end of this time, the whole group will share what that experience was like for them as a group and how it feels differently now.

5. Write a post (minimum: 250 words, 15 to 20 sentences) on the following: a. what the affirmations and challenges experience was like for you; b. what affirmations you took in (usually these are the hardest to take in and we jump right to what we need to work on. A lot of growth will come if you take time to let yourself feel this part deeply.); what is one challenge you want to work on in the next group.

6. Read at least 5 to 7 of your fellow students’ initial posts. Write two response posts (minimum: 75 words, 4-5 sentences). If the professor chooses to respond to your post, make a response post (at least 75 words, 4-5 sentences) and only one response post to your classmates.

Deliverables: • Initial journal post due Monday @ 9pm • Two response posts due Tuesday @ 7:30am


Grade:

• You will receive 35 points for these reflections. 15 for the initial and 20 (2 * 10) for the responses.

LEARNING ACTIVITY #3: Reflections on Day Three of the Kick-Off Conference (CLO 1, 2, 3)

Overview: Students will continue the process group experience and the various trainings given by Dr. Townsend. They will take risks in vulnerability and begin to work on the deficits in their character structure. They will develop trust and safety with group members. They will apply the principles and skills given during the training times.


group jot down your experience – what you felt, where you grew and the next risk you want to take. It is very easy to forget key experiences if you wait until the end of the day. Do the same for what you learned in the training times with Dr. Townsend

2. After the day’s events we recommend you take at least 30 minutes to reflect on your experiences throughout the day around the themes below. You can also get with a member of your process group to dialogue about this.

a. What is one thing you learned from the trainings given by Dr. Townsend? b. How did you see yourself grow during process group in one of the four areas

of character structure or another area? c. How will you use this in leading others? d. Reflect on the chorus from Need to Breathe’s song, Brother:

3. Write a post (minimum: 250 words, 15 to 20 sentences) on parts of your journal you feel safe enough to share.

4. Read at least 5 to 7 of your fellow students’ initial posts. Write two response posts (minimum: 75 words, 4-5 sentences). If the professor chooses to respond to your post, make a response post (minimum: 75 words, 4-5 sentences) and only one response post to your classmates.

5. Preparing to say goodbye. During the last process group you will have a chance to say goodbye to group members and the group as a whole. Read the file, Final Session – Saying Goodbye. This will give you an idea of what will take place.

6. In preparation for saying goodbye, listen to this song by Need to Breathe called, Brothers. See if this doesn’t capture how we really need each other, a part of your process group experience. Here is the live version - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Wm_qlVD4Q. Here are the lyrics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRSLz_KgUsM. The chorus is:

Brother let me be your shelter I’ll never leave you all alone I can be the one you call When you’re low


Brother let me be your fortress When the night winds are driving on Be the one to light the way Bring you home

As you develop your action plan below (see Learning Activity 7) how you will continue to be a “shelter” and the “one to call when you’re low” to “be the one to light the way, bring you home” to other group members after these four days?

Deliverables: • Initial journal post due Tuesday @ 10pm • Two response posts due Wednesday @ 7:30am


the responses.

LEARNING ACTIVITY #4: Reflections on Day Four of the Kick-Off Conference (CLO 1, 2, 3)

Overview: Students will finish the process group experience that morning. They will also attend the Symposium with Dr. Townsend and some of the Institute Fellows that afternoon and evening. They will apply the principles and skills given during the training times.


group jot down your experience – what you felt, where you grew and the next risk you want to take. It is very easy to forget key experiences if you wait until the end of the day.

2. After the day’s events we recommend you take at least 30 minutes to reflect on your experiences throughout the day around these themes below. You can also get with a member of your process group to dialogue about this.

a. What is one thing you learned from the trainings? b. How did you see yourself grow during process group in one of the four areas

of character structure and how will you use this in leading others? c. How you will continue this growth after these four days so it becomes a

regular habit of your life? d. What’s the next area you want to take a risk in order to grow?

3. Write a post (250 words, 15 to 20 sentences) on parts of your journal you feel safe enough to share.



Deliverables:

• Initial journal post due Thursday @ 10pm • Two response posts due Friday @ 7:30am


the responses.

LEARNING ACTIVITY #5: Building Adulthood into Your Life (CLO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Overview: Students will comprehend the character structure of adulthood and the experiences and kinds of relationships that will build this into their life.

Directions: 1. Review the file: Character structure. Focus on adulthood. 2. Review the file: Relational Needs of a Leader and Character Structure. These are

the different kinds of relationships we have and how they give us what we need for building good character structure. Focus on the adulthood area.

3. Read chapters 7, 11, 12, 16 (pages 105-118; 165-189; 251-265) in Hiding from love by Dr. Townsend.

4. Watch the video of Dr. Townsend on Adulthood. 5. Read the file, Creating Mismatching Experiences to Build Character Structure.

Focus on the adulthood section. 6. Write a paper (at least 4 pages, APA style) in which you identify how you grew in

the different elements of your character structure during the Kickoff Conference. List how you will continue this kind of personal growth in the years to come.

Deliverables: • Submit your Building Integration paper by Saturday @ midnight

Grade: • You will receive 65 points for this paper.

LEARNING ACTIVITY #6: The Mind of Christ, Made in God’s Image, Being Full of the Holy Spirit and Character Structure. (CLO 3, 4)

Overview: Students will be able to explain the concept of "character” and how it relates to these common concepts used by the church: the Mind of Christ, Being Made in God’s Image, Being Full of the Holy Spirit. Students will experience how growing in character structure is a more tangible way of understanding these other concepts.


Directions:

1. Review all of what you have read and think about the experiences you are having in process group so far.

2. Write a post (250 words, 15 to 20 sentences) your response to the following: a. Often when we are challenged to be have the “Mind of Christ” or to

remember you are “Made in God’s Image” or to be “Full of the Holy Spirit) the focus is on the outer fruit and only the “spiritual” understanding of these phrases. We often do not see these deeper aspects of character structure playing a role. In your analysis, state how you are integrating your experiences of character structure growth with these three concepts. List several advantages you found and one disadvantage.


Deliverables: • Initial reflection post due Friday @ midnight of the following week • Two response posts due Sunday @ midnight of the following week


the responses.

LEARNING ACTIVITY #7: Action Plan for Continued Support (CLO 1, 2, 3, 6)

Overview: Learners will develop and commit to an action plan that will help them maintain the close connections group members developed during the the Kickoff Conference. This action plan will also include how they will continue the growth they experienced.

Directions: 1. Write an action plan outlining steps you will take to continue growing in the

relationships you established in the process groups. This will enhance your learning and give you the support needed to excel in this program.

2. Write the second part of your action plan outlining how you will continue the kind of growth you experienced during the past four days.

3. Share your action plan in a discussion post 4. Read and Reflect on all of your fellow students’ initial posts. Write a response to

each post (at least 75 words, 4-5 sentences).

Deliverables: • Initial reflection post due Saturday @ noon of the following week. • All response posts due Saturday @ midnight of the following week.


the responses.

Documents

orgl 600: personal development skills process group student guide