Who Would Have Thought Disneyland Cures Writers Block?
Thanks to the growing readership of this blog, I’m starting to get requests to train volunteer youth workers. While it’s an enormous honor to be asked, it also means I need to write some training sessions. I’ve got 16 year’s worth of youth ministry experience and conferences up in my head, and tons of material on this blog. Formulating it all into training material, however, is proving to be a beast of a task. There’s so much to say and decisions about the best way to communicate the information.
That’s where Disneyland comes in. Tonight I went by myself to have some fun while thinking about the task of training leaders. It’s amazing how the mind works. While Disneyland is sensory overload at its highest, somehow being there was incredibly helpful for me to formulate some ideas to build the training around. While I was riding Thunder Mountain and Indiana Jones Temple of Doom, my mind was churning out session titles, illustrations and “must-share” youth ministry principles. What an amazing and unexpected benefit of slacking off at Disneyland when I should have been at my computer writing!
I’m not sure going to Disneyland will always solve my writer’s block issues. However, I’ll for sure try it again. Maybe there is such a thing as focusing so hard on writing that the act of focusing actually causes writer’s block. The mind is kind of funny like that. It will be fun to find out if Disneyland is the cure. Since I have an annual pass, I’ll be sure to test this theory as often as possible.
A couple of days later, I went back and wound up writing this post.
I’m far from being done with the training material. However, I’m much closer than I was before I got to Disneyland tonight. Hopefully I’ll be in your town before too long doing a youth ministry volunteer training. Be sure to come say hi!
If you’re interested in bringing me to your church or event to encourage, equip and train youth workers, please download my speaking request form. I expect to be ready to do my first training by the middle of April, 2010.
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