100 Family Media Literacy Activities, Ages Pre-School through Teen Years

Are You a “High Hopes” Parent?

Attending to Our Children’s Attention Span

Building the Foundation for Resiliency Skills

Live and Play in Your World: Stimulus Addiction and the Growing Brain

Looking for Meaning in All the Right Places

Parenting Today: The World Has Changed, Have We?

Parenting as a Living System

Reading the Screen

Screen Time and Obesity

Screen Violence: Impact on Self as Relational Being

Teaching Children Gratefulness

Parenting As A Living System (cont.)

In my work developing the training program for Parent Coach Certification® (highlight and link to http://www.thepci.org/about/training/coachingmodel.htm)  I outlined specific living system principles that powerfully impact parent’s abilities to attain their goals for themselves and for their children. This was a synthesis of over fifteen years thinking about how to move family support out from the current mechanistic model and into a living systems model. The baby steps have begun. At the Parent Coaching Institute , we are learning to walk in and learn from this powerful framework, as we discover and nourish the enriching gifts of growth and transformation.

References

James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science, Viking Press, 1987.

Erich Jantsch, The Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution, Pergamon Press, 1980.

Charles Johnston, M.D., The Creative Imperative: A Four-Dimensional Theory of Human Growth and Planetary Evolution, Celestial Arts, 1986.

Charles Johnston, M.D., Necessary Wisdom: Meeting the Challenge of a New Cultural Maturity, ICD Press and Celestial Arts, 1991.

Ervin Laszlo, The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for our Time, Hampton Press, Inc. 1996.

James Grier Miller, Living Systems. McGraw-Hill, 1978.

Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, 2006 (paperback edition, originally published in 1994).

Rupert Sheldrake, A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation, J. P. Tarcher, Inc., 1981.

Robert Quinn, Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within, Jossey Boss, 1996.

Robert Quinn, Change the World: How Ordinary People Can Achieve Extraordinary Results, Jossey-Bass, 2000.

Robert Quinn, Building the Bridge as You Walk on It: A Guide for Leading Change, Jossey-Bass, 2004.

Margaret J. Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1999.

Ken Wilbur (ed), The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes, Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1982.

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