Dr. Drummond encourages listeners to identify their own needed areas of growth in their specific leadership journeys. 

• Review your notes from the previous two sessions and make note of the areas that you are interested in pursuing in your leadership area. Journal your answers and/or discuss with a trusted colleague. 

Dr. Drummond says that the difference between today’s professionals who are flourishing and those who are miserable has to do with their capacity to hang in there when they feel uncomfortable and do not know the answer to a particular question or problem. 

• Journal a list of “disorienting dilemmas” which you have encountered in your leadership journey in the last six months or year, i.e. times when you were asked to be an expert on something you knew little or nothing about. 

Dr. Drummond tells a story from her life about intentionally expanding her horizons, with the caveat of doing that learning while avoiding pitfalls: learning at the expense of others, psychological harm, and physical danger. 

• Using your notes from the previous question, journal about how you can lean into those areas which you identified – and lean into expanding your horizon to learn more about them. 

Dr. Drummond gives examples of transformative practices which include: friendships across differences, travel and adventure, and learning content about areas that are entirely unknown to you. 

• Setting aside the areas listed above that you are working on specifically, journal and/or discuss transformative practices which have been important to you or which you would like to try. You may have the same or different practices from the ones which Dr Drummond identifies. 

• Using the three areas: Content, Horizon Expansion, and Reflective Practice, journal areas that you are already doing, and also notice areas where there may be gaps in your current practice. Bear in mind that Dr Drummond identifies overlapping practices which include: conversation, volunteer service, group travel, and hobbies. 
• Then journal about your immediate needs in planning your lifelong leadership journey. 

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Millis, Diane. Conversation: The Sacred Art: Practicing Presence in an Age of Distraction. Skylight Paths, 2013 

Tran, Catherine and Boyd, Sandra Hughes. Spiritual Discovery: A Method of Discernment in Small Groups and Congregations. Rowman Littlefield, 2015. 

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