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An Intro to Appreciative Inquiry
One of the buzzwords in leadership development these days is ‘appreciative inquiry.’ One way to define appreciative inquiry (AI) is “the cooperative search for the best in people, their organizations, and the world around them. It involves systematic discovery of...
Purpose & Growth
A friend of mine, Jason Byassee who teaches at Regents College in Vancouver, Canada (and holds a Ph. D. in theology at Duke Divinity School), wrote more than a decade ago in Christian Century Magazine about the latest fads in church growth: I have tried to emphasize...
What does ‘good’ look like in your organization?
What does good look like? It is human to judge and to measure. We are meaning making, measuring machines. We all have our categories for “What good looks like” at home, at work, and even at church. Those categories often are based upon our history. I remember how...
What do you do when tragedy strikes?
As an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and a trained psychotherapist, ten years experience coaching, and assessing clergy on their personality and leadership style, I have had a ring side seat to too many disasters and tragedies. Pastoral care during and...
Who would be my Coach?
Peter Cammarano was born in Cocoa Beach, FL but grew up outside of Houston in The Woodlands, TX. He is a graduate of McCullough High School, Stephen F. Austin State University (BS: Industrial/Organizational Psychology), The Divinity School at Duke University (Masters...
Knowing God and knowing yourself go hand in hand
To lead others we have to know ourselves, and to know ourselves we have to know the story of the One who created us. Knowing how our life has been formed by the story to bring us to this exact moment is the beginning of the journey of growing in Grace. Coaching and...