Terribly Honest with David Tensen

Dec 05 2024 5 ep. 30 mins 4

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Join David Tensen as he treks off the beaten path and weaves together spiritual wisdom, personal growth, and fresh perspectives. Each episode invites you to explore the terrain of human experience through a different lens, challenging you to see familiar landscapes of faith and life in new ways. For seekers, questioners, and anyone ready to venture beyond conventional thinking. Discover more about David, his books, resources and more at www.davidtensen.com\quicklinks

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S02 E03. Exploring Perspectives pt2 - Your Christian Experience through Ecological Systems Theory

Dec 05 2024 50 mins

We continue to explore the Christian experience through lenses of different theoretical frameworks. This episode continues from the last. I do a deep dive into applying Ecological Systems Theory (EST) to religious experience. EST is pretty easy to understand, and everyone will be able to relate - chances are though, you haven't heard it used in this context. But it is super helpfu

S02 E02. Exploring Perspectives pt1 - Spiritual Abuse and Deconstruction through Ecological Systems Theory

Dec 02 2024 24 mins

In this episode I reflect on challenging one's perspectives around church and spirituality. I discuss the impact of complex systems on spiritual development and influence, borrowing from American psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Theory (EST).If you are open to considering different perspectives and frameworks to aid personal growth and healing from spiritual an

And we're back! Season 2... sort of

Nov 29 2024 7 mins

A quick hello from me and the reason I canned the last season.

Post-parenting and decentric eldering. Tara Boothby interviews David

Oct 06 2024 63 mins

A couple of weeks ago, out of the blue, I had three podcast interviews within days. One in Australia, another in Canada, and finally in the US. Two of the interviews cover concepts of a book/manifesto I am drafting around ageing, maturity and something I call 'Decentric Eldering'. In this interview, friend, author and psychologist Tara Boothby and I talk about life stages, maturity

Poetry Interlude 3. The Descent by David Tensen

Sep 29 2023 8 mins

In this interlude I read a poem from The Wrestle (2020) called The Descent and speak about the bright darkness hitting rock bottom can bring you.