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Non-anxious leaders create healthy emotional space. The magnet theory helps to understand what this looks like and how to do it. Show Notes: Episode 102:...
Emotional intensity can serve as a clue to the emotional process in a system. This episode starts with examples in child-focused families and then shows...
When I started as a camp director 21 years ago I didn’t think I’d be a fundraiser. Now, especially in a pandemic, most of my...
The children’s story, Bread and Jam for Frances, has all the components of family systems theory. This episode breaks it down. Show Notes: Bread and...
Non-Violent or Compassionate Communication not only helps us to express our unmet needs, it also helps us to listen to others to identify their unmet...
When we were raising our four children I loved being with our parents. We enjoyed their company. It also meant a break from the demands...
Marshall Rosenberg developed Non-Violent Communication to better express our own needs and better understand the needs of others. This episode looks at how this complements...
Edwin Friedman maintained that paradox and playfulness were important to maintaining a non-anxious presence. The leverage of the dependent and the conflict of wills are...
I was recently in a group discussion with a woman who shared a run-in that she had with her brother at Sunday dinner. She said...
