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Take a step from where you are to where you want to be.
The Divine Gift of Influence
Sheri Dew knows a thing or two about influence. Though her life experiences have taken her around the globe in government, business and religious circles, she has learned where real influence lies—in the lives and homes of righteous women of God. After many years of study & observation, Sheri presents sixteen principles that will help you better understand what influence really is and how to have more of it. If you truly want to “take a step from where you are to where you want to be”, this kick-off seminar is the place you’ll want to start.
Session One | Righteous Women Can Change the World
Think about your influence. Think about places where you’ve had influence—big and small. Simply put, it is not possible to not have influence. And perhaps no one has more influence, whether positive or negative, than a woman. Yet, no influence is more powerful than that of “a righteous woman who understands who she is and who can hear the voice of the Spirit.” We’ll start there first.
Session Two | Principles: Part One
Sharing personal experiences as well as lessons from the scriptures and other historical accounts, Sheri presents the first eight principles that will help you have greater impact in all of your circles of influence. “Less is more.” “Influence Depends on Trust.” “A leader is a learner.” These are just a few of the principles that will help you lead and influence in more meaningful ways.
Session Three | Principles: Part Two
One of the most significant things a leader can do is to help build other leaders. And perhaps no one has more constant opportunities to do that than women, and particularly mothers. Women have a unique role in building leaders and you’ll come to understand this better with the final eight principles. Though sometimes being a leader and having influence can be a lonely experience, great women (like great leaders) must be devoted to a cause. This final session will help you discover the cause that needs YOU.
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Change Your Questions, Change Your Life!
The questions we ask ourselves, others and the Lord significantly influence the kind of lives we create. Questions are powerful. They can motivate or they can demoralize. They can increase our ability to solve problems or they can make situations worse. Some questions actually become the problem while other questions bring about change when everything else has failed. .
Do you want better relationships? Ask better questions! Do you want a great life? Learn to ask great questions. In this webinar Dr. Wendy Watson Nelson will teach the power of questions; how certain kinds of questions help us and others hinder us; and how to ask more useful, more powerful questions. Questions that can change your relationships. Questions that can change your life.
Session One | The Power of Questions
Dr. Wendy Watson Nelson invites you to understand the power of questions. Based upon over 25 years of clinical research and clinical practice, Dr. Watson Nelson will help you take an up close and personal look at the questions in your life and the influence of those questions on your relationships and on your life. In this first session you will learn three kinds of questions which can increase the power of the questions you ask.
Session Two | Questions, Problems and Solutions
Dr. Wendy Watson Nelson will show how questions influence problems and problem-solving. You will learn four liberating views of problems and questions that can unlock solutions to your problems.
Session Three | Your Questions and Your Beliefs
Your beliefs influence everything you see, think, feel and do. Some of your beliefs are helpful, some are not. Your beliefs can be found in the questions you ask. And the questions you ask can either solidify or shift your beliefs.
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What the Scriptures Teach Us about Raising a Child
Perhaps one of the most loved teachers of scripture, S. Michael Wilcox presents powerful life applications that can improve the way you parent. Taken from his own personal experience as a father (now grandfather), Michael draws upon the lessons from the perfect handbook—the scriptures. Sharing material not yet published, you’ll enjoy a look at many not-so-well-known scripture stories that teach transforming principles for parents at any stage of raising a child.
Session One | Mastering the First Essential Lessons
A look at the way God parents us can be the first key to understanding the way He is paving us to raise our own children. With that as the foundation then, the first essential lessons take us back to the basics. However, implementing the “whats” is only effective when you understand the real “whys” and the realistic “hows”. And a study of key scriptures will help you better incorporate both.
Session Two | Creating an Environment of Faith
Though we cannot control the environment of society, we can and must control the environment of our homes. Our home environment is more than the pictures we display or the music we choose to listen to. Helping our children understand the power and significance of “spiritual magnets” can help change the physical as well as spiritual environments and provide important catalysts to change both.
Session Three | The Great Balancing Act
Finding the right balance between nurture and admonition offers parents a unique challenge. Using the experience of Jacob and Enos as the backdrop, Michael shares a few key principles that will help you effectually discover the methods of correction and love you need to offer each child—the way God corrects and loves each one of us.
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SEMESTER 2
CLASS 1 | Camille Fronk Olson
Lessons from our Foremothers
If someone asked you to list five women from the scriptures, could you do it? And if you came up with their names, could you then write the one thing you can learn from each of them? We’re not sure there is a woman who knows the women of the scriptures better than Camille. Her passion for these women and her understanding of sacred text will not only change the way you read the scriptures but change the way you apply them in your life. (Make sure you have your scriptures next to your keyboard for this one!)
Session One | Seeing as God Sees
Sometimes we have a tendency to see women in the scriptures two-dimensionally. We either make them so righteous that they could never do anything wrong or so evil that there is no reason to even look at them. But, the trouble with this is that none of us fits into either of those categories either. All of us have weakness and sin and all of us need a Redeemer. His atonement is enough to cover every one of us. It worked for them. Let it work for you.
Session Two | Embracing the Life that God Gives You
Scripture stories are anything but stories of cookie-cutter lives. A look at the life of even one woman, Ruth, reveals important truths when life doesn’t turn out quite like we expect. There are life altering lessons to learn from Ruth and other of our foremothers when circumstances outside our control forever change our lives and open doors to new opportunities. Get ready to embrace the life you’ve been given.
Session Three | Uniting Men and Women in the Priesthood
No true discussion about women in the scriptures would be complete without a discussion about the power of God. Important lessons of men and women working together under the umbrella of the Lord’s transcendent power, the Priesthood, are available from our foremothers who lived, learned and taught during the era of the Patriarchs, essentially found in the book of Genesis. The Patriarchal order focuses on men and women working together to bring about the Lord’s will.
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CLASS 2 | John Bytheway
When a Time Out for Women attendee asked how to help her husband take the “spiritual lead” in the home, it got John’s attention. So much so that he has spent the last few years gathering information and looking at his own life experiences to answer that very question. But he first discovered that there was much more to the question than “how can I get my husband to be in charge of FHE?” and much more to the answer as well. Drawing on scriptures and real life experiences, this class will help create an environment of change in your marriage and in your home. (Husbands welcome!)
Session One | Exact Change Please: Extreme Makeover, Family Edition
Often what we think is the problem, might not actually be the problem. And it doesn’t matter if the issue is Family Home Evening or a teenage son serving a mission or getting your daughter to clean her room. When it comes to needing change in your home, there is only one way to get it. As you discover the key principle to encourage progression, all the other steps will fall into place.
Session Two | Anything I Can Do, My Wife Can Do Better
This isn’t about downplaying your abilities, this is about coming to an understanding of expectations that play on each other’s strengths. Too often, many frustrations in a home come from a lack of communication and clarifying of responsibilities. This is a session you just might want to review with your entire family
Session Three | Praising Betimes With Sharpness, and Other Keys to Blessing Your Marriage
Do you believe that the greatest change come from a change in YOU? Have you ever asked yourself, “What’s it like to be married to me?” There are many things you can do to change the environment in your home regardless of the willingness (or lack of) from other family members. By spending time and energy focusing on the things that are within your control, you’ll discover your actions have more influence than you ever knew.
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CLASS 3 | Ardeth Kapp
Make A Difference: Beginning With You
When it comes to “making a difference”, not many women have made more of a difference in the lives of young women, now grown, than Ardeth Kapp. Her life-long learning and educational background in instruction and curriculum design provide a breadth of knowledge and experience that will bless women of any age. In addition to being inspiring, Ardeth has a very practical approach to life and has learned that you can make more of a difference in the world when you begin by making a difference with yourself. If you have goals and you don’t feel you have the time to reach them, this class if for you.
Session One | It is Within You
When we begin to understand—really understand---our true purpose, then our mission in life becomes more clear and our desire to fulfill that mission and to make a difference enlarges.. As basic as the truth “I am a child of God” may seem, too many of us are living as if we don’t fully believe it. This session is an important building block to achieving greater growth.
Session Two | Planning with a Purpose
One of the most critical keys to making a difference is in making a plan. You might be familiar with the concept of planning any event or activity with a clear objective and actionable items. But, what if you took that template and applied it to your personal life? Whether it’s a memorable family vacation or recommitting to personal scripture study, your personal plan (which Ardeth will walk you through, step by step) is key to your success.
Session Three | Stop, Look, and Listen
Achieving goals is important, but the truest power lies in achieving the right goals—goals that tap into our unique purposes. If we take the time to stop and truly look at—even listen for—what we were sent here to do, we can be sure to accomplish great things. In this final session, Ardeth shares a personal guide to help you answer the questions, Why me? Why here? Why now? In those answers, lies the power to make the difference you were sent here to make.
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SEMESTER 3
CLASS 1 | Viginia Hinckley Pearce
Inquiring after Truth: You and Your Belief Box
Our emotions sometimes seem out of control, even debilitating. Fear, anger, depression, discouragement, anxiety and irritation are just a few of the troublesome ones. Emotions are what they are. It’s not like we bid them to come or know how to change them. Or do we? It’s a pretty important question because emotions effectively dictate what we do or don’t do. Where do emotions come from—and when they are out of whack, what can we do?
Oddly enough, this all becomes a quest for TRUTH. In this seminar we’ll discover more about the individual beliefs we hold—some true and some not true at all—that create the emotions we experience.
Session One | A Working Model
Understanding what is in our own personal belief box, how those beliefs got there, and what effect they have on our emotions and actions is the place we’ll start. This model will help us begin to identify and sort through the multitude of beliefs we each hold—some true and some not-true-at-all.
Session Two | Embracing the Life that God Gives You
Through the sharing of personal examples, scriptures and good old common sense, Virginia will help you identify and challenge the beliefs you hold that simply aren’t true. Once we identify these, we can use various strategies to lessen their power, thus enabling us to live with less depression and anxiety.
Session Three | Finding and Feeding Core Truths
As we confront and diminish the power of untrue beliefs, we can find ways to find and feed core truths—“things as they really are.” These are the beliefs that produce joy and peace. Because there is no end to truth, we will expect to continually see new truths and to understand old truths more fully and deeply. This session will help you learn to create the experiences necessary to fill your Belief Box with things that are really true, which in turn will create healthier emotions and productive behavior patterns.
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CLASS 2 | Brad Wilcox
The Continuous Atonement
“I’ll never do it again,” we say—and then we do it. “Now I really mean it. I’ll never do it again,” and then we do it. In a world full of challenges, temptations, and addictions, it is easy to lose hope for ourselves and those we love. During times of discouragement, we must remember that the purpose of the Atonement of Jesus Christ is not just to cleanse and console, but also to transform—and that takes time. Christ is not waiting at the finish line once we have done “all we can do.” During this class you will be invited to consider the Atonement in a different way, realizing that Christ is not waiting at the finish line once we have done “all we can do”, but rather he is with us every step of the way.
Session One | However Long It Takes
Perfection is our long-term goal, but for now our goal is progress in that direction—continuous progress that is possible only through the continuous Atonement. While we don’t condone sin or trifle with repentance, we realize repentance may involve an emotional and physical process. This class is a study on forgiveness and the process of repentance that will create a critical pattern in your life.
Session Two | "After All We Can Do"
Christ doesn’t just make up the difference. He makes all the difference. As we reexamine this oft-quoted scripture, it becomes clear that the grace of Christ is not an emergency generator that turns on once our supply is exhausted. Rather, it is our constant energy source. This discussion will enhance your understanding of your total dependence on God and the importance of your own change of heart.
Session Three | A Lesson in Marble
Marble is beautiful and useful because of the dark veins, not in spite of them. As we keep our covenants and experience the sanctifying influence of the Spirit, it is as if those dark lines in our memories are polished over time. They actually become part of our beauty. And the real beauty lies in the truth that when we are forgiven we are made totally clean. Learning from our past mistakes allows us to feel a deep sense of gratitude to the Lord who makes the learning possible.
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CLASS 3 | Richard Holzapfel
The Gospel, Discipleship, and Me
What do the Gospels teach us about being a disciple and how can we apply those teachings in our lives today? Those writings help us see we can be a disciple no matter where we live or what our circumstances may be. Jesus did not provide special teachings about male or female discipleship. However, he did reach out to individuals, as they were, and called them to discipleship. And that calling to discipleship is ours today. In the end, the invitation from Jesus is simple: "Follow Me." Spend some time understanding how to lead a more Christ-like life as you seek to follow Him.
Session One | Pray As Jesus Prayed
In this session, Richards helps us breathe new life back into the scriptures as we come to understand how the four Gospels talk to us. One of the important messages is the invitation to become a true disciples of Jesus Christ. First, we must hear His call and then follow in whatever ways He invites us to follow. There are many ways we can live a life of discipleship and one of those ways is by following Christ’s example of prayer. Through that example we learn that we too can do the will of the Father by coming to know the Father through divine communication.
Session Two | Serve As Jesus Served
Just as Jesus spent His life unselfishly serving and seeking for ways to ease the burdens of others, we too should do the will of the Father and serve and lift those around us. Christ leads us down the path of Christian discipleship and service is the way we can enter in that path. Dig deep into His life of service as you continue down the Master's path.
Session Three | Love As Jesus Loved
As we follow Christ’s example by seeking to pray more earnestly and learning to serve less selfishly, we will find that our hearts and lives will be changed. Our lives will become clean and our hearts will become pure. The scriptures contain this great perfecting plan, but in learning of it and setting goals to live it, our lives will become shining examples of His and we will come to know and experience the greatest joy.
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