The Formation Practice with Dr. Ella Thompson, PhD
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.
The Formation Practice with Dr. Ella Thompson, PhD
Latest Episodes
The Story So Far: Formation, Authority, and the Journey Inward
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, ...
From Formation to Authority
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 performanc...
The Discipline of Accountable Community
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...
The Discipline of Truthful Language
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 discipli...
The Discipline of Honest Attention
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...