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5-Step Verbal De-Escalation
Learn five practical steps to reduce tension and encourage cooperation: ask respectfully, explain why, offer clear options, confirm expectations, and follow through calmly. Discover how your tone, words, and body language can help you manage challenging conversations while maintaining boundaries and strengthening relationships.
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Connection before correction
Build cooperation through empathy, boundaries, and repair.
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Big feelings, little people
Make space for emotions while holding a steady boundary.
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I'm not sure I can keep doing this
A few months ago, I was invited to speak at a conference for foster parents, adoptive parents, and caregivers. The workshop title stopped me: “I’m Not Sure I Can Keep Doing This.” Behind those words were people who had opened their hearts and homes to children from hard places. They loved deeply. Yet challenging behaviors, emotional exhaustion, and repeated disappointments had left many wondering how much longer they could continue.
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Ascending to Your Dreams
By Dr. John Sweet with Alice SweetThis book is about the journey of Alice and John Sweet, from their decision to climb to the experiences along the way to the summit. John details certain life lessons on leadership as each day he spent time journaling his experiences. Alice added insights through out the book.
Beyond the Walls
By Dr.John SweetWhat happens when the pain of yesterday begins building walls around your life today? Hurt, betrayal, abuse, loss, anger, and unforgiveness can slowly construct walls that limit our relationships, our faith, and even our ability to imagine a better tomorrow. In Beyond the Walls: In the Land of Forgiveness & Release, Dr. John Sweet offers a compassionate, faith-centered journey toward breaking through those walls and rediscovering hope.
Being Right the Right Way - Decisions and Attitudes in Harmony
By Dr. John SweetWhat if being right isn't enough?Every day, parents, pastors, teachers, supervisors, and leaders make decisions that shape the lives of others. But the greatest challenge isn't simply making the right decision—it's delivering that decision with wisdom, humility, and grace.In Being Right the Right Way, Dr. John Sweet introduces a practical and memorable leadership framework built around four powerful realities: Being Right the Right Way, Being Right the Wrong Way, Being Wrong the Right Way and Being Wrong the Wrong Way. Through compelling personal stories, biblical wisdom, real-life case studies, and practical reflection exercises, you'll discover how truth and compassion can work together. this book will give you practical, biblical guidance for living that prayer every day.©2013 Johnny Sweet (P)2026 Johnny Sweet
Called Alongside - Practical Faith for people who carry others
By Dr. John SweetPractical faith for people who carry others Some people spend their lives helping others carry what is too heavy to carry alone. Parents. Pastors. Caregivers. Counselors. Leaders. Friends who simply show up. The Called Alongside series is written for them. The New Testament has a word for this kind of person: parakaleo, "called alongside to help." It describes someone who walks beside the wounded, speaks courage to the weary, and sees what might be when others can see only what is. For many years, Dr. John Sweet has trained ministers, chaplains and caregivers to see through the eyes of parakaleo. Each book in this series takes that calling into a different part of life. Whether you are climbing toward a dream, leading people through hard decisions, or helping someone find their way beyond the walls, you were never meant to make the journey alone. Neither were the people you carry.
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