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Category: Ideas

  • Tribal Consciousness 2

    I blogged about tribal consciousness 3.30 – after hearing a talk from Rob Bell.  I wrote about it in light of identity formation and the safety that one can find in identifying with a tribe.  In the past few weeks, I’ve been reading and learning about Seth Godin’s ideas of…

  • Memorial Day

    I was with friends yesterday, and they were trying to think of how you would greet someone on Memorial Day.  “Merry Memorial Day.”  “Happy Memorial Day.” I mentioned that Memorial Day is not really too happy or too merry.  It’s meant to be a day to remember those that have…

  • 18 Months

    So we had a staff retreat for Cross Church San Diego this weekend.  We had a great speaker/consultant who was perfect for what we needed at this time.  His name is John Cope and he’s pastor at a church out in Philadelphia.  He shared so many important and fascinating things. …

  • Be Unique, but Belong

    A few months ago, I was doing some reading for research, and as I was reading Erikson’s ideas on identity I came up with this line – Be Unique, but Belong.  It was the summary of the section that I was reading.  It wasn’t even what I was reading about…

  • 10 Session Seminar on Identity Formation

    I am getting ready for a 10 week seminar on Identity Formation in Online Spaces at a church in the area for parents of teens.  It’s focused on my research and helping parents understand the formation process of their teens and students in online spaces.  I hope to give them…

  • Identity Science and Art

    As I continue to process through Identity, I face the challenge of many of the social science research that I read.  In my opinion, Social Science research is interested in researching how something works or happens.  They attach numbers to an experience or a feeling and then crunch the numbers…

  • Leaders are the Brand

    Tom Peters Essentials: Leadership.  Point 46 in The Leadership 50 is Leaders are the Brand.  I love that the “uber guru” suggests that “brand is a character issue.”  Programs support the brand, but the leader defines the brand.  The people that follow leaders look at the way you spend your…

  • 4.0

    I watched a video of a presentation that Tom Peters gave – educate for a creative society.  It had to do with some creative thinking and how leaders think out of the box.  He gave out a rule for hiring people – don’t ever hire someone with a gpa of…

  • Sculpting analogy – break down

    As I continue to think through the metaphor of sculpting identity, the main break down of the metaphor is that a sculpture cannot be involved in the sculpting, but in identity formation, the individual can self-contruct their identity.  Identity sculpting will then represent then identity that is socially or relationally…

  • Michelangelo Quotes

    Some identity sculpting metaphors – a-la-Michelangelo. Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop. Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set…

  • Identity Sculpture

    I have been thinking about the last post since I posted it yesterday.  I thought about it all day yesterday.  I am learning and researching in the field of identity formation.  I have so much to learn still, but the problem with research and theory is that once you have…

  • Identity Sculpting

    Identity sculpting – is helping people to see their identity or form their true identity.  Michaelangelo defined sculpting as the art of “taking away,” and not so much the “adding on” of clay.”  I’ve been thinking about seeing the Reconstructing Identity display at the Getty Villa this week.  The torso…