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Cleaning Out Stuff vs. Preserving the Core

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / August 14, 2013 / 0 Comments

It feels like my house is being overrun with “stuff”.  Our youngest is between apartment leases and had to move his worldly belongings home for a few weeks. At the same time my mom is downsizing into a smaller senior housing living arrangement. As she divests herself of a lifetime of stuff, some of the […]

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Adaptive Challenges

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / February 20, 2013 / 0 Comments

Last month, I was invited to be one of the keynote speakers at the United Methodist Quadrennial Training in Nashville. The topic was adaptive leadership. It was invigorating to hear the dialogue among United Methodist leaders about the adaptive challenges they face, and the barriers that stand in their way of addressing those challenges. Here […]

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Spiritual Work in Pastoral Transition

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / February 19, 2013 / 0 Comments

 Recently, I had the opportunity to listen to Frank Ostaseski speak about Being a Compassionate Companion while accompanying the dying. Frank is a leader/teacher in the Zen Hospice Project. As I listened to Frank speak, I was struck by how well his five precepts for walking with the dying apply to congregational life, when a congregation is in the […]

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