My Grateful Living Journaling Workshop

Yesterday I had the pleasure of facilitating a gratitude journaling workshop at the Oregon-Idaho Annual Conference for our church. When I was much younger I served as a delegate from First United Methodist Church in Albuquerque for several years (I have often said that everything I learned about politics I learned in church…) but this was the first one I had been to in many years.

I thoroughly enjoy preparing for workshops. I usually offer to give workshops on topics I want to learn more about personally, and so this is the third “grateful living” workshop I’ve given in the last year. They are very rewarding and I learn much more getting ready for them and sharing them than if I were a workshop participant.

This, and several other workshops, was the very last thing on the conference agenda. I particularly valued the ten or so hardy individuals who stayed for the workshop instead of fleeing to the beautiful Boise day or heading for home somewhere in the two-state region. Despite some early technical problems (the technology is seldom the problem though is it – usually we are talking about operator error….), we had great participation and an enjoyable two hours.

I promised the group that I would provide a copy of the overheads electronically, so I figured I might as well share them here for everyone. I have taken out just a few things, like videos.

We spent a good chunk of time on the topic of unearned gifts and the argument for gratitude , which these overheads mostly miss.

Here is a link to my workshop overheads. Please feel free to share them with anyone who can use them:

Grateful Living Workshop Overheads

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