Training

Overview

Salter McNeil & Associates, LLC provide training seminars and workshops that inspire, challenge and nurture personal and community transformation using interactive learning exercises, multimedia resources, small group dialogue, silent reflection, action planning and teambuilding. Some of the types of training that is provided by Salter McNeil & Associates LLC are:

  • Board and Administrative Leadership Training
  • Faculty & Teachers Development Training
  • Staff In-Service Training
  • Small Group Leaders Training
  • Pastoral Staff Training
  • Resident Directors & Assistant Training
  • Train the Trainers
  • Curriculum & Resources

Training Curriculum

The Racial Justice Program promotes the concept and implementation of racial justice among training participants and within their communities. The overarching goal is to empower leaders to work for racial reconciliation and racial justice based upon the realization and implementation of a spiritual mandate.

The Racial Justice Program uses discovery learning as its primary teaching methodology. This method involves presenting the participants with relevant information and then encouraging them to interact with the materials and come to their own conclusions.

Four modules comprise the Racial Justice Program: Realization, Identification, Preparation, and Activation. The program concludes with a celebration.

Seminars

Here is a descriptive listing of the seminars that Salter McNeil & Associates, LLC provides

  1. Puzzle Peace
  2. Operation P.U.S.H.
  3. Closing the Credibility Gap - Biblical Reconciliation: A Model for Change
  4. Crossing Cultures, Building Bridges
  5. Who Me?
  6. The Heart of Racial Justice

1.  Puzzle Peace

Discovering Your Significance in God's Multiethnic Kingdom

Did you know that your racial and ethnic identity is important to God? Without our cultural and ethnic backgrounds we have a limited and incomplete perspective of the big picture. Using a puzzle to illustrative the complexity and difficulty of coming together to achieve racial and ethnic reconciliation, this seminar will help people to understand how we are all interconnected and how much we need each other to be whole and complete. Come to this interactive seminar and learn:

  • What it takes for people from different racial and ethnic groups to come together
  • What strategies are necessary to pursue racial and ethnic reconciliation
  • Why racial reconciliation is so puzzling and confusing
  • What the joy of unity and racial reconciliation feels like when we achieve it
  • How to move beyond racial segregation to reconciliation

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2.  Operation P.U.S.H.

Pray Until Something Happens

Jesus always experienced 100% accuracy in prayer. What was his secret? If we are to win the battle for racial reconciliation in this generation we must learn how to pray more effectively. There are powerful, spiritual resources available to us from God that we can tap into through prayer. This seminar is a practical prayer clinic that will help you learn how to:

  • Distinguish the voice of God in prayer
  • Make the proper diagnosis in prayer
  • Choose the most effective prayer method for different situations
  • Increase your accuracy and confidence when praying for others

Come to this seminar and learn how to PUSH - Pray Until Something Happens!

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3.  Closing the Credibility Gap

Biblical Reconciliation: A Model for Change

What is reconciliation? How will you know when you’ve arrived at it? What are the steps it takes to get there? These and other questions are answered this seminar will give based upon a comprehensive model developed by Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil. This model describes the reconciliation process and the stages required to move from isolation and ignorance to being actively involved in the ministry of racial reconciliation. Participants in this seminar will learn how to:

  • Recognize the events that cause people to pursue reconciliation
  • Develop a greater awareness of what information a reconciler must know
  • Understand the importance of identifying with others by sharing stories
  • Discover the skills and competencies necessary to achieve reconciliation
  • Identify the action steps necessary to produce racial justice & social change

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4.  Crossing Cultures, Building Bridges

What would Jesus do in a world that is being torn apart by racial and ethnic division and strife? How would he cross the barriers that keep people separated from each other? In John, chapter 4 we see exactly what Jesus would do. He crossed religious, social, political, and cultural barriers to intentionally interact with a Samaritan woman. Using Jesus and the Samaritan woman as our model, we will discover the nine principles that are necessary to effectively cross cultures & build bridges of reconciliation. In this seminar we will explore:

  • The cultural competencies necessary for racial healing to take place
  • How the issues of power and privilege impact racial reconciliation
  • The steps you must take to cross cultures and build bridges across the racial divide
  • The connection between spiritual transformation and reconciliation
  • Why so many people fail at racial and ethnic reconciliation and how you can succeed!

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5.  Who Me?

A Call for Christian Leaders for Such a Time as This

Where do leaders come from? Are leaders born, or are they made? People say things like, “He or she is a born leader.” But is it from birth that one is called to be a leader, or is one nurtured into leadership? Is it one’s innate gifts and abilities or is it one’s context or environment that produces a leader? In this seminar we will examine the times in which we live and discover how social and political conditions can call people into leadership. We will explore relevant issues such as racial profiling, stereotyping, economic injustice, ethnic cleansing, assimilation, civil disobedience and much more. This seminar will:

  • Give people spiritual tools to dismantle the social construction of racism
  • Empower people to move beyond social cynicism to social change
  • Equip people to recognize their leadership style and abilities
  • Provide concrete action steps to engage in racial and ethnic reconciliation
  • Call and commission emerging leaders to join the “Reconciliation Generation”

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6.  The Heart of Racial Justice

How Soul Change Leads to Social Change

Racial and ethnic hostility is one of the most pervasive problems facing our world today. What should our response be in a world being torn apart by prejudice, hatred and fear? First, we must recognize that racism is ultimately a spiritual problem that must be solved using spiritual methods. In this seminar we will discover a new model of racial reconciliation, social justice and spiritual healing that creates both internal change and community transformation. Come and learn how to:

  • Use your faith as a force for change and not as a smoke screen for self-protection
  • Pursue spiritual solutions with spiritual weapons that solve rather than reinforce the problem
  • Embrace your true self and renounce the false racial identity that seeks to define you
  • Receive and extend forgiveness as an act of racial and ethnic reconciliation
  • Experience personal transformation through the healing of painful racial memories
  • Engage in proactive social action by developing ongoing cross-cultural partnerships

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