Success Comes With Effort

IAACT held it's first annual 'faculty retreat' March 18-21 at the Caraway Conference Center (NC). Twenty-three faculty members participated in the retreat. Activities for the first day and a half were led & facilitated by Dr. Joseph Johnson of Fayetteville Satate University. Dr. Johnson challenged participants to take a look at themselves and rebuild group connections. As a result of his leadership, the group recrafted IAACT's Vision & Mission statements.

The last two days of the retreat were spent sharing what individual faculty and groups were doing with the PCT concepts we believe in. A 'Transition Team' was also created to work out details -for presentation to the full faculty- as a part of the reshaping of IAACT's operations. Watch for more information from the Transition Team.

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Faculty Retreaters,
Set your clock (for Thursday evening), check your luggage (all clean undies), bring your "What I am Doing" 'share & tell', be ready for an enlightening & informative weekend of interaction. And, by all means, do not forget to do your homework - reading (or listening to) "The Speed of Trust". There is a lot of language in "TSOT" that parallels and reinforces what we teach.

See you Thursday evening. Don't forget your toothbrush!

BE-Print Book Released

Glenn Smith and Shelley Roy's Book: Creating Your BE-Print - Drafting Your Personal Blueprint for Living has been released by Five Crows Publishing as of March 1, 2010. You can preview the book by going to the BE-Print for Living web site at http://www.be-print.net/. Below is the description offered with Lightning Press:

The BE-Print is a document and a process that asks the reader to look deep within and explore their depths. "Just as an architect needs a blueprint to build a structure, a person needs a BE-Print to build a life.” There are two problems facing most people: they do not apply self-discipline to creating the life they desire and most people have no clue what criteria on which to evaluate themselves. If this criterion does not exist, individuals are prone to evaluate others, worry about how others evaluate them, and evaluate what is happening to them. With BE-Print, the focus shifts from others to you and who you want to be in any given situation. What makes this approach to personal exploration different is its strong foundation in scientific research on human behavior — Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) along with the latest thinking on learning, change, leadership, and organizational development. The focus of this book is on this moment forward and helping you handle the vicissitudes of life. This book is not about digging into your past but digging deep within yourself. It is about living in the now with an eye on the future. While reading you will engage in self-evaluation and self-reflection, trying to pull from within you the person you want to be. Unlike other self-help books this book does not provide rules to follow or strategies that apply in a limited number of situations to specific problems; instead, it helps you become the best you in EVERY situation.