Development

Those Who Make Them Become Like Them

June 17, 2011

One of my unique interests is observing the impact on organizations and systems upon personal and leadership formation. That’s a lot of fancy words for saying I pay a lot of attention to and I think a lot about what kind of impact the environments or cultures people are in have on those individual and [...]

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Review – Human Development & Spiritual Formation

June 3, 2011

With the rise of the spiritual formation movement in the last decades, many aspects of faith formation have been brought to the surface – and I might say again since much of the movement is anchored in revisiting disciples from other era’s of the church. With that, there’s also been resistance from those that are [...]

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Conquering the Potty: Empowerment Case Study

May 31, 2011

If you’ve followed me on facebook you know that one of the things we’ve doing seemingly over the last six months has been potty training my son. That process more or less miraculously came to a conclusion about a month and half ago, but wanted to give it its own space here since embedded in [...]

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Quick Thoughts on Young @ Heart

May 21, 2011

How often do you think about the elderly? Now, if you are elderly – you may think about them a lot! I think it’s a reality that society has moved a direction in which the elderly are very much a forgotten part of society and in which they don’t receive as much honor as in [...]

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Does Mom or Dad affect your God image the most?

May 14, 2011

One of the more interesting nuggets I’ve come across the last couple of months has been connected to the idea of God images. I’ve been having to read a bunch of stuff on human development and spiritual formation and this was an interesting thought. All of us are trained to make connections between how we [...]

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Another Brief Review – Breaking Through to Teens

May 3, 2011

I’ll continue getting back into the swing of things on the blogfront with another book review. I had to recently read Breaking Through to Teens: Psychotherapy for the New Adolescence by Ron Taffel. It’s directed to help professionals and counselors who are struggling to help and offer productive help for this millenial generation of teenagers. [...]

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Barbie, Princesses & Identity Formation

April 12, 2011

I’m going to rattle off a second straight Barbie themed post, because it’s part of my life stage with a 6 year old daughter right now (never mind that my 3 year old son is almost as big of a fan). Many, many have referenced over time the impact of many of the key female [...]

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Charlie Sheen & Dorian Gray

April 5, 2011

This is a thought I had a month ago. Is Charlie Sheen the real life or modern Dorian Gray? Now, I tried reading Oscar Wilde’s Dorian Gray a while ago and didn’t quite make it. Turns out I wasn’t feeling it and I felt like I needed to turn my attentions elsewhere. But I’ve seen [...]

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My Gen X Reflections on Childhood Heroines

March 29, 2011

My head is about to explode these days from all the stuff I’m having to do, prepare, think about, and read. So I’m getting away from more serious minded things for a while here for my own sanity. My family was out at a TGIF’s last week and we were in a booth where there [...]

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