Welcome to Training in CARE-Ready Responding

What does it mean to be CARE-Ready? 

The idea of being CARE-ready came from the realization that not everyone who positions themselves to help people is actually READY to help people. They can even have the education, training and credentials to work in people-helping industries, but that doesn’t always mean they have the instincts or the inner capacity to connect with them.

To be CARE-Ready or to possess CARE-Readiness means you are presenting a combination of high emotional intelligence, balanced mental healthiness, intellectual humility, and strong spiritual wellness in your personal and professional relationships.

The CARE-Ready person has a more responsive approach to “doing life” with people. Being CARE-Ready means that you have been enlightened to stop debating with or trying to correct people, to listening and trying to understand them and their life’s journey.

The CARE-Ready person is Inspirational and Intuitive. However, it is much more about being an intentional listener who earns the trust and privilege to make an impartation in someone's life.

CARE-Ready Responding is NOT COUNSELING, THERAPY or religious preaching and teaching. We never use these terms to describe Care-Ready work or practices. It’s about helping someone see how their thinking has shaped their present, so they can begin looking ahead to reach a future with purpose.

COURSE DISCLAIMER:

We don't approach our trainings from the view of religion, but we do have a foundation in Biblical Faith and the Golden Rule (the belief that you should treat others the way you want to be treated).

We do not engage in battles of whose religious belief should be placed over another. On that note, we only have one ground rule and that is: We ask that we all be respectful of everyone's beliefs. We will not get into debates and disputes about the Bible (the revered text of Christianity), the Torah (the revered text of Judaism), the Qu' ran (the revered text of Islam), the Tripitaka (the revered text of Buddhism), the Bhagavad-Gita (the revered text of Hinduism), and many, many others.

Some of our trainees or participants may be agnostic or atheist, so let us say to you now, that much of what we have to share will be centered around what we deem to be, foundational understandings and themes that most, if not all, religions agree.

Of the 13 major religions in the world, most agree that there is a creator/God. Most agree on the Golden Rule. However, if you cannot tolerate such beliefs, please know that you are under no obligation to receive or believe what we are going to share.

It is also our desire to give CARE-Ready Responders, who may find themselves working with religious clients, or those who are focused on spirituality, some tools and points of reference from which to connect with them.

Finally, we want to strongly impress upon all potential CARE-Ready Responders the very wise words of Dr. Elizabeth Mancuso, Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University, who talks about being humble about your ideas, beliefs and thoughts.

She calls it INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY.

"Intellectual humility has 4 particular behaviors & attitudes:

1.) Not overconfident about your knowledge and beliefs,

2.) Open to adjusting and revising your knowledge and beliefs when necessary,

3.) Respectful of the view points of others, and

4.) Not defensive when others have a different perspective than yours."

---Christopher and Carol Green