The Discovery Seminar

Details of the Discovery Seminar Content:

Based on a model of learning through experience and logical discussion, the Discovery Seminar challenges cultural assumptions and strategies of living and loving and imparts useful tools to impact the basic, foundational issues of our lives. In many ways, Discovery is like a laboratory--a chance to step out of the flow of automatic reactions, immediate judgments, and complex relational dynamics of every day life into an environment in which the principles driving your experience can be identified, examined, tested, and clarified.

Discovery is not a set of formulas, advice, dogmatic practices, or an organized set of rules designed to give you the answers to living life so you can be successful. It is designed to support you in making a transformation or shift in what you believe is possible in your relationships with God and others. With this change in perspective, many other aspects of life will change.

Discovery is an opportunity to go beyond knowing conceptually to being able to actually live those truths--an opportunity to be true rather than just know conceptual truths about God, life, love, intimacy, and relationship. Discovery is an opportunity to experience revelations and insights about God's plan for the development of your unique character and destiny that will make a tangible and immediate difference in your quality of life. Participants in Discovery experience T.S. Eliot's line, "We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we started / And know the place for the first time." This shift from theory to practice is the single most powerful component of the three-day program.

Discovery employs the Christian methods of inquiry with which Jesus challenged his disciples. Through discussions and exercises, we reenact our life strategies. Like the Apostles, we have the opportunity to discover, in new ways, the gift God has made us to be and what is most effective or least effective in fulfilling our life's purposes. By engaging age-old questions in ways that impact how we live, revelation can be translated into potent action.

Why Do People Attend the Discovery Seminar?

For the successful person, there is a renewed freedom and recognition in your relationships. You can develop a deeper sense of gratefulness for your family and those you work with.

For the intellectual, there is a deeper sense of intimacy in relationships and confidence that results in a breakthrough of potent action that makes a difference. You can experience a deeper sense of autonomy and creativity in all domains of life.

For church leaders, there is a sharpening of communication skills and an ability to resolve relational upsets one-on-one and in groups. There is a renewed hope and vision for the future and a release of the past.

For the strong-willed, there is an experience of patience and listening that can result in a breakthrough in appreciating family and friends. You can develop a deeper wisdom of what is called for to have primary relationships be rewarding.

For those whose lives are working well, there is a renewed passion toward your vision of life and a deep experience of your worth, your contribution to others, and of the difference you make.

The Discovery Seminar, a three-day seminar, is offered in many locales across the nation and around the world.