Author : Dale Fincher
Publisher :
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310318873
In a world of designer spirituality, how do you talk to people about Jesus without offending them? Coffee Shop Conversations, by Dale and Jonalyn Fincher, will provide you with the tools you need to have meaningful, tolerant, and respectful conversations about your faith with those who don t share your views."
Author : Grant Donovan Phd
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781477573396
Coffee Conversations Ever struggled with poor performing staff and wanted to know the secret of high performance work cultures? Simple, throw out performance appraisals and other punitive performance management processes and introduce Coffee Conversations. It's a no-brainer. A relaxed, casual conversation over a cup of coffee fixes all performance issues and the return on investment is spectacular. That's right, eliminate complex and demotivating control systems, start treating people well, engage them in the decisions that affect their work and empower them to self-manage their own outcomes and the simple secret of high performance will appear. Based on 25 years of practical experience and research by Shane Garland and Dr Grant Donovan, Coffee Conversations explores how high performance work cultures form spontaneously when leaders take time each day to relax with their staff, sip a coffee and discuss better ways of running the business. Unambiguously, managers who do their people work first and their paperwork second, produce the best performance outcomes and the greatest places to work. Coffee Conversations is a storybook of practical examples and supportive data that questions why any organisation would waste precious time and money on expensive and complex leadership training programs, when regular coffee conversations will deliver a trusting work culture and guaranteed performance success. While many leadership books are either full of academic theory, large strategic ideas or curriculum based, directive leadership education, Coffee Conversations is full of short, practical stories from the iconic Australian companies, Qantas and Woolworths, and a myriad of international experiences that will leave you inspired.
Author : Esq Zenell B. Brown
Publisher : G Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 2020-08-05
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781734086546
Coffee and Conversations: Inclusion and Belonging is a guide to getting beyond the racial and economic chasm that has separated humans for far too long. Author, Zenell Brown suggests we put down the protest signs, stop marching, and just sit down with a cup of coffee and have an honest conversation while following her guidelines that lead to genuine change.
Author : Anjanette Delgado
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1683403037
Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal for Anthology National Indie Excellence Awards, Finalist in the Anthology Category International Latino Book Awards, Gold Medal for Best Fiction (Multi-Author) International Latino Book Awards, Honorable Mention, Best Nonfiction (Multi-Author) A powerful collection of contemporary voices Showcasing a variety of voices shaped in and by a place that has been for them a crossroads and a land of contradictions, Home in Florida presents a selection of the best literature of displacement and uprootedness by some of the most talented contemporary Latinx writers who have called Florida home. Featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by Richard Blanco, Jaquira Díaz, Patricia Engel, Jennine Capó Crucet, Reinaldo Arenas, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and many others, this collection of renowned and award-winning contributors includes several who are celebrated in their countries of origin but have not yet been discovered by readers in the United States. The writers in this volume—first- , second- , and third-generation immigrants to Florida from Cuba, Mexico, Honduras, Perú, Argentina, Chile, and other countries—reflect the diversity of Latinx experiences across the state. Editor Anjanette Delgado characterizes the work in this collection as literature of uprootedness, literatura del desarraigo, a Spanish literary tradition and a term used by Reinaldo Arenas. With the heart-changing, here-and-there perspective of attempting life in environments not their own, these writers portray many different responses to displacement, each occupying their own unique place on what Delgado calls a spectrum of belonging. Together, these writers explore what exactly makes Florida home for those struggling between memory and presence. In these works, as it is for many people seeking to make a new life in the United States, Florida is the place where the uprooted stop to catch their breath long enough to wonder, “What if I stayed? What if here could one day be my home?” Contributors: Daniel Reschinga | Ana Menéndez | Frances Negrón Muntaner | Hernán Vera Álvarez | Liz Balmaseda | Ariel Francisco | Andreina Fernandez | Amina Lolita Gautier PhD | Jennine Capó-Crucet | Dainerys Machado Vento | Carlos Harrison | Legna Rodríguez Iglesias | Judith Ortiz Cofer | Chantel Acevedo | Guillermo Rosales | Achy Obejas | Alex Segura | Patricia Engel | Anjanette Delgado | Mia Leonin | Carlos Pintado | Nilsa Ada Rivera | Natalie Scenters-Zapico | Pedro Medina León | Caridad Moro-Gronlier | Aracelis González Asendorf | Michael García-Juelle | Jaquira Díaz | José Ignacio Chascas-Valenzuela | Raúl Dopico | Javier Lentino | Yaddyra Peralta
Author : Ruth Bell Graham
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781569550410
You will be encouraged in your walk with the Lord as a wife, mother, or grandparent when you rad Coffee and Conversation with Ruth Bell Graham and her daughter, Gigi Graham Tchividjian. Come in, sit down, pour yourself a cup, and listen.
Author : LeAnne Howe
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1566895405
“Savage Conversations takes place somewhere in between its sources, between sanity and madness, between then and now, between the living and the dead. It pushes past the limitations of textual sources for telling indigenous history and accounts of insanity.” —Barrelhouse Reviews May 1875: Mary Todd Lincoln is addicted to opiates and tried in a Chicago court on charges of insanity. Entered into evidence is Ms. Lincoln’s claim that every night a Savage Indian enters her bedroom and slashes her face and scalp. She is swiftly committed to Bellevue Place Sanitarium. Her hauntings may be a reminder that in 1862, President Lincoln ordered the hanging of thirty-eight Dakotas in the largest mass execution in United States history. No one has ever linked the two events—until now. Savage Conversations is a daring account of a former first lady and the ghosts that tormented her for the contradictions and crimes on which this nation is founded.
Author : Juanita Brown
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2005-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1605092517
The World Cafe is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization or community's own collective intelligence around its most important questions. Filled with stories of actual Cafe dialogues in business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, this uniquely crafted book demonstrates how the World Cafe can be adapted to any setting or culture. Examples from such varied organizations as Hewlett-Packard, American Society for Quality, the nation of Singapore, the University of Texas, and many others, demonstrate the process in action. Along with its seven core design principles, The World Cafe offers practical tips for hosting "conversations that matter" in groups of any size- strengthening both personal relationships and people's capacity to shape the future together.
Author : Thad Ziolkowski
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2021-07-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0062965956
In this revelatory and original book, award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach us about the powerful undertow of addictive behaviors and the ways to swim free of them. Addiction is arguably the dominant feature of contemporary life: sex, gambling, exercise, eating, shopping, Internet use—there's virtually no pleasurable activity that can't morph into a destructive obsession. For Americans under the age of fifty-five, the leading cause of death is drug overdose. But there is another side of addiction. In some instances, the very activities that can lead to addiction can also lead out of it. As neurologists have recently discovered, surfing is a kind of study in the mechanism of addiction, delivering dopamine to the "pleasure" center of the brain and reshaping priorities and desire in a feedback loop of narrowing focus. Thad Ziolkowski knows this dynamic intimately. A lifelong surfer, he has been surrounded by addiction since his boyhood. In this unique, groundbreaking book, part addiction memoir, part sociological study, part spiritual odyssey, Ziolkowski dismantles the myth of surfing as a radiantly wholesome lifestyle immune to the darker temptations of the culture and discovers among the rubble a new way to understand and ultimately overcome addiction. Combining his own story with insights from scientists, progressive thinkers and the experiences of top surfers and addicts from around the world, Ziolkowski shows how getting on a board and catching a wave is a unique and deeply instructive means of riding out of the darkness and back into the light. Yet while surfing is his salvation, its lessons can applied to other activities that can pull us free from the lethal undertow of addiction and save lives.
Author : Steve Moloney
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 28,17 MB
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1312379235
Bringing people together in a brotherly and sisterly way to share ideas on improving the quality of our life experiences is what Coffee Chat has been about. It is my hope that this book will inspire you to share your ideas with others as well.
Author : Katie Maloney
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780578608792
CAKE POPS and COFFEE is the brave exploration of Katie Maloney's survivor journey through extreme childhood abuse, but it's also an invitation to readers to have a more relaxed and productive conversation about trauma. While on her own healing journey, Maloney desperately wanted a resource that didn't feel so HEAVY. She wanted somewhere to be able to talk about her experiences and work through her feelings without slogging through the proverbial mud. When she couldn't find what she needed, CAKE POPS and COFFEE was born. In her breakout debut, Maloney teaches readers how to work through their trauma, offers tangible tools that work, allows readers into her personal story, all while making sure we're laughing and learning how to feel good along the way.
