If you’ve read some of the posts here on this blog referencing family or congregational systems theory, perhaps you’ve been intrigued but you haven’t read a lot. Friedman’s Fables might be a…
Tag: Friedman
Thoughts on The Myth of the Shiksa (Review)
If you know me or have read this blog for a while you probably know that I love reading stuff by Edwin Friedman. I’ve been an advocate of A Failure of Nerve…
Review of an Essay -“The Myth of the Shiksa”
I posted a few weeks ago on an essay by Edwin Friedman in The Myth of the Shiksa (link here). I want to share a couple of thoughts on the essay for…
Words, Semantics, and Empathy
I wanted to follow up one of my last posts to provide some explanation for something that on the face would have been hard to understand and appreciate. And if you stop…
Screwtape for Systems
I am halfway through reading Edwin Friedman’s The Myth of the Shiksa, which was published posthumously a couple of years ago as a collection of essays and lectures from Friedman. The first…
Past and the Present
“Just because a page is torn off the calendar does not mean that unit of time has ceased to exist.” -Edwin Friedman, A Failure of Nerve:Leadership in the Age of the Quick…