Living in Sync: How We Engage the World
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There’s no universal elixir for life’s challenges – because your life isn’t like anyone else’s.
What shapes your growth isn’t just what happens to you, but how you manage these circumstances and engage with the environment around you.
Living in Sync explores how human development evolves in cycles—where each challenge, each relationship, and each stage of change offers an opportunity for growth. Drawing on the core principles of the Person-in-Environment model, this book invites you to discover your personal themes and harness your unique patterns of navigating life.
Rather than a formula, this is a guide to your own rhythm – an ever-widening spiral of mastery built on values, goals, and real-world problem-solving. The work of evolving isn’t linear. But it is learnable. And it begins with understanding how you and your environment shape one another.
About the Author/Illustrator
Steve Ritter, LCSW
is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Executive Director of Elmhurst Counseling. He is on the faculty of the Center for Professional Excellence at Elmhurst University where he earned the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. His unique blend of training in the worlds of human resources, organizational development and psychology inspired the creation of the Team Clock® methodology, an approach that harnesses relationship cycles to empower growth in teams.
Earning a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from DePauw University and a Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from Loyola University of Chicago, Steve has researched the principles behind effective teams for over three decades and is the acclaimed author of Amazon Top-50 Business Book, Team Clock: A Guide to Breakthrough Teams, Useful Pain: Why Your Relationships Need Struggle, The Interpersonal Assessment Action Workbook and The 4 Stages of a Team: How Teams Thrive and What to Do When They Don’t.
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