The Allender Center Podcast
The Allender Center
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
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
Episodes
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Aug 15, 2015 • 21min
Play, Part Three
Dan continues our series on play by reflecting on the anticipation and preparation that are required for ventures of deep, meaningful play.
Aug 8, 2015 • 22min
Play, Part Two
This week, after opening with an excerpt from Diane Ackerman’s Deep Play, Dan discusses what is at stake. What is it that rich, meaningful play requires of us?
Aug 1, 2015 • 22min
Play, Part One
Dan begins a two-week series discussing the nature of play and the importance of embracing play in our lives.
Jul 25, 2015 • 22min
Play, Story, and Motorcycles: A Conversation with John Eldredge
On this week’s podcast, Dan sits down for a conversation with his long-time friend, John Eldredge.
Jul 18, 2015 • 22min
High School Reunion, Part 2
Dan shares his post-reunion reflections, marveling about how returning to specific faces, names, and places of our lives can offer a taste of restoration.
Jul 11, 2015 • 24min
An Interview with John Cunningham, Part 2
Dan and John discuss how delight in and desire for beauty can shape the way that we engage trauma and brokenness.
Jul 4, 2015 • 21min
An Interview with John Cunningham, Part 1
John and Dan discuss the meaning and importance of beauty through the lens of the theology of Jonathan Edwards.
Jun 27, 2015 • 21min
High School Reunion
Dan wrestles with that ambivalence as he and his wife, Becky, prepare to return to Ohio for their 45th high school reunion.
Jun 20, 2015 • 23min
An Interview with Susan Cunningham
On this week’s podcast, Dan sits down for a conversation with Susan Cunningham, a therapist, poet, and facilitator with The Allender Center.
Jun 13, 2015 • 26min
Questions of engaging my story.
Dan engages four remaining questions that he often hears from people interested in working with their own stories, particularly through one of our Story Workshops.
