Author Archives: Ken Anbender

About Ken Anbender

Kenneth Anbender Ph.D. has spent the last 50 years working with more than a hundred thousand people directly on the principles and methods that support the fulfillment of a human life -- in community and at work. He has developed a body of work that is licensable called The Contegrity Approach.

So What is Wrong with “Transformation”?

Something is “wrong” when it isn’t accurate or reflective of “reality” (for practical purposes, reflective of how life works). 1+1=3 is wrong. In much the same way, the reputation of “transformation”, “personal transformation”, “organizational transformation” is also wrong.  In part, … Continue reading

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Do You Reserve The Right to Be Offended?

If you do, it costs you. Big time. Would you be willing to give up the right to be offended by others and life for six months on a trial basis? That commitment transformed a senior management team at a … Continue reading

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Who is a Grown Up?

Normal English would say, “What is a grown up?” “What” indicates a “person, place or thing”. The more awake you are, the more you know that considering a person to be similar to a thing is a deep, deep problem. … Continue reading

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When You’re Small, You’re Small

It would be nice if that title said it all. Assuming it doesn’t, let me say what I was thinking in writing it. I have numerous examples of people feeling small, acting small, or over-reacting from being small that I … Continue reading

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It’s Not an Elephant, it’s a Radiation Source!

The “Elephant in the Room” or “Rhino in the Room“, or “Bleeding Elephant Head” (or whichever version of the 1970’s metaphor regarding what is present and being avoided) has sunk to the level of “common sense” (evil) that believes that … Continue reading

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We Begin by Going Backwards

In the arena of human development and evolution (transformations followed by development until the next transformation is called for), I find that there is first “backwards” to go. Otherwise, everything that will be said, new notions and new arenas of … Continue reading

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What is Contegrity?

I thought a good place to start today might be to make explicit the background behind the term “Contegrity“. I made that term up in 1992 to point at something specific and unnamed. The “Con” part is from the Latin for “with”, … Continue reading

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Welcome to a Conversation regarding Fulfillment, Development, and Communication

However you’ve found this, welcome. I intend to offer insights and methods over time that speak to “How to Fulfill a Human Life.” That is the area of work I have taken on over the last 50 years or so, … Continue reading

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