What Makes Us Unique

Reinvent Ministries is about Transformation.

Transformation is about becoming new and unprecedented: a new creation. Transformation is God's work [2 Cor 5:17]. Rather than improving your thinking, transformation is about renewing minds. This is done by achieving fundamental shifts in how you think, perceive, react, and behave. This is far different than simply addressing what people say they believe.

Instead of simply learning truths, transformation is about becoming true. This can only happen as you invite God's Spirit to work within at a core level. For this reason our trainings, seminars, and workshops provide a practical experiential format whereby the whole person (mind, will, emotions, and spirit) is engaged. This distinguishes ours from formats that are limited to detached intellectual participation.

Transformation is different than personal growth or learning. Our culture applauds learning believing that understanding leads to change. The way to this understanding is by acquiring knowledge or by attaining "how to" formulas. Consequently, most training is focused on dispensing knowledge and telling people what to do. This approach dominates books, teachings, lectures, retreats, and seminars offered by educators, businesses, and churches, and the results are less than advertised. This approach reveals the influence of Greek thought on our Western culture. Reinvent Ministries is more closely aligned with the Hebrew mindset, best represented by Jesus.

Our approach to transformation can be explained by contrasting the Greek and Hebrew mindsets. Greek schools of thought prize conceptual learning as the way to acquire knowledge and effect change. In this approach, if you want to know about something you learn by reading, talking, studying, and thinking about it. If you want to know about someone you exchange conversation and thoughts and concepts and express feelings with them.

The Hebrew approach emphasizes living and experiencing knowledge and change. This can be seen by Christ's example. Jesus' teachings were driven home by actual life experiences. He didn't simply teach His disciples "how to" follow Him. He engaged them in real life scenarios whereby He evidenced His beliefs and practices and provided them with opportunities to do the same. This kind of "learning" is particularly effective because it involves the whole person as opposed to a detached mental process such as lecture or reading. Imagine attempting to learn to ride a bike by reading a how-to book or watching a video as opposed to practicing on a bike, failing, adjusting, and going again. Once you acquire something in this "experiential" manner, it is yours in a way that mental knowledge alone cannot deliver.

For this reason, the orientation of our trainings, seminars, and workshops employ experiential activities. The learning environment utilizes brilliantly designed life similes that require participation at a level beyond detached mental involvement. From these activities participants derive powerful insights about their beliefs and what gets in the way. This allows participants to shift how they think, choose and act. New insights allow for new choices and lead to new different outcomes. When a shift is made at this whole-person level the results are deep and lasting.

What distinguishes Reinvent Ministries from purveyors of other "experiential" education offerings is the essential interplay in these training components:

• Brief lecturettes focused on key distinctions relevant to dramatic transformation and change
• Interactive exercises designed to reveal blind spots and generate new awarenesses
• Multiple opportunities to share and reflect on what is being experienced and discovered
• Consistent focus on noticing one’s impact on others in a fresh and new light
  

These components combine to create new clarity regarding one's vision and multiple opportunities to practice it in real time.

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