ReGroup Participant's Guide: Training Groups to Be Groups

...the ReGroup[Trademark] small group DVD curriculum will guide all of you-leader and group together-into a new closeness and effectiveness. Designed to create healthy group dynamics and an atmosphere that fosters personal growth, this innovative approach equips both group leaders and members with essential skills and values for creating and sustaining truly life-changing small groups. This participant's guide will help you and your other group members create, strengthen, or even re-create your small group from the ground up. Developed by three group life experts, it is filled with discussion questions, activities, exercises, tips, and insights. Four 60-minute sessions on the foundations of group life include teaching by the authors, creative segments, and activities and discussion time. The sessions are: 1. Getting Connected-God's Purpose for Small Groups, 2. Five Habits of Life-Changing Small Groups, 3. Setting Ground Rules, 4. Determining Your Group's Purpose. Thirteen 5- to 10-minute coaching segments on topics such as active listening, giving and receiving feedback, prayer, calling out the best in others, and more. Three 60-minute sessions on critical-concern topics: Confrontation, Conflict resolution, Helping people in crisis. Book jacket.… (more)