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July 3, 2008
Great Conversations by George Hull
The key to leadership is not how a leader manages others but how a leader manages herself. Edwin H. Friedman
Over the last several weeks I've had conversations with Perry Miller in which he has emphasized the importance of leadership in CPSP from a systems perspective.
During these conversations Perry invited me to reflect upon the importance of CPSP paying attention to our ongoing self-definition in terms of differentiation and not pathology, comfort, or herding for togetherness. This is a difficult posture to maintain given that organizations tend to opt for the safety of the status quo rather than risk the adventure of creativity and the threat of change.
I share Perry's hope for CPSP. We must take on the courage to continue defining ourselves, what we stand for and maintain our own self-regulation in the face of challenge as well as our own tendency to deny the unique gift CPSP brings to the whole clinical pastoral movement.
I applaud Perry’s wisdom and the leadership he provides to the CPSP community and for great conversations out of which possibilities emerge.
Posted by Perry Miller, Editor at July 3, 2008 8:34 AM