Douglas has an approach to lector training like no other, with decades of experience as a professional actor, director, lector, and trainer. He knows how to coach lectors beyond reading to become true proclaimers of the Word, an approach he outlines in his book, Beyond Reading: Advanced Training for Proclaimers of the Word. Assemblies perk up and take special notice when they sense that a lector has worked to get inside the text, to express the meaning authentically, and to draw them into the story. Douglas teaches very specific proclamation techniques that give lectors the confidence and skills they need to fully proclaim to the community “a word that will rouse them.” Lectors leave renewed and reinvigorated for their ministry, with practical skills they can put to use right away. Douglas trains lectors for churches and dioceses nationwide.