youthwork

28 April

On 28 April 2015

In make PROGRESS

Tagged age matters, faith matters, FaithForward, youthwork

Faith Forward 2015

Melvin Bray helped a wonderful cadre of collaborators host Faith Forward 2015 in Chicago.

"people will only do what they believe, and they only believe what they have discovered for themselves."

it's easier to get from THERE to HERE than it is to get from HERE to THERE.

~design axiom

everything that someone tells you is true; they are reporting their experience of reality.

~design axiom

to argue with someone else’s experience is a waste of time.

~design axiom

to add someone’s experience to your experience, to create a new experience, is possibly valuable.

~design axiom

discovering you don’t know something is the first step to knowing it.

~design axiom

we know more together than we do apart.

~design axiom

the only valid test of an idea, concept, or theory is what it enables you to do.

~design axiom

you understand the instructions only after you have assembled the red wagon.

~design axiom

if you can’t have fun with a problem, you will never solve it.

~design axiom

the future is rational only in hindsight.

~design axiom

every person working a problem already possesses an answer or an important piece of one; the work of design is to stimulate one, several, or all of us to remember what we already know.

~design axiom

in every adverse condition, there are hundreds of good solutions.

~design axiom

creativity is the process of eliminating options.

~design axiom

you fail until you succeed.

~design axiom

nothing fails like success.

~design axiom

nothing is real until it is practiced.

~melvin bray, collabyrinth

we are who we practice to be.

~melvin bray, collabyrinth

"if you cannot SEE people hidden in plain view, you cannot HEAR others' stories as having value, and if you cannot hear others' stories as having value, you cannot CHANGE."

~gregory ellison, fearless dialogues