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    What Role Did I Play Volume Ii: Life Skills for Discussion
    What Role Did I Play Volume Ii: Life Skills for Discussion
    What Role Did I Play Volume Ii: Life Skills for Discussion
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    What Role Did I Play Volume Ii: Life Skills for Discussion

    By Mike Siver

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    What Role Did I Play This is book # 2 in a series of self help books and consists of 52 different life skills anecdotes. These anecdotes are from everyday situations or quotes and expounded for individual reflection and use in family and group discussions. This book is written for individuals looking for self improvement or to reflect upon situations where they have found themselves uncomfortable or rejected. It is also written for families of any composition seeking a diagnosis of attitudes and behaviors. It is also most helpful (as book #1) for new or young parents planning to have or have children in the informative years. The intention of these books is to create insight and inform individuals and families and groups of the short and long term consequences of their words and actions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMar 25, 2011
    ISBN9781456700522
    What Role Did I Play Volume Ii: Life Skills for Discussion
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    Mike Siver

    Mike is a Master Addiction Counselor, Certified Domestic Violence Counselor and a Board Certified Biblical Counselor. Mike provides Anger Management, Domestic Violence, Substance Abuse counseling and assessments for Van Buren County and Decatur C.A.R.E.S. inc. a Non-Profit (501 c 3) community based organization. Also works with Van Buren County Family Services for placement of mothers and children from family of domestic violence situations. He is also a Chaplain for Forgotten Man Ministries. Mike's purpose is to target the young but address issues we find ourselves in at any age. The uniqueness of his writings generates pointed conversation. Not only is each saying enough to be thought provoking but people hear, see and feel them every day. To make the topic more interesting for all, Mike has expanded on the topic to generate discussion about that topic. The quotes/sayings and expanded sections open the topic for serious discussion. This is accomplished by giving the quotes/sayings a twist that tends to make what is written personal. By making the quotes/sayings personal in a non-threatening environment people tend not to become defensive and may enter into the conversation. Mike does not offer the answer but an opinion for discussion. His book is directed (like his column) to the general public and or anyone who feels a need to address themselves and or those around them. Mike uses the book in groups for discussion on behaviors and attitudes. It would be effective in youth groups i.e. Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, church youth groups, rehab facilities and groups to address beliefs and behaviors. It would be effective for young families to address issues without the parents being the bad guys.

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      What Role Did I Play Volume Ii - Mike Siver

      Introduction

      These stories are from a larger book titled, What Role Did I Play.

      What Role Did I Play was written after many years of counseling, Individual youth, teens, families and family groups.

      The question continued to come up about the role the adults played, In the child, youth or teens upbringing.

      By the end of a series of sessions, most participants would have the knowledge, To ask, what role am I playing in the current situation?

      What are the possible consequences?

      These short stories will generate a lot of conversation, and discussion, within families and groups, as well as provide participants, with a little knowledge of life skills and What Role they are playing in their life.

      Mike Siver, msmf, mac, ccdvc, cbc

      Performance Coach

      Foreword:

      In "What Role Did I Play", Mike explains

      The life skills necessary, for adults and children,

      To succeed in life.

      How our actions, reactions, and words,

      Play a critical role, in our development as

      Successful adults.

      These stories are a platform, are easy to learn

      and used as tools, in learning how to interact

      with everyone, in the many different roles

      we play throughout our lives.

      The following stories will inspire healthy

      discussion and debate in your family,

      as they have in mine.

      Ken Hayes,

      Christian Life Coach

      Certified Natural Health Professional

      Contents

      Sponge

      Week 1.         Teach our Children

      Week 2.         The Little Boy and the Old Man

      Week 3.         Guilty By Accusation

      Week 4.         Thanks Firemen!

      Week 5.         Perception

      Week 6.         Forced to Agree

      Week 7.         Hammer & Nail

      Week 8.         Frustration

      Week 9.         Listen to the Wind

      Week 10.         Good People to do Nothing

      Week 11.         Be a Good Winner, Be a Good Loser

      Week 12.         ARE YOU BLIND?

      Week 13.         Be Better Than Yesterday

      Week 14.         Never Be Ashamed

      Week 15.         Listening

      Week 16.         Secrets and Friends

      Week 17.         Freedom and Independence

      Week 18.         Two Ears

      Week 19.         Dogs-vs.-People

      Week 20.         Choices: Follower or Leader

      Week 21.         Patient or Enabling?

      Week 22.         Is it working?

      Week 23.         Encourage Creativity

      Week 24.         How to become a Bully?

      Week 25.         Environmental Awareness vs. Environmental Conditioning©

      Week 26.         Who or What?

      Week 27.         Happiness

      Week 28.         FREEDOM

      Week 29.         Life vs. Death

      Week 30.         Note to Good Samaritans:

      Week 31.         Being a Victim

      Week 32.         Learn

      Week 33.         D.U.I.

      Week 34.         Advice vs. Lecture

      Week 35.         Being Liked

      Week 36.         Making Friends

      Week 37.         What do you see?

      Week 38.         How far you go

      Week 39.         No Man

      Week 40.         Frustration

      Week 41.         Making & Keeping Friends

      Week 42.         Better Future

      Week 43.         TRY

      Week 44.         Successful

      Week 45.         Weak vs. Strong

      Week 46.         Message or Messenger

      Week 47.         The Lesson

      Week 48.         Don’t Burn Bridges

      Week 49.         Cool Off

      Week 50.         Luck

      Week 51.         Time Management

      Week 52.         Think Ahead

      Week 53.         Role Model

      Week 54.         Helping Hand

      The Sponge ©

      June 6/1998

      For Tuck, Haans, Mark, C.J., James, & David

      Father and Stepfather

      When we are born we are like a new sponge, we are clean and empty.

      There is neither love nor hate. A baby, like the sponge, has to stay in and absorb whatever is in the atmosphere it is living.

      If the atmosphere is full of love, support, kindness, honesty, fair play, ethical thinking, accepting of others, then this is what we will absorb.

      If the atmosphere is full of hate, distrust, lying, drugs or alcohol, bigotry, racism, and all for ME, then this is what we will absorb.

      Whatever atmosphere (community or family) we grow up in, we

      (like the sponge) will keep absorbing until we are full.

      Then whatever we are full of will start to flow back out.

      If that is love, kindness, honesty, fair play, ethical thinking and accepting of others, then that is what you will give back to those around you in the community and family. If you fill up on hate, distrust, lying, drugs or alcohol, bigotry, and racism then that is what you will give back to those around you

      in the community and family.

      Unlike the sponge, or new baby, as we get older we have a choice of what we want to absorb. If you are in an unhealthy community or family it may be very hard to change, because it will make you different, and to be different you have to be very strong.

      "The greatest power we have as human is

      to make a choice."

      If a person starts to think, What role am I playing in my life? that person decides to change, they may need some help. This can come in many forms. It could be moving out of the unhealthy atmosphere, maybe going to jail,

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