On this page are longer and more recent reflections bearing on the core challenges and dynamics families face. These are, for the most part, challenging pieces designed to deepen not only understanding, but the sensibilities I find are required to do my work well. My hope is that you will find these helpful.
Further Inquiries into Family Culture
This reflection revisits an insight that has quietly reshaped my work: the idea that family culture is not simply a system of interactions, but something more akin to the personality of the family itself. When we begin to see culture in this way, different questions come into focus — about what deserves change, what deserves protection, and how families grow over time. What follows is an exploration of that shift in understanding and the practical difference it makes in how we accompany families.
The Rise of Moral Imgaination
This exploration traces the rise of moral imagination as a way through the confusion and fragmentation that often characterizes the modern world. While acknowledging that families live inside stories, narratives, and inherited meanings, it suggests that we are not trapped by them. Moral imagination becomes the capacity to see the story we are in, to recognize the forces shaping it, and to choose creatively and courageously what comes next. In this way, families can move beyond endless deconstruction and toward a clearer, more grounded path of shared purpose and possibility.
Suspended Between Fate and Destiny
This inquiry invites families and their advisors to see the core challenges not as technical problems to be fixed, but as stories unfolding between Fate and Destiny. Drawing on the language of drama—traps, paradox, struggle, heroism, and choice—it reframes familiar dynamics of power, inheritance, conflict, and transition as part of a larger narrative arc. By identifying the Traps created by Fate and recognizing the decisions that open toward Destiny, families can move from repetition and inevitability toward maturation and communal liberation.
Inquiry Into Spiritual Capital
This inquiry suggests that spiritual capital is not a set of beliefs, but a shared field that emerges from the convergence of each member’s experiences of meaning and belonging. As individuals develop the capacity to hold greater complexity and multiple perspectives, the family becomes able to perceive and hold more together than any one person alone. At its fullest expression, this shared field gives rise to moral imagination—the ability to remain grounded in relationship while envisioning new possibilities—allowing families to move beyond inherited patterns toward renewal and deeper forms of shared life.