If you know me or have read this blog for a while you probably know that I love reading stuff by Edwin Friedman. I’ve been an advocate of A Failure of Nerve…
Tag: Family Systems
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…
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…
Parting of the Ways
I’ve shared that one of my proactive ways this fall to manage my stress this fall has been my reading of the Harry Potter books. I’ve learned over time that just stopping…
My Top “Systems” Movies
If you read my blog with any frequency you know that a main theme of my reflections is where congregational/family systems theory and spiritual leadership intersect. Since I began pursuing this realm…
Past and the Present
“Just because a page is torn off the calendar does not mean that unit of time has ceased to exist.” -Edwin Friedman, A Failure of Nerve:Leadership in the Age of the Quick…
The Eight Concepts of Bowen Theory (Review)
As some of you know, one of my pet areas of study the last couple of years on my own time has been family systems theory and its application on groups, teams,…
Homeostasis
Systems thinkers borrow the concept of homeostasis from the world of the human body and apply it to systems, which makes for very interesting insights about how systems work. Steinke describes homeostasis…