Helping People Grow

The temptation to go faster and do more keeps us from giving our best effort to personal growth. In this episode, John talks about the pervasive danger of “hurry” in the human heart. Our solution? Rejecting life lived at the speed of culture and learning to live at the “speed of Jesus.”Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People GrowWebsite: www.helpingpeoplegrow.co

Helping people grow is easier when we have a triage process that points to effective next steps. In this episode, John walks through four options that help loved ones select the right “tools” to break through growth barriers.Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People GrowWebsite: helpingpeoplegrow.co

In order to grow we have to see the things in our lives that need changing. Come to find out that’s nearly impossible to do on our own. In this episode, John explains what it takes to look beneath the reflective surface of our lives and then talk productively about what we see.Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People GrowWebsite: www.helpingpeoplegrow.co

Leading people to life change is an “inside job” so it only works when we’re invited into their internal world. In this episode, John breaks down the two kinds of permission we need to influence others: ambient permission and active permission.Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People GrowWebsite: helpingpeoplegrow.co

Becoming your truest self can be extremely hard so it helps when someone models what it looks like to move toward that. In this episode John introduces the practice of living in the center of your own growth process, all the while welcoming others into that process with you.Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People Growhelpingpeoplegrow.co

In a transactional world like ours, it can be hard for people to trust our motives. In this episode, we look at caregiving as the final life condition that authenticates our love for people as we help them reach for change and growth.Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People Growhelpingpeoplegrow.co

Every person alive is receiving messages all the time. Our response to those messagesdetermines our ability to change and grow. In this episode we look at how to affirm the healthy messages and refute the unhealthy messages.Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People GrowWebsite: Helpingpeoplegrow.co

In this episode, we look at the value and practice of vulnerability. Relational safety is an amazing gift; it’s the doorway to change and growth. But what good is that doorway if we won’t walk through it? Vulnerability is how we allow the safe people to help us become our truest selves.Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People GrowWebsite: Helping People Grow Book - John Dehnert

In this episode, we look at the second life changing condition, “Helping people say ‘yes’ to the truth.” Our loved ones cannot grow without living in the truth—no one can. Moreover, life only works when we live in the truth. Why? Because truth is the raw material of life change. Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People GrowWebsite: Helping People Grow Book - John Dehnert

In this episode we discover that relational safety is the essential first ingredient in the growth process. It is the “doorway” to life change because you can’t create any of the other conditions without safety.Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People GrowWebsite: Helping People Grow Book - John Dehnert

We grow best in the right kinds of relationships and communities. But what do those relationships and communities look like? John previews the five essential life changing conditions that lead people naturally to change and grow: safety, truth, vulnerability, affirmation, and caregiving. Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People GrowWesbite: Helpingpeoplegrow.co

In this episode, we look at pushing through the barriers that keep us from living our intentions. John shares about the value of “pushing back together;” focusing on practical ideas for closing the gap between our stated and actual intentions.Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People GrowWebsite: Helping People Grow Book - John Dehnert

John introduces the big idea of living your intentions. There is a huge difference between having intentions and actually living them. How do you intend to help your important people become their truest selves? John examines the barriers that keep us from living our intentions. Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People GrowWebsite: Helping People Grow Book - John Dehnert

In this podcast launch John begins to talk about the process of life change and growth—which he wrote about in his book, “Helping People Grow”. He asks, “Who do you love? Who are the people who matter to you?” It’s our love for people that motivates us to help them become their truest selves.Amazon: Get your Copy of Helping People GrowWebsite: Helping People Grow Book - John Dehnert