Your Journey Matters
“What is next on my journey?” That is an important question … because your journey matters!
It matters to you and it matters to the world.
Over and over again we find ourselves
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Weighing of options
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Discerning whether a choice is the right one for this particular time
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Sleuthing out whether the choices are the ones we want or that other people want for us
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Recycling the same ideas over and over again
Your Journey Matters provides you with insights to help you get unstuck.
Through Connecting, Collaborating and Celebrating you will be energized to take meaningful, even bold steps on your journey.
About the Founder
Carol finds excitement walking with people as they discern direction and create new opportunities to engage their passion and skills in ways which will bring meaning, justice and wholeness to life.
Throughout her diverse journey, she has found fulfillment and energy engaging as a teacher with preschoolers, a coordinator with teen youth groups, a writer of curriculum, a pastor to rural and urban congregations, an entrepreneur, an associate dean in higher education, a director for internships, a board member with non-profits and a consultant to people and organizations at a crossroad or transition in their lives.
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Serving in the Peace Corps on the island of Dominica was a pivotal experience in Carol’s life as was guiding a church to become Open and Affirming to LGBT individuals. She is passionate about supporting and encouraging non-profits working for justice in their particular corner of the world.
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Carol enjoys time near the ocean, visiting trees, reading, lunch with friends, charity and justice work in the area of hunger, as well as laughing with her husband on their adventures.
Carol Shanks, YJM Founder