We had so much fun exploring creativity and inspiration at our Enrichment Evening on Tuesday at the International Ward.
Alive and Awake
September 4, 2012
Speaker: Jill
Derr, Co-editor, Eliza R. Snow: The Complete
Poetry
Sister Derr
presented inspiring thoughts from Sister Eliza R. Snow. She talked about Eliza as
a woman of great passion with a great sense of community and commitment to
holiness. She shared several of Sister
Snow’s writings and poetry that inspired all of us in our workshops to use or
imaginations and put our own creativity into form. We felt a great spirit at
the meeting.
Resolution Workshop (Sister Derr)
1. Resolved: that as women of God we will devote ourselves,
our time and our means to lifting and loving our sisters.
2. Resolved: that we will show our devotion by being committed and compassionate visiting teachers.
3. Resolved: that in order to discern the needs of our sisters we will seek the direction of the Spirit and have the courage to act upon those promptings.
2. Resolved: that we will show our devotion by being committed and compassionate visiting teachers.
3. Resolved: that in order to discern the needs of our sisters we will seek the direction of the Spirit and have the courage to act upon those promptings.
Music Workshop (Sister
Bradley)
We composed lyrics to the tune of Press Forward, Saints (Hymn
81)
A-wake, A-rise!
Dear Sisters
sing with joy!
Wake up and
live your life and share your joy.
Praise to the
Lord, for all your blessed gifts.
Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Poetry Workshop (Sister
Goucher)
ALIVE
& AWAKE
Awake and arise, and look with your eyes,
Is there someone you see with a need?
A loving word, a hug and a smile
Will lift their heart with every kind deed.
Alive and awake, we are daughters of God,
Our pathway is very clear;
We receive inspiration, we show it through love
To our brothers and sisters, and our Father above.
Sister Virginia Goeckeritz & Sister Carolyn Goucher
Relief Society, 4 Sep 2012
Awake and arise, and look with your eyes,
Is there someone you see with a need?
A loving word, a hug and a smile
Will lift their heart with every kind deed.
Alive and awake, we are daughters of God,
Our pathway is very clear;
We receive inspiration, we show it through love
To our brothers and sisters, and our Father above.
Sister Virginia Goeckeritz & Sister Carolyn Goucher
Relief Society, 4 Sep 2012
Discovering Talents Workshop (Sister Foster)
Handouts
Definition of
talents for the purposes of this discussion:
·
Talents are something that are an innate part
of you—likely you brought them with you from your premortal life
·
A talent is not a skill or knowledge, but
skills and knowledge are often developed around your talents
·
A talent can be such an integral part of you
that you may not know you have it
Why is it
important to discover our talents and the talents of others?
·
Enables us to magnify our own gifts for our
benefit and the benefit of others
·
Helps us find more joy and success in life as
we build skills and knowledge upon the innate talents we have been given
·
Helps us view others in a new light when we
appreciate the talents they have
·
Helps us have a positive influence in the
lives of family members and friends as we recognize their talents, encourage
them to develop them, and provide opportunities for them to use their talents
How can we
find out what our talents are?
·
Self-evaluation
·
Patriarchal and other blessings
·
Feedback from others (this is especially
important to learn of talents we may not recognize in ourselves)
·
Assessment tools (see the attached list from
Gallup)
My Talents and Gifts
Self-evaluation—Five
talents/gifts I think I have:
Talents and gifts identified in my patriarchal
blessing and other blessings:
Talents and
gifts others tell me I have:
What I think
are my top five talents from the Gallup theme inventory:
Personal Themes (from Now, Discover Your Strengths)
The Gallup Organization claims to have
distilled the theory into practice by interviewing 1.7 million professionals
from varying fields, have quantified the different "Personal Themes"
of the subjects, and have come up with 34 distinct attributes.
- Achiever -
one with a constant drive for accomplishing tasks
- Activator
- one who acts to start things in motion
- Adaptability
- one who is especially adept at accommodating to changes in
direction/plan
- Analytical
- one who requires data and/or proof to make sense of their circumstances
- Arranger -
one who enjoys orchestrating many tasks and variables to a successful
outcome
- Belief -
one who strives to find some ultimate meaning behind everything they do
- Command -
one who steps up to positions of leadership without fear of confrontation
- Communication
- one who uses words to inspire action and education
- Competition
- one who thrives on comparison and competition to be successful
- Connectedness
- one who seeks to unite others through commonality
- Consistency
- one who believes in treating everyone the same to avoid unfair advantage
- Context -
one who is able to use the past to make better decisions in the present
- Deliberative
- one who proceeds with caution, seeking to always have a plan and know
all of the details
- Developer
- one who sees the untapped potential in others
- Discipline
- one who seeks to make sense of the world by imposition of order
- Empathy -
one who is especially in tune with the emotions of others
- Focus -
one who requires a clear sense of direction to be successful
- Futuristic
- one who has a keen sense of using an eye towards the future to drive
today's success
- Harmony -
one who seeks to avoid conflict and achieve success through consensus
- Ideation -
one who is adept at seeing underlying concepts that unite disparate ideas
- Includer -
one who instinctively works to include everyone
- Individualization
- one who draws upon the uniqueness of individuals to create successful
teams
- Input -
one who is constantly collecting information or objects for future use
- Intellection
- one who enjoys thinking and thought-provoking conversation often for its
own sake, and also can data compress complex concepts into simplified models
- Learner -
one who must constantly be challenged and learning new things to feel
successful
- Maximizer
- one who seeks to take people and projects from great to excellent
- Positivity
- one who has a knack for bring the light-side to any situation
- Relator -
one who is most comfortable with fewer, deeper relationships
- Responsibility
- one who, inexplicably, must follow through on commitments
- Restorative
- one who thrives on solving difficult problems
- Self-Assurance
- one who stays true to their beliefs, judgments and is confident of
his/her ability
- Significance
- one who seeks to be seen as significant by others
- Strategic
- one who is able to see a clear direction through the complexity of a
situation
- Woo - one
who is able to easily persuade
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now,_Discover_Your_Strengths
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