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SUMMARY:Building Your Compassion Resilience
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In this episode\, Jessica introduces the concept of compassion resilience—the ability to maintain empathy and strength while supporting others. You’ll learn key strategies to build resilience and a practical reflection exercise to help you process your day\, celebrate small wins\, and prioritize self-care. \nLinks\n\nRogers Behavioral Health Compassion Resilience Toolkit\nCompassion Fatigue Cycle\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”]JESSICA BECKENDORF: [00:00:00] Hello and thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection podcast. I’m Jessica\, and today we’re kicking off a three-part series on compassion resilience. If you are a service provider\, or if you work in any field that serves families\, communities\, or the public\, you know how rewarding and how emotionally demanding this work can be. \nCompassion resilience is the ability to maintain your empathy and strength\, even in the face of others suffering. It’s not just about surviving the challenges of your role\, it’s about thriving in it. \nSo today I’ll share what compassion resilience is\, why it matters\, and a simple practice you can start using today to build it. \nFirst\, let’s spend a moment just defining compassion resilience. It’s the ability to consistently care deeply for others while also protecting your own wellbeing. It’s not about becoming numb or detached. It’s about finding ways [00:01:00] to stay connected to your empathy without letting it drain you. \nFor service providers\, compassion\, resilience is especially important. You’re often working with families navigating complex challenges. It’s easy to absorb their stress and their emotions\, which can lead to compassion fatigue. And recognizing compassion fatigue can sometimes be difficult until you’re right in the thick of it. \nI attended a training on compassion resilience a few years ago from Roger’s Behavioral Health that used a chart of cats with\, cats of all things\, with different looks on their faces to represent the compassion fatigue cycle. \nI’ll include a link to that resource in the show notes\, and also link to the full Compassion Resilience toolkit. They have toolkits for educators\, health and human services\, and parents and caregivers. \nSo understanding the stages of compassion fatigue can help you understand what you need to do to minimize the impact on yourself. I’ll just quickly go through those now and\, and [00:02:00] summarize them a little bit\, but I recommend going to the show notes and grabbing the full resource. \nSo the first stage is the zealot or idealist. This is where you are committed\, you’re excited about the work you’re doing. You’re ready to problem solve and put in extra hours. You volunteer and someone says\, “Hey\, I\, I need something.” You’re like\, “I’ll do it!” You’re excited about the work\, right? \nThe next stage is irritability\, right? You start to notice the imperfections of the systems you’re working with and the imperfections of the people that you’re working with. \n  \nThe next one is withdrawal. This is where you’re now unable to kind of navigate and embrace the complexity of the issues that you are dealing with\, through your clients\, through your work. You might start to lose your ability to see clients as individuals\, as individual human beings\, right? They kind of become inconveniences or [00:03:00] irritants. \nThe next stage is zombie. This is where that kind of irritation might turn to rage\, right? You start to maybe even hate people. It’s very strong language\, these are very strong feelings. You might even hate your coworkers\, and people just start to look incompetent or ignorant\, and you might not be engaging in things that you used to find fun or humorous. Those things are just starting to not be as present in your life\, and it might feel like you can never do enough. \nThen the last stage is renewal versus pathology. So you might come to a fork in the road where you either continue deeper into your compassion fatigue\, and maybe come to the point where it feels like you want to leave your profession. Or you may have changed positions and repeated the same cycle. The other fork in the road is\, taking a turn toward renewal\, resiliency\, and [00:04:00] transformation. \nSo one of the wonderful things about this is that at any stage in this cycle\, the zealot\, irritability\, withdrawal\, zombie\, and renewal versus pathology; in any stage you can learn skills and mindsets that kind of change your trajectory toward compassion resilience. \nSo\, how do we build compassion\, resilience? You know\, there’s a lot of different ways. I’m just going to focus on a few right now. First\, set realistic expectations. Recognize that you can’t solve every problem or fix every situation. Focus on what’s within your control and celebrate small wins. \nNext is practice self-compassion. Treat yourself with the same kindness and understanding you offer others\, and when you’re feeling overwhelmed\, remind yourself that it’s okay to take a step back and care for yourself. \nYou know\, with this self-compassion\, one of the things that has helped me the [00:05:00] most is when I’m starting to have negative self-talk\, I really like to think about\, I’ve got a few friends who are my biggest cheerleaders. And I really like to have their voice in my head. And I like to ask myself\, you know\, “What would they say to me right now?” And then that always\, I would say that almost always anyway\, has an immediate effect on me. A positive effect. \n  \nOkay\, and then reflect and recharge. Regularly take time to reflect on your experiences and recharge your emotional energy. Now\, let’s try a practice to put this into action. Let’s just call it the compassion\, resilience\, reflection. Here’s how it works. At the end of your workday\, take five minutes\, just five minutes to reflect on three questions. \n  \nFirst\, what went\, well today. I’d like to call this my good job list. Instead of a task list\, I write down a good job list\, but however you wanna answer this is fine with you. So the first is what [00:06:00] went well today? Number two\, what challenged me and how did I handle it? And I would add to that\, What did I learn about how I handled it? You know\, what did I learn from how I can handle this again in the future? \nAnd then three\, what’s one thing I can do to care for myself tonight? This simple exercise can help you process your day\, celebrate small wins\, and prioritize self-care. It’s a practical way to start building compassion resilience in your daily life. \nSo compassion resilience isn’t just a “nice to have.” It’s essential for anyone in a caregiving or support role. By setting realistic expectations\, practicing self compassion and reflecting on your experiences\, you can continue to make a difference without burning out. \nThis week\, I encourage you to try the compassion resilience reflection at the end of each workday. Let me know how it goes. I’d love to hear your experiences. \nThat’s it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. [00:07:00] If you enjoyed this episode\, please leave us a review and click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a colleague or friend. For more resources and tools\, visit us@oneop.org. \nWe’ll be back next week with a new episode\, exploring compassion resilience. Until then\, keep practicing. \nCREDITS: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U. S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, U. S. 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SUMMARY:Building Recovery Capital with Military Families
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Dr. Elswick’s research examines long-term recovery from substance use disorder. In particular\, much of his research examines recovery capital\, an assets-based approach to understanding addiction recovery. As co-founder of a Lexington-based non-profit organization called Voices of Hope\, Dr. Elswick is a tireless advocate for people with substance use disorder. 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Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close March 18\, 2027. \nBoard Certified Case Managers: This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) clock hours from the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close March 18\, 2026.\nCertified Personal Finance Counselors (CPFC): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from The Center for Financial Certifications (FinCert.org). **Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close March 18\, 2028.\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close March 18\, 2030.\nHuman Resource Professionals: This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credit from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). 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SUMMARY:More than a Meal: Building Community and Resilience with Chef Mary Long
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Mary’s work focuses on using cooking classes to connect service members and their families with mindfulness and nutrition-focused outcomes. From heart-healthy meals to anti-inflammatory cooking\, Mary’s classes are more than just recipes—they’re a pathway to resilience and community. Tune in as Mary shares her journey\, the magic behind her teaching kitchen\, and a popular recipe that’s a hit with her participants. Plus\, she offers practical advice for starting similar programs\, even without a teaching kitchen. 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I’m Jessica Beckendorf\, and I’m so excited today to be working with a guest\, co-host and incredible OneOp colleague\, Bethany Daugherty. Welcome to Practicing Connection Bethany\, would you mind introducing yourself? Because this is your first time on the show\, period! \nBETHANY DAUGHERTY: Hey Jessica. Thank you. Yes\, it is my first time on the show. I’m so happy to be here. My name’s Bethany Daugherty and I’m a program coordinator for OneOp. I work with the nutrition and wellness collaboration team\, and we work on providing professional development opportunities for military connected registered dieticians\, health educators\, public health professionals\, and extension educators. \nSo I’m happy to be here. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well welcome again here and we have you all the way as a co-host. We didn’t even have you on as a guest first\, but that’s coming soon\, I hope. [00:01:00] Our guest today is Chef Mary Long. Mary is a chef and instructor of Culinary Health and Resiliency at the US Army North Vogel Resiliency Center at Fort Sam Houston. \nShe’s a classically trained chef and graduate of the Culinary Institute of San Antonio\, where she received her BS in Culinary Management. How many times can I mess up the word culinary? (laughs) Mary is also the liaison and coordinator for the Food Insecurity Project at Joint Base San Antonio with the San Antonio Food Bank. \nBETHANY DAUGHERTY: And for those listeners who maybe don’t know\, OneOp has a large food and nutrition security content library that we’ve been curating over the last few years\, and I was introduced to Chef Mary through a webinar she recently presented for OneOp on her food security work at Joint Base San Antonio. Mary teaches a variety of cooking classes at the Vogel Resiliency Center to service members and their [00:02:00] families on the topics of heart healthy cooking\, instant pot classes\, anti-inflammatory cooking\, and mindful meals\, and many more that Mary will tell us about today. \nAnd the goal of the Teaching Kitchen is to make connections through organized classes with mindfulness and nutrition focused outcomes. Hi Mary. Thanks for joining us for Practicing Connection Today. \nCHEF MARY LONG: Thank you so much Bethany. I am so excited to join you both here today\, and thank you for inviting me to the discussion. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And before we begin\, can you clear up\, is it culinary\, culinary\, culinary? (tries different pronunciations) \nCHEF MARY LONG: You know\, I have heard all three. Traditionally just in school and all\, we said “cue-linary.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes\, “cue-linary.” Okay. \nCHEF MARY LONG: I accept all. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, I think I said it all three of those ways actually. \nBETHANY DAUGHERTY: That’s really good to know\, yeah. I have so enjoyed getting to know you over the last few [00:03:00] months as we prepared for the webinar and just am in awe of the work that you’re doing. It’s so interesting and so impactful\, so the audience can get to know you better. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your background and how that’s prepared you for the work that you do? \nCHEF MARY LONG: Sure. I did grow up here in San Antonio\, Texas\, and as I grew up\, I lived near three of the five military bases that were part of the local military community before Joint Base was formed. And my love for cooking and sharing with others about how to make a meal stretch. And how to cook\, just basic cooking skills was embraced and sought after by the young military families with children that I was serving when I was also a daycare worker and then daycare director outside of Lackland Air Force Base in the 1990s. \nSo as I continued to raise my own family and then volunteer with organizations\, such as [00:04:00] Meals on Wheels with the San Antonio Food Bank and also Angel Food Ministries\, this was a ministry that had food boxes that people could buy for about half the cost of what they would receive in the grocery store. \nAnd I would make healthy recipes to help them along because sometimes some of the items enclosed in those boxes were a little different and they weren’t too sure of what to do with them. And so just organically the experience occurred where we would have cooking sessions there at the preschool\, and not only were they able to learn some new ideas on what to do with that\, but there was a connection that was made even then with some of the spouses whose. \nYou know\, their military member was deployed at the time\, and so we just had that time of family and connection over a meal. Even then\, those experiences along with my culinary background as a chef and trainer for both Kroger and Colorado\, and then the HEB corporation in Texas [00:05:00] both allowed me. To share with the customers and the students ways to make healthy meal choices\, as well as understanding that the food cost and the ability to cook may be barriers for some of them. \nBETHANY DAUGHERTY: Can you tell us a little bit about Joint Base San Antonio and the Vogel Resiliency Center? \nCHEF MARY LONG: Definitely. The Vogel opened as the Vogel Resiliency Center in 2018\, and it was created to provide a health and wellness program for Joint Base San Antonio and the community. We empower individuals\, families\, and organizations by exploring both mind\, body and spirit lifestyle changes through our partners\, and we do have several partners that are in-house. We serve active duty dependents\, retirees\, and all department of defense civilians as well\, and there’s also guard and reserve members of course\, as well. All of our services are provided without [00:06:00] a fee. \nAnd the resiliency kitchen\, which is where I get to have the opportunity to offer the hands-on culinary classes and team building experiences that we offer that really enhance also life skills. As Jessica mentioned\, I’m also the coordinator and liaison with the San Antonio Food Bank for the Food Insecurity Project at JBSA\, Fort Sam Houston. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I am curious about some of the things you mentioned that in those boxes that people would get that were a little bit different and you had to show them what they could do with those items. Do you have an example of an item that is often maybe donated in boxes like that and people are like\, “What? What do I do with this?” \nCHEF MARY LONG: Sure. I mean\, it was something even as simple as maybe a protein they weren’t used to\, but one example that comes to mind was chickpeas\, or garbanzo beans. There were a lot of folks that\, when we had that come in\, sometimes in the canned goods\, things like that\, that they didn’t [00:07:00] know what to do with that. \nThey weren’t familiar with it in the culture and time that they experienced cooking\, maybe from\, you know\, their time growing up. And so it wasn’t a part of what they considered a food that would be open for their family to try. So that’s where creating that meal\, creating a snack with the items in hand\, right there on hand\, allowed them to try it so that it\, they wouldn’t go home and basically either not do anything with it at all or just give it away. And we wanted to create a time for them where they were receiving these items because there wasn’t a choice. It was like\, here’s the box where they felt successful in\, in going home and having food to serve their family. And a lot of it was just education on those things like that. But it\, some things it was\, they might be familiar with the item\, but they just didn’t know how to cook with it. They didn’t know how to prepare it. So it was a balance of those things. [00:08:00]\nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Or like maybe beyond like the box instructions\, if there\, if it’s in a box or whatever\, but where you could do so much more with it. I imagine. \nCHEF MARY LONG: Right. Some of those items because the way they were packaged\, they were pulled apart from the packaging that they originally came in. So there might not even be cooking instructions on the box or the items ’cause they were separated into smaller packaging. \nSo it could even be just an education piece of\, “Okay\, they’ve given me this piece of meat or this thing\, what do I do with it? You know\, I don’t know how to debone and cut up a whole chicken.” Even something as simple as that. “I’m used to buying the chicken in pieces at the grocery store. How do I cut up this chicken\, and prepare it correctly.” So yeah. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I’ll be honest\, I don’t know how to cut up a whole chicken. Luckily my spouse does\, so this is a good\, great segue into learning more about the cooking classes that you teach at the Resiliency Center. So could you tell us a little bit more about those and why it’s so valuable to teach these classes? \nYou’ve already kind of given a couple of examples of why it’s valuable\, but [00:09:00] love to hear a little bit more about those classes. \nCHEF MARY LONG: Sure. Well\, we do offer a variety of hands-on cooking cleanses. As you mentioned\, there’s an opportunity for those that are interested in learning basic culinary skills as well as for those who are seeking to learn more about new culinary skill sets\, whether it’s baking or healthy eating options. \nAnd these are all classes that are open to the general public so they can. Take a class like Instapot Cooking or Heart Healthy Recipes 101. We do have a plant-based cooking class that was actually grown out of interest from students that I had that were attending maybe the heart healthy classes\, and they wanted to really expand their knowledge on what whole food cooking could look like. \nAnd so this is not a vegan class because we might still use eggs or cheese\, and other things like that. But it does give an opportunity for them [00:10:00] to have that cooking. We also offer classes like Baking 101 and Anti-Inflammatory Cooking for Life. The meal prep class that I offer is very popular\, as well as cooking on a budget\, which gives folks not only quick and easy recipe ideas\, but also ways to really look at how to change it up a little bit. \nWhether we are looking at buying that cheese now in bulk rather than shredded cheese\, and we actually shred cheese on hand because some folks have never shredded cheese. So it’s another way to introduce the skill set along with the idea kids get to join in. We have kids and parents cooking classes that I offer as well as specialized classes for single soldiers. \nWho may live in the barracks and I’m currently working on a class to offer things like knife skills 101 as well as an intermediate kids class that older children and teens that are interested in culinary can attend as well. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: [00:11:00] That is such a great variety. I’d love to hear about your participants. What surprises them? What stories do you have that illustrate the power of this work? \nBecause we’ve talked a little bit offline and I know that there’s some powerful stories that you have. I think\, you know\, when you have such a variety\, there’s a reason for that variety of classes and so yeah\, let’s hear a little bit about that. \nCHEF MARY LONG: Sure. A part of what I offer as well are collaborations that I have with some of our entities that really came about from the beginning\, and one of them was with. Our outpatient rehabilitation class. That’s through the cardiology team at Brick Army Medical Center\, and they have an eight week class where students come together and they’ve had some type of heart injury. \nSo they’re\, they’ve either had heart surgery\, a heart attack\, and now they’re coming to this outpatient class to learn some new skills. And one of the things they get to do is come to the plant-based cooking 101 class at the Vogel. [00:12:00] And occasionally we’ve had some folks that have come\, and sometimes they bring a spouse along and they’re not quite sure about all these changes they’ve cooked for a long time\, or they’ve just lived for a long time\, and maybe they’re looking at all the nos that they’ve heard. \nAnd so one particular time I had a couple that came in and we were offering a plant-based chili recipe. And this was like Texas style chili\, but without the beef or even turkey or any of that\, not an animal protein. So we had lots of different beans\, lots of spices. Lots of peppers and onions and all the good stuff. \nBut the husband kept giving his spouse the side eye when she chose the chili recipe to begin with. And then as they were creating it\, and I’m saying things like\, “Don’t forget\, you’ve got tasting spoons. You’ve gotta taste this\, so we gotta make sure it tastes right.” He just kept looking around and not happy at all to be creating Texas Chili without Texas beef in it. So we finally sat down for our meal and we’re all\, you [00:13:00] know\, I give him a few minutes\, we’re tasting everything\, we’re enjoying\, and I hear him say\, “I can’t believe this. We’re gonna have to make this for the kids. And we can’t tell them what it is that there’s no meat in it ’cause they’re never gonna believe this\, but wow.” \nAnd it was one of those moments where he realized\, and he said at the end\, “I didn’t think this was gonna be any good\, but we can do this.” And so they’re cooking with the dash\, no sodium\, spices they’re creating with all these extra fresh vegetables and herbs and\, and really getting to try out some new things because that’s kind of my motto in here\, is\, “What can we add to make it delicious and eye appealing and fun?” \nNot all those things you might’ve heard from your health professional of what you can’t have because those are important. But what can we do to make this to where you’re gonna go home and embrace these changes and really go with it? And that was one fun story of that. I’ve also [00:14:00] just after the four years I’ve had working with\, uh\, building this culinary program is just sitting together and having a meal. \nThere’s something that they’ve created and the students have that sense of accomplishment\, so they have that connection that they’ve made maybe with another spouse. Maybe they just got here to JBSA and they’ve made a couple of friends in the class. They find out something\, maybe about a teammate. \nWhen we’ve had a team building where I’ve heard conversations like\, “I didn’t know you had kids\, and you know\, we’ve worked together.” But just something organically happens around the dinner table. This universal connection through food is what I’ve had the pleasure of guiding the military community through by offering these classes\, because we give that space for community\, but also for learning something new\, whether it’s technique or just maybe finding out a new way to do something with that broccoli that they’ve steamed the heck out of for years and now they’ve learned how to roast it and this\, the opportunities that we [00:15:00] have here is a way for people to just. \nMeet them where they’re at\, and then offer the opportunity and the space. It really is powerful. It’s really exciting. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, and I feel like trying a new food or something that you’re skeptical of is a great way of kind of opening your mind a little. I know it seems like a small\, simple thing\, but it’s really a great way to kind of almost take on a new perspective. \nI grew up when I was a kid\, it was not the fault of my parents\, but I was an incredibly picky eater. And I only wanted\, you know\, macaroni and cheese pizza. I don’t\, and there was like a third thing on there that’s very typical\, like I didn’t want very much. And I ended up marrying into a family where my husband’s family\, like they had their entire backyard\, was a garden. \nAnd they\, like\, they grew all kinds of new and different things just for the joy of growing new and different things. And I’ve found that through experimentation\, I think that’s a another kind of fun thing that\, like you described in that [00:16:00] story with\, you know\, the spouse who came and was very skeptical and then he’s like\, “Oh\, whoa\, meatless chili not only can be good\, but we have to make this all the time.” \nLike there’s something that just unlocks a little bit\, I think when someone is open to that. I’m glad he tried it. \nCHEF MARY LONG: I was kind of worried ’cause he certainly was not happy to be making that dish. Yeah\, he was not happy. She chose that. I do allow everyone to\, when they pair up or when they’re there\, because each of the stations\, we have five stations\, so each one is making a different recipe. \nSo during a class. The students actually get to try at least four or five recipes because each of the stations is making something different. And then we played up on the education side where we have our tables and we sit down and have the meal together. So we’re getting to try all these different things together that were created by different groups. \nAnd then after we’ve eaten for a little bit\, I’ll say\, “Okay. Did anyone add a little extra garlic? What did we do? You [00:17:00] know\, maybe jazz it up a little differently\, chefs. How did you guys handle that?” And then we talk through any of those changes that way. So if you have those recipes at home\, no one says\, “Well\, mine doesn’t taste like that.” \nAnd that gives them an opportunity to also shine when everybody’s giving back the feedback of how great. That dish is\, and they really love how they did\, you know\, whatever they did to\, to jazz it up. And sometimes they’ll have some extra peppers out or some extra things that they’ll say\, “Chef\, can I add a little extra this in?” \nOr\, “I see those that you have here those roasted bell peppers\, can we throw that on top of the hummus?” And so we will\, I’ll give them that\, that leeway to make some changes and make it even better. That’s always fun too. \nBETHANY DAUGHERTY: And I also love how you talked about people are often hearing the things they need to take away from their normal eating pattern\, especially in the instance of someone who’s had a heart event and they’re being told a lot\, you know\, “Don’t eat this\, don’t eat this. Reduce your sodium.” And to kind [00:18:00] of reverse that messaging of “Here’s all these wonderful things that you can have and here are ways that you can prepare them.” \nIt’s really empowering. People often feel really tied to a recipe. If they’re not an experienced cook\, they think I have to follow this to a tea and be perfect with it\, right? And to give that freedom of\, you could make this how you want it to taste for you and\, and it can still fit within the health goals that you have. \nI think that’s really empowering. \nCHEF MARY LONG: I had\, one of my first students came in directly from a dietician class here in the\, in our center\, and she walked in and said\, “Chef\, I was told you cook and that you’re going to teach me how to cook because I just found out I have diabetes and I don’t know how to cook and I go out to eat. \nBut now I don’t trust these people to give me what I need to have and I don’t know what they put in a lot of my dishes. So we’re gonna work together on this.” And I was just\, “All right. [00:19:00] Yes ma’am. Let’s do this.” So she’s jumped in and the last two years has come to pretty much every class I’ve held\, and now calls herself my sous chef\, which I’m like\, yep\, you are. \nAnd she’s just the biggest advocate of standing up and sharing for yourself. What you need to do to make these things happen. And that helps a lot in the class because I don’t have to say\, you know\, okay\, well remember\, we still need to listen to your physician\, because she is always very vocal about\, “I come here and I learn\, but I still\, I took what my doctor had to say and then what chef showed me and put those things together. And now I’m able to cook at home and make sure I’m getting what I’m supposed to because I know what I’m putting in it when I cook it at home.” \nAnd that’s been really great to see how she came in from one side of saying\, I really don’t know what I’m doing\, to now feeling very confident and even assisting others in the classroom. \nBETHANY DAUGHERTY: Such a great healthcare community partnership where [00:20:00] someone can leave their physician’s office or their dietician’s office and be given some advice that’s really helpful and really important to their health. Not knowing how to put it into action. And so this\, taking it a step further and getting the education and the experience to put it into action makes really impactful and meaningful health outcomes. \nSo I\, I think a lot of dieticians will be interested in hearing this podcast and\, and really appreciative of what you do. And I know from the webinar that you presented for one op that. We will link that webinar in the OneOp notes for those who might wanna go back and listen to that\, that people are interested in recreating what you’re doing at Joint Base San Antonio\, at their own installation or their own workplace\, but maybe don’t have the facility or the funding to start that. \nCan you recommend for those people in that situation\, maybe one small way that they could start [00:21:00] bridging that gap between providing advice and then helping folks\, putting it into action? \nCHEF MARY LONG: Sure. So I think really\, if you’re interested in starting some type of program to promote culinary health at your installation or workplace\, one of the things I would suggest is really starting by sharing your desire with leadership and establishing specific goals that you want to accomplish for your clients so that you have that basic outline of what do we want to do? to start with. \nAnd then from there\, collaborating with others from myself\, because I’m not a dietician or a nutritionist\, I\, from the beginning\, collaborated with folks like Army Public Health nurses\, in house dieticians that are here either at the Vogel or nearby. And then also being open to collaborate with other entities. \nMaybe that may not seem so obvious\, but that might have the same goals for their client’s health. So I work with the Soldier Recovery Unit. I also have some [00:22:00] collaboration with the Center for Intrepid. They have a group of Special Forces soldiers that come through once during their career and their very first day there together\, they get to come in with me into the kitchen. \nAnd it’s more of a time of getting to know one another and meal prep and connect than it is really techniques and learning any of that. But it’s a real important time for them and they really take a lot away from that because it’s their first opportunity to spend with one another. So just some of those things. \nAnd whether you’re using a space such as a barracks or a USO kitchen to video or share live\, you don’t need a full teaching kitchen like I have to demonstrate from\, but I have taken my show on the road with a pressure cooker and an induction top to the barracks or to the Center for Intrepid\, and I’m very happy also to answer any questions on how our program progressed. \nIf anyone wants to reach out to me further as well. But I really do recommend just starting from the beginning with some [00:23:00] specific basic goals on how you wanna get started and really collaborating and looking at ways to see if there are other health professionals that have the same sort of goals. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I’m curious\, Chef Mary\, do you have partnerships with some local nonprofits or like County Department of Health and Human Service offices or anything like that? \nCHEF MARY LONG: I do have a partnership with the San Antonio Food Bank through their Culinary Health for families. They offer this program to any individual that wants to be trained though\, they work directly with us because we do have the San Antonio Food Distribution each month\, and so that is one entity I have. \nThe folks from HEB Corporation have worked with us to offer not only funding because we don’t receive government funding for our food\, but also ways that they can come assist for things like spouses events. Things that we might offer to our military members and our veterans that are here [00:24:00] on JBSA Fort Sam Houston. \nBut most of the collaborations I have are with entities that are here internal on JBSA\, Fort Sam Houston that I work with for the most part. Well\, and those are super important. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. You should always be looking at that. I was just curious if you had some of those other relationships as well. \nCHEF MARY LONG: So I am a part of the Food Policy Council for San Antonio\, and that’s one of the things that I do kind of on my outside for myself\, but also to represent our military members and our military community. \nAnd it just happened that it was a part of something that I wanted to do\, but as I was the only person that involved that worked with the military community\, I kind of get to be the liaison and and representative for that as well. And that is a council that meets to discuss not only what’s happening in just the regular different economy of San Antonio with food\, but also in food insecurity [00:25:00] and ways that we have projects such as gardening\, projects that are happening throughout the city and different organizations that work closely with ensuring that our community is receiving food that’s healthy. \nChildren are able to have resources as well\, whether it’s weekend food distributions for them. So it’s something that I do outside of my position. But that I also enjoy being a part of. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Wonderful. I’m curious as to that involvement. I know it’s outside of your role. Do you feel like you’ve been able to help the other people on that council understand the need around military families and if you see like sort of a\, there’s been a mutual benefit. \nCHEF MARY LONG: It really has because we’ve had a lot of discussion and actual. Interesting collaboration to where we’re looking at some things where from the outside civilian organizations don’t necessarily understand that food [00:26:00] insecurity is something that is a possibility with our service members\, because that isn’t something that has been highly discussed until very recently. \nAnd so the work that’s happening there is we’re actually looking at ways to have some. Food distributions through organizations that we have. We have a group that they work closely with the American Heart Association in providing even senior citizens and senior citizen centers where they can come in and have food distribution and a food popup and they can pick out their own fresh produce. \nAnd after listening to some information on heart health\, they get a good portion of that. Produce free. And so that’s a collaboration that we’re working on right now. So that’s something that we might be able to give to our military families as well and have access to write off a post. And that would be another resource in a way to get some fresh\, [00:27:00] healthy produce to our military members for free or for a lower price as well. \nSo that’s\, those are collaborations that are happening too. \nBETHANY DAUGHERTY: Food insecurity is such a multifaceted issue that those relationship building skills and the ability to develop those collaborations with not only the clients that you serve\, but the people on post and the organizations off posts are just so important to addressing it from a multifaceted way. \nMary\, I’m just curious\, have you learned any lessons or have any tidbits that you wanna share with the audience about developing those relationships and really fostering those collaborations to make your program so impactful? \nCHEF MARY LONG: Well\, I know that one of the things right from the beginning that I learned was that those collaborations were not only impactful to the clients and the students that I have that join me in the classroom\, but also just [00:28:00] to be an helpful to open a wider lens of what these folks bring to the table with the resources that they have. From the beginning\, I had the Army public health nurse team that would come in and share community resources such as River City Produce that we have in San Antonio that is a produce depot\, and they offer the ability for you to come in and get a nice commodity of produce at a nice price for groups to get together. \nAnd so I’ll see on the spouse’s page now that we’ve shared these resources where spouses are getting together and saying\, “Come by my house. I have all these strawberries that I got\, you know\, a pallet\, you know\, or a case of for this much money\, and I’m willing to share.” \nOr going across the street to the other resource of Cheecha Boys\, which has double SNAP benefits. So if you go and buy the produce there\, you get double your bucks for fresh fruits and vegetables. And really offering those collaborative efforts from the beginning [00:29:00] opened up the ability to have the class\, not just be on the culinary skill set\, but offering those other parts of the collaboration. \nThose other folks that are joining in\, such as the dieticians from the pediatric team that come to my kids’ class and they bring in the resources for picky eaters. And I have parents that said\, “I just never thought of\, you know\, looking at it from this side\, whether it’s the kids saying\, ‘you know what? I have a little bit of control about what I can eat\, and so I’m gonna hold my stance here.’” \nBut giving them some ideas on how to bring ’em around and having them at the table with their parents has been fun to see where they’re cutting up with their little knife\, you know\, their little plastic knife\, their veggies\, and throwing it in the pot\, and how that helps them come to try those recipes. So it’s been definitely a great learning experience for myself in building this program and seeing how. \nEach of these collaborations has just opened up [00:30:00] the door for even something else\, whether it’s the collaboration with cardiology\, moving into the opportunity for the pain clinic to jump on board\, because now they’ve heard that\, wait\, my clients can come and create a plant-based meal and learn. How that is going to be successful at their house. \nAnd so I think both sides of the coin we both have\, uh\, benefited because they’re really going beyond just handing off the information to having clients that are able to come in and really create and be successful too. And also for myself to have those professionals come into the kitchen with their knowledge base and share has been definitely a benefit as well. \nIn these last four years\, it’s been a lot of growth\, a lot of change\, and it’s been very good. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Oh\, that’s awesome. Well\, I’m gonna kind of switch gears a little bit because we are talking about food and I am getting hungry. I would love it if [00:31:00] you would be willing to walk us through a popular recipe in the classes you teach and share a little bit about why it’s popular. \nCHEF MARY LONG: Sure. Well\, I know I mentioned at the beginning about the chickpeas and the hummus from back in the day\, and that’s still a really fun and easy recipe that kind of moves its way through a variety of classes because hummus is something that is actually created. Many different culture cuisines in different ways. \nSo one that we make quite often\, and it’s really popular because number one\, it’s very inexpensive to make and it’s very tasty. And if you go into the grocery store and see the 60 varieties of hummus\, you can look along that and go\, “Wow\, I don’t know where to begin. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: The prices. \nCHEF MARY LONG: Yeah. And sometimes they’re a little bit pricey and folks just really don’t know how quick and easy it is to make. \nSo we just have a small little food processor\, or you can have a personal blender\, like one of those bullets [00:32:00] we use that in the classroom and it’s just a simple recipe. We just take a can of garbanzo beans\, which in other parts of the world are known as chickpeas. They’re the exact same thing\, and those are just a power source on their own. \nSo they make it into the plant-based class. They go into our flatbreads and hummus from around the world class as well as the heart healthy class. And I’ve even had ’em tossed into the kids’ class. So those chickpeas or garbanzo beans\, they’ve got a great amount of protein and fiber\, which makes you feel like you are full longer. \nThey also have a complex source of carbs. Lower impact on your glucose. So when you’re looking at all those fun things too\, then tahini\, which is sesame seeds\, and they just take those sesame seeds and roast ’em down into a paste. It’s what’s creamy and very high in antioxidants and vitamins. [00:33:00] And it also has a great amount of protein and fiber. \nSo you can find tahini in most grocery stores. They’re actually on the peanut butter aisle or on what some stores will have the international aisle. That’s another ingredient in there. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I was just gonna say it’s like peanut butter\, but instead of being made with peanuts\, it’s made with sesame seeds. \nCHEF MARY LONG: It looks like\, if you’ve ever seen natural peanut butter where it looks like it has a little bit of the oil on top separated\, that’s what it’ll look like too. You can find it in a lot of dressings like salad dressings as well. It’s going to be that savory\, creamy ingredient in a lot of those as well. To that\, we add a little bit of lemon juice. \nSometimes we add fresh lemon juice. Sometimes I’ll have the bottled on hand\, so it’s either that or a couple of cloves of garlic to taste. If you’re not a big garlic fan\, you can just put in one or just a little dash of garlic powder\, and then we add in our classes. Most of the time we add. One of the dash products\, which is the no sodium\, but you can also toss [00:34:00] in salt if you like it. \nJust a little taste of salt. And then we like to use a pinch of smoked paprika that gives it kind of that nice savory in there as well. A drizzle of olive oil. And you’re set. Now\, the fun thing is when I have our chefs\, our students in the kitchen preparing this\, at the end of the day\, if they really wanna get creative\, I’ll have them split the recipe in half. \nSo they’re getting to taste it as it’s made. And then those that really want to can do some things with the others. So I’ll usually have some olives on hand or some roasted peppers or some seeds like either roasted pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds on hand so they can kind of drizzle and play with it and\, and make it their own. \nAnd not only does that give us some other flavor choices at the end of the day\, but it also gave them some autonomy to\, to really make something their own. Hummus is probably one of the favorites in the classes and it’s something I’ll pull out too if we ever have something where we have some visitors come by [00:35:00] that takes maybe a couple of minutes to make and all things that are shelf stable. \nSo it’s something you can keep in the pantry and just pull out if you have unexpected guests just to put together. And I’ll be glad to share the quick and easy hummus recipe with you guys as well. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, we’ll make sure to have that as part of the show notes\, and thank you so much for sharing that with us. \nI’m curious if anyone looks at chickpeas or garbanzo beans and says\, I don’t know about this. \nCHEF MARY LONG: Yeah. Yeah. All the time. I’ve had folks that have never tried it\, and they’re still not sure they’re going to. But usually in the class setting\, and I kind of open it up and just say\, “Did anybody who had\, you know\, at the beginning of class that said they had never tried it\, did you go ahead and try it?” \nI’m not trying to make anybody try something that they really don’t want to. And usually folks say either one or two things. “I never liked it before and I really like this one\,” or\, “I haven’t tried it ’cause I wasn’t sure about this and now [00:36:00] I like it.” So there’s still some folks that are like\, “I’m still not sure about texture\,” and things like that. \nBut for the most part it’s a thumbs up. And the thing I forgot to mention that’s even best about this is how inexpensive it is to make\, it really is a little\, you know\, even with today’s prices in the grocery store\, just maybe a dollar and a half to put this whole thing together. So very economical\, really flavorful\, and you can definitely go many different ways to make it delicious and create it your way. \nThat’s the fun thing about creating at home. You get to jazz it up in your own style. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, and my local grocery store\, a small container of hummus\, will be easily $5.99. \nCHEF MARY LONG: Oh yeah. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I would also imagine tahini is a new ingredient to a lot of people\, but it’s also easy to purchase ’cause it’s in a jar next to the peanut butter\, and once you’ve tried it\, you’re like\, “Oh\, cool.” \nCHEF MARY LONG: Yeah.  And at the end of the day\, I’ve had folks that said\, “I didn’t have tahini on hand. I added a nut butter. Is that okay\, chef?” And I’m like\, [00:37:00] did it taste good? Let’s go. So it’s really\, you know\, there’s all different ways to make it and. If it’s not something\, you know\, there’s sometimes there’s folks that are more of a food desert and they don’t have the variety in their grocery store\, definitely go with it. \nYou can definitely throw in something else. There’s also recipes out there that do not even call for tahini\, so keep that in mind. That’s not an end all. Or garbanzo beans. I’ve made hummus with edamame. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Black beans! \nCHEF MARY LONG: Or black beans! We were talking about that the other day. Black beans. There’s lots of different ways to put together a delicious hummus. \nIt doesn’t have to be garbanzo beans. Definitely. \nBETHANY DAUGHERTY: Awesome. Thanks Chef Mary. These are such great ideas and such a great recipe that people can really make their own. And I’ll add\, I’ve made hummus with my kids several times and it’s just a great\, easy\, inexpensive recipe that you can get the kids involved. \nAnd then you can also get ’em to eat some more veggies ’cause they can dip their veggies in the hummus. And then [00:38:00] it’s a win for\, for mom and dad too. \nCHEF MARY LONG: Definitely. \nBETHANY DAUGHERTY: So Mary\, we’d like to end the Practicing Connection Podcast with the guest\, sharing a personal practice that helps with readiness and resilience. \nSo would you mind sharing a personal practice that helps you with your own readiness and resilience? \nCHEF MARY LONG: Sure. One of the first practices that I established and was really as I began working here at the Vogel Resiliency Center with one of my coworkers\, and she introduced me to this\, and it’s been wonderful to now share with different classes in our program\, including that mindfulness class that we do for meal prep is what we call a breath anchoring exercise for mindfulness. \nSo something as simple as a warm cup of tea in my hands. I sit with my hands wrapped around the mug\, focused on a mindful experience. It is really being present\, focused and in the [00:39:00] moment without judgment. And that’s sometimes difficult to not have judgment. \n‘Cause you know\, our minds will be wandering\, but that’s where that cup of tea really is that anchor. Because as I focus on my breathing and I sip the tea\, I can use that warm cup in my hands as the anchor to bring any strain thoughts that might come back. In my head\, back to my breath\, and that quiet moment I’m giving myself\, and I found that having that anchor or object helps me refocus and stay present. \nBut it could be something as simple as washing your hands and focusing on the warm water\, flowing over your hands as you rub together and wash them. Or even if you’re sitting in the parked car in your driveway. Taking intentional breaths before you head into your next event or maybe at the end of your day. \nAnd so that’s been something that has been a very helpful and easy way for me to kind of stay [00:40:00] anchored and focused and in the moment when I’m trying to establish that type of a mindfulness moment that day. \nBETHANY DAUGHERTY: Thank you for sharing that. That’s such a wise practice that will be helpful to many of the listeners. \nMary\, thanks so much for joining us today. We really appreciate everything you’ve shared with us. I’ve really just enjoyed talking with you and getting to know you over the last few months. I. That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. \nWe’d love to hear what you’ve been thinking about and what’s inspiring you. You can share that with us by clicking the Send us a text message at the top of the description of this episode. If you are listening on a computer\, you can email us at practicing connection@oneop.org. We can’t wait to hear from you. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Thanks again to Chef Mary Long and Bethany Daugherty for joining us today. We’d also like to thank our co-producer\, Coral Owen\, our announcer Kaylyn Gobel\, [00:41:00] Maggie Lucas\, for their help with marketing and Nathan Grim who composed and performed all the music you hear on the podcast. We hope you’ll listen again soon. \nUntil then. Keep practicing. \nCREDITS: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U. S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, U. S. Department of Defense\, under award number 2023-48770-41333.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Drug Trends and Impacts on Military Adults: Practical Suggestions for Mental Health Professionals
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The cumulative effects of deployments on mental health and the potential relationship between substance use are discussed. \nConversation includes how stigma associated with drug use in military culture can influence experience\, and how this affects treatment seeking. Focus is on military service members\, their families\, and the impact on their community. The webinar ends with a discussion on mobilizing best practices in supporting the military community. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nIdentify the impact of current drug trends on military families and communities\nExamine how military-related factors may influence substance use patterns (i.e.\, data on what we’re seeing in our military services on drug trends)\nDiscover strategies for clinically engaging military service members and their family members impacted by or experiencing Substance Use Disorder (SUD)\nDescribe at least one change communities can make to support people with SUDs\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”Presenters” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”5″ top_margin=”0″ constrain_group_7=”yes” bottom_margin=”0″ left_margin=”0″ constrain_group_8=”yes” right_margin=”0″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][image_with_animation image_url=”178846″ image_size=”custom” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”5px” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default” position_desktop=”relative” custom_image_size=”thumb” margin_top=”10″][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”3/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”John Haenes\, LMSW\, ICPS” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]John Haenes holds a master’s of science in social work and is an internationally certified prevention specialist with 32 years of experience in the field of substance use disorders\, juvenile delinquency\, trauma\, and child welfare. Mr. Haenes is a recognized expert in addiction and adolescent brain development and served as the Deputy Assistant Director for Specialized Programs at Tarrant County Juvenile Services. Mr. Haenes has been a trainer for the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)\, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA) the Texas Center for the Judiciary\, the Texas Justice Court Training Center\, the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission\, the Department of Family and Protective Services\, Court Appointed Special Advocates\, and numerous local independent school districts and police departments. \nMr. Haenes currently serves as the Chief Operations Officer of Challenge of Tarrant County\, a nonprofit agency whose mission is to confront substance abuse by identifying needs\, educating the community\, mobilizing resources\, promoting collaborations\, and advocating for sound public policy.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”40″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”top” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Continuing Education (CE) Credit” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][nectar_btn size=”jumbo” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” el_class=”Continuing Education” button_id=”Continuing Education” text=”Continuing Education” url=”https://auburn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eEUqH9cMrOK4ZhA”][vc_column_text]\n\nCertified in Family and Consumer Sciences (CFCS): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close on March 13\, 2027.\nBoard Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) contact hours by The Patient Advocate Certification Board. Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close on March 13\, 2027. \nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close on March 13\, 2030.\nSocial Workers\, Licensed Professional Counselors\, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. Check with your state licensing agency for reciprocity and/or credit approval if licensed for other professions or in one of the following states: CO\, FL\, HI\, IA\, KS\, KY\, MI\, NY\, ND\, OH\, OK. Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close on March 13\, 2027. \nOneOp Certificates of Attendance are available for those interested in additional documentation of professional development activities.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” top_margin=”0″ left_margin=”0″ constrain_group_2=”yes” right_margin=”0″ column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color=”#f7f7f7″ background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_color=”#f7f7f7″ column_border_style=”solid” enable_border_animation=”true” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Event Materials” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1689369183150{padding-left: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1776779234111{padding-left: 15px !important;}”]\n\nWebinar Additional Resources\n\nThis is the second webinar with presenter John Haenes around drug trends. We recommend watching the first webinar\, Drug Trends in Military Adults: Essential Insights for Mental Health Professionals.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”1″ divider_color=”default”][vc_column_text]This webinar is a part of the Substance Use\, Stigma\, and Recovery: Trends in Military Contexts series.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Photo Credit: Vitaly Gariev\, Pexels[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://oneop.org/learn/160083/
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement
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SUMMARY:How A Neurodiversity Mindset Helps Children Thrive
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The concept of neurodiversity is changing the way educators and other practitioners help children who learn differently. Participants will gain foundational knowledge on history and neuroscience behind neurodiversity alongside an understanding that autism is just one type of neurodivergent condition. Participants will learn how neurodivergence is defined\, the conditions it encompasses\, and its prevalence among approximately 15% to 20% of the global population. This session will provide the latest evidence and information to better support children who learn differently. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nIdentify the history of neurodiversity\nRecognize the neuroscience behind neurodiversity\nApply a neurodiversity mindset\nIntegrate neurodiversity affirming practices into everyday life\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”Presenter” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”5″ top_margin=”0″ constrain_group_7=”yes” bottom_margin=”0″ left_margin=”0″ constrain_group_8=”yes” right_margin=”0″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][image_with_animation image_url=”190742″ image_size=”custom” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”5px” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default” position_desktop=”relative” custom_image_size=”thumb” margin_top=”10″][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”3/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Celest Austin\, M.D.\, Ph.D.” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Dr. Celest Austin has dedicated her life to autism because of her autistic sister\, Amanda. After earning a MD/PhD from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio\, Dr. Austin knew she wanted to help more autistic children and founded GoManda\, named after her sister Amanda. Inspired by the unique learning style of Amanda and other autistic individuals\, GoManda is a company dedicated to celebrating the unique mind of autism. 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Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 3/6/2027.\nEarly Interventionists and Early Childhood Educators: This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the Early Intervention Training Program (EITP) at the University of Illinois. \nIllinois Early Care & Education Providers: This webinar is a Gateways to Opportunity Registry-approved Training for early care and education professionals in Illinois through 6/30/2026.\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 3/6/2030.\nMichigan Certified Teachers: This webinar has been approved for 1.5 SCECH from the Michigan Education Association’s Center for Leadership and Learning.\nSocial Workers\, Licensed Professional Counselors\, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. Check with your state licensing agency for reciprocity and/or credit approval if licensed for other professions or in one of the following states: CO\, FL\, HI\, IA\, KS\, KY\, MI\, NY\, ND\, OH\, OK. 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SUMMARY:Achieve Your Goals with WOOP
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Discover the WOOP method\, a powerful tool that uses obstacles as stepping stones to success. \nDiscover WOOP\, a science-backed goal-setting practice that helps you overcome obstacles and achieve your goals. \nLearn how to apply this simple yet powerful tool to transform your habits and improve your well-being. \nWe’d love to hear what’s inspiring you! Share your thoughts using the “Send us a text message” feature or email us at practicingconnection@oneop.org. \nLinks\n\n\n\nhttps://woopmylife.org/\nhttps://woopmylife.org/en/practice \n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”]JESSICA BECKENDORF: [00:00:00] Hello. Thanks so much for listening to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Jessica\, and I’m flying solo today for the first time ever! I will be rejoined by my co-hosts soon\, but today it’s just me. And I’ll be sharing a practice for goal setting that I have used successfully in the past. It’s called WOOP. \nThat’s WOOP\, and it stands for Wish\, Outcome\, Obstacle\, Plan. This practice has been instrumental in helping me overcome obstacles and change habits. I come back to it whenever I need to rethink my thinking about an issue. Let me give you an example. I used to forget to pack my lunch. Almost every day\, I would rush out the door without a lunch\, and very likely without having eaten breakfast [00:01:00] as well\, but that’s another issue for another practice on another day! \nThe problem was that this didn’t align with my financial goals. I wanted to save money\, not spend it every day. And the other problem was that this didn’t align with my health goals either. I used it as an excuse to eat fast food or to eat poorly in general\,right? \nThat food tastes good\, right? I really needed to make a change though. So one day I was listening to a podcast episode that highlighted this practice. I remember thinking that the funny name would probably help me remember it\, and when I mess up\, I could just say\, “Whoops\,” and try again. I’m a little embarrassed to admit that I chuckled to myself about that very unfunny thought. \nI don’t recall who was being interviewed on the podcast\, this was quite a while ago. But what I learned was that this tool was [00:02:00] backed by research\, and that it really helped people with things like changing their behavior and realizing their goals\, becoming more physically active\, adopting a healthier lifestyle and diet. Taking better care of their own wellbeing. \nExhibiting more pro-social behavior\, and improving their performance. It sounded really impressive\, so I went to their website to learn more. The website is https://woopmylife.org/\, and I’ll make sure to have a link for you in the show notes because they’ve got some really great resources: videos\, and even an entire kit for you to use to implement this tool in your work and life. \nSo WOOP is based in the science of human motivation. It uses the very obstacles that get in our way as the catalyst for achieving our goals. It does that by helping us to imagine what those inner obstacles are. So these are the things that may be [00:03:00] the thoughts and the behaviors that we currently have\, that we can change\, that are internal to ourselves. \nSo these are not external obstacles. These are all internal obstacles. So it helps us imagine those\, and then create a plan for when those obstacles are happening. What can we do to move through that or to get around it and achieve our goals anyway? \nSo let’s learn more by getting into the practice and sharing an example. \n– break – \nAgain\, WOOP stands for Wish\, Outcome\, Obstacle and Plan\, and you can practice this in a few ways. I like to use WOOP in its shortest version. So on their website they have a kit and there’s a worksheet called “WOOP In One Glance” in that kit. That’s how I started [00:04:00] using this tool\, mostly because I’ve primarily used this tool to forge new habits\, versus making longer term goals. \nBut it can be used both ways and you can find out more at their website@woopmylife.org. So let’s get started. Start with your wish. In three to six words\, choose your wish. Choose something that is challenging\, but feasible. I’ve heard things like\, “I want to run a marathon\,” as being a wish. But my first time practicing whoop\, I said\, “I wanted to stop eating fast food for lunch.” \nI thought that would be challenging\, but also feasible. So now the next step is\, in three to six words\, again\, identify what would be the best outcome of fulfilling your wish. My answer was that\, “I would feel healthier and more energized\,” right? \nSo the next step we’ll move on to is\, what’s the obstacle? [00:05:00] Identify your main inner obstacle that holds you back from fulfilling your wish. So again\, you’re trying to do this in three to six words\, and in my case\, it was forgetting to pack my lunch or forgetting to take my lunch with me before I left. That’s more than six words\, but the word limit is really a guide to help keep you focused. \nAnd then finally\, in again\, three to six words\, note what action you can take to overcome your obstacle. So in this example\, I thought it would be a better idea to drive past the fast food restaurants and instead pull into the grocery store parking lot to make up a salad or get some other healthier foods. \nThen you’ll wanna put it all together like this: So\, you’re gonna kind of create a little bit of an “If –  then” statement. So “if”: state your obstacle\, “then I will”: state your action or thought to overcome your [00:06:00] obstacle. So “if\,” obstacle\, “then I will\,” action. Here’s what it sounds like with my example. “If I forget my lunch\, then I will go to the grocery store.” \nThat’s it. I am telling you\, this practice has been such a helpful tool in my toolbox to help me change behaviors and improve my resilience and relationship with myself. \nThat’s it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us\, or for joining me today! If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. \nDo you have a favorite practice you’d like to share with us? Click\, “Send us a text message” at the top of the description of this episode. When you click the link\, your text messaging app will open and you’ll see a seven digit number with the words “do not remove.” Type your message after that and click send. \nWe’ll share your feedback on a future episode. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can email us at practicing connection@oneop.org instead. We’ll be back next [00:07:00] week with a brand new episode. Until then\, keep practicing. \nCREDITS: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U. S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, U. S. 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SUMMARY:How to be Present for Others in their Grief (replay)
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You can start working on it immediately\, but it will take building the habit and muscle memory to really start seeing the impacts. \nWhich is why we decided to republish this episode from a year ago\, to check in with you on how you are doing with this practice\, and give us all a chance to revisit it. \nWe’ll be back again next week with a brand new episode and fresh practice. Until then\, keep practicing! \nWe’d love to hear what’s inspiring you! Share your thoughts using the “Send us a text message” feature or email us at practicingconnection@oneop.org.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”]JESSICA BECKENDORF: [00:00:00] Hi everyone. This is Jessica. This episode was the second in a series of three Practic casts centered around “Holding Space\,” a concept we learned from Heather Plett\, author of The Art of Holding Space. Our co-creator for this series was our OneOp colleague\, Kristen Jowers. In this episode\, Kristen shares two practices to help us prepare and hold space for someone experiencing grief. \nSome of the practices we recommend on this show are more quick and simple\, and some take a bit more time\, intention\, focus\, and determination. Holding space falls into the latter category. You can start working on it immediately\, but it will take building the habit and muscle memory to really start seeing the impacts. Which is why we decided to republish this episode from a year ago\, to check in with you on how you’re doing with the practice and give us all a chance to [00:01:00] revisit it. \nWe’ll be back again next week with a brand new episode and fresh practice. Until then\, keep practicing. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: All of us experience grief and loss. Having someone hold space for us during a difficult time can be just the balm we need. Being able to hold space for someone else is a skill we can all develop. Hi everyone\, this is Jessica Beckendorf and welcome to this week’s Practicing Connection PractiCast\, where we highlight a specific practice you can use in your life and work. In this month’s practicast\, we’ve been talking about different ways to hold space for others. “Holding Space” refers to the act of being fully present with someone else without judgment or distraction so that the person can share their experiences and perspective. \nWe have a special guest today\, Kristen Jowers. Kristen joined the OneOp team in 2023 as a program coordinator\, with more than eight years working in higher [00:02:00] education. Kristen uses her background in psychology\, child development and marriage and family therapy to enhance her work at the University of Kentucky. \nPart of her personal development goals this year include getting out of her comfort zone and leaning into new experiences\, like doing this PractiCast! Kristen enjoys reading\, resting\, and can be found taking pictures of her dog Copper\, the Bassett hound\, who is\, I can confirm\, incredibly adorable. Kristen will be guiding us through the practice in a few minutes\, but first let’s learn more about it. \nHi Kristen. \nKRISTEN JOWERS: Hey Jessica\, thanks for having me on. I am a long time listener and first time contributor\, so thanks for having me on to talk about holding space for grief. Before we jump in\, I did want to provide a quick content note\, as this episode discusses death\, grief\, and loss. We encourage listeners [00:03:00] to pause or take breaks as needed to take care of yourself. \nA transcript and other resources are available on our website at oneop.org/podcast. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: All right. Thank you so much for sharing that. Kristen\, let’s start with talking about what grief is. Can you share a little bit about that? \nKRISTEN JOWERS: Oftentimes\, grief is thought of as the loss of a loved one. Today\, I want to expand that and include grief in the context of major changes like separation and divorce\, natural disasters\, school or job changes and illness. \nGrief is one of those human experiences that comes with living and loving. All of us have experienced or will experience grief at some point in our lives. And some of us may be living with grief right now. You may have heard of the Five Stages of Grief by Elizabeth Kubler Ross. The stages are denial\, [00:04:00] anger\, bargaining\, depression\, and acceptance. \nThey’re often thought of as stages\, but they don’t define a linear process or timeline. The stages of grief are not consecutive\, so you might feel some\, all\, or none of these emotions. There really isn’t a timeline for grief\, and you can intersect with someone at different points in their grieving process. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Wow. I actually didn’t realize that\, and maybe if I thought back to the times when I was experiencing grief\, I may have realized this\, but I didn’t realize that you may feel all\, some or none of those emotions. So I found that to be really\, really interesting. And so given that that’s the case\, how can we hold space for people who are experiencing grief? \nKRISTEN JOWERS: Yes\, Jessica. There’s a lot of different complexities that surround grief and loss\, and so the response is [00:05:00] nuanced. Heather Platt describes in her book The Art of Holding Space\, a collapsible container\, or silicone bowl\, kind of like one of those bowls that you’ll take camping or that I take to the dog park with copper. \nThe bowl can be shallow\, medium\, or deep to fit the size space and need. So for example\, we hold shallow space when someone shares about how tired they are from having a new baby. We hold medium space for when someone shares about how their community has been affected by a natural disaster\, and we hold deep space when someone has lost a loved one. \nBeing the bowl is how you serve when you hold space for others. The container provides protection\, support\, and safety. We help them to see that they’re not alone. In Plett’s words\, “We give them space for the waiting that they must do before their new story emerges.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Oh yeah. Because [00:06:00] with a lot of grief and loss comes change\, right? \nSo what keeps us from holding space for grief? \nKRISTEN JOWERS: I think there are a lot of reasons. This is hard\, Jessica. There’s sort of this delicate balance we all manage as we provide care for each other\, while taking care of ourselves. Heather Plett talks about emotional labor taking more energy than physical labor sometimes\, and she talks about telling people when we’re at capacity as a way to communicate when our bowl is full. \nAnother consideration is our own experiences of grief\, and how that might impact how much space we have in our bowl. And even when there is space\, our own fears and discomfort can get in the way. I think sometimes we’re worried about saying or doing the wrong thing\, or feeling like when everything is going wrong for someone else\, it’s uncomfortable for us. And [00:07:00] our instinct is to wanna fix it for them. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, it’s definitely\, I mean\, especially someone we love too\, right? We wanna fix\, we wanna make them feel better. \n– break – \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, let’s get started. I know you brought a practice or two with you today. Please walk us through them. \nKRISTEN JOWERS: I’m gonna talk about two practices today. The first is\, “Keep your ego out of it.” With grief\, there can sometimes be this feeling that other people don’t understand what you’re going through\, and I think it’s really natural to say\, “I’ve been there\, I know what you’re going through.” \nAnd even if you have been there\, no two people experience things exactly the same way. So you don’t wanna claim to know what the other person is feeling\, or compare your grief to theirs. Lean into [00:08:00] your curiosity about their experience. Ask if they’d like to talk about it. Sometimes what you say is less important than just being with the person. \nIn the art of holding space. Heather Plett says that\, “One of the hardest things about holding space is that it can feel like you’re doing nothing.” It’s going to sound crazy to say this\, but there is an art to doing nothing\, when there is nothing to be done. Sometimes just being is enough. Don’t be afraid of spending time together in silence. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Hmm. That can be tough for a lot of people. \nKRISTEN JOWERS: Yes. And for the next practice\, I want to introduce the acronym SPACE\, created by Gina Ballard\, and inspired by the work of Harrison Owen\, author of Open Space Technology and the Power of Spirit. SPACE is [00:09:00] something you can remind yourself of as you’re being the container\, and holding space for someone’s grief. \nSpace stands for Safety Presence Acceptance Challenge Emptiness. S – Safety. Enhance safety through curiosity and non-judgment. Non-judgment of yourself and the one you’re holding space for. P – Presence. Use breathwork to become increasingly aware of the present moment. A – Acceptance. Acceptance looks like being with the person. Sit with what is. \nC – Challenge. Remember\, you’re not there to fix the problem. The challenge\, or [00:10:00] opportunity rather\, is to be with the person. \nE – Emptiness. Allow emptiness and silence without filling the space. Grief can evoke a lot of emotions: anger\, sadness\, powerlessness\, hopelessness\, feeling that life is happening to us. As space holders\, we’re saying\, “We’re here. We’re here to listen\, to support\, to liberate\, to empower. We’re here\, and you’re safe with us.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Wow. That was beautiful. I feel like we should just end the episode on\, “We are here and you’re safe with us.” So thank you so\, so much\, Kristen. I absolutely loved hearing your practices and your perspective today. Thanks for having me on Jessica. [00:11:00]\nThat is it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. We hope you’ll give this practice a try and share your experience in the Practicing Connection LinkedIn group\, where people supporting military families practice the skills that empower us to work together so that we can positively impact our communities and help families thrive. \nAnd certainly the SPACE practice and keeping our egos out of it are both something that will empower us to work together. \nYou’ll find the link to the group on our website at one op.org/practicing connection. We’ll be back next week with a practice for holding space for new opportunities. Until then\, keep practicing. \nCREDITS: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U. S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, U. S. 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SUMMARY:The Role of the Charitable Food System in Addressing Nutrition and Food Security
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Recent efforts have sought to redesign food pantries to create a less stigmatizing experience for clients where they can access healthy food. Attend this webinar to learn about innovative organizational practices that are aimed at meeting the various health and social needs of those relying on food pantries. \nLearning Objectives  \n\nDescribe how the charitable food system can fill gaps in food needs for households facing food insecurity.\nIllustrate examples of resources\, approaches\, and collaborative partnerships aimed at changing organizational practices in the charitable food system.\nConsider the various health and social needs of people who rely on the charitable food system.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”Presenter” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”5″ top_margin=”0″ constrain_group_7=”yes” bottom_margin=”0″ left_margin=”0″ constrain_group_8=”yes” right_margin=”0″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][image_with_animation image_url=”186564″ image_size=”custom” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”5px” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default” position_desktop=”relative” custom_image_size=”thumb” margin_top=”10″][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”3/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Caitlin Caspi\, ScD” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Dr. Caspi is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut (UConn) Department of Allied Health Sciences. At UConn\, she also serves as the Director of Food Insecurity Initiatives at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health\, and as the Associate Director of the Institute for Collaboration on Health\, Intervention\, and Policy. Her research evaluates policies and interventions related to food insecurity\, diet quality\, and weight outcomes. In her work\, she has partnered extensively with charitable food system partners\, including food banks and food pantries. 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Eligibility for CE credit will close on 2/26/27\nCertified Nutrition and Wellness Educator (CNWE): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credits from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 2/26/27\nRegistered Dietitian Nutritionists (RD/RDN) and Nutrition and Dietetics Technicians\, Registered (NDTR): This webinar awards 1.0  CPEU in accordance with the  Commission on Dietetic Registration’s Prior Approval Program. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 2/26/28\nCertified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education credit from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 2/26/27\nAccredited Financial Counselors (AFC): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit by the Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education (AFCPE). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 2/26/28\nCertified Personal Finance Counselors (CPFC): This webinar has been approved l for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit from The Center for Financial Certifications (FinCert.org). 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SUMMARY:Ethics of Care in Case Management: Communication\, Boundaries\, & Best Practices for Providers
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/2Ltt8VFa47w”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”20″ constrain_group_1=”yes” bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”About This Webinar” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]\nThe ethics of care emphasizes compassion\, empathy\, and respect in client interactions\, crucial for building trust and clear communication. Providers must often engage not only with clients but also with caregivers and supports\, especially in long-term care for individuals with disabilities. Balancing empathetic care with professional boundaries is essential\, yet can be difficult\, leading to potential ethical dilemmas\, stress\, and burnout. \nParticipants will learn communication techniques to enhance interactions with clients with disabilities and their caregivers and supports\, strategies for boundary-setting\, and ethical frameworks for decision-making. This webinar will support confidentiality\, cultural sensitivity\, and resilience\, helping professionals manage relationships effectively while reducing burnout and fostering self-care. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nApply at least two specific communication techniques to improve interactions with individuals with disabilities and their caregivers.\nIdentify and articulate two strategies for maintaining appropriate boundaries.\nDescribe and apply an ethical decision-making framework to reduce ethical dilemmas.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”Presenters” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”5″ top_margin=”0″ constrain_group_7=”yes” bottom_margin=”0″ left_margin=”0″ constrain_group_8=”yes” right_margin=”0″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”3/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Vivian Campagna\, DNP\, RN-BC\, CCM\, ICE-CCP” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]\nChief Industry Relations Officer\nCommission for Case Manager Certification \nDr. Vivian Campagna is the Chief Industry Relations Officer (CIRO) for The Commission for Case Manager Certification\, focusing on certification-related partnerships\, industry insight\, and strategic alliances in case management. With over 30 years in the field across various settings like acute care and workers’ compensation\, Dr. Campagna is a board-certified case manager and a prolific author\, speaker\, and educator in case management. Her research emphasizes effective preparation and continuing education for case managers\, and she has developed workshops\, written on industry trends\, and advocated for client-centered workforce development. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”5″ top_margin=”0″ constrain_group_7=”yes” bottom_margin=”0″ left_margin=”0″ constrain_group_8=”yes” right_margin=”0″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”3/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Lorna Lee-Riley\, MSSW\, LCSW\, CCM” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Director of Education & Industry Relations\nCommission for Case Manager Certification \nMs. Lee-Riley\, a licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Case Manager\, holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MS in Social Work from Columbia University. She began her career in the AIDS Program at St. Luke’s/Roosevelt Hospital and later developed Emblem Health’s first end-of-life care program\, “Dignified Decision.” Transitioning to acute care\, she directed social work for major New York health systems\, leading initiatives like a hospice care program and the Enhanced Interdisciplinary Care Team for complex patient transitions\, recognized at the 2018 Vizient Summit. In 2020\, she received the NASW Emerald Leadership Award. 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SUMMARY:Reframing Mistakes as Learning Opportunities
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Drawing inspiration from her two-year-old toddler’s ability to move past errors effortlessly\, Coral contrasts this with the adult tendency to analyze mistakes deeply. \nCoral introduces a simple\, two-step approach that fosters grace and understanding\, helping to turn mistakes into opportunities for personal growth. This method encourages building a healthy habit of self-compassion and learning over time. Don’t forget to share what’s inspiring you by using the “Send us a text message” feature or emailing practicingconnection@oneop.org. 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I’m Jessica. My co host Coral is here as well. Today we’ll be talking about reframing mistakes as learning opportunities\, and Coral’s going to be sharing a practice with us. Hi\, Coral. What’s inspiring you lately? Let’s just rip the bandaid off and get right to the question I really want to ask you! \nCoral Owen: Hey\, Jessica. I’ve been inspired this week by watching my two year old Kai learning to bake. Biscuits are a very common request. I’ve also been digging into some sourdough here lately\, but it’s been really fun cooking with him\, of course. But also just seeing him practice a beginner’s mindset at its finest. \nAnd this is actually something that is very heavily related to the practice we’ll be talking about today\, but I love seeing how kind he is to himself. Toddlers can be\, you know\, a little uncoordinated\, so he tends to spill things from time to time\, but it’s really sweet whenever that happens. He’ll\, he just\, you know\, he doesn’t make a big fuss about it. He just says to himself\, “That’s okay. Accidents happen. We can try again!” And I just\, I just love that. \nJessica Beckendorf: He says that? \nCoral Owen: Yeah. \nJessica Beckendorf: Oh my gosh. Did you teach him that? \nCoral Owen: I think we model that at home\, you know\, cause we say that to him\, but he says that to it\, like narrates it to himself and it’s just\, it’s really sweet. But I just think we could all use a dose of that every now and again. \nJessica Beckendorf: Yeah\, that’s beautiful. I mean\, and like you said\, what a perfect example for the topics we’ve been talking about lately. So we’d love to also hear what’s inspiring you. So please share what’s inspiring you by clicking the “Send us a text message” at the top of the description of this episode. When you click the link\, your text messaging app will open and you’ll see a seven digit number and the words “Do not remove.” \nType your message after that and click send. Don’t remove that number or we won’t see your message! To protect your privacy\, we won’t see your phone number and we can’t [00:02:00] text you back\, but we’ll share your feedback on a future episode. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can also email us at practicingconnection@1up.org \nSo let us know what’s inspiring you right now. \n– break – \nJessica Beckendorf: Let’s learn more about reframing mistakes as learning opportunities. Coral\, can you tell us a little more about the practice you’ll be sharing and why you chose it? \nCoral Owen: Sure thing. So obviously based on today’s intro\, you know that beginner’s mindset has been on my mind a lot lately. I was also talking with someone about cultivating a beginner’s mindset a little bit last week\, and I just\, I love the idea of a beginner’s mindset. \nI love the practice\, and it’s really just a beautiful thing to be a beginner at something\, and regardless of our age or proficiency in another area\, you know\, we expect to make mistakes when we’re a beginner. And so\, in other words\, we’re “failing.” I do think that failure tends to be a little bit of a loaded word\, right? \nBut in the context of being a beginner\, making mistakes and learning from them along the way is normalized and it’s celebrated. And so\, if we could carry this practice of making mistakes and treating them as learning opportunities into everyday life\, in context where we’re maybe not beginners\, It could be really\, really powerful. \nAnd so a key part of having or practicing a growth mindset\, which I kind of feel like in some\, you know\, circumstances is like having a broad application\, an all context application\, of the innerst mindset in certain ways. It’s simply adopting this habit of expecting to make mistakes as part of a human being doing life. \nAnd it’s simply impossible to live and not make a mistake every now and again\, whether it’s professional\, personal relationships\, parenting\, hobbies\, you name it\, it’s going to happen. And so today’s practice is on how we can do this to level up and level onward in our day to day. \nJessica Beckendorf: Oh\, I love [00:04:00] that. You said\, “It’s impossible to not make a mistake every now and again\,” and I would maybe say every day and again (laughs). So let’s get to it\, Coral. Could you walk us through this practice? \nCoral Owen: Absolutely. So before we dig in too deeply\, I would like to invite anyone who’s going to join us for the practice today to grab a bit of grace and self compassion and just wrap yourself in it like a blanket. \nIt does take courage and it can be uncomfortable to do a post-mortem on scenarios when we’re not at our best. So let’s like kind of lay that as the foundation for today’s practice\, right? So to begin\, think of a scenario where you made a mistake. It can be any space of life\, even if it’s a mistake that didn’t impact anyone but you. \nNext thing we’re going to do\, we’re going to drop it into one of two buckets. First one is just a simple mistake. The second one is something like a personal limitation\, things like that. So to just unpack those a little bit: a simple mistake is something that we’re pretty practiced at\, and we would probably typically get that right. \nFor these\, we just need to wrap that blanket of self compassion a little bit tighter and acknowledge that we’re human. And like you said\, every now and again\, every day and again\, mistakes just happen. And so we just need to acknowledge that fact\, drop any weight we’re still carrying from that mistake and just keep moving forward. \nBucket number two is where we’re going to dig in a little bit deeper. And this bucket is our collection of growth opportunities. And so if the mistake that you’re reflecting on is in bucket number two\, what I’m going to invite you to do is ask you two reflective questions. One: “Was this within my control in this scenario?” \nAnd if so\, number two\, “Where could I shift my approach so that if this happens again\, it will yield a more positive result?” So it’s really that simple. We just take these takeaways forward with us. And this isn’t something that\, you know\, will make [00:06:00] mistakes\, big or small\, necessarily feel comfortable or familiar overnight. \nBut it’s one of those things that when practiced over time\, each time we experience these friction points\, and leverage this practice\, we begin to find the value in them as learning opportunities. And I think also too\, just thinking of how stagnant we would be without these areas of opportunity for growth\, there’d be no feedback on how we could grow just to be more expansive\, more amazing\, more wonderful. Just as an individual\, but also to the other people in our lives. \nThat’s it. \nJessica Beckendorf: That’s beautiful. And it reminds me of how seeing a mistake like this or mistakes like this as an opportunity for growth\, there’s even sort of a little bit of a reset\, like a\, “Okay\, now\, like\, what do I need to do next so that I can continue in my growth?” So I think there’s even maybe a slight potential celebration point that you can move on. \nAnd it reminds me of how\, I was reading about this recently\, where when improvisers make a mistake\, they do this huge circus bow a lot of times. And there’s a muscle memory in doing\, having that little moment of celebration. And so\, yeah\, I think this sort of pivot point of like\, “Okay\, what’s next?” Is a really great way to kind of move through that and move on. \nCoral Owen: I love that so much. And I do think\, you know\, this is something that I have practiced personally for quite some time. And I’m not saying that to\, to pat myself on the shoulder\, but\, you know\, over time\, there is sort of a welcoming that I experienced when I go\, “Oh\, I kind of screwed that up!” And sort of celebrating or welcoming in that opportunity for creativity of\, “Well\, how can I do that better?” \nAnd bringing that problem solving approach to it. It adds an element of fun or celebration or just\, it’s a much more positive experience than the\, “Oh\, shucks. Here we go again.” \nJessica Beckendorf: Yes! Yes. \nCoral Owen: Yeah\, but you totally nailed it. [00:08:00] I love that. \nJessica Beckendorf: Well\, that’s it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. \nWe’ll be back next week with a practice for leveraging forgiveness as a strength. Until then\, keep practicing. \nCredits: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U. S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, U. S. Department of Defense\, under award number 2023-48770-41333.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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Join us as we explore a powerful practice that can help you break free from panic and gain instant clarity. \nIn this episode\, hosts Coral and Jessica explore the 10-10-10 Rule\, a simple yet powerful technique for gaining perspective on mistakes and decision-making. Jessica explains how this tool can be used to reflect on and move through errors without spiraling into panic. Tune in to learn how asking three simple questions can help you and your team navigate challenges with a clearer mindset. Don’t forget to share what’s inspiring you by using the “Send us a text message” feature or emailing practicingconnection@oneop.org. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”]Coral Owen: Hey there\, thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Coral. My co-host Jessica is here as well. Today we’ll be talking about the 10-10-10 rule\, and Jessica will be sharing a practice with us. Hey Jessica\, how are you? \nJessica Beckendorf: Hey Coral\, I’m doing pretty great\, surprisingly\, because I’ve been keeping pretty busy\, probably too busy! \nSomehow it seems like all meetings and all deadlines and all\, like\, messages from people\, whether it was text or email or different requests coming from all over the place\, they all seem to converge on the last two weeks. And I’ve noticed this happening from time to time at different times of the year\, and some of the times of year\, I think\, are sort of starting to become predictable. \nSo maybe I can use that as a planning tool. Maybe we’ll talk about that in a future\, in a future episode. But I think what’s been really on my mind lately about this is that there isn’t ever enough time to catch up\, to like go all the way back to before these two weeks began\, and to try to catch up on all the things. Even though I have like really good intentions to\, or I even have tried. I’ve put forth some of my best effort to try to get caught up. \nAnd I really had to accept that\, and just keep doing my best. And as you know\, you know\, try not to apologize all the time for everything\, because I think there’s a lot of people who are also in this predicament\, and I don’t expect apologies from them. So\, where one is necessary\, I will do it. But otherwise\, I’m just\, I’m just doing my best\, and I’m going to accept that in myself. \nSo that was really put to the test in the past couple of weeks. But the good news is that I’ve also been able to be active socially. So I haven’t like totally cocooned myself in\, in a\, in a little bubble. And I think I’ve shared with you that\, you know\, that’s kind of a goal of mine this year is to like notice that I actually am enjoying some social interactions and maybe savor those a little more. \nSo it’s been\, it’s been a good month! \nCoral Owen: I’m sure a lot of folks can relate to that experience\, Jessica. And I also think it’s really important just to recognize\, and I’m kind of coaching myself here as I reflect on this\, you know\, that we’re oftentimes our own biggest critics. And so\, you know\, working with you\, I’ve not noticed anything. \nSo\, you know\, it’s just\, I think it’s important to remember that our self perspective is oftentimes not how it’s viewed externally. So\, but yeah\, good on you for\, for kind of striking that\, that self grace balance. So\, you know\, something I’ve been embracing the last couple of weeks personally is this idea of “snacks.” \nYou know me well\, I love actual snacks\, but these are more the figurative snacks\, if you will. And so\, you know\, something that I’ve been looking and seeking throughout my days are these small pockets of time where\, you know\, if we leverage those\, and I’m not talking about\, you know\, optimizing every single minute of your day\, because we need time to decompress and whatnot\, but kind of these time leaks that I tend to have a tendency to\, you know\, maybe scroll a little bit in between meetings or whatever. \nBut\, you know\, instead of pulling out my phone or anything like that\, you know\, just going outside for a short walk down the block and back\, you know\, working remotely\, being able to do something like that\, taking the dog into the backyard for a few minutes and just enjoying the sunshine\, a short stretch. \nIt’s just really been a great habit to cultivate for myself. And I’m finding that I’m resetting a little bit better\, having a little bit more mental freshness\, as I roll into whatever task or meeting or conversation I’m\, you know\, tackling next. It just feels good. \nJessica Beckendorf: I really love this idea of “time snacks.” I’m going to call them time snacks from now on. And I do them\, but I think it would be helpful for me to just start setting some like alarms for like\, “Hey\, try to do a time snack right now\, if you can\, or maybe in a few minutes\,” if you need to. Because during the two weeks I was just talking about that were just bonkers\, my schedule was terrible. \nI mean\, on a Friday\, I had 15 minutes of like\, time to myself. This isn’t a complaint or anything. It’s just like the way things shook out. There were some deadlines\, there were just some things that needed to happen. But that on a Friday\, having only 15 minutes to yourself should not happen. So I think I probably could have found some little moments\, some of these snacks to include. \nCoral Owen: Yeah\, Yeah. \nJessica Beckendorf: So in a note\, for those of you who don’t live in a sunshiny state\, that you can also do time snacks inside if you want to. Like\, I’ve gone for a walk around my house\, which sounds super boring\, but when you have a really cute dog\, who’s like\, “Mom\, what are you doing? What are you doing? Let me follow you!” It’s actually kind of fun too. \nCoral Owen: That’s awesome. So we’d love to hear what’s inspiring you all\, our listeners\, so please share what’s inspiring you by clicking the send us a text message at the top of this description of this episode. When you click the link\, your text messaging app will open and you’ll see a seven digit number and the words “do not remove.” \nType your message after that and click send. Don’t remove that number or we won’t receive your message!. To protect your privacy\, we won’t see your phone number and we can’t text you back\, but we’ll share your feedback on a future episode. \nIf you’re listening on a computer\, you can also email us at practicingconnection@oneop.org. \nSo let us know it’s inspiring you right now. \n– break – \nCoral Owen: Let’s learn more about the 10 10 10 rule. \nJessica\, can you give us a little bit more about the practice you’ll be sharing today and why you chose it? \nJessica Beckendorf: Absolutely. This is actually a recent find for me. So it’s called the 10-10-10 rule\, and it can be used for a lot of different purposes. I’ve chosen to focus for the purpose of this Practicast on using it to move through and reflect on a mistake. \nWe often talk about having a growth mindset on this podcast and so this would be one really great practice to help you develop that growth mindset. So I first read about it in a book. I have read more that it’s been around for longer than this book\, this book just came out last year\, but I first read about it in a book I’m reading called Feel Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal. \nI’ve been following Ali for a while because I appreciate his calm approach to pretty much anything. He was a doctor before deciding to step away from that\, so maybe his training had something to do with that. And I’ll admit\, I was a little skeptical about the book\, even though I enjoy Ali’s work\, because the name seems to support toxic productivity\, or at least that was what I thought. \n“Toxic productivity” is essentially like where we push ourselves and keep telling ourselves that we can do more\, to the point where we begin to damage our physical and mental health. The title of the book made me worry that it was just a little bit of a reframing of hustle culture\, but I was wrong. It turns out that the vibe is way different than that\, and it’s full of really great little easy to implement nuggets like the 10-10-10 rule. \nYou may have noticed that I haven’t told you exactly what the rule is\, and that’s because it is so simple. And we’re about to give you exactly what the practice is. It is so simple that I would just give it all away right now\, but I wanted to mention before we get into the practice that it’s because of its simplicity that I’ve found it easy to implement right away. \nLike I’ve had no problems implementing this because it’s easy to remember to do. \nCoral Owen: That sounds great. So can you walk us through the steps? \nJessica Beckendorf: Yes\, I will actually tell you what the practice is right now! So like I said\, I think this might be one of the simplest practice that I’ve ever shared. Here’s what you do. When you or your team has made a mistake\, or you could even right now think about a mistake that you made recently or in the last year or so. \nAsk yourself the following three questions to help you reflect and move forward. First question\, will this matter in 10 minutes? Second\, will this matter in 10 days? And the third question is\, will this matter in 10 years? \nWhat do you do when the answer is yes to one of those? In the moment\, you might be like\, “Yes\, this is going to matter in 10 minutes. Like\, I’m still going to feel really embarrassed.” That’s really going to depend on the situation. And it’s a moment for you to think strategically about what to do next instead of panicking\, right? So asking yourself these questions in the moment will provide some perspective and give you a moment to stop spiraling\, or to stop your brain from spiraling. \nBut many times\, and I would say quite often\, the answer is going to be no. If you’re really thinking about this and you’re\, you’re taking a moment to pause\, it’s going to be no to all three of those questions. All the time\, maybe not. It might be that it’s going to matter in 10 years. I mean\, depending on that situation\, you will need to then take that moment\, “Okay. This is going to matter in 10 years. Who does it affect? Who do I need to talk to right now so that we can start pivoting and adjusting\,” right? \nBut so many times that answer is going to be no to all three of those questions. At least that’s what I’ve noticed so far. And maybe I’m just extra hard on myself\, I don’t know. But I’ve noticed that the answer is often no\, and it has been a really cool practice. \nCoral Owen: I love this. It sounds to me like such a great way to help us let go of things that may seem weighty at first\, but really just to let go and then to hold onto the things that truly are going to impact\, you know\, the future\, and then figuring out how do we handle those chunky problems\, but letting go of the things that maybe are a little less critical. \nI love that. \nJessica Beckendorf: I love that. And I can tell you about one other way I’ve used this is\, I tend to be a little hard on myself when I have interactions with people. And sometimes after I’ll be like\, “Why did you say that? That was so stupid.” And I have actually used this activity to help me kind of think through that. \nAnd it’s been just a really valuable practice. \nCoral Owen: That’s awesome. I would love to hear what other people find use and utility for this practice and how they’re implementing it. \nSo that’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. \nWe’ll be back next week with a practice for reframing failures as learning opportunities. Until then\, keep practicing. \nCredits: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U. S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, U. S. Department of Defense\, under award number 2023-48770-41333.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Boost Your Productivity with Co-working
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In this episode of Practicing Connection\, learn how structured co-working sessions can enhance focus\, provide accountability\, and create a sense of community—whether in person or virtually. Jessica shares a simple\, step-by-step approach to implementing this practice\, including the use of timed work intervals and background ambiance to boost motivation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nCoral: Hey there. Thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Coral. My co-host\, Jessica\, is here as well. Today\, we’ll be talking about boosting your productivity with coworking\, and Jessica will be sharing a practice with us. Hi\, Jessica. How are you? \nJessica: Great. Thank you. It’s finally warmed up here a little bit. As we’re recording\, we just came out of a cold snap where I live. I’m very happy to be able to go outside for a little bit today. I do a lot of things at the beginning of the year related to closing out the year before and thinking ahead to this year. \nOne of the things that I did recently that has really\, I don’t know\, boosted my feelings of warmth\, maybe if I can think of– if I can’t think of any other way to describe it is I created what I’m calling my social calendar. At the end of 2024\, I felt like I hadn’t done enough socially with some of my friends\, and I certainly hadn’t seen certain friends as much as I would have liked. \nAfter taking a look at my calendar for 2024\, I realized that I actually had engaged more socially than I thought I had. It’s just that I think maybe certain friends I maybe didn’t see as much as I normally would. I actually decided to create a calendar to track and appreciate or cultivate some gratitude for these interactions because I didn’t notice them during 2024\, which means I wasn’t being mindful about them. I did appreciate every single chance I had. \nI also want to know if I’m not seeing certain friends as much as I would like\, well\, let’s change that. I created this little calendar that I’m still working out the details on\, but I’m trying to have at least a once weekly social interaction of some sort if I can. My goal is to try to make at least one of those be an evening out if I feel like doing that\, because I don’t know\, I’m getting older and I enjoy being home at night. It’s been fun. \nCoral: That’s awesome. That’s such a great reflection. I feel like this ties into and is maybe just a delving into that one area that\, but tacking off the Wheel of Life conversation we had a couple of weeks ago. This sounds like it felt like an area that you wanted to further nurture in 2025. That’s sounds like such a great way to stay intentional and really hold space for those beautiful people in your life. I love that. \nJessica: Yes\, thank you. How have you been lately? \nCoral: I’ve been really great. I’m feeling energized with the new year. Just this week in particular\, I’m feeling a spark for embracing change in the unknown. I was talking with a really dear friend here locally\, well\, she’s local for now\, the other day\, and she was telling me that she is going to be moving from Tampa Bay\, where she’s lived for over 20 years\, to Tulsa\, Oklahoma. For anybody that’s from Florida\, it’s like\, that’s way over there in the middle of the US. \nJessica: That’s a big distance. \nCoral: It’s huge. It’s like a huge shift from moving from the Gulf Coast to Florida. It is out of her typical flow\, an unexpected thing from this person. She’s totally leading into it. I’m really proud of her with this awesome possibilities mindset. What new hobbies can she cultivate? She’s talking about the different experiences she’ll have\, different ways and opportunities of working professionally while also really holding on and caring for the things that she loves about her current life and her current lifestyle. \nI was just thinking about how exciting this is for her\, but how much I loved just that practice of holding onto the things. I think crossing the threshold into a new year\, we can do this in any space that we’re currently in. I was just thinking about how I can do this in my own life of perhaps cultivating new experiences I’ve been thinking about tackling without necessarily like taking a big geographic jump. That’s the spark I’ve been reflecting on lately. \nJessica: I love that. One of my favorite things to do is try new things. I really love that idea. I think that’s a really great practice. Maybe that’s a future practicast doing that reflection and setting some time to actually try the things that you’ve got on your list. I love that. We’d love to hear what’s been inspiring you. \nPlease share what’s inspiring you by clicking the send us a text message at the top of the description of this episode. When you click the link\, your text messaging app will open and you’ll see a seven digit number and the words do not remove. Type your message after that and click send. Don’t remove that number or we won’t receive your message. To protect your privacy\, we won’t see your phone number and we can’t text you back\, but we’ll share your feedback on a future episode. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can email us at practicingconnection@oneop.org. Let us know what’s inspiring you now. \n[music]\nCoral: Speaking of trying new things\, this week’s practice from my wonderful cohost\, Jessica\, this was a new practice for me. Jessica is going to be walking us through the practice of boosting your productivity with coworking. Jess\, can you tell us a little bit more about the practice you’ll be sharing and also why you chose it? \nJessica: Yes\, absolutely. This has become one of my favorite practices. It’s also social. Since I’m so inspired by social things lately\, that might be one of the reasons\, but I call this practice coworking\, and I started organizing these sessions during the pandemic as a way to have some more human interaction while remaining productive. They also ended up serving as a way to be together in community during this massive global event that was occurring all around us. \nIt’s one of the techniques that stuck with me after we started emerging from our home offices\, or in my case\, I started emerging from my dining room. I might call it coworking\, but I’ve found out over the past couple of years that what I started practicing over the pandemic with my colleagues is actually similar to a technique that has been beneficial to some people who have been diagnosed with ADHD\, and it’s often called body doubling. \nThere isn’t a lot of research out there on this technique yet\, but it has been written about and featured as a practice that supports productivity. I know that it was really helpful for me and for those colleagues who participated in these sessions from conversations with the colleagues and from my own experience. It provided a safe and supportive environment for accountability. Having someone there with whom you can safely share your successes and setbacks and frustrations and your overwhelm and who can encourage you to keep going or inspire you to try new ways of doing things was really– it was just especially useful when I was procrastinating on a task or when I just needed a boost to my productivity. \nI would actually pair these sessions up with other techniques also like the Pomodoro method\, which is about tackling tasks in 25-minute intervals followed by 5-minute breaks. I did that in order to give us some guideposts to follow. You could have a collection of people show up in a room and everyone just says\, “Hey\, how’s it going?” Then you could just all mute and start working or you can have a guidepost like the Pomodoro method. I chose to do the guideposts because I felt like it would be most helpful. \nSince we couldn’t go to coffee shops at the time\, I would often find coffee shop sounds and scenes on YouTube and I would share my screen and the sounds and we would be literally listening to cappuccino being made or there’d be a little bit of light music in the background and some muffled voices in the background. \nSoon\, colleagues were also bringing their own favorite background sounds. There was one colleague who really loved having Tibetan throat singing in the background. We ended up even creating a spreadsheet so that those attending a session could spend a moment at the top of the session choosing what they wanted to for sounds and scenes. It became a thing\, I guess. \nCoral: I love that. What an innovative way to approach that season of life that we all walked through together. If someone wanted to execute this and implement this in their own collegial workspace or with a couple of friends\, could you guide us through the practice step by step and share what that might look like? \nJessica: Yes. I still do this practice from time to time with colleagues. We do it a different way each time\, but I’m going to give you the way that we practice most often. You could either sit in person with somebody or get onto a video conferencing call with the person or a group of people that you’ll be co-working with. \nAt the top of your session together\, you’d spend a few minutes with greetings and sharing what each of you plans to work on. We always did a little bit of a round robin. This is the accountability piece. Spend a few minutes sharing what each of you plans to work on during the first 25-minute session. The host should set a timer for 25 minutes then. Everyone else should mute their audio so that if you talk to yourself while you’re working\, not everyone has to hear it\, and then just get to it. \nWhen the timer goes off\, the host would unmute and let everyone know that it’s break time. I literally would just come on and say\, “Break time\,” set a timer then for five minutes and make it clear that everyone can step away from their desk for five minutes\, walk around\, do whatever they need to do to take care of themselves. Optionally\, you can all share whether you were able to complete the task you planned\, you can celebrate successes or you can share some barriers you experienced before you take a break. Just make sure that doesn’t take too long. \nAfter the 5-minute break is up\, repeat the steps\, start another 25-minute session. In a 1-hour session\, you can get through two 25-minute work sessions if you’re really good with the time\, starting with 2 to 3 minutes at the top of the hour to share what you plan to work on\, then a 25-minute work session followed by a 5-minute break and 2 to 3 minutes to share what you plan to work on again\, and then at the top of the hour\, there would be a 5-minute break. \nI have a couple of tips that I would share as you’re doing this. I recommend scheduling these sessions based on how many work sessions you hope to have. How many of those 25-minute blocks of time you hope to have\, and adding in a few minutes for the group to decide things like whether they want music that day and whether they– any talking will be allowed during the work sessions. For a 1-hour session\, I might recommend scheduling 1 hour and 10 or 15 minutes\, so that you can have that little bit of cushion time for community and connection. Then I would also recommend keeping the group small to maximize psychological safety and time to share. \nCoral: Those are such clear steps and such a great way to get started. Thanks for guiding us through those\, Jess. \nJessica: Ah\, you’re so welcome. I love doing these sessions. They really are very helpful. \nCoral: I’d imagine\, so I can look forward to trying it myself. That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click on the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. We’ll see you next week. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection Podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense under Award Number 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:12:47] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Feeding Minds\, Fueling Futures through the Child and Adult Care Food Program
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The CACFP is a federal program that provides reimbursements for nutritious meals and snacks served to eligible participants. Children learn healthy eating habits from caregivers who recognize the importance of participating in the CACFP to help children grow and develop to their fullest potential. Each day\, more than 4.2 million children and 138\,000 adults receive nutritious meals and snacks through the CACFP.  Attend this webinar to learn about CACFP’s history and current meal patterns and hear from a Registered Dietitian administering the CACFP on a military installation. \nLearning Objectives \nBy the end of this webinar\, attendees will be able to: \n\nDescribe the components of the Child and Adult Care Food Program\nSummarize the benefits of participating in the Child and Adult Care Food Program for children\, providers\, and parents.\nReflect how Child and Youth Services operates the Child and Adult Care Food Program through the Department of Defense on Army Garrisons.\nIdentify three resources available for use by childcare operators to support service of healthy meals and to provide age-appropriate nutrition education to children.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” 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use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Jill Ladd joined USDA in September 2022 as the CACFP nutritionist within the Community Meals Policy Division at the National Office. Prior to joining USDA\, Jill served for over a decade in Child Nutrition Program administration at the Kansas State Department of Education. She first discovered her passion for child nutrition while volunteering at a summer food service site in high school. Jill is a Registered Dietitian. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from Kansas State University and completed her dietetic internship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. 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Prior to joining USDA\, Crishna spent three years as a CACFP Program Specialist at the D.C. State agency. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Marketing & Management from the University of South Carolina. Crishna holds a Master of Public Health from Liberty University. 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At Fort Bliss\, he was exposed to the Child and Adult Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) and started his career overseeing 5 centers.  The program has since grown to 10 centers. Danny earned a Bachelor of Science from New Mexico State University (NMSU) where he also served as the Vice President of the NMSU Food and Nutrition Club. He completed his dietetic internship with Be Well Solutions with an emphasis in corporate wellness and disease prevention. 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SUMMARY:Leveraging PowerPay: An Extension Tool for Debt Management
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Those in debt often feel overwhelmed and unsure of where to start. PowerPay\, a free tool developed by Utah State University Extension\, is available to service members\, their families\, and military family service providers. Our experts will guide you in using this web-based debt elimination calculator to create a personalized plan tailored to your needs or those of your clients. Without requiring personal identifying information\, PowerPay allows users to save debt plans for future editing and manage multiple debt profiles. Join us for an interactive webinar to learn how to leverage this innovative tool. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nUnderstand the key elements of an effective debt repayment plan.\nExplore various debt repayment strategies that can be tailored to individual circumstances.\nWatch a live\, step-by-step tutorial on how to use PowerPay.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”Presenters” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”5″ top_margin=”0″ constrain_group_7=”yes” bottom_margin=”0″ left_margin=”0″ constrain_group_8=”yes” right_margin=”0″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][image_with_animation image_url=”184245″ image_size=”custom” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”5px” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default” position_desktop=”relative” custom_image_size=”thumb” margin_top=”10″][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”3/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Melanie D. Jewkes” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Melanie D. Jewkes is an Extension Professor at Utah State University\, serving Salt Lake County. With 17 years of experience in community education\, she leads programs in family finance\, nutrition\, and food preservation. She directs the USU Extension PowerPay debt elimination program and homebuyer education\, and co-manages the statewide Empowering Financial Education initiative. 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SUMMARY:The 1-Minute Agreement
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Coral shares how this approach can help tackle big goals by breaking them into bite-sized\, manageable steps.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nJessica Beckendorf: Hi\, thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection podcast. I’m Jessica. My co-host Coral is here as well. Today we’ll be talking about the one-minute agreement\, and Coral will be sharing a practice with us. Hi\, Coral\, how are you? \nCoral Owen: Hey\, Jessica\, I’m doing well. Thanks so much. I was just thinking right before we started recording about some of the books that I’ve been reading with my little guy. My son is two\, his name is Kai. There are just some things that we reflect on and that come up thematically in a lot of these really sweet little books. One of them we were reading last night\, it’s about Donald Duck and his garden. It’s actually a book that my grandmother gave me many years ago. Donald Duck– \nJessica: [unintelligible 00:00:53] also a sailor. \nCoral: Totally. He’s actually a gardener in this episode or in this micro story\, which is really funny\, but he’s trying to have success growing all these seeds and Chip and Dale keep coming and eating the seeds\, and he finally figures out through many\, many\, many tries to have a successful method of appeasing his friends that like to eat his garden\, but to grow things. I just thought it was a really sweet moral of the story of just sometimes you need to be creative to have things grow and flourish. Even if you get sidetracked along the way by some chipmunks. That’s what we’ve been reading lately. \nJessica: I love that. I love the playfulness with that. I love the lessons\, the playfulness. It’s just a heartwarming thing to be noticed\, to be present with. I’ve actually been in a bit of a heartwarming situation for myself. I’ve been working with a group that is just so ready to work together. A lot of them didn’t know each other at all. They’re strangers to each other before we started getting together\, but not only are they ready to work together\, they’re all genuinely interested in getting to know each other on a personal and professional level as well. \nI’ve often on this podcast quoted Chad Littlefield’s clever phrase\, connection before content\, because I have witnessed how powerful taking time to connect can be to groups and teams that are trying to get some things done together\, trying to address issues in a community. I rarely come across a group who 100% wholeheartedly is into it and asking me for more of it. It’s really exciting for me. I don’t know. It’s been heartwarming and I’ve been like\, “Oh my gosh\, you guys\, you’re way ahead of me here.” Normally I have to convince people a little bit to spend some time getting to know each other more personally and they are so here for it. \nCoral: That sounds like such a fun team. As you’re saying that I’m reflecting on different spaces that I’ve been in when there is that synergy and just this really good vibe and energy and it just feels good to be part of it. To be able to steward\, guide a group\, I’m sure that’s been a lot of fun to work with those folks. \nJessica: Yes. I want to be clear. I love all of the groups that I have worked with before\, and I enjoy all of those projects. It’s exciting to see the synergy from the get-go when normally it takes much longer to develop that if ever sometimes\, yes. \nCoral: Absolutely. \nJessica: We would love to hear what’s inspiring our listeners. Please share what’s inspiring you by clicking the “send us a text message” at the top of the description of this episode. When you click the link\, your text messaging app will open and you’ll see a seven-digit number and the words “do not remove.” Type your message after that and click send. Don’t remove that number or we won’t receive your message. \nTo protect your privacy\, we won’t see your phone number and we can’t text you back\, but we’ll share your feedback on a future episode. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can email us at practicingconnection@oneop.org. Let us know what’s inspiring you right now. \n[music]\nJessica: Let’s learn more about this one-minute agreement. Coral\, can you tell us a little more about the practice and why you chose it? \nCoral: Absolutely. The one-minute agreement is all about making big goals bite-sized to help us overcome inertia and find consistency. I first came across a version of it in my early twenties. I was racing collegiate triathlon at the University of Florida. There were many times where\, whether collectively or individually\, just it would feel like such a chore to get started on a training session. Our coach\, Coach Will\, is a great guy. He would encourage that even if we weren’t feeling it\, so to speak\, to just head out for 10 minutes of a training session. He would call this the 10-minute agreement. Teammates often called it the 10-minute trap and you’ll see why here in a little bit. \nThe whole idea really is just to get started. This one-minute agreement is all about how can we make this even more bite-sized than the 10-minute agreement. \nJessica: I love this idea. It reminds me of a supervisor I had in the past long time ago\, whose solution to not feeling it was to do it anyway. I always admired that because\, I don’t know\, when I’m not feeling it\, I’m not feeling it. I don’t want to do it. She didn’t want to do it either. She’s like\, but I need to\, so I’m just going to do it. I’d love to learn more. Please walk us through the one-minute agreement. \nCoral: You got it. First off\, figure out your goal. Let’s say for just a hypothetical example\, that you want to be a published author. What habit is going to get you there? Typically a great start if you want to be an author is to start writing. How do we get started with writing consistently? I know a lot of folks may find whether you’re doing blogs or a book or any manner of things\, this writer’s block can be a really real thing that we experience. \nHow do we make it so bite-sized to the point where it would be silly to say\, “Oh\, I can’t do that.” We can do anything for one minute. The one-minute agreement for becoming a published author is perhaps writing one minute a day. I joked about the 10-minute trap from my collegiate triathlon days. The sneaky thing about the consistency of overcoming activation energy with the one-minute agreement is that we so often will just find our groove\, whether it be one minute\, three minutes\, whatever your version of this is\, we’ll often just overcome that activation energy and find a groove and end up going far beyond that timeframe. That’s it. That’s the one-minute agreement. \nJessica: How beautifully simple. I remember from\, there was a show called The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt\, and she had a version of this and that was\, you can do anything for 10 seconds. I think this can work at– and that was a sitcom\, so it’s not all real or anything. I’m sure it wasn’t based in evidence or research\, but I’m just saying this is right. If you need to get started\, you can just promise yourself\, you know what\, I can stop after 10 seconds if I want to. You can go as low as you need to\, I would imagine. \nCoral: Yes\, sorry\, I’m getting ahead of myself because I do love this so much\, but you bring up such a great point\, Jessica\, that I neglected to mention. It is that the commitment is only for one minute. If you don’t feel like it beyond that one minute\, you’ve done your minute\, you’ve met the commitment\, you’ve met your parameters for success. That is the win. Then you can just move on with your day after that one minute and not feel any sense of guilt or remorse or like you didn’t hit the mark because the commitment is truly only for that minute. That is a really important piece of this for helping you define and find success consistently. \nJessica: I feel like you can also celebrate that you staved off procrastination. Even if you only worked on it for a minute\, you didn’t procrastinate and you didn’t procrastinate the whole thing. You actually made yourself get started. I think that’s something to celebrate. \nCoral: 1\,000%. \nJessica: That’s it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. We’ll be back next week with a practice for co-working. What is that? You’ll find out next week. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense under Award Number 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:09:38] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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Learn more about this adaptable practice that can help you change your behavior. \nResources: \n\n“Atomic Habits” by James Clear\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nJessica: Hi. Thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection podcast. I’m Jessica. My cohost Coral is here as well. Today we’ll be talking about habit stacking. Coral will be sharing a practice with us. Hi\, Coral. How are you? \nCoral: Hey\, Jessica. I’m doing well. It was so nice to have a couple of weeks over the holiday break to decompress a little bit. I spent a good bit of that time catching up with my folks. They do live just right around the corner from me\, but that pace of life just over the holidays is a little bit more relaxed. One thing I particularly enjoyed was listening to their conversations. \nThey’re planning an upcoming trip to Alaska for a cruise\, which is really different from the way that they’ve traveled in the past\, but it’s going to be their 40th wedding anniversary. Again\, it’s just an interesting thing to listen in on. I’ve listened to lots of their travel conversations over the years\, 40 years. My dad\, these days he navigates some mobility challenges. It was a reflective space that I was in just thinking about how the way they travel has shifted over the course of their partnership. \nIt was really just beautiful to think about the fact that they’re still adventuring together\, even though it looks different in this season of life for them. A nutshell takeaway that I’m going to bring forward into the new year is just looking at things in a different way\, trying things in a different way. Even if the previous ways of doing those things don’t align with this current season\, is there a different way that I can approach things or have it look a little bit differently that serves me better? Being okay with that\, being joyful in that. That’s my spark for this most recent little bit of life. How about you? How are you? \nJessica: That’s wonderful. Approximately how many houses away? Is it around a corner? Is it down the street? I’m curious. \nCoral: It is a 11-minute walk. \nJessica: Oh\, 11-minute walk. It’s a little ways. By contrast\, I live\, it’s approximately four houses away from my mother-in-law’s house\, but it is also around a corner. It feels like it’s a little further\, but it’s really close. I wish my parents lived nearby. That’s really cool that you could witness that. My parents just had their 50th wedding anniversary. Your parents are just right around that corner as well. How cool. \nI’ve actually been\, I guess\, inspired maybe this week by writing some nice things about myself and my work. It’s funny\, but as of our recording\, it’s the time of year when my organization goes through performance management. There’s a lot that I have to say\, and there’s a lot that I dislike about the whole process. \nI have to say\, I would say that about the way performance management is conducted across many\, many\, many organizations\, \nbut there’s one thing I like about this time of year\, because before I meet with my supervisor\, I reflect on all the things that went well and I make sure to notice the things that I felt like I knocked out of the park. I’ll write out all of the things that I accomplished\, whether they were planned accomplishments that are in my performance management report that I need to report on\, or whether they were surprise accomplishments. \nI’m always pleasantly surprised by how many things I’ve accomplished over the year. It’s a nice way to go into the new year. Also\, it makes me very uncomfortable to say nice things about myself and it’s a good exercise for me in general. \nCoral: No\, that’s such an important practice to celebrate our own wins. I love that you can find that sparkle in something that can be a bit of an uncomfortable process. You do amazing work. I’m really glad that you’re able to recognize that for yourself\, Jess. \nJessica: Oh\, thank you. We’d love to hear what’s inspiring you. Please share what’s inspiring you by clicking the “send us a text message” at the top of the description of this episode. When you click the link\, your text messaging app will open and you’ll see a seven-digit number and the words “do not remove.” Type your message after that and click send. Don’t remove that number or we won’t receive your message. \nTo protect your privacy\, we won’t see your phone number and we can’t text you back\, but we’ll share your feedback on a future episode. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can email us at practicingconnection@oneoff.org. Let us know what’s inspiring you right now. \n[music]\nLet’s learn more about habit stacking\, Coral. Can you tell us a little more about the practice that you’ll be sharing and why you chose it? \nCoral: Absolutely. If any of our listeners have read the book Atomic Habits by James Clear\, they’re probably already familiar with this practice. I personally love the practice of habit stacking because to me it’s one of the most approachable ways to find or to begin cultivating new habits. Oftentimes when we’re going about new habit formation\, it can feel like we’re just a little bit lost about where to begin. \nHabit stacking gives us something to anchor those new habits in. Behaviorists will refer to this as a trigger. A trigger is something that we recognize that can– Perhaps not recognize\, sometimes it’s subconscious. In this case\, it is conscious. Essentially\, a trigger just helps us kick off another particular action. \nJessica: I feel like that was a really good teaser. I have questions\, but all those questions are about how to do it. Let’s get started with that. Please walk us through how to start habit stacking. \nCoral: Sure thing. First\, I’m \njust going to break it down and then maybe we can walk through an example afterwards to give it greater context and bring it to life. To begin habit stacking\, it’s very straightforward. First\, you just clearly define what habit it is that you would like to establish. The more clearly you can establish this\, the better. Then next\, determine how frequently this habit should happen. This is really important. Should this be daily\, weekly\, monthly? Also\, what time of day does this need to occur if you really want to drill into it? \nNext\, once you’ve got those two bits\, then you can identify a current habit that you already have\, and this will serve as the trigger for the new habit. The key here is that you want the current habit that you have to have a similar frequency to the new habit. For instance\, if your new habit is daily\, you don’t want to pick something that only happens once a week. You want something that has the same frequency so you can keep it going. \nJessica: Let’s go through an example of this. \nCoral: Sure thing. One practice that I’ve always hear friends and colleagues mention as an intention each new year is often mindfulness. It’s always something that can serve us well. Let’s just take mindfulness for an example. A simple mindfulness practice that we can define as a habit is one minute of breathing. Maybe you want to have a mindful minute each day\, so daily. Maybe you want to begin your day with this. With all of that in mind\, so we’ve got a daily habit. It’s short and something that needs to happen towards the start of the day. \nFor me\, something that immediately comes to mind is coffee. No great day ever starts in my life without coffee. I would probably start off by stacking these two habits together. To pull all of this together\, I would summarize my habit stack something like this. Again\, this is going to sound very nuanced\, but again\, the more clearly that you can define all of this\, the better. \nHere’s my habit stack for this instance. When I press the start button on my morning coffee to begin brewing it\, I’ll set a gentle timer on my phone for one minute and breathe slowly in my kitchen with my eyes closed. Then I’ll have my coffee. \nJessica: That’s wonderful. When you first mentioned coffee\, I was thinking about that moment when you sit down with your hot cup\, whether that’s coffee or tea or whatever\, when you sit down with that hot cup and you pick it up and you maybe smell it\, it’s usually too hot for me to drink at first. I usually need to wait a minute for it to cool down anyway\, but I love to hold the hot cup. I was thinking about that moment being when I might establish a one-minute mindfulness breathing exercise. It really can be however it works for you\, I think\, is the point that I’m trying to make here. \nCoral: Absolutely. \nI love that\, too\, you’re bringing in other sensory aspects into this that help you ground in something that would be a mindfulness practice. I have to do it while I’m brewing my coffee. I have a two-year-old and he’s usually up and at them less than five minutes after I wake up without fail. It’s totally about finding how this blends into your life and works with the flow rather than going against the grain and friction. It’s all about flow and helping things just go into the fold more seamlessly than not. \nJessica: It’s a super simple practice. I feel like it has so much leeway for you to decide what’s going to work best for you\, which I think is really important because I think there’s a lot of advice out there about how you should set up your mornings\, how you should set up your evenings\, all the different things that you should incorporate into your day. This is really just\, no\, just find one thing that you already do and tack something small onto it. Thank you so much for sharing this. \nCoral: Absolutely. I’d really be curious to hear what our listeners\, if they’re employing this\, what you’re using habit stacking for to incorporate into your new year. \nJessica: That’s it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. We’ll be back next week with a practice for incorporating the one-minute agreement. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense under award number 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:11:06] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Easy Priority Setting with the Wheel of Life
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Discover how this practice encourages intentionality\, making it easier to focus on what matters most to you each month.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”]Coral Owen: Hi there\, thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Coral. My co-host Jessica is here today as well. Today we’ll be talking about setting priorities with ease using the Wheel of Life\, and Jessica will be sharing a practice with us. Hi Jess\, how are you? \nJessica Beckendorf: I’m doing pretty great today. This time of year\, things slow down in the meeting department\, so I’m able to spend a little time cleaning my office. Actually\, I’ve been inspired this week weirdly by the simple act of cleaning my office. I use copious amounts of Post-it notes for my note taking. As I go through all these tiny Post-it notes and I recycle some old papers that I don’t need anymore and actually start to see my desk and floor again\, it’s really been having an effect on me. I want more\, and I’m not even the person that needs to have a neat workspace in order to like feel productive or get things done. \nIt’s also been fun to be inspired by myself in a lot of ways\, which sounds really weird to say it that way. I find notes with ideas on them that I wasn’t able to pursue yet\, but then I’m reinvigorated by those ideas. I’m like\, “Oh yes\, that’s right. I remember I thought of that one day\, and maybe I can like put that back into the hopper.” Along with that has been the realization that while I have a lot of really good ideas and intentions\, there really is limited time to tackle them. I’ve had to remind myself that it’s not a failure that I didn’t get to do all of the things that I intended to or that I had ideas for this year. It was really just a matter of priority. When I think back\, I feel like I did tackle the right priorities most of the time this year. I feel pretty good about that too. \nCoral: That is awesome. I have a friend. She also lives that sticky notes life. She will from time to time do that deep cleaning\, and she has just– it’s an actual basket. She calls it the percolator. She drops the sticky notes in there. She’s like\, “This is a great idea\, but for a later time.” She just sticks them in there. I really like the idea of being kind with yourself and realizing that we do have limited time in the day\, in the week\, in our lives to do all of the things that hit our brain and they might feel magical and they probably are\, but that there needs to be prioritization and intentionality so that we can still also be ourselves. That’s great. Thanks for sharing that\, Jessica. I love that percolator idea and I might copy that. \nIt’s funny that you mentioned– I don’t know\, I think a lot of times people will share things\, when you ask them\, “Oh\, what’s inspired you?” People tend to think about what they’re reading or whatnot. In a similar vein\, I oddly have found inspiration in my kitchen. This was a little peek into my life outside the podcast realm\, but I’ve gotten into fermenting and pickling in this past year. It’s just something that has piqued my interest\, but it’s also been really intimidating for me for some time because\, I don’t know\, it’s science-y and\, I don’t know\, has always seemed a little less straightforward than a recipe and you measure and bake and it just turns out if it turns out. \nFor whatever reason\, a couple of weeks ago\, I just decided to go for it with some sauerkraut\, and it turned out great. Just my inspiration or takeaway here is that sometimes I just need to trust the process\, not overthink it and just let things do their thing. Yes\, whatever the ‘it’ is\, it can turn out okay if you just let things do what they do. \nJessica: That sounds like great advice for so many things. Also I just love that you can find inspiration in sauerkraut because as a person who really hates pickled anything and fermented things like sauerkraut\, I guess it warms my heart. Plus sauerkraut actually has a special place in my family’s heart\, even though I hate it. My family comes from an area where there’s a big sauerkraut factory and they all have worked there at one point or another. It’s interesting that I hate it so much\, great advice for trust the sauerkraut process. \nCoral: There you go. We should make a bumper sticker. We would also love to hearing what’s inspiring our listeners. Please share what’s inspiring you. You can click the message\, send us a text at the top of the description of this episode. When you click the link\, your text messaging app will open and you’ll see a seven digit number and the words “Do not remove\,” don’t remove them. You can type your message after that and click send. Don’t remove that number. We just won’t see your message. Also to protect your privacy\, we won’t see your phone number and we can’t text you back\, unfortunately\, but we’ll share your feedback on a future episode. \nAlso if you’re listening on a computer\, you can just shoot us an email as well\, practicingconnection@oneop.org. Let us know what is inspiring you right now. All right. Jessica\, let’s learn more about the Wheel of Life and how it can help us set priorities. Can you tell us a little bit more about the practice you’ll be sharing it and also why you chose it? \nJessica: Absolutely. I am super excited about this because the Wheel of Life is one of my favorite practices. It’s used a lot in coaching\, but I first came to it through a planner. The planner had a monthly review that included\, among other things\, a Wheel of Life and instructions on how to use the Wheel of Life. We’ll go into the details of how to use the tool in a moment\, but it’s basically a pie chart that’s broken out into six or eight or more domains of life\, like financial\, social\, intellectual. You assess how well each of those domains are going for you. Really\, just how you feel about how they’re going for you\, and you assign a value to it. Usually it’s from 1 to 10 with 1 being you’re not feeling fulfilled in that domain of life and 10 being like you’re super fulfilled in that domain of life. \nTypically you’ll color in the spaces or you’ll draw from point to point on the pie chart\, and then the diagram that results from that helps you very quickly see the domains of life that might need your attention. I immediately took to this practice partly because it was super easy because they provided the framework\, and then on top of that\, it was really powerful because in this planner they chose domains of life that would work for– they worked for me anyway. I don’t know if they would work for most people. I guess I’m assuming that they would work for most people. \nIt was super easy and it was really powerful. Every single month I was able to quickly assess which areas of my life were feeling successful and which areas were not. Then I could set some intentions around that. Just the tracking itself was really helpful for noticing the little impromptu moments that were actually helping me with one of my goals\, partly because I was so aware of the areas of life that were feeling successful and then the areas of life that weren’t feeling successful for me\, that in the moment I started to notice like\, “Oh\, this social interaction I’m having right now is helping me with my intention that I set that I wanted to have more social interactions.” I would notice it more. It improved my noticing skills in a way. Just tracking it was really helpful. \nOver time\, I started to write in my own domains of life where it made sense. If you write in your own domains to get started\, I would recommend using some sort of framework out there that has been tested a little bit just to get started. After a while\, when you’ve been doing it\, you start to recognize maybe where the framework isn’t working for you as well\, but you could use something like the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Eight Domains of Wellness or Health.mil’s Total Force Fitness\, or whatever is important to you right now. We’ll have links to both of those resources in the show notes. Overall\, this activity\, partly because I was practicing it monthly and partly because it is such a powerful tool\, I really was able to make decisions about the upcoming month and what I felt like I needed to do in that upcoming month to just find a little bit of balance in my life. That’s why I chose it. \nCoral: I love that so much. My background is in health education\, and one of the things that we would often talk about is the multifaceted composition of identity and the habits that support health and well-being from a multitude of angles. I just love that this practice so accurately reflects how we can cultivate wellness and well-being and health in all of those different scopes and how they feed together. I would love to hear more about how we can actually do this thing. Could you guide us through some steps\, Jessica? \nJessica: Yes\, absolutely. We’re going to have a resource that you can download where you can fill out your own Wheel of Life. We’ll have an example that has the domains of life filled in for you\, and then we’ll have a blank one available as well. You’ll be able to draw this in. You’ll want to start then with a template with the domains of life already identified\, or you of course can also identify your own. If you identify your own\, I would just reiterate that you might want to use something like SAMHSA’s Eight Domains of Wellness or Health.mil’s Total Force Fitness. \nThen you’re going to go through looking at those domains and you’re going to rate your current level of satisfaction in each domain. Don’t worry about accuracy. If you can\, just go with your gut feeling or think about for each of the domains\, you could also think about what parameters would make you feel successful in that area. In my case\, I was able to go with my gut\, but I know that may not work for everyone. \nYou are going to go through each one. You’re going to say to yourself\, “Do I feel like this area rates a 1\, which is low\, or a 10\, which is high\, or somewhere in between?” Plot it out on the wheel. You can choose to color each section in\, or you can place dots and draw a line connecting those dots from domain to domain. \nThen step back. You don’t have to literally step back. Take a look at the results. Look at the shape of your diagram. Are there some areas that feel like they need attention? I want to mention that the goal here isn’t so that you work toward having all of those domains of life at a 10. It’s not so that you’re maxing them all out. This is really about how do you feel about each of those domains? Maybe there are some domains where you feel really successful at a 5\, and that’s okay. This is really about how do you feel about how things are going. \nOnce you take a look at that\, if you feel like there’s an area that needs attention\, maybe it’s relationships. You think about\, well\, what relationships in the coming month\, if I were able to do something about this domain of life\, which relationships would help me do that? What would help me create some balance in that domain? You can set a few intentions for the coming month. I do like a monthly basis\, but you can also do this annually if you prefer. \nThen you set some goals and some intentions around the domains that you feel like could use a little work. You’re not striving for perfection here. You’re just striving for a tiny bit more balance. If you felt like that relationships area was super low\, and you’re not satisfied\, and you can think of 10 things that you could do to change that\, you don’t have to do all 10 of those things. Just do a couple\, and you will already have started to make that area more successful. I love this practice of intentionality and also being able to do it throughout the year. \nCoral: Thanks for guiding us through\, Jessica. \nJessica: Oh\, absolutely. This has been hugely helpful. I’ll admit I have been out of practice with this and just doing this episode has made me pull out my old diagrams\, and I’m going to get going on it again because it really is a great exercise. \nCoral: Great. I think I may actually leverage it for myself and we can check in with each other around the first of the month. \nJessica: Love that. Yes\, let’s do that. \nCoral: Wonderful. That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend or a colleague. We’ll be back next week with a practice for habit stacking. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U.S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, U.S. Department of Defense under award number 2023-48770-41333. you \n[00:14:05] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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They reflect on their journey working together\, share insights into the podcast’s evolution\, and discuss the importance of consistent small practices for personal and professional growth.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nKalin Goble: Welcome to Practicing Connection\, a podcast exploring the personal stories and collective practices that empower us to work together to improve our resilience and readiness in a rapidly changing world. \nJessica Beckendorf: Happy New Year. Thanks so much for listening to the Practicing Connection podcast. I’m Jessica. I’m super excited to introduce you all to Coral Owen\, who has been doing incredible work behind the scenes on the podcast for a while. Now you all get to finally hear her voice as my new co-host. Coral\, welcome. \nCoral Owen: Hey\, Jessica. Thanks so much for the warm welcome. It’s a little wild to be here talking with you rather than being behind the scenes\, but I am certainly welcoming the change in scenery and really looking forward to being on this side of things. \nJessica: One of the things that’s gone through my mind a little bit is\, when we first approached you about this\, you’ve been behind the scenes for a while\, and you’ve been doing wonderful work there. When we approached you about being in front of the scenes\, what made you say yes? \nCoral: Like you said\, I have been in a production role here with the podcast\, a lot of the webinars that we do on other side of the house in OneOp\, but after rolling it around for a little while\, the offer to join you as co-host going forward\, the thing that really did hook me in is this opportunity to have a front row seat\, to really intentionally dig into great practices with you. This is something that you and I have done for quite some time\, just one-to-one. Just the intentionality to have these– This is sounding very self-serving going through this response. I am really looking forward to just having those conversations with you more regularly. Hopefully it also benefits our listeners as we go through and dig into these great practices and stories and conversations. \nJessica: I’m really looking forward to that too. Just in our planning meetings\, as we get together and we brainstorm some future episodes and guests and things like that\, it’s been the energy between us has been really fun. We’ve been able to play off of each other really well. Really\, that should have been apparent to us from the first time we met because I met you before I was– probably a good– it was about six months before I became a member\, a full-on\, fully-fledged member of the OneOp team\, which at the time was called Military Families Learning Network\, because it was a long time ago that we met\, and it was such a fun interaction. \nCoral: It was. Yes. I remember there are a few folks\, every so often\, that I clearly remember meeting for the first time\, and you’re one of those people. I think we were at a e-extension conference in San Antonio. I had just joined OneOp. This was almost 10 years ago. That’s wild. I just remember having just a really– Mixers to me have always been a little uncomfortable\, but I remember I was like\, “This guy looks so cool.” We got to chatting. I just felt so at ease and really enjoyed our conversation and learning more about you and the work that you’ve been doing. I remember being so thrilled when you joined the project. We’ve just continued to have really great conversations over the years that we’ve worked together. Here we are. \nJessica: I forgot it was a mixer that we met at. That’s fun. That was a great conference. Likewise\, Coral\, I never have forgotten meeting you\, and then we ended up collaborating right away on a couple of articles. What are you most excited about for our work or for the podcast as we move into 2025 and beyond? \nCoral: I think I already alluded to this a little bit that being in front of the mic is somewhat of a growth space for me. That’s one of the things that I’m trying to lean into a bit more intentionally this year. Getting into those growth spaces that can feel a little bit uncomfortable at first. That is not a bad thing in any sense. That is something that\, just that understanding\, is something that I would like to carry forward into our conversations. \nThe practices and stories that we’re telling throughout this year is just encouraging everyone who’s joining us in these conversations to inhabit spaces that may feel a little bit frictiony\, a little uncomfortable\, because that is what enables us to evolve into that next most awesome version of ourselves. Hopefully that can help foster that adventure for some other folks that are tuning in. This time of year tends to be a lot of momentum and sparking new ideas and practices. I’ve also found it to be a really beautiful time to reflect. \nSomething I was curious\, Jessica\, are there any reflections about your journey with the podcast so far? Because you all have been up to this for quite some time. As we embark on this next new season\, are there any reflections or anything that you could share that you’re looking forward to in 2025? \nJessica: Yes\, lots of reflections. Oh my goodness\, we put so much thought before we started this podcast. We put so much thought into it. We talked to colleagues in our\, at the time\, Military Families Learning Network. Now it’s OneOp. We talked to all of our colleagues. We got input on like\, what did they want this podcast to feel like? What kinds of things did they want the podcast to talk about? What kinds of professional development areas did they want it to focus on? \nIt wasn’t like we got specific topics from everyone. It was really more like the big picture. What big picture things do you want it to tackle? We started with only– I can’t remember if it was six or eight a year. Our first few seasons\, there’s only six or eight episodes in a year. They were put out monthly\, and then we would take a break. It was really a evolution that was interesting to me because at first we started with tackling those topics\, those big picture areas that our colleagues had said might be really important for professional development. \nThen we started to evolve based on other input that we were getting. For me\, I’m really excited about how we’ve evolved into we have a bit of a long form episode at the top of the month. That’s a strong word to use because they’re typically only maybe 40 minutes at the longest. We have a little bit of a longer form where we try to do an interview based on input or stories that we’ve heard about that we want to highlight and lift up to show examples of the military family readiness system in action. \nThen we have these little practices that we’re trying to put out there. I don’t expect that there’s anyone out there who’s listening to all of our short practicasts and practicing every single thing. It’s really about finding the thing that sparks you or that you feel like you could incorporate into your daily work and leaving the rest behind\, if you’re like\, “No\, that’s not for me. I know that’s not for me.” What I’m excited about is that we’re giving people those options\, and we’re hopefully helping them show up a little differently in the directions that they want to show up in\, in their daily life and work. \nCoral: One of my current favorite podcasts they talk about– it’s called Mentor Buffet. This is reminding me that this is like a practice buffet. \nJessica: Totally. Oh my gosh\, I love that. \nCoral: It’s been such a great journey both to listen in but also to support along the way. Thanks for sharing those reflections and also a prospective look. Jess\, thanks. \nJessica: No\, you’re so welcome. Along with all these practices we’ve been sharing\, I know you and I are going to be sharing many practices in the year to come. Yet I’m wondering if you have something that’s supporting your development and growth right now that you can share with us all. You know it’s a tradition on this podcast with our interviewees\, and you are the interviewee today\, to try to share a practice\, if they have one\, that’s supporting them right in this moment right now. \nCoral: I’m laughing because you can probably see this as we’re recording\, Jessica\, and all of my colleagues are probably familiar with. I’m just going to air quotes here. The big donkey calendar\, it hangs right to the left of my desk. Essentially\, since y’all are just listening to this and can’t see what I’m talking about\, it’s a year at a glance. It’s something that I began using this past year\, 2024\, just to get a really quick hit look at the year as a whole\, just for planning and whatnot. \nThat’s the original intent that I purchased and installed it with. Really\, what I didn’t anticipate is that it would help me develop consistency on a couple of small practices throughout this past year. Again\, this prompted\, unexpectedly\, a mindset shift away from executing with perfection to executing sometimes imperfectly\, but on a more regular and consistent basis. What I found\, now that closing out 2024\, is that those small wins consistently have really added up to a much greater sum than shooting for big days less frequently and less consistently. I’ve just now installed my 2025 calendar and look forward to cultivating a couple of smaller consistent practices going forward in the new year. That’s mine. What about you? Is there something that you’re looking to leverage this coming year? \nJessica: Yes. First I want to just quick mention that if you try looking at big donkey calendar to try to emulate what Coral is practicing\, you won’t find it. Just think of another word for donkey\, and you’ll get there. \nCoral: We’ve got to keep it professional here\, Jess. \nJessica: I love that practice so much that actually I’ve got one of those calendars in my cart right now. Hopefully you’ll see one hanging next to my desk sometime soon. For me\, the one that I wanted to share with you all is my team a while back has started to institute what we’re calling a five in five. It’s basically like\, what are the five most important things coming up this week or next short enough to be delivered in five minutes so that we can get through our updates in a short amount of time\, and then we can get on to some other things that we need to collaborate on. \nIt sounds like\, you guys have heard me talking before\, and I think I often am like\, “Hey\, connection before content\,” which is a phrase that I enjoy from another facilitator. I really think these five in five updates have actually been really helpful to all of us as a team in how we’re able to share just a quick update so that we can get to the content with each other\, and we can get to connecting with each other. I think I’m going to probably refine my five in five process because I do write a little too much about it. I’d like to shorten it to a few short bullets. \nCoral: I love that. I look forward to hearing how that evolves for you over the year. Maybe we even share that as a practice sometime in the year. \nJessica: I’d be happy to put a little more sort of structure around it and share how it’s working for our team too. We have a distributed team across the state. It’s really helpful to have these short little shared pieces that anyone can go and look at. That is it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. Coral\, welcome one more time. I’m so excited that you decided to take this on as part of your journey. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app and share it with a friend. We’ll be back next week with a practice for easy priority setting with the Wheel of Life. Until then\, keep practicing. \nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U.S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, U.S. Department of Defense\, under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[00:12:42] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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I’m Bob. My co-host Jessica is here as well. Today we’ll be talking about having challenging conversations and Jessica will be sharing a practice with us. I’m looking forward to that. Hey\, Jessica. How are you? \nJessica: I am great. I’ve actually been binging a show\, a very old show called Deadwood. I think it’s 20 years old at this point. Never seen it before. Had never heard of it. I’ve just been obsessed with it lately. I am by no means a history buff\, and I’m not sure I should be admitting that anywhere\, but honestly\, every single character I’ve been looking up. Is this a real person? Then if it is a real person\, I end up going down this rabbit hole\, learning all about them. \nThis is both a testament to the quality of the show\, but that’s not really what has gotten my curiosity piqued. It’s really\, once I find out it’s a real person\, I’m like\, “Did they really do this thing? How long did they live? Did they live through Deadwood?” Because that is a pretty rough place. I’ve just been really excited to learn about a piece of our nation’s history. Again\, never heard of it. This snuck up on me. I’m absolutely hooked and fascinated. \nBob: That’s awesome. First of all\, I’ve not watched Deadwood\, but I have been to Deadwood\, South Dakota. That’s something. I get what you’re saying. I had the same experience with a show called The Great\, which is much more fictionalized\, it sounds like\, than what you’re talking about\, but deals with Catherine the Great and real characters. I was busy. I spent more time on Wikipedia trying to see what was actual and what was not accurate as I did watching the show. It was a fun two screen experience. \nJessica: Was the acting also incredible? That’s one thing I’ll say in Deadwood\, the acting is incredible. \nBob: I think so. I think it’s a crazy show. Don’t turn it on and say\, “Why did Bob recommend this show?” I’m not recommending it. I’m just saying I had this experience. Lately\, I’ve been watching the Olympics as we’re recording this in early August 2024. It’s Olympics time in Paris. It’s been a beautiful Olympics just in terms of the camera shots and scenery\, by the way\, in the city of Paris\, which has been really awesome. I’ve really been inspired by the stories that have highlighted community support and self-care. \nWe are in the US\, as most of our listeners know so most of the stories that I hear are about American athletes. I wish that the coverage had more stories about athletes from around the world. Just admitting that my biased lens that I have to look through this\, it’s been really inspiring to see how the athletes in gymnastics have supported each other\, both in the men’s and the women’s competitions. I was watching some of the individual apparatus competitions and competitors really seem genuinely happy for each other’s success. \nAgain\, we’re watching on TV\, so everything is just seeming\, but it seemed like they were just as interested in each athlete achieving the best that they are capable of as they were in terms of winning or losing. I saw a feature about American swimmer Caleb Dressel’s struggles with panic attacks and depression and how therapy and family support has helped him really change his self-talk and become better balanced. I think it just speaks to how much more we are talking about mental health and self-care that even in this ultimate competition\, the best of the best\, the Olympics\, that we are talking to each other about how to become better balanced and more healthy. \nJessica: Wow\, I love that perspective. It’s almost like the Olympics is both the original and the healthiest reality TV that we have available to us. That and The Great British Baking Show\, because they also support each other. \nBob: They really do. I do love that about The Great British Baking Show. We’d love to hear what’s inspiring you. Please share what’s inspiring you by clicking the send us a text message link at the top of the description of this episode. When you click the link\, your text messaging app will open. You’ll see a seven digit number and the words do not remove. Type your message after that and click send. Don’t remove the number or we won’t receive your message. \nTo protect your privacy\, we won’t see your phone number and we can’t text you back\, but we will share your feedback on a future episode. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can email us with what inspires you at practicingconnectionat@oneop.org. Let us know what’s inspiring you right now. We’d love to hear from you. \n[music]\nLet’s learn more about having challenging conversations. Jessica\, this is something as we’ve been talking about financial well-being over the last couple of weeks now. That is really important. Those are one of the most challenging conversations you can have\, I think\, are conversations about finances and money. Can you tell us a little bit more about the practice that you’ll be sharing today and why you chose it? \nJessica: There’s a lot of emotions that can come up around money. A lot of things can come up and there’s a lot of practices out there for starting conversations that can be uncomfortable\, like conversations about money. Things like our past experiences and our upbringing and our emotions around those experiences can really cause us to go into immediate fight\, flight\, freeze modes\, and then it just ends up being unproductive. A lot of my background is in civic engagement\, and I really thought there’s some healthy practices within the civil dialogue area. \nBecause of my experiences with seeing them work\, and because I think they provide a great foundation for talking about any challenging topic where we might find ourselves dealing with heightened emotions\, I just thought it would be a really interesting place to start. This particular activity that I chose for today\, it’s called Hopes and Concerns. I find it to be a really effective way to discuss our own discomfort with the act of talking about challenging topics. \nReally\, essentially\, it’s a disarming way to begin. Collectively\, either you and another person or you and the group that you’re talking with will end up with strategies for how you’re going to handle or support each other when the conversation turns challenging. The practice focuses on the conversation. It focuses on the mechanics of that conversation\, not on the challenging topic itself. It also does not focus on the challenging dynamics that come up. \nI got this from the Constructive Dialogue Institute\, where they say that this activity can help lower tension and anxiety before it ever starts to creep up. By focusing on the mechanics of the conversation\, so the things that you hope you’ll get out of the conversation and the things that you might find challenging about having a conversation\, that’s what I’m talking about when I say it focuses on the mechanics of the conversation rather than digging right into the hard topics. \nBob: This sounds really exciting. It makes me think of a couple of things. I’m going to use a word that is not quite I mean. The word I’m going to use is detachment. It’s like when we’re talking about holding space\, we talk about how we can be there for someone without judgment. That’s what I mean by that detachment\, is that sort of maybe trying to set aside some of our core beliefs and what might trigger us. This sounds like a really great way to do it. I’m wondering if you might walk us through the practice. \nJessica: It’s actually really easy. Again\, it’s called the Hopes and Concerns activity from the Constructive Dialogue Institute. We’ll include a link to the activity itself in the show notes. You can do this on your own to prepare for a conversation that you believe will be challenging or you can do this with another person or with a group of people to prepare for a shared conversation about challenging topics. I’ve modified the activity slightly from the original\, but you’ll get a link to the original rather than to my modification of it. It’s really slight. \nI’m going to share the activity as though you were going to do this with others. Again\, you can just as easily do this on your own to prepare for a challenging conversation. First\, you’re going to have everyone reflect on a conversation that did not go as well as they had wanted or hoped. You could let them know that it could be a conversation from work or with a friend or with a stranger. Have them really think about what happened\, how they felt about what happened\, and what they could have done differently at that moment or what they wish the other person would have done differently. \nThe second step is to take a moment to pause to remind everyone that the goal of this activity is not to replicate what you just had them think about. The goal is to come up with a new type of conversation. This is where we start to get into identifying the hopes and concerns that they have. As you’re taking this moment to pause\, give them the two questions to ponder. Ask them to contemplate their hopes. Thinking about our group or purpose when it comes to engaging in constructive dialogue about issues that are challenging to discuss\, what do you most hope for? \nThen the other question is what do you worry about most when you think about these types of conversations? What do you worry about engaging in a conversation like this? The third step then is sharing. We’re past the reflection stage and now we’re going to start sharing a lot more. Have everyone use note cards or sticky notes. Instruct them to write hopes at the top of one note card or sticky note and write the word concerns on another card or sticky note. \nThen just have them start brainstorming as many hopes and concerns as they want. You can either instruct them to list it on the card or you can have them have a brand new one for each card. It doesn’t matter. It’s really up to you. When they’re done\, you can have them fold up their cards or sticky notes and put them into a bowl where they can take turns plucking them out one by one and discussing each of them as a group or you can have them stick or tape the notes to the wall and have everyone silently walk around reading them. \nEither way\, make sure that you’ve got a way of sharing where things are being equitably looked at. Then number four\, discuss. How can we support each other in achieving some of these hopes? How can we support each other in mitigating or avoiding some of these concerns? The answer to these questions can be used then to guide the conversation as you get into those challenging topics. I want to just repeat those last two questions. How can we support each other in achieving some of these hopes and how can we support each other in mitigating or avoiding some of these concerns? That’s really it. It’s reflection\, sharing\, and discussing about the challenging conversation that you will be having as a group rather than having the conversation. \nBob: Thanks for guiding us through that\, Jessica. I’m wondering if we could talk a little bit about how we might use this if we aren’t in a group. If we’re doing it to prepare for a challenging conversation and it occurs to me that maybe it’s going to require some perspective taking so that we can not just focus on our hopes for a conversation. \nJessica: I would still have you go through the steps of\, so reflect on a conversation that didn’t go as well as you had wanted or hoped. What happened? How did you feel? What could you have done differently or what do you wish the other person would have done differently? Then I’d still want you to write through what your hopes are and concerns are about that. Just like we would have gone through the activity with others. When it comes to this conversation that you’re preparing for\, what do you hope for? \nThen when it comes to this conversation\, what do you worry about the most when you think about the conversation you’re going to have? I think for the sharing\, I think you could formulate your response to this. When you meet with the person\, when you do get to that point of meeting with a person\, you can share. I really hope for this. How does that sound to you? You can check in with them. They didn’t have the benefit of going through the other parts of the activity with you. You could also choose to take them through the first two parts. \nYou guys\, when you get to the sharing\, you could share together. I think that once it gets to the sharing\, that’s where it involves other people. You could choose to share when you get into the conversation and you could check in using that. Then you could ask for their hopes and their concerns. I want to be careful that you’re not crossing a line into trying to steer a conversation in a way that you only hope for it to be. I do feel like you can still have a hope for the conversation. I think a lot of people do when they go into one. I think if you’re not going to share what that hope is\, then I think just be really careful that you’re not using that to steer. I do think you could have a plan for how you’re going to support yourself through some of those concerns. \nBob: You anticipated where my mind was going about if we’re only concerned with our hopes. I love the idea of actually saying\, “Here are my hopes for this conversation. What are yours?” That’s really powerful. \nJessica: I really find this activity to be helpful\, especially if you’re the kind of person who has a hard time with challenging conversations. If you at least know how you’re going to support yourself through some of the concerns that you have\, and if you have your hope articulated to a point where you could share them with other people and it could help take some of the tension down in the room\, I think that could go a long way toward actually getting to the challenging topic. \nBob: Thank you so much again for sharing that practice. \nJessica: You’re so welcome. \nBob: That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. We’ll be back next week with a practice for perspective taking. Until then\, keep practicing. \nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection Podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense. Under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:16:06] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Letting Go to Make Room for Growth
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Our co-creator for this episode was our OneOp colleague\, Kristen Jowers. \nThis encore episode originally aired on April 25\, 2024.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nKristen Jowers: New possibilities are opportunities or potential outcomes that arise from changes\, innovation\, or exploration\, expanding the realm of what can be imagined or achieved. Hi everyone\, this is Kristen Jowers\, guest host for today’s practice. Welcome to this week’s Practicing Connection Practicast\, where we highlight a specific practice you can use in your life and work. In this month’s practicast\, we’ve been talking about different ways to hold space for others. \nHolding space refers to the act of being fully present with someone else without judgment or distraction so that the person can share their experiences and perspective. Bob Bertsch will be guiding us through the practice to help us hold space for new possibilities in a few minutes\, but first\, let’s learn more about it. Hi\, Bob. What does it mean to hold space for new possibilities? \nBob Bertsch: Hi Kristen\, thank you so much for guest hosting and for giving me the opportunity to talk about this. As you mentioned before\, holding space is about being present without judgment so that experiences and perspectives can be shared. Most times when we’re talking about holding space\, we’re doing those things for someone else or even for ourselves. When we’re holding space for new possibilities\, however\, we’re focused not on people but more on the potential for change. \nWhen there’s a potential for change\, we’re in what’s called liminal space\, and that’s a place of transition between where we’ve been and where we’re going or between who we are and who we’re becoming. We’re on the threshold of something new in that space\, but we’re not quite there yet. Understanding liminal space is important when we’re holding space for others because that’s often the space that we’re holding for them. In her book\, The Art of Holding Space\, Heather Plett describes liminal space as the space where something\, “Has dissolved and a new thing has not yet emerged to take its place.” \nWhen people are experiencing some kind of loss and waiting for the next thing to emerge\, we can hold that space for them or help them hold that space so they have the time and support to let that thing emerge instead of clinging to what was before or rushing forward toward things that may mitigate their pain but delay the transition. Let’s think about holding liminal space in the context of any work you’re doing or have done. There’s times when something important in our work\, maybe a process we’ve used or a concept that we’ve relied on\, or maybe a core value that we’ve realized is not just as important as we thought it was when that thing dissolves. \nOur instinct is often to rush to replace it instead of holding that liminal space\, the space that we need for new possibilities to emerge. If we can be more comfortable in that liminal space and learn to hold it\, then new possibilities will have the chance to emerge. They could be possibilities that just wouldn’t have happened if we skipped over that place of uncertainty\, that liminal space. \nKristen: When I hear you describe new possibilities\, I think that sounds really exciting\, but I like certainty and not knowing can be a really uncomfortable place for me. Why is it so hard? \nBob: It’s definitely difficult because we just don’t like uncertainty\, any of us. Like our relations in the animal kingdom\, humans are afraid of uncertainty. In an uncertain situation\, we will try really almost anything to make things more predictable\, including replacing one broken process with another so we can get out of that uncertain liminal space. If we can see liminal space as a space for creation\, I think we can balance the fear of that uncertainty with hope and excitement for the possibilities of what is about to emerge. \nWhile that’s helpful to think about those new possibilities with hope and excitement\, we also need to be aware that there are cultural norms of efficiency and productivity that are constantly pushing us to move faster and skip over that liminal space. We can’t forget that we’re people as we’re operating within this liminal space. That means that on some level\, we’re probably also grieving the loss of what came before. That might sound a little bit weird when we’re talking about a process\, but there is going to be some sense of loss and grief even if that something that is dissolving is something that we all agree was not working.. With all of that going on\, we need to counterbalance that by being very mindful and intentional about holding onto that liminal space and letting new things emerge. \nKristen: I really appreciate how you punctuate that grief process. How do you decide who holds space and who takes up the space and how do I hold space when no one else in the room is? \nBob: That’s a great question. It’s definitely a challenge to hold liminal space in a group. I don’t know if it is possible for one person alone to hold space for a whole group\, like a team\, for instance. First\, let go of any expectation that you might be putting on yourself to hold that space alone for your whole team or organization. That’s a lot of pressure to put on yourself\, and I think we have to let that go. \nThat said\, if the group as a whole is familiar with the concept of holding space and committed to holding space for each other\, I think they can hold space for new possibilities even when a particular group member might want to move ahead. When that’s happening\, a group can hold space for the member who’s experiencing that fear. It takes some empathy to do that and recognition that way we’re all subject to feeling that way and feeling that fear of uncertainty\, and so if the group as a whole can hold space for that person\, it can be really effective. \nIf you’re in a group that hasn’t developed that shared commitment to holding space\, recognize it’s not your responsibility to hold that space for the whole group alone\, but you can still hold space for new possibilities in your own mind. You can offer new directions for the group if you do it with compassion and empathy. You can point out when the group might be clinging to something that has already dissolved\, and you might suggest pausing a conversation when things might be rushing toward a quick fix by just saying something like\, “Hey\, maybe we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Could we take a breath and just think about what might be possible.” \nIf you express that you feel like something new could emerge\, if the group’s willing to hold that space\, it might allow the group to join with you in allowing it to do so. \nKristen: Let’s get started. Please walk us through the practice. \nBob: The practice I want to share helps us hold space for new possibilities by getting us used to letting something go and seeing something new emerge. It was inspired by Heather Plett’s personal practice of painting on the same canvas over and over again. Each time she’s covering up something that she created\, something that might be beautiful or valuable to her\, she’s covering that up with something new. \nHeather’s practice reminded me of Austin Kleon’s blackout poetry. What Austin does with blackout poetry is he lets poems emerge from the words in newspaper articles. The practice today\, we’re going to create a blackout poem\, but if we do it with a newspaper\, I don’t think we’re going to get the full effect because there’s no reason for us to want to cling onto a newspaper article\, so we want to get that idea of letting go of something and taking some liminal space to let something new emerge. \nThe first step in the practice is going to be for you to find a piece of writing that has some value to you. My first thought was a page from a book that I love\, but you could also use something that you wrote yourself or something that was written for you\, like a letter. I think it’s best to do this with a printed copy rather than electronically because we want that little sense of loss. \nA note that this is a practice\, we don’t want to have really\, really high stakes\, at least at the start\, so you might not want to choose your first edition copy of Walden Pond or the letter your great-grandpa wrote to your great-grandma during World War II. We want to choose something that you value\, but something that you can bear to let go of. Now that you have your piece of writing that we’re going to use\, next you’re going to need a pen or a fine-tipped marker\, so we want something that we can make some fine lines with. \nThen we also want a broad-tipped marker\, something that we can use to black out the words. If your piece of writing has multiple pages\, like a book\, randomly choose a page\, and then we’re going to scan the page and just note any words or short phrases that stand out to us by drawing a box around them with our pen or fine-tipped marker. Make sure that we’re scanning the page\, not reading it. We’re not seeking the meaning of what’s already written. We’re trying to create something new. Once you have some words or phrases selected that stand out to you\, and you’ve drawn the box around them\, you can start to look for other words that might help connect them into a poem. Here’s an example. Austin Kleon’s got a blackout poem. It’s called Overheard on the Titanic. The main words and phrases that I’m guessing Austin boxed first\, the ones that stood out to him was the sentence\, “I mean yes\, we’re sinking\,” the word music\, and the word exceptional. Those are the things that probably stuck out to him initially. \nThen he found connecting words to turn that into a poem. The connecting words he found are but\, the\, and is. The poem ends up reading like this. “I mean yes\, we’re sinking\, but the music is exceptional.” You see how that works. We get our big words\, then we can use some connecting words to tie it all together. If you’re having any trouble visualizing this\, check out the show notes for this episode at oneop.org/podcast. We’ll put a link there to Austin Kleon’s video on how to do blackout poetry. \nNow we’ve drawn our boxes around our main words and phrases and our connecting words. They all read the way that we want them to. We’ve connected them all together. We’ve made a little poem. The next step is to take your broad tipped marker and black out all the other words on the page so that all that remains readable are the words that you drew boxes around. This is part of like Heather’s painting over. If we just drew boxes around the words in our book\, for instance\, we might not have really made anything new and we really haven’t let go of that page. \nWe could still read that page just like we read it without the boxes around the words. Once we black out all the other words\, we’re really creating something new and letting go of something old. Then once you’ve blacked out those words\, that’s it. That’s your blackout poem. You’ve let go of something that you valued and held the space necessary for something new to emerge. If you’d like\, take a photo of your blackout poem\, share it with friends\, or you can post it to the Practicing Connection community on LinkedIn\, and that’ll give you an opportunity to share your experience and reflect on how it felt to hold space for new possibilities. \nKristen: That’s wonderful\, Bob. Thank you for guiding us through. \nBob: You’re welcome. \nKristen: That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. We hope you’ll give this practice a try and share your experience\, as Bob said\, in the Practicing Connection LinkedIn group where people supporting military families practice the skills that empower us to work together so that we can positively impact our communities and help families thrive. You’ll find that link to the group on our website at oneop.org/practicingconnection. We’ll be back next week with an in-depth episode discussing how to watch for opportunities to think big\, one of the eight ways of cultivating community resilience that we identified in our Connecting Communities in Asset Based Community Recovery project. Until then\, keep practicing. \nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of One Op and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense\, under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:14:00] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:2024 Personal Finance Year in Review
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Join this annual review webinar to explore the findings of noteworthy personal finance research studies published this year\, financial events with military-specific implications\, and preview upcoming changes for 2025. \nLearning Objectives: \nBy the end of this webinar\, attendees will be able to:\n\nIdentify legislation and events that have impacted military personal finances during 2024.\nIncrease knowledge of personal finance research studies published in 2024.\nPrepare for anticipated changes impacting military personal financial counselors in 2025. \n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”Presenter” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”5″ top_margin=”0″ constrain_group_7=”yes” bottom_margin=”0″ left_margin=”0″ constrain_group_8=”yes” right_margin=”0″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][image_with_animation image_url=”139093″ image_size=”custom” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”5px” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default” position_desktop=”relative” custom_image_size=”thumb” margin_top=”10″][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”3/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Dr. Barbara O’Neill” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Dr. Barbara O’Neill\, CFP®\, AFC writes\, speaks\, and reviews content about personal finance. A Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University\, after 41 years of service as a Rutgers Cooperative Extension educator and personal finance specialist\, she has written over 190 articles for academic publications and received over 35 national awards and over $1.2 million in grants to support her financial education programs and research. Dr. O’Neill is a past President of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE)\, a recipient of the AFCPE Distinguished Fellow Award\, and a Next Gen Personal Finance fellow.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”40″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”top” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Continuing Education (CE) Credit” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][nectar_btn size=”jumbo” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” el_class=”Continuing Education” button_id=”Continuing Education” text=”Continuing Education” url=”https://auburn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2bMxADIdA1ZxrVk”][vc_column_text]\n\nAccredited Financial Counselors (AFC): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits by the Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education (AFCPE). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 12/18/26\nCertified in Family and Consumer Sciences (CFCS): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 12/18/26\nCertified Personal and Family Finance Educator (CPFFE): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 12/18/26\nCertified Personal Finance Counselors (CPFC): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from The Center for Financial Certifications (FinCert.org). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 12/18/27\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 12/18/27\nOneOp Certificates of Attendance are available for those interested in additional documentation of professional development activities.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” top_margin=”0″ left_margin=”0″ constrain_group_2=”yes” right_margin=”0″ column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color=”#f7f7f7″ background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_color=”#f7f7f7″ column_border_style=”solid” enable_border_animation=”true” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Event Materials” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1689369183150{padding-left: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1759782293616{padding-left: 15px !important;}”]Webinar Slides[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Photo Credit: Pcess609 / Adobe Stock[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://oneop.org/learn/160061/
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement
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SUMMARY:Financial Abuse is Domestic Abuse: Equipping Service Providers to Support Victims
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJNeEf5jnaA”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”20″ constrain_group_1=”yes” bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”About This Webinar” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Many professionals work with victims of abuse every day\, but just may not know it. Domestic abuse presents in many forms\, such as emotional\, physical\, and financial abuse. Understanding the financial considerations for domestic abuse is essential for service providers across the spectrum of family readiness coordinating care for abuse victims. \nThe webinar covers the demographics of the military community with a focus on recent Department of Defense data on domestic abuse and child abuse and neglect. Light will be shed on the perspectives and experiences of victims of abuse. Benefits of collaborating with the Family Advocacy Program (FAP) to best support victims will be covered. The briefing will wrap up providing clarity on what resources are available and how to connect a victim to these resources. \nLearning Objectives: \nBy the end of this webinar\, attendees will be able to:  \n\nDescribe the Family Advocacy Program’s (FAP) vision and mission\nUnderstand the Department of Defense (DOD) definition of domestic abuse and its connection to financial abuse\nIdentify the DOD’s child abuse and neglect statistics and identify client risk factors \nLearn the benefits of collaborating with FAP and how to connect clients with FAP resources through a multidisciplinary approach\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”Presenter” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”5″ top_margin=”0″ constrain_group_7=”yes” bottom_margin=”0″ left_margin=”0″ constrain_group_8=”yes” right_margin=”0″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][image_with_animation image_url=”185106″ image_size=”custom” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”5px” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default” position_desktop=”relative” custom_image_size=”thumb” margin_top=”10″][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”3/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Lisa Eaffaldano\, LCSW” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Lisa Eaffaldano has over 20 years of experience working in prevention and response in the fields of domestic violence and child abuse. Her experience ranges from providing medical and non-medical counseling to victims\, alleged abusers\, and youth impacted and exhibiting problematic sexual behaviors to writing policy\, testifying to Congress\, and managing large-scale programs.  \nIn March 2022\, Ms. Eaffaldano joined the Military and Community Advocacy Directorate (MCA) at the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Family Advocacy Program (FAP) as the Associate Director where she has direct oversight of the team responsible for prevention and response to domestic abuse and child abuse\, and neglect.  \nPrior to joining OSD FAP\, Ms. Eaffaldano dedicated 15 years to working for the Marine Corps with her most recent billet being the Prevention and Clinical Services Assistant Branch Head for Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC)\, Marine and Family Programs Division\, Behavioral Programs\, Quantico\, VA. She also worked in the FAP at Camp Lejeune in multiple roles from 2007-2017. 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Eligibility for CE credit will close on 12/12/26\nAccredited Financial Counselors (AFC): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits by the Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education (AFCPE). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 12/12/27\nBoard Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) contact hours by The Patient Advocate Certification Board. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 12/12/26\nSexual Assault Response Coordinators (SARC) and Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Victim Advocates (VA): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from D-SAACP Credentialing. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 12/12/27\nCertified Personal Finance Counselors (CPFC): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from The Center for Financial Certifications (FinCert.org). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 12/12/27\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 12/12/27\nDomestic Abuse Victim Advocates: This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Advocate Credentialing Program (NACP). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 12/12/27\nSocial Workers\, Licensed Professional Counselors\, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. Check with your state licensing agency for reciprocity and/or credit approval if licensed for other professions or in one of the following states: CO\, FL\, HI\, IA\, KS\, KY\, MI\, NY\, ND\, OH\, OK. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 12/12/26\nOneOp Certificates of Attendance are available for those interested in additional documentation of professional development activities.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Photo Credit: By Pormezz from Adobe Stock\, file #: 791825956 [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://oneop.org/learn/160067/
CATEGORIES:Health and Well-Being
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SUMMARY:The Power of Connection\, Reflection\, and Evolution with Bob Bertsch
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Together\, they revisit key moments from the Practicing Connection podcast\, share insights from their collaboration\, and explore practices that support personal and professional growth.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nKalin Goble: Welcome to Practicing Connection\, a podcast exploring the personal stories and collective practices that empower us to work together to improve our resilience and readiness in a rapidly changing world. Here to start the conversation are Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch. \nJessica Beckendorf: Hi\, thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection podcast. I’m Jessica Beckendorf. Today’s a special episode as we bid farewell to my co-host\, Bob Bertsch\, who’s transitioning into his new role as the national project leader for OneOp. It’s not really goodbye so much as a\, “See you later.” This isn’t the last time your voice will be on this podcast. \nI’m super excited about that. I’m really excited about and happy for you in this new role as well. We’re going to focus today on the journey of this podcast and Bob’s experiences within that. Basically\, this is like our interview. We’re doing an interview of Bob this time instead of Bob doing the interviewing. He’s also going to share a practice with us. Hi\, Bob. How are you? \nBob Bertsch: I’m good\, Jessica. I didn’t know if I was prepared for thinking about that\, like the end of the podcast. This really is\, like I said\, maybe not the last time that my voice will be here. My last significant contribution for a while anyway\, so I’m okay until you made me sad. No\, I’m kidding. No\, I’m good. I’m good. Thank you. \nJessica: [laughs] We did try to talk you into\, I think\, a January or February episode. We had an idea on that. You set a pretty good boundary\, which we do talk about on this podcast. \nBob: That’s right. Check out episode number– No\, just search oneop.org for boundaries. I’m sure you’ll find at least a couple of practicasts. \nJessica: Yes\, exactly. Well\, this has really been an incredible journey. We’ve been working together for a long time. I think you’re way better at this than I am\, but I’m pretty sure it’s been nine years\, about. \nBob: Yes. \nJessica: It’s actually about to be 10 because I think I started my journey with OneOp in 2015. Yes\, it’s about to be 10 years. We’ve been doing this podcast for five of those nine years. We started with just a few episodes a year and then we grew it into many more episodes. This has been really an incredible journey. We’ve done tons of iterating. As we reflect on your time here\, I want to dive into some of the highlights and I guess lessons learned. Can you share a few highlights from the last several years in your role and on the podcast? As you look back at your time on this role on our team and co-hosting the Practicing Connection podcast\, what are some of the most memorable moments or episodes that stood out to you and why? \nBob: The first thing that came to mind\, Jessica\, and thank you for this question\, is our first attempts at podcasting. This is before we even had a thing called Practicing Connection podcast or even the Practicing Connection in a Complex World podcast\, which was the original name of the podcast. This was like– \nJessica: They can’t see me\, but I’m laughing right now because I know what you’re about to say. Go ahead. Sorry. \nBob: Our first attempts\, they were just very organic and exploratory and improvisational. We turned on the microphone and saw what happened. It was great. I think that helped us learn about what we were together as a team in those initial attempts. We knew each other. We had done some work together\, but what does it really mean for the two of us to combine? \nIt makes me think of one of our early episodes of what was then called the Practicing Connection in a Complex World podcast\, the actual podcast\, not these burgeoning attempts I’m talking about\, but an actual episode we did on transformational relationships. We talked about the idea that people can connect with each other in a way that causes something new to come\, not just one idea or thing\, but this third entity. \nThat is the relationship\, right? It’s like the space between the two people that emerges. It’s not just a combination of each person’s qualities or ideas or personalities. It’s more than that. I think when that happens and\, obviously\, I think that happened for us\, and I think when that happens\, the relationship transforms each person definitely\, for sure. It also creates the possibility and the potential for that relationship to transform other people and things that are just outside of the relationship. \nI think that happened with us\, not just because we created the podcast and shared it with others. Obviously\, that was an intentional act of doing that. I think it just happened and can happen for people because you’re both willing to be transformed by the experience and the things that emerge through the relationship. That’s definitely one thing that I think of a lot when I’m talking about moments that I remember. \nJessica: Yes\, thank you for reminding me of that. I really enjoyed that as well. We’ve talked about this before\, but we’ve both read the book Emergent Strategy. One of the themes in that book is change happening in fractals. I have said before and I don’t know if this came from that book or not or if it came from somewhere else\, but I feel like what you just described is the evidence of change happening one conversation at a time\, right? \nBob: That’s brilliant\, yes. That is a much better way of putting it than I was putting it. No\, that’s what it felt like\, right? That’s what those first attempts were. Change was happening\, like you said\, in those conversations. It’s continued as we’ve refined it. It’s continued to create change\, I think\, not just for the two of us\, but hopefully for anyone who’s listening to the podcast now. \nJessica: I’m smiling really big again because I remember some of our first before we started the podcast itself. When we were doing those other one-off projects\, there were so many ums and ahs. I know that this is such a small thing. We were both so conscious of all of that that sometimes our trying to speak was really stilted anyway. That’s just a skill versus a big growth and change comment. That was really funny and then us trying to talk about trying not to do as many ums and ahs. \nBob: Which made us more self-conscious. \nJessica: Yes\, that was funny. \n[laughter]\nBob: The other thing that comes to mind when you pose this question is just that there was a moment where we were able to find the connection between the work that we wanted to do together and military family readiness. What OneOp is about is about supporting military family readiness through the support of military family service providers. I don’t want to go into too much history\, but I’ll just say that the history of the team that we were on was a rollercoaster ride. We were doing one thing and then we were doing another thing. \nThen there was this moment where you and I started working together and we were trying to find our way. We were in Fargo\, North Dakota. That’s where I am right now\, folks\, with our colleagues\, Steve Judd and Bridget Scott. We’re drawing on big sheets of paper and ideating and trying to find our way. Bridget started talking about the Military Family Readiness System. It’s a DOD-defined system that is defined in policy. There was just a spark\, right? \nOur interests in networks and community and collaboration and leadership all started to mesh with this idea of the Military Family Readiness System that is described in policy as a complex\, adaptive system\, which combines all of these resources and people and opportunities to support military families\, whether that system of resources isn’t just in DOD or just in the branch services or just on installations. Envisioning it that way really helped us figure out how we were going to help service providers thrive as part of that system. It was like one of those moments of clarity where you’re just like\, you feel lost in the woods. [chuckles] Suddenly\, there’s an opening and the sun is shining through. That’s another one that sticks in my head. \nJessica: Oh\, I remember that meeting really well. I’ll never forget that. It’s like it all suddenly made sense\, right? We knew we had a place and we were really struggling to get our feet under us with it. Then suddenly\, we were like\, “Oh this. Yes\, this is exactly it.” To me\, the funny thing was that I think that that’s the direction that we had been talking around for a long time. It’s just that this clarity that happened during that meeting really brought it together. Now\, I have to ask and I know you don’t like to play favorites\, [chuckles] neither do I because I really do love every interview we do. I love every episode we do\, but I’m going to still ask you. Is there an episode\, achievement\, or moment that you feel particularly proud of and why? \nBob: Yes\, [chuckles] similar feelings. Yes\, I love them all. That’s probably not true. I think there’s some that were a little bit challenging. As I thought about this\, ones that came to mind right away were our interview view with Heather Plett about holding space\, and then a two-part episode that we did with Bjørn Peterson around creativity and change. The reason those\, I think\, came to mind is because we like to push at the edges a little bit around here on Practicing Connection. \nWe like to push the envelope a little bit\, maybe challenge ourselves definitely\, and maybe challenge the thinking of folks who are listening to see how does this fit\, right? We have this frame of military family readiness and the Military Family Readiness System and our work as service providers or extension educators or however you’re contributing to that system. It might not always make sense\, how holding space matters or how we might be able to use art or poetry or songs in our work. Those were two episodes that stuck out. Of course\, Bjørn especially because you and I had an opportunity to sit down\, have dinner with him in person\, which is a rare occurrence for us in terms of podcast guests. \nJessica: Lovely. \nBob: We happened to be in Saint Paul\, Minnesota. Bjørn was able to join us there. That was really great. He’s still a good friend\, I think\, to both of us. Any of those episodes that showed the MFRS\, the Military Family Readiness System\, in action. Food Security Hawaii Working Group\, which Arletta and Kina and Lorna. Arletta works on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Lorna works for the Hawaii National Guard and Kina works for Hawaii Foodbank\, I think it is called. \nThey joined us together and they were part of this Food Security Hawaii Working Group. We got to hear about the unique challenges that they have in terms of food security on the island. We also got to hear how they’re collaborating\, how they’re working together across these silos\, boundaries\, whatever you want to call them\, to address the problem through collective action. \nI think that’s what we’ve always been about. There’s lots of other episodes that come to mind on that one\, but that one was really affecting. I think we came away being able to feel how much those three people cared about that issue and about the people that they were serving. That comes through on all the interviews\, but it was visceral to me after getting done talking with them. That one really sticks out. \nJessica: I’m really enjoying being reminded of all these. I think I’m going to go back and listen to some of them. Let’s put the focus a little bit on your own growth. How has your experience with the podcast and your role so far at OneOp influenced your personal and professional growth? Are there any particular lessons or insights that you’ve gained? \nBob: It’s definitely changed my career remarkably. Just recently had a chance to have some conversations with some of our colleagues and especially Dr. Kyle Kostelecky\, who’s the PI and project director for OneOp. We are both talking about like\, “Oh\, my gosh. If this person hadn’t talked to this person or if this person hadn’t ever told me about this or if I had never met so-and-so\, how do we get from–” For Kyle\, it’s been a little bit longer\, but for me\, it’s been about 15 years now. How did I get from 15 years ago to here? \nA lot of it has been the opportunity that OneOp has presented\, I think\, to everybody who has worked on the project and also that what is now called the Extension Foundation. In the olden days when I got involved\, it was called the E-Extension. Both of those organizations really helped me and I think others build a national network. For me\, it was important because it went beyond the confines of my specific role at my university. \nMy job for most of the time I’ve been with OneOp at NDSU was web technology specialist. My interest went beyond that into adult education and community development and network science and in places that I wasn’t able to necessarily– even though I tried [chuckles] in my role and probably pushed the edges of my role at NDSU as well\, but I wasn’t able to fully embrace those things. OneOp was the way for me to pursue those interests and do the kind of work that I wanted to do. \nThe podcast has been the place where we have those conversations about those things\, right? Those things that I think you and I both care about. I hope everybody who listens cares about at least some of those things. Then we could find the intersections between those different ideas and explore what those ideas would mean in the context of military family readiness for service providers and adult educators and really forge a path towards applying it to family readiness and well-being. \nThat’s been transformational for me from a personal and professional growth standpoint. I don’t know if I have a particular insight or lesson. They’re innumerable. Just the opportunities to sit in rooms with such talented people\, knowledgeable people who come. What our listeners might not know about the unique thing about our project is that the project involves so many people from all over the country. \nFrom right now\, I think we’re at nine different colleges or universities around the country\, all from different disciplines\, all around family and human development\, but from different aspects of that\, all to sit in the same room and share ideas with each other\, talk to each other\, collaborate with each other and create programming that we hope supports military family service providers in their work as part of the Military Family Readiness System. That’s been awesome. All the times we’ve been in rooms and just had an idea come out that’s totally transformed how we think about things. I’m remembering Steve Judd handing me a book one time. I can’t remember the name of it. You probably have it on your shelf. \nJessica: Connecting to Change the World. Yes\, I’m looking back on my shelf right now. \nBob: Right. Steve’s like\, “You should read Connecting to Change the World.” From reading that\, we’re like\, “Okay\, our team’s going to do something completely different now.” [chuckles] We met with the national project leader at the time. We’re just like\, “Hey\, we’re going to do something completely different because we read this book.” It’s just an example of how that shared brainpower. The connection and collaboration can just\, like I said\, make change. I think that’s what we’ve always been talking about is like\, how do we connect with each other so that we can make positive change in the world? That has just happened so many times this project. I can’t count them. \nJessica: If I could add one thing even though this question was directed at you and I’m curious if you feel the same way. For me\, the podcast also offered an opportunity to practice some of the things\, the new thinking\, and the new things that I’ve been learning. Right down to the way we were planning each episode at the beginning where we use the chaordic stepping stones\, which was a facilitation planning technique that we learned in a class. It was this beautiful incubator to allow some different ways of thinking and working to take hold. I don’t know if you’ve had a similar feeling. \nBob: No\, I’m so glad you brought that up. Yes\, it hasn’t just been all public-facing programming where those moments have happened. It’s also just learning how we do the work together\, which for us\, like you said– I’m just repeating what you said\, but the incubator aspect of it\, it’s one of the great things about working in the space that you and I have worked in through these many years is we get to do relationship while we’re talking about relationship. We get to do collaboration while we’re talking about collaboration\, right? \nJessica: No meta. \nBob: Yes\, right. It’s very meta. \n[laughter]\nBob: It’s really been awesome. Yes\, I agree with that. \nJessica: Well\, now\, as you’re transitioning into your new role as the national project leader for OneOp\, what are some of your hopes and visions for the future of Practicing Connection podcast and the OneOp community? \nBob: I definitely have some. My first thought was like\, “That’s not my problem now. That’s on you and Coral Owen\, co-producer\, to figure that out.” I’m super excited to see where you guys take things. I thought about\, it’s just a fact. In fact\, Brigitte Scott\, our former national project leader\, said this to Jessica and I before. She’s like\, “The work you’re doing is really important to OneOp.” We’re like\, “Eh.” I like self-deprecating Midwesterns. \nJessica: “It’s not really important.” [laughs]\nBob: Yes\, right. Now that I have a different perspective on it\, I’m like\, “Oh yes\, it is.” The podcast and the Practicing Connection community are really critical to OneOp\, working towards our vision to facilitate the connections and shared knowledge required of providers to advance the Military Family Readiness System. I hope that we can see that work continue as Practicing Connection\, to continue to grow as a space for connection and sharing. \nOne of our recent episodes\, as we were talking to Amy Rodick\, who’s the director for the Office of Military Family Readiness and Policy at Department of Defense. We talked about how the podcast and OneOp’s PowerUp magazine have been telling the stories of the MFRS in action. Ms. Rodick called on service providers to start sharing their stories as well and then was like\, “How should they do that?” I’m like\, “Well\, they should email you guys\, right?” [chuckles] that kind of thing. \nI was like\, “Yes\, that makes sense.” I think that is a great opportunity and I’d love to see that happening\, not just on the podcast but on the Practicing Connection community on LinkedIn\, continue to be a place and grow as a place for those stories of successes and failures to be told and a place for people to ask questions of their colleagues and share their experiences and their frustrations and their hope for the future and to just connect and be a part of that. \nI think the podcast is a formal way of doing that\, of telling those stories. The community on LinkedIn\, I really hope that becomes a place where folks can talk directly to their colleagues\, service providers\, extension educators\, and other folks who are supporting our military families across the nation and around the world. Shout out\, Germany. \nJessica: [chuckles] Yes. \nBob: Jessica keeps track of the geography\, where listeners are coming from. \nJessica: Looks like we’ve got some regulars from Germany. \nBob: Right\, we can’t shout out everybody. Sorry. Apologies across the nation\, but Germany\, I know you’re listening. \nJessica: [chuckles] There are literally lots of cities. We’ve had downloads from six out of seven continents. We’re looking at you next\, Antarctica. [laughs]\nBob: Right\, yes\, and that’s important work\, right? Different contexts to be outside the continental United States. As we say\, OCONUS\, use some jargon for you. That’s a whole different thing in terms of supporting our military families outside of the United States. Thanks for the work that you guys are doing there. I’m happy for the chance to shout out Germany and everywhere else that folks are doing work to support our military families. \nJessica: Well\, I can’t tell you enough how much I appreciate the collaboration we’ve had\, the leadership you’ve provided on the podcast and all of our programming here\, and also just our friendship. This is an amazing experience for me. I’m excited to take the next leg\, but I’m really excited to see your work change as well. Let’s maybe end here with\, again\, not a final practice that we’re asking for from you because you’ll be back on here as a guest. Could you share a practice or strategy that’s currently supporting your personal and professional development and share a little bit about how this practice has helped you navigate your role and responsibilities? \nBob: All right. I warned Jessica before we started recording. I’m going to talk about meditation again. Some of you have probably heard me talk about it many times before\, but it is my practice. Literally\, it is my practice. It’s supportive in so many ways. Primarily\, it helps me be mindful\, which makes sense. That’s what meditation is about\, but it’s so important to be able to direct my attention and to notice things. My new role is a role where there’s lots of moving parts. \nLike I said\, there’s nine different partner universities\, lots of programming happening. Check out our webinars on oneop.org. Podcasts\, there’s blogs\, there’s lots of stuff happening. Honing the ability to notice is really important. Notice when I’m talking too much\, which might be happening right now. Notice when the room changes\, even the virtual room. Jessica and I both have done a lot of facilitation. There’s that feeling in the physical room. You’re like\, “They’re not getting it or they’re not picking up what we’re putting down or that kind of thing. \nJessica: Or they’re hating what we’re putting down. [laughs]\nBob: They’re hating what we’re putting down\, right? Noticing that is really an important part of facilitation. My meditation practice helps me with that. Noticing facial expressions and tones of voice and noticing what I’m feeling like when my emotions are popping up and how my body is feeling and how that might be affecting whatever’s happening in that moment\, whatever conversation is happening in that moment. That’s just one part of it. We’ve talked about equanimity on a practicast before. That’s another thing that meditation practice brings to me like an even-mindedness. My colleagues might not think I’m very even-minded\, but you should see me when I’m not meditating\, folks\, right? \n[laughter]\nBob: Just that ability to disrupt the automatic reactions that we have and being able to do that when I need to and not get caught up in what I’m feeling but lean into the experience that I’m having and that helps. That helps. I think in a leadership role\, it helps you to not cut off conversations and to allow the conditions for change to emerge and let things happen. It’s the hardest thing. \nI think over the years\, I’ve counseled leaders and sometimes preached at leaders. It’s like\, you can’t steer the ship all the time\, but it is our instinct to want to. Being aware of that instinct and being balanced about a practicing equanimity has been really important. Another thing that we practice in meditation practice is acceptance of what’s happening even if it’s unpleasant or pleasant to accept that. \nThat’s really helped me with my patients. As Jessica knows\, change doesn’t happen fast enough for me a lot of times. That acceptance to what’s happening has really been important. I meditate daily and\, yes\, I think it’s changed who I am and informs everything that I do. Meditating is important. Finding quiet time\, that can be very helpful. I would suggest\, seeking out teachers and seeing if you can find guided meditations that can help you cultivate some of the skills\, the different skills. \nJust being quiet and listening can cultivate a lot of those skills\, especially mindfulness. If you really want to get into some of the other ones\, guided meditation is the practice that I do. I encourage you to give it a try. If you ever have questions about it or want to reach out\, join the Practicing Connection community on LinkedIn and post a question about it. Someone will get it to me if I don’t see it. I’d be happy to have a conversation about it. \nJessica: Well\, that sounds like it’s been a beautifully transformational practice for you. Thank you so much for sharing. Yes\, go ahead. \nBob: I have you to thank for that. I have Jessica to thank for that. Pandemic days\, she recommended an app to me that got me started meditating and\, yes\, it’s been a great journey. \n[music]\nJessica: That’s it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the Share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. Thanks also to our incredible team\, co-producer Coral Owen\, announcer Kalin Goble\, Joyce Vaughn and Maggie Lucas from OneOp’s marketing team\, and Nathan Grimm who composed and performed all the music you hear on the podcast. We hope you’ll join us next time. In the meantime\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[00:28:03] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Supporting Military Youth with Disabilities in Transition to Adult Life
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Carmen has been active in special education as a volunteer\, serving on numerous workgroups including the local and state special education advisory committees.  Carmen is also the proud parent of two children\, including a young adult\, who happens to have cerebral palsy and completed a graduate program to support people with disabilities find the appropriate assistive technology they need. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”5″ top_margin=”0″ constrain_group_7=”yes” bottom_margin=”0″ left_margin=”0″ constrain_group_8=”yes” right_margin=”0″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”3/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Marjorie Thompson” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]\nEducation Program Specialist\nOffice of Special Education Programs\nUS Department of Education \nMarjorie Thompson is an Education Program Specialist in the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) at the US Department of Education. 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Check with your state licensing agency for reciprocity and/or credit approval if licensed for other professions or in one of the following states: CO\, FL\, HI\, IA\, KS\, KY\, MI\, NY\, ND\, OH\, OK. 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SUMMARY:Reflections on Connection\, Collaboration\, and Finding Inspiration
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At the heart of meaningful connection\, communication\, and collaboration is the ongoing journey of self-awareness\, learning\, and growth. Regular reflection helps us stay grounded\, inspired\, and ready for the challenges ahead. \nIn this episode\, co-hosts Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch reflect on the year that’s passed\, highlighting the importance of finding inspiration in the midst of everyday moments and in collective efforts to support others. We also hear from two special guests who share their reflections on resilience\, collaboration\, and the power of community: \n\nNicola Winkel\, Project Director\, Arizona Coalition for Military Families\nKristen Jowers\, Program Coordinator\, OneOp (University of Kentucky)\n\nTune in as they share how they’ve found inspiration through difficult work\, the beauty of small moments\, and the strength of community connection during challenging times.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”]Speaker 1: Welcome to Practicing Connection\, a podcast exploring the personal stories and collective practices that empower us to work together to improve our resilience and readiness in a rapidly changing world. Here to start the conversation are Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch. \nJessica Beckendorf: Welcome to our Annual Reflections episode. Each year we invite some of our podcast collaborators in the past year to share a reflection with us. One of the things we talk about a lot on this podcast is how connection and communication and collaboration with others requires knowing yourself\, learning\, and growing. Regular reflection practice can help with that. \nBob Bertsch: This year the Practicing Connection podcast experienced some milestones and new ways of working and collaborating. We maintained a schedule of weekly episodes with the addition of the Practicasts. We’ve grown the new Practicing Connection community on LinkedIn. With so much going on\, we’ve been inspired by our collaborations with our guests\, so we invited our collaborators to share their reflections on what’s been inspiring them this year. We’ll hear from a couple of our guests as they share their reflections on what’s inspiring them\, and Jessica and I will share our reflections as well. \nJessica: Our first reflection is from Nicola Winkel. Nicola joined us earlier this season on an ecosystem of military family support to talk about collective impact and collaboration. Nicola is the project director at the Arizona Coalition for Military Families\, a nationally recognized public-private partnership focused on building Arizona’s capacity to care for and support all service members\, veterans\, their families\, and communities. That’s a lot. \nShe has worked for more than 20 years in the nonprofit community\, specializing in program development and implementation\, bringing a mix of planning\, project management\, communication\, team coordination\, and problem-solving skills that drive execution of complex projects and build sustainability. Nicola was awarded the Adjutant General Medal by Major General Hugo Salazar for her efforts in implementing the coalition and strengthening support for Arizona’s military veteran and family population. She holds a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Illinois and a systems thinking certificate from Cornell University. \nNicola Winkel: Hello\, Practicing Connection listeners. This is Nicola Winkel\, project director for the Arizona Coalition for Military Families. As we close out 2024\, which I know has been a challenging year for many\, I’m glad to have the opportunity to reflect on the inspiration in my life and work. For many of us\, the work we do is so complex\, long-term\, and in many cases has an element of loss and tragedy that can be heartbreaking. Here in Arizona\, our partners are working to decrease the disparity in veteran suicide. It’s a problem with no simple solutions and the need to continually find the inspiration to keep moving forward. \nEarlier this year\, the secretary of the VA shared what one advocate told him\, that even if the numbers suck\, you have to keep going. I appreciated the sentiment and the bluntness because with these complex problems\, sometimes you can feel like such a small force against such a huge challenge. The biggest source of my inspiration this year has been the dedication of our team and our partners. I have seen time and time again how people coming to the table with the right attitude\, skills\, knowledge\, and collaborative spirit can make all the difference in how we are collectively inspired to move forward. As the backbone team for our collective impact initiative in Arizona\, I see our job as setting the table for the partners to come together\, but the inspiration and the clarity about how to move forward comes from us working together. \nConversely\, we have all seen how one or more people or organizations can make those efforts go sideways. Those situations are challenging because you can clearly see how this detracts from the work and the mission. This just inspires me to do everything I can to create the best table for us to gather around and to build the relationships needed to fulfill our common mission. I am thankful and inspired by our team and partners who bring their commitment and belief that together we can make a positive difference in the community to our collective table. That keeps me going on the challenging days. As we head into 2025\, I wish you inspiration in your work and your life. \nBob: Thanks to Nicola for that great reflection. I so enjoyed talking to Nicola when we had a chance to interview her earlier this year. I’m not surprised she talked about collaboration. They really are about collaboration with the coalition. I love that she talked about that and about creating a place for people to gather and work together. Because I think that leaning on each other\, that is a big part of finding the strength to keep going\, especially when you’re doing the difficult work that Nicola and her colleagues are doing. \nJessica: Yes. That resonated with me as well. One of the things within her reflection is a concept that we’ve talked about before. The dedication she talked about is similar to the idea of committing to working together\, even when we sometimes don’t want to be working together. We’re all humans. Those moments arise and those challenges will arise. \nBob: Jess\, would you mind sharing your reflection with us? \nJessica: Absolutely. Actually\, this reflection was really a tough one for me this year. I think you and I have chatted several times about how I’ve been feeling generally uninspired. That’s hard because I’m normally someone who’s– I can find inspiration in so many things. As I prepared this reflection\, I realized that I just this year wasn’t in that place. I wasn’t maybe as open to the things that usually inspire me\, like things I read\, workshops\, conferences\, classes that I’m taking. \nWhat has gotten my attention this year are the little moments. In some of our Practicast episodes\, I’ve talked about things like picking rocks in my landscaping beds\, playing with my dog. He’s such a joyful little guy and I just run around the house with him and chasing him\, pretending to try to get the toy\, unplugging even\, and especially small conversations I’ve had and reconnections. This year was really a year of reconnecting with several people that I haven’t talked to in a while. \nA really great example of this idea of those small moments was when I went away for a weekend visiting friends. We stayed at my friend’s parents’ house\, which sounds like I’m 16. I’m pretty sure that they live in this magical land\, this little plot of land that they own\, is completely magical because they created the magic there. There were these gigantic mathematical shapes\, huge dodecahedrons and other mathematical shapes that I don’t remember because I’m not huge into math\, all over their property. Her dad built them. I just found so much joy in seeing these shapes and in talking to him about how he made them and why he made them. Turns out he was a math professor\, but that’s a whole other– His story is very interesting. That’s very different. \nThis weekend in general though\, it started with this magical place we were staying\, and there are all these cool things happening at the property. Just in general\, we didn’t take ourselves seriously. We took a nap in a park\, which is really interesting because we went to Devil’s Lake State Park in Wisconsin\, which is in the Midwest\, I think is fairly well known. It’s this gorgeous place that has tons of beautiful hiking opportunities and we all like to hike\, but instead we took a nap. We didn’t hike even a little bit. \nThose little moments were really important to me throughout the year. This one weekend\, I think did a good job of encapsulating some of that. One of those moments of this weekend was that we silently walked a labyrinth lined with lavender. I had an opportunity to share my limited knowledge of the history of labyrinths as tools of reflection that go back more than 3000 years. I did have to look that up while we were still standing at the entrance because I couldn’t remember. I was so excited about the labyrinth and I told them like\, “No\, no. This is a thing. It’s a real thing you guys\,” but I had to look it up. \nI shared it with them. It was a really beautiful thing to just– My experience of the labyrinth was one thing\, but then also seeing my two friends experience the labyrinth and take it very seriously and have them go through it was just this beautiful little moment. When I think back on this year\, I am reminded of Heather Plett’s Spiral of Authenticity. We’ve had Heather Plett on this podcast before. We’ve talked about her work\, but the Spiral of Authenticity starts with an inward journey\, which goes through several stages from awakening to healing and opening. At the center is an open heart. Then the outward journey\, from the center\, out is one of emerging\, connecting\, and offering among other stages. Those are just a beginning\, middle\, and end stage of the outward journey. Heather Plett often connects the Spiral of Authenticity to a labyrinth. I feel like I’m in or near the center of the labyrinth right now\, just in general\, and near the center is opening\, or if you’re at the center\, that’s the open heart where you’re pausing for a while. I feel like I’m just there this year\, right now. \nThings are quiet here. It makes me a tiny bit anxious to not feel big moments of inspiration because I always feel like I can see it everywhere. That’s been really challenging this year\, but I’ve accepted these little moments as my inspiration\, and I’ll hang out in the middle of the labyrinth for a bit until I’m ready to emerge. I feel like I’m getting close to that\, but it was really eye-opening to do this reflection and to realize this connection to the labyrinth\, and that I literally walked a labyrinth this year. It was pretty cool. \nBob: That’s awesome. Beautiful\, really. Thank you so much for sharing it. It’s like one of those moments for me. It all makes sense now. Earlier in the year when we were talking about the rocks and the rabbits and all the things\, all the beautiful little things you were paying so much attention to. It’s like it all came together. It’s your open heart. What more open thing can you do than take a nap in a public state park? That’s a great demonstration of how open you’ve been this year. I’m glad that you’ve been able to do some sense-making around that\, and it’s all come together in this beautiful moment in this Reflections episode. \nJessica: Oh\, thank you so much. I don’t know if you recall how stressed I was that there were these stupid little things\, and I’m not being inspired by these big aha moments from reading and intellectual things. I was really stressed about how picking rocks was and watching the rabbits in my yard. It’s funny that it was stressful. Now I don’t just see it\, I feel that I am in the middle of that labyrinth right now. Thank you. \nBob: Thanks again for sharing that. Our next reflection is from Kristen Jowers. Kristen joined us earlier this year to collaborate on three episodes\, where we focused on practices related to holding space\, Holding Space for Difference\, Holding Space for Grief\, and Holding Space for New Possibilities. These episodes were such a joy to produce with Kristen\, who joined the OneOp team in 2023 as a program coordinator and uses her background in psychology\, child development\, and marriage and family therapy to enhance her work at the University of Kentucky. Here’s Kristen’s Reflection. \nKristen Jowers: Hello\, Practicing Connection listeners. I look forward to the Reflection episode of Practicing Connection every year. I’m excited to share about what’s been inspiring me. It’s been a really hard year. I feel like I’ve been saying that for a couple years\, but it really has been a challenging couple of months. I appreciated being asked what’s been inspiring because then I could do some reflecting. I went to book club\, and it was almost like I was primed for being inspired. I joined the book club a couple of years ago when I started working remotely. \nI think I was just looking for some in-person engagement. It’s why I love conferencing so much. It’s nice to my neighbors and meet other folks who live in my community. Our book club hasn’t met for a couple of months because of the severe weather and hurricanes that have impacted our area over the past few months. I live in Valdosta\, Georgia. That’s about 15 miles north of the Florida-Georgia line. It’s also where Moody Air Force Base is. Our area was impacted by several hurricanes in the past year. My book club has turned into a little bit of a hurricane support group. \nWhen we met most recently\, normally we have one book to talk about. At this most recent book club\, there were a lot of books to talk about because\, I guess folks have been doing a lot of reading. That’s something I didn’t expect. I thought\, “Maybe we’ll go and talk and nobody will have read anything\, or maybe they read a book from three months ago.” I was surprised a lot of folks were sharing that they read a lot. It’s interesting to see how people fill the space and the time when they don’t have power and school’s out\, and they don’t have internet. Some folks were saying\, “My kid picked up a book for the first time in a while\,” or\, “I read a book for fun\,” or\, “My spouse started reading again.” \nFolks were just sharing about how they shared a book that they’ve just finished with a neighbor\, or they found themselves talking more about books with people that they hadn’t talked to about reading before. Book club’s been a really safe space for me\, just to practice connecting\, if you will. We’re a lot of stories shared at book club that were really inspiring stories of neighbors who were helping each other clear roads and clear driveways and neighbors who did have power or the equipment to cook. We had a lot of folks breaking bread together that maybe otherwise wouldn’t have\, a lot of outreach and organizations that have come from outside of our area into the area to provide resources and support. \nIt’s just been really inspiring for hearing how folks that had so many impacts from trees being down\, having religious organization from Alabama shows up and just completely cleans up their yard for them. There’s just been a lot of stories of glimmers or sparkly moments during this really\, really difficult season. I found myself just appreciating having people who get it. We talked about normal and what even is normal anymore. I think during COVID there was conversation around getting back to normal. Then now we’re redefining a new normal as a community post-COVID\, post-Hurricane Idalia\, post-Hurricane Debby\, post-Hurricane Helene\, and Milton. It’s been an interesting time schools have been closed. \nSchool counselor who shared that on their first day back to school after more than three and a half weeks of school being closed\, on their first day back they asked if any students would be interested in a hurricane support group. It’s a really small school\, but more than 100 students actually signed up and said that they would be interested. I think that this shows that these type of events impact us all and in different ways. One of the poignant conversations that stuck with me\, folks talking about resilience and strength. \nI know that this was the conversation on a previous episode\, a conversation surrounding what it means to be resilient right now as a community\, as a school. It’s just always important to remember that a lot of folks are grieving right now and processing\, and that it’s going to take time. I so appreciate the opportunity to reflect about what’s been inspiring me\, what’s been motivating and impacting\, not just my work life and professional life\, but also personally. Thank you for holding space for me today. \nJessica: Thanks so much to Kristen for her reflection. I can’t imagine going through one hurricane\, and that area has experienced several in this year alone. One of the things that really resonated with me and Kristen’s reflection is that you have a constant zooming in and zooming out. You’ve got this huge thing\, these hurricanes that are happening\, and yet you’re zooming into reading for pleasure when the power is out. You’re zooming out to the bigger impacts of sharing about books that people have read and the stories they’re sharing of kids picking up books for the first time in a while. Then you’re zooming into a person’s home being affected by a fallen tree. You’re zooming out to people coming together to help and to 100 students signing up for some support. I thought it was just really beautiful. I really\, really appreciate Kristen sharing her experience of that. Bob\, would you share your reflection with us? \nBob: Yes\, I’d be happy to. Thanks for the invitation\, Jess. In October of this year\, 190 wildfires swept through Northwestern North Dakota. Sorry to be on the natural disaster thing again after we heard Kristen’s reflection. \nJessica: Sorry\, Bob. This is your reflection. I didn’t even hear about that\, probably because there was so much attention about the hurricanes. Anyway\, I’m sorry. Please go on. \nBob: The number and range of the fires were definitely unusual for us. They were fueled by dry conditions\, high winds\, and grasses that had actually grown really long and thick during a rainy early summer. It was those conditions all coming together. The impacts of the fires were really devastating. More than 125\,000 acres were burned. Homes\, outbuildings\, entire farm businesses were destroyed. Hundreds of head of livestock were killed\, and many of those herds are still suffering health issues related to the fire\, and livestock deaths are still happening as a consequence of the fires. \nWhile these fires were still burning\, I joined a Zoom call and listened to some of our NDSU Extension agents and specialists here at North Dakota State University\, talk about how they were helping people document their losses\, treat injured animals\, and probably most importantly\, deal with the trauma they had experienced. As I was listening\, as we heard in Kristen’s reflection\, similar situations at that very time were playing out in North Carolina and Florida and other states in the Southeast as Extension professionals and other service providers helped people impacted by Hurricane Helene. Then later after this Zoom call\, the other hurricanes that came up through the early fall there. \nI often think about the wider reaching work aimed at preventing disasters or mitigating the impact of disasters when they happen\, or supporting people\, families\, and communities to become more resilient\, that zoomed out work. Jess\, we were talking about zooming out and zooming in. That’s really important work\, but it’s so much different than standing in front of someone who has lost so much and trying to help them answer the question\, what’s next? The service providers who stand with those families in the face of such profound loss are my inspiration this year. \nJust the other day\, a colleague talked to me about how difficult it was to see the impact the wildfires had on people. Honestly\, my colleague is still feeling that. I could see it in her face and hear it in her voice. It’s inspiring to know our Extension professionals and our military family service providers are willing to stand with families experiencing tragedy\, even though they know how secondary trauma can affect them as the professional provider. It makes me grateful for doing the work that I get to do\, work that supports those that support families in need. It motivates and inspires me to keep going and doing that work. \nJessica: Wow. I should not have interrupted you earlier to say that I haven’t heard about this happening\, but thank you so much for sharing that. That is really inspiring. The service providers that are in the middle of it\, in the thick of it\, and some of them may also be affected\, or they may have family members who are affected\, and that they can continue on and help others continue on is amazing. It is inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing that. \nBob: We’d love to hear what’s inspiring you. Please share what’s inspiring you by clicking the Send Us a Text Message link at the top of the description of this episode. When you click that link\, your text messaging app will open and you’ll see a seven digit number and the words\, Do Not Remove. Type your message after that and click send. Don’t remove that number or we won’t receive your message. To protect your privacy\, we won’t see your phone number and we can’t text you back\, but we’d be happy to share your feedback on a future episode. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can email us what’s inspiring you at practicingconnection@oneop.org. Let us know what’s inspiring you right now. \n[music]\nJessica: That’s it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the Share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. Thanks again to our collaborators on this episode\, Kristen Jowers and Nicola Winkel. Finally\, thanks to our incredible team\, co-producer Cora Owen\, announcer Kaelin Goebel\, Joyce Fallon and Maggie Lucas from OneOp’s marketing team\, and Nathan Grimm who composed and performed all the music you hear on the podcast. The season is not over yet. We have a special episode coming your way next week. We hope you’ll join us then. In the meantime\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp\, and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense\, under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[00:25:46] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Risk Factors and Reasons for Food Insecurity Among Service Members
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Substantial research has been done since 2018 to determine the risk factors and reasons for food insecurity as well as the subsequent consequences of food insecurity in the military. This presentation will review the published research on food insecurity in the military and discuss strategies to minimize food insecurity in the Armed Forces\, including an example from the field at Joint Base San Antonio. \nLearning Objectives: \n\n\n\nDefine food insecurity and its different severity levels (high\, medium\, and low).\nDetail the rate of food insecurity and how it compares to a similar civilian population.\nOutline the risk factors for food insecurity for the U.S. military.\nIdentify at least three installation resources or programs working to alleviate food insecurity.\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”Presenters” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”5″ top_margin=”0″ constrain_group_7=”yes” bottom_margin=”0″ left_margin=”0″ constrain_group_8=”yes” right_margin=”0″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][image_with_animation image_url=”184382″ image_size=”custom” animation_type=”entrance” animation=”None” animation_movement_type=”transform_y” hover_animation=”none” alignment=”” border_radius=”5px” box_shadow=”none” image_loading=”default” max_width=”100%” max_width_mobile=”default” position_desktop=”relative” custom_image_size=”thumb” margin_top=”10″][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”3/4″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Matthew Beymer\, PhD\, MPH” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Matthew serves as a Statistician for the Defense Centers for Public Health-Aberdeen within the U.S. Department of Defense. His research focuses on behavioral\, mental\, and social health and demographic disparities in the U.S. military. 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SUMMARY:Inviting Innovation Through Creative Destruction
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In this practicast\, Jessica shares a fun and insightful practice inspired by the Liberating Structures TRIZ activity\, guiding listeners to identify and eliminate counterproductive behaviors to make space for new ideas and better outcomes.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nBob: Hi\, thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Bob. My co-host Jessica is here as well. Today we’ll be talking about one of the principles of Liberating Structures\, invite creative destruction to encourage innovation. Jessica will be sharing a practice with us based on that idea\, that principle. Hey\, Jessica\, how are you doing? \nJessica: I’m doing pretty great today. It’s been a while since I’ve had a day almost completely free from meetings. Today is that day\, and I’ve been able to catch up on reading and being a content consumer versus just someone who– well\, not just someone who creates content\, but that’s a good thing\, too. I enjoy that very much. What’s really been the culprit lately is being a meeting participant. They’re all important meetings\, and I enjoy many of them\, but today has been just wonderful. I’m doing great. Thanks for asking. \nActually\, one of those things I read was I recently discovered Cassandra Worthy’s Change Enthusiast Mindset. I wanted to share a passage from her website that inspired me from a piece called Anthem of a Change Enthusiast\, and I’ve chosen a section from the middle of the piece that was particularly energizing for me. I’ve had change champion in my LinkedIn description for a long time\, and I feel like this really describes what I mean by that. It starts with\, “But we are change enthusiasts. We embrace the frustration\, aggravation\, isolation\, and stress as signals. Signals that we are sitting in a moment of opportunity. \nIn this embrace\, we are able to step back and view them objectively. In doing so\, we first allow these feelings to exist\, then inspire. To inspire us to the choice that will bring about a better feeling\, to inspire us to the choice that will begin to slowly shift our reality from overwhelmed to anxious\, from anxious to confused\, from confused to clear\, from clear to creative\, from creative to excited\, from excited to bliss. We are change enthusiasts. We use the feels of change to make conscious choice toward better feeling. We don’t ignore the feels\, pretending they don’t exist in a blinding haze of optimism. We recognize the feels of change as guideposts leading us through the opportunity to choose our best\, for we are change enthusiasts.” \nBob: That is really great. I love that. Thank you for sharing it. \nJessica: You’re welcome. I really have been enjoying reading all of Cassandra Worthy’s stuff. \nBob: I have an author to share as well that I’ve been inspired by for really going on maybe a year or more now. Daniel Halter has a substack called Sounding Slightly Off. Daniel is great. He’s a facilitator and a very talented writer. He works at AF CyberWorx\, the US Air Force’s innovation hub. Daniel’s essays just always make me think he does a lot of work around complexity and systems thinking\, things that\, Jessica\, you and I are interested in as well. \nHis posts\, his essays usually include a book or a resource that I haven’t come across before\, and I’ve shared some of those on this podcast before\, like the book Unflattening and yes\, so it’s just inspiring to read him. I just want to give him a shout-out. If you are interested\, check out Daniel Halter’s Sounding Slightly Off. \nJessica: We’d love to hear what’s inspiring you\, so please share what’s inspiring you by clicking the “send us a text message” at the top of the description of this episode. When you click the link\, your text messaging app will open and you’ll see a seven-digit number and the words “Do not remove”. Type your message after that and click “Send”. Don’t remove that number or we won’t receive your message. To protect your privacy\, we won’t see your phone number\, and we can’t text you back\, but we’ll share your feedback on a future episode. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can email us at practicingconnection@oneop.org. Let us know what’s inspiring you right now. \n[music]\nBob: I’m anxious to learn more about inviting creative destruction to encourage innovation. Jessica\, can you tell us a little bit more about the practice you’ll be sharing and why you chose it? \nJessica: Absolutely. I chose the TRIZ activity. That’s T-R-I-Z from Liberating Structures\, and that principle of inviting creative destruction to encourage innovation is also from Liberating Structures. This version of the practice was developed by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless. It promotes the idea of creative destruction by revealing where you might be getting in your own way as a collaborative team\, which then makes way for new ways of working and being together. That’s the innovation part of it. \nIt encourages people to envision a better future together in a really fun way. TRIZ actually stands for– and I haven’t figured out exactly how it stands for this\, but it stands for Theory of Inventive Problem Solving\, which does not spell T-R-I-Z\, but that’s okay. A Theory of Inventive Problem Solving\, and its origin is from Russian engineering. Perhaps that’s where the acronym comes into play. It’s a systematic methodology for addressing complex problems and encouraging innovation. It’s been widely adopted across many different industries like aerospace\, electronics\, and automotive. \nThe activity that I’m going to be sharing today only represents a small piece of the overall TRIZ structure. There are TRIZ certifications and even a TRIZ fest. There’s a lot more to TRIZ than this one activity\, but this one activity can be an effective tool for organizational and community change and problem-solving. I’ve actually used variations of this activity with a community that was considering raising their tax levy and a small nonprofit that was undergoing a huge turnover in their board. \nI’ve seen this tool be really\, really effective. Besides its effectiveness\, I also chose this activity for its playfulness. I’ve seen groups have fun with it. You can also do it on your own and I guess just chuckle to yourself when it gets a little silly. \nBob: This sounds really exciting. Can you walk us through the practice? I’m anxious to hear more about it. \nJessica: Yes. I want to make a note that on this podcast\, we typically try to stay on the positive side\, not toxically so\, but we try to stay on the strengths-based side. I would say that this strays from that a little bit\, but it does it in a really fun way. It’s meant to give you insight to how you might be blocking your strengths from shining through. I do think it’s connected to a strengths-based approach. You’re going to start first with a goal that you or your collaborators have defined. I want you to think about that goal. I want you to think about the worst possible outcomes and list any action that you can think of. This is a brainstorming part. \nList any action you can think of that would ensure the worst possible outcome for your goal. It could help you to start by listing out a few of the worst possible outcomes. Then from there\, listing the different actions that would ensure those outcomes. This is the part that it can actually be really fun\, even though it sounds like the big bummer part. I would say list everything\, even the things that seem just a bit ridiculous. That’s the part where people start to have a little bit of fun because they can’t imagine that anyone’s actually doing that action that would bring about that worst possible outcome. \nI want you\, though\, to remember to keep this about process\, policies\, and actions\, not about people. Okay. The next step is to identify which of these actions. Take a look at that action. All of those actions that would bring about the worst possible outcome\, take a look at those and start to identify the ones that you are actually currently doing. Remember\, I said that some of these might get a little bit ridiculous. It doesn’t mean that you’re doing that exact ridiculous thing\, but you might look at that and say\, “Oh\, we’re doing a variation of that\, or we’re doing a small snippet of that.” \nI want you to imagine all the ways\, shapes\, and forms that you’re doing the things that fit with your worst possible outcomes list. It might end up being a variation. For example\, if you listed not communicating with senior leadership at all as an action that would get you the worst possible outcome\, you might list as an action that you’re currently doing\, well\, we don’t communicate with senior leadership until the last minute\, which is a variation of not communicating with them at al. \nThen the last one is find ways to stop these counterproductive behaviors. You’re going to review the list of things that you do that are counterproductive\, and you’re going to decide on some steps to take or different processes to employ to stop these behaviors and make space for innovation. Because when you can stop those behaviors\, you can then imagine what else is possible and what else could we be doing that’s different that will help us move forward differently than we are right now. We’ll provide a link to the full instructions of this activity in our show notes\, but that’s the practice for today. \nBob: I like it. It reminds me a little bit of the future backwards process. \nJessica: I don’t know that. \nBob: Oh\, so future backwards is a process that developed with no endorsement from me\, by the way\, the way that police interview witnesses and suspects because they find that if you start at the end of the story instead of– and make people go backwards\, you get a more accurate account than if you have them go forwards because we’re used to telling stories. The idea is in strategic planning to think of the future state first and then work your way back and say what actions would have led to this future state. It’s similar. \nUsually\, I think we’re trying to do it with getting the positive outcome\, but I love the idea of starting with the worst possible outcome and then just changing up the actions. Let’s not do that then. \nJessica: Yes\, right. How do we avoid this worst possible outcome? Oh\, don’t do these things that we’re doing. \nBob: Yes. Awesome. Thanks so much for guiding us through that\, Jessica. \nJessica: Oh\, you’re welcome. I love it. \nBob: That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. We’ll be back next week with one of our favorite things to do. It’s our annual reflections episode. Hope you’ll tune in for that. Until then\, keep practicing. \nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense under award number 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:12:16] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:The Power of Listening to Cultivate Deep Respect for People
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This practicast introduces “1-2-4-All\,” a practice rooted in community development principles\, designed to amplify every voice and promote meaningful collaboration. Learn how genuine listening and collective reflection can empower individuals and create stronger connections within groups. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nBob Bertsch: Hi\, thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Bob. My co-host\, Jessica\, is here as well\, and today we’ll be talking about active listening and the concept of deep respect. Jessica will be sharing a practice with us around that topic. Hey\, Jessica\, how are you today? \nJessica Beckendorf: I’m doing all right. It’s been sunny here all day\, which has been really nice. It’s especially interesting because everything in our yard looks very strange right now\, because our neighbor had this huge\, gigantic old willow that they just had to take down\, unfortunately\, because of a storm. It had split all the way down the middle. It was really weird to see a tree that strong\, or seemingly that strong. I know willows aren’t the strongest trees\, but it was so weird to see it just split all the way down the trunk. Now it has completely changed the landscape of our backyard. \nI love to look at stars at night\, so there’s been a great opportunity there. I love seeing the sky just in general\, but it has been weird\, too. What it’s really made me think about\, that and as I shared with you before we started recording\, we lost one of our cats recently as well. Both of those things\, while my cat was in hospice\, at home hospice for the last couple of weeks\, and as we saw the feel and look of our entire yard change\, I just really started to think a lot about those changes that we have no control over at all. There are lots of changes that we have zero control over. \nI know that intuitively\, but I think as someone who is a proponent of people working together toward change\, and I think in my LinkedIn I even have something like change champion\, it’s really frustrating when you are faced with these things that you have no influence even\, over. I think those are the times that community support are really needed. Thinking about that has made me ponder\, well\, what about the times when there are issues that anyone in the community\, or everyone in the community\, can have influence over? That’s really\, I think\, when community action is needed. These are things that I know\, but I was really forced to do some deep thoughts over. \nBob: Thanks for sharing that. Sorry for your loss\, both of your losses. I’m glad you brought up community action and us banding together\, because something that I just stumbled across recently speaks to that a little bit. It was a Harvard Business Review article from 2023. It’s called Four Phases That Build a Culture of Curiosity\, by Scott Shigeoka. The four phrases that Scott shares are\, I don’t know\, tell me more\, I understand that you’re more than your job\, and who else? I’m going to focus on that last one. That last phrase just reminded me of something that you said in a conversation we had in September\, in the episode Applying Systems Thinking to Local Issues. \nYou shared a practice in that episode\, and you asked us to ask ourselves this question. Is there someone whose experience needs articulation\, but who is currently not present? Who is that? That question from the article\, who else\, seem to take your question and apply it to\, I guess\, a little different situation than I had been thinking of it in\, just in everyday life and work\, when can we ask ourselves\, who else could we ask about this? Who else is our decision that we’re making impacting? Who else could help us with this? Maybe that speaks a little bit to what you were talking about with people rallying together. \nJessica: Yes\, I love that. I love that you listen so closely to me. [laughs] Actually\, I just want to give the credit where credit is due. That question\, is there someone whose experience needs articulation\, but who is currently not present\, actually came from our mutual acquaintance\, Bjørn Peterson\, in his work. It’s one of my favorite questions. I’m glad that it sounds like I’ve incorporated it so much into who I am as a person\, that [chuckles] it sounds like it came from me\, but it definitely came from his work. I think it’s just absolutely profound. \nBob: We’d love to hear what’s inspiring you\, so please share what you’re inspired by\, by clicking the send us a text message link at the top of the description of this episode. When you click that link\, your text messaging app will open and you’ll see a seven digit number and the words\, do not remove. Type your message after that\, and click send. Don’t remove that number or we won’t receive your message. To protect your privacy\, we won’t see your phone number\, so we can’t text you back\, but we will share your feedback on a future episode. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can email us at practicingconnection@oneop.org. Let us know what’s inspiring you right now. \n[music]\nBob: Let’s learn more about deep respect and how to cultivate it. Jessica\, can you tell us a little bit more about the practice you’ll be sharing and why you chose it? \nJessica: Yes\, of course. The concept of deep respect is rooted in frameworks like the asset-based community development that we’ve talked about before\, or you might have heard us refer to it as ABCD\, and the principles from liberating structures\, which we just talked about in a previous episode. These approaches remind us that communities are filled with untapped potential and knowledge. When we genuinely listen\, and we engage with the local voices who are part of that untapped potential and knowledge\, we not only honor their experiences\, but we also facilitate their own empowerment to create solutions that work best for their unique context. \nI chose this activity because I’ve used it a lot. This is like one of my go to activities I use in groups\, or I’ve used in meetings\, right? Even a simple meeting\, you can use this in. I think it does a really good job of honoring the different ways that people prefer to communicate and share\, which really maximizes the chances that everyone’s voices will be included and heard. That’s crucial for practicing deep respect. Think about a time when you felt deeply respected in a conversation. What made that experience meaningful? For me\, it has always involved feeling heard\, and like I’m making a meaningful contribution. \nOf course\, I hope I make others feel just as respected and heard. This idea of when you felt deeply respected\, and what made that meaningful\, and how you might be able to bring that forward\, these two questions on their own\, I think would be a great practice for deep respect. Just asking yourself to recall a time you felt deeply respected in a conversation\, and identifying what made that experience meaningful to you\, and then asking\, how can you replicate that feeling for others? Even that alone would be a great practice. Before you go into a meeting where you’re trying to get everyone’s voice to feel heard. \nBob: Yes\, that’s awesome. I really appreciate it because we’re digging a little bit deeper here. We’re going beyond just getting people into the room and practicing inclusion. This seems to be really speaking to practicing belonging as well. I’d love to hear the practice you have around this. Would you walk us through it? \nJessica: Yes. The practice is called 1-2-4-All. It involves active listening. We’ve talked about listening on the podcast before\, but I would say that most of the time we were talking about the nuts and bolts of one-on-one communication\, or how you can practice the listening. I want to remind everyone though\, that this isn’t just about hearing words\, it’s about seeking understanding and truly understanding and valuing what someone is sharing. Engaging in genuine active listening can have the effect of increasing psychological safety during change efforts\, which is really important for change efforts. \nTo put this into practice during a group or community change effort\, you could use this 1-2-4-All activity to allow individuals to reflect individually before discussing then in pairs\, and then groups of four\, and then sharing with a larger group. This structure ensures that everyone has a chance to contribute their thoughts. We’ll share a link to all of the notes for carrying out this activity in the show notes\, but here are the basic instructions. You would begin with silent self-reflection by the individuals in the room on a shared challenge. \nYou’d want to frame that shared challenge as a question. For example\, what opportunities do you see for making progress on this challenge? How would you handle this situation? What ideas or actions do you recommend? Give them some time to self-reflect. Then you’re going to have everyone find a partner and generate ideas in pairs. You’re going to give them the instruction to build on the ideas that they came up with from the self-reflection. Start with those ideas you came up with in self-reflection\, and then generate ideas together based on that. Then they will pair up with another pair and share and develop ideas in the foursome. \nSame thing that they did before\, they’re going to share the ideas they came up with as a pair\, and then with the other two people\, they will come up with more ideas. This isn’t about the quantity of ideas\, it is really about making sure that everyone’s ideas are still represented at the end\, but it also encourages the listening and the respect of incorporation of people’s ideas. At the end\, everyone will come back together to the full group\, and you’ll ask them\, “What is one idea that stood out in your conversation?” Then they’ll share one important idea. \nNow\, does this mean that the other ideas go away? No\, it doesn’t. This is for the overall share out. They could share all of their ideas. You can really do this activity any way you want to. The key here is getting everyone to the point where they see themselves in the project that they’ve meaningfully contributed. \nBob: I love that practice. Thank you so much for sharing it. That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. We’ll be back next week with a practice for finding what is important and meaningful to you and to others. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection Podcast is a production of OneOp\, and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U.S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, U.S. Department of Defense under Award Number 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:12:41] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:The Welcome Wagon: Cultivating a Welcoming Environment
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This practicast introduces “The Welcome Wagon\,” a simple practice inspired by community development principles\, offering steps for personal reflection and group collaboration to foster a culture of belonging. 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I’m Bob. My co-host Jessica is here as well. In a little bit\, we’ll be talking about practicing being more welcoming. It might not be something that we think about practicing\, but Jessica is going to share a practice with us to help us be a little bit better at that. Jessica\, how are you today? \nJessica: I’m great. This has been a great week of inspiration. I’m going to break the fourth wall here for a second by saying that I looked ahead at your notes\, and I had to say that because I’ve actually been inspired by very similar things. I intentionally wanted to bring it up in a different way than you plan to. I’ve been working on putting together a large project that has prompted many conversations and all kinds of connection inspiring. It’s been really fulfilling to even scratch the surface of how many people are interested in working together toward this common goal. \nOne of the most interesting things to me was that one agency thought to put out a survey asking if organizations were interested in collaborating on a particular topic. They wanted us to identify how we’d like to collaborate and what we hope to accomplish. This prompted a lot of ideas and emails and possible real agreements to collaborate where we all just would have gone off doing our own thing and we all still would have been working toward that same common goal. Now\, what can we do together? \nBob: Yes\, that’s awesome. As you mentioned\, I’m thinking and been inspired along similar lines. I’ve been thinking a lot about Stephen B Johnson’s idea of the adjacent possible\, which is this idea that there are possibilities\, doorways\, if you want to think of them as physical things\, that exist\, but that we can’t see alone. We need multiple perspectives to see them\, more than one perspective to open up that adjacent possible. That’s been something I’ve been thinking about\, just because I had a couple of opportunities\, one to connect a couple of colleagues who are working in different states\, but they’re doing very similar work. \nOne colleague was talking to me about their work\, and I was like\, that sounds similar to this person’s work. Maybe\, if you’re not in the right mindset\, you might let that just go. Like\, “Oh\, that’s interesting. I know somebody else who does similar work.” With the adjacent possible in mind\, I took the time to introduce these two people to each other. It’s a pretty low risk\, low effort thing to do\, to just loop a couple of people together on an email and say\, “This is why I think you guys would be interested in talking to each other\, but I leave the rest to you.” You don’t have to facilitate it. You don’t have to tend the relationship for the rest of your life or anything like that. \nJust make a connection and you can and let them take it where it’s going to lead. Hopefully\, that has opened up some adjacent possibilities for those two colleagues. I had another opportunity where a funding opportunity I found out about\, sparked in my head. Again\, a couple of colleagues might be interested in this and taking the time to send that with some context. This is something that John Stepper has talked about. \nWe’ve talked about on the podcast before\, Jessica\, when we talked about working out loud and how to do introductions of people\, that context is really important. It makes me think that part of this is opening up your aperture\, to use a photography example. Jessica’s the photographer among the two of us\, but I’ll borrow some words from her\, to open up your aperture a little bit and include people beyond yourself and your own interests and think about possibilities that are beyond maybe what’s right in front of you\, those adjacent possibilities that Stephen Johnson talks about. \nJessica: I love that. It also reminds me of applied improv concept of widening your awareness and being aware of what’s around you. I think that’s where those connections are possible. This might be the first time this has happened where we’re thinking pretty much around the same thing. We’ve been inspired by the same thing this week. We did not plan this. We didn’t call each other ahead of time. \nBob: Our outfits match but that we did arrange. This inspiration thing it’s just complete coincidence. We’d love to hear what is inspiring you. To share that with us\, click “send us a text message” at the top of this episode’s description. Your text app will open with a seven-digit number. Please don’t remove it. Type your message after the number and click “send”. We won’t see your phone number or text you back to protect your privacy\, but we will share your feedback in a future episode if you let us know what’s inspiring you right now. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can email us at practicingconnection@oneop.org. Let us know what’s inspiring you right now. \n[music]\nLet’s learn more about how to be more welcoming. Jessica\, can you tell us a little bit more about the practice you’ll be sharing and why you chose it? \nJessica: Yes. I want to start by saying that like anything we do in these Practicasts\, this is just one small thing that you can do. There’s definitely more things that you can and should think about doing to be more welcoming\, but I think that this is a really great\, simple start. It’s a very simple practice. I’m calling it the Welcome Wagon. At its core\, it’s really a decision to work on being more welcoming. You can personally make this decision\, or a group can discuss and decide together to employ some continuous improvement on becoming more welcoming. Basically\, you’re deciding to establish a growth mindset about it\, whether you’re doing that personally or in a group. \nYou’re deciding to get some grit about it and dig in and keep getting better at it. You’re deciding to be intentional about it. I chose this after reading about the principles of the liberating structures. Liberating structures are a series of activities online. It’s more than that. It’s so much deeper and so much better than that description gave it. Liberating structures as a facilitator\, I’ve used them over and over again. The principle that I was looking at is called Include and Unleash Everyone\, which also happens to be the website’s tagline. We’ll include a link to the website in our show notes. Include and Unleash Everyone. \nWe talk about this with some regularity on this podcast\, maybe just using different words that if there’s a group effort\, we need to lean into the strengths in the room. With all the voices and strengths and personalities and interests\, things can get complex pretty fast. Reading a little about that principle reminded me of all the things we do\, usually unintentionally\, to silence people\, even when our intention might be to encourage sharing and connection. I’ve seen\, for example\, a few members of a small group engage in a discussion about a sport they all play. Nothing wrong with that. \nIt turned out that they had been playing that sport together just the past weekend before the meeting and used that as an opportunity to make some decisions about the direction for that meeting. The other two people in the room sat there silently listening to the conversation about the sport\, not having anything to contribute to that conversation\, and then just went along with what had been decided. I’ll admit I was one of those two people in the room. I was much younger at the time. Now I probably would have said something\, pushed back a little bit\, invited some more discussion. I’ve also seen small groups\, like at a networking event\, maybe just a few people huddled around a small table. \nEveryone’s feeling awkward and weird. I’ve seen them though\, close their shoulders to others who are awkwardly trying to engage from the outside. Look\, again\, I want to say\, I don’t think people are doing this intentionally. Then there’s the example of saying\, let’s brainstorm. I love brainstorming\, but just saying let’s brainstorm can silence some people for several reasons. Things like power differentials in the room\, things like communication preferences in the same way\, only allowing people to write in silence on Post-it notes without allowing any discussion can silence others. Again\, I don’t think there’s any malicious intent in these examples. \nThe brainstorm example is clearly an attempt to honor the voices at the table. These are examples of things we do that can silence some people. One of the things that I like the most about the liberating structures activities\, and I think there’s something like 33 of them and they’re freely available on their website. One of the things I like the most is that they come from a beautiful mix of insights from complexity theory\, organizational development\, applied improvisation\, and user experience. \nI have used them and adapted them frequently in my facilitation work because they shake things up a little and invite sharing and interaction in ways we aren’t used to. I also chose this practice because\, should we choose this assignment\, this can really make a difference in our personal lives. It can really make a difference within the groups we belong to and in the activities\, we do in our daily lives\, whether it’s a club like a Lions Club or a VFW meeting\, a neighborhood group\, a coalition we serve on\, a meeting at work\, bowling league night. It can really be employed everywhere. \nBob: That sounds awesome and I’m excited to hear more about the practice itself. Can you walk us through it now? \nJessica: Yes\, absolutely. This is actually not one of the liberating structures that I was just talking about\, but the liberating structures were my inspiration for choosing this activity. I got the idea for it from the Asset-Based Community Development Toolkit\, ABCD Toolkit\, called Creating Welcoming Places Workbook by Bruce Anderson from Community Activators. I’ve modified it for the Practicast and we’re going to give it to you in two ways. First\, how you can practice this on your own\, and second\, how you can practice this in a group setting. First\, on your own\, like many of the things we do\, you’re going to start with some reflection. \nI want you to reflect on all the ways you think you already exhibit a welcoming attitude to anyone who crosses your path. Where are you already successful with this? What body language do you use when a new person approaches you? Is that one way that you’re already successful? What about your facial expressions? Do you ask people questions? Do you learn their name? Do you show interest in them? Do you share your interests with them? Then think of someone whose welcoming skills you admire. What do they do that’s similar to you? What do they do that’s different? What might you employ? What might you lean into more when you take a look at your list\, if you decide to make this as a physical list? \nWhen you think about your list and this list of someone whose welcoming skills you admire\, what might you be able to employ and lean into more? Then\, simply make a commitment to getting a fraction better at being a welcome wagon. Start small. Maybe just decide to make sure you’re going to ask a question of somebody\, or maybe you’ll decide to just be aware of your surroundings and who’s in the room with you more. Remember that closing shoulders example I gave before. Maybe you’ll decide to open your shoulders to make sure that if there’s someone standing on the outskirts\, you’re going to invite them in with your body language. That’s on your own. Two simple steps. Reflect. Make a small commitment. \nIn a group\, the goal of the practice for the group is to formally decide to become more welcoming\, to create an environment where all people feel valued and included\, including newcomers. This is also a very simple process. It starts with someone in the group\, probably you if you’re listening right now\, initiating the discussion. Set aside time during a regular meeting to bring up the topic of welcoming. Encourage open dialogue about what being welcoming means to each member. Basically\, define also what being welcoming means. Then vote on that commitment. After you discuss it and you’ve defined it as a group\, what welcoming is going to mean for your group\, hold a vote to formally decide. \nThis step can really help everyone in the group to feel empowered to contribute to the group’s culture\, because that’s what you’re doing here. You’re trying to build a welcoming culture. The third thing is share personal experiences. Allow the members to share their stories about their first experiences with the group. This can deepen some understanding and empathy among the members. The next is planning for improvement. Knowing what the experiences of members have been and how you guys have defined a welcoming environment. What can you learn from those two things to create some specific actions the group can take to make small improvements and enhancements in your welcoming practices? \nFor instance\, this is something I think that comes up a lot but consider adding welcoming initiatives to the group’s mission and strategic plan. Consider adding a welcome section and activities to every agenda or to an annual meeting agenda. Then the last step is regular check-ins. Make it a point to periodically revisit the topic\, like I said\, maybe at meetings or at an annual meeting. Really simply it’s someone needs to initiate the discussion. You need to define as a group what being more welcoming is going to mean to you. Allow people to share some of their personal experiences and then use your definition and the personal experiences to plan for improvement and then find a way to have regular check-ins about it. \nBob: Thanks so much for guiding us through that\, Jessica. That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the “share” button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. We’ll be back next week with a practice for cultivating deep respect for people and local solutions. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense\, under award number 2023-48770-41333. \n[00:16:22] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Strengthening Military Community Connections with Amy Rodick
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column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_custom_heading text=”About This Episode” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][vc_column_text]Amy Rodick\, Director of the Office of Military Family Readiness and Policy for the Department of Defense\, joins the podcast to discuss the importance of community connections and how service providers and families can contribute to a stronger Military Family Readiness System. \nAs an Army veteran and military spouse\, Amy brings a unique perspective\, sharing real-world strategies for service providers to successfully engage with the Military Family Readiness System at the local level.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][theme music]\nKalin Goble: Welcome to Practicing Connection\, a podcast exploring the personal stories and collective practices that empower us to work together to improve our resilience and readiness in a rapidly changing world. Here to start the conversation are Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch. \nJessica Beckendorf: Hi\, welcome to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Jessica Beckendorf. \nBob Bertsch: I’m Bob Bertsch. \nJessica: Our guest today is Ms. Amy Rodick\, Director of the Office of Military Family Readiness and Policy for the Department of Defense. As Director\, Amy is responsible for leadership\, management\, and oversight of programs affecting military families\, including military spouse career advancement\, military family life learning\, and the Office of Special Needs. Hi\, Amy. Thank you so much for joining us on Practicing Connection. \nAmy Rodick: Hello. \nJessica: What has the Office of Military Family Readiness and Policy been working on since we last talked in the spring? \nAmy: I’m not even sure really where to start. There’s really been a lot across our deputate\, which is Military Community and Family Policy. Probably the most recent and probably the most impactful is the new publication of the Secretary of Defense’s Taking Care of People memo\, which came out 13 September of this year. Of course\, it goes across those various areas\, such as enhancing economic security\, making moves easier\, supporting military spouse careers\, which is in my portfolio\, quality housing and facilities\, strengthening family support\, and improving the overall quality of life. Really excited to be a part of that and the team has done a lot to try to advance military spouse career and education opportunities through the My Career Advancement Account Scholarship. That’s how we fit into that memo. \nJessica: What are you most looking forward to as an outcome from that? \nAmy: That’s a great question. I would love to hear the testimonials from family members and service members that this policy\, which has those different spokes\, has impacted because I really do feel like the Department is putting in a lot of effort to try to enhance the quality of life of service members and their families. To get those anecdotal testimonies\, I think\, would be amazing. \nIf you’re listening to this\, and you’re impacted by the most recent Taking Care of People memo\, please reach out to your local family center and give us a plug. We’d love to hear about your experience and how it’s made a positive impact on your life and/or if there’s something else the Department can do to enhance your quality of life. \nBob: Amy\, November is National Veterans and Military Families Month. I’m wondering how service providers out on installations in the communities can use this opportunity to connect with their families. \nAmy: I’m super excited about celebrating National Veterans and Military Families Month. I had the opportunity this year to help shape the messaging behind this campaign. Yes\, we’re focused on military service members and their families\, but we’re also really focusing on those transitioning veterans and their families as well. This campaign is not only marketed to them but also to those community-based service providers\, commanders\, leaders who can help us direct military family members and service members to these resources. \nWhat we try to do\, which I hope is\, again\, impactful\, is we try to focus on four carriers [unintelligible 00:03:50] throughout the month\, right\, and the first one being transitions. What resources on Military OneSource are directly related to military family transitions? We’ll give a spotlight on that. The second focus area was relationships. You’ll see\, week two in November\, how we try to pull up and elevate the Military OneSource content that’s focused on relationships. The third one is work-life balance. I’m not sure there’s ever a way to really balance those things. \nJessica: Can you please define that? What is that? \nAmy: I have no idea. \n[laughter]\nAmy: I have no idea\, but you’re always seeking equilibrium\, but it never really quite presents itself\, right? I like to think of it more of a ratio. \nJessica: Maybe the reward is the journey of seeking the equilibrium\, right? \n[laughter]\nAmy: That’s one outlook. Sure. [chuckles] Yes\, but so the third week will focus on work-life balance and how you can look at other opportunities to try to maybe add a little bit more life in your work-life balance. Again\, I think of it more of a ratio. Then the last being financial security and economic security\, which\, as you know\, was the focus of this year’s Military Family Readiness Academy\, which\, we partner with the USDA through the OneOp Cooperative Agreement\, and that was a huge success just based on the early reports of that. \nJessica: It seems like\, especially with some of the examples you gave\, National Veterans and Military Families Month might also be an opportunity to engage with other organizations and service providers. Are there ways that service providers can use this month to start conversations in the community? \nAmy: Absolutely. I would argue\, don’t wait for November to go ahead and do that. [chuckles] It should be– \nJessica: Good point. \nAmy: Yes. It’s like when you’re preparing for an inspection. It’s like an inspection is a process\, it’s not an event\, right? The same thing should be about providing support really to all people\, but support for some of our military-connected families as well\, because it can feel like an island of one out there\, but knowing that the community does support you pays huge dividends in the prevention space and just supporting those military families and service members in your community. \nI say\, why wait? You don’t have to wait. Get out there. Think of ways that you can connect to military-connected people. Building strong relationships and partnerships doesn’t always just make sense half the time because of efficiency\, but it’s necessary. We really do look to our local communities to provide that social support around our service members and families. \nJessica: It reminds me of\, there’s a couple of different layers or levels that you might be connecting. One of them might be out in the community as part of a coalition where you’re working together with others to talk about things like a local housing crisis\, which affects military families\, from our point of view\, and from the rest of the coalition members’ points of view\, it might be just sort of an overall housing crisis. Having those relationships maybe before the military families that you’re working with need them\, connecting on the one level\, like maybe part of a coalition\, but also\, of course\, connecting out in the community with the families themselves. It just makes me think of those different layers. \nAmy: Yes\, and I think the last time we sort of talked about the formal and informal networks\, and so yes\, coalitions are one way to really formalize those networks\, but I feel like sometimes the less formal and those informal connections sometimes are– have bigger payoffs than one might believe. \nJessica: Oh\, definitely. Definitely. \nAmy: Yes. \nBob: We have been coming across stories like that\, both formal and informal\, as we’ve done our work on the podcast and with OneOp’s PowerUp Magazine\, and it’s like seeing the Military Family Readiness System really in action. We talked with Monica Bassett\, who is a military Spouse of the Year who started her own food pantry out of Fort Leavenworth\, and talked with folks at Malmstrom Air Force Base. Lisa Sapp\, shout out to Lisa and James who talked with us about what they’re doing to partner for early education in Great Falls\, Montana. Those are just a couple of examples. There’s a lot of others. How do you feel about what’s happening on the ground to strengthen the Military Family Readiness System and build those relationships that we’re talking about to support military families? \nAmy: That’s a great question. I feel optimistic\, I feel enthusiastic\, and I feel grateful. I feel grateful that communities are willing to extend themselves to our military-connected families and really try to be that family away from family for when they need it. You see this a lot of times in our OCONUS locations. You see very strong communities in some of our remote and isolated locations as well\, but yes\, I’m enthusiastic\, proud\, but I think most of all grateful\, to be honest. \nAlthough we have great examples\, it’s again\, one of those things like\, man\, we’d really like to hear from communities about those success stories. Please keep doing the great work that you’re doing to try to get those stories\, highlight those\, and let people know\, hey\, here are some ways that even something small can grow into something bigger. It’s that snowball effect\, right? It will roll downhill\, it will get speed\, it will get traction\, it will get support. From the Department’s perspective\, we would like to recognize those communities who are supportive of the Military Family Readiness System. \nAlso in November\, by chance\, and some by planning\, we’re planning to host a Health of the Military Family Readiness Center roundtable with the service leads and the Manpower and Reserve Affair leads\, and we hope to engage in those discussions about how can we create stronger communities. Although it would be centered around the family support centers themselves\, it will lend itself externally outside those installation-based centers. I’m really excited about those conversations that we’re going to have. \nBob: We talked about people just telling their stories and there’s obviously a lot that happens on social media. What role do service providers play in making sure that at the level in the Pentagon that you’re aware and the DASDs and the Secretary are aware of sort of these great things that are happening and also\, things that might be challenges? \nAmy: Yes\, I think that’s something that we have to figure out\, right? We have to develop the communication path for those great news stories to get up here. Because oftentimes they are highlighted at the local level\, maybe even regionally they’re recognized\, but they stay within that region or in that state. We have our defense state liaison officers who represent multiple states within certain regions. It’d be helpful if we can get good news stories brought up through those channels. We owe that to our community-based stakeholders\, a path for those good news stories to get from the local level\, through the regional\, up to the Department of Defense that we can spotlight those. I’ll take that as a do-out. [chuckles]\nJessica: I love that. \nBob: I didn’t mean to assign you anything. \nAmy: That is\, I guess\, my call to action for myself. [laughs]\nJessica: No\, I really love that. I’ve attended a couple of my state’s ISFAC meetings and I have found those and the stories that are shared during those to be really impactful as well. Hey\, if I hear of anything too\, it would only be from one state\, but. \nAmy: That’s okay. You know what\, once other states hear about what others are doing\, it’s amazing how good news stories can spread like wildfire and it’s a good wildfire\, right? It’s exciting\, it’s movement\, it’s encouraging. \nJessica: Yes\, and I would say anyone listening to this podcast\, you can also email us at practicingconnection@oneop.org and we would be happy to pass that information on to Amy as well. \nAmy: I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the Practicing Connections LinkedIn group\, right? \nJessica: Yes. \nAmy: That’s another opportunity where if you can paste your good news story\, we will pull it\, we will package it and we will spotlight that for you. Just\, I’m going to try to create a path on the fly right now\, but I think that that’s one\, also one possible pathway for folks\, not only to get linked into that but to also share those stories. There’s purpose and intent behind joining. \nBob: Amy\, I think that it’s helpful to keep hearing about some of the changes that are happening sort of at the Department level because a lot has happened around taking care of our people and maybe not everybody is aware. You did mention some of the stuff with spouse employment\, but is there anything else that sort of comes top of mind as\, this is something that is new\, whether it’s policy or program or service that you really want service providers to be aware of? \nAmy: I think\, again\, as a military spouse\, as somebody who’s worked this on the civilian side\, but not so much on the military side\, one of the\, I think\, more progressive outcomes of that Taking Care of People memo is allowing service members to access the healthcare flexible spending accounts. What does that mean? If you’re a dependent\, you often have these co-pays associated with your healthcare. \nAs an example\, I paid $89 to go to the dentist for my child. Now I can withhold taxable income through that healthcare flexible spending account and apply those out-of-pocket costs against this non-taxable income. What it hopefully does is it lowers your tax bracket\, also puts that little cushion away for you to use in the event you do have a healthcare out-of-pocket expense\, which\, again\, is becoming more and more prevalent just based on the healthcare system right now. \nI really want not only service members and family members to be aware of that\, but community members to also be aware and to inform folks that\, hey\, you know this opportunity is open to you. Go ahead on fsafeds.gov and register for a count and make your election. That typically opens up\, once again\, like in that November timeframe\, they’ll have that open window where you can go in\, register\, elect your withholding amounts per year\, and then you go ahead and it starts to just automatically deducting it from your paycheck. That’s probably\, I think\, one of the more progressive ones. Then\, of course\, the BAH and the BAS increases\, which I know\, again\, as a spouse of a service member\, that that was greatly appreciated\, [chuckles] and we thank Congress for that. \nJessica: There’s been a lot happening\, it sounds like. We are very curious. We love asking this question. What has been inspiring you lately? \nAmy: Yesterday I attended the Association of the United States of the Army’s annual meeting at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington\, DC. It was the first time in a long time\, because I worked for Army before\, that I was able to sit in the audience and just listen as a dependent\, as a military family member\, and also from the perspective of the DOD. \nI’ll tell you what I’m inspired by is the commitment\, the level of commitment and support that leaders are really willing to put themselves out there for the sake of recruitment and retention for all-volunteer force. It really is inspiring. It’s very easy to get set in your ways and just say\, no\, this is how the Army works\, but you’re seeing a transformation and a cultural change across our services that is becoming more family-centric\, that is putting not only the warfighter at the forefront of things but also the family members. To me\, that’s inspiring. \nBob: Thanks so much for sharing that\, Amy. Thanks for all the work you do in supporting our service members and their families. It’s greatly appreciated. We appreciate the time that you spent with us to share the message today. \nAmy: Thank you for having me. If I had to have just one last closing comment\, I would just ask everybody to think about what you can do in your local community to support and to strengthen your own Military Family Readiness System as small or as big as it can be. I’d also\, once again\, welcome you to share those testimonies\, those good news stories through the Practicing Connections LinkedIn group. Yes\, we want to hear from you and the feedback is so valuable. \nI have never seen a group of leaders who are more committed to the quality of life of service members and their families than we have right now. I hope that continues and I encourage everybody to help encourage them to stay focused on\, again\, increasing that quality of life and providing that system of support around the men and women who are serving this great country. \nJessica: That was beautiful. That is also it for this episode. Thank you so much for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. We’d love to hear what you’ve been thinking about and what’s inspiring you. You can share that with us by clicking the send us a text message at the top of the description of this episode. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can email us at practicingconnection@oneop.org. You can also find us in the Practicing Connection LinkedIn group. We can’t wait to hear from you. \nWe’d like to thank our co-producer\, Coral Owen\, our announcer\, Kalin Goble\, Maggie Lucas\, and Joyce Vaughn for their help with marketing\, and Nathan Grimm who composed and performed all the music you hear on the podcast. We hope you’ll listen again soon. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[theme music]\nKalin: The Practicing Connection Podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[00:19:02] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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