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		<title>Over and Over Again</title>
		<link>http://mahansiler.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/over-and-over-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“And what will be the focus on your prolonged retreat?” I asked. His response: “I want to allow this truth to deepen within me: I am profoundly loved, delighted in, graced unconditionally. I have believed it on occasion, but mostly end up judging myself unmercifully.” “How simple,” I thought. “How profound. Yet, how difficult to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahansiler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8193587&amp;post=989&amp;subd=mahansiler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Non-attachment . . . But How?</title>
		<link>http://mahansiler.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/non-attachment-but-how/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not to be attached to outcomes &#8212; was our subject last time. But how? How can we do that? Those of you who responded agreed on the importance of not identifying with outcomes. But you likely said under your breath, as I did, “Sounds good, but it’s sure easier said than done!” So, what practices [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahansiler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8193587&amp;post=975&amp;subd=mahansiler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Dark Side: Attachment to Outcomes</title>
		<link>http://mahansiler.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/on-the-dark-side-attachment-to-outcomes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know where this truism came from, but it stays stuck to my frame like a worn out label. It goes like this. Life consists of four challenges: show up: be present; speak your truth; and don’t be attached to outcomes. The zinger for me is in the last one—don’t be attached to outcomes. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahansiler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8193587&amp;post=969&amp;subd=mahansiler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leading from the Heart</title>
		<link>http://mahansiler.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/leading-from-the-heart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading from the heart, what might that look like? My last posting addressed leading from the mind. It highlighted that wonderful capacity within us to detach, step back, getting to the “balcony” and observe both patterns and options in a given complex situation. Leading from the heart offers a different perspective. In this reflection, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahansiler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8193587&amp;post=958&amp;subd=mahansiler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>React or Respond</title>
		<link>http://mahansiler.wordpress.com/2011/10/17/react-or-respond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 21:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To react or respond, that is the question! If you are reading these reflections, you share my curiosity about leaders. I’m guessing that when you observe leaders you look for signs of their reactivity, that is, their automatic reactions, their triggered emotions of flight or fight, their voice becoming high-pitched and insistent. And this you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahansiler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8193587&amp;post=954&amp;subd=mahansiler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fussing with the Text</title>
		<link>http://mahansiler.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/fussing-with-the-text/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I asked a Monday morning sort of question: “How did it [the sermon] go yesterday?” This pastor, in his first years with his first congregation, is finding his way of preaching. His response: “Well, its weird. I&#8217;m scratching my head. I got more positive comments from that sermon than any of the others. Usually I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahansiler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8193587&amp;post=950&amp;subd=mahansiler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Word for Un-fulfillment</title>
		<link>http://mahansiler.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/a-good-word-for-un-fulfillment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 07:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I felt good about the first half of the retreat. Then something happened, perhaps only noticed by me upon reflection. Five co-pastor teams came together for two days and I was their leader. The aim of the retreat was obvious: These are pioneering pastors eager to be with other co-pastors who are taking similar risks. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahansiler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8193587&amp;post=947&amp;subd=mahansiler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behavior Change: How Does It Happen?</title>
		<link>http://mahansiler.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/behavior-change-how-does-it-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change. You and I are in the change business, more typically called by us—conversion or transformation or repentance. In our preaching, teaching, leading and pastoral care, we assume that, with God, positive/healthy/redemptive change is possible. Yet, we lament how hard change is, how little significant behavior change actually occurs in ourselves and in others. Apostle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahansiler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8193587&amp;post=945&amp;subd=mahansiler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For Those Who See . . . or Want to See</title>
		<link>http://mahansiler.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/for-those-who-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This provocative metaphor, “getting to the balcony,” I carry around with me, and suggest you do as well. It is a way of naming the leader’s challenge to balance immediate action (the dance floor) with a larger/deeper perspective (the balcony). A congregation, our any system, looks like the activity on a dance floor. Some members [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahansiler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8193587&amp;post=941&amp;subd=mahansiler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conflict: Heart and Soul</title>
		<link>http://mahansiler.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/conflict-heart-and-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I venture a guess. Your biggest surprise in leading a congregation is the amount of conflict you deal with. After all, isn’t church all about loving each other as God loves us? We quickly discover the cost and difficulty of loving well. We find ourselves leading in the midst of differences that heat up into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mahansiler.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8193587&amp;post=934&amp;subd=mahansiler&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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