Field Notes for Transformation
Field Notes for Transformation
Podcast Description
Environments shape everything—how we lead, how we grow, and how we impact others. Hosted by Lindsay Martin, Field Notes for Transformation is your go-to resource for cultivating impactful teams and ministries. Through practical insights and inspiring stories, this podcast equips you with the tools to create transformative environments. Whether you’re leading a ministry or nurturing a team, these field notes will help guide your journey.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast primarily focuses on leadership development, creativity in ministry, community transformation, and personal growth, with episodes exploring topics like the shift from solo to collaborative leadership, strategies for fostering creativity, and the importance of vulnerability in ministry. For instance, Ep 4 discusses Jorge Acevedo's journey from pastor to leadership coach, while Ep 3 emphasizes creating safe spaces for innovation in leadership.
Environments shape everything—how we lead, how we grow, and how we impact others. Hosted by Lindsay Martin, Field Notes for Transformation is your go-to resource for cultivating impactful teams and ministries. Through practical insights and inspiring stories, this podcast equips you with the tools to create transformative environments. Whether you’re leading a ministry or nurturing a team, these field notes will help guide your journey.
Have you ever wondered, “If this is what I’m called to do, why does it hurt so much?”
Work can shape us, stretch us, and give us purpose. But it can also leave us disappointed, disillusioned, discouraged, or devastated. And when our work is connected to our sense of calling, work hurt can feel deeply personal.
In this episode Lindsay connects with Meryl Herr, author of When Work Hurts, to talk about the pain we experience in our work and what faithfulness looks like in the middle of it.
Meryl helps us name the different ways work hurt shows up and invites us to consider how our work can become intertwined with our identity and our sense of worth.
Takeaways
- The four kinds of hurt and why knowing which one you’re experiencing matters.
- How naming our work hurt can be a first step toward healing and resilience
- What everyday faithfulness looks like in the middle of hardship
- Practical ways to practice job crafting and reclaim agency
- The danger of conflating our worth with our job
- Why dealing with our work hurt is an important part of faithful discipleship
Episode field note: Meryl suggests we deal with our work hurt.
Chances are, you have work hurt. Take some time to reflect on your work hurt. What happened? What did it stir up in you? Try using the four categories we talked about (disappointment, disillusionment, devastation, and discouragement) to help you name what you’ve experienced. And then bring it to God.
Being a leader means going ahead of the people you’re leading in the work of your own healing.
Resources and links
Meryl’s book: When Work Hurts
Meryl’s website: https://merylherr.com/
Follow SLI: @spiritualleadershipinc
Head to Spiritual Leadership, Inc to take a look at resources for ministry leaders.
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