What is Dan Allender's podcast?
Dan Allender and his team engaging topics on healing and restoration through the unique intersection of theology and psychology. Through questions submitted by listeners, stories, interviews, and conversations, we engage the deep places of heartache and hope that are rarely addressed so candidly in our culture today. Join us to gain refreshing insight into understanding your story, handling relational struggles, recovering from trauma and abuse, and more.
What is the Allender Center?
The Allender Center is a pioneering organization committed to boldly engaging the impact of trauma and abuse, providing healing and teaching to individuals, couples, and communities, and training professionals to listen and enter into stories in a way that facilitates transformation and hope. For information on all our programs and live events, visit theallendercenter.org
Collective Healing: 10 Year Celebration
As we continue to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of The Allender Center, we have two special guests from The Allender Center team joining Dan and...
Grief & Gratitude in Partnerships and Parenting
How do we open ourselves up to greater grief – and the potential for greater gratitude – with our spouses, partners, children and closest friends?...
Grief & Gratitude with Family of Origin
As we prepare to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, Dan and Rachael continue their discussion on the intersection of grief and gratitude, focussing on how to...
Relationship Between Grief & Gratitude
Dan and Rachael start a new series on grief and gratitude. In this episode, they outline the importance of being open to grieving in order...
Remembering Formational Stories: 10 Year Celebration
Dr. J. Derek McNeil, president of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology and Cathy Lorezel, Co-founder of The Allender Center join Dan and Rachael...
When Hiding Keeps us from Authenticity
In the episode, Dan and Rachael talk about the ways we hide, how to let others know and see us more, and the freedom that comes with that kind of authenticity.
Sabotage, Self-Contempt & Reenactment
This week on the podcast, Dan and Rachel discuss the soul-eating realm of sabotage and its capacity to ruin community. Together they wonder, can there...
Online Courses
"Harm and heartache are inevitable, but all too often we lack the tools to care for our wounds.” — Dr. Dan Allender
The Allender Center Podcast
Dr. Dan Allender and Rachael Clinton Chen candidly discuss the deep places of heartache and hope that are rarely addressed in our culture.
Friends from the Beginning: 10 Year Celebration
When Cyndi Mesmer agreed to participate in the very first Training Certificate program in 2011 (now Certificate in Narrative Focused Trauma Care Level I), she...
Healing from Spiritual and Sexual Abuse
Today on the podcast, Dan and Rachael finish a conversation on spiritual and sexual abuse by discussing the impact of these types of abuse and...
Connections Between Spiritual and Sexual Abuse
In this episode, Dan and Rachael begin to talk about the connections between sexual and spiritual abuse. Sexual abuse is also spiritual abuse, but not...
The Making of Redeeming Heartache
What goes into the creation of a book? In this special episode, we take a deep dive into the making of Dr. Dan Allender and...
Stories from 10 Years of The Allender Center
No story is without its share of joy, anticipation, trials, and victories, and the same can be said about the founding of The Allender Center....
Engaging Our Stories with Adam Young
For the final episode in our series on engaging stories, Dan and Rachael talk with therapist, podcast host, and Allender Center Fellow, Adam Young. Many...
Engaging Our Stories with Sue Cunningham
How do we read and engage our own story, and how by reading our own story do we have a lens to read and engage...
Who is Dan Allender's wife?
Continuing a conversation about hospitality, Dan invites his wife, Becky Allender, back to the podcast to recount a personal, life-changing experience that changed their perspective of hospitality. Sometimes it is assumed hospitality is setting a ‘perfect plate’ for guests, however, we need to remove ourselves from the idea that hospitality is simply entertainment. How are you engaging others at the grocery store, in your neighborhood, or at work? What does it mean to offer care and welcome from the heart? Throughout the episode you’ll hear more of Dan and Becky’s stories as well as how they are actively changing in order to become more hospitable in their day to day practices. Listener Resources: Read a blog post by Dr. Dan Allender titled “Forgotten Hospitality” Listen to the first episode in podcast series “A Summer of Hospitality”
When is the story workshop due for 2021?
Listener Resources: Learn more about Sue and her counseling practice - susan-cunningham.com Curious about pursuing your own story work? Learn more about and apply to Story Workshop—applications due August 31, 2021: https://theallendercenter.org/event/story-workshop-october-2021/
How do Dan and Rachael find restoration?
One of the ways Dan, Rachael, and good friend Dr. Steve Call find restoration is through fly fishing. Over the course of this podcast episode, you’ll hear both humorous and insightful anecdotes from all three about their various endeavors into fly fishing and, even if you yourself are not energized by fishing, you can’t help but be swept up by their delight. And as you listen, ask yourself: Why do we need something that so deeply captivates us? Listener Resources: Listen to the podcast series, “A Summer of Play” Read blog post “It’s Summer, Let’s Play!” by Robyn Whitaker Listen to podcast episode “Play, Anxiety and Resilience: How to Help Kids in a Pandemic” featuring special guest Dr. Pam Davis
Navigating Transitions One Step at a Time
Change is inevitable, and transitioning through change often holds together two realities: grief for things that have been lost and hope for what lies ahead. How do we navigate these transitions when it feels as if we’re wandering through the ...
Rituals & Rhythms for Intentionality
With so many things fighting for our attention, how do we intentionally create space of goodness for ourselves and others? Join us as we contemplate what it means to focus on the things that matter as we begin this new ...
Rituals & Rhythms for a New Year
How do we begin to process this past year and look forward to a new year when so many things feel beyond our control? In this special New Year’s Day edition, husband and wife duo Dan and Becky Allender discuss ...
The Gift of Connectedness
This season of gift-giving may prompt a myriad of layered feelings: excitement, pressure, anticipation, dread, hope, and inadequacy. How do we give gifts that are truly meaningful and encourage a deeper connection with the recipient? Join Dan and Rachael as ...
Collective Healing: 10 Year Celebration
As we continue to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of The Allender Center, we have two special guests from The Allender Center team joining Dan and Rachel this week: Linda Royster from the Training and Pastoral Team, and Sam Lee, the ...
Grief & Gratitude in Partnerships and Parenting
Join Dan and Rachael as they explore the intimate relationships we have in our lives now - our spouses, children, roommates and friends - and how we can embrace grief and gratitude to engage with those closest to us.
Grief & Gratitude with Family of Origin
As we prepare to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, Dan and Rachael continue their discussion on the intersection of grief and gratitude, focussing on how to engage those categories in our families of origin. In this episode, they dive into how ...
Story Sage Series
Learn how to apply an essential framework to care for others that guides them towards illuminating discovery and insight that leads to true healing and lasting change.
Healing the Wounded Heart Online Course
Featuring 9 sessions with compelling teaching from Dr. Dan Allender, powerful video interviews with survivors, and a downloadable journal for deeper reflection, Healing the Wounded Heart is an online course designed to support your journey toward restoration.
To Be Told Online Course
To Be Told is an online course designed to give you permission to explore how the goodness and pain in your life has shaped you. This journey opens the door to transforming your future.
Marriage Online Course
Featuring 8 sessions and 25 videos with compelling interaction and teaching from Dr. Dan Allender and Dr. Steve Call plus a downloadable journal with reflection questions to go deeper. This self-paced online course will help couples discover how personal stories shape their marriage story and find hopeful pathways forward.
