by Andrea Sielaff | Aug 30, 2024 | About CTE
Hi! We’re the Center for Transforming Engagement. If you are spending time here with us, it’s likely you are a person who imagines a world that is more hopeful and whole–and that you’ve dedicated your work to making that a reality. You know it’s not easy, that...
by Andrea Sielaff | Jan 17, 2024 | Blog, Clergy, Leaders
Social constraint is the perception that other people don’t want to hear about your life and problems. It’s the thing that makes you decide not to give a real answer when someone asks how you are doing. It’s the thing that makes you swallow your own hurt or stifle...
by Andrea Sielaff | Jul 14, 2022 | Blog
When vocation intersects with calling—like church ministry—it can be difficult to step away and unplug. We often feel guilty for not being always available, for not pouring every waking moment into the work of ministry. Here, Andrea Sielaff, Program Evaluation Manager...
by Andrea Sielaff | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog, Resilience, Trauma
I live near Seattle, one of the first places in the US that COVID-19 hit hard. The first time I went to the grocery store after we all started to get a sense of the magnitude of this crisis, I took pictures of empty shelves where rice, flour, and chicken had been, as...
by Andrea Sielaff | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog, Growth, Resilience
When I was in college, a speaker at a conference showed a clip from the movie Instinct as an illustration for her talk. The visceral impact of that scene has stayed with me across the years and keeps coming to mind whenever I feel a lack of control in the midst of...
