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This Website contains resource material in the form of hundreds of PDF files that can be downloded and used
for conducting very powerful training sessions, to develop yourself, your family, your church youth group, your students, your employees, or just your local community; in the area of personality growth and human values.
These training sessions are categorised into three different types:
1. Full-length:
In this section you will find PDF files that contain provocative stories to stimulate thoughtful reflection, reflective questionnaires and feedback mechanisms, and tips for the trainers on how to conduct that particular training session.
Ideal for:Trainers who are conducting training sessions.
2.
Medium sized:
The PDF files in this section contain shorter versions of those found in the "full-length" section.
Ideal for: Those seriously considering training themselves or " those wanting to become spiritual trainers" and conduct raining sessions.
3.
Nano/2-minute
Here you will find PDF files containing only the short stories that can be read and reflected on, in 2 minutes.
Ideal for: Yourself - for pepping-up your day.
Thematic list of
"Full-length" Stories in alphabetical order .
Aims and goals in Life
Attachments
Attachments enslave us
Attitudes to life
What do you want from life?
Positive and negative outlook. The pessimist and the optimist
Self-centered and other centered attitude
Lack of concern for others
Authority and power
Authority and power are meant for service
Nature, purpose and dangers of authority in society
Awareness
Become aware of your body
Be critical
Use your judgment and common sense
Our perceptions are limited, relative and complementary
Our perceptions condition our thinking and feelings
In our quest for God personal experience is better than doctrine
Truth, doctrine and dogma
All men and women are groping for salvation
Bible quotes
Father to his children
God's love, made man, in Jesus
In the scriptures we see that God called different people to perform different tasks
Waiting for the Lord
Childlikeness
Unless you become like little children...
Never grow old
Children and human rights
Educate children for responsible freedom
Children need discipline to grow
Children need attention and need to be taken seriously
Christian life
Christian celebrations
Pagan Christian celebrations-Celebration for celebration’s sake
The worship God wants
Christian themes
Only the pure of heart will see Jesus
Christmas without Christ
Where to find Jesus at Christmas night
Knowing Jesus with the heart
Tolstoy’s Christmas story.
Searching for the new worn king.
Communication
Being sensitive to the feelings and needs of others
Honesty in communication
The way others communicate with us, reflects the way we communicate with them
Community building
Prayer session
The wheel
Confession
Confession with a difference.
How do you keep the 10 commandments
Conscience
Follow your conscience, not public opinion
Freedom of conscience
Cooperation v/s competition
The Tree and the branches
Prayer session
Competition as a way of life in modern society
Unique role each one of us has to play in a group and in society
Discerning God’s will
Discipline
Discipline brings the best in us, tunes us
Discipline helps us to succeed in life.
Suffering helps us discover our worth. And keeps us fit.
Ecology
Primitive man’s love for nature
Loving the earth or lusting for her.
Exhausting the earth's resources – The myth of indefinite development?
Modern development is a murderous hoax
God the Creator – Man the "de-creator"
Eccumenism
A divided church
Education
Wisdom exceeds mere knowledge
Humanrights
Education for responsible freedom
Degrees or pedigrees wanted
Education demands discipline
How much do you care for your children?
Over-protective parents cripple their children’s growth
Education has a social function. It’s for the good of the entire social body.
Hints for teachers and parents
Two styles of education
Myth of integral education
Nature, purpose, and dangers of authority in education.
Education as brain washing, exploitation and indoctrination
Over-protectiveness stuns the growth of children
Effective Teaching Approach. Come down to the level of your trainees or pupils
Assertiveness for teachers and students alike
Examination of conscience
Know your spiritual and moral illnesses
How healthy is your Christian Life
Simple method for examination of conscience for daily use
Examining the quality of your prayer life.
Examining the soundness of my Christ experience. Is my Jesus Christ real or imaginary?
How genuine is our Faith.
Competition as a way of life in modern society
Experience is better than Bookish Knowledge - Personal experiential v/s theoretical knowledge
In our quest for God personal experience is better than theory.
Family and Home.
Mother's love
What a family should be
Pitfalls on the way we bring up our children.
Prayer in the family
Children’s unexpressed longings
How much care you take for your children
Values, in the home, are caught not taught
Today’s materialistic values break off our families.
We sacrifice our children to materialistic family expectations
The year of the family
Educate your children for independence and to stand on their own
Modern home
Our children are not ours. They are loaned to us to us by God
Human rights at home.
Competition as a way of life in society and in the family.
Forgiveness
Forgiving others
Friendship
A Symbolic Representation of Friendship.
Generosity
How and how much to give
Giving oneself to others as Jesus did
Give to God your all
Self-giving bears fruits and joy
Great generosity is wanted to do the will of God wherever He made us born.
On the feeding of the 5000
GOD
Our knowledge of God is always partial and imperfect because uur perceptions are limited and complementary.
Our perceptions – limited as they are - condition our thinking and feelings
In our quest for God personal experience is better than theory
How much we know about God – truth, doctrine and dogma.
All men and women are searching for the truth
God’s Image
First part - Distorted images of God. And their consequences
Second part The Image of God given to us by Jesus.
God’s image given us in the bible. A sketch.
God’s Love - The gist of the Gospel message, God is love. We need courage to accept God’s love
God’s love is a free gift .
God never fails us
In all his dealings with us, God is the first to take the initiative
The greatest love story
Jesus is God's love made man.
'God’s Will' done - Surrendering to God's will is end-all and be-all of life.
Unconditional generosity is wanted to do the will of God wherever He made us be born.
Docility to God’s promptings is the only way to change for is better.
Gospel exercises
Come to know yourself better by reflecting on the mistakes of others
Better yourself by identifying yourself with gospel people
Gospel People - Obstacle race to follow Jesus
Gospel Themes - What Jesus tells us about Himself
Jesus
Jesus, the healer.
Jesus's style of prayer
The beatitudes of Jesus
Gospel People - Sorrow and guilt
Learning from the mistakes and sins of others
Being sensitive to the feelings and needs of others
To know the dangers of our inordinate attachments.
Gospel miracles
On the feeding of the 5000. Give God what you have, He will do the rest.
Healing of the blind man Bartimaeus We all are blind.
Gospel parables
All growth in life is a process of building foundations.
Forgiving seven times only?
What Jesus wants us to be?
Accepting and respecting others
Gospel and Canon Law
Greed
Greed ruins our happiness
Greed for money kills all joy in life
Greed imprisons us
Greed for money destroys the world
Greed - possessions corrupt
The greed of modern man is a fiend devouring our world.
Greed - The great killer and destroyer
Greed blinds us, bluffs us and spoils our life
Greed's divisive power. What force and threats could not break, greed did
Greed v/s Unselfish love
Group Moderation and group mixers
Group Moderation and group entertainment games
Group Moderation and group dividers
Group Moderation group building
Moderation group ice-breakers
Group moderation - Learning each others’ names
Group moderation and group opening sessions
Group moderation group warming-up games
Group-moderation group evaluation techniques
Growth
Happiness
Happiness is in where you are and in what you are
Holiness
Holiness is found in simplicity and sincerity of heart
Holiness made easy
To be holy, the most important thing is to do what God wants you to do, in the best way.
Hope
Value of hope
Ignatian retreat themes
Preparation before the retreat
Principle and foundation
Principle and foundation. Ignatius text
Principle and foundation. Sketchy presentation
Principle and foundation - Helpful quotes
Ignatian indifference - 1st part: Reflections
Ignatian indifference. 2nd part: Quotes
First Week
Second Week
Close of the Retreat “Ad Amorem” –an adaptation
Ignatian Retreat Prayer methods
Innovation
Courage to jump into new unbeaten paths brings success
Traditionsare good and helpful, but they should not paralyze us
Jesus
The holy name of Jesus.
Jesus'S favourites
Jesus'S favourites were those rejected by society.
Jesus' personality
Jesus grew physically, emotionally, and in grace before God and man.
Jesus-the man.
Jesus'emotional life
How do you visualize Jesus in your mind?
Knowing Jesus
Who is the Jesus Christ I relate with at prayer today?
Jesus and God, His farther.
Jesus and religious worship.
Jesus
and his Father’s will - his vocation - He fulfilled his task
Jesus’
way of prayer.
Jesus'
teachings on prayer
Jesus and people.
Jesus and the realities of life
Jesus' Values
The beatitudes
Prayer exercises on Jesus.
Jesus? Who?
Jesus' emotional life
Jesus'concern for us
Human longings.
Jesus our friend
On
knowing and following Jesus
Jesus
questions us.
Joy
Quizzes
and questionnaires
Leadership
Leadership and Change
Lack innovation stifles leadership
Courage
to jump into new unbeaten paths brings success
Traditions
are good and helpful, but they should not paralyze us
Liturgy
The worship God wants
Liturgies
Para liturgies
Love
Meaning of love
Love
for others - love your enemies
Love
is the foundation of world-peace
Loving God
Simple exercises to grow in the love of God
St, Ignatius’ contemplation - "Ad amorem" - to experience and grow in the
love of God
Loving and serving God in others
Love for Neighbours
First be just, then charitable...
Mind your language
We come to know people by the way the speak
Money, wealth, and possessions
Things money cannot buy
Greed
for money prevents us from enjoying happiness in life.
Greed
for money imprisons and enslaves our hearts.
Greed
imprisons us
Greed
for money corrupts the world
Moral themes
What’s sin?
Abortion
Sorrow
and guilt
Learning
from the mistakes and sins of others
Today’s
thinking on what sin is and it is not.
Freedom
of conscience. What is it and what not?
Capital
sins - what are they
Watch out - control your growing passions from the start
Confession
Greed - possessions corrupt
Motivation
Do what you do with the right motivation to find meaning and joy in life
Searching for the treasure made them work hard.
Paradoxical man
Passions - feelings
Greed for money destroys the world
Patriotism
Pseudo-patriotism
leads to selfish and inhuman societal exploitation.
Institutionalized Injustice and oppression
Perception
Our perceptions are limited, relative and complementary. The may lead us to
wrangles and even wars.
Our
perceptions condition our thinking, feelings and actions...
The power of Images
Prayer Exercises***
Be open to God, to self and to others.
Closing chapter of the Spiritual Exercises of St.
Ignatius. "Ad Amorem"
Being
docile to God’s inspirations and promptings.
The
Our Father. (Short Form)
Who
is the Jesus Christ I relate with, at prayer today?
Turn
your crosses and sufferings into Crucifixes
Jesus’
way of prayer.
Praying
with hands
On
the feeding of the 5000
My
life at glance.
Being
alone with God
Prayer exercises for "All Souls Day"
Where do you stay Lord?
Prayer sessions
Prayer
methods v/s prayer
Sharing on
one's prayer life
Humility
and simplicity are necessary for prayer
Prayers
by rote v/s prayer
Prayer
of petition
The
heart of prayer is to pray with your heart
Wrong attitudes and assumptions in our prayer life
God is ever present to us
Christ
our Companioning in life’s journey.
An event of thanksgiving prayer to God
A Listening Group prayer Session
Prayer modes
Prayer of Petition
Prayer of intercession
Prayer of thanksgiving
Prayer of praise
Prayer of adoration
Prayers for healing
Prayer themes
Preparation for prayer
Prayer exercises
Prayer of union.
Prayer unitive
Self abandonment to god's will
Contemplation - finding God in all things
Prayer methods
In times of trouble
Turning your sorrows and suffering into spiritual gains
How do you use your faculties and powers?
St.Ignatius repetition method.
On waiting for the Lord.
Praying without words.
On the happenings of life.
My life at glance.
Turn your distractions into prayer.
Prayer in the family
Praying the Jesus way
How to Pray our Vocal Prayers. Don’t just say them
Fantasy methods
Mantra prayer methods
Nature Prayer methods
Praying methods with the scriptures
Examination of one’s prayer life.
Prayer Themes for meditation and teaching
Jesus' teachings on prayer
The heart of prayer is Adoration – Self-surrender to God
Who is the Jesus Christ I relate to in my prayer today?
Waiting for the Lord.
God's will be done
Prayer techniques
Praying with sacred objects
Prejudices
Birth, growth, transmission and evils of prejudices
Racial prejudices
Religious bigotry
Discovering our prejudices and values
We are blind in many areas of life - human blindness
Purity of intention - What counts before god is not what we do but the love with which we do it.
Holiness is found in simplicity and sincerity of heart
Relationships
Grow and let grow
Being sensitive to others' needs and feelings
Helping v/s rescuing operations
Honesty in communication
How to bring out the best in others
The way others relate to us, reflects the way we relate to them
Assertiveness, submissiveness, aggressiveness - three stances
Accepting and respecting others
Accept others as they are - agree to disagree
Mutual acceptance
Person oriented or task oriented. What are you?
5 group-dynamic games in human relationships
Religion and the
Religious question.
In
our quest for God personal experience is better than theory.
How much we know about God - truth and doctrine
All men and women are searching for the truth
The golden rule of all religions
Belief v/s beliefs - do we truly believe
Religiosity and religious exploitation
Actions
and rayers under compulsion have to value.
Religious Rites and rituals - their nature and dangers.
The worship God does not want
Religious Life
Virtues v/s Vows. Charismas and constitutions
The spirit gives life, the letter kills
Seeking:
Seek within, not outside – True treasures are within
All men and women are searching for the truth
Self Themes
Childlikeness - Unless you become like little children...
Society’s sophistication mummifies, us kills the best in us
Formation - Deformation- Revaluation
Self-devaluation and self -revaluation - discovering our inner riches
Self-esteem
Self-confidence - believe in yourself
Self-confidence - Face your fears
Self- discovery. Discover who and what you are you are!
What sort of heart you have? Check your heart!
Discover your roots and the soil you are planted in.
Know your inner worth. Where are your treasures?
Self-improvement - Come to know yourself better by reflecting on the mistakes of others
Better yourself by identifying yourself with Gospel people.
Self-rejection
Self-contentment : Happiness is found were you are
Self-Games we play. Self-defenses
Escape mechanisms
Psychological ploys when under stress or attack -
Self-delusions - to yourself be true.
Inferiority complexes–status symbols
Self-righteousness The blaming game
Whose fault is it
Self-pity - the "poor-me" complex
How we escape unpleasant realities? Flight and fight reactions
Self-actualization - God expects us to yield our 100% with the talents given us.
Be what you are born to be.
Self - Be genuine, be real, be yourself. Artificial and unnatural contrivances kill our authenticity.
Living amidst the big, rich and sophisticated world makes us phony.
Being alone with God in order to be you
Self-revelation. Self- disclosure and self-revelation
Exercise1. Epitaphs over your tomb
Exercise2. Who are you…?
Exercise3. My memoirs
Exercise4. Letter writing
Exercise5. Essay writing
Self-revelation. Self-disclosure and self-revelation
Exercise1. Lights and shadows
Exercise2. Caricature drawing
Exercise3. ymbolic sketches
Exercise4. My tree
Self-revelation. Self- disclosure and self-revelation
Exercise1. Inventory list
Exercise2. Balance sheet
Exercise3. Life graphs
Self-revelation. Self-disclosure and self-revelation
Exercise1. My garden
Exercise2. Plant and see.
Exercise3. The river of my life.
Exercise4. Autobiography of a thing.
Exercise5. Preaching my own eulogy
Exercise6. Being introduced to a new group.
Self-revelation. Self- disclosure and self-revelation.
Exercise1. Photo-language
Exercise2. If I were
Exercise3. God’s new creation
Exercise4. On God’s judgment seat
Exercise5. Overhearing a conversation.
Senior citizens
What do you nurses see?
Social themes
Human rights
Social function of education
Nature, purpose and dangers of authority in society.
Competition as a way of life in modern society
Social problems and evils in our world
Withdrawal from social insolvent and responsibilities
Pseudo-patriotism an excuse for selfish and inhuman societal exploitation.
Civilized or uncivilized - true or false development
Democracy - Its meaning and its worth
The Socio-political situation in our world today
Social Irresponsibility and lack of social awareness.
Education as brain washing and indoctrination
Selfish anti-social educational values upheld today.
Old social structures and lack of social innovation are obstacles to social progress.
True and fake social activists and reformers.
Ritual avoidance and escaping of our social obligations.
Birth, growth, transmission and evils of social prejudices
Civilized or uncivilized - true or false development?
Social Injustice and Oppression
Exploitation of the masses - how to free them
Actual disparities and injustices in our word
Our unjust social order
Economical development at the cost of the masses -
disparities between the children of the haves and the have-nots
Institutionalized injustice and oppression
Poor salaries and inhuman living conditions offered to the labor classes.>
Social structures
Our world's tottering structures
Excess of structures and regulations forfeit their purpose.
The birth of our capitalist oppressive structures and their critique.
Democratic regimes, ‘de facto’ are exploitative systems.
Social problem - solutions.
To save our world, first we have to change man, then the structures.
The social problem and its many solutions – a critique
Social reform has to begin in a change of heart, not of structures
First, be just to all, then charitable to the needy.
Give just wages and treat our workers and employees as partners
Today’s Socio -Economical systems. Capitalism, communism.
The birth of our unjust liberal capitalist and consumerist systems.
The genesis of our sociopolitical structures and their critique.
Social Promotion - Faith and justice.
The urgency of the promotion of justice by believers and unbelievers alike
Self-proclaimed Prophets and social activists
Pseudo-prophets and saviors
True and fake social activists and reformers.
Spiritual freedom
Excerpts from the Ignatian retreat on spiritual freedom.
Spiritual Knowledge
Spiritual Knowledge is a matter of the heart.
Suffering
Suffering Brings the best in us
Suffering helps us discover our worth. And keeps us fit...
Suffering
with Christ we become saviors
The value of suffering
Through suffering god makes us great
Surrendering
our sufferings to God's they turns to our advantage.
Learn
to turn your sufferings and crosses into crucifies.
Temptations
Passion, feelings - what are they
Watch out - control your growing passions from the start
Traditions
Traditions are good and helpful, but they should not paralyze us
We have to have the courage to try new ways
Values
Culling the values of our world through our modern songs
Imbibe The holy family values.
Find out your home lived values.
The beatitudes of Jesus
The beatitudes of the world
Discovering your Values
Ignatius retreat: 3rd petition to God
Social function of education. Education is meant to improve society, not only
individual.
Nature, purpose, and dangers of authority in society.
Values, especially at the home, are caught not taught
Today’s materialistic values break off our families.
We sacrifice our children to materialistic family expectations
Civilized or uncivilized - true or false development
Live a meaningful life
Vocation
In
the Scriptures we see that God called different people to perform different
tasks.
A story of a lost vocation for lack of courage.
God, often enough, calls the least, in the eyes of the world, to carry out his
plans.
Though God does not ‘need’ us, he ‘wants’ us to carry out his
plans of salvation.
Obstacles we have to face to hear God’s call.
All of us have are called to build the Church of God on earth.
Each one of us has to play his tune to his best in God’s wonderful symphony
What’s
your positioning in Christ’s football team?
A twinkling and bewitching star in the desert sky. Different responses to God’s call.
Unconditional
generosity is wanted to do the will of God wherever He made us born.
Short biblical thoughts for seven short pep talks on vocation.
By doing with the right motivation whatever
you have to do, you will fulfill your vocation.
4 Vocational jottings:
There are any hurdles in our race to follow Jesus
Notes on general and particular christian vocations.
Playing football
Eucharistic prayer service
Work
Working hard has its treasures.
Planting
the best seed,
Why to work and how much to work? .The value of work
Innovation and hard work
Worship
The worship that God wants.
APPENDIX
How to use parables and fables
How to conduct sessions- part 1
How to conduct sessions - part 2 (Lists of Starters and Activities)
Hints on how to prepare meaningful Eucharistic celebrations for specific groups
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