How can we cultivate agility and adaptivity in our chaotic, shifting times? Dr. Pam King offers a research-backed cycle of practices to incorporate into the rhythms of your daily life—helping you navigate change and work through life’s obstacles. She calls them the 5 A’s of Spiritual Health: Attunement, Awareness, Alignment, Activation, and Assessment.In this episode, she introduces the 5 A’s, explaining the context, process, and benefits. She comments on the contemplative practices and psychological science that support this cycle of habits and offers reflections on why these simple movements can be so transformative.ANNOUNCEMENT: With & For Season 2 launches on January 6, 2025!Show NotesWith & For Producer Jill Westbrook introduces the episode“Why do we need to develop agility as a practice?”Developing agility and adaptivityWhat the 5 A’s are: “a cycle of practices synthesizing, research on different contemplative practices from different spiritual traditions …. and psychological research around the efficacy or the impact of different types of spiritual practices on human well being and health.”Attuning to our bodies and physiologyWhat sensations might meanEngaging emotions, thoughts, values, actions, and behaviors that lead to a thriving lifeDealing with complexity and unpredictabilityTuning into our sources of meaning and purposeHow to cultivate more spiritual vitality and sense of purpose“At the center of thriving is adaptive growth.”“We want to be able to grow in a purposeful direction.”“Thriving is living life on purpose.”Agility allows us to balance goals, relationships, and values.AttunementAwarenessAlignmentActivationAssessment
About the Thrive CenterLearn more at thethrivecenter.org.Follow us on Instagram @thrivecenterFollow us on X @thrivecenterFollow us on LinkedIn @thethrivecenter About Dr. Pam KingDr. 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 & ForHost: Pam KingSenior Director and Producer: Jill WestbrookOperations Manager: Lauren KimSocial Media Graphic Designer: Wren JuergensenConsulting Producer: Evan RosaSpecial thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.

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