Dan Allender

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Dan B. Allender (* 1952 in the USA ) is an American therapist, professor of counseling psychology, speaker and author. He is co-founder and past president of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology and the Allender Center, in Seattle , Washington . He specializes in research into trauma and abuse and how to cope with them.

Live and act

Allender studied theology and psychology and received his M.Div. from Westminster Theological Seminary in Glenside, Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Michigan State University at East Lansing . He was a teacher in Biblical Counseling at Grace Theological Seminary from 1983 to 1989 and at Christian University in Denver from 1989 to 1997 . As a psychologist, he has developed new approaches for the therapy of trauma and abuse, the aim of which is to restore the personality. In 1997 he co-founded the Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, whose aim is to train competent therapists, pastors, pastors and artists. He was its president from 2002 to 2009. In 2010, the Allender Center was formed as a non-profit organization within the Seattle School of Theology & Psychology to train professionals in trauma and abuse management. It is also responsible for the Dan Allender conferences and the educational programs it organizes.

Teaching

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Allender has been concerned with human development for decades, particularly in family relationships, contexts and entanglements. He assumes that every person was created for Paradise, the Garden of Eden , in order to live in the "Shalom", in good relationships with oneself, with others and with God. But now we are outside of Eden, in a world where there is brokenness, separations and also trauma. To repair this damage, people tried to create an illusory Eden to endure the traumatic reality. But that is more of a defensive attitude, which is often accompanied by "oaths", addictions, aloofness and self-destruction. They continue to bind us to our trauma and prevent good relationships with themselves, with others and with God. Only when we realized and admitted that wholeness had really been destroyed and our attempts to restore it had failed would we move towards healing and restoration. This journey of healing invites people to move from the place of contempt, shame and ambivalence to the place of blessing, where compassion, goodness and joy would reign. That cannot be done without truth and honesty, because you have to face wounds and injuries. If you entrust your life story to a person of integrity who is able to name the woundedness, constructive, life-giving relationships with God and other people could develop and grow. Such relationships revealed and reflected something of the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus.

It is evident for therapists, chaplains and pastors to know their own biography well in order to be able to understand other stories. Holistic listening, empathy, curiosity and empathy are qualities and knowledge that can be formed, cultivated and trained at the same time. In this way you can become a helpful companion of other people's life stories and transformation processes.

Private

Allender is married to Becky with three children and several grandchildren, and they reside in Puget Sound, Washington State.

Fonts

Allender is the author and co-author of more than 15 books, some of which have been translated into three other languages. His co-authors were in particular the psychologist Lawrence J. Crabb and the theologian Tremper Longman III . His weekly podcast, which appears on the Allender Center, has been downloaded over 1 million times.

  • with Lawrence Crabb: Encouragement: The key to caring , 1984
  • The wounded heart , 1990
  • Bold Love , 1992
  • The cry of the soul: How our emotions reveal our deepest questions about God , 1994
  • Intimate allies , 1995
  • The healing path , 1999 (15 editions)
  • To Be Told ,
  • Sabbath , 2008
  • Leading with a limp ,
  • God Loves Sex ,
  • Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation , 2016

Translations into German

  • with Lawrence Crabb: Encourage the other. Pastoral care in everyday life , Brunnen, Basel 1986 and 1991, ISBN 3-7655-3882-5 .
  • The wounded heart. Help for adult victims of child sexual violence , Brunnen, Giessen 2018, ISBN 978-3-7655-1268-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://theallendercenter.org/about/allender-theory/
  2. ↑ Understanding Your Story - An Interview with Dan Allender, And Sons Magazine, October 7, 2014
  3. ↑ Dan Allender at Familylife
  4. ^ Dan Allender: A Story Worth Living
  5. ↑ https://theseattleschool.edu/faculty-staff/directory/allender-dan/
  6. ↑ https://theallendercenter.org/
  7. ↑ http://www.firstaidarts.org/dan-allender
personal data
SURNAME Allender, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Allender, Dan B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist, therapist, author, and speaker
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH United States