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A podcast for leaders who carry significant weight across business, ministry, higher education, and organizational life. Each episode is a focused formation conversation built on thirty years of scholarly and practitioner wisdom.
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English
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11 episodes
since June 4, 2026
episodic
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If you are joining The Formation Practice, this episode is the perfect place to start. And if you have been here from the beginning, this one is a gift — a chance to pause, look back, and see how far the conversation has come. In this episode, Dr. Ella Thompson walks through the arc of the first te…
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We've been building toward this question: what does formation actually produce? In this episode, Dr. Ella Thompson turns the conversation outward and names what intentional formation generates in a leader's life —not a product, not a performance, but a quality of leadership that the world…
No leader forms alone. In this episode, Dr. Ella Thompson completes the three-discipline trilogy with the most transformative and most consistently avoided discipline of intentional formation: accountable community. This episode makes the case that honest attention and truthful language, as essent…
Honest attention tells you what is happening in your interior life. But access alone does not change a formation — something has to happen with what honest attention reveals. In this episode, Dr. Ella Thompson goes deep into the second discipline of intentional formation: truthful language. This is…
Of the three disciplines introduced in Episode 6, honest attention is the one most consistently neglected by high-capacity leaders — and the one whose absence most reliably produces the kind of quiet interior fragmentation that eventually surfaces as a leadership crisis no one saw coming. In this …
Recognition is only the beginning. In this episode, Dr. Ella Thompson answers the question that every formation conversation eventually arrives at — now what? Having named the patterns, counted the cost, and reclaimed the distinction between capacity and consent, the leader still has to decide what…
You can do something and still not owe it to anyone. This episode names a collapse that happens quietly to capable people: capacity mistaken for consent, ability treated as an agreement no one actually asked for. Dr. Ella Thompson traces how responsibilities migrate toward the person who handles th…
Episode 2: Formation Is Not Performance
We live in a culture that rewards visibility, celebrates achievement, and often mistakes activity for growth. The pressure to produce, perform, and prove ourselves can quietly shape not only our work but also our spiritual lives.
In this episode of The Format…
It is their strength, not their weakness, that leads so many capable people into crisis. This episode names a formation wound that rarely gets language: the cost of being so competent that no one, including yourself, ever asks what sustaining that competence actually requires. Dr. Ella Thompson tra…
Before formation can be intentional, it has to be recognized.
In this episode, Dr. Ella Thompson goes back further than Episode 2's foundational distinction and asks the question every formation conversation must eventually face: who formed you before you had the language to notice it was hap…
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