A few days ago I finished Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic Crime and Punishment. I thought this was an unbelievable novel and I’m so glad I finally read it. It has become one of…
Category: Relationships
Review of an Essay -“The Myth of the Shiksa”
I posted a few weeks ago on an essay by Edwin Friedman in The Myth of the Shiksa (link here). I want to share a couple of thoughts on the essay for…
Spine and Depth
“When the spine of identity is well-established, it is possible to risk relating in depth to those who are different from the self.” – James W. Fowler, Weaving the New Creation: Stages…
Words, Semantics, and Empathy
I wanted to follow up one of my last posts to provide some explanation for something that on the face would have been hard to understand and appreciate. And if you stop…
Screwtape for Systems
I am halfway through reading Edwin Friedman’s The Myth of the Shiksa, which was published posthumously a couple of years ago as a collection of essays and lectures from Friedman. The first…
Thoughts on Making Room for Leadership – Review
I finally finished Making Room for Leadership: Power, Space, and Influence by MaryKate Morse. I’ve been working on this for about 4 months now. It was a slow process not because it…
A Two for One Review
After taking some post-blogference time off and generally just having a hard week, I’m going to do a two for one book review to things rolling again. I just finished Counseling for…
Defense Mechanisms
In some of my reading I came across a discussion and a list of defense mechanisms – ways in which we humans find ways to cope with pain or our own limitations…
Feedback Dynamics Part I
I was invited last week to be a part of a group to give group feedback to a learning process and it sparked some thoughts, some of which have been brewing for…