Living your strengths Workshop with Baha Habashy

Baha Habashy gifts us with a 4-hour workshop on "Living your strengths" based on CliftonGallup strengths-based research. Prior to his workshop we all had to take their online survey to discover what our top 5 strengths are. (Strengths Finder)

It was a highlight of the Pittsburgh Leadership Summit and many of the team members are hoping to invite him to come and teach in their respective countries. Baha Habashy's website as an executive consultant

Within the first five minutes of the workshop, Baha’s anointing was felt and he had us crying. One of his fortes is his sincerity and vulnerability. His willingness to share personal stories to illustrate his teaching points was particularly endearing and brought immediate clarity to his teaching.

As we closed our workshop something amazing happened: Baha fell to his knees as we laid our hands on him and lifted him up in prayer. Several team members affirmed his God-given wisdom and he was moved as the love of God poured out over him; we prayed for God to use him in Africa and Latin America and it was like seeing rain fall on parched ground. As he stood with tears in his eyes, he said: “I can’t remember ever being prayed for like this.”. Amazing is his ability to speak pearls of wisdom, to prompt deep thought, to take sound theory like Strengths finder ® and interweave it with his own theory of roles, callings, avoidance of draining people, and scheduling according to priorities. I would add that our team is extraordinarily teachable and very responsive to the move of the Holy Spirit.

Lisa’s two worlds become one

The Leadership Summit in Pittsburgh was a dream come true for me because my two worlds became one.

I have lived and served in Latin America for thirty years. I started when I was twenty-two years old and so apart from Mirna Sotomayor and my husband, no other Latin American with whom I work really knows the world in which I grew up in. I feel like an “ahistorical figure” in Latin America, like I dropped into Latin America and no one knew my roots, my family, my upbringing, and the role my churches and friends have played in my spiritual journey. Every day I lived and traveled with my Latin friends on the streets of Pittsburgh (really the North Hills), I felt more and more known.

Below you will find a short video (1.24 min.) of the tour I took the team of Latin Americans on.
(here is the link from youtube.com in case it's not visible from the blog:

Lisa's tour down memory lane (visits to her Pittsburgh homes growing up)

Here is a sampling of their impressions:

• Don’t despise rambunctious kids. Lisa was quite rambunctious and look how well she turned out. (Gloria, Mexico)
• Why would she leave such a nice neighborhood? It must have been a call from God. (Rixy, El Salvador)
• You can clearly see her healthy foundations; she was well invested in by her parents, church, and youth leaders. (Robert, Panama)
• As a child, she never could have imagined returning to these woods she played in forty years later with people from Latin America in tow. We can’t visualize the future—good thing! (Duglas, Guatemala)
• Don’t forget your past because it can be inspiring to others. I feel closer to “my professor” for having seen where she grew up. It’s important for me to understand the person whose leadership is so influential. (Alvaro, Bolivia)