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The Allender Center Podcast

Story Sage, Part One

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6628 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week, Dan talks with Cathy Loerzel and Rachael Clinton about the art of facilitating deep, meaningful conversations that enter into stories of harm and heartache. In an age of disconnection and isolation, how can we enter the stories of others with courage, artistry, and care?

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Allender Center podcast with Dr. Dan Allender.

0:07.2

This week, Dan engages with colleagues and friends, Kathy Lorzell and yours truly, Rachel

0:13.5

Clinton, about the art of facilitating deep, meaningful conversations that enter into stories

0:19.3

of harm and heartache. In an age of disconnection and isolation,

0:23.6

how can we enter the stories of others with courage,

0:26.6

artistry and care?

0:32.6

Well, I have the distinct privilege of being with two good friends and colleagues again,

0:42.3

Rachel Clinton and Kathy Lurzel.

0:45.3

And we're going to talk about conversations, what it means to be involved in significant,

0:51.3

meaningful conversations.

0:52.3

And we also want you to be very clear.

0:54.6

We're launching a very new online course.

0:58.0

Oh, not too remarkably about this.

1:01.6

The very topic of how to have meaningful conversations with regard to stories.

1:07.4

And if I can set the context, what I'll say is, I think we live in a day in which

1:11.8

there is less capacity to actually listen than any other season I've been aware of in my seven

1:19.1

decades on this earth. And in many ways, we've got this presumption that if I know that you're

1:24.5

a Democrat, I presume I know what you believe, or vice versa, in terms of the Republican approach.

1:31.7

So I think we live in an age where we have cliched one another into a kind of click where we know or presume we know.

1:42.3

Yet, on the other hand, what I'd argue is, even though we don't

1:45.4

know how to listen, like we may have a generation or two ago, on the other hand, we are

1:52.3

even more a lonely world. Literally, Teresa May set forth a new position in England, and that is a minister or secretary of loneliness.

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