What Are You Going to Do With Your Life?

by Friedman, Edwin H.

• ISBN13: 9781596271142
• ISBN10: 1596271140
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Church Pub Inc

Summary

Whether he is interviewing God ("I must be the first since Moses to be allowed into your presence"), preaching on "marriage as music," or reflecting on a visit to his parents' grave, Friedman always has the power to surprises us and invite us to change. This new collection of Edwin Friedman's writings, most of them unpublished, reveal a different side of this rabbi, teacher, and leadership coach who caused a revolution in viewing human relationships with Generation to Generation. Organized into life stages, specifically the journey from young adulthood to maturity and death, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life? captures Friedman's signature wit and playfulness as he cuts straight to the heart of human growth and relationships. Throughout his life, Friedman eloquently applied the insights of family therapy to churches and synagogues, organizations and businesses and, of course, to families themselves. He energized and delighted a wide public in his lifetime and continues to engage us with What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?, an essential reader for those seeking life-changing insights.

Author Biography

The late Edwin Friedman was an ordained rabbi and practicing family therapist. His groundbreaking work, Generation to Generation, exposed the emotional connections between home and work in religious, educational, therapeutic, and business systems, and has become a modern classic. A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix, is another of his acclaimed works on leadership. Friedman died in 1996.

Table of Contents

About Edwin H. Friedman	p. vii
Editors' Foreword	p. ix
Starting Out
What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?	p. 3
Change Too Must Change	p. 9
Stop and Go	p. 18
"A Reason for Living": Hebrew Union College Diary (1954-1955)	p. 22
Three Marriage Sermons	p. 41
The Challenges of Maturity
The Joy of Discovery	p. 47
Systems and Ceremonies: A Family View of Rites of Passage	p. 50
Rites of Passage: When the Parents Are No Longer Partners	p. 84
The Day God Prayed	p. 98
An Interview with God	p. 107
Accepting Mortality
"I Shall Not Go Gently into that Good Night": Diary of November-December 1980	p. 121
How to Get Your Parent into a Nursing Home Without Turning Gray in the Process	p. 145
Old Age: Condition or Diagnosis?	p. 153
Between Two Cemeteries	p. 179
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