by Andrea Sielaff, MA | 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, MA | 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...
by Kate Rae Davis, EdD, MDiv | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog, Clergy
Pastors, and all other types of Clergy are not immune to human problems We are early in the new year, both in the calendar and liturgically. With Epiphany, we conclude the Christmas season in which we celebrated the birth of Jesus, the arrival of Emmanuel, the...
by Kate Rae Davis, EdD, MDiv | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog, Resilience
This is what we get wrong about resilience and wellbeing: it’s not just about individual behaviors and practices. It has much, much more to do with what we call place — the context, culture, and environment in which we live and work and have our being. In the shared...
by Center for Transforming Engagement | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog, Relationship, Resilience
This article is part one of a three-part series covering the three components that we, The Center for Transforming Engagement, have identified that help people to remain resiliently flexible. (you can find parts two and three by clicking the links below) 1. Peers who...
by Kate Rae Davis, EdD, MDiv | Jan 19, 2022 | Blog, Resilience
If you’ve been following The Center for Transforming Engagement, you’ve likely heard mention of the three streams of resilience: people, practice, and purpose. Each are a necessary component of resilience; no one is sufficient on its own. This article is part two of a...
