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Attentional Growth Inc |
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Is a non-profit organization, 501(c)(3), whose main purpose is to promote health and provide educational enrichment programming for members of the helping professions and the general public.
It was founded and incorporated on April 12, 2004 in Birmingham, Alabama and serves Alabama, the entire USA, and is available to assist people in other countries. It is an approved Mission Advanced Special of the North Alabama Conference, UMC. |
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Jim Robey |
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Jim is founder and Executive Director of Attentional Growth Inc. He is well-known for his humor, warmth, compassion, wisdom and in-sight. He and his wife of 25 years have two grown children, two grandchildren...and two dogs. He has served as a pastor in local churches and has experience as a pastoral counselor, spiritual director, hospital chaplain, youth director, seminar leader, teacher and life coach.
Jim is credentialed as a Certified Co-Active Coach (CPCC) by the Coaches Training Institute and as an Associate Certified Coach by the International Coaching Federation. He was the first minister to be endorsed for The Ministry of Life Coaching by the United Methodist Endorsing Agency.
If you would like to see Jim's complete resume, click here. |
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| What Jim bringss...speaker and consultant and business leader |
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Jim brings a wealth of professional, educational, and personal life experiences to his practice. In addition to serving local churches for over 30 years, he has established ministries for divorced persons, singles, groups exploring issues of human sexuality, and support groups for those who have recently experienced the loss of a loved one. He has been active in Spiritual Formation events, including the weekend Walk to Emmaus and Young Adult Chrysalis, and the two year long Academy for Spiritual Formation.
He has helped churches transition to meet community needs due to changing demographics. Some of these transitions include establishing new alternative or contemporary forms of worship, starting afternoon youth programs, and leading inter-faith and inter-ethnic programs
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In addition, he has worked with churches and businesses as a mediator for conflict resolution. His skills a Counselor and Life Coach have been used to establish and clarify common goals and to maximize and energize participation and performance.
Personally, Jim has experienced both joys and sorrows in his life, including marriage, divorce, remarriage, adoption, raising children, loss of parents and surviving a natural disaster. He has had the privilege of traveling the world extensively, developing friendships around the globe and learning first-hand about other cultures. One of the highlights of his life was working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India.
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Jim Robey's Training
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- Co-Active Leadership Program, The Coaches
Training Institute, 2006-7
- Co-Active Coaches Training, The Coaches
Training Institute, 2005. (Certified
Professional Co-active Coach)
- Doctor of Ministry degree, Emory University,
1984
- Graduate Student, University of Geneva
(Switzerland): 27th Session of the Ecumenical
Institute, October 1978 - March 1979
- Master of Theology degree, Southern
Methodist University, 1976
- Bachelor of Arts degree, (Major in Psychology)
Birmingham-Southern College, 1973.
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Jim yearns to work with all ages of people. For example, He is providing life coaching for teenagers through school systems, adults and families affected by natural disasters, and adults in life transitions.
He has.....a spirituality which reaches out to all people.
...a passion for people, especially ministers and their families.
...And he counsels not through preaching but rather listening and connecting. |
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Other Memberships |
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Clergy member of the North Alabama Conference, United Methodist Church. He has been Appointed to Extension Ministry (ATEM) as Ministry Missioner with Attentional Growth Inc. (an approved Mission Advance Special).
He is endorsed as a Life Coach and Pastoral Counselor by the United Methodist Endorsing Agency of the General Board of Higher Education & Ministry, UMC. Other memberships include American Association of Pastoral Counselors (AAPC), Society for the Advancement of Continuing Education in Ministry (SACEM), and Spiritual Directors International (SDI) |
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