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Vaillant defines generativity as “the capacity to foster and guide the next generations.”

making progress on critical adaptive challenges becomes the basic measure of effective leadership in this approach.

happens by helping them gain the skills and find the resources to make progress toward their goals.

C’est dans la mesure où l’enfant s’épanouit dans sa spécificité, à chaque étape de son développement, qu’il prépare un adulte bon et socialement bénéfique.

This model for individual human development ultimately yields a strategy for cultural transformation, a way of progressing from our current egocentric societies (materialistic, anthropocentric, competition based, class stratified, violence prone, and unsustainable) to soulcentric ones (imaginative, ecocentric, cooperation based, just, compassionate

To want the good for our child and to commit to bringing it about are inextricably linked.

There is no more effective way to prepare children for lives animated by love than to provide them with a loving childhood.

For many of us there’s a moment in life, often in adolescence, when the life task is to establish your social identity. Friendships and social status become the central obsessions in our lives. At this point, Erikson notes, the person will either achieve intimacy or suffer isolation.