{"id":31746,"date":"2023-03-09T22:59:11","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T06:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/?p=31746"},"modified":"2023-03-11T12:36:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T20:36:27","slug":"how-to-steal-a-doctorate-in-5-easy-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/how-to-steal-a-doctorate-in-5-easy-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Steal a Doctorate in 5 easy steps!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever found yourself floundering? Directionless? Just plain old bored?\u00a0 Well I have a solution for you.\u00a0 Follow these \u201ceasy\u201d steps and in no time you\u2019ll have a Doctorate!<\/p>\n

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  1. Thresholds\u2026. Find opportunities to expand your horizons! We often don\u2019t know we are about to encounter a threshold experience, but we will know we have when it \u201cundermines previous beliefs and leads to troublesome knowledge\u201d. [1]<\/a> Now I am sure you are wondering, why would I want knowledge that brings me trouble?\u00a0 Let me say, that this is where true transformation occurs.\u00a0 Here is my testimonial for step one. I started mentoring a class at the University of Portland called \u201cTheological Perspectives on Suffering and Death\u201d, this was a class for future nurses, and it was brilliant and full of threshold knowledge.\u00a0 SO much so that I was inspired to take this class format and content and spread it out in the world!\u00a0 Thus\u2026voila, I had an idea to meet a need out in the world! My NPO is wanting to change the way we train our healthcare workers on suffering and death conversations.\u00a0 \u00a0I am shocked at how much this class showed me as a mentor how afraid of death and suffering I was!\u00a0 It changed the trajectory of my whole life\u2026all the way to imagining my own death bed and how I wanted my life to go to get me there as much as I can control at least.\u00a0 I am in trouble because I can\u2019t unknow it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. “So: Copy your heroes. Examine where you fall short. What’s in there that makes you different? That’s what you should amplify and transform into your own work.” [2]<\/a> .\u00a0 I noticed how much I desired to copy my hero, the professor of this class.\u00a0 I began to dream and imagine how a college level course could be brought out into the world.\u00a0 “<\/strong>Step 1: Wonder at something. Step 2: invite others to wonder with you”[3]<\/a>.\u00a0 Working in Hospice I had a natural audience of other caregivers with whom I could wonder with and test my ideas.\u00a0 Hindsight, I had already done a large amount of stakeholder workshops, just informally.\u00a0Question now became how do I get to the audience I want, and why should they listen to me?\u00a0 I need more education, PhD? EdD? DMin?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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      1. \u201cFake it until you Make it!\u201d[4]<\/a> I\u2019m going to tell you how in the world I ended up in this doctorate program.\u00a0 I had googled and googled all sorts of dreams just as Kleon suggests in his book, “Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems.\u201d[5]<\/a>\u00a0 I found all sorts of programs, but none that got my heart beating.\u00a0 I resigned myself to maybe having a conversation with admissions for Portland Seminary, though I was adamant about not getting another ministry degree.\u00a0 I need a degree that gets me out into the world and puts letters behind my name that helps me get invited to the table and a DMin just wouldn\u2019t do that.\u00a0 I spoke with our dear friend Michael Simmons, and he liked my idea, and when I asked if I \u2018fit\u2019 the DMin model, he said yes, but I also see you fitting in to DLGP!\u00a0 What is that? I had never heard of it and the second he explained this course I was sold.\u00a0 However, I know that I still often feel imposter syndrome and a little like a square trying to fit in a hole, but here I stand\u2026. faking it until I make it!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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        1. Find a coach or mentor! Leadership is a lonely place to be and a scary place at times.\u00a0 \u201cI believe there exists throughout America today a rampant sabotaging of leaders who try to stand tall amid the raging anxiety storms of our time.\u201d [6]<\/a>\u00a0 Finding someone who sees the gold in you as you look for gold in other\u2019s is necessary.\u00a0 \u00a0Find a mentor who offers Grace because \u201cGrace gives us the courage to look under the hood of our life and leadership.\u201d [7]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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          1. If all of these steps yield no Doctorate for you, then you could always become famous and an Honorary Doctorate could be yours!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            [1]<\/a> Meyer, J. and Land, R. Overcoming Barriers to Student Understanding: Threshold concepts and troublesome knowledge. <\/em>London: Routledge, 2006. Pg 5<\/p>\n

            [2]<\/a> Kleon, Austin. Steal Like an Artist: 10 things nobody told you about being creative. <\/em>New York: Workman Publishing Company, 2012, 2022. \u00a0Pg 41.<\/p>\n

            [3]<\/a> Ibid, 81.<\/p>\n

            [4]<\/a> Ibid, 29.<\/p>\n

            [5]<\/a> Ibid, 19.<\/p>\n

            [6]<\/a>\u00a0 Friedman, Edwin H. A Failure of Nerve: Leadership in age of the Quick Fix. <\/em>\u00a0New York: Seabury Books, 2007. Pg 2.<\/p>\n

            [7]<\/a> Comacho, Tom. Mining for Gold ;Developing Kingdom Leaders through Coaching. <\/em>London, InterVarsity Press, 2019. 48.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

            Have you ever found yourself floundering? Directionless? Just plain old bored?\u00a0 Well I have a solution for you.\u00a0 Follow these \u201ceasy\u201d steps and in no time you\u2019ll have a Doctorate! Thresholds\u2026. Find opportunities to expand your horizons! We often don\u2019t know we are about to encounter a threshold experience, but we will know we have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2489,2325,2687],"class_list":["post-31746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dlgp02","tag-kleon","tag-steallikeanartist","cohort-dlgp02"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31746"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31770,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31746\/revisions\/31770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/dlgp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}