April 2010

Amma Theodora on being a teacher

Some wise words on leadership from Amma Theodora – an early Christian monastic who went into the Egyptian desert during the third and fourth centuries to live a life of prayer and contemplation. For ‘teacher’, also read leader, therapist, and coach – the advice applies equally. A teacher ought to be a stranger to the

Gregory of Nyssa on self-awareness and self-deception

Recently I co-facilitated a training workshop in appreciative coaching skills for rural deans, bishops and lay members of the Diocese of Chester. It was the first time I had worked with Anglican clergy and a more welcoming and stimulating audience you couldn’t wish for (I must admit that part of me thought “in your face,

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