Generous Mind Conversations

Welcome to the Generous Mind Conversations blog. This is a space designed to help you engage with other Generous Minds and learn the skills necessary to be effective at building your cause, creating your content and engaging your community.

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Generous Mind Course: Empathy leads to Understanding

Thank you for your interest in the Generous Mind Course on empathy. Generous Mind is equipping thought leaders to design their causes, create content and steward the communities that form as a result.

Our hope with this course is to equip you with a working understanding of empathy and how it will help you to lead those who are joining you in your cause.

To take the course, please click on this link and go through the material. It should take you about 30-40 minutes total.

Once you have taken the course, and read the assignment in the "...And Finally" section, return to this post via the link in the course and submit your assignment as a response to this blog post.

If you have any questions or comments about the course, please leave them here as well and we would love to interact with you.

Friday, May 18, 2012

A Conversation on Art and Faith

One of my favorite things in life is a good conversation. They are like magical moments that you can encourage, but not demand out of life. They are like a diamonds in the sands of small talk, waiting to be discovered.
Generous Mind wants to encourage good, thought-provoking conversation. That is why we came up with the idea of organizing Generous Mind conversations, putting the thoughts into a form that can be appreciated by others, and sharing them with people like you.
Our most recent conversation was on the topic of being On Call in Culture, which means to be engaged in the world doing good through your work and bringing God glory in the process. During two sessions, a total of four artists talked with us about what it means to be On Call in Culture in their area of art. We had a fine artist, a political cartoonist, a band member, and an organizing expert share on what their big dream for culture-change was through their work and how they contributed to culture on a daily basis.
Join in on the conversation at Patheos.com and contribute your thoughts. We would love to enjoy a conversation with you.