To navigate the storms in our systems it is important to be able to notice and identify them as ambient anxiety from a culture in chaos, a crisis eruption, or the conflict that shows up as a symptom of the anxiety in our system.

The Leader's Journey Book Series

The process of researching, studying, and writing the book The Leader’s Journey changed the trajectory of our lives. In this series, we are joined by our co-author Dr. Robert Creech and together we’ll be going over some key ideas from the book and the impact those ideas have had and are having on our lives.

Conversation Overview

• The storms that arise in a system: ambient anxiety from a culture in chaos
• The storms that arise in a system: when crisis erupts, often without warning
• The storms that arise in a system: the conflict that shows up as a symptom as the system experiences anxiety
• Tammie Jo Shultz story
• How the practice of the spiritual disciplines moves us toward transformation
• Why is a focus on learning so crucial?
• Thinking systems as a Christian
• Family Systems and Congregational Life

Links:

• The Leader’s Journey
• Tammie Jo Shults air traffic control audio
• Dr. Robert Creech on Amazon
• Family Systems and Congregational Life
• Edwin Friedman-Generation to Generation and A Failure of Nerve
• Victoria Harrison 
• Family Systems and Congregational Life

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