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The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center Podcast features Dr. Dan Allender and his team engaging topics on healing and restoration through the unique intersection of theology and psychology. Through questions submitted by listeners, stories, interviews, and conversations, we engage the deep places of heartache and hope that are rarely addressed so candidly in our culture today. Join us to gain refreshing insight into understanding your story, handling relational struggles, recovering from trauma and abuse, and more.

The mission of The Allender Center is to help people tell their stories with awareness and integrity, and to train them to listen to the stories of others with care, artistry, and skill so that they may foster redemption and healing in their lives. The Allender Center is a pioneering organization committed to boldly engaging the impact of trauma and abuse, providing healing and teaching to individuals, couples, and communities, and training professionals to listen and enter into stories in a way that facilitates transformation and hope. For information on all our programs and live events, visit theallendercenter.org

Latest Episodes:

Curiosity & Commitment: Qualities of a Well-Lived Story Aug 07, 2020

Show notes

Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen welcome back former podcast guest Jimmy McGee, President and CEO of The Impact Movement, to have a conversation about the final two qualities of a well-lived story: curiosity and commitment. According to Dan, Jimmy is one of the most curious people (and voracious readers) that he knows. As they talk with one another about these two qualities of a well-lived story, you'll hear how Jimmy came to be so deeply curious and his commitments to wholeness and formation and to passing on the gifts that he has been given.

Resources:

Read Between the Dreaming and Coming True by Robert Benson
Read Living Prayer and The Echo Within by Robert Benson
Read Great Negroes, Past and Present by Russell L. Adams
Read How to Be a Christian Without Being Religious by Fritz Ridenour

Learn more about pioneer civil rights organizer C.T. Vivian

Courage: Qualities of a Well-Lived Story Jul 31, 2020

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As our hosts, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen, continue to explore the qualities of a well-lived story, they invite friend of The Allender Center Danielle Castielljo to engage the topic of courage. Danielle is a writer, mother, and recent graduate of both The Seattle School's MACP graduate program and The Allender Center's Certificate in Narrative Focused Trauma Care Level I and II. Through their conversation, you'll hear many stories from Danielle's life, including her courageous journey to graduate school and the work she is called to do in the world.

Resources:

Listen to new and past episodes of Danielle's podcast, The Arise Podcast

Read A Shining Affliction

Learn more about Danielle and her work by visiting her website
Listen to a podcast series on Love and Courage in a Global Pandemic

Learn more about Danielle's practice, Wayfinding Therapy

Kindness: Qualities of a Well-Lived Story Jul 24, 2020

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"Kindness is disruptive for our good."

Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen begin to explore the qualities of a well-lived story, beginning with kindness, in a conversation with their spouses Becky Allender and Rev. Michael S. Chen. They talk about how both Becky and Michael embody kindness, and throughout the episode, you'll hear how stories of both hope and heartache impact how they extend kindness to their spouses and those around them.

Resources:

Learn more about and apply to Virtual Story Workshop
Read a blog post about "The Courage of Kindness"

Read a blog post about a Story Workshop participant's experience

Qualities of a Well-Lived Story Jul 17, 2020

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What draws you to a human being?

This week, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen begin a new series on the podcast about what makes up the various qualities of and what it means to live a well-lived story. Our own stories are not enough to guide us into living well—we need other people, pictures of, and examples who reveal the very qualities that our stories are meant to reveal. In this episode, you'll hear Dan and Rachael discuss the characteristics of a well-lived story worth emulating and how, over the coming weeks, they'll be inviting special guests to share with us how some of these characteristics have come to be a part of their own life and story,

Resources:

Watch a video about Wendell Moss on the Unique Honor of Story Work with Dr. Dan Allender
Listen to a podcast series about a deep dive into one of our online courses, Story Sage

Listen to a podcast episode, What If I Fear My Story?

A Conversation with Sarah Bessey Jul 10, 2020

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Today on the podcast, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen have a conversation with special guest Sarah Bessey, an author, writer, and self-described recovering know it all. She is the author of Jesus Feminist, Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith, and Miracles and Other Reasonable Things. Throughout the episode, you'll hear more about her most recent book, her own story and engagement with trauma, and the ways in which she embodies faith, hope, and love while holding the tension of being human.

Resources:

Read Sarah's books: Jesus Feminist, Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith, and Miracles and Other Reasonable Things
Follow Sarah on Facebook and Instagram

Sign up for Sarah's newsletter, Field Notes

Pause: Looking Ahead to the Summer Jul 03, 2020

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In this brief episode, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen take an intentional pause from our regular rhythms on the podcast. We hope that for each of our listeners this holiday weekend holds moments of not only rest, but also reflection on our collective story as a nation. Stay tuned as we pick back up next week for a conversation with a very special guest and dive deeper into what it means to have a well-lived story throughout the summer.

Resources:

Explore our brand-new online course, To Be Told
Learn more about Virtual Story Workshop

Learn more about our Certificate in Narrative Focused Trauma Care Level I

Listener Questions: Trauma and Relationships Jun 26, 2020

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In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen continue to address themes and topics related to listener questions. Today, Dan and Rachael take on the question: How do I engage the relational debris of trauma? Whether you are on a healing journey yourself or are supporting a spouse, family, or friends, our hosts talk about how you can engage both the beauty and brokenness of stories of harm when you are not sure either how to receive or be a good support. Throughout their conversation, you'll also hear Rachael and Dan address the obstacles to and cost of healing from trauma and how to love well in the midst of trauma.

Resources:

Read "Honoring Our Embodied Trauma in the Midst of a Pandemic" by Rebekah Vickery
Read "Racial Trauma: The Marks We Bear" by Wendell Moss

Watch a video from The Allender Center about Obstacles to Healing

Listener Questions: Bad Theology Jun 19, 2020

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A few months ago, we sent out a call for topics or questions our listeners would like to hear our hosts, Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen, cover on the podcast. We were overwhelmed with gratitude at the number of responses received, and are privileged to be able to hold the vulnerable, honest questions that have been entrusted to us. Due to the volume of questions, we looked for patterns and themes in the questions. Today, Dan and Rachael take on a topic brought to us by many of our listeners: bad theology.

Resources

Read The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby

Partnerships in Racial Justice Work Jun 12, 2020

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Rachael Cinton Chen and Dr. Dan Allender are joined by Jimmy McGee, President and CEO of The Impact Movement, and Dr. J. Derek McNeil, President of The Seattle School, to talk about the partnership between The Impact Movement and The Allender Center. The mission of The Impact Movement is "to impact spiritual leaders who impact the world, to engage college students and marketplace professionals [...] and to serve and work in cooperation with and in support of the African American church." Questions you'll hear during this conversation include: How do we proceed in the process of dealing with racial trauma and injustice with people who will help us grow, and how do we do it well with the conversations that are difficult to enter?

Resources:

Learn more about The Impact Movement
Read The Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr. Joy DeGruy

Join The Impact Movement and members of The Allender Center for a Facebook Live event on Monday, June 15

Racial Trauma and White Supremacy Jun 06, 2020

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"It matters who gets to tell the story. If it's only left to one person, one group of people, it will be a biased telling—whether intentionally or unintentionally."

Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen have an honest conversation with Wendell Moss, a Teaching Staff member, and Linda Royster, a Core Facilitator, about the current and generational impact of racial trauma, and the infectious nature of white supremacy within the United States, organizations and teams such as our own, and the Church. Some difficult truths are named in this episode, and we invite you, with open hearts, to be part of this journey of learning and repentance with us.

Resources:

Read The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism by Jemar Tisby
Read White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
Read Stand Your Ground: Black bodies and the Justice of God by Kelly Brown Douglas
Read Race: A Theological Account by J. Kameron Carter
Read works by the theologian and author James Cone

Read works by the theologian and author Richard Twiss

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