CULTIVATING WHOLENESS IN LEADERS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing themselves.
LEO TOLSTOY
The fact is that the situations that really make
us grow are precisely those we do not control.
JACQUES PHILIPPE
ABOUT OUR NAME
TEND is both metaphor and acronym for Taking Experience in New Directions. We work to encourage, equip, and empower individuals and organizations to become more attentive to living and working wholistically – integrating your values, giftings, education, and experience. TEND works to assist you in discerning and deepening your professional and personal calling in the various seasons of life. For our clients who come from a faith-based perspective, we provide support and resources to cultivate trust and intimacy with God. As within a garden, vineyard, or orchard, TEND strives to help you care for your calling, desires, and soul, with the aim of experiencing and enjoying the fruit of your labor and loves.
What is the relation of contemplation to action? Simply this. He who attempts to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening his own self-understanding, freedom, integrity, and capacity to love, will not have anything to give others.
He will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of his own obsessions, his aggressiveness, his ego-centered ambitions, his delusions about ends and means, his doctrinaire prejudices and ideas. There is nothing more tragic in the modern world than the misuse of power and action.
THOMAS MERTON
FAQs TO CONTEMPLATE
While Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) are usually about the organization, we provide FAQs that clients often ask themselves prior to our work together. We offer these as a tool for contemplation and discernment as you navigate this season.
1. In what ways do you feel stuck, stale,
or stagnant in this season of your life?
2. Do you have a clear sense of your purpose or calling?
3. Do you like who you are becoming?
4. What do you most deeply desire?
5. How would you describe your current state of being?
6. What is missing from your life or business? What is keeping it out?
