Whole-Life Mentoring In Support of Education, Anywhere At Any Age

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”There’s nothing sacred about spelling tests as a way to learn spelling…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …or flash cards to learn math facts, curriculum as a way to teach, testing as a way to collect data. There’s nothing sacred about most of what we do every day in education, and yet we, as …

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Mentoring Boards

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Leadership Design Group exists” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] In part, to help organizational teams, both board and staff, profit or non-profit, to be fully alive in all their purposes for why they even exist. If you knew my own personal story across the 75 years of my life you would hear how, especially, …

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Mentors Need Mentors

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Imagine my surprise…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …when, beginning grad school in 1973 here in Denver, Colorado, I learned that one of my main intentional mentors at the time also had mentors. That impressed me. As Leadership Design Group’s whole-person mentoring model began to be formed during those three important years, it was …

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Developing a Serving, Caring Heart in Leaders

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Leadership is often counterintuitive.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] The normal way we see leadership in Business, Institutions, or Non-Profits is as a linear command-and-conquer strategy. Usually we see C-level executives, no matter what type of organization, who set the course for the rest of a company, including those who may or may not …

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Leading from a Whole Life

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Gettysburg…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …The name and place evokes such powerful emotions in Americans. A good friend of mine develops current leaders by exploring examples of past leaders—great, good and otherwise—at the Battle of Gettysburg. (See his program, “If Properly Led” here.) What becomes clear from the study of any good leader …

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Thriving as a Couple While Getting Older

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Growing older does not mean one stops growing…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …in all the dimensions of their life. There is a “sad myth” hanging around those in their Third3rd of life that you grow older, you accomplish a few good moments in your life, your kids, should you have them, are boosted …

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Marriage Through a Whole-Life Lens

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Need a Marriage Tuneup?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] In my work as a psychotherapist and leadership mentor I am continually encouraging individuals and couples to live fully and congruently from their Core in all 8 Dimensions in order to realize the full capacity of their uniquely designed lives. Individually the benefits of Whole …

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Pre-Marital Encouragement from The Circle of Life

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”My wife and I are nearing the 50th anniversary of our marriage.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] We’ve chosen, as often as reasonable, to drive to a special place near where we live to watch the sunset behind the Rockies. We have a full view, from Pikes Peak above Colorado Springs to the south, …

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Mentoring Older Men

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘I need a mentor.’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Anyone associated with young people has probably heard those words before, particularly in a business or organizational context or in working with disadvantaged youth. Mentoring is a powerful tool for helping young people develop. But from a 65 or 70 year-old? Wouldn’t that seem a …

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Mentoring Fatherless Men

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘I know you’re not the man who birthed me…’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] “…But I need a man I trust to give me some fathering, as my father was absent from my life. And now, I’m also a father, who needs some guidance. Will you be that with me, for me?” Those who …

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Mentoring a Group of Good Men

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘See that older man over there in the corner?’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] “He’s going to ask if I can mentor him. I can see it in his eyes.” Several years back, when presenting a mentoring workshop, that is what I said to a good friend who had gone with me to a …

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Mentoring Men is More Than Just Coaching Them

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”It’s late summer…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] … in 2016 and I am on a brief, quick journey through parts of Oregon and Washington. The past 100 hours have given welcome glimpses of just how LDG’s Whole-Person Mentoring Model has impacted lives across the decades. Meaning-filled conversations have easily evolved with women and …

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Mentoring Women in Later Years

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”I Am the Older Woman!” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] How did that happen? The realization came with a shock, as I was reading Titus 2:2 and pondering these words: Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and …

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Mentoring Moms

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘Mom Shaming’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Have you heard the term? It’s one of the newer terms I’ve recently heard related to moms.  It appears with our advances in technology. Some have used media to give their opinions to moms who don’t feed their kids the right food, don’t use the right sunscreen, …

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Mentoring Women To Discover Their Full Purpose In Life

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”I sat across the table listening to every word she said…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …I thought I was looking in the mirror. Well kind of, with her being 10 years younger and freshly out of high school, while I sat with a rounded belly carrying baby number 2 and 8 years of …

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How Do You Make Changes in Your Core Beliefs, When Needed?

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Some unknown boogyman in the dark…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …Most kids you and I know (maybe even ourselves, that’s you and me, way back when…) have been spooked by that apparition. Those munchkins can be totally certain that they heard or saw something. To talk them out of that “certainty” is almost …

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How Do You Treat Others With Different Core Beliefs?

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Not long ago…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …I was walking the hallways of a journalist convention held in Raleigh, North Carolina. The question for the conference was basically how do news organizations deal with the “Religion” section of the paper? Is there a new way of reporting on faith in the age of …

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Who Are You?

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Have you ever considered what you believe to be true about life?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] These beliefs shape your understanding of who you are and why you are alive. I remember Wes Roberts sharing with me that he loves to begin conversations with strangers by asking, “Who are you?” Most often the …

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At Our Core

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Core: noun, often attributive: ˈkȯr” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] At Leadership Design Group, we journey often into a person’s core—and, if we are healthy, into what is at our core. It is, after all, at the center of our Circle of Life Model. Let’s go there again for a few moments this morning …

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Mentoring Across the Three3rds of Life

[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Several months ago I held a beautiful baby boy.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] He was just weeks old. Uniquely, when his 30 year-old mother was his age, I also had the privilege of holding her within her first year of life. Her 63 year-old father is a stellar business leader whom I’ve mentored …

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