The Six Facets of Spiritual Health with Pam King & Dan Koch (You Have Permission)

Pam King joins licensed therapist Dan Koch on his podcast, You Have Permission, for a discussion of the six facets of spiritual health.

Show Notes

• Subscribe to Dan Koch’s podcast, You Have Permission and his Patreon at patreon.com/dankoch
• Pam’s research interests: positive developmental psychology and theology
• How do psychologists perceive religion, spirituality, and theology?
• How does spirituality and religion factor in human development?
• William Damon (Stanford University) on moral development in the wake of the Columbine shooting
• “My work has really focused on how do we offer people insight into the psychological benefits available in spirituality and religion at their best.”
• Youth group
• “What's the question I could ask that would get her thinking about the potentially harmful theology?”
• Purity culture at youth group
• The Thrive Center’s rubric of Six Facets of Spiritual Health
• What are the six facets of spiritual health?

• Contemplative neuroscience
• Fight, flight, freeze
• Built in rhythms of work and rest
• Sabbath
• Ancient rhythms and practical wisdom that give us permission to rest
• Listen to Pam and Dan discuss facets of “Relationships and community” and “Identity and narrative” in the Patron-only second half of the conversation, available via patreon.com/dankoch

• Contemplative practices
• How to make changing diapers a spiritual practice: “Oh, we got a pooper!”
• Directionality to narrative
• Ethics and virtues.
• Ethics as “real-world application to moral thinking.”
• Virtues as “building up certain regular capacities in ourselves such that we will naturally make good ethical choices.”
• Intercessory prayer and loving-kindness meditation
• How youth approach morality in the context of community and family

About the Thrive Center

• Learn more at thethrivecenter.org.
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• Follow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenter

About Dr. Pam King

Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.  Follow her @drpamking.

About With & For

• Host: Pam King
• Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook
• Operations Manager: Lauren Kim
• Social Media Graphic Designer: Wren Juergensen

Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.