I started working on this page a long time ago, and I'm just going to throw it up here unfinished in case it helps anyone's research.
- ALERT: a pseudo-military boot camp and training program to turn boys into men, now based in Texas; courses range from rescue diving to biblical principles of law enforcement
- ATI: Advanced Training Institute, Gothard's program for homeschoolers based on his interpretation of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount
- Authority: those through whom God speaks to us, those to whom we must submit or make a godly appeal (parents, pastors, employers, and government leaders)
- Basic Care: IBLP's pseudo-medical advice department
- Character Clues: a card game for teaching the 49 character qualities and their definitions
- CharacterFirst: a secularized version of the 49 character quality definitions
- CharacterLink: Gothard's attempt to market limited access to the Internet
- Character Sketches: a series of 7 coffee-table books linking nature studies to Bible characters and illustrating the 49 character qualities (only 3 Character Sketches were completed)
- Character Qualities: 49 characteristics of a godly person, divided into 7 categories (the strengths of each motivational gift)
- Clear Conscience: being able to look everyone in the eye, keeping no secrets hidden from parents or authorities, confessing faults
- Courtship: the process by which a young man receives a girl's father's permission to win her heart with the purpose of marriage
- EXCEL:
- Eye traps: anything that draw attention away from the bright countenance--patterned nylons, diagonal lines, v-necks, dangly earrings, long necklaces, slit skirts, open-toe shoes...
- Freedom:
- Gothard, Bill: an unmarried Wheaton graduate, Bible expositor, motivational speaker, and cult leader
- Greek: the original language of the New Testament; Greek vocabulary was featured in every Wisdom Booklet
- Headquarters: IBLP's administrative campus at the intersection of Ogden & Adams in Oak Brook, Illinois
- IBLP: Gothard's Institute in Basic Life Principles, formerly the Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts
- Indianapolis (Indy):
- Knoxville: the national summer ATI training conference held at the University of Tennessee from 1990 to approximately 2004
- Motivational gifts: Gothard's [possibly plagiarized] personality analysis based on the terms in Romans 12:6-8
- Navy & white: the strictest ATI dress code (navy suits and white shirts for the men, long navy skirts and white blouses for the girls)
- Northwoods: a retreat center property near Watersmeet, MI owned by the Gothard family
- Oak Brook College of Law: unaccredited correspondence law school in Fresno, CA
- Oklahoma City: former site of another training center (provided through a partnership with the Kim-Ray corporation)
- Ownership:
- Russia:
- Seminar: Gothard's week-long lecture series, usually offered on video; Basic Seminar is a prerequisite for the Advanced
- Sound Foundations: music "camp" for young people at the ITC, teaching strict principles of godly music and history of approved sacred music forms
- Success: the principle that God will make you successful if you spend time meditating on scripture
- Umbrella of Authority: divine protection enjoyed by those who submit to their authorities
- Wisdom Booklets: the core of the ATI curriculum, each based on a small segment of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5, 6, and 7)
- Wisdom Search: morning family Bible reading, usually consisting of five Psalms and a chapter from Proverbs
- Worldly Dress: jeans, and women wearing pants
- Yielding Rights:
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