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Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 1/15/27.\nBoard Certified Disability Management Specialists: This webinar is approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) clock hour from The Commission for Case Manager Certification. Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 1/15/27.\nCertified Personal Finance Counselors (CPFC): This webinar is approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) unit from The Center for Financial Certifications (FinCert.org). **Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 1/15/29.\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar is approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 1/15/29.\nCertified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES): This webinar is approved for 1.0 continuing education credit from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). 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SUMMARY:Meaningful Growth: How to Make the Most Out of Every Learning Opportunity
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Thank you for listening to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Coral\, my co-host\, Jessica is here today as well\, and we’re going to be talking about setting learning intentions. Jessica is going to be sharing today’s practice with us. Jessica\, how are you? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Hey Coral. I’m pretty good. I’m actually really looking forward to this topic series\, because I’ve had a few professional development opportunities lately\, and I realize how long it’s been now since that’s happened. To be honest\, going to these professional development opportunities\, it all felt so hectic that I’ve really appreciated what I’m learning. \nAs we’ve been putting these episodes together\, the really nice thing is that even though it’s been a while since the last conference I attended\, I’d actually forgotten how refreshing and inspiring and motivating it can be to hear how others are approaching their work\, to talk with them in the hallways and to ask them questions about how they approach [00:01:00] their projects. \nIt’s really been nice and it came at\, I think\, the perfect time for me. \nCORAL OWEN: Those can be such great touch points. I agree. I remember actually we met at a conference\, I think it was in San Antonio\, a very long time ago. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, 2016. \nCORAL OWEN: I think so. I had first begun with OneOp\, and you weren’t even quite on the project yet. Look at us now. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I know\, I know! \nCORAL OWEN: But yeah\, just so many wonderful\, just kind of a-ha light bulb moments\, and seeing people doing similar things\, maybe with a slightly different approach or angle. And it’s just like a great\, you know\, idea incubator and some fresh inputs to kind of reenergize your work. So I’m so glad that you’ve had that opportunity recently. Good deal. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Awesome. And that was a really good conference too\, I remember. \nCORAL OWEN: For sure. Oh man. And we would always love to hear what’s inspiring y’all\, our listeners. So do drop us a line if you’d love to reach out. You can reach us at Practicing [00:02:00] connection@oneop.org. We do see and respond to every message\, and we can’t wait to hear from you. \n– break – \nAlrighty. Let’s learn a little bit more about setting learning intentions. Jessica\, can you share a bit more about the practice you’re going to be discussing today and why you selected it? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. You know\, as a team we’ve been kind of going round and round thinking about how we can best support all the participants who will be attending our annual academy this year. And our co-producer\, Erin\, she’s\, you know\, new to the team\, within the first couple of minutes of a brainstorming session she said\, “Well\, what if we produce episodes about making the most of professional development opportunities?” I don’t even think we came up with other ideas because it just felt so perfect. The idea for this series came out of the recognition that participating in professional development can often [00:03:00] feel really overwhelming. Kind of like drinking from a fire hose. \nLike I just said before\, right\, it’s been a little bit hectic and overwhelming being at these opportunities. So with so much information coming at you\, it’s really easy to walk away feeling like you may have missed what mattered the most. That’s why we’re starting with exploring the practice of setting a personal learning intention. \nAnd that’s what this practice is all about. Even a simple two minute reflection\, asking yourself what you most want to take away can really transform the experience from just kind of an information overload into maybe some meaningful growth\, or some meaningful learnings and takeaways. \nAnd I would say that we see this idea of a learning intention\, and I’m saying we\, because I think\, you know\, this has been a very co-produced episode – We see this helping in several ways. First of all\, setting a learning intention can help you design a [00:04:00] personalized experience for the learning\, right? \nThe presenters have really great learning objectives\, but if you’re setting your own learning intention\, it can ensure that you get what you wanted to get out of it\, so that the content is really meaningful and relevant to you. And then part of the reason for that is that it helps you focus. \nIt helps to kind of filter the flood of content so that you can recognize and retain what’s most valuable to you\, because you’ve identified what’s most valuable to you. And I’d say the other thing that we see this\, potentially helping with is kind of putting you in the driver’s seat of what you want. So\, I mean\, because you’re in the driver’s seat\, you’ve been empowered to listen for the content that you really want to listen for. You have developed that personalized experience. \nYou’re able then to kind of possibly increase your engagement and the likelihood of applying what you’ll learn\, because of this empowerment and the focus you’ve been able to put on [00:05:00] the topics that are meaningful to you. And then finally\, it really encourages connection\, right? If you set an intention about what you wanna get out of this\, it encourages you to notice the opportunities to connect with your peers and to tailor the experience to collaborative growth. \nAnd we’ll talk more about this in an upcoming episode. We’ll dive into this idea of connection\, and making that part of your plan for making the most out of your professional development. \nCORAL OWEN: I absolutely love the intention for this episode. So can we go ahead and just dive right in? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. So like I mentioned a little bit ago\, even doing a two minute reflection can really help. So I’m going to start with an approximate two minute reflection. And then I’m going to share some follow up questions that can help if you’re stuck or unsure about what you learned. So for this two minute [00:06:00] reflection\, you’re going to start with just taking a moment\, get out a piece of paper if you want to write it. \nYou can also just think about this\, that’s fine. Get out a piece of paper\, a pen perhaps. If you want to\, you can close your eyes\, take a couple of breaths\, and just think\, “What do I want to get out of this? How does this connect to my current work or goals? What has made learning hard for me in the past and how can I support myself this time?” \nIf you identify a couple of things that you need in order to support yourself\, you may want to set those things up for yourself\, right? So write down what you need\, and kind of pursue those things that will help support your learning. So let me give you an example. Maybe because it’s a webinar\, for example\, it’s easy to be distracted by email or other notifications coming in. \nSo [00:07:00] maybe you need to just turn off all notifications\, close your email. Or maybe you need to identify if there’s anyone else you know that’s attending\, where you could maybe organize a watch party\, a virtual watch party\, or a discussion group so that you’ve kind of committed to the learning. So\, whatever it is you need\, try to arrange for that so that it will support you. \nAnd then lastly\, try to capture this. I know I said you don’t have to write it down\, and you certainly don’t\, but you may want to capture it and write it down. So\, for example\, my intention is to learn practical strategies for leading meetings so I can help my department communicate more effectively. \nRefer to this at least once during the event and maybe revisit it at the end to reflect on your progress. So if you’re stuck\, we do have actually a short list of questions that you can use to help [00:08:00] you identify what might be most important to you. I’ll admit there are times when I can’t think of an intention because I’m feeling rushed. \nI maybe just got back to 15 emails\, and now the webinar’s about to start\, and I just didn’t have any time to do it. And so\, the set of questions that we have can help support\, you could do either before the session or after. And we’re gonna have them available as a download\, but I wanna share a little snippet with you. \nSo these questions help you do things like uncovering your personal motivation for being involved\, in this particular webinar or training\, connect your learning to real world context. So that’s kind of about how does it support the work that you’re doing already\, to explore growth and change. So what might you do differently in your role? And then to focus on connection and collaboration. Who can you connect with about this? [00:09:00]\nSo\, we have a set of\, I think it’s about a dozen or so questions that can kind of help you think through that and support your professional development. \nCORAL OWEN: This was so wonderful\, Jessica. Thank you so much for guiding us through these questions and reflection points today. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. You know\, I know that we do have so many great intentions when we sign up for webinars and conferences. I can’t tell you how many webinars I’ve signed up for and not been able to attend\, right? And I am always looking for ways that I can maybe just slow down my brain just a little bit. And it’s one of the reasons why I’ve really enjoyed diving into this topic\, because I think it’s something that I could work on quite a bit myself. \nCORAL OWEN: Absolutely. Just to be able to filter some of the inputs that we’re receiving and give it greater context into how it can apply\, I think is just always such a wonderful skillset to have at hand. \nWell\, that is it for today’s episode. Thank you all so much for joining us. If you enjoyed this [00:10:00] episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend or colleague who may find it of interest. \nWe’ll be back next week with a new episode\, and until then\, keep practicing. \nCREDITS: The Practicing Connection Podcast is a production of One-Off 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 2 0 2 3 4 8 7 74 3 3. \n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:From One Season to the Next: A New Chapter for Practicing Connection
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Together\, they explore how slowing down\, creating space\, and staying curious can help us stay connected through seasons of change. \nChange is both inevitable and deeply human – and this special episode is all about how we navigate it together. \nJoin us for an episode that honors the past\, embraces the next chapter\, and reminds us that connection is something we can keep practicing – no matter where we are in the journey. \nCommunity Challenge: \nThis week\, take a moment to name the space you’re in right now – not just what you’re doing\, but what you’re experiencing. Maybe it’s a transition\, a settling-in\, or a building phase. \nThen ask yourself: What am I ready to release to make space for what’s next? \nShare one insight or small practice that’s helping you stay grounded in your work or community using #PracticingConnection. Let’s normalize the in-between – together. \nLinks and resources from this episode: \n\nJoin our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12879756/\nSend us a message: practicingconnection@oneop.org\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”]\n\n\n\n\n\nJESSICA BECKENDORF: [00:00:00] Hi\, welcome to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Jessica Beckendorf. This episode is a little different from what we originally planned\, my longtime co-host Coral Owen had hoped to join me today for a conversation welcoming our new co-host\, Erin Carlson Rivera. \nUnfortunately\, Coral was not able to be here when we’re recording\, but she did share a few reflections with us before stepping away from the podcast\, and I’d love to share some of her thoughts with you later in the episode. \nCoral has been an incredible partner and presence here at Practicing Connection and at OneOp\, and while we’ll miss her behind the mic\, we’re so excited for what’s ahead for her\, and grateful for everything she’s helped to build here. \nAnd now I’m thrilled to announce my guest today: our new co-host Erin Carlson Rivera. \nErin is a [00:01:00] self-described “chaos wrangler” and communication expert\, who spent the last decade with UW Madison’s division of Extension\, working across programs from community development to urban agriculture\, and probably everything in between. Because that’s what Extension does\, right? She’s passionate about systems that make work simpler\, kinder\, and more sustainable outside of work. \nErin loves to garden\, so do I\, and paint in gouache style\, and in her words\, “Eat cheese and read fantasy novels.” And I’m pretty sure that eating cheese is a prerequisite of living in Wisconsin\, because that’s also on my list. So Erin\, welcome. I am so happy that you’re here. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Thank you. It’s good to be here. It’s weird to be on this side of the microphone\, but I’m having a good time. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, you’ve been co-producing for a little while now. So\, let’s actually start with what brought you here. \nYou’ve already been doing so much incredible work with OneOp\, and with UW Madison Division of Extension. So what drew [00:02:00] you to saying yes to co-hosting Practicing Connection? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Oh\, that’s a good question. I think it was a weirdly good fit for everything I was already doing. I was often given the fun task of onboarding new people to the office culture\, \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Which meant that I did a lot of coaching people and a lot of teaching them about communication and boundaries. And it turns out that’s a lot of what we talk about here. \nAnd one thing I love about Extension is how much the work is not possible unless you’re collaborating with other people. And this podcast is such a fun combination of sharing stories about collaboration\, and then getting into really nitty gritty specific details about\, “Here’s a thing to try\,” and it just is such\, you know\, like these are the conversations that I’m having with my coworkers [00:03:00] all of the time. \nI\, like low key\, can’t believe they’re not sick of me\, where I’ll be like\, “Hey\, have you tried this?” I try to only offer advice when advice is asked for and not be the person who’s always telling everybody\, “Try this\, try this\, try this.” \nBut here is this lovely platform where I can tell people\, “Try this\, try this\, try this\,” and it’s expected and wanted and not\, you know\, your micromanaging coworker telling you everything to do. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I would say ‘leader\,’ right? You’ve already brought up how you’ve had to onboard and coach\, and that’s a role that you’ve seen yourself doing\, and we talk a lot about leadership on this podcast\, so I would say you’re a leader. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Well\, thank you. Okay. The other less serious\, more fun reason I said yes is because since high school people have been telling me that I have a really soothing voice and they really love listening to me talk. [00:04:00] And I was like\, great\, here’s a way where I can share my soothing voice. You know\, it feels like a gift. \nI have very little to do with what my voice sounds like other than\, you know\, taking care of it and vocal lessons for singing. But you know\, my talking voice is just how I talk. So it feels like a fun way to kind of share this thing that has been really supportive to other people. \nIt feels a little weird to say that\, look\, I’ve lived in Wisconsin long enough that I’m very Midwestern\, and I feel like stating facts sometimes feels like bragging. \nBut\, yeah\, that’s my other reason. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, I’ve had similar feedback about my voice\, so hopefully we are not gonna put anyone to sleep. I’m kidding\, I’m kidding. We’re just\, it’s going to be a great compliment\, is what I’m trying to say. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: We’re going to have a good time. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, you know\, before today’s recording\, Coral shared a few reflections about her time with Practicing Connection\, and I want to share some of those words with our listeners. \nSo Coral says\, “When I think back over my time with Practicing Connection\, the [00:05:00] moments that really capture what this podcast is about for me are the ones where we slowed things down enough. To name what people are actually living inside of\, not just what they’re doing on the surface. Episodes where we talked about ambiguity\, transition\, gratitude\, and hard seasons. \nThose stand out not because they offered big answers\, but because they made space for honesty. To me\, the heart of the podcast has always been about normalizing the in-between and reminding people they’re not doing it wrong\, just because things feel unclear. Those conversations captured the spirit of the show\, thoughtful\, human\, and grounded in real life rather than perfection.” \nI wish I could do an impression of Coral so that you could actually hear that in her voice. But I do want to add that I love what she said about the spirit of the show being thoughtful\, human\, and grounded in real life. I particularly love that because that was intentional from our very first planning session\, like years ago\, and it [00:06:00] remains an important pillar of how we do things around here. \nSo Erin\, when you hear that\, what does that bring up for you? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Wow. Yeah\, that is also one of the things that I love about this podcast. I’ve just\, you know\, I’ve worked at Extension a lot. I’ve seen a lot of different partnerships and a lot of different people. I’ve worked with a lot of different people and I’ve seen a lot of really cool things die\, because people wanted it to be perfect before it started\, or perfect before they could make changes\, or being so uncomfortable with ambiguity that everything just fell apart. \nAnd I love the hopefulness of this podcast\, and how we make space for people to be messy\, but still equip them and empower them. Hopefully give them tools that they can use to continue trying to make changes\, you know\, to be in process and not get stuck in the mess\, but be realistic [00:07:00] about\, “Hey\, this is messy and it doesn’t have to be messy forever. Here’s some things\, here’s some stepping stones in the river so you can get somewhere new.” \nAnd that has always been one of the things that I just love about this podcast is this space for being messy\, but still kind of – challenge is the wrong word; encouraging people to try new things\, to take risks\, to not let messiness prevent them from trying. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, and to do it together\, right. And I heard that\, in some of what you were saying there\, this idea of connection and collaboration are really\, really important to\, well\, not just the podcast\, right\, but really\, the podcast is the mechanism for the work that we’re trying to put out there in the world\, and the tools that we’re trying to help people with. \nAnd so\, you know\, people are not out there alone in the wilderness. We’re really trying to show them that\, not alone. And that\, we need to be a little messy together. We need to [00:08:00] coalesce together. We need to maybe ebb and flow between those two things\, to make some of those little baby steps. \nSo when you think of connection and collaboration in your own life or work\, what experiences or communities have shaped your perspective the most? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, this is such a good question. Okay. And I say that about every question\, and I’m so sorry\, but Jessica\, you do genuinely – you ask me questions and I go\, “Huh? Oh shoot. I have to think about that one.” \nOkay. So for me\, when I’m thinking about the collaboration\, one of the very first things that I think about is being in choir. Or being in a theater production. I am a theater kid\, former theater kid\, and former choir kid. And I spent a lot of time making art\, doing plays\, singing with groups of people in school who I normally would not hang out with. And maybe we didn’t even really like each other that much. [00:09:00] But we had this shared\, common goal of\, we wanted to create something that was an experience for our community. \nAnd I\, you know\, it sometimes feels silly to think so much about choir\, but I think it genuinely is such a helpful metaphor for how to do things in community. Because if you don’t all know what you’re doing\, if you don’t all know the communication conventions\, yeah\, if you don’t know ‘what is my role\,’ one person can’t be an entire choir\, and nobody should try to be an entire choir. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Doesn’t autotune help?! \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: You know\, stacking audio\, but the joy of a choir is having people working together and working harmoniously. And sometimes you sing in unison\, and sometimes you’re all singing different things. I love that. And I love how when you’re in a section and you’re all singing the [00:10:00] alto line\, I was an alto\, you’re all singing the alto line and you have just some note that you’re holding for 16 beats. \nAnd nobody can actually hold breath that long unless you’re a trained opera singer. Okay\, you can\, 16 isn’t that long\, but I think you get what I mean. There’s a really long note and then you stagger your breathing. \nAnd I just think about that every time I’m on a team. I want to say\, “Hey\, let’s all plan our vacations so they’re timed.” And I just think about singing in a choir where you don’t want everyone to take a break at the same time. You kind of want to intersperse it. That’s such a silly metaphor\, but I genuinely think that it’s been really impactful\, because those are some of the places where I first learned\, ‘here’s what it looks like to be a group of people all coming here for the same goal\, even if we are different.’ \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And even if we don’t all get along\, like you said before\, which I think is\, that’s such a great point to bring up. I was a show choir and marching band person as well. [00:11:00] And that was such a good point you brought up about\, you know\, I didn’t get along with every single person in my choir or band. \nI knew I wasn’t a strong singer\, also in alto\, by the way. I knew I wasn’t a strong singer. And what people thought of that\, you know\, I avoided those people and I stuck with the people who were\, but we still had a common goal we helped each other out\, right? I wasn’t a strong singer and so I didn’t do solos. \nOther people did that\, and that helped the whole choir out. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: That point. \nSo I’d like to switch gears a little bit here\, Erin\, we’ve talked a little bit about how you’ve been part of Practicing Connection in different roles in different seasons. I mean\, really\, you’ve been behind the scenes with us since last June. Ao for\, you know\, a good seven months or so. Seven\, eight months. \nSo what do you see in your time here so far? What have you seen as the heartbeat of this podcast? I feel like that’s a [00:12:00] really hard question and I’m so sorry. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. You really didn’t pick any softball questions for me. Okay\, yeah. I would say for me\, the heartbeat of this podcast is this idea that what we do matters. Both the interviews and the practicasts really highlight how much it’s possible to make changes. And when I’m really grumpy\, I really need someone to tell me that it doesn’t have to be like this forever. \nYou know\, I’ve had some like navigating processes of burnout and I kind of really wish I had listened to this podcast earlier\, because I think a lot of what really shines for me with this podcast is just\, ‘here are tools\, here are pictures of how it could be\, here are pathways to get to somewhere new.’ \nAnd I just love how hopeful that is\, and this idea that we can make small changes and it will impact our life. And even if things are hard\, we [00:13:00] can do it better. And maybe you’re not in a place where things are hard\, but you could still have it be more or better\, or different in a good way. And that you don’t have to change everything all at once to get there\, you just have to start the process and take little steps. This podcast is so good at really focusing in on the idea that you can just do small things and they can make a big impact\, I love that. \nSo for me that’s what\, what about you? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. So I guess I would say\, and this is something that we’ve kind of already touched on\, but for me\, the idea that none of us are out in the wilderness doing this alone\, even though it sometimes can really feel that way. \nAnd whatever your profession is\, there’s a lot of people out there that are doing what you’re doing in their communities\, and I guess for me\, the heartbeat of this podcast is kind of reminding people that they’re not alone. \nThat you can locally [00:14:00] and\, you know\, nationally\, internationally\, seek out a community of people who care about the big issues you’re trying to address in your community\, or who care about the big issues you’re trying to address for military families. You’re not alone in that. And that to me has been the deep down heartbeat of this podcast. \nAnd maybe I’ll share a little bit\, Coral reflected on this as well\, I love how we’re all coming at this from like different angles\, ‘cause I think it’s pretty well-rounded. And look\, we’re not trying to just\, you know\, advertise for the podcast here\, but it’s a pretty well-rounded podcast\, right? \nBut Coral’s reflection goes like this: \n“I think the heartbeat of the podcast is the permission it gives people to be where they are. There’s no expectation to be\, “Figured out.” It’s about noticing\, reflecting and staying connected to yourself and others while things are unfolding. That steadiness\, that willingness to sit with complexity feels really central to [00:15:00] what this show has been.” \nAnd this is now Jessica again\, my thoughts exactly. I think everything you said\, Erin\, spot on. Everything Coral said\, spot on. And of course\, everything I said I was\, I think is spot on. And really\, this idea of not being alone\, and of having this idea that what we do matters\, Coral’s idea of sitting with complexity\, I mean\, it’s all so relevant to this moment of transition\, right? \nWe have this big moment of transition for this podcast. And I guess I’m wondering\, Erin\, how do you stay grounded and connected when you’re moving through a big change? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, well\, aside from eating cheese\, like a good Wisconsinite – it’s required. Really. It’s literally required. No. \nI mean\, the cheese here is so good. Why would you not? Why would you not? I actually know people who don’t love cheese and I love them. You don’t have to like cheese to be my friend\, to be [00:16:00] clear. I would say that\, okay\, we’re talking about change. \nWhat I do most during really tumultuous times\, big transitions\, is I like to make art. I don’t always share it with other people. Sometimes I do\, but often I’ll do what I call ‘sketch noting’ as a reflection. And I’ll ask myself a big question\, something like\, “What am I going to miss?” Or\, “What do I want to bring with me?” Or\, “What am I happy to leave behind?” Sometimes that’s a really long list. \nOr it could be a more forward-looking something. It could be\,  “What am I excited about\, about this new thing?” And then I’ll just do little sketches\, or I’ll draw little comics. \nI find that that really helps me actually pause and think about what I’m doing\, because I have to figure out how to turn words into an image. And then it makes me figure out\, “What do I actually mean by this?” And [00:17:00] also when I make little comics and sketches of my reflections. I actually go back and look at my reflections later\, \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: So I feel like it helps me learn better\, because I’m slowing down\, I’m pausing\, I’m reflecting. \nSo really\, I think the true answer to your question is I do reflections\, like a true practicing connection podcaster. I pause and reflect about my life\, but I just do it with art\, because my attention span is too short just sit there and think in only words\, \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Hmm. I really love that. The show has always encouraged that idea\, the taking a breath\, reflecting\, giving space for uncertainty and even more directly\, like we’ve actually had graphic recorders during some of our workshops. We’ve encouraged listeners to engage in creative destruction like blackout poetry\, and I’m looking forward to incorporating more of that kind of thing. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: As someone who one of her first jobs out [00:18:00] of college was in the creative economy\, economic development space\, I love to hear anytime someone wants to incorporate more art into their daily practice. You will hear me talk about this again! \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes. Oh yeah. I mean\, we’ve also done like improv related stuff too\, because that’s where some of my background is. So I’m looking forward to it. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, I think it’ll be fun. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: As we wrap up this conversation and look ahead to what’s next for Practicing Connection\, I’m feeling really\, really grateful. I’m feeling grateful for where we’ve been and where we’re going. \nSo\, Erin\, I’m wondering when you imagine the future of this podcast\, I kind of want to shift\, right\, so I’m grateful for where we’ve been and of course I’m grateful for where we’re going and\, clearly as a new co-host\, I’d love to hear your thoughts on where we’re going. \nSo\, when you imagine the future of this podcast\, what do you hope it makes possible for our listeners and for the OneOp community? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I want to talk about [00:19:00] how we can make collaboration joyful\, how we can make work joyful. I think sometimes work can be a slog\, and that feels terrible when you’re doing work you care about\, but it feels worse when you’re doing work you don’t care about. \nI think community is really important\, and I also think that learning how to be joyful together opens up possibilities that aren’t there if we’re only being practical. I think joy and practicality are super compatible\, and people look at me\, they make faces at me when I say that. \nI also think whimsy and practicality are surprisingly complimentary\, so I love that this has been a very hopeful\, reflective space that leaves space for messiness\, and I don’t want that to ever change. \nBut I do also want the tools that we give people and the stories that we give people to also inspire [00:20:00] joyfulness\, because I think when things are hard\, and any system with people in it is gonna have hard stuff: you know\, people are messy and that’s hard. \nAnd leaving space for people to be messy sometimes means that you have to deal with hard things you normally wouldn’t have to deal with if you could just kick ’em out for being messy. And so for me\, what I have found that sustains a community is when you can develop ways of being joyful together\, and develop an identity\, not just around what you’re fighting or what you dislike\, but also about what you love. That’s kind of what I want to bring to this podcast. \nI don’t know exactly what that’s going to look like yet\, but that’s my hope for the future of the podcast\, is that we can have hope and joy as part of our work life\, which feels not at all how work is pitched to you. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Part of me thinks “Erin\, that’s really unrealistic\,” but I think – \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: That’s because you’ve been told that. Yeah. This is because like society has told us that. [00:21:00] Yeah. So beautifully said. \nThank you so much\, Erin. I am so excited to begin this next chapter with you. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Thank you. I’m excited to be here. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And that’s it for this episode. I want to thank Coral Owen for sharing her reflections in this episode and for all she’s contributed to Practicing Connection over the years. I’m deeply grateful to have worked alongside her and to carry forward what we built together. \nI also want to thank my co-producer and now co-host as well\, Erin Carlson Rivera\, our announcer\, Kaylyn Global Mathis\, Maggie Lucas and Joyce Vaughn for their help with marketing and Nathan Grim who composed and performed all the music here on the podcast. \nThank you so much for listening. Until next time\, keep practicing. \n[00:22:00]\nCREDITS: 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 number 2 0 2 3 4 8 7 74 3 3. \n\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Reframing Feedback: A Practice for Receiving Criticism Well
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\nMost of us cringe when we hear “I have some feedback for you.” But learning to receive feedback well is one of the most powerful skills you can build for collaboration and growth. \nIn this episode of Practicing Connection\, Jessica and Erin talk about how to prepare your mindset\, identify which feedback deserves your attention\, and turn even tough conversations into moments of learning. \nErin also shares a practical approach you can use the next time feedback catches you off guard – helping you respond with curiosity instead of defensiveness. \nListen in to find new ways to make feedback feel less threatening\, and more like an investment in your growth. \nLinks and resources from this episode: \n\nReframing Feedback Handout\nJoin our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12879756/\nSend us a message: practicingconnection@oneop.org\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”][00:00:00]\nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Hi\, thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Jessica\, my new co-host is here as well. Today we’ll be talking about how to receive negative feedback\, and Erin’s gonna be sharing a practice with us. Hi Erin\, how are you? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Hi Jessica. I’m having fun! \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Great! \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I wasn’t expecting to be this excited to actually be recording things\, so this is kind of fun. Plus it’s finally sunny again here in Wisconsin\, which is a treat. We’ve had a string of all of the temperatures in the negatives. We had an exploding tree watch warning from the weather people recently\, so no trees exploded in my neighborhood. \nI am very relieved\, and I’m very relieved that it’s a little bit warmer\, and that we have sunshine again. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, that is very good. I have been hibernating\, reading a lot more than I [00:01:00] have in the past several years. I’m just chewing through the books and that’s been awesome. Both reading fiction and nonfiction as well. It’s something I used to do a lot more of and I’ve picked it back up again\, and that has been really feeding my soul lately. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Oh\, that’s wonderful. I love when you can kind of return to something that was joyful that you fell out of the habit of\, that’s such a fun thing to be able to do. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, we’d love to hear what’s inspiring you. So please drop us a line at practicingconnection@oneop.org. We see and respond to every message and can’t wait to hear from you. \n– break – \nSo let’s learn more about how to receive negative feedback. Erin\, can you tell us a little more about what you’ll be sharing and the practice you’re going to be sharing\, and why you chose it? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. Well\, I’m gonna start with why I chose it. It is\, for a lot of [00:02:00] people\, performance evaluation season. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: So while not everybody does performance evaluations in January\, a lot of people do. So\, I wanted to kind of share it in a timely manner. Also I am new to a job\, so I’m getting a lot of feedback\, and I’ve had to spend some time thinking about how do I – don’t make that face\, Jessica\, it’s not all bad! \nBut I have been getting lots of feedback and so I’ve been thinking a lot about\, “How can I use this well?” And so I wanted to share some of that with you today. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: One thing I’d love to say though\, that’s such a good point. Sometimes it’s just hard to receive feedback\, period. Whether negative or neutral\, or even positive sometimes. And I think any feedback at all can feel negative sometimes. I mean\, unless someone’s like\, ‘you’re wonderful\, great job\,’ or whatever. That doesn’t feel negative\, hopefully ever. But I mean\, any like neutral feedback\, or collaborative feedback\, [00:03:00] it can feel negative even when it’s not. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, I think especially if you’re really fatigued or overwhelmed\, sometimes feedback feels like just one more thing you have to carry and process and manage. And it’s like a little straw on your camel back and you’re like\, “I don’t know how many more of these I could take.” Yes\, this is exactly why I wanted to talk about this today. \nSo\, I don’t really enjoy negative feedback. I don’t think I know anybody who does\, but I have been able to see how changing how I respond to negative feedback can make it go from ‘one more thing I have to manage’ to an opportunity to build connection with the people that I work with\, especially when I’m on teams\, especially when I’m collaborating. \nIf I’m able to respond well to negative feedback\, it can build trust\, which I find really exciting. \nSo today I want to talk about how do we think about negative [00:04:00] feedback mindset shifts\, and then I’ll walk you through a practice. And I think of it as like a standard script that I can use if I’m surprised\, because sometimes you know you’re going to get feedback\, for example a performance evaluation\, and sometimes it comes completely out of the blue. They don’t ask your permission\, they don’t tell you they want to talk to you. It’s just\, someone comes up to your cubicle\, “Hey\, I wanna talk to you. You shouldn’t do this thing.” And you’re like… \nSo I want to give you a plan for how you’re going to respond to surprise\, negative feedback\, so that in the moment you don’t have to decide how to respond. \nYou’ve already kind of pre-thought about\, ‘here’s a thing I can do\,’ and sound professional. And it can be trust building and collaborative\, even if I’m having a bad day. So that’s my hope. So that’s where we’re heading today. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, I’m really glad that we’re talking about this. You know\, finding ways to positively respond to negative feedback has helped mea lot. Even [00:05:00] though I’m not always still good at it\, I have figured out a couple things that I can do to help. \nSo like just listening for what values are surfacing while the person’s giving you feedback or reflecting on that interaction and thinking about what values we’re surfacing. \nOr just allowing myself some time to consider the feedback before responding when you can\, right. Like you just said\, sometimes you’re just getting it in the moment\, you’re getting the feedback in the moment or\, you know\, the person said\, “We need to meet.” Period. And you start anticipating what that might be. \nSo getting negative feedback can be awkward and uncomfortable\, but it’s also an opportunity to make meaningful changes. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes\, that’s exactly why it’s worth doing a little bit of work. So I actually encourage people to do prep work before you’re in the moment of receiving negative feedback. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Like right now. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. Right now. Okay\, I mean maybe once the podcast is over\, but [00:06:00] schedule time now before you’ve even worried about getting negative feedback\, to think about how you respond to feedback. \nAnd this is one of those\, ‘think about thinking’ things\, that is so annoying\, and it’s like\, ‘I have to have a task where I think about how I’m thinking.’ \nAnd yes\, yes you do. It will be so helpful. I promise it’s worth it. There are several things that I found helpful and we’re going to talk about one of the mindset shifts first. And this is helping yourself getting out of all or nothing thinking. \nI see this in myself often when I get negative feedback. I think if there’s negative feedback about one thing\, it means every single thing that I’ve done is terrible. And that’s very\, very rarely the case. There’s almost never where someone’s like\, “We need to throw out this entire thing. There is nothing worth keeping here.” Most of the time\, it’s like a couple of tweaks\, or maybe up to like 20% of a thing needs tweaking or changing\, or\, “Oh\, we gotta mash it with this thing over here.” \nSo it is [00:07:00] really easy to hear one bad thing and think that everything is wrong\, but it’s a really powerful shift when you can go from thinking\, ‘If one thing is wrong\, I did a bad job\,’ to\, ‘90% of this is ready to go\, and now I know what 10% needs work.’ \nIs that an easy shift? No. Is it a helpful shift? Yes. \nHave you ever noticed that Jessica\, or dealt with this shift? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes. Well\, the thing is\, I don’t know that I tend to think everything wrong\, it really depends on the context sometimes. But one of the ways I’ve noticed this is in writing. I find words to be very sacred\, and so I used to be that when I wrote something and I asked somebody to review it\, it was really hard for me to see lots of red lines or\, you know\, lots of red text if you’re using the track changes or whatever it is\, you know\, it used to be really hard for me. \nAnd then\, I discovered that\, no\, no\, no\, it was\, [00:08:00] you know\, some red text\, some red lines. And the red lines were not ‘get rid of this immediately\, it sucks.’ The red lines were challenging me to think and make it a little better. And frankly\, I really now have come to\, you know\, appreciate that feedback. \nBut what I used to see when I would write something\, someone needed to edit it\, I used to see\, ‘Oh\, there’s so many comments on here that the whole thing is just terrible.’ And then I started to do a lot more editing\, and it took me maybe just a couple of times where I was like\, ‘Oh\, this is awesome. They’re making my work more awesome.’ \nAnd so I don’t know if that’s exactly the shift you’re talking about\, but it started to help me understand that it doesn’t matter even if they have red lines on every single paragraph\, which was never the case. But even if that happened on every [00:09:00] paragraph\, it was not them telling me it all sucks. It was them saying\, “Hey\, I see opportunity here\, and here’s my thought on how it could be a little better.” Which was awesome. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I love that. I love the idea of\, “They’re helping me be more awesome.” What a great mental catchphrase! \nI think a lot about\, ‘What script is my brain running? What is it telling me?’ And so if I can switch it from\, ‘They’re telling me it’s bad\,’ to\, ‘They’re helping me be more awesome\,’ what a gift. \nSpeaking of gifts\, another gift has to do with a mindset shift. It wasn’t until I started thinking about feedback that I realized how much doing theater as a child was a huge gift to me\, and one of those was receiving negative feedback. It made it easier for me. \nWere there ever any times someone was talking about performance anxiety for giving a speech and they were talking about\, okay\, what sensations are happening in your body? When else did you feel those? And then they were [00:10:00] talking about rollercoasters and how a lot of what you feel\, like anxious\, kind of your breath changes\, it’s the same thing that happens right before going on one\, apparently for some people. \nI find rollercoasters terrifying\, but for some people it’s like this anticipation. And so they’re able to mentally feel the anxiety in their body and say\, ‘Oh\, this is also what excitement feels like.’ And then they’re less scared\, and they’re more able to be excited about doing a scary thing\, not just scared of doing a scary thing. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, as someone who really loves rollercoasters\, I concur with that. The risk is worth the reward\, for sure. Not the risk\, but the\, you know\, the anxiety\, and the – it’s excitement/anxiety. You’re excited\, but you’re also a little scared\, and it’s amazing. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. And isn’t that a much more pleasant feeling than just being terrified. So I thought\, ‘Okay\, obviously that wasn’t gonna work for me thinking about roller coasters\, because I still cry every time I go on a roller coaster.’ And you [00:11:00] know\, like sometimes I need to cry. It’s very cathartic\, it’s great\, but I was like\, ‘Okay\, I don’t want to cry when I get negative feedback from my coworkers\,’ right. \nSo I was like what are some other examples where I can do that\, a mirroring thing and mentally tell myself\, “Oh\, it’s like this situation. I’m safe in this situation. You don’t have to be scared right now.” And for me\, that was in theater. I think you’ve also done some theater stuff. Are you familiar with “getting notes?” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, yeah\, absolutely. Like\, in my case\, where I was doing it\, it was for an improv group\, and we got notes mostly during\, we got “side coaching\,” a lot of times they called it. But\, yeah\, we got notes during our rehearsal. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Sure. That’s fair. Okay. So I didn’t do improv\, I did more traditional theater. And there’s\, before you do your big performance\, you have a dress rehearsal where you’re in costume\, you run it as if there’s an audience and if there’s a show\, and the director almost always is taking tons of notes. \nAnd then after you’ve run through the whole [00:12:00] show\, they bring everybody together\, you all sit on stage and the director just runs through the show from top to bottom and says every single thing\, good or bad\, that they thought about while running the rehearsal. And so you hear everybody’s feedback\, you hear the good stuff\, you hear the bad stuff. \nAnd I don’t know what it was. Maybe it was just because everybody’s there. But that was never scary to me. Maybe it was ’cause I did children’s theater and they were really nice about it! \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Maybe\, because you were all getting feedback at the same time together. We’re going to be good and bad. Maybe someone only got good notes because they had a fantastic rehearsal. I don’t know. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, well\, I think too\, some of it was\, there was not time to go in depth on anything\, so it was just like\, “Hey\, this wasn’t working. Try this next time.” And so it was very direct and specific. And so that was all really helpful for me. So I’ve started to think about\, ‘Oh\, maybe that is the mental attitude that I want to have when I’m receiving negative feedback. Think of it as I’m getting notes in a show.’ \nAnd [00:13:00] sometimes I didn’t agree with the director’s feedback. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: And that was okay. So that gave me kind of a framework where I’m taking myself out of having my like “flight or fight” response into\, “Oh\, I’m getting notes at a show.” \nAnd now I will admit\, not everybody does theater and not everybody had that experience with theater\, but I bet that everybody has some experience somewhere where they got negative feedback and it wasn’t hard. \nLike maybe you really love cooking and you have somebody taste test it\, or you are really into fitness and you’re used to having somebody coach your form at the gym \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: You love trying out new outfits and you get feedback on them from your friends. Whatever your thing is\, I bet there’s somewhere in your life where you can get feedback and it doesn’t feel scary. \nAnd so thinking about putting on that mindset when you’re getting feedback can be such a helpful pivot. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I really love this and because\, I have not had the same frame of reference as [00:14:00] you\, but a similar point of reference – I get that feeling\, and I love that you brought up all those other examples of where we might have experienced that. \nLike I also have\, you know\, I have some friends where if they told me something didn’t look good on me\, I might have a bigger problem with it than other friends\, if they told me that. And you know\, now probably anyone could tell me anything and it wouldn’t bother me\, when it comes to what I’m wearing. \nBut I just mean\, I love that you brought up all those different possible examples\, and if people can kind of reflect back on when you received feedback. And it wasn’t difficult for you to receive that feedback and get back in touch with that feeling and that memory. That’s a really powerful thing. \nAnd\, so\, let’s get into the final piece that you have for us\, because the script you were talking about earlier\, I’d like to hear more about that. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Sure. I love a script. I don’t fight or flight. I tend to freeze\, which is not helpful. [00:15:00] I mean\, it is helpful sometimes\, but it can be very frustrating. \nSo I often think that if I make a plan beforehand that I don’t have to freeze. If you’re a person who fights\, then you’re like\, ‘I don’t have to decide how nice to be right now.’ \nYou could just go with your plan. Right? Like\, I think it’s applicable even if you’re not a freezer. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: But this is what I call a “method for the moment.” The first step is to just take a breath\, to just pause. And this can be like a two second pause\, but pause just to remind yourself\, “Hey\, I’m okay.” \nNumber two is quickly discerning\, is this someone whose opinion matters to me? And sometimes you do not like this person at all. You think their advice is terrible\, but they’re your supervisor or they’re an important collaborator. So even if you think their advice is terrible\, they’re still somebody whose opinion matters because you’re trying to maintain a relationship with them. \nIf you do care about their opinion\, [00:16:00] that’s an opportunity to get curious. If you have capacity\, ask a couple of questions. Some good ones are\, “Can you tell me more about why you think that? Can you give me some examples to reference for what you think it should look like?” Often people’s feedback is very vague\, even when it’s negative. \nWhich is shocking\, like you’re used to it being really specific\, but sometimes it’s just\, I don’t know\, you’re too angry or something\, and you’re like\, “Oh\, can you tell me more about\, do you have an example? Can you tell me what you think I should aim for?” \nIf you don’t care about their opinion\, you can just say\, “Oh\, thank you for sharing that with me. I’ve got to move on regardless.” \nSo this is kind of where there’s like a bit of a divergence. You decide if you care about their opinion. If you do\, be curious\, if you don’t\, say thank you. Once you’re done being curious\, you can also just say thank you. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I just wanted\, I’m wondering if\, say you do care about their opinion\, but you don’t feel any reason\, like you feel like the feedback was fair and that they gave [00:17:00] you enough information. Can you just go right to thanking them? Or should you get curious no matter what? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I\, you know\, I think being curious is for your benefit. So if you feel like they gave you feedback that is valid\, true\, fair\, and helpful\, and you don’t need more information to do something with it\, you could just say\, “Wow\, thank you so much for telling me that\,” and move on. The curiosity is just there for you to get something meaningful out of the interaction\, if it’s a person you trust\, who doesn’t have the skill to give you the specifics you need. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: The other thing that I recommend is thank them for their feedback\, but don’t commit to doing anything immediately \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I like that\, that’s great. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Because so many people\, if you don’t have a lot of practice being calm while you receive negative feedback\, are in this really heightened state of like\, almost panic sometimes. \nAnd so if you just say\, “Hey\, thank you for letting me know that. Can I circle back with you after I’ve had some time to think [00:18:00] about it?” That’s an easy script. Most people respect that. If they don’t\, there’s a bigger issue there. \nAnd I think what’s really helpful about that is then you have time\, once they’re not looking at you\, to kind of think through\, ‘Okay\, is there anything I want to change or do differently in response to this feedback?’ \nAnd then you can circle back and just say\, “Thanks again for that feedback. In the future I’d like to try doing this.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And you can come up with your own plan. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, exactly. I really encourage people to come up with a plan with somebody else. If you have the opportunity and you don’t want to just come up with a plan on your own\, find a buddy to make a plan with\, because I think so often there’s this pressure to immediately say\, ‘Oh\, I have to immediately tell somebody.’ \nAnd the thing is like in most cases\, you don’t need to immediately tell somebody\, ‘Oh\, I’m gonna completely change my life.’ \nSo once you’ve thanked them and the conversation is over\, make a follow-up plan. Decide if you need [00:19:00] one\, and then\, if you’re not quite sure what you want to do in response to the feedback\, I have a couple of questions you can ask yourself\, which is\, “What is one thing I could do differently or try? Who is a person I could ask for advice\, coaching or mentorship about this?” And\, “Who is someone who knows me well enough\, who I trust enough who can fact check this for me? \nSometimes people are wrong. Sometimes your response is not proportional to their feedback. So that’s kind of a place where you can pause and reflect while you’re making your plan\, and get input from people you trust. \nAnd that’s it. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: That might happen the most to me. I’ll get feedback and I like\, in my head\, the feedback was a hundred times different than when I go back a day or two later and I look at it again\, and I’m like\, ‘Oh\, this actually isn’t a big deal.’ \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I said one of my strategies I found is I need a little bit of time\, and then I can go back and read it again [00:20:00] and we’re good. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, absolutely. And that is again\, why I tell people\, start by taking a breath. Start by deciding if this opinion matters. Then\, be curious\, then thank them\, then end the conversation. \nAnd I think that’s really the gift for me\, is realizing negative feedback doesn’t have to turn into a fight\, and it doesn’t have to turn into me setting a bunch of goals with a person spontaneously. \nIt can just be\, ‘Oh\, thank you for sharing that with me. I will go reflect on that.’ And then it’s over\, right. \nIt doesn’t have to be long. And I think a lot of people are just so afraid that it’s going to be a big\, terrible thing. Prepare yourself for maybe it’s not so bad. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Right. I mean\, I’m going to overanalyze it enough in my head anyway. \nNot with these new tools though\, and the new mindsets! So thank you so much for sharing this\, Erin. And I think there’s going to be a download available that we’ll have some of this? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, I realize that this method is not like five words that you can bullet point on your hand\, [00:21:00] so I’ll make a little printout that you can have on hand to read through\, if that helps you remember stuff better. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Awesome. Thank you. And we’ll link to that in the show notes. \nWell\, 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 new episode. Until then\, keep practicing. \nCREDITS: 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 number 2 0 2 3 4 8 7 74 3 3.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Evidence-Based Interventions for Supporting Military Spouse Career Development
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Frequent relocations\, deployments\, childcare responsibilities\, and irregular service member schedules often disrupt employment and educational opportunities. As a result\, military spouses experience an unemployment rate of 21% and earn roughly 38% less than their civilian peers (U.S. Department of Labor\, 2024). These factors\, combined with limited access to consistent support networks\, underscore the need for targeted\, evidence-based career interventions. \nCognitive Information Processing (CIP) career theory offers a proven framework to help military spouses strengthen their career decision-making and problem-solving skills. By addressing the negative career thoughts that can hinder progress\, CIP-based strategies empower individuals to clarify goals\, explore options\, and take purposeful action toward career success. \nThis webinar is designed for career counselors\, workforce professionals\, and other providers supporting military spouse career readiness. Participants will learn about the career and work experiences of military spouses\, gain an understanding of CIP career theory\, explore evidence-based career interventions tailored to this population\, and discover practical resources to enhance their professional practice. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nDescribe the unique experiences and challenges related to the career development and employment of military spouses\nExamine current research on the career and work stressors faced by military spouses\nApply a career development theory and related interventions to empower military spouses in achieving positive career development outcomes\nIdentify resources and strategies to effectively support the career development and work experiences of military spouses\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=”215441″ 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=”Seth Hayden\, PhD\, LCMHC (NC)” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Dr. Seth C. 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URL:https://oneop.org/learn/160118/
CATEGORIES:Community Engagement
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SUMMARY:Supporting Military Families Across the Deployment Cycle
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By completing this course\, the service provider will be better equipped to assist military families experiencing service-related absences by offering support\, services\, and resources. \nLearning Objectives: \nBy the end of this course\, learners will be able to: \n\nExplain the impacts of service-related absences on military family members\nAnalyze common stressors and coping processes\nApply research and theoretical models to real-world situations\nIdentify protective factors that foster resilience\nDesign practical support strategies for families\nRefine supports for military-connected communities\n\n[/vc_column_text][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”][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” 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=”Using Thinkific” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%2333004d” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]\n\n\nRegister and enroll on Thinkific.com\, the platform used to host OneOp courses\, for free! For help getting started on Thinkific email us at contact@oneop.org  \n\n\n\nInteractive components and links to videos are included\, so make sure you have a strong internet connection.\nUnits and resources will open in a new window be sure to turn your pop-up blocker off.\nThe content includes audio and video\, ensure your computer can play audio and video files\, and open PDF files.\nTo ensure progress is saved\, please pause and resume learning between units.\nIn order to receive certain continuing education credits and/or a certificate of completion for general use\, some users may be required to take a cumulative post-test at the end of the entire course. You will have five attempts to pass the final post-test at 80% or better.\nIt is expected that students will view all materials\, engage with the activities\, and complete reflections.\nFor information about this course or assistance with completion please email contact@oneop.org \n\n  \n\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” top_padding=”3%” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][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” 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=”Course Author” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%2333004d” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]The course was developed by OneOp with contributions from Dr. Keith Tidball \nInstructional Designer\nJen Chilek[/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” top_padding=”3%” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all”][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” 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=”Continuing Education Credit” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%2333004d” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]This course has been approved for continuing education (CE) credits for many different professionals accredited through the credentialing agencies listed below. \n\nCertified in Family and Consumer Sciences (CFCS): This webinar is approved for 2.0 continuing education (CE) credits from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close on 1/30/2028.\nBoard Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA): This webinar is approved for 2.0 continuing education (CE) contact hours by The Patient Advocate Certification Board. Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close on 1/30/2028.\nBoard Certified Case Managers: This webinar is approved for 2.0 continuing education (CE) clock hours from the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close on 1/30/2027.\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar is approved for 2.0 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close on 1/30/2029.\nCertified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES): This webinar is approved for 2.0 continuing education credit from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close on 1/30/2028.\nHuman Resource Professionals: This webinar is approved for 2.0 continuing education (CE) credit from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close on 7/31/2026.\nSocial Workers\, Licensed Professional Counselors\, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: This webinar is approved for 2.0 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 1/30/2028.\nCertificates of Attendance: OneOp Certificates of Attendance are available for those interested in additional documentation of professional development activities.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://oneop.org/learn/supporting-military-families-across-the-deployment-cycle/
CATEGORIES:Military Service and Family Life
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SUMMARY:2026 Tax Updates: What Service Providers Need to Know
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This webinar is designed to equip service providers and financial counselors with the knowledge they need to better support the military community. Participants will learn when military pay and benefits are taxable or non-taxable\, explore key tax advantages available to service members and their families\, and review important tax law updates taking effect in 2026. The session will also highlight the resources and expertise available through MilTax and Military OneSource to help service members and their families manage their taxes year-round. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nUnderstand when a service member’s pay and benefits are taxable or non-taxable.\nDescribe the tax benefits available to eligible service members and their families.\nExplain key 2026 tax law updates that apply to most taxpayers\, including military service members and families.\nRecognize how MilTax and Military OneSource tax professionals can support service members year-round.\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=”184366″ 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=”Susan Mitchell” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Susan Mitchell is the Executive Director for the Armed Forces Tax Council and Tax Counsel in the Department of Defense Office of the General Counsel. 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Eligibility for CE credit will close on 2/3/29\nCertified Personal Finance Counselors (CPFC): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) units from The Center for Financial Certifications (FinCert.org). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 2/3/29\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 2/3/28\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 2/3/28\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). 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SUMMARY:Nutrition Accommodations in IEPs and 504 Plans for All Students
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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]\nMany military families relocate multiple times throughout their children’s primary and secondary education years. Some military children may live in multiple states and attend different schools. Each state or school may have different resources\, processes or caseloads related to developing plans to support differently abled students\, those who are medically frail\, those with complex medical conditions or those with less complicated medical conditions that need supports at school. The Individual Education Plan (IEP) and/or 504 Plans are essential components to ensuring safe school accommodations and minimizing breaks in services or supports for military families. This webinar will provide an overview of key definitions related to the IEP and 504 plan\, highlight common conditions that may have nutrition accommodation components\, provide examples of nutrition specific accommodations by educational phases (elementary\, middle\, and high school) to support mealtime or school environment accommodations. Specifically highlighting the role that Dietitians fill to develop goals and objectives to support parents and the educational system to ensure all children are able to thrive in their educational environment. \nLearning objectives: \n\nDefine key terms related to the IEP and 504 Plans\, and explain their similarities and differences.\nIdentify common health conditions that may require nutrition-related accommodation.\nExamine common meal plan and eating environment modifications that may be included in an IEP or 504 Plan.\nProvide examples of IEP goals and 504 Plan objectives across developmental stages (e.g.\, elementary\, middle and high school).\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” 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She earned her BS in Nutrition and Dietetics from the University of New Mexico\, completed her dietetic internship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center\, and holds both an MPH in Global Health and Infectious Disease and a PhD in Public Health with a focus on Health Education and Behavioral Science. \nJoetta Khan currently serves as the Deputy Program Director for the U.S. Army Baylor Master’s Program of Nutrition at Medical Center of Excellence in San Antonio\, TX\, the Research Lead for the SP Corps and 65C Corps and a Dietitian for Keller Army Community Hospital supporting Picatinny Arsenal and Virtual Clinic. Her prior assignments include Deputy Chief\, Nutrition Services Department and Chief\, Education and Research for the Nutrition Services Department at Walter Reed (WR) National Military Medical Center\, Assistant Professor for the Baylor-Army Graduate Program of Nutrition and leads the WR Phase 2 research program\, WR IRB Vice Chair\, Chief Food Service of Food Service at Tripler Army Medical Center; Chief\, Nutrition Services and US-Army Dietitian Southern Iraq\, 86th Combat Support Hospital; Chief\, Nutrition Care Division\, Keller Army Community Hospital; Commander\, Charlie Company\, William Beaumont Army Medical Center; and Chief\, Outpatient Nutrition\, William Beaumont Army Medical Center. \nHer research and professional interests include performance nutrition\, public health nutrition\, nutrition services operations\, and nutrition education. She has contributed to numerous DoD initiatives\, published widely\, and supported multiple student research projects. 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[Expiration: 2/4/29].\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar is approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close [Expiration: 2/4/29].\nCertified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES): This webinar is approved for 1.0 continuing education credit from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close [Expiration: 2/4/28].\nSocial Workers\, Licensed Professional Counselors\, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: This webinar is approved for 1.0 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:How We Work Together: A Simple Practice for Better Collaboration
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thinking” as a backdrop to explore the spectrum of ways we work together – competition\, cooperation\, coordination\, and collaboration – and introduce a simple practice called “Shift the Box.” \nYou’ll learn how to quickly name where you are on that spectrum in any situation\, notice when you’re stuck in status and control\, and choose one small action that moves you closer to genuine collaboration and shared power. \nLinks and resources from this episode: \n\n\n\nJoin our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12879756/\nSend us a message: practicingconnection@oneop.org\nSee Dr. Robyn Keast talk about “Blue Box Thinking”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84YvXtc_VPg \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” 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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”]ERIN CARLSON RIVERA: [00:00:00] Hi\, thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Erin. Today we’re going to talk about how our assumptions about roles and power can get in the way of collaboration\, and how a simple reflection practice can help us shift into a more collaborative way of working together. \nHi Jessica. How are you doing today? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I’m doing pretty good. It’s toward the end of the day and I’m kind of gearing up to get ready for my new volunteer gig. My first time helping out in community theater. So that’s been kind of a fun experience. I’ve only been to one rehearsal so far. Today’s the second one. \nI’m not in\, I wanna be clear\, I’m not acting. But I’m helping out and it’s been kind of fun to be like a point person to help out. I kind of like being in the middle of all that action. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: That sounds so exciting. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I know you have a background in theater a little bit. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: That I think sounds a [00:01:00] little bit more than what I actually did. I did a lot of children’s theater as a kid and through high school. But background in theater makes it sound a little bit more glamorous than it was. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Okay\, I get it. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: But I understand there’s a certain kind of synergy and energy of doing a show. Even if you’re just on the tech – just on the tech; the tech are awesome. If you’re on tech\, even if you’re not in the show\, there’s still this exciting energy because it’s this really cool space of collaboration that you almost don’t get anywhere else. So I’m excited for you. I can’t wait to hear all about it. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, I will tell you more as the days unfold\, as you probably know\, it’s a chaotic time right now. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Of course. All right\, so today we’re focusing on collaboration\, and the ways we move\, sometimes without even noticing\, from competition\, to cooperation\, to coordination\, to true collaboration. And then you’re going to guide us through a practice. Can you share a little bit more about the practice and why you chose it?[00:02:00]\nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, absolutely. I wanna start though with a little bit of background on this thing I’m going to be talking about today called Blue Box Thinking. We’ve talked about it on the podcast before\, and it comes from a model of inter-organizational relationships that shows different ways groups work together: competition\, cooperation\, coordination\, collaboration and then finally conglomeration\, where everything kind of really comes together and ends up consolidating. \nAs originally presented by Dr. Robin Keast from Southern Cross University\, the diagram she was using as she was going around presenting about this had randomly colored boxes to represent different organizations and how they’re connected. \nBut what she was finding while presenting about the model was that what people often do is fixate on the one box that appears to be on top. And in this case it just happened to be always blue\, right? The blue box was always showing up on top on these slides\, on her slide deck. [00:03:00]\nAnd so people kept asking her\, wait\, is my organization the blue box? Am I the blue box? Should I be the blue box? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And so that pull toward wanting to be the box in charge or you know\, with quotes “in charge\,” is what we’re calling ‘blue box thinking.’ And it keeps our attention on status and position instead of on the processes and relationships that actually make collaboration work. \nAnd so the practice I’m sharing today is called ‘Shift the Box.’ It’s just a name that was made up for this. I chose it because blue box thinking tends to pull our attention toward position. Like\, who’s in charge\, who has the power? When collaboration really depends on process and relationships\, right? \nLike what can we create together that we maybe couldn’t have created if we weren’t together? And so this practice helps us gently move our focus from\, where am I on the chart\, [00:04:00] to\, how can we share power and create something together? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay. Well that’s exciting\, I love that it doesn’t ask people to jump straight into having perfect collaboration. It just invites one small shift to how we’re relating to each other. I think that’s really exciting. All right. Let’s get into it. Tell us about this practice. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Alright\, so first\, you’re going to want to start of course by thinking of a real situation where you’re working with others. So maybe it’s your team\, maybe it’s you’re just thinking of your team meeting\, you know\, the situation of your team meeting. \nMaybe it’s a community collaborative effort\, or any situation where you’re working with others\, right? Hold that situation in your mind and ask yourself who’s involved and what are we trying to do together? \nThen I want you to think about which of those Cs is your group currently in? The C’s we mentioned were competition\, cooperation\, [00:05:00] coordination\, collaboration\, which I’ll go into in a second. \nI want you to ask yourself\, which of these best describes how we’re working together right now? \nSo just to give you a few ideas of what each of these looks like: Competition. So your group might be in competition mode if you or other group members are mostly protecting their own interests or ideas\, right? You’re not sharing anything\, everyone’s trying to be on top. \nCooperation. You might be in cooperation mode if members are just sharing information\, right? Just strict information sharing or helping each other briefly on occasion. \nYou might be in coordination if the group is working toward a shared goal\, but mostly staying in your own lanes\, right? ‘My organization only does these things\, your organization only does those things. I’m only going to agree to do things that my organization does.’ Rather than kind of mixing up the ideas a little bit \nAnd in [00:06:00] collaboration\, you might be in collaboration if you’re sharing power\, resources\, and ideas to co-create something that you wouldn’t create alone. That each of your organizations are not likely to create alone. \nSo there are no wrong answers. Just notice where you are without judgment. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay. I like that. The expectation is not that you should always be collaborating. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. Right. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: You know\, I think about in school where it’s like\, ‘you always have to share\, you always have to get along\,’ and sometimes it’s not helpful. And I love that competition or coordination might be exactly the right option\, and that you’re stopping to name that. That’s great. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. Sometimes you just need an information exchange. That’s all you need\, and that’s okay. The point really is awareness\, so not grading ourselves or judging where the group is at. \nSo step three then is to notice your own personal blue box thinking [00:07:00] impulses. So maybe that’s\, ‘I wish I were the one making the decision\,’ or maybe it’s\, ‘They should really put me in charge of this.’ \nOr maybe it’s\, ‘Why is that person in charge or taking charge of this?’ And then finally\, maybe it’s\, ‘We just need someone at the top to decide.’ \nOr interestingly\, it could be the opposite\, right? This could be where you might suppress your own voice by thinking\, ‘Oh\, someone else is in charge. It’s not my place to speak up\,’ right? And that’s not healthy either. \nSo just notice where you might be focusing on position or status\, instead of process and relationship again. No judgment. You are just observing and learning right now. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, this feels powerful because it normalizes a lot of those thoughts. Many of us\, well\, okay\, many of us were trained to look at there’s just one person who’s in charge\, and that’s [00:08:00] it. So it makes sense that we would automatically just think\, ‘Well\, someone needs to just make this decision.’ \nAnd I don’t know\, I think if you spend a lot of time in any job as a grownup\, most of them have\, you know\, hierarchies and decision makers and leadership teams. And so it can get really easy to think\, ‘Well\, someone else should be making this choice\,’ and then not sharing what you’re thinking. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: You know\, I’ve been in coalition meetings before where I’ve seen a question get asked of the group\, right? So someone was asking\, maybe it was a contractor came in to share some updates\, and they ask everyone a question. And I’ve seen literally everyone look toward the person in the room that had that positional or financial power\, even though that person was just a member of the coalition\, they weren’t the person in charge\, right? \nAnd so things like that matter too\, we’re doing this naturally. But I think being more aware of when that’s happening can be really helpful [00:09:00] in moving from a place where maybe you’re just coordinating\, but you feel like the group could be doing more. \nSo just being aware of where you’re at will help you with the next step here. So the last step then is to ask yourself\, ‘What is one small shift I can make to move this situation closer to collaboration?’ \nSo depending on where you’re at\, of course\, I mean\, if you feel like the group is where it needs to be right now\, then leave it be. But if the group needs to shift\, then that might look like moving from competition to cooperation. Maybe the action you could take is sharing a piece of information or a perspective that you’ve been holding back. \nIf it’s moving from cooperation to coordination\, maybe that’s offering to align your efforts toward a shared goal instead of working in parallel with each other. And when moving from coordination to collaboration\, maybe that’s inviting others into planning or decision making\, or asking what could we create together that none of us could [00:10:00] create alone. \nAnd I just want to add a bonus here\, because another step you could take that would still make a small shift is choosing a relationship to strengthen within the group. So maybe choosing to listen more deeply to another person\, or maybe expressing appreciation for their contribution\, publicly or privately\, or checking in with them outside your meetings\, right? \nEven just choosing to strengthen a relationship with one of the people in the group will help with some of these shifts as well. So just choose one concrete action that you could take in this situation\, something small enough that you could try it in the next week. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, I love that. I think often when you’re caught in these tense spaces where all of the coalition people haven’t quite landed on how we’re going to work together\, it can really feel like you need to redesign the whole coalition\, the whole organization\, the whole structure. \nIt feels like\, [00:11:00] ‘Oh\, we gotta tear it all down and build over. It’s not working.” But actually it might just take all of us taking a bunch of tiny steps. And I love that you gave some really concrete actionable ones. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. I mean\, we don’t have to be taking big leaps here. We can grow collaborative efforts in really small shifts. We can grow it one relationship at a time\, one conversation at a time. We can share one piece of information at a time\, right? All these little things that we can do to improve our collaboration. \nSo that’s the practice. I mean\, this is something you can do in a few minutes\, and you can use it as a check-in at any point in your project. And over time\, you should be able to notice when you’re stuck in that blue box thinking and move toward more shared power\, stronger relationships\, and authentic collaboration. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Thanks so much for sharing that Jessica. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Very happy to. I have been a big fan of Robin Keith for a long time\, so I love sharing about Blue Box thinking. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: That’s it for this episode. Thank you for [00:12:00] joining us. If this conversation resonated with you\, click the share button in your podcast app. \nWe’ll be back next week with a new episode. Until then\, keep practicing. \nCREDITS: 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 number 2 0 2 3 4 8 7 74 3 3.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Turning Conflict Into Collaboration
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The real test of teamwork is what happens when we don’t. \nIn this episode of Practicing Connection\, Jessica and Erin explore how to stay grounded and connected when collaboration gets tough. Erin shares a reflective practice that helps you rethink how you see the person on the “other side” of disagreement\, using social intelligence skills like awareness and generosity of perspective. \nDiscover how to shift from trying to “win” a disagreement to understanding what motivates others—and why that shift can strengthen both relationships and results. \n  \nLinks and resources from this episode: \n\n\n\nJoin our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12879756/\nSend us a message: practicingconnection@oneop.org\nSee Dr. Robyn Keast talk about “Blue Box Thinking”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84YvXtc_VPg \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) \nHi\, thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection podcast. I’m Jessica. Today we’ll be talking about how to work with people you disagree with\, and Erin’s going to be sharing a practice with us. Hi\, Erin. I’m really looking forward to learning more about this practice. What’s new with you this week? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (00:19) \nHi Jessica\, it is a fun topic to talk about. I mean\, it’s not the most fun topic\, but I think it’s an important topic\, so I’m glad we’re hitting it. \nAnd let’s see\, what’s new with me this week? So I’ve started in the morning when I’m prepping my workday\, I write a little agenda\, and then at the end of it\, to make it more fun\, I write in ‘win’ conditions. So if you’re into playing board games\, that’s like a common phrase for like\, “what do I need to do to win?’ \nI don’t know how common win conditions are outside of the gaming world\, so I thought I’d just kind of outline that for you. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (00:55) \nI thought you said wind conditions at first. So no\, I’ve never heard of this before. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (01:01) \nOkay\, so essentially it’s the list of things you need to check off in order to win a game. And I’ve been adding a list of win conditions to my day for like\, if I do these things\, then I won at work today. And it’s a little bit silly\, but I’ll regularly ask my husband like\, “Are you winning?” Like\, “Is it going well?” And then I realized I’m asking myself that question too. And I’ve never decided what winning means. \nAnd it’s very similar to deciding what ‘done’ means\, I think. You know\, it’s hard to feel sometimes\, especially when your work is lots of emailing or cerebral or text or all on a computer. It’s not like a physical thing. It can be hard to remember that you did it. So I’ve been making little boxes that I check off\, and I put a little sticker for each one that I win at. Sometimes I win at remembering to take a walk and drink water. And sometimes I win because I really finish a project on time. \nBut all of it has been shockingly helpful\, and I’m gonna ride that as long as it’s still giving me momentum. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (02:10) \nThat’s great. I like this version of\, it’s not the same thing\, but there’s a version that I feel like is a little bit similar that I used to do where I call that my ‘good job’ list\, where at the end of the day I would just\, and sometimes honestly\, there would be an item on there that was just like\, ‘I sent an email to this person.’ Sometimes it was something really tiny like that. And I know sometimes emails can take a long time\, like 30 minutes or more to write if it has to have a bunch of information\, but sometimes the email I was referencing in my good job list really had more to do with a small little email that I had just not gotten back to because we’re so bombarded all the time with so many messages. \nSo I love this. I love this version of that. And I like the question\, “Do you feel like you’re winning today?” And for me\, I’d probably have it be a gut reaction. And that’s the beauty of all these things is you can decide how to use them. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (03:09) \nAnd for me\, my gut reaction always tells me that I did a bad job because sometimes my brain is mean to me. And so I was like\, you know what? We’re not going to let my emotional side of my brain have a say in whether or not I’m winning. If I did the checklist\, I won. Done and dusted. \nSo I do have to like make myself only do actually achievable win lists\, because if it’s suddenly 15 things\, I can’t actually do 15 things in a day. But we can talk about this practice more some other time. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (03:23) \nHmm. I like it. That’s why\, I’ve brought up before\, I think it was in a recent episode. I brought up that I sometimes like to use just one of those really small\, not – when I say really small post-it notes\, I don’t mean like the super tiny one x two ones. I’m talking about like the three x three square ones. I will put down on that little small post-it note the to-dos that I need to do that day in order to feel like I’m winning\, right? In order to feel like I won the day at a minimum\, I need to do these three or four things. \nI try not to make it any more than four things\, even though on those you can pretty much fit six to seven things\, I think. I’ve done it before. Yes\, I do know that. But yes\, anything that you can do to kind of help yourself get the things done you need to do and feel like you’re winning your day\, I think is a win. \nSo we’d love to hear how you’re winning. So drop us a line at practicingconnection@oneop.org. \nWe see and respond to every message and we can’t wait to hear from you. \n– break – \nSo Erin\, let’s learn more about how to work with people you disagree with. Can you tell us a little more about the practice you’ll be sharing\, and why you chose it? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (04:55) \nYes\, well\, we’ve been talking about collaboration a lot as a team. You’ll find out soon. And it got me thinking about\, you know\, we write a podcast where we have lots of Practicasts\, what are practical things to apply. And so that had me thinking a lot about what skills do you need to collaborate? And the most important one that I needed to learn was how to work with people who I disagree with. \nI am a passionate person. I sometimes have very strong opinions. I sometimes think I’m right about everything. Spoiler alert\, I’m not right about everything\, sadly. But learning how to navigate that has been a lifelong study. I spent lots of time doing it on school group projects\, which were the bane of my existence. And I was like\, ‘why do we have to do group projects?’ And my mom would always tell me\, “Because you have to work with people in life\, and you’ve got to figure out how to do it now.” \nPeople are more forgiving when you’re a child. Hopefully also we’re forgiving of adults who make mistakes. That’s not what I’m trying to say here. You’re laughing at me. Okay\, going back to talking about group projects. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (06:04) \nNot laughing at you\, Erin\, definitely with you. No\, can I just interject for a second though\, because this is making me think about – it’s interesting because there is also in being a person\, as you just said\, with sometimes having strong opinions and\, you know\, feeling like your pathway is maybe the right one that the group should be taking. Think about the power in that and how someone else might be like\, “Erin seems pretty confident about this.” \nAnd I’m not trying to make you feel bad here\, Erin\, but I’m just thinking like\, right\, “Erin seems pretty confident about this. Maybe I don’t need to share how I’m feeling\,” or whatever. Right? So anyway\, let’s talk about this. Sorry – \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (06:45) \nThat’s a good point. Just thinking about how are you showing up in a room and how is everybody else showing up in a room or a virtual room for your collaboration. Sometimes group projects are hard because people don’t want to be there\, or their workload is too big and they really can’t afford to be there. Or sometimes it’s because everybody is so passionate and they all have a different picture of what it looks like to be successful. \nAnd sometimes it’s hard to get into that. It just feels like this person’s telling you no all the time or they’re always fighting with you. And at least for me\, the path of least resistance for my brain is to villainize the person who I disagree with. And then suddenly they become a problem that I need to overcome\, or a road barrier\, and not a person to collaborate with. So what we’re going to talk about today is how to deal with that problem. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (07:45) \nYeah\, I appreciate that you brought that up too\, because you and I were talking before we started recording and I shared an example with you about someone that I was having some trouble with\, way in my past. And one of the things that came out of that was that I kind of villainized that person at first. I was really struggling. I was really fighting with them. All I kept hearing from them was ‘no\, no\, no\, no.’ \nAnd when I really dug into it and I worked on that relationship with them\, I realized\, ‘look\, I still disagreed with them. I didn’t enjoy their ways\, but I also really respected and understood where they were coming from.’ And I was able to get beyond that. \nSo let me ask you this then\, as you were looking into all of this\, I’m curious about how you were able to reconcile the idea of winning\, right? When two people are disagreeing and maybe both people feel very strongly that different pathways would be better for the project or for the situation. \nBoth of them want to win that argument. And so\, you know\, when we disagree on a pathway\, it could really cause a stalemate and progress could be stalled. How can we move beyond that? What were you finding? I’m excited to find out. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (09:00) \nYeah\, well\, I’ve got some bad news. Because the only thing you can change about the situation is your own response to the other person. You can’t force them to see your perspective. You can’t magically make them not part of the project. Look\, I hate this answer\, right? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (09:21) \nBut you can work to at least try to understand – you don’t have to agree with them – but try to understand where they’re coming from is one thing. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (09:27) \nExactly. Yeah\, that’s what I’m getting to. You’re spot on. I think what is frustrating about that is so often it feels like the other person isn’t doing that work too. And so it’s like\, ‘Man\, why do I have to do this labor and not this other person?’ That’s hard. That is hard to deal with. And I think it’s worth it because the benefits of collaboration and learning how to work with other people means that work can get done that otherwise would be impossible. \nAnd so you want to invest in making sometimes impossible seeming things happen\, figuring out\, ‘Okay\, how do I be aware of my own self\, be aware of what I’m doing and how I’m responding to people and how can I show up differently so that we can move past this roadblock?’ Because you can’t force them to show up differently\, but you can show up differently. So we’re going to talk about some social intelligence skills. \nI was not familiar with the phrase social intelligence until I was really digging into writing this episode. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (10:28) \nYou know\, I’ve studied via character strings. I took a bunch of their classes a long time ago\, so I’m very excited about this. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (10:35) \nWell\, they actually have my favorite definition of\, did they come up with this as a theory or did they just talk about it really well\, you know? Specifically the phrase social intelligence. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (10:42) \nIt comes from the field of positive psychology\, yeah\, and there’s been tons of research done in that kind of area. And I think it’s in the virtue of humanity. Yes. Which makes sense\, right? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (11:00) \nCool. Okay\, so if we just talked about a bunch of stuff and you’re like\, ‘I don’t know what social intelligence is\,’ a quick description from Character Strengths is\, \n“When a person knows what makes other people tick\, he or she is displaying social intelligence. They’re aware of the motives and feelings of themselves and others and how to fit into different social situations. They can feel comfortable and say the right thing\, whether they’re in the boardroom or the janitorial room\, in a school setting or on a construction site.” \nSocial intelligence involves two general components\, social awareness or what we sense about others and social facility\, which is what we do with our awareness. And our practice today is going to focus more on the awareness piece and how we are thinking about others. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (11:52) \nGreat. Let’s get into that practice then. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (11:55) \nOkay\, so this is a reflection for someone. I wrote it with this scenario in mind\, but you can expand it past that if this is not your scenario. But what I was imagining is you are already mid-project with a person that you have to collaborate with\, who you disagree with\, and they are driving you crazy. \nSo this is a thing you can do kind of silently inside of your own head during a meeting\, or just after a meeting\, or like an email chain\, some kind of interaction you’re having with this person who you disagree with when you’re feeling really agitated. Notice that\, and then do this reflection after you’ve kind of noticed some of that. \nSo the first step is deciding that you want to do something and committing to changing your mind about this person. That feels like kind of a silly first step\, but unless you commit to it\, you’re not going to do it. So step one is\, commit to do the work of figuring out how to get along with this person\, even if they aren’t doing it back. \nStep two is finding a reason why you want to commit to doing it\, because it can be challenging and it can take longer than you want it to. I personally find it really helpful to reflect on my values. They’re different for every person\, but I value doing good work. Usually I’m doing work that is creating something for other people. So I’ll think about the end user or who is going to benefit from us doing this work together and putting that reason in the front of your mind. So when you’re agitated and irritated\, you can say\, “I’m doing this because the outcome is worth it to me.” And if it’s not worth it to you\, that’s another conversation for a different Practicast. But find your reason\, find your value that’s making you want to commit. \nAnd then step three is\, observe your interactions with the person. This can either be while you’re in a meeting with them\, or it can be after the meeting. You can just kind of reflect on\, ‘What do you remember about how they showed up in the room? Do they have a lot of emotions? Were they not expressing a lot of emotions? What was their body language like? What did they share about what was happening in their day or in their workplace? Did they share anything at all? Did they just show up and be task and business focused? How were they showing up to the meeting? Was that what you expected?’ \nNotice those things. Another really helpful thing to observe from your interaction is\, ‘What is one thing\, no matter how small it is\, that you can respect about how this person showed up? What’s one thing that you wish you did?’ \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (14:41) \nIn that example that I was talking about before that I didn’t give any details on\, the thing that I was able to respect about them\, which completely changed to me\, changed our entire relationship\, because I really respected them for it was that they really felt a huge level of responsibility to be accountable for things that our department was doing. And so once I understood that\, I felt like I was able to\, you know\, navigate that conflict\, right? \nWe’re talking about disagreeing with someone. I disagreed with their methods\, but we weren’t really in conflict. We were actually in sync because we both felt that same responsibility\, but they felt it much more acutely than I did. And so once I understood that\, I felt like I was able to respect them as a person and respect them much more\, respect our relationship a lot more. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (15:37) \nYeah\, I love that. And a lot of this observation section is helping you notice what maybe you weren’t paying attention to. It’s being aware of what’s happening in the room\, both what the other person is doing\, but also internally inside of your own self. \nSo the last thing that I encourage you to observe is\, ‘What are you thinking about this person throughout the meeting? Are you automatically dismissing whatever they’re saying? Are you internally going\, “of course\,” or internally going\, “this again…” Are they going in circles? Are they talking about the same thing over and over again?’ \nI am guilty of this\, so no judgment. Just noticing your own responses to them. Are they positive? Are they negative? What evidence do you have to support the opinions that you’re having? Is it just an opinion that’s left over from a different meeting and you’re bringing it into this new meeting? So just observe and kind of notice you’re not being judgmental\, but you’re noticing what you’re bringing into the interaction and making note of it. \nAnd then the last step\, I think\, is the hardest step\, but it’s also the most important step. And I call it the imagination section. It is the part where you’re trying to imagine what is the most generous interpretation of why they’re acting the way they’re acting or why they have the opinion that they have. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (17:01) \nThat’s probably where my example fits\, is here\, except that it was my observation of our interactions that helped me to realize and imagine that the most generous reason for them having the opinion they have\, or acting the way they were acting\, was that they felt a ginormous amount of weight on them for our department’s accountability. Does that make sense? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (17:24) \nYeah\, that makes total sense. And I think what can be challenging about this is\, you know\, at least for me\, sometimes I just want to be mad. Like I want to be annoyed\, because it’s hard\, right? And it’s easier to be annoyed at the other person than like be stuck in the feeling of stuckness. \nAnd what I think is so helpful about imagination is it doesn’t even matter if the most generous reason is true or not. The point of imagining why the most generous reason for why someone might behave in the way they’re behaving is so that you can shift your resentment and frustration and be more open to this person\, maybe not being wrong\, or maybe seeing them as a person\, not a problem. The goal here is to shift how you’re thinking\, not to shift the person. And the goal of imagining is to see them as a fully complex person\, and to be able to be generous. \nI think there’s sometimes this idea that\, if I imagine them that way\, then that is the reality\, and I’m writing the reality for them. And that’s not what we’re saying at all. We’re just saying\, imagine why someone might have this opinion. And maybe you’re right and maybe you’re wrong. But being open to them having good reasons for why they are responding the way they were responding really helps\, I think\, in building patience. \nBut then also in building your own curiosity. And then maybe there’s like a secret step five where when you’re not in an agitated space\, you can circle back and be like\, “Hey\, what’s going on with you?” Or\, “I’ve noticed you seem really passionate and you really value this X\, Y\, Z thing. Can you tell me about that?” And that’s where you can really build a relationship with a person and not just have them be a problem. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (19:10) \nAnd I told the person that in the example I’ve been giving\, once I told them that I appreciated the amount of responsibility they felt and how they really valued the work we were doing\, I just told them that I appreciated that they felt that level of responsibility. Again\, I didn’t agree with the methods. Did not love the way they did things. And also that started to shift their opinion toward me because they felt noticed\, they felt seen\, they felt heard. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (19:39) \nSo you know how at the beginning of this meeting you were talking about how if I come in super definitive about my opinion\, maybe someone feels like there isn’t space for them to disagree? I think this is like me being\, I think sometimes I am this person that people need to reflect on to be less annoyed about. \nGosh. \nAnd not in a bad way\, but just in a like\, you know\, interacting with people who are different\, there’s conflict\, there’s friction there. And that I think also helps me show up differently. \nAnd one of my personal values is kindness. I think that’s really important. I try to think through how can I show up in a way that’s more kind. And so this has also been really helpful in shifting my own ways of being in a group. This practice really focuses on helping you shift your thinking about another person. But it has side benefits of shifting your own view of yourself and being kinder and more patient with yourself too. It’s pretty good stuff. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (20:35) \nYeah. And the last thing that I want to bring up\, just because it comes up so commonly and I’ve seen it over and over in my career. And also\, you know\, given that I’ve done a lot of interpersonal work with groups\, one thing that comes up over and over that this is really reminding me of is that idea of the people who’ve been around a while saying\, “But we’ve done that before\, we’ve done that before.” And it feels like it’s a ‘no\, no\, no\, no\, no’ constantly\, when people are bringing up ideas. \nAnd I’ve talked with a number of people who have been very concerned over the years about how they come off\, like folks who know that they’re the ones who are always like\, “Well\, we did that once before\, we already did that.” And I would say most of the time\, at least of the ones I’ve talked to\, they don’t want to do that. What they’re looking for is new solutions that their experience could be respected and inquired about and gotten curious about\, and like thinking about what new things we could all come up with. \nThat might utilize some of that knowledge\, but also utilize the new ideas coming in. And I’ve heard from a lot of people who are like\, “I’m not trying to say no\, no\, no to everything. It’s just\, we’ve learned a lot from what we’ve tried in the past. And so could we maybe just come together and say\, ‘Hey\, what have you learned from doing this in the past? We learned all these things. And what are your new ideas? Let’s try to mash all of this up together and see what new solutions we can come up with.’” \nSo it’s slightly\, I mean it’s on topic\, slightly off topic\, but I wanted to bring that up because I think it’s a common point where people are feeling really passionate about the work you’re all doing together\, but some people want to go one pathway\, some people want to go another pathway\, or some people want to go one pathway\, but they feel like the other people are just constantly telling them no\, no\, no\, no. And I think that there’s a way around all of that for us to come together. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (22:25) \nYes\, that is a great example. Thank you so much for sharing it. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (22:29) \nThank you for guiding us through. That’s a really great thought experiment. \nSo commit to doing the work. Find a value or reason that you want to do it. Observe your interactions with the person or people that you’re feeling at odds with. And then imagine the most generous reason for them to have the opinion they have. What was that fifth bonus one? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (22:52) \nThe fifth bonus one was engaging in a conversation about them as a person\, where you acknowledge the thing you respect about them. Or notice\, ‘Hey\, it seems like you really value XYZ. Can you tell me more about that?’ \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (23:08) \nYes. That’s great. I think that’s a great spot to stop this practice. Thanks so much\, Erin. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA (23:14) \nThank you! \nJESSICA BECKENDORF (23:15) \nWell\, 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 new episode. Until then\, keep practicing. \nCREDITS: 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 number 2 0 2 3 4 8 7 74 3 3.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Multidisciplinary Evidence-Based Approaches to Problematic Sexual Behavior in Children
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/OfuXeXtRUMU”][/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]This webinar is focused on increasing the knowledge base around problematic sexual behavior in children for all multidisciplinary team members. The National Center on Sexual Behavior of Youth (NCSBY) defines children with problematic sexual behavior (PSB) as youth who engage in behaviors involving sexual body parts that are developmentally inappropriate and/or potentially harmful to self and others (Carpentier\, Silovsky\, Chaffin\, 2005). Consideration will be given to the role that technology plays in increasing youth exposure to sexualized material and the impact of exposure. \nFocus is placed on details of the continuum of sexual behaviors\, dispelling myths about children with problematic sexual behavior\, and instilling hope in treating this population. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of appropriate language to use and feel more competent in encouraging appropriate next steps for treatment and safety planning with families. Evidence-based information regarding family engagement in treatment\, through Mary McKay’s work\, is incorporated throughout the webinar. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nLearn about normative\, cautionary\, and problematic behavior in children and where such behaviors fall on the continuum.\nDescribe the differences between common misconceptions regarding children with problematic sexual behavior and what is supported by research.\nDispel myths and provide information on how MDT collaboration best supports family well-being and engagement.\nDiscuss strategies for how to educate and engage professionals across disciplines to better serve children with problematic sexual behavior\, their caregivers\, and others impacted by the behavior.\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=”216085″ 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=”Amanda Mitten\, MA” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Amanda Mitten is a Licensed Professional Counselor at the University of Oklahoma Health Campus\, Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. Ms. Mitten received her Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2014. Her clinical experiences include evidence-based interventions for children with disruptive behavior disorders\, posttraumatic stress disorder and other trauma-related disorders\, children with problematic sexual behavior\, and assessment of children prenatally exposed to drugs and alcohol. Ms. Mitten also serves as the Co-Director for CCAN’s Child Trauma Services Program (CTSP) and is the Director of Behavioral Health for the Family TREE partnership with OKDHS and OUHC.[/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=”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=”216086″ 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=”Dionna Weixel\, MS” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Dionna Weixel is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at the University of Oklahoma Health Campus\, Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (CCAN). Ms. Weixel received her Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2017. Her clinical interests and work focus on providing evidence-based interventions for children with problematic sexual behaviors\, disruptive behavior disorders\, and trauma-related disorders. Ms. Weixel is trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)\, an evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents who are experiencing trauma symptoms and their caregivers\, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)\, an evidence-based treatment for young children exhibiting disruptive behaviors\, and Problematic Sexual Behavior-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (PSB-CBT™) for school-age and preschool children.[/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 Survey” button_id=”Continuing Education Survey” text=”Continuing Education Survey” url=”https://auburn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9pgZJR6XOIpB26O”][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 2/19/28.\nBoard Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA): This webinar is approved for 1.5 CE contact hours by The Patient Advocate Certification Board. *Note: Eligibility for CE will close 2/19/2028.\nBoard Certified Case Managers: This webinar is approved for 1.5 CE clock hours from the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC). *Note: Eligibility for CE will close 2/19/2027.\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar is approved for 1.5 CE credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). *Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 2/19/2029.\nCertified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES): This webinar is approved for 1.5 CE credit from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). *Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 2/19/2028.\nSocial Workers\, Licensed Professional Counselors\, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: This webinar is approved for 1.5 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 2/19/2029.\nOneOp Certificates of Attendance are available for those interested in additional documentation of professional development activities. \n\nIf the survey button above does not appear\, please access the continuing education survey through this link: https://auburn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9pgZJR6XOIpB26O. If you any questions\, please email CE@oneop.org.[/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_1771449211372{padding-left: 15px !important;}”]Webinar Slides \nAdditional Resources[/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: Adobe Stock by Jordi P D/peopleimages.com\, file #542909901 \n\nThis webinar is part of the Sexual Behavior in Children & Youth (SBCY) Series. For more information on other professional development opportunities on this topic\, visit the series homepage! \nSBCY Series – Homepage[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://oneop.org/learn/160125/
CATEGORIES:Health and Well-Being
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UID:10001595-1771930800-1771934400@oneop.org
SUMMARY:Exercise is Medicine ®: Promoting Health and Well-Being Across the Lifespan
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/Xqvwhv2abZc”][/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]Join us for an engaging webinar on Exercise is Medicine ®\, a global initiative that emphasizes the critical role of physical activity in promoting overall health\, preventing chronic disease\, and enhancing well-being. In this session\, we will explore how regular exercise can optimize physical and brain health\, support healthy aging\, and enhance overall quality of life across the lifespan. Our expert will share evidence-based strategies and practical tools to help you incorporate movement into daily routines\, ensuring long-term health benefits. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nUnderstand the principles of Exercise is Medicine ® and how regular physical activity supports overall health\, disease prevention\, and quality of life across the lifespan.\nDescribe physical and mental benefits of regular exercise\, including its role in supporting healthy aging\nIdentify evidence-based strategies and practical tools to integrate movement and structured exercise into daily routines for themselves and the populations they serve.\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=”215103″ 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=”Emerson Sebastiao\, PhD” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Dr. Emerson Sebastião is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health and Kinesiology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). 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SUMMARY:Collaboration in Action: Serving Military Families through Strengthening Communities
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Beckendorf talks with Havelock\, North Carolina Mayor Will Lewis about what it looks like when a city and an installation grow together. \nAs president of Allies for Cherry Point Tomorrow\, Mayor Lewis helps connect community\, education\, and military partners to strengthen opportunities for service members\, veterans\, and local families alike. \nTheir conversation explores how collaboration\, communication\, and long‑term vision can build lasting readiness at every level. \nLinks and resources from this episode: \n\nVisit the ACT website: https://alliesforcherrypoint.com/\nJoin our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12879756/\nSend us a message: practicingconnection@oneop.org\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” 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I’m Jessica Beckendorf. In this episode\, we’re spotlighting a community that has made partnership a central theme\, Havelock\, North Carolina. \nHavelock sits just outside Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point\, which also happens to be one of the largest employers in the region. It’s a place where the city\, the installation\, schools\, and local employers work hand in hand to support service members\, veterans\, and their families. \nThat kind of collaboration does not happen by accident. It takes leadership\, people\, time\, and a deep commitment to community well-being. Our guest today knows that work inside and out. Mayor Will Lewis has served the city of Havelock for nearly two decades\, building strong bridges between the city and the installation. During this time\, he has championed education\, STEM outreach\, and open communication across civilian and military sectors\, all while maintaining typical mayor duties\, like attending community events\, community engagement\, and working to make Havelock stronger. \nMayor Will also leads Allies for Cherry Point Tomorrow\, or ACT\, an organization that began years ago with a single mission: to protect the Fleet Readiness Center East during a round of base realignment. But ACT has since evolved into a nonprofit that uplifts the installation and the surrounding region. So today\, ACT convenes partners to expand access to engineering education\, to grow local employment opportunities\, and create pathways for transitioning veterans\, all with an eye toward long-term community and family readiness. \nThat is quite the introduction. Mayor Will\, welcome to the podcast. It’s such a pleasure to have you here. \n[Will Lewis]: Hey\, Jessica\, thank you for having me. I’m honored to be on your podcast. I’m going to do my best to make that intro do some justice to it. Thank you for that. That was awesome. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Well\, we’ve already had a couple of off-air conversations\, and I fully believe all of the things that we said about you. So let’s get started with the first thing I wanted to ask you\, was that\, you know\, you’ve served as the mayor of Havelock for nearly two decades\, and now you lead Allies for Cherry Point Tomorrow. \nWhen you think about your journey\, what personal values or experiences have most shaped how you show up for military families and the broader community? \n[Will Lewis]: Well\, I mean\, it has been\, this is my 21st year total. I did eight years as a commissioner on the board and this number 13 as mayor. So 21 years\, as you said\, for the city. \nAnd\, you know\, I think like most people who get in a position\, whether for local service\, like local government\, it is about service and it’s about people. It’s about the people in your community. So I grew up here in Havelock. And I’ve been surrounded by Marines and all of our local citizens the whole time. I just wanted to give back. \nSo when I first ran\, the thought was\, “I’m just going to be able to help some people\, whether it’s getting a stop sign right or\, you know\, fixing potholes in a street\, whatever that might be.” I really didn’t know when I first joined the board that there would be this whole component with Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and taking care of Marines. \nAnd I grew into that. And you kind of saw it a little bit. It’s like when you grow up here\, I tell everybody\, like\, “We’re so fortunate. We live with everyday heroes.” Like\, you’re pumping your gas\, you look over and the person next to you is about to deploy or is training to deploy. We’re a very operational base. \nSo like\, man\, we live with people that protect our freedom. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Yeah. \n[Will Lewis]: So it starts simple\, like just seeing them at a local event and talking to them\, and making them feel welcome when they’re brand new\, because they change out every three years. Making them feel welcome. Then it grew into ways that we can actually affect their lives\, things that we can do for them to make their lives better. So I don’t know that there was like any one thing or activity\, or like realization. It kind of grows on you if you stay here long enough\, I guess. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Oh\, no\, that makes so much sense. And it seems like as it grew on you\, though\, you all had\, maybe it wasn’t a realization\, maybe it just was sort of a baby steps kind of thing that kind of built on each other. But it seems like you realized\, “Oh\, wait\, working together kind of floats all the boats or gets all of the planes in the air\,” however\, whatever metaphor you want to use there. But working together actually helps the wider region. \n[Will Lewis]: Yes. And I think I was fortunate enough to come along when that realization was happening. Maybe just the right place\, right time. Because for a long time\, the world of defense was\, it was always like the base did its thing and the community did their thing. \nAnd then there was like\, you intermingled\, you know\, we all played sports together and whatnot\, but we didn’t think about things like infrastructure together. We didn’t think about water supply. We didn’t think about sewer. We didn’t think about\, “What you can do as a larger community to protect families when their spouse deploys overseas?” \nAnd I think I was at the right place\, right time that all that conversation was starting. And we were able to be a part of that and grow with that thought. So as that thought process grew over the 20 years\, the City of Havelock has just been invested to grow that same way. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Oh\, yeah. And so when you look across Havelock\, the Marine Corps\, Air Station Cherry Point\, and the surrounding region\, you’ve kind of started to allude to this\, but how do you see the military family readiness system operating in real life? Like\, who are the key players? And how do they work together to support service members and their families? You’ve started to mention that they’re doing it\, but yeah\, how do you see this operating? \n[Will Lewis]: Well\, there’s a lot of partners\, right? So I should disclaim by saying anybody I accidentally forget\, you can blame it on my brain\, not on my heart. Because there’s so many ways to help take care of your installation. \nSo ACT\, Allies for Cherry Points Tomorrow\, we really represent a four-county region. So we have Craven\, Carteret\, Pamlico\, and Jones counties. And then all the municipalities that sit in those\, they all participate with ACT. And there’s so many ways that we do it\, all the way from\, for example\, all of our chambers of commerce all have a military affairs commission. And those military affairs commissions do things like service person of the quarter\, where a command recommends somebody and writes a write-up of what they’re doing in the community\, and how they’re volunteering and why they deserve to be service person of the quarter. \nAnd then we do a big lunch and all our local businesses come together\, and they donate things to that person to thank them for what they’ve done in our community in their short time here. And they do things like\, we do these chicken pickings on the base where you pick a squadron\, you go over and you just cook a whole bunch of chickens\, and everybody comes and eats chicken and hangs out with the Marines. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: That sounds like fun. That sounds like a good time. \n[Will Lewis]: They’re a blast. And every chamber has a piece in that. So it happens multiple times a year. I call that like the morale and welfare piece of it. \nBut it goes even\, like\, our schools\, like every one of our schools in Craven County or in Havelock in particular\, we all have a squadron assigned to us. So when they do field day\, the Marines come out and do field day with the kids and the teachers get to meet those Marines. And if they do science night\, they come out and spend time with the kids doing the experiments. So it’s at every level like that. \nAnd it goes all the way up to what I would say the most advanced levels\, which are us as a community trying to understand their needs\, whether it’s inside the installation or out in the community\, and then trying to provide those. \nAnd that could be anything from – perfect example: we didn’t have lacrosse in Eastern North Carolina when I was a kid. Nobody played lacrosse. That was like a Northeast thing. But you get all these Marine families that come here and they came from the Northeast. “Why is there no lacrosse here? We played lacrosse when we were in Maryland\,” or wherever. And the city evolves in that and the community decides\, “Oh\, we do need a lacrosse league.” \nAnd guess who our coaches are\, right? There are all these Marines that have moved here and understand lacrosse. And then our local kids get involved in that. And now we have lacrosse everywhere\, including even at the high school. And so I think the little pieces like that\, because it’s I say in Havelock especially\, you can’t separate Cherry Point and Havelock. We’re like completely intertwined\, right. \nBut even our entire region now is completely intertwined into that. And when everyone’s thinking about what they’re going to do\, they include\, how does this impact the military? Is it good? Is it bad? Is it something they want? \nSo there’s a million ways. And it’s everybody from school systems\, community colleges\, Allies for Cherry Point’s Tomorrow\, chambers of commerce\, even the municipalities themselves\, right. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Wow. Yeah\, that’s one of the reasons why we like doing episodes like this\, where we are uplifting stories of the military family readiness system in action\, like what’s happening in Havelock. We hope that whether you’ve got a Marine Corps air station right next door or not\, we hope that people in communities will ask\, “How might this issue impact military families in our area?” Even if it isn’t the biggest employer in the area\, even if it’s almost invisible. \nAnd we also hope that the folks who are on installations will ask\, “How is the community already addressing certain issues?” And it sounds like you guys really have that relationship down. You’re coming together and you’re making decisions together and you’re doing it in a way that is not just coordinated\, but it’s integrated into everything you do. \n[Will Lewis]: Absolutely\, Jessica\, even our planning committees and our technical advisory committees\, we include people from the installation on that. So we’re talking about traffic or projects. They can give us input to say that’s how it would affect us\, or we think that’s a good idea\, etc. \nAnd I think a lot of it\, it’s because Havelock and Marine Corps Air Station grew together. Like a lot of communities already existed. They were already incorporated. And then a military installation came. For us\, we were here as a community since the 1700s\, 1800s\, but we didn’t even incorporate till 1959. And the base came here in 1942. As the base was growing its identity\, Havelock was growing ours. \nAnd so\, I mean\, it’s kind of like growing up with your brother or your sister. You get a little piece of them whether you want to or not because you’re all growing up together. And I think that’s what made us unique. \nAnd I didn’t know we were unique\, Jessica\, I just thought that was normal. Growing up here\, I just thought every community and their base had that exact same relationship. And it wasn’t until we got involved with the Association of Defense Communities that we realized… that it isn’t. That it is kind of unique. It’s not that way everywhere. \nAnd we’ve tried to do our best to explain how we do what we do and give them a little bit of the magic sauce\, so that other communities can benefit. Because a lot of people look at it as a challenge. I look at it as this complete and total benefit that we have all these Marines and their families and sailors and their families here. It benefits us dramatically\, makes us better as a community. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Yes. Wow\, I really appreciate that comment. So the city and the base grew together\, but also ACT\, the Allies for Cherry Point Tomorrow\, started as an effort to save the Fleet Readiness Center East\, right? During\, I know the acronym is BRAC\, but I cannot remember what it stands for. \n[Will Lewis]: Base Realignment and Closure. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Thank you. And because it’s since become a nonprofit focused on strengthening both the installation and the community. So I’m wondering\, can you share a moment\, and maybe the answer is no\, there is no moment\, it just was a lot of little things that happened over time. But can you share a moment when you realized that ACT’s work was about more than one decision point\, you know\, saving the Fleet Readiness Center East – that it was about building long-term community infrastructure for military families? \n[Will Lewis]: I can talk about when the moment was for me. So I’ve been a part of ACT for\, I guess I’m right at 11 or 12 years on the ACT board. And it was some great individuals that started it long before that in the 90s when you’re talking about them. \nSpecifically\, it got larger around that the whole community coming together to protect Fleet Readiness Center East aboard Cherry Point. But I know that sometimes those decisions were opportunity driven\, and that was ours. So we always knew that we had to advocate on behalf of Cherry Point for the readiness and the mission and making sure that that was all as healthy as it could be. \nBut for me\, it was when the school system came to us at Allies for Cherry Point Tomorrow and we were heavily deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. And they came to us during the month of April\, which is the month of the military child\, they came to Allies for Cherry Point Tomorrow. \nAnd they said\, “We do these deployment boxes.” And it was\, this box was kind of a lot of\, every branch I think has them\, but it’s got a teddy bear in it in uniform. And then it’s got some stationary to mail back and forth\, and some other things. There’s a book in there\, and it’s to help kids whose parents have to go deploy and go to war. And the school system came to us at ACT\, and I was pretty new on the board and they said\, “Hey\, we’ve got a lot of deployed military right now. We want to get more of these deployment boxes and we don’t have the budget. How could we partner to do this thing?” \nAnd that was when I think it flipped a switch in me that was like\, ‘oh\, we can do more.’ And then I feel like every year it’s like\, we can do more\, we can do more\, we can do more. So we’re always just looking for more\, right. But that was what I realized. Maybe it’s not just about advocacy. It’s also about as a community\, what do we do that kind of rings out bigger and across everybody\, and including these young people because we all\, you know\, a lot of times we forget about the kids. They’re dealing with that deployment just like that spouse that got left behind while they were gone is dealing with it. That was kind of the moment for me that I realized ACT could be a bigger impact in the community even. \nAnd that turned into just constant evolution over the last 10 years. And it’s been everything from us doing the deployment boxes to kick all that off. But then it grew into us providing scholarships at the local community colleges for transitioning military and their families. It grew into a star base. It’s leaps and bounds over the last decade from the idea of just like\, “What’s next? What can we do? How can we do more?” \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Wow. Well\, I mean\, I feel like you’ve already expanded on\, you just gave a whole bunch of great examples of this\, but I’m wondering if you have sort of a favorite example of an initiative where you saw\, maybe it was through ACT\, maybe it was through some other initiative where you saw municipal\, educational\, and military partners come together in a way that really improved readiness for families? \n[Will Lewis]: Sure. The most recent example\, literally\, like the kids actually started this week and I’m going to get super excited. So if I go on too long\, Jessica\, just tell me. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: No\, I want to hear this. I want to hear all the details! \n[Will Lewis]: So we transitioned from a C6 to a C3. As a C6\, we were just an advocacy nonprofit\, but then we became a true nonprofit. And that was really spurred by that moment when it was like\, we want to do these deployment boxes. If we want to do more\, we’ve got to be a real nonprofit\, not just a government advocacy nonprofit. That led to some scholarship things that we do through our C3 for transitioning military\, which have been hugely successful. \nWe’ve raised almost $40\,000 over the last two years. They go directly to our community colleges. We have three of them. And it is for transitioning military\, specifically for things they might want to learn or get a certificate in\, or a degree in that is not covered by the GI Bill. And so workforce items and things like that. And it’s been wildly successful. But the most recent one where everybody came\, this is the one with the most partners. And if you’ve heard of DoD Starbase\, or if you’ve ever heard of – \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Starbase. From you\, I think\, from our last conversation\, yeah. \n[Will Lewis]: So it’s a project or it’s a program within manpower part of the department. And it’s been going on since\, I’m going to say the early nineties\, I want to say the first Starbase started\, but it is a fifth grade STEM education outreach program that is co-located with a military installation. It’s funded through the department. \nAnd then you have a local nonprofit that runs the money and provides STEM education. It’s predominantly for Title I schools\, but it can be for any schools after you get through your Title I schools. And we’ve never had one here. And there are 90 of them across the country\, but there never been one in Eastern North Carolina. FRC East\, which is located aboard Cherry Point\, they have a really big STEM outreach into the community. They go to schools and they have a fab lab they bring around\, and they kind of show kids STEM and try to get them excited. \nSo FRC East was like\, “We need a star base. We’ve got to have a star base.” So we all got in this room about two years ago and it was FRC East. It was our Marine Corps Station Cherry Point leadership. It was Allies for Cherry Points Tomorrow and some school folks. And we said\, “How do we make this happen?” \nSo we filled out an application. We got letters from all of our congressmen\, senators\, both state and federal\, and even our governor got letters from our military affairs commission\, our local superintendents\, and we flooded the department with letters. And eventually they said\, “Yes\, we’re going to make you a Starbase.” \nThere was some funding issues\, always is\, right? Never enough funding to do everything everybody wants to do. But this past year\, they got enough funding to actually start a Starbase here. And so where the real partnership happened was FRC is trying to make this thing happen. They have to have a nonprofit step in to run the money. Well\, ACT’s never been a government contractor. That’s not what we do. But they came to us and they said\, “We think you’re the perfect partner. You’re focused on our kids in the community. You’re focused on our kids in the military. You’re focused on our mission. Would you be willing to partner?” \nAnd so my board said\, “Yeah\, let’s do this thing. Let’s figure it out.” So over about an eight week period with the help of FRC East and the station\, and then we had to kind of go on our own to do the actual government contract. We write the contract submission. We turned it in. It got approved. We worked out a contract. And as of October 1\, we officially have a star base. \nBut to make that happen\, to get these kids in there\, it’s just I can go on and on about the opportunity for the kids because I think it’s an amazing opportunity. But to do it\, it took the command at Fleet Readiness Center East. It took the command at Marine Corps Station Cherry Point. It took Allies for Cherry Points Tomorrow. It took every one of our four school systems\, superintendents and deputy superintendents in charge of curriculum or whatever their title was in each one. It took the buy-in of the principals of those schools because we’re asking them to give us fifth graders for five days\, to get 25 hours of curriculum. That’s a lot of time out of the school building. And so we had to kind of help them understand how exciting this opportunity would be. \nIt is rigorous\, exciting\, unique STEM education that they get to go do hands-on. They call it ‘Hands-on\, minds-on\,’ which – I love that phrase. So they’re literally like building dragsters and making boats out of clay\, and trying to understand all these STEM concepts. And they get to go on the Marine Corps installation to do that as a field trip. They go on the installation to this building that’s dedicated for the Star Base. \nWe even included our community college because Allies for Cherry Point’s Tomorrow had to hire all the teachers and instructors and the director. We don’t have a big employee payroll. So we went to our community college and we partnered with them and they came in and they actually hired them for us. And then they work for ACT. And we have this huge partnership with all of those folks. \nSo you’re talking about eight or ten partners across all these spectrums that had to come together over a very short period of time. So we were awarded October 1. We had kids in the building February 17th. So over October\, November\, December\, and January\, we literally built an entire schoolhouse as a team\, all of us together. And that included furniture\, fixtures\, equipment\, iPads\, computers. Curriculum\, you name it. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Did the curriculum have to be written? \n[Will Lewis]: So the department provides the curriculum. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Oh\, okay\, good. \n[Will Lewis]: But the curriculum\, Jessica\, is massive because they want it to work for any installation. You get to go through the curriculum and pick which ones you want to utilize. And then you’re allowed to customize them to what you do as an organization. \nSo we obviously are focused on some aviation and fabrication type stuff because of what we do. And then we get to kind of tweak the stuff\, but we have to follow that curriculum. So just going through the curriculum for the director and the instructors was a Herculean task to do in a short period of time\, because once they decided what they had to do\, then we had to order all the materials and get them here in time so they could practice. \nSo when the kids walked in the building\, everything would be just right. We were in the building the day before they came in until\, you know\, six o’clock that evening and the weekend before just making sure everything was perfect. So those kids would have a phenomenal experience. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Oh\, and by the way\, in that four-month period of time\, there were also a couple of holidays that a lot of people take off for. \n[Will Lewis]: Yeah\, Thanksgiving\, Christmas. We had a little government shutdown in the middle of all that. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Oh yeah\, we did a little bit\, just a little one. \n[Will Lewis]: Yeah\, right? So all of that combined to make it quite a challenge. We would have never gotten it done. I mean\, there’s no way ACT could have done that. There’s no way FRC could have done it. There’s no way the college could have done it. \nBut all of us coming together\, we pulled this thing off. We are now\, right now\, the only active Marine Corps star base in the country. There’s 90 of them. We’re the only Marine Corps one. There are two other ones in North Carolina. They’re at National Guard locations\, one in Wilmington and one in Charlotte. But we’re the only Marine Corps one. And we got our first kids in this week. And so far it has been phenomenal. And the kids are absolutely loving it\, which has made it all worth all the effort that everybody put in. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Well\, I’m excited that I’m getting to talk to you during the week that this huge initiative is launching because that’s not only a huge task to get done in that short period of time\, but also you must be immensely proud. You and all of the people involved must be so proud. \n[Will Lewis]: Oh\, incredibly. And just the idea that all of our school systems can bring their fifth graders there\, it doesn’t cost them a dime. They just have to come up with the ability to bus them there. And then we provide everything else. \nSo you’re talking about kids that may never get to experience that level of STEM\, get to now come and experience it for 25 hours with people that are super passionate and excited about STEM. \nI would say we’re literally changing lives\, Jessica. There’s going to be at least some kid out of the 1\,800\, by the way\, that we’re going to serve over the next year\, 1\,800 kids\, you know\, at least one\, probably a hundred are going to be like\, “Oh my gosh\, I didn’t know that this was an option\,“ right. \nAnd we have a lot of opportunity for those jobs here with FRC East\, Fleet Riding Center East\, and obviously the Marine Corps and the Navy side of what happens here. So a lot of opportunity for them to then find a career path that keeps them in Eastern North Carolina and gets them excited about STEM. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: And you just touched on the next question I was going to ask you\, is what do you hope will happen in the future? You know\, sort of what are those future outcomes that you hope will happen? And it sounds like one of them is\, ‘Hey\, we really hope that we can not only help some kids find something they’re really passionate about\, they really want to pursue\, but also that they’ll be able to actually pursue that right here at home.’ \n[Will Lewis]: Yes\, ma’am. And so if you don’t mind\, I’ll tell you a little bit about it. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: I don’t mind any of this. Please continue. We’ve talked already. You know I’m riding the wave. I love it. \n[Will Lewis]: So we have\, I think the thing that Eastern North Carolina has done really\, really well is create this sort of STEM ecosystem for kids to go through from starting in fourth grade all the way through high school and even into college. And it started with this organization called the Eastern Carolina Aviation Heritage Foundation. That is a long name. We call the ECAF for short\, but it’s a wing of the city and we started it. I was a commissioner at the time and my mayor assigned me to go over there and help start this ECAF thing. \nWe did not know at the time we would become what we are. We basically are a small museum with some airplanes and some cool stuff for kids to come see and interact with. That’s about the heritage of Cherry Point and Havelock. But what it turned into was we were the first STEM summer camp for fourth through sixth graders in Eastern North Carolina because we realized there was not one. By the time they’re in middle school\, eighth grade\, ninth grade or whatever\, it’s almost too late to get them excited about something new. You want to start a little earlier. \nSo we started this camp and we do 50\, 60 kids. We’ve done as many as 80\, depending on the year. Always have a waiting list. It’s competitive to get into it. And we run this camp through the Havelock\, through our foundation. Well\, then NC State\, North Carolina State University\, land-grant university. I’m a graduate of the North Carolina State University myself. They put a satellite location here in Havelock at our local community college where you can get a four-year degree in mechanical engineering systems. They did that to serve the base. \nSo the base kept asking them\, “How can we get engineers here faster? Because we have over a thousand engineers over there at Cherry Point.” And so they built that system. And so then there was this gap in the middle and the community college stepped up\, and they run a sixth through eighth grade camp. And then we run a high school camp with a partnership with NC State. And then you can get your four-year degree here. So in fourth grade\, if you go to a STEM camp and you’re like\, ‘this is my path\,’ then over the last decade\, you’ve been able to go to a camp every year and get more and more enhanced STEM. \nAnd all those camps work together. So they’re not little silos of STEM. They’re working together so that you’re growing in your capability every single year. And then those kids can go to NC State right here in Havelock\, get a degree\, walk right across the street\, and go to work at FRC East at a job that pays twice the average salary in eastern North Carolina. \nAnd the Starbase is just now a new component of that because all these camps cost a little bit of money. We do have scholarships and things. But the Starbase now opens that door up for people that maybe can’t afford the camp and can get excited about it\, and then figure it out through our camps or through the school system. \nI think\, you know\, my personal opinion\, East North Carolina\, that’s kind of where we’re crushing it. We are a very STEM-related base with operations and then FRC\, and what they do to tear apart airplanes and rebuild them. And we know we’ve got to build that workforce. And now we’ve had kids that started in fourth grade at our camp and went through all the years and then went on to get a degree and are now working at FRC East. And that’s pretty special. \nI don’t know of anywhere else that does it quite that way. We’re having our annual gala tonight\, Jessica. If you’re in town\, you could definitely come with us. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: I would totally do that. \n[Will Lewis]: We’re having our annual gala for the ECAF\, which is the fundraiser that supports that summer camp. And we will fill our local tourist and event center with all the companies and people that support that area. It’s a community buy-in. Everybody in the community supports those summer camps because they know that this is how we’re growing our community into something special. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Wow. Well\, I wanted to talk a little bit about\, so one of the reasons that Havelock stood out to me is your size. What’s the population? \n[Will Lewis]: So right now\, if you ask the state OMB\, they say we’re just over 18\,000. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Okay. Yes. Small city\, regardless. I mean\, even if your population swells certain times of the year\, it’s still a small area. And am I wrong in that you’re in a fairly rural area? \n[Will Lewis]: Yes\, ma’am. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: So that’s one of the reasons Havelock stood out to me\, besides\, of course\, all the incredible work you guys are doing. I wonder your thoughts on sort of the wider region\, and do you see what you all have done in Havelock as something that is at least on maybe different scales replicable in other communities\, right? \nYou’re a small community\, and I’ve worked in a lot of small communities and I know that in small communities\, the human capacity\, the amount of time people can spend on doing all of the volunteer things and doing all\, you know\, really trying to support people in the community is low. And my God\, it’s amazing that people thank you so much. \n[Will Lewis]: And if you look at even our whole region at the four counties that I mentioned\, Craven\, Carteret\, Jones\, and Pamlico\, even the population of all four of those counties combined\, I’m going to guess is in the range of less than half a million of all four counties. \nJones and Pamlico are even more rural than we are. Craven’s a little over 100\,000 and Carteret\, we’re the two biggest. So it’s probably more like 300\,000 total in the area. \nI think the answer\, I mean\, it sounds simple\, but it’s like you said at the very beginning\, it’s a lot of partners. So we noticed when we look across all of our committees at the city and even at the county\, including our ECAF that I just mentioned and Allies for Cherry Points Tomorrow\, there’s a lot of overlap. You’ve got somebody who’s on the ECAF board is also on my ACT board and is also on the Rec Advisory Board and is also on the Appearance Commission and is also on the County Rec Advisory Board. So there’s a lot of overlap. \nOne thing that we found\, and we learned this specifically in ACT and at our ECAF Foundation I was talking about earlier\, the right people matter\, the people that have that passion. You know\, there’s that old thing that says\, “If you want to get something done\, give it to the busiest person you know\, they’ll probably get it done.” There’s some truth to that. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: And it’s so sad\, but also\, yeah. \n[Will Lewis]: A lot of truth\, right? Yeah. I think the secret sauce is pretty simple for this one. It’s getting a unified vision that everybody wants to pull in the same direction. And I think what’s really unique about our area is nobody’s trying to take credit for what’s happened with STEM. \nACT is not running around saying\, “We wouldn’t have STEM if it wasn’t for Atlas Retriever Points tomorrow.” ECAF isn’t saying\, “We started the first elementary school.” \nEveryone just sits down every now and then and talks about what’s missing. What are we doing right? How can we all help each other? And how does that turn into an area that everybody wants to live in? And maybe it’s because we are in a rural area that everybody realizes we have to work together. There’s no competition. \nCherry Point is a $2.6 billion industry to our community. $2.6 billion. Nothing comes even close. There’s no other employer\, like FRC East is over 4\,000 employees. There’s nothing even close in our area. And then you add in the fact that these are everyday heroes that are literally doing the nation’s work to keep us all safe. And it kind of makes it easy to want to help them. \nBut I think you do have to have good leadership. A lot of our good leadership are folks that have maybe retired from the installation and stayed in the community. They realize Eastern North Carolina’s paradise. And then they’re like\, ‘hey\, I want to stay.’ So like the guy tonight that’s going to run our gala is the chairman of our ECAF\, a retired two-star general from Cherry Point. And he has stayed here for decades. Helping us grow Eastern North Carolina. So leadership matters. But I think having a cohesive mission that we all can just say the mission wins\, the mission trumps everything. Yeah. Mission trumps it all. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: There’s no competition here. There’s no – one thing I’ve seen in a lot of smaller populated areas is sometimes there’s this competition for the scarce dollars that are available\, or whatever the scarce resources in general\, the human resources and everything. \nBut it sounds like you guys really have built a culture of collaboration as well. And perhaps that did start with some really strong leadership saying like\, “There’s no ego here. We need to just get the job done and do it together.” \n[Will Lewis]: And define those lanes everyone’s going to swim. And so\, like\, for example\, our Chamber Macs\, they do a phenomenal job at the morale of welfare. ACT has no business getting involved in that. I don’t need to do chicken pickings and I don’t need to do pig pickings and I don’t need to do any of that because the Chamber Macs do a great job. \nSo guess what? They do that and they invite us. And we’re members of the Chamber Mac. So when they do that chicken picking\, we’re going to show up. We’re just going to serve some Marines and we’re going to talk to them. We’re going to have a good time. But they’re the ones that actually do it. \nAnd by the same note\, we’re really good at government advocacy for our base. So they all know that that’s what we’re going to do. So they’re members of our organization and we do the advocacy. So we kind of all understand what our roles are and there’s no need to duplicate efforts. And nobody kind of – we just don’t really fight over that. And I think that helps too is once you’ve got that mission and everyone agrees\, then we can just define what we’re going to do and everyone kind of accepts that. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Wow. Well\, I had a couple of other things I was curious about because\, you know\, you’ve talked about some really big initiatives\, but behind some of those big initiatives\, what are some of the everyday collaboration practices that make initiatives like that possible? \nThings like\, you know\, how you communicate with installation leaders\, or how you engage schools or employers. Or how you keep veteran and family voices in the mix. So what are some of the small kind of everyday things you all do? I know one of them you mentioned already that when there’s an issue\, you all sit down and you’re like\, ‘how does this affect the military families?’ But what are some of those other small collaboration practices? \n[Will Lewis]: One thing I know that we do really well is we talk to our base leadership all the time. So\, for example\, I talk to our base CEO\, our commanding officer. He and I talk multiple times a week. And it could be really simple stuff. Like he just might be calling me to say\, “Hey\, we’re going to do some work outside the gate. It’s going to probably slow traffic down in Havelock. You may have an issue with these lights. Just letting you guys know.” \nAnd it could be something we’re doing in town\, “Hey\, did you know this was going to happen? It’s probably going to affect you guys.” So it’s like very mechanical infrastructure things. But also it’s just like\, “Hey\, what’s going on this Saturday night? Do you guys want to come out to the club and we’ll just eat supper together and talk about what’s going on inside and outside the gate?” Kind of that more informal\, just getting to know each other. \nI think everything in the world comes down to relationships. As a mayor\, that’s probably not a hard thing to guess that I would say that. But I also say the relationship has to be real. And so those touch points where you’re just like catching a quick meal together or\, you know\, when the new CEO comes to town and you’re just like\, “Hey\, you and your family should come out and check out this restaurant. It’s a great one out in town. When you go\, give us a holler. We’ll meet you over there.” Those things are important. \nBut I think even further down in the weeds\, I know in Havelock\, for example\, our departments are talking to their departments every day\, right? So I don’t know what my police department’s doing today. I mean\, I know that they’re protecting and serving\, but I don’t know what they’re actually doing. But they’re talking to the PMO\, the Provost Marshal’s Office on the base\, and they’re coordinating traffic and they’re coordinating what’s happening in and out of the community. And they’re talking about different things that I don’t even know about every day\, but it keeps that relationship solid between the base and the city. \nAnd then from the bigger picture of Allies\, Triple H\, Tamar\, and the counties\, we have this really cool committee that the base started. It’s called the Civilian Military Community Council\, the CMCC. And once every two months\, our base hosts one representative from every municipality and county. And the municipality and county gets to pick who they send. It’s typically a mayor or a county commissioner. We all go have lunch together on the base. And when we do\, the base CO brings in all the commands and they just give you a quick brief. What’s happening? What’s going to happen in the next couple of weeks? What can you expect at the base? That sort of thing. \nAnd then the community gets to report to the base the coolest stuff going on in their community. So they say\, “Hey\, we got a grant to put in a sidewalk over here. We’re going to be doing that next week.” Or\, “We’ve got a kayak launch. We know all your Marines like the kayaks. We got a kayak launch. It’s going to be open October 4th\,” whatever. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: I didn’t know Marines like to kayak. That’s great to know. \n[Will Lewis]: Anything\, you know\, I mean. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Outdoor stuff\, yeah. \n[Will Lewis]: Yeah\, anything outdoors. So everybody kind of gets to say like what they love about what’s going on. And typically you’ll hear things like other mayors\, like I talk to the CO every day\, but other mayors don’t necessarily get that if they’re not right by the base. So they’re like\, “Hey\, thank you guys for sending Marines out to serve at our local festival. They came out and they played games with the kids and they helped serve food and it was so much fun. Thank you for that.” \nI think that is a big one and I can take zero credit for that. That was started a long time ago by a base commanding officer and it has become expected by our community. Everybody loves the CMCC. Some local boards\, their members fight over who gets to go\, because you want to go and you want to hear that brief and you want to brag about your city. It gives you those subtle touch points again where everyone kind of gets to know each other a little bit. \nThe CEO gets to know communities that aren’t even right outside his gate. I mean\, I can throw a baseball from my office to the main gate. So we talk all the time. But if you’re 20 miles away\, 30 miles away\, that’s not the case. So that’s another tool in our toolbox that we all use as a community to stay connected. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Wow. I feel like if we looked at a network map of all of these relationships\, that there would be a lot of back and forth and a lot of connections. It sounds like there’s a lot of touch points. And I think that’s rare. It kind of brings me to another question. \nSo if there wasn’t an installation near you\, I guess I’m wondering\, like\, there’s still a value we know in supporting military families in an area. Like what advice\, I guess\, would you have for community leaders who maybe don’t have an installation near them and the value of supporting military families? \n[Will Lewis]: So this is\, I like to remind people that I think that people think that if you’re in the military\, your life is pretty easy. Like you just get a paycheck. You go to work every day. \nSo the first thing I always remind my community is it’s as hard as any other job\, probably way harder. And it’s as hard on the family\, especially when we’re in deep deployment cycles. And it really doesn’t matter if you are 100 miles from a base or not. \nI think just being cognizant of the fact that they are actually\, people are like\, “Oh\, if they’re not in war\, what are they doing\, man?” And it’s such a complicated organism of what they do to protect us and to train and to be a part of the\, you know\, what Marines like to call the “kill chain\,” like to be some part of that kill chain. \nAnd so when you look at that big picture\, I think people should understand\, first of all\, that not only are they working for a living\, but they’ve chosen service\, right? Like all of us have a job. They chose to sign a check to give up part of their life for the United States of America. So like\, let’s just stop first and respect that. Whether you have a base in your community or not\, let’s respect that. Especially if you didn’t choose to do it\, like let’s respect that they’re willing to do that. \nAnd then think about how does that impact their life? I mean\, they move every three years. In the Marine Corps\, they’re moving every two to three years. So you’re packing everything you own up. You’re trying to make weight on the shipment. You’ve got to get rid of things. You’ve got to decide what to keep. You’ve got to get your kids in a brand new school. All those things are a challenge for a family. \nSo if you’re close to one\, it’s easy to remember that. If you’re not close to one\, it’s a little more difficult. I think if you’re close to one\, or you’re not\, spend some time trying to understand that. And sometimes the easiest way is just to have a conversation with someone you know that’s either in the military or used to be in the military\, and they can tell you some of those challenges. Once you understand that\, I think the rest of it falls into place. \nThen you can find ways where you can kind of get in where you fit in to try to alleviate some of that pain\, or provide something for them that makes their life a little easier. Like\, for example\, Craven County Schools put military counselors in all of our schools. So when those kids come here\, there’s a dedicated counselor that they sit down with the family and they talk about where their credits came from. Because I mean\, some of these kids come from overseas and they just got credits there that don’t just necessarily match up to what you’ve got. \nAnd picking that military counselor\, that was a big deal for our school system to do that. And I mean\, money’s short\, right? And I think if you understand the challenges\, you can find solutions in that way. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Yeah. I used to work in a county that was pretty far from an installation. And the county veteran service officer was really working hard\, trying to work with the sheriff’s department on sheriff’s deputies carrying challenge coins with them. \nAnd to start asking\, you know\, are you a veteran? When they would arrive at calls\, you know\, asking\, are you a veteran? And giving them some training on how to use the challenge coins and how to talk to veterans. And I bring this up because I think\, you know\, whether you’re far\, we were in a county that was very far from installation. I know that veterans are everywhere\, but we also know that military families are too. \nAnd so even just the simple act of asking the families that you serve\, or asking\, “Do we have military families in this area that this issue would also affect?” seems like it would possibly go a long way\, based on what you’re saying. \n[Will Lewis]: Yeah\, that’s a really cool example. And it’s a reminder\, too\, that some of these military folks just go home when they’re done\, right. So I always try to convince them to stay in Eastern North Carolina\, because we want them to stay. But some of them were like\, “Hey\, my family’s in Alabama and that’s where I’m from. I’m going to move back to this area”. \nAnd they get back there and there’s no military base close. But when they come back to that school system\, their kids still have the same struggle. They still have the same opportunity to engage with the sheriff’s department or wherever when they go back home. And even if that’s a small percentage\, it’s a percentage we should pay attention to\, in my opinion. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Yeah. I agree. \nMayor Will Lewis\, thank you so\, so much for your conversation. I’ve enjoyed every one of them\, whether they were recorded or not. I really appreciate hearing about everything that Havelock is doing\, but also just your dedication and passion for serving the military families in your area. So thank you so much for being here. \n[Will Lewis]: Oh\, it was my pleasure. I love talking about it because I can’t even imagine if I was going to be a mayor. I love being the mayor of a town that hosts a military installation. I love it because I get to take care of my own citizens\, plus people that are sacrificing for the world that are also my citizens. I think it’s a special opportunity and I love talking to people about it. \nSo thank you for having me\, Jessica. \n[Jessica Beckendorf]: Mayor Will Lewis is the longtime mayor of Havelock\, North Carolina\, and president for Allies for Cherry Point Tomorrow. \nThat’s it for this episode of Practicing Connection. Thanks so much for listening. If you enjoyed today’s conversation\, share it with a friend or colleague. \nWe’d like to thank our co-producer\, our announcer\, Kaylin Goebel\, Meg 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. \nThe Practicing Connection podcast is a production of One Op 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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It’s also about how our systems anticipate challenges\, respond to them\, and make space to recover and learn.  \nWhat changes when we start asking\, “How resilient is our organization?” instead of only\, “How resilient am I?” \nResilience is often framed as an individual trait\, but it’s also a property of our organizations – how they anticipate disruption\, respond to it\, and support recovery. \nIn this Practicing Connection practicast\, Erin and Jessica unpack what organizational resilience is\, where the idea comes from\, and how it shows up in our everyday work lives. \nDrawing on Shanna B. Tiayon’s four-phase framework: anticipatory\, preparatory\, responsive\, and recovery\, they share a simple set of reflection questions you can use after a hectic week\, a tricky meeting\, or a small crisis. \nYou don’t need a formal role or a big debrief to try it; just choose one phase\, ask one question\, and start noticing the change. \nLinks and resources from this episode: \n\nShanna B. Tiayon\, PhD article: “What Does Organizational Resilience Look Like?“\nHandout: Four Phases of Organizational Resilience \nJoin our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12879756/\nSend us a message: practicingconnection@oneop.org\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”]ERIN CARLSON RIVERA: [00:00:00] Organizational resilience helps us create workplaces that can bend without breaking\, places that protect people’s wellbeing\, while still navigating change\, uncertainty\, and even crisis. \nHi everyone\, welcome to this week’s Practicing Connection practicast. I’m Erin. Today we’re exploring organizational resilience: what it is\, where it comes from\, why it matters for you and your organization\, and one simple practice you can try with your team. \nMy co-host\, Jessica Beckendorf\, will walk us through that practice in a bit. Hi Jessica. How are you? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I am great. I am so interested in the conversation we were just having outside of this recording\, about boredom\, and how I’ve never been bored\, and I’m super curious. Maybe there’s some connection to our group and we can explore it in the future. \nBut I am feeling super\, super curious about that now\, and I can’t wait for the two of us to talk more about that in the future. I didn’t really [00:01:00] add a lot to the conversation here\, but I’m – I’ve never been bored. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I cannot imagine that. I love boredom\, because that’s where my most creative things happen\, when I’m bored. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. And maybe we’re thinking of boredom differently\, like maybe boredom is meaning something different to us\, \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. Okay. Sorry guys. We will circle back later\, I’m sure. But I love that. Yeah. Okay\, sounds like you’re energized by talking to people. So let’s keep talking. \nWhat is organizational resilience? What does that mean? Tell me more. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I would say that when most of us hear resilience\, we think about individual grit or bouncing back from stress\, but specific to individuals. \nOrganizational resilience shifts the focus from\, ‘What can this one person endure?’ which sounds like a terrible question\, to\, ‘How does the whole organization anticipate\, absorb\, and recover from [00:02:00] disruption?’ \nAnd I say organization here\, but I’m also talking about community groups\, volunteer groups\, coalitions\, any time there’s a group of people who are working together on something: how do they anticipate\, absorb\, and recover from disruption? \nSo instead of asking people just to like\, “Tough it out\,” we’re asking whether our structures\, our policies\, and our group culture or organizational culture help or harm us when things get really difficult. \nOne way I really like to think about organizational resilience is about how the system bends without breaking\, so that the people within it don’t have to carry all the strain. It asks questions like\, “Did we see the risks early on? Do we have backup plans? Do we learn from our mistakes?” A bigger lens is what makes it so powerful. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay. Wow\, that sounds great. I certainly think most of us have worked in places that call people [00:03:00] ‘resilient’ when what they actually mean is\, ‘still standing after being overworked.’ \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And overwhelmed. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: And overwhelmed. And there’s this idea that that’s something laudable. And I think it is cool when people are able to persevere through hard things\, but it’s also sad if we see someone persevering through a hard thing and then we do nothing to support them. \nSo it sounds like organizational leadership is a little bit about how do we show up better for each other structurally? Am I\, am I on the right track? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: You are\, and you’re actually reminding me right now of a training I took early in my career. So this was\, hmm\, probably two decades ago\, where I went to a time management for public employees. At the time I was working at a local government\, and it was a really great training. \nBut one of the things that came out of it is\, how do public employees often get rewarded when they’re doing a really [00:04:00] good job? And the answer was\, ‘It’s with more work.’ \nAnd so\, yeah\, what you’re saying is making sense to me. And I wanted to bring this topic up on the podcast after reading an article on the Greater Good Magazine site. \nThe article was by Shanna B. Tiayon. The article is titled\, What Does Organizational Resilience Look Like? And in the article\, the author describes organizational resilience as\, ‘The strength of the organization’s structures\, decisions\, and leadership behaviors that reduce the frequency and impact of crises.’ \nI love this because it’s all about building conditions where crises are possibly less frequent and especially less damaging. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, that sounds great. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. The author breaks organizational resilience into four parts: anticipatory\, preparatory\, responsive\, and recovery. Anticipatory is about noticing early warning signs. [00:05:00] Preparatory is about putting supports and plans in place. Responsive is how you actually act during a disturbance. And recovery is what you do after the disruption passes\, how you let people in systems reset and learn instead of just kind of pushing forward as if nothing happened. \nAnd I do think it’s very common for organizations to just keep pushing forward as if nothing happened. I’ve seen it many times. One of the things that struck me about this framework is how much it reminded me of the framework we talked about in the past\, from the Tamarack Institute\, called the Asset-Based Community Recovery Framework for Communities. \nThey’re similar models\, but they deal with a different scale\, right? The Tamarack one deals with community scale\, and this framework is dealing with an organizational scale. Honestly\, I think that both can be applied at both of those scales\, but I just thought\,  there’s support out there for organizations\, for communities to assess and recover from crises. \nAnd [00:06:00] whatever one resonates the most with you\, you’ve got multiple options. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, this is exciting. I love how practical this framing feels. Those four categories feel really great to me\, and I guess I’m curious about\, where does the idea of organizational resilience come from? Resilience feels like such a buzzword. Does it come from that buzzword? \nDoes it have deeper roots? How did they land at ‘resilience’? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, it definitely has deeper roots. Organizational resilience draws from fields like disaster management and organizational psychologies\, places where people have studied why some organizations navigate shocks like financial crises\, supply chain disruptions\, natural disasters\, or sudden changes in demand. \nAnd what they found is that resilient organizations don’t just\, quote-unquote “bounce back” by working harder. They do their best to anticipate risks. \nThey have thought out strategies. [00:07:00] They maintain flexible resources\, and importantly\, they learn from what happens\, right? They don’t just keep going after something happens. \nAnd then more recent work also emphasizes learning and communication. Things we talk about quite a bit on the podcast\, like psychological safety\, open information sharing\, and reflective practices\, because those things help organizations adapt thoughtfully rather than just reacting in panic. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay\, so this is also about being smarter and more intentional as a group\, as a collective. What kind of impact does using this framework have on people and workplaces? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I love that you asked this question. This is where the real impact is evident. As you might imagine\, organizational resilience is tied to better performance during crises and less chaos for the people who are working within the group or the [00:08:00] organization. \nResilient organizations are also more likely to maintain essential functions to adapt their strategies when things go off track\, instead of just breaking down or overreacting. And they also tend to have better communication\, more clear decision making and more trust among the members. There’s also some evidence that when organizations employ good planning\, clear roles and supportive policies\, employees experience less burnout and emotional exhaustion during crises. \nSo it not only helps an organization continue operations to employ\, you know\, these four different phases of organizational resilience\, but it can help protect people’s mental health\, because the system is designed to absorb more of the shock\, instead of the people having to individually absorb it. \nSo I also want to be really clear: you don’t have to have a big title or a leadership role to contribute to organizational resilience. You still have [00:09:00] influence\, you can shape how your team runs meetings\, how they handle conflicts\, and how they learn from mistakes. Those small choices can quietly model resilience for the broader organization. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I love that bringing it down to a team level makes it feel much more actionable and much more accessible for someone who maybe isn’t in a formal leadership position. \nSpeaking of action\, we talk about practices on this podcast. So Jessica\, can you talk us through the practice that you brought today? \nI’m excited. I wanna hear how to do this. This sounds great. I have been a person who has\, in other jobs\, I have absorbed stress that maybe could have been in an organization\, and I want to hear how we can do that. Like\, that sounds great. Let’s go. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Great. Well\, this practice combines elements of after-action reviews\, which is a way of reviewing an action or a [00:10:00] project after it has occurred\, in a very nonjudgmental way. \nbut this practice combines that style with the four phases of organizational resilience that I mentioned earlier: the anticipatory preparatory\, responsive and recovery. \nIt was designed as a way to bring an organizational resilience lens into everyday moments that you already have\, no matter your position at your organization or in your team. \nSo to start\, think of a recent disturbance of some sort. Maybe it was something like\, it’s just a hectic week. You had 24 hours of meetings. I’ve had that myself. Maybe you have told me before that my schedule gives you hives sometimes. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. You have so many back to back meetings. It makes me die on the inside. Okay\, so we’re talking about hectic weeks. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. So maybe it was a hectic week. Maybe it was a tricky meeting\, you know\, there’s a little tension in the meeting\, or it was really rushed. Maybe it was a last minute request that was difficult [00:11:00] to deal with\, or it was even a small crisis. \nSo think of a recent disturbance\, and then move through the four phases with a few questions that I’ll share in a moment. You don’t have to answer all these questions\, we give you a variety of questions so that you can pick what is most relevant to your situation. Just pick the one that resonates or the ones that resonate for you and are appropriate for the situation. \nSo\, the questions for the anticipatory phase: this is about did we see it coming\, right? You’re looking at identifying what the early signals were. So you might ask yourself\, “What early signs did I\, or we\, have that this could become challenging\, where we identified that this could become challenging?” Maybe you might ask\, “What did I notice but not say out loud?” \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: “If I could rewind\, what small signal would I pay more attention to next time?” \nSo these questions can help you build the skill of noticing [00:12:00] weak signals and speaking up sooner\, which really helps build anticipatory resilience. \nPreparatory phase: This is about assessing\, “Were we set up well?” You’re looking to uncover how prepared you were. So you might ask\, “What supports or resources made this easier?” Things like information\, relationships\, processes\, tools. “Where did I or we feel unprepared or under-resourced?” And then\, “What is one thing I could put in place right now?” Maybe it’s a checklist\, a template\, a connection with a key person to be better prepared for next time. So even small shifts in preparation can make a really big difference for the next challenge. \nAnd then the responsive phase\, this is about\, “How did we act in the moment?” It’s about assessing how you and others responded when the thing was happening. So here you might ask\, “When did our response feel clear and coordinated?[00:13:00] What helped that happen? When did things feel chaotic or reactive? What was missing in those moments?” And then\, “How did I show up under pressure? What am I proud of and what would I like to do differently next time?” \nI wanted to emphasize here\, not because I’m putting it all on the individual\, but I want to emphasize it because you don’t have to be in a leadership position and trying to solve this thing for your whole team. You could also model for your team members by making small shifts yourself\, right? So this helps you learn from your real behavior under stress\, not just your intentions. \nAnd then finally\, the recovery phase. “Did we actually recover and learn?” So this phase is about learning from what happened after the situation. You might ask\, “Did I or we get any time or space to recover after this\, or did we go straight to the next thing? What would meaningful recovery have looked like for me and for [00:14:00] others involved?” And then\, “What is one small adjustment I can make going forward?” Maybe it’s a boundary\, a short debrief with someone or with yourself\, a check-in so that recovery and learning aren’t skipped next time. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay. Those were great questions. There were a couple that I had to mute because I was doing like a\, “Ooh\, that’s a good one” noise. And I was like\, “No\, I want people to hear the questions\, not me responding to the questions!” \nI also think something I really appreciate about these is that they’re very flexible. You know\, there’s a lot that you can get into with these questions. So for someone who’s listening\, and thinking\, “That feels like a lot\,” what’s the smallest possible way to try this out? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, that’s a good question. And like I said\, you don’t have to answer all of those questions. But the smallest version is to pick one phase and one [00:15:00] question. \nSo for example\, after a particularly hectic day\, you might ask\, “What early sign did I ignore today?” For me\, because I have some experience with this one\, that might be that\, “I said yes to following up on some items today before noticing that my calendar was full.” Or after a big meeting\, so maybe you were facilitating\, which requires a lot of energy and preparation\, or maybe it was just a difficult meeting you might ask\, “What would recovery look like for me after this? \nAnd both of these examples can start to shift how you think about your organization and your role in it\, and how you show up in it too\, right? \nSo\, if you ask yourself\, “What would recovery look like for me after this?” If you’re facilitating a big meeting\, you’re in charge of planning that meeting or bringing everyone through the discussion. And that takes a lot of emotional and mental labor for you. Don’t allow anything to be scheduled for right after that meeting. Maybe you just need some [00:16:00] down time. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: We love buffer time. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. Buffer time. I love this\, buffer time. That’s what I mean by that. And then I want to emphasize\, right\, those are two very individual things that you can do\, but you can also bring one of these questions gently into existing spaces\, right? \nYou could ask some of these questions during a meeting while discussing a recent project or issue. You don’t have to make it a big formal session where you’re gonna go through all four phases. You can just kind of seed a bit of this thinking into what’s already happening. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I love that. That feels very accessible. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Awesome. Okay. Well thank you so much for walking us through this\, Jessica. I found this really encouraging\, I’m excited to get started using some of these questions\, and I’m hoping other people are too. \nSo we’re going to make a handout that you can link to in the show notes\, so you don’t have to re-listen to this podcast every time you want to engage with these [00:17:00] questions. \nHopefully you guys are all as excited as we are. Thank you everyone for listening. Consider trying this with something that’s already on your plate\, a project\, a meeting\, or a challenging week\, and see what you notice. \nWe’d love to hear how it goes and what you learn. You can share with us by emailing practicing connection@oneop.org. We’ll be back next week with a new episode. Until then\, keep practicing. \nCREDITS: 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 number 2 0 2 3 4 8 7 74 3 3.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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CATEGORIES:Community Engagement
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SUMMARY:The Importance of Engaging Caregivers in Clinical Services
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However\, engagement may begin with a challenge: fewer than 50% of families scheduled for therapy services attend their first appointment (Harrison et al.\, 2004). This webinar focuses on common factors that impact engagement for families in clinical services\, from that critical first appointment through ongoing participation. The research by McKay et al. on caregiver engagement is discussed and applied to family advocacy settings. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nIdentify protective and other factors that impact engagement in clinical services.\nDiscuss professional and caregiver perceptions of clinical services\, the roles systems play in these services\, and their relationship to engagement.\nDetermine at least two strategies to enhance professional and caregiver engagement in clinical services using research-based methods. \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=”216086″ 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=”Dionna Weixel\, MS” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Dionna Weixel is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist at the University of Oklahoma Health Campus\, Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (CCAN). Ms. Weixel received her Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2017. Her clinical interests and work focus on providing evidence-based interventions for children with problematic sexual behaviors\, disruptive behavior disorders\, and trauma-related disorders. Ms. Weixel is trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)\, an evidence-based treatment for children and adolescents who are experiencing trauma symptoms and their caregivers\, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)\, an evidence-based treatment for young children exhibiting disruptive behaviors\, and Problematic Sexual Behavior-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (PSB-CBT™) for school-age and preschool children.[/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=”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=”220751″ 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=”Kelly Hagenbaugh\, LSW” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Kelly Hagenbaugh is a Licensed Social Worker who has had over 18 years of experience in the field of trauma treatment. Kelly received her Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Buffalo. Before joining Creative Health Services and Mission Kids\, she was the Counseling Coordinator at Network of Victim Assistance (NOVA) and was a part of building several clinical programs\, including trauma counseling in the community and comprehensive\, evidence-based programming for Youth with Problematic Sexual Behavior (YWPSB). Kelly currently works with the University of Oklahoma as a member of their clinical training team\, providing clinical training\, consultation\, and support to YWPSB program sites across the Country. 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CATEGORIES:Health and Well-Being
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SUMMARY:Humble on Purpose: A Practice for Better Decisions
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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](Season 7\, Episode 10) \nWhat if the strongest person in the room is the one willing to say\, “I don’t know yet – what am I missing?”  \nIn this episode\, we practice exactly that. \nIn this week’s episode\, Erin and Jessica discuss intellectual humility – the willingness to recognize that what you think might be wrong\, and to make real space for other people to be right. \nTogether\, they explore how this shows up in everyday collaboration\, from project meetings to tough decisions\, and why it matters so much for psychological safety and trust at work. \nLinks and resources from this episode: \n\nTake the free VIA Character Strengths Survey: www.viacharacter.org\nJoin our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12879756/\nSend us a message: practicingconnection@oneop.org\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”]ERIN CARLSON RIVERA: [00:00:00] Hi\, and welcome to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Erin. Today we’ll be talking about a deceptively simple skill that can change how teams and groups of collaborators think\, decide\, and disagree: intellectual humility. Jessica will be sharing a practice to help us build humility in a bit. \nHi Jessica. I’m excited to dig into this topic. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Hi\, yeah\, I mean\, who doesn’t want to be thought of as a humble person\, right? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay. I feel like our Midwestern is showing a little bit. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. Yeah\, that’s fine. Oh boy! \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Oh golly! All right. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, you’ll notice I didn’t say\, “Midwest nice\,” or anything like that. I mean\, humility is a real strength\, and it’s a real thing that people think about. \nBut I want to be really clear. It’s not about putting yourself down or pretending [00:01:00] that you don’t know things that you actually do know. It’s more about recognizing that you might be wrong\, and creating space for other people to be right. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Hmm. Yeah\, I like that distinction. The phrase\, ‘I might be wrong’ is not a sentence I feel ever encouraged or rewarded for saying at work. But I’m really intrigued. \nSo let’s get into it. What do you mean? Tell us more about intellectual humility. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Let’s start with a working definition. From what I’ve found\, researchers are defining ‘intellectual humility’ I would say most simply as\, ‘The degree to which people recognize that what they think might be wrong\, or what they’re thinking might be wrong.’ \nIt’s awareness that your knowledge is partial. Your opinions are fallible and the evidence that you’re relying on might be incomplete. \nSo this is actually different from humility [00:02:00] in general. Sort of the\, I guess maybe we might say ‘capital H Humility\,’ right. The capital H humility can be about your abilities\, your status\, and many\, many other things. Intellectual humility though is more specifically about your thinking\, so your ideas\, your judgments\, your assumptions\, \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: And I would imagine that intellectually humble people aren’t necessarily wishy-washy about what they think. Can you tell us more about that\, like\, can you still have strong beliefs\, and is it like you have a strong belief and you hold it lightly enough to say\, “I might be wrong and I’m open to new evidence?” \nOr is it\, or is it something else? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: No\, I mean\, it’s pretty much exactly that\, and you can even hear it in the way people who exhibit\, you know\, intellectual humility in the way that they talk\, they might say things like\, “Here’s how it looks to me right now\,” right? That kind of leaves the door [00:03:00] open to\, how does it look to you? \n“So here’s how it looks to me right now.” Or they might say something like\, “I’m about 70% confident in this\, or 80% confident. Or they might even just ask everyone at the table\, “What am I missing?” \nAnd underneath this language is often a set of habits. Things like checking your assumptions\, intentionally seeking disconfirming information and being willing to revise your view when the evidence really calls for it. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay\, so it’s not about being indecisive or being a flip-flopper\, it’s about being honest about how sure you actually are and keeping the door\, like the door cracked for new information. \nAnd being willing to be data driven. Like when you get new data\, you adapt it into what you’re thinking. Oh\, that’s so interesting. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. And actually that’s a really great way to put it. You can still take a stand\, but you’re [00:04:00] not treating your current view as the final word on all reality. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes\, I love this. We need to stop assuming that we can give the final word on reality. That is such a great turn of phrase. Thank you for sharing that\, Jessica. \nSo you mentioned character strengths earlier. I’m assuming that this is a VIA Character Strength\, because I know you love them and you talk about them frequently\, which is good. I’m excited. They’re newer to me. So it’s fun to get all of this stuff from you. \nWhere does humility work in the VIA Framework to Connect? How does it connect with what you’re describing? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, I mean\, I have to be honest with everyone. I prompted Erin to ask me about VIA Character Strengths. If you’ve taken the VIA Strength Survey\, humility is one of the 24 character strengths. \nAnd with the humility character strength\, it’s actually about having a realistic view of your strengths and weaknesses\, and it’s about things like not needing to [00:05:00] be in the spotlight all the time and letting your work speak for itself. \nVIA places humility in the broader virtue category of temperance. So temperance is things that help you keep your ego and your impulses in check\, so that you can respond more thoughtfully instead of reactively. \nBut intellectual humility is one way that strength shows up in how we think and decide. So when you say\, “I could be wrong here and I want to hear what I might be missing\,” you’re basically putting the character strength of humility into action in your reasoning. \nSo again\, intellectual humility really focuses on one way that humility can be practiced. And this is about the way we think about our reasoning. But the overall character strength of humility is\, you know\, it’s kind of broader than that. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay\, so if someone listening has taken the VIA Strengths Assessment and saw humility on their [00:06:00] profile\, intellectual humility is just a specific everyday way that humility more broadly shows up in meetings and collaborations. \nIt’s not the entirety of the strength of humility. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Right\, but I wanted to bring it up because there’s so much research behind it\, and we know that. And so\, if you haven’t taken the assessment\, there is a free version of the survey online. We’ll put the link to it in the show notes. \nIt can be really helpful way to notice whether humility is a strength you have that you can lean into easily\, or whether it might be something that you’ll need to be a little bit more intentional about building. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay. Well that’s exciting. Let’s pivot the conversation a little bit into collaborative work. What happens in a team\, or with a group of collaborators\, when there’s not a lot of intellectual humility? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Usually you’ll see people digging in as one clue. And I’ve been guilty of this myself. Disagreements might turn [00:07:00] into\, you know\, “I’m right\, you’re wrong.” \nNot that anyone actually says those words exactly\, but you might also notice people talking past each other\, or some people will stop sharing information that doesn’t fit the view that seems to be on top in the moment\, right? So if there’s a view that’s on top\, the ideas just kind of end up getting stymied. Additional ideas and additional perspectives. \nAnd conflict will become about defending your position\, instead of solving a shared problem. And that’s what\, most of the time when a team’s coming together or when collaborators are coming together\, they came together because there was a shared problem to solve. \nAnd so it ends up not being about the problem\, but instead being about you\, basically\, or being about\, you know\, each individual person trying to defend their position. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, I’ve definitely seen the instance where everyone will come to a meeting\, like they’ve almost already written a script in their head about what they’re going to say and what the other person’s going to say\, and [00:08:00] then nobody actually listens or changes their mind\, or compromises. \nAnd the absolute worst is when they’re saying the same thing a different way\, and they don’t realize that they’re saying the same thing. And then there’s like this big fight\, and it falls apart\, because you can’t even hear what the other person is saying because you’re so determined to be right and to win. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: There was a person I used to work with where we had this problem where we would get into\, I wouldn’t call any of them like real strong arguments or anything\, we were friendly with each other\, but we would get into these sort of like back and forth volleys. \nAnd after a while we realized\, and we would crack up about it\, “Wait\, we’re saying the same thing. We’re just saying it in different ways.” Like\, we are in total agreement here. \nAnd we realized that it was a pattern we had. And so if we started to have a volley\, then later on we would stop ourselves. Once we realized that this was a pattern\, we’d stop ourselves and we would start laughing and say\, “Is this one of those [00:09:00] times where we’re basically saying the same thing\, but in different ways?” So\, I mean\, that’s definitely a thing that happens. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Sure. Well\, can you tell me more? What does it look like when there is some more intellectual humility in a group setting\, what does that look like? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, we almost see the opposite\, right? So people are more willing to admit uncertainty and even come out and say\, “I’m not sure\, I’m not a hundred percent sure on this.” \nThey’re more curious about why someone sees it differently. Like\, “Oh\, that’s interesting. Can you tell me more about why you see it that way? What’s behind that?” And they’re more likely to bring in better evidence. \nSo more intellectual humility in a group or collaborative effort tends to improve the quality of decisions\, and also the quality of relationships within the group\, because people are actually seeing each other instead of talking past each other\, and choosing positions and sticking with their positions.[00:10:00]\nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. So what does this look like for a leader? Often leaders have this kind of pressure to project certainly\, or have executive presence\, or kind of have a commanding presence in a room. Like how does that interact with intellectual humility? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, I think that a leader that can exhibit intellectual humility sends really strong signals. \nSo when they say\, “Here’s my current thinking\, but I want to test it with you.” Or\, “Hey guys\, I got this wrong last time and here’s how I’m adjusting.” \nYou know\, people feel safer to speak up\, to disagree and to share information that might be uncomfortable. And there’s even research showing that this kind of humble leadership is linked with people feeling more engaged and able to thrive at work. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Oh\, that’s interesting. So a leader that exhibits intellectual humility is showing that the way they think [00:11:00] is open\, and they’re willing to revise it\, and therefore people actually participate in conversations. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, absolutely. And\, you know\, they can still make the call. Ultimately\, they make that decision\, but they’re not pretending to be infallible along the way. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. Okay. I like that. That’s exciting. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: By the way\, them not pretending to be infallible\, that’s what invites people in to share more perspectives and to give them more information to make that better decision. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: That’s an important detail. So before we started recording\, you mentioned that there’s kind of a dark side\, or at least a cost to humility. Can you tell me more about that here? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, so when we ask people to be intellectually humble\, we’re asking them to open up to the idea that they might be wrong about things that really matter to them. So that can be really unsettling. \nIt can create anxiety\, especially around things that hold deep [00:12:00] meaning for us\, like our values\, or those big purpose kinds of questions. Those existential questions that we might have. \nAnd in some contexts\, like with major values\, more humility can actually come with less certainty. And it gives us this feeling of lost stability\, like the ground’s starting to shake a little bit on us. This is not just like a feel good skill. It can actually be kind of emotionally taxing or demanding. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: That makes sense. Yeah\, I can see that\, especially if something you’re thinking of as kind of a foundational thing is\, “Oh\, I’m a person who knows how to do this\, or we do it the right way.” I have done that one and it has not been good. \nOr\, “Our team does it the right way.” Questioning that feels really risky\, especially if you have really deep values about quality\, like the quality of your work is super important to you. Being open to the idea that maybe the quality of your work [00:13:00] isn’t good\, could be – oh\, wow. Okay. Yeah\, that does feel risky. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, that’s why I like to think of building intellectual humility as also building your tolerance for uncertainty. The two kind of work well together\, right? You’re strengthening your ability to stay grounded and curious. Even when your ego would really like you to slam the door and say\, “Nope\, I’m right.” \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. All right. I love this. Let’s get into it. What’s the practice you brought? Walk us through it. How can we start building our intellectual humility? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, I want to start out by saying just like any practice we share\, this is just one of many ways. I think even if you just worked on building humility in general\, it doesn’t have to be specific to intellectual humility\, you are well on your way to building intellectual humility as well. \nSo the practice I’m going to share is\, you can do this on your own at first\, and if you like\, you [00:14:00] can bring it into conversations with your team or collaborators when you’re ready. \nIf you’re going to do this on your own\, you would start by bringing to mind a real work situation. So a decision that you’re making or you’re grappling with\, a disagreement that you might be in\, or maybe a project where you feel pretty strongly about the right approach\, or I would say the quote unquote “right” approach. \nSo once you have a real work situation in mind\, you would start by admitting and noticing that you might not have all the information\, and I think almost across the board for almost everything\, there’s some element here that we could probably admit and notice that we may not have all of the information. \nSo you might ask yourself\, “What am I assuming here?” And\, “How sure am I really?” I would even recommend that you give yourself a number\, so for example\, “I’m 80% sure about this.” That [00:15:00] helps get you into a mindset that you’re not absolutely certain. It starts out setting you up for success\, when it comes to building your intellectual humility. \nEven if you said 95% – “I’m 95% sure I’m right about this.” 99%\, that’s not one hundred percent. That’s still setting you up for success by pointing out to yourself that you are not 100% absolutely certain. \nSo then you’re going to identify two or three limits of your knowledge in that situation. For example\, you know\, “I haven’t talked directly with the people most affected by this\, so I’m missing some information there.” \n“The data I have\,” – and this comes up quite a bit with like the American Community Survey data because it’s only updated every so many years – “We’re using old data\,” is one piece. And then\, maybe\, “I don’t fully understand all the technical constraints.” You’re not judging yourself for having limits\, you’re just getting accurate [00:16:00] about what those limits are in your knowledge. \nThe second step is to practice admitting first to yourself and then when appropriate out loud that you might be wrong or that you don’t know. So for example\, if you’re a team member or a collaborator\, you might say\, “Here’s my take\, and I’m open to being wrong.” You can literally say\, “I’m open to being wrong.” \nOr you might say\, “I feel really strongly about this\, but I know that I’m only seeing part of the picture from my perspective.” If you’re a leader\, you might say\, “I’m leaning in this direction\, but I’m not a hundred percent sure. I wanted to test this with you all.” Or you might say\, “Looking back\, I missed something last time. I’m adjusting based on what I learned\,” the act of naming it. \nIt changes the temperature in the room a little bit. It tells your own nervous system that\, “I don’t have to be perfect\,” right? Perfectionist\, unite or don’t unite. Know that you do [00:17:00] not have to be perfect\, and then it tells others that it’s safe to bring in their perspective. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. Wow. Okay. That was a lot. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: But I like it ’cause it was a good lot. Yeah\, I’m just thinking too about times where I’ve been in groups where people have said that kind of stuff where they said\, “I’m open to being wrong\,” or\, “Here’s my part that I can see. What am I missing?” And I remember that being such a wonderful invitation into sharing. \nAnd it was very much a moment where I would pause and think\, “Oh\, they actually care about what I have to say here.” So I can see that being really powerful. Bringing that kind of energy into a space. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, it really is. And I think\, you know\, if “I’m open to being wrong” doesn’t sound like you\, you can find a phrase that does. I often say\, “I’m just putting this out there and let’s discuss it\,” like\, “I’m not married to [00:18:00] this. I’m happy to hear and I want to hear what you guys think.” \nSo the third step is to invite other perspectives. Intellectual humility isn’t just internal. It shows up in how you go looking for other perspectives as well. So with others who are part of your situation\, you might ask\, “What’s a reasonable argument against my view? What are you seeing that I might be missing?” \nI really like this next one: “If this plan fails\, what will we wish we had surfaced in our discussion today?” I really love that question because I think sometimes when it seems like the ideas have come out of the gate and they’re well on their way\, I think people are like\, “I don’t need to share this concern. We’re already going down the path.” \nBut asking a question like this\, “If this plan fails\, what will we wish we had surfaced in our discussion today?” really invites anyone who’s feeling a little bit off\, [00:19:00] who maybe has a different perspective or has different information that they could share\, really invites that in. \nAnd I think it’s particularly hard when people are really coalescing and excited about an idea. And there’s a person who is like\, “Oh man\, I always feel like I’m the naysayer. I always feel like I’m throwing a wrench in things.” But honestly\, I always like to tell people\, a lot of times those folks are just trying to make it the best it can possibly be. You want to invite their thoughts and their concerns. \nAnd so a question like this does that\, and I don’t want to get too complex here\, but you could also normalize asking those who may be in a meeting that seem to be skeptical\, “What would change your mind before making a final decision?” And the reason I said I don’t want to get too complex here is because it’s not too complex to add a question to the end of your discussion before making a decision that would change your mind. \nBut a lot of times I’ve seen this done where a group kind of employs a little bit of a voting [00:20:00] system. The idea that I wrote down here in our notes is “Fist to Five\,” which is: holding up a fist means\, “I absolutely am not interested in going down the path of this decision.” And then a five is like super enthusiastic\, “At all costs\, I want us to go down that path.” And then\, you know\, there’s 1\, 2\, 3\, 4. \nIf someone’s a fist and they absolutely do not like this idea. I think that’s where the question of\, “What would change your mind?” becomes really powerful. It invites them to share what they’re most concerned about with this. And it gives you potentially some time to respond to that and find some common ground. \nSo like I said\, I don’t want to make it complex and I just made it more complex. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: You did. But that’s okay. It was a helpful example\, and I think what I’m really hearing from you discussing this is that step three is really about making sure you’re not just paying lip [00:21:00] service to the idea\, but actually being open and actually inviting people into poking holes into your ideas\, your precious babies\, your ideas that are perfect and wonderful. \nYou want people to actually take you serious about giving you feedback. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: And I love that. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I mean\, that’s where the growth happens\, and it can feel really uncomfortable\, which is why I also suggest that you get to know how you feel when you’re saying things like\, “I might be wrong\,” or how you feel when you ask others for their view on an idea you just shared. \nSo\, however you feel\, you know\, whether that’s anxious or annoyed or relieved\, you don’t have to fix that. Just be really aware of it\, and just know that those feelings will be happening when you are asking these questions of others. Allow yourself to accept that\, so that you can remain open. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, it makes sense. This is a [00:22:00] pretty brave\, courageous thing to do. We talk about vulnerability a lot\, but I think actually choosing to say\, “Hey\, tell me what I’m wrong about\,” is a very exciting thing for someone to do. Like to see somebody do I imagine it is hard and\, and you’ve kind of talked about that\, but it makes sense. \nYou might have all these feelings and your body’s just telling you like\, “Hey\, this is riskier than some of the things you’ve done before.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, but that doesn’t mean resist doing it. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: It doesn’t mean you’re doing a bad thing. It just means it’s different\, right. We’re going to talk about that more on another episode\, or else this is going to get too long. \nBut I’m really excited to apply it in my life. And thank you. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: You’re so welcome. And it was my pleasure as always. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: All right. That’s it for this episode. If you liked this episode\, please share it with a friend or a colleague. In the meantime\, we’ll be back with another episode. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[00:23:00]\nCREDITS: 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 number 2 0 2 3 4 8 7 74 3 3.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Key Ethical Implications of Substitute Decision-Making & Guardianship
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These circumstances require thoughtful and ethically grounded approaches to substitute and/or supported decision-making and guardianship. This webinar provides an in-depth examination of the ethical\, legal\, and clinical complexities that emerge when individuals cannot make decisions for themselves. \nParticipants will explore how to balance autonomy—honoring an individual’s right to direct their own care—with the obligations of beneficence and nonmaleficence\, which require clinicians to act in the patient’s best interest while preventing harm. 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SUMMARY:How to Grow Your Courage for Collaboration
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Bravery isn’t just about big\, dramatic moments—it also shows up in everyday choices\, like meeting someone new\, stepping into an unfamiliar space\, or staying curious when you feel uncomfortable. \nIn this episode\, Jessica and Erin explore how to build everyday courage for collaboration\, using skills like curiosity\, empathy\, and intellectual humility. Drawing on the Greater Good Science Center’s Bridging Differences Playbooks\, Erin shares a practice called “Expand Your Views & Circles” to help you gently stretch your comfort zone\, meet new people\, and grow your relational bravery over time. You’ll walk away with simple\, practical steps you can take to be just a little braver in your community and your work. \nLinks and resources from this episode: \n\n\n\nThe Greater Good Science Center Building Briges Playbooks\nVIA Character Strengths\nSeason 7\, Episode 8 – Turning Conflict Into Collaboration\nSeason 7\, Episode 11 – Humble on Purpose: A Practice for Better Decisions \nJoin our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12879756/\nSend us a message: practicingconnection@oneop.org\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. Today we’ll be talking about everyday bravery and how to build your courage\, and Erin’s gonna be sharing a practice with us. Hi Erin\, how are you? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Hi Jessica. I’m great. I’ve been brushing up on my bravery knowledge this week to prepare for this episode because I’m trying to not assume I know everything. And it has me very excited about being uncomfortable. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, that’s not a sentence that I hear very often\, especially as someone who brings improv into my work with groups\, but even just on a day-to-day basis\, I’d say that statement is pretty rare. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. I am surprised it’s coming out of my mouth to be honest\, but I think\, you know\, learning about bravery has made me excited because that’s\, you’re gonna talk about this later\, but that’s kind of where you can build it. It is being uncomfortable\, so it’s exciting. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: All right\, [00:01:00] well let’s get into it. Why are we talking about bravery today? That sounds like I’m accusing you of something. \nI’ll say that a little softer. Why are we talking about bravery today\, Erin? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Well\, it’s kind of your fault. and lovingly. Just kidding. I mean\, it is. I love it. Inspired by you. That’s better than saying it’s your fault. We’ve been talking about two things a lot recently. One is collaboration and two is your very favorite framework\, the VIA character strengths. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes\, I do love it. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: For good reasons. I’m learning. The more I dig\, the more I’m like\, “Oh\, this is actually very interesting. I get it\, Jessica.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I knew you’d like it. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I knew it. Okay. So we’ve been sharing lots of different practices for building your collaboration skills. You can check out our episodes on conflict and intellectual humility. We can probably link those in the show notes. \nAnd all of the things that we’ve been talking about in terms of collaboration skills are things that require courage\, and require you [00:02:00] to do things that are maybe uncomfortable. \nAnd I’ve been thinking a lot about how feeling uncourageous is maybe a barrier to working in collaboration with others. And so I’ve been really asking myself the question\, “How do you build your courage?” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Hmm. Just knowing what I know about the character strengths\, you know\, when you’re not feeling courageous. It’s hard to be vulnerable. And vulnerability is also a requirement for any collaboration\, for any relationship. So I love\, as you might imagine\, I love this idea of building courage. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, me too. I think there’s something very optimistic about the idea that you don’t have to be perfect at everything. That you can grow. \nAnd still learn and do things. So I did a little searching and found some really excellent resources from the Greater Good Science Center. Specifically\, they have published several Bridging Differences playbooks that I really love\, because they’re [00:03:00] not explaining things to you\, they’re giving practices to try on things. \nAnd it’s all about how do you build bridges with people who are different than you? How do you navigate tensions\, which I think is a huge part of the collaboration work that we’ve been talking about. So we’ll also link these playbooks in the show notes\, and we’ll be going through one of the practices they recommend later in the episode. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, I’m excited to dig into this. Erin\, can you tell us a little bit more about the practice you’ll be sharing and why you chose it? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. Well\, I started this whole process by looking into courage generally\, and interestingly\, the VIA Character Strengths describe courage\, not as a specific strength\, but as a category of several strengths of virtue\, and you practice it with the skills of bravery\, perseverance\, honesty\, and zest. \nSadly\, we’re only talking about bravery today\, because there’s not enough time to talk about all four of them. \nBut someday we’ll circle back to [00:04:00] perseverance\, honesty\, and zest\, because they’re fabulous. So bravery is\, we’re talking about bravery specifically because it’s a skill about acting\, even when you’re afraid. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. You know\, I’ve actually often been told\, actually just this last weekend again\, in fact\, that I am brave. \nSo people were\, there’s something called strength spotting. So people have\, over my life\, done strength spotting with me where they’ve told me that I’m brave. What’s funny though is I don’t really think of myself as brave. But I have told people that often to me\, the kind of risk that I’m taking is worth the reward. \nSo it’s about acting even when you’re afraid. So that I’m not like going into things fearless\, because I have had people say\, you know\, “You seem so fearless\,” which is so funny to me because I am not fearless. Not even a little bit. \nI am full of all kinds of fears\, but I do [00:05:00] do things despite my fears. But when I’m told that I’m being brave\, I think a lot of people think of bravery as like really big moments\, really big acts. Like\, “Oh\, that person showed so much bravery when they went and helped somebody who was just in that accident\, it was fiery and they pulled them out.” \nIt can be those moments. It certainly is those moments. But when I’ve been told I’m brave\, it has not been about things like that. It’s been about things that I might call\, like\, “social bravery\,” like being willing to talk to someone that I’ve never met\, or cold calling or networking\, or even just trying new things and enjoying the ride. \nAnd you know\, I know that bravery and zest are stronger strengths for me in that whole VIA classification\, but they’re not my top five. I think zest is in my top seven. Which would be more related to sort of enjoying the ride or the adventure\, or pushing through your fears\, because there’s an adventure\, or because it represents some sort of newer novel thing. \nBut [00:06:00] when people think of bravery\, I think many of them think of people like firefighters or soldiers showing bravery in the line of duty. And it can be so much more than that. \nThat was a lot I just gave you. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: You did give me a lot\, and I love that you’re so enthusiastic about this\, because it means I do less of the explaining. And you hit on one of the things that I really wanted to talk about\, which is\, bravery has multiple components. There’s that very physical bravery of running into a burning building like a firefighter does. That is very brave. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: We’re not saying that that’s not bravery. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I’m not sure that that’s the kind of bravery I would exhibit. Right. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I haven’t been in that situation. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. I mean\, same. I haven’t been in that situation. I don’t like to speculate. I certainly know that I don’t have the training to do that without\, I don’t know\, there being my kid there or something\, you know? \nBut I think the most important thing to get at here is not asking yourself whether or not you’d run into a burning building. [00:07:00] But recognizing that bravery isn’t just running into a burning building\, it’s also taking a risk in a social setting. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: It’s also taking a risk\, even intellectually\, we talked about this in our episode where we talked about intellectual humility\, right? That’s a risk to say\, “Maybe I’m wrong.” So I think there’s a lot of ways that you can be brave. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And vulnerability is brave. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Right. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, exactly. And I think we’re talking today specifically more about relational bravery or intellectual bravery. Because I think people talk about that less. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. I think also\, you know\, when I was trying to decide what practice to bring to the table today\, I was thinking about\, “Okay\, how do we help people continue to take actions even when they’re scared?” \nBecause that’s what bravery is\, right? But I don’t want people going out there terrifying themselves or making themselves scared. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: We [00:08:00] don’t need to be adrenaline junkies either\, right? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Exactly. And you know\, maybe some people want to practice their bravery by going on\, I don’t know\, something safe enough\, like a rollercoaster. And maybe that is helpful for them. Maybe that’s helpful for training their body. \nBut today I want to talk about training your social discomfort muscles\, because what we know about discomfort is\, it can feel a lot like fear. And so if you train yourself to continue taking actions\, to continue choosing to do things when you’re uncomfortable\, your brain can kind of help you remember that when you’re afraid too. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Oh\, this is really interesting. Well\, let’s get started. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Sure. So the practice I’m sharing today is called Expand Your Views and Circles. Specifically\, it’s very much influenced by the Greater Good Guide I mentioned earlier\, and I added some bits\, because we always add some bits here. \nAnd it’s designed by the [00:09:00] Greater Good Science Center to help you build your relational bravery\, using curiosity\, intellectual humility\, patience\, and empathy. Which is a lot of little buzzwords\, but we’re going to dig into it\, and it’s going to be fun. \nSo step one is you start by noticing your own activities. We’re thinking here about a community that you’re a part of. So where do you feel most at home in your community? Who do you tend to spend time with? What perspectives dominate your conversations? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Now\, Erin\, could that be a community of interest\, a community of geography? What kind of community are you talking about? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Any community you’re a part of\, I think. Many people may find it helpful to think about the community that they do work in or with. But it is also helpful I think if you don’t have a lot of free time in your working hours that you can allocate however you want. \nSometimes it’s more helpful to think about your personal life\, like [00:10:00] what is the community you live in\, and you can do this practice either in your personal life or in your work life. And either community will benefit from you doing the practice. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Okay. So step one was noticing your activities. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Let’s go into step two. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yep. Step two is to consider how you can intentionally step outside of your comfort zone and meet new individuals you don’t regularly connect with. \nWhen I first tried to think of how I could do that\, I got really stuck. I was like\, “Well\, I work for a university\, so I can go to just literally any part of campus and I’m allowed to be there.” \nAnd then I recognized that not everybody works for university. So I did a little bit of brainstorming for you about ways you can meet new ideas and people and environments. One place to consider is your public library. A lot of public libraries have free community classes\, and you can learn about [00:11:00] people who care about stuff that you don’t care about. \nAnd they’re intending it to be informational\, so they don’t expect you to come in agreeing with them\, which can be a really helpful first step. Local community centers also similarly have a lot of programming like that. \nAnother one that I love\, because I’m from Milwaukee\, is does your community have any street festivals that you’ve never been to? Milwaukee is somewhat notorious for having a festival every weekend\, almost all year round. \nIs anybody hosting a book club? There’s a bar in my city that hosts a monthly book club\, and they bring somebody from an organization who comes and leaves a discussion about a book\, about a topic that maybe you’ve never encountered before. \nIs there someone in your community asking for volunteers? Can you go build houses\, or clean up water\, or just do something with people who care about something that maybe isn’t on your radar at all? \nAnd then one that is a little less out there\, and a little bit less group\, if you’re an [00:12:00] introvert and you’re like\, “I can’t handle a group yet\,” is to come up with a coworker that you maybe know but haven’t spent a lot of time with\, and ask them if they’d be willing to eat lunch with you. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. I love that. And one of the ways we’ve talked about this in the past and it’s something I think we could add to this list\, has been thinking about maybe certain contexts that normally would be like\, “Nah\, that’s not for me.” And maybe just dipping your toe in that water just a little bit to see\, “Maybe it’s still not for you\, but you maybe will meet some really cool people in the end.” And kind of expand your horizon a little bit. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. I actively encourage you to find something that you think you’ll be bad at. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes. Right\, right. Or\, like one or something that maybe you’re a little unsure of\, right? Not necessarily\, it doesn’t have to scare you\, but something that you’re unsure of\, like\, “I don’t know if that’s for me\, but I’ve never been to it\, so I’m gonna try it.” \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. Yes. That is a [00:13:00] great attitude. So step three is to go do the thing. It is probably the hardest step\, but it’s the most simple. You just go do the thing. \nSo\, some things to keep in mind as you’re doing the thing. Your goal is to surround yourself in different ways of thinking\, being\, or doing. If you’re uncomfortable\, that’s a good thing. It means you’re doing it right. The goal is not to agree with everything you encounter. \nYou don’t have to like it\, you don’t have to feel positive about it. You just have to engage with it respectfully. And then I think this is actually the most important part. Don’t come into whatever you’re going to expecting to change people’s minds\, or criticizing where they’re coming from. And this can be hard depending on where you grew up and what you’re encountering. \nIt’s like\, “I don’t know about this.” You know\, I’ve certainly had internally very critical responses to things\, but part of the practice is [00:14:00] not trying to change everybody else’s mind about things. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And could I add to that really quick? I would also say don’t try too hard to compare your experiences. Like\, be a tourist. I mean that in the best sense of the word. \nBe a person who’s there with curiosity. You don’t need to connect your experiences with\, you know\, everyone else’s experiences. Just learn from other people’s experiences. Does that make sense for this activity? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. \nI personally would use the word ‘guest’ rather than tourist\, because – \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes\, thank you. That’s way better. I knew that it was not the right word. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes\, guest. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Because tourists are notoriously rude no matter where you go\, no matter where the tourists are from\, everybody thinks tourists are rude. So I would say guest. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I mean\, not the way I do touring around\, but – \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Sure\, sure. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I think you’re spot on that curiosity is really your best tool. Your best friend here\, like be interested. \nWhy do people like this? Why are they into this? Why might they think about this? What’s [00:15:00] important to them? \nIt may be appropriate for you to ask questions. It may not be appropriate for you to ask questions\, so you can be curious even if you can’t ask anybody why they think what they think. \nAnd if you’re asking somebody\, “Why do you think that?” Don’t say it like that. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Right? Please don’t. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Maybe you could say\, “Oh\, I noticed this is really important to you. What made it so important to you?” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: You know\, really think about if I’m being curious\, am I doing it in a way that is critical when I’m asking that question out loud\, or am I inviting them to share with me. \nAnd we could have a whole episode about how to ask questions and not be a confrontational jerk\, but we don’t need to go into all of that now. I have learned the hard way\, I’ll just put it that way. \nAnd then step four is\, after you’ve come back from the experience\, and that is to just reflect on what went down. So [00:16:00] what\, if anything\, was comfortable about this new space\, and did that surprise you? What\, if anything\, was uncomfortable about the new space and was it what you were expecting to make you uncomfortable? \nAnd then finally\, what did you learn? Did anything change about your own perspective because of this experience? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Awesome. Thanks so much for guiding us through that\, Erin. I think this is a super clear way to get outside that comfort zone without doing something dangerous. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. And like\, that’s really the challenge. It took me a while to find something\, because practicing facing your fear in a way where I was like\, I spiraled for a minute\, I was like\, “I don’t know how to do this without people making risky behaviors.” \nSo this one felt like a really solid\, relational\, healthy way to do it. I will say one thing to keep in mind: as you do this exercise\, the impact it’s going to have on you [00:17:00] will depend on how much time and energy you spend on it. \nOngoingly engaging in something in your community or in multiple different things in your community\, if it’s not something that has a repeating meeting\, will have the most impact on your ability to navigate your own discomfort\, and your ability to continue doing hard things when you’re uncomfortable or afraid. \nIt will also\, the more you do it\, the more you’re going to love the parts of your community you don’t know. So you’re going to get what you put into it in this one. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, I just wish I lived in a city like Milwaukee that has so many festivals. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: You’re welcome to visit anytime. \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 or a colleague. \nWe’ll be back next week with a new episode. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[00:18:00]\nCREDITS: 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 number 2 0 2 3 4 8 7 74 3 3.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Encouragement That Works: How to Give a Real Pep Talk
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It helps them believe in their ability to meet challenges\, connect to purpose\, and keep going when things get difficult. \nIn this episode of Practicing Connection\, Jessica and Erin dig into the science behind effective pep talks\, inspired by research from Harvard Business Review and Motivating Language Theory. \nErin walks listeners through how to write a meaningful pep talk using three key ingredients: direction\, empathy\, and purpose. \nYou’ll also learn how to bring these ideas into everyday encouragement\, whether you’re leading a team or supporting a friend through something hard. \nListen in to learn how the right words – offered with care – can make all the difference. \nLinks and resources from this episode: \n\nThe Science of Pep Talks by Daniel McGinn\nSeason 7\, Episode 11: Humble on Purpose: A Practice for Better Decisions \nJoin our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12879756/\nSend us a message: practicingconnection@oneop.org\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 for listening to the Practicing Connection podcast. I’m Jessica. Today we’re gonna be talking about the power of encouragement\, and Erin’s gonna be sharing a practice with us on how to write a pep talk. \nHi Erin. How are you? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Hi Jessica. I’m having a wonderful day. I just got the best message: \nSo I recently thanked someone for inspiring me with their bravery in a meeting. I’ve been trying to call out bravery when I see it. And their response to me was so sweet\, they just said that they did it because they were trying to be more like me. I don’t know if you just saw this\, but my jaw just dropped. \nI was like\, “Oh\, that’s so nice!” It was like\, honestly\, one of the nicest things somebody’s told me and it just made my day. It was really magical. To have somebody notice something that I’ve been trying to grow in and then be inspired\, and then tell me that I inspired [00:01:00] them. Like\, what is this?! \nI was trying to figure out\, what is the word that describes this feeling? I don’t know. Opposite of loneliness. And then I got stuck. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, I think the word that you might be looking for here is encouraging. It’s encouraging. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. That’s it. It is embarrassing to be the person teaching a practice in the encouragement episode and not realizing you’re talking about encouragement\, but hey\, yeah\, we’re here. \nWe don’t need to be perfect. And it was kind of funny. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, let’s talk about this. Why did you think about bringing up encouragement today? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Sure. Well\, honestly\, I wanted to talk about something fun. You know\, we’ve been writing a lot of really great practicasts about trying new things\, new skills and being brave\, and this is exciting and this is [00:02:00] transformative. \nBut it can also be really hard. Right? And it can be stretching and uncomfortable\, and I wanted to kind of equip people with a practice to help them\, a) keep going when things get hard\, b)\, encourage other people to keep going when things get hard. But also it really feels good. I don’t know how many pep talks you’ve given\, but as someone who has given many\, it feels really good to give a pep talk and then just see people like to be refilled with joy and be like\, “Oh yeah\, we are capable of hard things. We can do this.” \nAnd like when you’re stuck\, it feels so good when someone helps unlock extra energy or capacity or like a lens you hadn’t viewed it through before. I’m getting ahead of myself a little bit and I’m sorry\, but I think pep talks are misunderstood and underrated. People think about like sports movies and not about really meaningful human interaction\, which is what I think pep talks actually are. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I am gonna take it [00:03:00] one more step and say\, “I don’t do pep talks\, I do pep rallies.” \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Ooh. Okay. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: No\, I’m totally\, I’m totally kidding. But I actually have never thought about what I do when I’m encouraging others as “pep talking” them. I’ve been told by others that I’ve inspired them or that I’ve helped to unlock those things that you’re talking about. \nBut I never really thought about it as me incorporating elements of what a pep talk might be. I just\, I think I don’t like to see people be stuck\, and I like to try to help where I can. And so with that\, I mean really good encouragement is nice to receive\, but it can be a lot more. \nI feel like I’ve always thought that I was encouraging them\, but I think in what you’re saying with really good encouragement done right in sort of\, I love the language of pep talk\, but in this kind of pep talk kind of way\, it can be a lot more. It can give people what they need to keep going\, and [00:04:00] help people unite around a shared goal\, which is really important for the work that we do. A shared goal\, maybe even some shared value or defining some shared truths. \nAnd it can acknowledge the cost of the work and still give people the hope that it matters. So it’s really powerful stuff if you know what you’re doing\, or apparently\, even if you don’t\, sometimes. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes\, it has powerful potential\, and I would like you to cash in on the powerful potential that you have to encourage yourself and others. \nI know that we sound a little bit like this is a magical fix all\, that’s not what we’re saying. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Oh\, no\, no\, no. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: But I do think it is more powerful than we let it be. We let it be for sports and sales\, and we forget about it for the rest of us. But the rest of us deserve good encouraging pep talks too. \nSo\, let’s get into it. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. So encouragement can come in so many forms\, and let’s get into talking a little bit about [00:05:00] why pep talks. Why are we talking about pep talks today? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, we’re talking about pep talks\, I mean\, selfishly\, because I am the like unofficial pep talker in my workplace. And that has had the side outcome of me not receiving a lot of pep talks. \nAnd so I somewhat selfishly want to teach more people how to give a good pep talk\, because I want people to give me good pep talks. This is perhaps very selfish of me. But also\, to tell you the truth\, I really thought I knew everything you needed to know about how to give a big good pep talk. I was like\, “I’ve got this down.” \nYou know\, I’ve like jokingly included it on my unofficial duties list when I’m onboarding and offboarding places. Like it has regularly been a major component of my work to be the person giving pep talks. So I really thought I had it down. \nAnd then I did the practice that you taught us about intellectual humility\, and realized [00:06:00] that I assumed that I knew everything there was to know about pep talks\, and I was like\, “Oh\, dear\, I don’t think that’s actually true.” And so then I did research because of that practice\, and that’s why we’re talking about pep talks today. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I am beaming right now\, since this is audio-only\, I have to describe what my face looks like right now. Because did you just say that you did a practice from our own podcast about intellectual humility\, and that it helped you\, you learned something from it? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. \nIt’s like\, you know\, when you take your own advice\, when you take your partner\, your coworker’s advice\, and then you’re like\, “Oh\, they were right.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Most of the time the practices we bring to this podcast are things that we either have tried\, or we bring into our work periodically\, or we bring into our practices periodically. \nAnd so that one was one that I had brought forward. [00:07:00] I’ve practiced it in the past\, not in maybe exactly the same way that I put it forward in the podcast\, but I’ve practiced versions of it. And so you were in the room with me while we were talking about it\, and it does like\, tickle me a little bit that\, you know\, that practice was helpful to somebody that I know. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, it was great. Okay. So I’m actually really excited because as much as it was like uncomfortable to admit that I didn’t know everything I thought I knew\, I found out a bunch of really cool stuff. \nSo\, I think the most useful thing was\, I found a Harvard Business Review article called The Science of Pep Talks\, by Daniel McGinn. \nAnd in it\, McGinn talked about motivating language theory. I had never heard of this. So this is a theory based on research done by Jacqueline and Milton Mayfield at Texas A&M International University. And they have been studying what they call ‘motivating language’ for years in [00:08:00] sports\, business\, research\, science\, and the military. \nAnd they found that effective pep talks can have huge impacts on individuals and groups and their ability to do challenging things. For all of those groups. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, so I mean\, this is interesting because sports\, business\, research\, science and the military\, those are very different kinds of groups. I’m very interested to hear about how this kind of research can work across all these disciplines. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. And this is actually what I love about their theory is they don’t say that the same thing works for every single person. \nIn motivating language theory\, pep talks are made of three different parts: direction giving\, empathetic language and meaning making language. We’ll define those in a minute\, and what they found is that different groups need different combinations of these parts in order for it to be effective. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, that makes a lot of sense. \n[00:09:00] Let’s talk a little bit more about the three parts. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Sure. So direction giving is explaining how to do the task at hand. This can include instructions. It also includes what they describe as uncertainty-reducing language\, which I think is just such a fun phrase. A lot of what that is is like\, “Do people know what they’re doing? Are we all on the same page? Is it clear? Is it explicitly clear?’ \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: You know\, sometimes everybody thinks they’re on the same page and they’re not. So that’s what they mean by direction giving. And they have said that if you’re in a new group or a newly forming group\, direction comes up more often. \nBut if you’re in a group with experts or teams that are doing things they’ve done before\, they might not need as much of this component as a brand new team might. So that’s something to keep in mind for how much of this component do I need to include. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: So the [00:10:00] direction giving element of this is just really practical\, focused on making sure everyone knows what their role is\, what the job is\, what they’re there to do. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes\, that’s it. Exactly. \nThe second element is empathetic language. This is where you engage in the humanity of the people involved. You bring in praise\, you bring in encouragement. You acknowledge how hard a task actually is. And acknowledging the challenge piece is often the part that people leave out of a pep talk. \nA lot of people think that if you acknowledge something is hard\, people will be discouraged or give up. Often the opposite. If you don’t acknowledge the challenges\, pep talks can come off as more like gaslighting than encouragement. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, I’ve seen this over and over again. I’ve seen a lot of leaders learn the hard way that not naming the challenges\, like kind of skipping over them like you’re describing\, even if they do it [00:11:00] unintentionally – I need to add that\, because I don’t think everyone’s out there doing this on purpose. Like\, “I’m going to just skip over the challenges and maybe they won’t notice.” I don’t think very many people are actually doing that. \nBut that is a really good way to destroy trust\, skipping over the challenges and not naming them\, not acknowledging that something’s challenging. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: There’s something really\, really discouraging\, at least to me\, and I’ve heard this from a bunch of other people too\, that when you get a talk and your leaders don’t even acknowledge the cost\, there’s almost part of you that thinks\, “Do they even know? Do they even know this is hard? When they say we can do it\, do they actually know what we need to do to do this?” \nOr are they just imagining that we can do it and they don’t actually know what it takes\, so they’re lying. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Or is it like hard for me\, but not for them\, and they’re just not in reality right now? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And so it can be really empowering for someone to say\, “Hey\, I know that this is [00:12:00] so hard. It’s hard because of this. It’s hard because of this. It’s hard because of this. And I am confident that we can still accomplish it. And I believe we can still accomplish it so much more if you start by talking about all of the reasons why it is almost harder than it needs to be.” \nYou know\, that’s a much more powerful statement. \nOkay\, so the third element is meaning-making language. This is where you talk about why the work you’re doing is important. You can link it with your purpose or your missions. \nAnd often it’s a place where people will share stories\, either about the impact that previous work has done\, or why we all care about the thing that we’re doing. Meaning making is useful in almost every situation. And you may need it less if the end goal of the work is super obvious. \nThe example in the paper\, I think is they were talking about a team that was doing medical [00:13:00] research on how to cure MLS. It’s a pretty significantly debilitating disease\, and a lot of the people who were doing the research had family members who had died of it. \nSo that’s one where like you don’t need to encourage the end goal. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: goal. It’s kind of obvious\, right? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. The end goal’s really obvious. And you know\, sometimes it’s like the opposite. They had this other example where they were talking about\, okay\, if you work in a fast food restaurant and you need to give somebody a pep talk\, the end goal is going to be really\, really different than someone who’s working on medical research\, right? \nAnd so this is why they talk about meaning-making being the hardest part of the pep talk. Because you have to answer the question\, “Is this worth it?” And you have to give an answer that you actually believe. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: So if you don’t\, you can’t give the pep talk. If you don’t believe that it’s worth it\, right. I mean\, that’s kind of a\, it’s a deal breaker. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. I mean you [00:14:00] can\, but they can tell. And that’s the thing\, like if you wanna give an effective pep talk\, you’ve got to believe the things coming out of your mouth. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes. authenticity is something we talk about a lot. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: And I genuinely think this is why so many people think that pep talks aren’t effective\, because they haven’t had good ones. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: So I think the thing that comes up for me in this\, the questions that I have is just like\, “Well\, what if I’m a leader\, and I don’t know if it’s possible?” \nThat’s a hard question. You can say that it’s scary\, it’s vulnerable. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I mean\, one thing I like to ask a lot\, and I just wonder if maybe sometimes the situation calls for you acknowledging that you don’t know. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: If it’s possible\, or maybe sometimes the situation\, and I would say probably a good chunk of the time\, the situation might be where instead of saying\, “I don’t know if it’s possible\,” it might be saying what is possible. \nI think acknowledging [00:15:00] what’s hard about making it possible is really important\, but maybe turning around and saying\, “And what is possible…” \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I think that’s great. That is a good segue into really building people up. Like\, you don’t necessarily have to go through these three phases in order and then never go back. \nSo if you’re talking about the meaning-making and saying\, “This is worth it\, this is what we can achieve\, if we achieve it. I don’t entirely know if we’ll get all the way there\, but here’s what we have.” And then you can go back to the subtle direction-giving and you say\, “We have this person and they’re working on this. We have this person\, they hit this out of the park every single time. We have this person and they’re the best at communication and this per -” you know? \nYou can really build people up and compliment people and say\, “Okay\, considering all of what we have\, we can get somewhere\, right?” Like what can we achieve with [00:16:00] what we have? \nAnd you can positively reframe it in a way that doesn’t feel like gaslighting\, if you are thoughtful. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Right. Right. Well let’s get started with the practice itself. Please walk us through\, kick it off. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay. The start of this practice is\, think about a group or an individual that’s struggling with a challenge. This could be a team you work on. This could be a coworker\, this could be yourself. Think of that person\, and then before you are responding to an email or saying something\, here are some questions you can ask yourself to help you figure out what do they need to hear\, what’s going to help them with what they’re struggling with. \nSo the first area is direction giving. And that’s just\, do they know what needs to happen next? So some questions that you are asking yourself: “Do they know what they’re trying to achieve? Who is [00:17:00] doing what? Do they have what they need to do it?” \nAnd I want to be clear here\, you are not asking the other person these questions. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes. I know this is confusing. That would not sound like a pep talk at all. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: That would sound like accusations\, right? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Right. But you’re using the answers to determine what they need to hear\, right? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Or you might be answering these questions based on what you know about the situation\, \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Sure\, yes. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: “What’s my assessment of whether they know what they’re trying to achieve? What’s my assessment of do they seem to understand who is doing what\, what the roles are\, and what’s my assessment of do they have what they need to do it?” \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. I will fully tell you\, I often find myself giving pep talks to people who are\, after a meeting\, coming to me and being like\, “Erin\, I’m panicking. What are we doing?” \nOr they’ll tell me a situation of like\, “I was in this meeting\, we had this conversation…” And [00:18:00] so there’s often context that I get from another person before I’m giving them a pep talk\, and so I can kind of discern a lot just from listening. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Right. \nIt sounds like you might ask these questions\, right? You don’t have to like pre-prepare your entire pep talk before you go in\, you can actually go into a meeting of a group for whom your experience of that group has been that they might need a pep talk. \nAnd you can ask these questions if you don’t know the answers to them. And in the moment you could say something like\, “Are we all in agreement on what we’re trying to achieve? Do you all feel clear on that?” And they’re all like\, “Yeah\, yeah\, we feel clear.” \n“Do you all understand what the roles are? Who’s going to do what? Do you all get that?” And they might be like\, “Yeah\, we totally get that.” And then you might say\, “Okay\, do you have what you need to do it?” And then one person’s like\, “Well\, we’ve really been struggling with needing this tool\,” or\, “We’ve really been struggling with the process for X. \nAnd so then you could start your pep talk by saying\, “It sounds like you’re really clear on your objectives and roles. Good job. Because that’s [00:19:00] a huge hurdle. But you need some tools to help.” \nSo let’s move on then to the next set of questions. The empathetic language. You can literally do this in a meeting\, or you can make these assessments ahead of time\, and kind of preplan your talk. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. And I think you bring up a really good point there\, which is\, often the picture we have in our head of a pep talk is from a movie. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. Right. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: You know\, it’s like a coach at a sports movie\, at the championship\, and they give this big – \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: It’s Ted Lasso. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: It’s Ted lasso\, or it’s like you’re watching a movie about salespeople. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: They use an example of\, like Glen\, Gary Glen\, something. I can’t remember. This is not a thing that I have seen. \nOr you watch someone like\, “Yeah\, we can make all our sales\,” and it feels very culty occasionally\, and you’re like\, “I don’t know about that.” So I think part of my hope of giving you these questions and equipping you\, and what you brought up is that a pep talk doesn’t have to be just a talk. \nIt’s more about bringing focused [00:20:00] energy. Bringing this sense of like\, “Okay\, what do people need and how can I help them get there? And how can I see things that they can’t see right now and how can I communicate it to them?” \nAnd so it isn’t necessarily like\, ‘I talk for five minutes\, that’s the pep talk.’ It might be a pep talk conversation where we have a little back and forth\, and that’s what you brought in and I love that you did that. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I’m glad that we established that. So the direction-giving questions: Do they know what they’re trying to achieve? Who is doing what? Do they have what they need to do it? \nLet’s go into the empathetic language questions. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. So some questions that might be helpful to ask are\, What’s going well? Is there someone you can compliment or thank for the work that they’ve already done? What is making it difficult? Does this team believe that they can do it? Why or why not? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And\, Do you believe they can do it? I would imagine is also helpful. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. Mm-hmm. And\, Why or [00:21:00] why not? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Right. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Right. You know\, these are uncomfortable questions to like full-on face\, and this is where you get to practice your bravery skills. Full-on asking\, “Do we think they can do it? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: It’s scary and it’s hard\, and if they’re in the weeds\, this is how you can support them by asking that question they can’t ask themselves. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I think this is where some of your answers\, or the way you communicate this to the group might need to be a little bit delicate\, right? \nSo if part of what’s making it difficult is that they’re down to one third the amount of staff\, and they’ve had not only tons of work put on them that the other people were doing\, but also a new big project just came up and they’re saying that we don’t have the capacity to do this – then coming back in and saying\, “But I believe you can do it” can feel very disingenuous. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, not great.[00:22:00] And so\, you know\, I think there’s something to be said too about\, you’re not trying to lie here. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: You are not trying to tell them it’s impossible. Maybe the pep talk they need to hear is\, “Wow\, you have been given so much to do and so few resources to do it. The fact you have been able to do as much as you have been able to do is really impressive and I’m so proud of you.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: “And I’m sorry that I can’t give you any more to make this happen.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nThen maybe this is where it’s like\, “Let’s talk about what is possible right now.” \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. And unfortunately\, this is also the part that comes with practice\, right? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: You’re not going to perfectly hit it out of the park every time. \nYou’re not going to say the perfect thing every time. But the good news is\, you don’t have to be perfect. Sometimes all people need to hear is just like\, “Wow\, that is so much\, that is so hard.” Like\, they just need acknowledgement that they’re not making it up\, they’re not crazy\, that it is [00:23:00] unreasonable or it is overwhelming. \nAnd sometimes that’s enough to just kind of like keep them floating until we can get them more resources. Pep talks aren’t about magically fixing it for people. It’s about being present with them and helping them figure stuff out. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: So the empathetic language questions are\, What is going well? Is there someone you can compliment\, or think\, what is making it difficult? Do you believe they can do it? And\, Why or why not? And do they believe they can do it? And\, Why or why not? \nLet’s go on to the meaning-making questions. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. This is where we’re answering the question\, “Why is it important to keep going?” \nSo good questions to ask are\, “What is made possible by doing this hard thing?” \nThis takes some imagination. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. What is made possible toward that kind of end goal that the group has been working toward. To begin with\, a lot of times\, by the time you’ve made [00:24:00] it here\, you kind of have a sense for what that overarching goal is. \nAnd so then toward the big goal that this group has been assembled or this team has been assembled to affect\, “What’s made possible by doing this hard thing?” \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. And then another good question to ask is\, “What hard things have you done successfully in the past?” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: “When has it been this hard before\, and you’ve still managed to do it?” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. Everyone has a story about that. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Right. And sometimes it’s like\, “It was this hard before and we didn’t get all the way there\, but something good still happened.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: “And we were able to build off it and get to somewhere better.” \nIt’s hard to give more specific advice about the meaning-making language because it’s really context specific. It’s like\, what is meaningful to this team? What is meaningful to these people? And this is going to require you spending time getting to know people\, [00:25:00] knowing a little bit about what are the shared values\, what do we all care about here? What are we trying to build together? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: You can ask them these questions also\, and then develop what you say based on what those answers are. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes\, exactly. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, thank you so much for guiding us through this\, Erin\, these are really good questions. But a whole pep talk\, it’s not a ton of questions\, but there’s enough questions where it could feel like a lot. I’m just going to leave that in there. What is the smallest thing that someone can do to practice encouragement or pep talk? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, that’s a great point. Okay. I hadn’t realized how hard pep talks are until I tried to\, like\, outline how to write a good one. So I’ll say this. I think the most important thing you can ask yourself if you only have a little bit of capacity is\, “What does this person or team really need right now? Is it direction\, empathy\, or purpose?” \nAnd then keep it [00:26:00] really simple and really short. If they need direction\, make sure everybody knows what they’re doing. If they need empathy\, say something like\, “I know this is hard\, I believe in you. You can do it.” Or\, “If you’ve done hard things before\, I believe you can do this too.” \nif it’s purpose\, that one’s a little bit harder for me to just like\, whip out one sentence\, but\, “This is worth the effort we’re putting in.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. Or even thinking about the direction-giving questions\, “You guys are so on track with everything. Let’s see what we can do about getting you the tools you need\, or how we can put our heads together and make sure that you’ve got everything you need.” \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. One final thought. You don’t have to be perfect in order for it to make an impact. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nWell\, that’s it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. If you enjoy the episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend [00:27:00] or a colleague. We’ll be back next week with a new episode. Until then\, keep practicing. \nCREDITS: 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 number 2 0 2 3 4 8 7 74 3 3.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Ethics in Action: Applying Ethical Standards in Financial Counseling
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Designed for financial counselors\, educators\, and military family service providers\, this session examines the Military Standards of Ethical Conduct\, the AFCPE Code of Ethics\, financial disclosure requirements\, and federal gifting guidelines. In this 2-hour webinar\, Dr. Bruce Ross\, AFC®\, CFT™\, and Mr. Caleb Burrell\, MA\, LMFT\, will guide participants through discussion and real-world case scenarios\, highlighting strategies for navigating ethical dilemmas.  \nLearning Objectives: \n\nDefine key ethical principles outlined in the Military Standards of Ethical Conduct and the AFCPE Code of Ethics.\nDifferentiate between ethical requirements related to financial disclosures\, conflicts of interest\, and federal gifting guidelines.\nAnalyze ethical dilemmas through case studies within military contexts.\nApply ethical decision-making frameworks to enhance your work.\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=”162714″ 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. Bruce Ross\, Ph.D.\, AFC®\, CFT-I™” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Dr. Bruce Ross is an Associate Professor in the Family Sciences Department for the College of Agriculture\, Food and Environment and the School of Human and Environmental Sciences at the University of Kentucky. He also serves as the Program Director for the Family Financial Counseling (FFC) undergraduate major program and the Program Director for the Family Financial Therapy (FFT) graduate certificate program. 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He specializes in trauma and couples work in his private practice\, as well as mediates in Stanislaus County\, CA. He currently attends the University of Kentucky\, where he is pursuing his doctoral degree in family science with an emphasis on finance. 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SUMMARY:Why Unspoken Expectations Erode Trust (and How to Fix It)
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We never handed them the book. \nIn this episode of Practicing Connection\, Jessica introduces the Expectation Audit\, a simple but powerful practice rooted in organizational psychology. Drawing on research about unspoken workplace expectations\, and what Brené Brown calls “stealth expectations\,” Jessica and Erin explore why crossed wires at work are rarely about performance or personality. \nMore often\, they’re about invisible norms we’ve never made visible. \nYou’ll walk away with a practice you can use on your own or with your team to turn frustration into honest\, productive conversation. \nLinks and resources from this episode: \n\nJoin our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12879756/\nSend us a message: practicingconnection@oneop.org\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”][00:00:00]\nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Hi\, and welcome to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Erin. Today we’re talking about a tool to help with those relationships where you feel like you’re constantly dealing with crossed wires. You know that feeling\, where you’re a little let down\, but you can’t quite put your finger on what’s missing. Jessica’s going to share a practice we’re calling the “Expectation audit.” \nHi\, Jessica. I think we’ve all had those moments where we’ve felt let down by a colleague\, but can’t quite put our finger on why. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Hi\, Erin. Yeah\, exactly. We can fall into the trap of thinking that these frustrations are about the other person’s performance or their personality\, but more often than not\, they’re about unspoken expectations that we’re placing on the person. \nAnd I want to be really clear too\, this isn’t about creating a long list of demands for your coworkers or for your collaborators. It’s about making those unwritten rules of your partnership [00:01:00] visible so that you can both actually succeed. And so the project\, or the issue you’re trying to address\, can actually move forward and you can start making impacts In that issue. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. Okay\, that makes sense. It’s like you want to make sure you’re both playing the same game with the same rule book. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. Right. Not using two different rule books\, yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay. So let’s get into the why behind this. Where does this idea come from? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, and I wanted to say\, I love that you framed it as\, “We want to make sure we’re playing the same game.” Because when I teach about building trust\, I often tell people that when we don’t share what builds or breaks our trust\, we’re unknowingly playing games with each other. And it really erodes our ability to build good working relationships. \nSo\, back to your question\, where is this coming from? This is grounded in a concept from organizational psychology called the psychological contract. Researchers define this as\, “The set of unwritten\, informal expectations between people in a [00:02:00] working relationship\, or commonly between an employer and employee.” \nI’ve seen a lot of descriptions of this psychological contract describing a relationship between an employer and an employee. It’s sort of like an internal contract. When you think interpersonally\, it’s like an internal contract that we have. Things like\, how fast you expect an email reply versus how fast the other person thinks emails can and should be replied to. \nOr\, how much detail you want to see or hear about in project updates versus how much detail the other person might feel like they’re willing to share\, or is necessary to share. \nAre there any examples you would care to share with us right now? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes\, so I used to have this one colleague who would\, their main priority was replying to things as quickly as possible\, and it would drive me insane because then they would reply\, and then they would have four or five more ideas\, and so I would get five rapid fire emails in a row that were all conflicting and [00:03:00] different. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: This sounds like me. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: This was not you. I promise\, I would directly tell you about it if it was you! \nAnd so it was always just overwhelming. And then I would miss things because I wouldn’t see that there were new emails\, and I just always would be like\, “Oh my gosh\, can you just stop and think before you press send\, ‘Is there anything else I want to say?’” \nAnd it used to drive me insane. And unfortunately\, like we never quite resolved that before we ended up working on a project. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And did you feel like when you got that many messages\, or when you would send a message and they got back to you immediately\, did you feel like\, “Oh crap\, this person expects me to respond as quickly.” Did that ever cross your mind? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes\, it did all the time. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: So it’s a lot of pressure\, yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: It is a lot of pressure\, and I think there was also just this sense of\, “Oh\, I also have to make sure that I follow up on everything.” You know\, like there was this unspoken thing of like\, “Oh\, I’m getting everything out at you\, and then I have to carry it and move it forward and make sure it’s passed back.” \nAnd you [00:04:00] know\, we really probably could have talked about that\, but I think we were both pretty swamped at the time\, so we never stopped to talk about it. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And then with all the extra information they were sending you right in between those messages that were really important for you to actually answer\, I would imagine that the message that you needed to respond to\, it just\, everything got muddier and muddier. And it was harder for you to like pick out what you actually needed to do versus not. Is that right? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, I think too\, you know\, I often would then pause\, read all of the things\, send kind of like one comprehensive message. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: And I’d really stop and pause and go\, “Okay\, wait\, am I saying everything I want to say?” I’d maybe condense it so it wasn’t as long\, because I know it’s hard to read long emails\, and I try\, I’m like a\, ‘say all the things’ person. \nSo I was like\, “Okay\, how do I make this easier for other people?” And so I think I had this expectation of\, “Oh\, this is how everybody communicates\, right?” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. Oh\, we’re gonna get to that. Not to your expectation. We’re gonna get to [00:05:00] talking about that. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. And I’m realizing that it really felt like there were all these unwritten rules that both she had and I had\, and then we never talked about them. And we were just perpetually irritated with each other. I think a couple of times we had some conversations about\, “What works really well for you isn’t necessarily what works best for me\, and we can respond to things differently.” \nAnd like we never got past that. So\, I’m really excited if you have – yeah\, I would love to hear more about this. So are you also kind of talking about that idea of unwritten rules\, and like breaching trust with unwritten rules? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, it can really feel like a breach of trust. Sometimes when we have an expectation on someone that\, whether we’ve communicated that expectation or not\, if they don’t meet that it actually erodes our trust as well. So when these informal\, unwritten\, unspoken contracts are breached\, it can also lead to real burnout [00:06:00] and lower engagement too. \nSo\, I have read almost all of Brene Brown’s books\, and I like her description of this. So she calls these stealth expectations. So\, things we expect from others but haven’t actually asked for. And honestly\, Erin\, half the time we don’t even realize that we have these expectations on other people until they fail to meet them. \nSo we’re walking around with a secret rule book in our back pocket\, and we’re frustrated that no one else is reading from it. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. Oh man\, this is so true. I’m having so many thoughts. I often am in a place of\, like\, “I can tell that I’ve upset somebody\, but I don’t know why.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, me too. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Often everybody else is playing with the same rule book and I’m just like\, “What is happening here?” So it’s nice to know that it’s not just me. \nBut it can really feel like you’re trying to build something together\, but one of you is using Imperial and one of you is using metric. You’re cutting the pieces but they don’t fit together. And [00:07:00] you know\, you both think you’re completely right \, because you measured three times before you cut anything and then it still doesn’t work. \nAnd that really is sometimes how teams feel. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, and that’s also the trap. I mean\, we think that our way of working is just the way it’s done. It’s our normal\, but your normal is likely very different from your colleague’s normal. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes\, This is exactly it. I think a good example is\, my normal might be when I need something\, I send a quick Slack message to get the answer. But my teammate’s normal is to gather all of the data and send one big email at the end of the day with all of the things. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Oh gosh\, that sounds overwhelming. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Right. I could see that and\, you know\, if I’m sitting there waiting for someone to get back to me immediately\, and they’re waiting to have enough information to feel really prepared and comprehensive and strategic\, we’re both going to be super stressed out\, even though neither [00:08:00] one of us is doing something wrong. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. And that’s it. I mean\, that’s why this audit is so important. It’s not about correcting someone else’s behavior. It’s about making your normal visible\, right? What’s normal for you now becomes visible to everyone. \nSo when we don’t articulate our preferences\, we’re essentially asking people to be mind readers\, which nobody likes\, right? By doing this audit\, you’re saying\, “Hey\, this is how I’m wired. Does this work for you?” And it can shift the conversation from blame to coordination. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I love this. So often I see people getting stuck fighting about ‘the right way to do something\,’ rather than deciding together from many helpful ways how to do it. So often people just get stuck on\, ‘There’s only one correct optimal way\,’ and you know\, this is my particular axe that I have to grind because I think you limit yourself and you drive yourself crazy when everybody has to be exactly the same. \nAnd really it’s so much more [00:09:00] open\, and there’s so much more possibility to what works for us. So I love that we’re talking about this\, but walk us through the practice. How do we actually do this? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, just like any practice we share\, this is just one of many ways that you could build it. So you can do this on your own at first\, and if you like\, you can bring it into conversations with your team or your collaborators. \nSo step one is for you to identify what I’ve been calling a crossed wires relationship. So\, bring to mind a situation where working with a team member or a collaborator is feeling heavy or frustrating\, or it feels like you’re always crossing wires\, right. You’re not quite making the connection. \nSo once you have a relationship in mind\, then do a little bit of a brain dump of your unspoken expectations. So you might ask yourself\, “What am I assuming here?” And then you might write down a few things that you expect from this person\, but you’ve never actually said out [00:10:00] loud. Or maybe some things that if you’re having a hard time identifying what you’ve said out loud and what you haven’t\, you could just write down the things that you’re not getting from that person that you expected. \nAnd then you can ask yourself\, “Did I ask for this out loud?” And if I haven’t\, or if I think I have in the past\, maybe it’s time to just have a gentle reminder\, or maybe it’s time for me to verbalize this. So\, just start out by finding some things that you’ve been expecting from the person\, and then identify whether you’ve asked for it out loud or not. \nAnd then step three is checking your certainty. Look at those expectations and ask yourself\, “Well\, how would they actually know that this is your expectation? Have you vocalized it?” I know I already said that you should identify that\, but I think going this step further and asking\, “How would they have known it?” \nSo if you asked about it and maybe the last time you asked was seven months ago or longer\, maybe that’s a [00:11:00] clue for\, they don’t actually know that that’s your expectation\, that that was something communicated months ago. Possibly in passing\, possibly in the middle of a long email. \nSo keep vocalizing it. You might ask yourself\, have you really clearly vocalized it or have you just hinted? And if the answer is that\, ‘They should just know\,’ right\, that\, “Oh\, well\, we have a list of things that the team is supposed to work on\, they should just know.” Well\, that’s a stealth expectation then. You have an expectation on them that has not been clearly identified or clearly shared. \nAnd then the last step is to ensure that you are vocalizing it. And I say vocalize\, it could be written\, that’s fine. I do think that a lot of connection happens through discussion. \nAnd so if you’re vocalizing in person\, here’s what I would recommend. So admit to the person out loud that you might have been [00:12:00] unclear\, you might say\, “I realized that I might have some internal quote/unquote “rules” for how I like to receive updates that I’ve never actually shared with you. Can we check in on what would work best for both of us?” That’s why I recommend that you do this verbally if you can\, because then it invites conversation\, right? \nIf you’re just sharing it in writing\, here’s my expectation. “I realize that I have been unclear about this.” You know\, “Please do this in the future.” There’s no opening for the other person to say\, “Hey\, I didn’t realize that you needed that. I need to do it this way because I have these other three things that I have to do that are attached to it. Can we talk about this?” \nWhen you do it in writing it’s more of a one-sided thing\, and that’s why I recommend that you verbalize. So admit to the person out loud that you might’ve been unclear. And then check in with them on what would work best for both of you. Make the offer a very genuine offer. \nI would like to add\, make the offer that you want [00:13:00] to find a way where it’ll work for both of you. So this can sound a little bit formal\, but it is often a really big relief for both people. \nLike when you say\, “Hey\, I realize I never told you that I prefer text for urgent messages.” The other person will often respond with something like\, “Oh\, thank goodness. I’ve been emailing and wondering why I didn’t hear back.” \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, I can imagine that even just saying\, you know\, “I realized I wasn’t clear about this\,” or\, “I realize I never told you immediately\,” might decrease the temperature or the pressure in a room\, and it stops being about a communication failure and starts being more about process. More about\, “Oh\, how do we build a system that works for us? How do we make sure we’re operating with the same instruction manual?” \nI think what I really love about step four is it also gives an opportunity and an invitation from you to the other person to share what they need. It’s a way to [00:14:00] kindly ask for what your needs are\, but also invite the other person into expressing their needs. \nAnd then you can have this kind of\, you know\, when they – I’m sorry\, I’m immediately thinking about couples counseling where you’re saying\, ‘it’s not me versus them. It’s us versus a problem.’ And I think while you maybe work with your partner\, most likely don’t\, a lot of people don’t\, you still have a working relationship with a person. \nAnd then this framing really is\, “How do we have us against the problem of our miscommunication?” Not\, “You are doing it wrong\, and I’m right about everything\,” which I think that’s sometimes the fear of\, “I can’t express this expectation because then I’m being bossy or I’m being overbearing\,” or I don’t know\, that they’re capable of meeting my needs. \nAnd then it takes all of the pressure off of forcing another person to do what you want\, and more inviting a conversation. So I really appreciate how you framed this audit. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, thank you so much. And you know\, the final step of inviting their [00:15:00] perspective\, because it’s not just about you\, but it’s about finding a pathway that fits both of you. You might even ask them\, “Take this opportunity.” \nThis is sort of a little hidden step five. Or you could call it a ‘stealth step five.’ \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Stealth mode. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, if I use this opportunity to maybe ask them like\, “Do you have some unspoken rules for a good workflow? Like\, things that maybe I haven’t been meeting\, or ways that you like to operate?” \nNow I’m not saying just because someone says\, “Oh yeah\, I want to operate this way\, this way\, and this way\,” it doesn’t mean that you have to do what they say because they’re the person who spoke up and said what their needs were. \nI really want to be clear\, this is about both of you finding something that will work for the two of you\, or for the many team members – I say two because that’s been sort of the context of our examples here – but you could ask them like\, “What am I missing that might make things easier for you?” \nIt’s about meeting your needs\, while also co-creating a better process together\, so [00:16:00] really meeting each other’s needs. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. And that’s what makes a good team. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Thanks so much for sharing this practice with us\, Jessica. I love it\, and it’s such a great way to turn that ‘crossed wires’ feeling into a moment of connection\, and building community with each other. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: You are so welcome. I love talking about interpersonal relationships. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: That’s good. We talk about them a lot. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I know\, right! \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: All right\, well that’s it everybody\, that’s the episode. If you liked it\, please share with a friend or a colleague. \nWe will be back next week with a new episode. And until then\, keep practicing. \n[00:17:00]\nCREDITS: 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 number 2 0 2 3 4 8 7 74 3 3.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Strong Starts\, Steady Bonds: Helping Young Children Thrive Through Change
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This session explores how to support caregivers in building secure attachments through responsive caregiving\, even during deployments or training absences. We’ll share practical ways to integrate early intervention services into daily life across duty stations and maintain developmental progress during transitions. Participants will leave with tools to equip caregivers to support emotional regulation\, trust\, and early independence in infants and toddlers. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nIdentify two strategies for sustaining caregiver–child attachment during separations.\nExplain one method for maintaining early intervention support before a relocation and after.\nRecognize at least two responsive caregiving techniques to promote early development.\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=”219430″ 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=”Kimberly Hile\, Ph.D.” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Dr. Kimberly Hile is an associate professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)\, where she coordinates the early childhood education/early childhood special education and child\, family\, and community development undergraduate degree programs. Her research interests focus on the inclusion of young children with disabilities\, Part C early intervention\, implementing family-centered practices\, and personnel preparation.[/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 Survey” button_id=”Continuing Education Survey” text=”Continuing Education Survey” url=”https://auburn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0dNGzsWInVnpsEK”][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 4/2/2028.\nBoard Certified Disability Management Specialists: This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) clock hours from The Commission for Case Manager Certification. Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 4/2/2027.\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. Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 6/30/2027.\nIllinois Early Care & Education Providers: This webinar is approved as a Gateways to Opportunity Registry-approved Training for early care and education professionals in Illinois through 6/30/2027.\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 4/2/2029.\nCertified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education credit from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 4/2/2028.\nMichigan Certified Teachers: This webinar has been approved for 1.5 SCECH from the Michigan Education Association’s Center for Leadership and Learning. Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 4/2/2029.\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 4/2/2028.\nOneOp Certificates of Attendance are available for those interested in additional documentation of professional development activities.\n\nIf the button above does not appear for you\, please access the continuing education survey through this link: https://auburn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0dNGzsWInVnpsEK. 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URL:https://oneop.org/learn/160130/
CATEGORIES:Health and Well-Being
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SUMMARY:Child Development: Knowledge\, Behavior\, and Healthy Boundaries
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This development is a normal\, expected\, and essential part of childhood. It is shaped by other aspects of growth\, including social\, emotional\, cognitive\, and moral developmental domains. Sexual development includes not only physical changes\, anatomical knowledge\, and sexual behaviors\, but also boundaries\, social skills\, friendships\, and attachments. \nThis webinar provides an overview of developmental domains in both preschoolers (ages 6 and under) and school-age children (ages 7-12). Participants will learn how these domains relate to children’s sexual knowledge and behaviors. The session will review typical sexual development across these age ranges and protective and supportive strategies to promote healthy sexual development. The webinar also covers factors behind problematic sexual behavior (PSB) and evidence-based methods to return to healthy development. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nRecognize typical social\, emotional\, and cognitive development in preschoolers (ages 6 and under) and school-age children (ages 7 to 12).\nDescribe how developmental processes influence children’s sexual knowledge and sexual behavior.\nIdentify factors linked to the development of problematic sexual behavior (PSB) and outline steps to prevent or respond to these concerns.\nExplain evidence-based strategies that promote healthy sexual development and effectively address concerning sexual behaviors.\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=”10263″ 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. Benjamin Sigel” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Benjamin Sigel\, PhD\, is a Licensed Psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry\, College of Medicine\, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). His areas of expertise include the assessment and treatment of children with a history of experiencing trauma and exhibiting problematic sexual behavior. 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\nEpisodes referenced in this episode: \n\nEncouragement That Works: How to Give a Real Pep Talk https://oneop.org/learn/how-to-give-a-real-pep-talk/\nBeyond Sleep: Four Kinds of Rest We All Need https://oneop.org/learn/beyond-sleep-four-kinds-of-rest-we-all-need/\nMore than a Meal: Building Community and Resilience with Chef Mary Long https://oneop.org/learn/more-than-a-meal-building-community-and-resilience-with-chef-mary-long/\nCollaboration in Action: Serving Military Families through Strengthening Communities https://oneop.org/learn/collaboration-in-action/\nAdventure-Ready: Strengthening Military Families Through Teen Camps https://oneop.org/learn/adventure-ready-strengthening-military-families-through-teen-camps/\, https://fcs.mgcafe.uky.edu/MTAC\nDo Less of What Drains You https://oneop.org/learn/do-less-of-what-drains-you/\nUsing the Feeling Wheel to Know Your Emotions https://oneop.org/learn/using-the-feeling-wheel-to-know-your-emotions-s-4-ep-11/\nListening for Strengths and Values https://oneop.org/learn/listening-for-strengths-and-values-s-5-ep-2/\nAn Ecosystem of Military Family Support with Nicola Winkel https://oneop.org/learn/learning-from-each-other-s-5-ep-5/\nNotice Offers & See Them as Gifts\, with Shannon Hughes https://oneop.org/learn/notice-offers-see-them-as-gifts-s-5-ep-13/\nStrengthening Military Community Connections with Amy Rodick https://oneop.org/learn/strengthening-military-community-connections/\nHabit Stacking https://oneop.org/learn/habit-stacking/\nEnding the Day Strong: A 5-minute Daily Reset https://oneop.org/learn/ending-the-day-strong-a-5-minute-daily-reset/\nReconnecting with Wonder to Spark Creativity https://oneop.org/learn/reconnecting-with-wonder-to-sparl-creativity/\n\nFurther links and resources for the podcast: \n\nJoin our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12879756/\nSend us a message: practicingconnection@oneop.org\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”][00:00:00]\nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Hi. Thank you for listening to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Erin. My co-host Jessica is here as well. Today we’ll be answering listener questions in our first ever mailbag episode. \nHi Jessica. How are you feeling about answering questions today? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I am so excited for this episode. ‘Cause as you know\, I got a peek at the questions\, and I’m just really excited. I hope that my voice holds out\, as you might be able to tell\, I have a little bit of a cold. But I am super stoked about this episode. We’ve been planning this for a while. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: How are you feeling about it? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I’m feeling really excited. I think it’s fun to have actual interaction with some questions from others\, which is fun. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And you got to collect these too. So that must have been fun. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I did get to collect these. It was really fun\, and I got to\, I kind of selected which ones we’re doing\, and I think it’ll be [00:01:00] really fun because you’ve been doing this podcast for a while. You’ve been here since the beginning of the podcast. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Since the beginning of time. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: And I’m new\, so I think it’ll be really fun to see how different our answers are to questions. Are you ready to dive in? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I am\, and I’ll try not to be long-winded. As you said\, I’ve been here since the beginning of time. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I did not say you have been here since the beginning of time! You just helped found it. You’re a founder. It’s very exciting. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Okay. Let’s do it. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay. First question. \n“Hi\, I’m new to listening to the podcast. I love that you have interviews and Practicasts. The practices all seem super useful when I’m listening\, but I can never manage to get myself to actually do one. Do you have any suggestions on how to get unstuck and actually try something?” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I do. And actually\, the suggestions that I have come from some of the foundational work [00:02:00] that Bob and I were doing when we first started this podcast. \nSo\, the first one is\, touch the treadmill. And what I mean by that\, you were about to ask what I mean by that\,right? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I was. You read my eyebrow perfectly. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: So what that means is\, you’ve got a treadmill\, and you’ve got the will potentially to use it. But also it’s very difficult somehow to use. And the idea here is that if you promise yourself that all you have to do is go downstairs or go to wherever the treadmill is and just touch it\, chances are you’re going to get up on the thing and go for a couple minutes. And you might negotiate with yourself and say\, “I only need to do five minutes\, and I’m gonna consider that a win for today\,” right? \nSo the chances of when you go and touch the treadmill of you getting on it are greater. \nAnd then if you get on it\, the chances of you going for five minutes\, or maybe\, you know\, you get to five minutes and you’re like\, “Oh\, I can go five more minutes\,” the [00:03:00] chances of you doing something with it are greater. \nAnd so the idea here is getting unstuck. You don’t have to try the whole thing. You can just say\, “You know what\, I’m going to consider it a win if I just do a piece of this practice\, or if I just do a piece of this thing.” \nOr if I start by\, for example\, I know that I want to get up out of bed – my goal is to get up out of bed by 6:30 in the morning. That is really hard for me. And so right now I am happy if I’m getting out of bed before 7:00 AM. It can be one minute before 7:00 AM. It can be 30 seconds before 7:00 AM. I don’t care. I’m happy if I’m getting up before 7:00 AM. \nMy goal\, I know\, is eventually I’m going to keep walking that back 10 minutes at a time. But as soon as I start to very consistently get up before 7:00 AM\, then I’ll set it back to 6:50. So I want to get up before 6:50 AM. So eventually my goal will be to be getting up [00:04:00] before or at 6:30 AM. \nAnd so to me\, touching the treadmill is 6:59 and 59 seconds. If I get up\, right\, then that is still a win. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I love this. We call this breaking inertia. That’s what we talk about at our house\, where it’s like once you get started\, it’s easier to keep going\, but finding the momentum to get going is the hardest thing. So you can come up with the most laughably easy success. \nYou know\, we do this thing where we’ll do walks every day in the winter\, and sometimes before we like fully went into it\, I was\, I did a lot of saying\, “Okay\, I just have to stand outside. I just have to get dressed and put shoes on and go outside.” And then once I was out there\, I was like\, “Wait\, actually it’s nice out here.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yep. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: So that’s me retelling the thing you just told [00:05:00] again\, \nBut – \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, and these are both physical examples. I want to give also like a maybe non-physical example. So I really value and enjoy creative writing\, and yet I hardly ever do it\, but I’ve been doing it lately because I had to touch the treadmill of attitude about it. \nAnd I’m like\, all I have to do is open Scrivener\, click through a few of my chapters\, maybe read a couple things. I don’t have to even do any of that. All I have to do is open Scrivener and just like look at the project for a second. That’s the touch the treadmill. \nAnd then once I’m in it\, I do tend to read through what I’ve got and maybe I’ll add a few words here or there. Maybe I don’t. Sometimes I don’t\, but I still feel like I won\, because I did something in that space. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Awesome. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And the other thing that I would say of getting unstuck and actually trying something is to remember that you don’t have to do anything perfectly the first time\, or ever. You don’t ever have to do anything perfectly. \nThere are [00:06:00] systems that I have followed\, what is that\, David Allen’s Getting Things Done system. I tried that so many times. It doesn’t work for me\, but you know what\, there are little pieces of it that work for me really well. And so I stole those few little pieces and I started assembling my own thing. \nAnd so one of the things I always say comes from this yoga teacher that I had once\, that it’s yoga practice people\, not yoga perfect. It’s yoga practice\, not yoga perfect. \nAnd so remember that anything that you’re doing is practice\, and you can just take from it what you want. You don’t have to do the whole thing in its perfection\, the whole in its entirety\, just because someone else developed this thing for you to follow. \nYou don’t have to follow everything. Just take the little pieces that mean something to you. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I love that. Okay\, so my initial thought when I read this question was about “switch [00:07:00] costs.” Have you heard of this term? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Is this sort of like context switching\, or is it something else? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Kind of. Essentially it’s: brains kind of default to what they’re familiar with\, what routines and what you’ve done before. And that’s kind of your default. \nAnd so when you make a change\, there’s a cost to it\, and sometimes your brain is just resistant to it. Even if you think it’ll be a good change\, your brain is trying to protect you from wasting time\, energy\, resources\, danger. \nBecause sometimes change can read as danger\, and so your brain is just like\, “Oh\, it’s not worth doing.” And a lot of times\, I heard about this first in creative spaces where people had been working for a long time\, or also in entrepreneurship\, which is funny. People will work on something for a long time\, and right before they’re about to go public with it\, they just have the major energy slump crisis of\, “Am I able to pull this off?” \nAnd it’s this kind of “switch [00:08:00] cost” place. The best advice I’ve gotten for navigating switch cost\, when suddenly your brain’s telling you\, “Oh\, this is gonna cost too much to try\,” is something called spread of alternatives\, where basically you imagine\, “Okay\, what will it be like if I stay the same?” \nAnd then you also imagine\, “What could be different in a good way if I tried the new thing?” It’s a lot like visualization. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Or I always like to say\, “What could this make possible?” \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. And that helps your brain freak out less about change to imagine. You can kind of see\, okay\, what will it cost me to keep doing it the way that I’m doing it\, and what could benefit me from doing it a new way? \nAnd that kind of helps shift the balance in your brain into a new thing. So I don’t know if that’s what’s happening for the person asking this question\, but to me it sounds like often I hear a similar question from people [00:09:00] who are maybe overwhelmed\, or have a huge workload on their plate. And so adding one more thing feels impossible. \nMy response to that would be that your workload is never going to change unless you start trying something. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: So change isn’t the enemy necessarily\, and here’s a way to help you decide if a change is worth doing. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Oh\, I love that. \nWell\, what’s our next question? Let’s\, I’m\, we’re warming up here. I appreciate that first one. I like the order you put this in. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Oh\, thank you. Okay\, so question two: “I just started listening to the podcast. What are your top must-listen-to episodes from past seasons? There are too many to listen to them all.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: So the\, my first thought when I saw this question is\, “You think I’m going to be able to narrow this down very much? \nI mean\, yes\, I can narrow it down for sure\, but as we’ve [00:10:00] established\, I’ve been here since the beginning of time on this podcast. And so\, I did make a few notes. It’s certainly not all-inclusive because if I had been all inclusive\, It would’ve just been too long of a list\, but I’m going to start with one of our most recent episodes. \nI really loved the conversation I had with the mayor of Havelock\, Will Lewis. That was published in February\, \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, last episode of February. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. And frankly\, I love a lot of our interview episodes. Bringing other voices on the podcast\, but also just learning from others. \nSo I loved talking with the mayor of Havelock. Havelock has done some amazing things and created some really strong partnerships\, and collaborations across disciplines\, public and private\, the installation nearby\, and the city officials. And I just think they’ve done a tremendous job there. \nAnother one that comes to [00:11:00] mind really strongly is the More Than a Meal with Chef Mary Long. Her work is at the US Army North Vogel Resilience Center in San Antonio. She has these really innovative cooking classes\, and she talked a lot about how the community that’s built up around this center has been really important for the service members who have been taking advantage of that in their families. \nAnd some of our Practicasts that have come to mind: this is one I told you I was going to mention it\, even though it has not been super popular with the listeners. I love this practice and it has helped me tremendously. \nThere’s an episode we have called Energy and Engagement Tracking. I don’t know\, maybe it’s the name of the episode that isn’t playing very well\, but it is not as well-loved as I thought it was going- it’s not like the hit I thought it was going to be. But I love that episode\, and I love the practice that we shared during that. It’s [00:12:00] something that I literally have used – all of our practices we have used – but this is one that I keep coming back to and using. \nAnother one using the Feeling Wheel to Understand Emotions. This one is well-loved among our listeners. Any of our strengths-based ones\, so like the Via Character Strengths\, as you know\, I talk about them all the time. I’ve had a lot of training in them\, and I speak about them way too annoyingly often. \nSo really any of our strengths-based episodes. But one in particular is Listening for Strengths. I think our Ecosystem of Military Family Support with Nicola Winkle was one of my personal favorites. \nAnd then we did three episodes that were based on improv\, and I bring it up here and there\, I try not to mention it too much\, but I did used to perform improv\, and really have learned a lot about the application of theater and improvisational theater tools [00:13:00] in life. And I’ve brought a lot of that to my work. And so we have three episodes on that that we did with a tremendous guest\, Shannon Hughes from Enlivened Studios. \nI just loved doing these episodes. There were three of them. They are: Yes\, And vs. Yeah\, But\, Make Your Partner Look Good\, and Notice Offers & See Them as Gifts. \nAnd all of those ones I just mentioned\, they’re all some of my personal favorites. \nI have many personal favorites on the podcast\, and I’m not trying to sound like\, I don’t know\, I really do feel like I’ve created something that I would listen to. And so it’s very genuine love for this podcast when I say that I could have gone on and listed more\, so I could keep going. \nAnd the last thing I’ll say is that any of our interviews really are such a joy for me\, and I think that any of our interviews are a must-listen. And we’ve even spoken with Amy Roddick\, the Director of Military Family and Readiness policy a couple of times\, [00:14:00] those have been really great conversations and I look forward hopefully to more. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Wow. Okay. So I think that’s a great list. I’ll keep mine super short because I don’t want to overwhelm people with 20 episodes. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Like I just did. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Um\, yes. Also\, because I have to go hunt all of these down so we can put links in the show notes. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Do not despair. Every episode we mention in this episode will be linked in the show notes\, even if it ends up being 20. Just so that you don’t have to go find them\, they’re going to be right there. \nI think one of the first episodes I ever listened to was Adventure Ready\, Strengthening Military Families Tthrough Teen Camps. That was last year. And it was this really cool episode where our colleague Kristen came on with some of her coworkers from Kentucky to talk about these really cool 4-H adventure camps that they do for military youth and their parents\, where they can [00:15:00] go with their parent. \nAnd I think what I loved about that is\, camp is familiar to me\, both my mother and one of my best friends have done the running summer camp thing. And so it was very familiar. It was a context I understood\, but I hadn’t really understood the military layer until I listened to that episode. \nAnd they were talking about how they do all of the normal camp things\, but there was one major difference\, which was\, military parents were expressing\, “We don’t want to be separated from our kid. We’re already separated so much. We want time to do things together. We want experiences together so we can have quality time with our teens.” \nAnd then they developed these camps out of that idea. And I\, first of all\, loved it. The camp sounded super cool\, super fun\, and it’s clear that they’re really being intentional. And it was just a delight to hear this group. You should definitely all go listen to that episode. They’re still running the camps. I think [00:16:00] registration for this year opens like next week sometime. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I was going to say\, it’s got to be coming soon because we did this last April. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, that would make sense. I think April is the Month of the Military Child\, so definitely a season in which we do it. I’ll put the links to that episode and to the camp also in our show notes. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: That’s also any branch too\, right? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. There’s a registration fee of like $60 for this camp. But otherwise\, the camps are completely free and include equipment\, lodging\, and meals. So it’s a very exciting opportunity. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And you don’t have to be in Kentucky\, right. You can be from anywhere. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, that’s what I thought. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. That was a great conversation\, and I saw that you listed it\, so I didn’t put it in my list\, but it is one of the interviews that I loved last year. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. So much like deep thought was put into what people were doing\, and it was clear they were so passionate about what they were doing and so it was just pleasant\, and [00:17:00] everybody had really lovely sounding voices. You know\, every once in a while someone’s voice just like hits the perfect spot. \nAnyway\, I really enjoyed that episode. And one episode I really loved that I did\, I was kind of like the lead writer for it\, was Beyond Sleep: Four Kinds of Rest We All Need\, where we walk people through how to do an inventory of different types of rest that you need. \nAnd part of why I love it is because after we recorded it\, I kept having conversations with all of these people where they were just saying\, “Oh\, I had all this time off\, and I’m so exhausted.” I was like\, “Hey\, it’s possible you’re not getting the rest you need.” \nSo then I ended up referring a bunch of people to it and having that conversation\, and actually doing that inventory with a couple of people to help them come up with new ways of resting \nAnd getting to actually see people have these transformative experiences [00:18:00] because of a practice that I was the lead writer on was really invigorating. Selfishly\, I loved it because it really helps motivate me to write specific and thorough episodes. You know\, we think pretty deeply about what we’re sharing\, and it’s really encouraging to see\, ‘Oh yeah\, this is actually helpful. It’s not just helpful to me personally. It is helpful to a broad audience.” \nSo those are kind of my top two. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I love that. I really loved that episode. Also that Practicast you mentioned. And it makes me want to actually go back and listen to it because\, I mean\, yes\, I know I need physical rest right now because I’m getting over a little bit of a virus. But\, I’m reminded that there’s other kinds of rest that I could use right now too. \nSo I kind of want to go back and listen to that. \nOur next question? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. Okay. \n“Thanks for introducing me to habit stacking as a productivity tool. Do you have any [00:19:00] recommendations for how we could stack practices? Is that a thing you can even do? What practices could we combine for greater impact? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Okay. So\, Erin\, you might suspect I’m going to mention something about character strengths. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay\, sure. Sure. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: So\, I mean\, I would say I will always answer questions like this with telling people to lean into\, learn about and practice anything to do with building your character strengths. \nAnd then I would say combine that with emotional intelligence. Things like knowing and regulating your emotions. And we do have some episodes using the feeling wheel to help you know your emotions. We have some other episodes about regulating your emotions as well\, if I recall. \nSo anyway\, combine character strengths with emotional intelligence\, and then if you can mix in a little like “yes\, and…” or\, any of those\, you know\, making your partner look [00:20:00] good or the idea of seeing everything in front of you as an offer\, including the environment\, what people are saying to you. Those are all offers that you can build with. \nSo those kinds of things combined I think will help you be present with others\, will help you just be present period. Not just present with others\, but just be present\, period. \nThey will help you improve your relationships and help you build your adaptability and confidence. Adaptability in particular is really important. Things are constantly changing\, and I think for some reason we keep denying that that’s what’s happening. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay. That makes sense. Hilariously\, a lot of the episodes we recommended as must-listens are ones that would be pretty compatible with each other. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. I think so too. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. \nLet’s see what else. I had like a few specific ones. Oh\, so one of our most recent episodes\, I think it’s [00:21:00] published\, yeah\, was about How to Give Pep Talks\, or\, Encouragement That Works. And shortly before that\, we had one about social awareness\, Turning Conflict into Collaboration. \nAnd I think you can take the practice for observing people on your team and imagining them more complexly from the turning conflict into collaboration. So combine that kind of social intelligence\, observing other people and learning about them\, with how to give a pep talk to give a really\, really good pep talk. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Or if you’re like going through the practice of trying to write a pep talk and you keep getting stuck\, ’cause you don’t know what people need to hear or you can’t quite figure out what’s happening\, using that practice from Turning Conflict Into Collaboration to really figure out what is it that’s going on with people\, what do they value\, what’s important to them? And then figuring out\, okay\, how does that connect to my pep talk? \nAnd then maybe even rewriting your pep talk\, because I think once you figure out people’s values\, it’s way easier to [00:22:00] write a pep talk. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: So that’s one combination I recommend. And I think one other thing is we had an episode last year about ending the day strong with a daily reflection. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. We have maybe a lot of those\, but that’s okay. Right? You pick the daily reflection that works for you. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. Basically any of our reflection practices combine well with other ones because a lot of them are about noticing. So if you’re trying a new thing\, the daily reflection practice\, I think is specifically really useful if you’re trying a new practice\, and you want to see what impact it’s having on your experience. \nSo like start doing that daily reflection before you start another practice\, and then keep doing it after to help you kind of notice the impact of it\, and if it’s worth continuing. \nIf it’s really hitting what you need it to hit\, or if you need to pivot and try something new\, I also like the Ending the Day Strong daily reflection practice\, as like burnout [00:23:00] prevention\, and I think it’s a useful way to identify if you’re missing something. So it could help you decide what kind of rest you need. \nLast fall we also had some episodes about awe and wonder\, which are other things that really help with burnout prevention. So I think those are also potentially practices you could combine. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, I love that. That kind of reminds me of\, I’ve just recently started doing something called Interstitial Journaling\, and it’s basically where you just take like 30 seconds to maybe three minutes\, when you have a moment. So it’s just in between things and you just quickly say\, “Here’s what I just worked on. Here’s what I’m about to work on\, here’s how I’m feeling.” \nAnd you just kind of like write a couple things. It’s not meant to be a long journaling session\, it’s just sort of in-between things. You record the time that you’re doing it and you say a little bit about what you did\, a little bit about what you’re going to do. You can probably say whatever you want in there really. \nBut maybe a little bit about how you’re feeling. And [00:24:00] it’s been super\, super helpful. It may not be like an end of the day reflection\, but it’s been sort of a day long reflection. It’s been kind of interesting. It’s still an experiment I’m trying\, and maybe we’ll have an episode about it sometime. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I love that. All right. Any other final thoughts before we wrap it up? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: No\, I just had so much fun with our first mailbag session. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, me too. I hope that people send us more questions and maybe like harder questions! \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: These are very friendly questions that people have been sending us. You know\, it’s like\, hit us with some hard ones! \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, how are they gonna do that? Let’s tell ’em! \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. All right. If you have a question or a hot take to share\, please email us at practicingconnection@oneop.org. You can look at the show notes if you want to see that spelled out. We want to hear from you. \nWe do see and respond to every message\, and we promise we will ask your permission [00:25:00] before including any of your questions in a future episode. \nThat’s it. Thank you for joining us. We’ll be back next week. Until then\, keep practicing. \nCREDITS: 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 number 2 0 2 3 4 8 7 74 3 3.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Practical Strategies for Supporting Preschoolers Through Change
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These skills can help preschoolers handle moves and changes throughout their lives. This webinar shares ways to prepare young children for changes in caregivers\, daily routines\, and friends when they move. Professionals will learn how to use adaptive tools and keep things consistent so children—including those with disabilities—feel safe and secure. Real-life examples will show how teaching children to adapt helps create a strong foundation for future readiness. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nIdentify three practical steps to prepare preschoolers for environmental and routine changes.\nDescribe two adaptive tools or routines that support children with disabilities in new settings.\nCreate one problem-solving technique that builds adaptability in young children.\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=”219462″ 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=”Courtney O’Grady\, Ph.D.” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Dr. O’Grady is an assistant professor of early childhood special education at the University of Alabama. 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SUMMARY:Prevent Burnout with "Unfocusing"
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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](Season 7\, Episode 16) \nWhat if the key to getting more done is doing less focusing?  \nIn this episode\, Erin introduces the concept of unfocusing – not slacking off\, but intentionally giving your brain a chance to rest and recharge.  \nDrawing from Dr. Srini Pillay’s book Tinker\, Dabble\, Doodle\, Try\, we explore why hyperfocusing leads to burnout\, mental rigidity\, and even impaired decision-making. \nThen Erin walks us through a simple\, low-pressure practice to help you build a healthier cognitive rhythm — no major schedule overhaul required\, just a 10-minute alarm. \nLinks and resources from this episode: \n\nTinker\, Dabble\, Doodle\, Try by Dr Srini Pillay : https://drsrinipillay.com/resource/tinker-dabble-doodle-try/ \nJoin our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12879756/\nSend us a message: practicingconnection@oneop.org\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] Hi\, thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Jessica\, my co-host\, Erin is here as well. And today we’ll be talking about the power of ‘Unfocusing.’ And Erin’s going to be sharing a practice with us. Hi Erin. What’s making you excited right now? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Wow\, that’s such a fun question. I had a bunch of really interesting conversations with coworkers at a professional development conference last week\, and so I’m really excited to follow up\, and I found some new areas to dig into and really learn about at this conference. So I love learning new things\, so that gets me really excited when I get to learn new stuff. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: I have the same kind of bent toward learning new things. I get – I always like to actually joke that\, “My hobby is actually learning new things.” When I learned a long time ago\, I used to feel guilty about how I\, and I think I’ve talked about this on the podcast [00:01:00] before\, but how I would like want to get into something\, a hobby\, and I would buy all the things related to that hobby and I would do it. I would\, you can’t really say master it once\, but I would feel good enough about what I created one or two times that I would be like\, “Cool.” \nAnd it’s almost like my brain was like\, “Check. You’ve done that. You don’t have to do it anymore\, ever.” And then I just let the stuff sit there for years\, all the stuff that I bought\, and I used to feel really guilty about that. And that pattern kind of continued. And then I\, when I realized that my actual hobby is that I love to learn and try new things\, then I stopped buying quite as much when I wanted to get into something\, and I would look to see like\, where could I borrow it from or what’s the cheapest way that I could get into the hobby without having to get a lot of inventory or put a lot of\, you know\, outlay out there\, cash outlay. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: That is so relatable\, but I’m not going to respond anymore because we have to stay on topic. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Right! Let’s [00:02:00] stay on topic. \nWell\, we’d love to hear what’s going on with you. Please drop us a line at practicingconnection@oneop.org. We’ve actually recently started to do some mailbag episodes\, so we’d love to hear any questions you have. We see and respond to every message\, and we can’t wait to hear from you. \n– break – \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Okay\, let’s learn more about unfocusing. Erin\, first of all\, what is unfocusing? I had not heard this term until you brought it up to me\, when we were talking about this while we were producing the episode. It doesn’t really sound like something that could be helpful at work\, to be honest. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I know\, my initial response to the word unfocusing was\, “Oh\, so we should be slacking more.” Which I think tells you a lot about me\, I was like\, “Oh\, that’s an interesting response\, self.” Hmm. \nBut I actually [00:03:00] learned about it in a book by Dr. Srini Pillay: Tinker\, Dabble\, Doodle\, Try.  \nDr. Pillay is a psychiatrist and brain researcher. And he was the one who introduced me to the word ‘unfocusing.’ So he describes unfocusing as\, “The process for relaxing your brain so that it can be ready\, recharged\, coordinated\, and innovative when you need it to be.” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Which does actually sound pretty helpful at work. In my experience when I’m trying to be more productive\, there’s this voice in me that says\, “Oh\, you just have to focus harder\,” because I have all this experience where when I focus\, I can really get a lot of stuff done. \nAnd I think what made me bring this idea to the podcast is\, when I started learning about some of the things that can happen when you double down on focusing\, or hyperfocus\, you’d think\, “Oh\, well\, more focusing is better.” \nBut actually focusing too [00:04:00] much can be like a major\, a major challenge. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: No\, this is really interesting because we hear a lot nowadays about how we should not be multitasking. Multitasking is really bad for us\, and so this kind of feels like the opposite even though it’s not really the opposite. \nI’m not sure how to describe it. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. Well\, we’ll get into it. But before we get into more of that\, I want to talk a little bit about what can happen if you hyperfocus too much? \nBecause when I’m thinking about changing how I use my brain\, the cost of switching is really high. So I’ve really got to convince myself\, and these were the things that convinced me\, “Oh\, maybe I should try this.” \nSo\, I have three big things that happen for people when you are only hyper-focusing. One is called selective attention\, and the best example of that is\, have you seen the Invisible Gorilla video where they play – \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: It’s invisible. I haven’t seen it. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. So there’s this video\, and it’s a group of people [00:05:00] and they all have different colored shirts\, and they’re passing a ball. \nAnd they did this experiment where they would play this video for people and they would ask\, “How many people with red shirts on touched the ball during the video?” And then you would watch it. \nAnd then at the end of the video they would say\, “Did you see the gorilla?” And nobody saw the gorilla. And then you rewatch the video and you see there’s a person in a gorilla costume dancing through the video halfway through. But when you’re hyper-focused on seeing who with a red shirt is catching the ball\, you miss the gorilla. \nAnd what can happen in our work is if we’re only hyper-focusing\, we can miss major warning signs\, we can miss major opportunities. We can miss problems that are coming up that we’re unaware of. \nAnd so\, unfortunately\, once you know what’s happening\, you can’t miss the gorilla. So I’m sorry if I made you not have that experience. It is really shocking the [00:06:00] first time that happens to you. I had a teacher show us that and I was like\, Ugh. \nSo the other thing that can happen is loss of caring\, which is also a symptom of depression\, so that you might have heard that specific phrase before. But essentially when you hyperfocus\, it’s the same part of your brain that you use for moral decision making and assessing consequences of your actions\, so it fatigues that part of your brain and you have less capacity to assess the consequences of an action. \nAnd so a lot of time when people make choices that later they’re like\, “Ooh\, why did I do that?” It’s because they lost their ability\, or some of their ability\, to process consequences of their actions. Which is so fascinating\, right? And you’re like\, these are not good. \nAnd then the third one is called long-term discounting\, or a tendency to minimize the importance of the future. So I see this one a lot on teams that have a huge [00:07:00] workload\, and so they’re really focusing super hard to get the workload done\, and then they end up not thinking about the cost that they’re going to have in the future. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Or even missing an opportunity to apply for some funding\, or missing opportunities because they’re so focused on getting the stuff done. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. That’s a great example. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: So how do we avoid the dangers of hyper-focusing? Right? So obviously focusing has got to be helpful sometimes I assume. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes\, actually. Okay. So the best example that I got from this book that I’m reading is they compared focus to a flashlight that has multiple settings. Hopefully you’ve used one of these\, so this makes sense. \nSo focus is when you have a really close\, narrow beam that really brightly highlights a specific small area. And this is really useful if it’s nighttime and you need to find something\, or you need to fix something in your car. \nAnd unfocused [00:08:00] is the equivalent of a wide diffused beam that reaches far and wide and enables you to have peripheral vision. And so obviously both of those flashlight settings are very useful\, but they’re not useful in all circumstances. \nAnd you get the best use of your battery life when you’re able to switch between the two. And the same is true for your brain. You fatigue your brain less when you switch between focus and unfocus\, and you use focus in specific situations\, and unfocus in other situations. To kind of balance and build a rhythm of focusing in on focusing\, and that’s how you can utilize the benefits without landing in these places where you lose capacity. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: All right. Well\, I mean\, I do have one of those flashlights. I actually have a whole bunch of those flashlights because it’s very helpful for taking your dog out at night. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: But so how do we do this in real life? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, [00:09:00] as I said\, you know\, the sweet spot is training your brain to shift in and out of focus\, and Dr. Malay calls this ‘Building a cognitive rhythm.’ \nSo to get brain sciencey about it\, and I want to just add a little disclaimer\, I am summarizing somebody else’s expertise. I am not a brain expert. But essentially unfocusing is activating what is called the default mode network in your brain. \nHe described it as the ‘Home of abstract thought\,’ which is very fun. And when you activate that part of your brain\, it acts as a distraction sponge. It can help with mental flexibility. It connects you more deeply with yourself and others. It helps you integrate your past\, your present\, and your future\, which is really helpful for decision making\, pattern recognition and creative problem solving. \nAnd the goal is a lot of time\, the rhythm that people have\, if they’ve spent a lot of time depending on focusing in order to get done\, is they have a focus\, focus\, focus [00:10:00] fatigue\, rhythm\, where they just kind of focus until their brain crashes\, and they’re really tired or they’re burnt out or they can’t anymore. \nAnd his recommendation is that you pivot to focus\, tinker\, focus\, play\, focus\, nap\, focus. You know\, you switch between these different unfocusing strategies\, and then you can cut the fatigue crash portion out of your cognitive rhythm\, which is exciting. Obviously this is a whole book. I’m not gonna be able to summarize a whole book. \nBut what we’re going to do is I have a practice that I’ll share in a minute that’s kind of like an an initial first baby step to practice noticing what it feels like to unfocus\, and try it out in a low risk\, low stakes way\, so that you can kind of build your mental muscle for relaxing your brain. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, why don’t we get started with that\, or did you have something else you wanted to share? \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, I think I just want to mention before I get into this practice\, everybody’s brain’s a little bit different. Everybody has different [00:11:00] experiences\, they’re in a different context. People might have different neuro types. And if you’re not familiar with Neurotype\, that’s a long conversation that I will get super hyperfocused on\, so I won’t get into it. \nBut essentially\, different people’s brains are set up to process information differently\, and what works for one person isn’t going to magically work for another person. So this practice is specifically designed to help you explore ‘what is helpful to me.’ \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, and that’s how we do a lot of our practices\, right? We know that sometimes we’re covering a very similar practice than we’ve covered in the past\, but we’re doing it in a little bit of a different way. And we do that because of what you just said\, Erin\, because everyone is a little bit different\, and you always need to find what works for you. \nSo yes\, I love this. Let’s get started. Please walk us through the practice. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay\, step one is to make a list of two to three activities that are undemanding for you. Look for things that physically separate you from a focus task. [00:12:00] Move your body or engage one of your senses\, and ideally don’t require you to look at a screen\, phone or computer. Sometimes that’s not possible\, but try. \nSo some examples of what that might look like is taking a walk along a familiar route\, so you don’t have to think about where you’re going. Listening to a song with your eyes closed and just enjoying it. Coloring a coloring page or doodling\, like drawing some sketches\, taking a nap\, looking out a window while doing the dishes. \nLetting your mind wander without trying to make any decisions. Imagining a zany ‘what-if’ scenario. That one I’m going to add a little asterisk of ‘don’t catastrophize.’ Don’t imagine the worst case scenario. Imagine a positive scenario whenever possible. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Can I add one to this list that I love to do? I like to\, if I can\, sit outside\, because it’s not always nice sitting outside weather here\, but if I [00:13:00] can sit outside\, I love to just close my eyes and listen to all the sounds and just like name the sound. \nLike if I hear a bird\, I might be like\, oh\, bird. Bird. And I’ll just keep repeating that until I get to – it’s a mindfulness practice. And then like\, I’ll hear a car drive by and I’ll be like\, car\, car. And I’ll just name the sounds as they come by\, and it’s so relaxing \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: So that’s the whole point\, is undemanding. Yes. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Mm-hmm. Okay. So step two is to look at your schedule\, hopefully for a whole week\, maybe more\, and find a time in your day where you can set an unfocus alarm once a day. \nIt doesn’t have to be the same time every day. There’s no perfect time\, but try to look for about 10 minutes where you’re free to do whatever you want. Bonus points if this can be during your workday\, but if you don’t have control over your work schedule\, after work is fine. But the goal is to just physically\, on your phone or your calendar or [00:14:00] however\, keep track of time\, set an alarm once a day for a week to go unfocus\, and find time to do this practice. \nAnd then step three is to stop focusing when the alarm rings. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Stop Unfocusing when the alarm rings? Stop focusing when your alarm rings? \nOh\, I see. You’re setting your alarm for a certain time of day\, every day. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Okay\, yes\, so essentially\, this is hard because I’m trying to make it open to everybody\, but it’s getting confusing. So essentially you’re setting an alarm for unfocused time once a day. It’s helpful for many people if it’s the same time every day\, but if that is giving you stress hives\, just schedule like 10 minute window and set an alarm. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: You know me so well. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. Is that clear? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: You knew where I was going with that. Okay. Yes\, yes. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: So when your alarm goes off\, stop whatever you’re doing\, [00:15:00] even if you’re in the middle of it\, even if you’re five words away from finishing your sentence. \nThis is the part that’s hard\, like this is the hard part because if you’re used to focusing and then crashing\, your brain is going to tell you that if you stop focusing now\, you’re going to lose your momentum and your flow and your productivity\, and whatever you’re working on. \nAnd that may be true some of the time. And we’re training our brain to have a new rhythm where we don’t crash. When we stop focusing\, we relax. And when you’ve trained your brain to relax\, not crash\, it means you can come back refreshed and not forgetting everything you were doing. And this is the step that I think is the hardest because it takes the most willpower\, discipline\, faith\, trust. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Well\, and this is so interesting too because I think we hear a lot about how interruptions take us [00:16:00] 15 to 20 minutes to get reengaged. Like with some of the information that comes out there\, this research sounds really interesting because it kind of is counter to some of the advice we’ve been hearing. \nAnd so I think that might be one of the reasons. It’s hard too\, because it feels counterproductive. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. And nothing so far has said that that isn’t true. But you’re interrupting yourself and then you’re setting – step four is to set a 10 minute timer where you do one of the activities that you identified in step one. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: And so I think some of what we’re doing here is we’re intentionally stopping and relaxing\, and these activities that are undemanding help build capacity. \nSo you’re pausing and you’re relaxing your brain\, and that will help you refocus later. So one of the things that is really interesting that they’re finding is that when you intentionally unfocus\, it helps sharpen your ability to [00:17:00] refocus. And so it actually makes some of the transitions and the interruptions a little bit easier if instead of being interrupted\, focusing on one thing too hard\, focusing on another thing\, you have this buffer time of unfocusing to kind of transition and re-relax your brain so it’s not fatigued. \nIt’s the difference of\, you know\, if you’re doing reps while you’re lifting weights. and if you just keep going and keep going\, that’s where the gains really come. And also if you just keep going and never\, ever stop\, that’s also how you injure yourself\, right? So it’s helpful to a point\, and then you’ve got to rest and release your muscles so that you can do your reps again. \nThat’s kind of the system that I think is being shown. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: This is so interesting. You’ve got this set up as a four step process\, but it’s got to be one of the easiest four step processes I’ve ever seen. It’s basically\, have a couple of activities in your back pocket that are [00:18:00] really un demanding when your alarm goes off\, right? \nSo then you’re setting an alarm\, possibly at the same time every day\, maybe at different times\, just depending on what your schedule is like\, for 10 minutes. You’re doing one of those activities. \nAnd it looks like you might have a secret step five. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes\, I realized that as usual\, the secret step five is reflection. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Ha. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: There’s always a reflection on this podcast. And I think what is helpful\, especially because this is kind of a baby step\, almost a training wheel\, to practice these rhythms\, you maybe don’t need to do this specific practice forever. \nThere might be some other rhythm of unfocusing that is a better one for you long term\, but this is just a way to practice and train your brain that it’s not a threat\, and it’s not scary. \nSo after you’ve done it for like a week or two weeks\, take five minutes to just think about how did it go? What was it like? Did this help me? And as we said\, everybody’s brains are different\, so if it [00:19:00] didn’t help you\, don’t keep doing it. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Right. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Obviously this is why I say do it for a week or two weeks first\, because change is hard\, and your brain kind of struggles. Do a little bit of pushing through your discomfort \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Mm-hmm. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: As you’re trying it\, let yourself be uncomfortable in it for a little bit before you write it off. Don’t try to do this forever if it’s just really messing you up. \nSo that’s the practice. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Thank you so much for guiding us through that. \nWe would love to hear how it’s going for you\, too. So\, if you get a moment\, drop us a line at practicingconnection@oneop.org. \nErin\, do you have any final words you want to share? About the episode? Not just final words. That would be weird. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I think what’s so exciting to me about the principles and practices in this book\, I’m probably going to talk about more of them in future episodes\, is they feel really kind. It feels like a lot of invitations to be kinder to [00:20:00] yourself. \nI think often the answer to productivity is to be more disciplined\, and that has a really narrow definition. And I think this is a type of discipline. Forcing yourself\, like relaxing\, takes discipline\, which is so funny when you think about it\, those ideas feel incompatible. \nBut I think what’s really lovely is to be disciplined about rest\, be disciplined about relaxing. It’s actually important for your brain to function. And I love how it’s a very kind invitation to build rhythms that are healthy\, not just productive. \nAnd one of the net results is increased sharpened focus and productivity. But the goal here is not optimizing yourself for output. It’s optimizing yourself for sustainability and longevity. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: “10X your output!” \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, 10 x your output by lasting 10 more years\, right? Like this I think is such an [00:21:00] exciting framework for thinking about burnout prevention\, because often burnout has to do with brain fatigue\, and so this is specifically a methodology for resting your brain and keeping your brain healthy. \nIt’s like good brain hygiene. It’s like brushing your teeth. It’s like restarting your computer once a week so it doesn’t melt down. These are the things. \nSo I think that’s my summary is\, if you’re really on the fence of like\, “What could this possibly do for me?” This is how you keep yourself from burning out. Here’s an invitation to be kind and be sustainable with your use of your own self and your own brain. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Awesome. Well\, that’s it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. \nIf you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app and share it with a friend or colleague. We’ll be back next week with a new episode. \nUntil then\, keep practicing. \n[00:22:00]\nCREDITS: 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 number 2 0 2 3 4 8 7 74 3 3.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:What the Room is Telling You: How to Read the Room
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The energy is flat\, or there’s a tension nobody’s naming.  \nWhat do you do with that?  \nIn this practicast\, we share a simple\, repeatable practice for reading the emotional temperature of any room. \nReading the Room is a short practice in social awareness — one of the core skills of emotional intelligence. \nIn this practicast\, we walk through three steps for tuning into the emotional temperature of a group before and during meetings: the early arrival observation\, the 3-person scan\, and the traffic light check. \nPerfect for service providers\, coalition leaders\, nonprofit staff\, and anyone who facilitates groups. \nLinks and resources from this episode: \n\nJoin our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12879756/\nSend us a message: practicingconnection@oneop.org\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”]ERIN CARLSON RIVERA: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Erin. Today’s Practicast is about a skill that sounds simple\, but takes real intention reading the room. And my co-host\, Jessica Beckendorf\, will be sharing the practice with us. Hi Jessica. How are you? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Hi\, Erin. I’m doing pretty good\, thanks. I’ve actually been thinking a lot about this topic lately. I feel like\, it’s spring as we’re recording this\, and I feel like spring every single year is like the time of year for facilitated discussions\, because I have facilitated several workshops over the past few months\, so I’m really excited to share about this idea of reading the room and what that means. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I am excited too. It’s one of those skills that I think people assume is something you either have or don’t have\, just like intuition\, but I’m guessing there’s more to it than that. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. Exactly. I think\, whether we’re walking into a team meeting or we’re [00:01:00] going into a coalition meeting\, where it’s like a bunch of people who aren’t on our team\, or whether we’re facilitating our group\, like I have been all Spring long\, or if we’re even just sitting across from a colleague\, there’s always a lot more happening than what’s being said out loud. The emotional temperature of a room can influence everything. \nThings like what gets decided\, what goes unspoken and whether people feel safe enough to show up fully. And I really like this practice because it gives you a repeatable way to tune in to the temperature of a room before you jump into whatever business it is you need to do. \nAnd this is great for\, look\, if you’re someone who thinks of yourself like your abilities in this area are not as good\, or whether you’re someone who you’re like\, “I feel like I can read the room intuitively\, and it’s not a big deal\,” I think that this just gives you a way to be very conscious about reading the room. \nSo it can help either group of people\, right? Whether you think you’re good at it or not. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: That’s awesome to hear. I love that\, [00:02:00] because I’ve noticed for me\, and everybody’s a little different\, but for me\, I can either intentionally read the room or I can unintentionally read the room without realizing. \nAnd then maybe not show up how I want to\, or maybe exclude people. Because I don’t realize\, I’m only reading off the really intense people. So I’m really excited because it sounds like you’re putting together a structure that we can use to engage in paying attention\, and that gets me excited. Tell me more. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, so I don’t have a specific name for this activity because to me it’s just\, “Read the room\,” which sounds actually like you’re insulting someone\, right? “Read the room people.” \nBut it’s really just a way of practicing. So like we’ve been saying\, not everyone is skilled at reading other people. Or maybe you just think of yourself as not being skilled in that way. But we all have some form of intuition when it comes to reading other people. For some people\, it’s maybe more developed than others. But [00:03:00] the thing is\, even if you think of yourself as skilled or not skilled at reading\, other people reading an entire room is different. \nThe skill is part of what emotional intelligence researchers call ”Social awareness.” So the ability to notice what others are feeling\, even when they don’t say it\, even when they’re not saying what they’re feeling\, it’s one of the most important skills for anyone doing collaborative work. Because groups carry emotions that no single person owns. \nAnd in fact\, the emotions can resonate and ricochet across the room\, and because of that resonance they amplify. So basically we can put little air quotes around this word. We can sort of “catch” feelings. And if you can read those emotions\, you can respond to what’s actually happening\, not just what’s on the agenda. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. That’s so interesting. I’m glad you used the idea of catching and resonating\, and I’ve certainly felt that in meetings where you walk into a room and you’re like\, [00:04:00] “Ooh\, something’s happened in here.” I feel it can also be potentially a positive experience. I very recently went to see Project Hail Mary in the movie theaters\, and I was so glad that it was a movie I chose to see in the theater because it was this really collective experience where all these people were feeling things with me\, and the movie was better\, which is not always how it is. Sometimes you go and you watch something with other people and they ruin it for you. But this was just such an intense thing\, where I was like really resonating with the whole room. \nIt really felt like we experienced something together\, even though I did not talk to a single other person in the room besides my husband\, who I went to this movie with. And so you are saying that shows up in all kinds of spaces\, not just the movie theater\, and that’s something we can actually be tuned into and read nuance into. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah. And there’s actually one really important nuance\, and that is that we don’t all read emotional cues the same way. And we don’t all [00:05:00] get read the same way by others either. As you build the skill\, it’s really worth asking yourself\, “Whose signals am I most practiced at noticing\, and who might I be overlooking or misreading?” \nBecause reading the room well means not so much hyper focusing as it means widening your lens\, like being able to take in the environment and the mood. It’s a really important nuance to consider\, but I think just getting started practicing is a good place to start. \nAnd then as you go along\, you can be like\, “Okay\, now whose signals am I most practiced at noticing? Who am I possibly overlooking or misreading?” And look\, I have often misread\, for example\, men that are maybe a little older than me\, a little bit wrong. I’ve noticed some of my own patterns that way. \nAnd because I notice those patterns I have been able to adjust my thinking around all of it. And does it mean I’m better at reading them? [00:06:00] Yeah\, it certainly means I’m better at reading it. Or what’s really happened in my case is I’m better at asking questions at the right time\, right? I notice when I’m starting to feel that little bit of tension\, and I ask questions\, and so it helps me to widen my lens and to not misread the person who is who I’m talking to too. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. That is a really helpful context. I think you’ve got me really excited for learning this skill specifically\, because it sounds like it’s also a really useful tool if you’re someone who has to switch contexts. You know\, if you’re moving between different organizations with maybe different levels of formality or different levels of decisions get made. \nSometimes people forget that not everybody does things the way that they do\, and they don’t communicate what they’re doing. So this is potentially a way to figure it out without having to make a big mistake publicly\, and then have someone say\, “Oh no\, we don’t do that here.” [00:07:00] Right\, which is a thing I have survived many times. \nIt’s a very survivable thing\, but it’s never comfortable. So this is also okay. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: It’s really great for cross-sector collaborations. It’s a really great skill to build. If you’re going to be going into rooms where everyone in that room is coming from a different context\, a different organization\, a different way of doing things. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. Okay. You’ve got me really excited. We could chat all day\, but let’s dive into it. Walk us through this. How do you do it? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Okay\, so the first step\, and we’re going to be talking about this in the context of a meeting\, because it is a very familiar work context to use this in. But you can adapt to this to other types of things as well. \nThe first step is to arrive a little early and observe\, and I’m talking about just building in 60 seconds. I don’t think you need to go 20 minutes early and stare at everybody as they’re walking in the door\, stare them down\, [00:08:00] observe them. No\, I’m talking just 60 seconds. Arrive a little early and observe. \nThis is before you start talking\, checking your phone or setting up. Just notice. Who’s in the room? Where are people sitting? Are they clustered together or are they spread apart? Are there quiet side conversations happening? Is the energy light or is it flat? \nThis is your baseline information. You’re taking the temperature before the conversation starts. \nSo step two then is once the meeting begins\, you’re going to pick three people to scan. Ideally\, this will be someone you know well\, someone you don’t know well\, and someone who tends to be quiet. Now\, maybe this is your first meeting with the group. Just pick a couple people you don’t know well\, or a couple people who maybe as you were doing that kind of initial step one where you arrived a little early\, you noticed one person was quiet and one person wasn’t. [00:09:00] So you could just pick those two. Doesn’t have to be three people. \nSo what you’re going to watch for during the meeting is things like their posture\, are they leaning in? Are they pulling back? What are their facial expressions? Do they look a little confused\, skeptical\, or disengaged? Even if they aren’t saying anything. \nAnd keep in mind that you might be misinterpreting their facial expressions. You can still make note of what you think they are\, but please\, always remember that you may be wrong. This is just for you to get a sense\, and it’s your best possible sense of what’s going on. \nAnd then the third thing is to take a look at their participation patterns. Are they unusually quiet\, or are they talking more than usual? And again\, if this is your first time in the meeting\, you’re going to just do your best to notice those participation patterns. Maybe you don’t know if they’re usually quiet or talking more than usual\, but you could say\, “Oh\, this person was quiet\, and this person was talking a lot.” You [00:10:00] could just make note of that. \nSo you’re going to look for those three people. You’re going to look at posture\, facial expressions\, and participation patterns. All you’re doing is\, noticing three people should give you just enough data without feeling overwhelmed. And then this is going to give you a clue as to how things are going along the way\, right? \nSo you’ll keep observing those three people along the way in the meeting. And finally\, this is the last step\, step three is\, this is where you widen the awareness to the entire group. I’m calling it a green\, yellow\, red traffic light check\, because I am not very inventive. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I think it’s also good teaching to use accessible frameworks\, and a lot of people have experience with traffic lights\, so that’s a pretty easy way to shift through information. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: We couldn’t do this with a roundabout\, right?! We couldn’t describe it the same way with a roundabout. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: For people who aren’t from Wisconsin\, a roundabout is also known as a traffic circle in other parts of the country. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yes. Okay. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: I had gotten into lots of [00:11:00] fights about this when we moved to Wisconsin. I was like\, what is that? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: So step three builds on step two by asking you to be in tune with the whole group\, not just those three people. So the best time to practice this step is after something important is shared\, an idea\, a decision. A question. And so you’re going to use your scanning skills from step two to take just two seconds. \nAnd I know that doesn’t sound like enough time to read an entire room\, but the more you practice this\, two seconds is going to feel like the exact perfect amount of time. \nSo take two seconds to scan the whole group. If you’re leading the group\, just make sure to take a pause. No one’s going to notice a two second pause. No one’s going to notice a five second pause. Just take a pause if it helps\, take a drink of your coffee or your water or something in that pause\, so it’ll just give it a little more time. They won’t know that you’re reading the room. \nSo then what you’re going to do is ask yourself in those [00:12:00] two seconds\, “Does the group feel like they’re green\, yellow\, or red?” Green is that people seem engaged\, the energy is flowing. This is really a clue that you should just keep going. \nYellow\, something seems like it shifted. Maybe the energy dipped a little bit. Maybe someone’s expression changed. This is a clue to you that you should slow down. Maybe offer to take a break\, if you’re the one leading the meeting\, or maybe if you’re not leading the meeting asking\, “Hey\, could we have a five minute break or two minute break?” \nThe other thing you could do instead of taking a break is ask a question. “What’s landing for you right now? Is there anything that we’d like to name that’s happening in the room right now? What’s coming to mind for everyone right now?” \nAnd then red: probably\, obviously is where maybe the tension is quite visible. Someone maybe looks upset. The group seems a little bit fractured. A conversation has stalled. \nThis is the moment to pause\, to [00:13:00] listen\, to name what’s happening\, and when I say name what’s happening\, I would be really careful about that. Because when you name what’s happening on your own\, you’re coming at it from your perspective. And you may not be correct about the perspectives in the room but you might say\, “I’m reading that there’s some tension in the room. Am I correct?” \nYou could check in with everyone: “Am I correct that there’s some tension here?” And if so\, you could let the people in the room name it\, right? You could let them acknowledge that there’s some tension and name it. \nI want to just say that how you approach the red part depends on what the issue seems to be. I’ll give you an example. I was facilitating a big group\, multi-county initiative that these folks were trying to really make a difference in big ways across their counties. The meeting started out great\, right? So I\, we were green light at first. The meeting started out great. The energy was great. \nAnd then\, somewhere in the middle\, something shifted. We went into yellow. [00:14:00] Something shifted. I couldn’t put my finger on it. They were still engaged\, they were still going through the activities that I had brought for them to think through their strategic plan. But then the energy dipped. \nThe conversation then started to stall. That’s when we had moved into red territory. So they’re at small group tables. They started out maybe just with a little bit lower energy. So they were in the yellow zone\, but at their small group tables\, this is when the rubber’s supposed to meet the road in this particular activity. They were going to be coming up with action steps and all of that\, and the conversation stalled. \nIt got quiet in the room\, and I had been noticing something happening over the course of the day. We only had the one day to get these ideas down and on paper. And so\, I made the choice of asking\, “Okay\, so here’s what I’m noticing. I’m noticing that there’s some tension.” \nI checked in with them\, is there tension in this room? And they [00:15:00] all admitted to it. And I said\, “Can we talk about it? Is this something you feel comfortable talking about?” And they said yes. And it turns out that there was a difference in opinion about how they should proceed. About half the group was like full steam ahead\, and the other half of the group was like\, we need to consider the management of what we’re doing because. If we do full steam ahead\, we’re going to be burnt out real quick. \nAnd we were able to talk through that and get some things down on paper before the end of the day. Because that was the only day we had to work on it. So we were able to come to some conclusions now. It didn’t solve all their problems\, but it did very publicly name what was happening in that group so that they could begin the conversations of solving or resolving\, I’m gonna say in this case\, resolving their issues. \nSo I let the people in the room name it. I named what I was noticing about the [00:16:00] tension\, and I let them name what the tension was\, and I checked in\, “Are you guys comfortable talking about this\, or should we talk separately?” \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. Okay. I’m curious\, do you use this when you’re not facilitating the room? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Like when you and I are in conversation\, is that what you’re asking\, Erin?! \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: No\, I just think that not everybody who listens to our podcast maybe facilitates big groups of people. Is it still useful when you’re just like\, Joe Schmo\, just a person in a meeting? \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yeah\, I mean I think you could even use this with one other person\, although the activity is about reading the room more than it is about reading one other person. Although certainly you could use step two with reading people’s posture\, their facial expressions and their participation patterns when you’re doing one-on-one. \nBut yeah\, I absolutely think you could use this in any kind of a group setting\, with your friends\, right? You could use it in a friend setting if you want to. You could use it with [00:17:00] family\, and also I would always caution people to be careful. Be careful facilitating your family. There’s too much history sometimes\, \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yes. Okay. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: And certainly with your team\, even if your team is just three people or whatever\, you could certainly use this with the team as well. \nSo really that two second pause\, that step three is critical to the whole practice. It’s where reading the whole room actually happens\, versus honing in on a few people\, to check in on how things are going as you go along. \nSo yeah\, that’s the practice. Arrive and observe. First do a little bit of an individual\, three person scan. And use green\, yellow\, red as a way of reading the whole room before you move on\, especially after you drop something big. You know\, an idea\, if you’re leading the meeting and you dropped an idea that the leadership of the organization wants to move forward with\, and nobody had been consulted ahead of [00:18:00] time\, that’s a moment to pause and just do the scan right. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah. Well\, thank you for leading us through that. It sounds very useful. One thing that was coming to mind for me is a couple of weeks ago we had an episode about practicing discomfort by expanding your circles. It struck me as you were explaining this\, that this might also be a practice you could use as you are experiencing a new space. \nAnd I would perhaps say if you were using it in that space\, maybe you won’t go to the point where you’re acknowledging the tension in the room and trying to do any kind of facilitation\, but it may be a really good way to notice and read the room in a space that you’re unfamiliar with\, and practice learning how maybe there are different ways that people express things. \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: That’s a great idea. Green\, yellow and looking at the whole room and just practicing naming green\, yellow\, red too\, right? Without\, maybe in that particular [00:19:00] case\, it’s not your responsibility to do anything about it. \nAlso\, we can always lead from where we are. And so if we’re in yellow\, for example\, if it’s a participatory meeting\, you can ask a question too. If you feel like it’s your place or if you’re feeling it. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Yeah\, I am somewhat of a notorious question asker\, so definitely if I had been in the room and we got into small groups and it got quiet and nobody was saying anything\, I probably wouldn’t have talked to the whole room\, but I would’ve asked my table and said\, “Wow\, it seems like none of us wanna talk? What’s going on?” \nJESSICA BECKENDORF: Yep. You know what? I did initially go to a couple of individual tables and said\, “Am I right that there’s some tension?” I didn’t ask him what it was\, I just said\, “Am I right\, before I address the whole room?” \nBut yes\, I’m certain that would happen. So anyway\, reading the room is about\, and we talk about this all the time\, right\, and we always say that every single Practicast we have is one way of practicing something. [00:20:00] So in this case\, reading the room is about staying aware and curious. Those are two things we always talk about about: what the people around you are actually experiencing. \nAnd when you do that well\, you can build trust\, you can deepen collaboration and you can help people feel seen. That’s something that a lot of people very much enjoy. They like to feel seen and heard\, so this is one way of doing that too. \nERIN CARLSON RIVERA: Awesome. Thank you. \nThat’s it for this episode. Thank you all for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, please click the share button in whatever podcast app you’re using to share it with a friend. \nWe’ll be back next week with a new episode. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[00:21:00]\nCREDITS: 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 number 2 0 2 3 4 8 7 74 3 3.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:IDD\, Aging\, and Military Families: Challenges and Opportunities
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It will examine age-related health needs\, living arrangements and family caregiving\, and practical strategies for supporting this population. Learn how to address current and future needs of people with IDD. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nIdentify what aging means for people with IDD.\nExplain age-related health and social changes for people with IDD.\nDescribe living arrangements and family caregiving.\nIdentify implications for military families supporting a member with IDD.\nLearn about model programs to address the needs of people with IDD and their families.\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=”221213″ 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=”Tamar Heller\, PhD” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]\nDistinguished Professor\nDirector\, Institute on Disability and Human Development\nDepartment of Disability and Human Development\nUniversity of Illinois Chicago \n\nTamar Heller\, Ph.D.\, Distinguished Professor\, Department of Disability and Human Development\, (DHD) University of Illinois Chicago\, directs the Institute on Disability and Human Development and is the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Family Support Co-Principal Investigator. 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SUMMARY:Supporting Academic and Social Continuity for Mobile Elementary Students
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” 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]When elementary students change schools\, even motivated students can struggle. They may lose interest in learning\, miss their old friends\, and not get the help they need right away. This webinar provides practical strategies to keep children engaged\, connected\, and successful through relocation and other school transitions.\n \nLearning Objectives: \n\nIdentify strategies to promote and maintain academic continuity for mobile students\, including timely transfer of IEP and 504 plans.\nApply practices that support social integration with peers and teachers during school transitions.\nRecognize and address the unique educational needs of mobile and homeschooling families.\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=”220138″ 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=”Natasha J. Cabrera\, Ph.D.” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Dr. Cabrera is a Professor of Human Development at the University of Maryland whose research centers on father involvement\, parenting\, and the social and cognitive development of children—particularly within low-income and ethnically diverse families. She is a widely published scholar and editor\, has held national and international leadership and visiting scholar roles\, and currently co-leads fatherhood and healthy marriage research at the National Center for Research on Hispanic Families and Children.[/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”][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 5/14/2028.\nBoard Certified Disability Management Specialists: This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) clock hour from The Commission for Case Manager Certification. Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 5/14/2026.\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 5/14/2029.\nCertified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education credit from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 5/14/2029.\nMichigan Certified Teachers: This webinar is pending approval for 1.5 SCECH from the Michigan Education Association’s Center for Leadership and Learning. Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close 5/14/2029.\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 5/14/2029.\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_1691082428112{padding-left: 15px !important;}”]Webinar slides and resources will be added the day prior to the live session.[/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: AdobeStock 82811999[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://oneop.org/learn/160133/
CATEGORIES:Health and Well-Being
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UID:10001594-1779274800-1779280200@oneop.org
SUMMARY:Innovative Strategies for Stronger Military Nutrition Environments
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” 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]The War Department is continuing to pursue six lines of effort to strengthen nutrition readiness for military service members and their families\, and the first line of effort involves increasing access to healthy food. The military nutrition environment includes all foods\, drinks\, and dietary supplements available on military installations and ships thereby creating the food environment where service members live\, work\, and train. Improvements to the food environment start with the Military Nutrition Environment Assessment Tool (mNEAT)\, a standardized War Department web-based app to assess the nutrition environment of military settings. mNEAT scores healthy food policy\, availability\, and behavioral design across a variety of food service venues. This webinar will describe research efforts to improve the nutrition environment at Camp Lejeune\, North Carolina as well as outside the continental U.S. (OCONUS) installations. Attend this webinar to learn how nutrition and health promotion experts and leaders can  improve the food environment using tools\, including mNEAT\, to strengthen nutritional readiness for service members and their families.  \nLearning Objectives: \n\nDescribe how the nutrition environment impacts nutrition security for military service members and their families. \nIllustrate how the Military Nutrition Environment Assessment Tool (mNEAT) can be used by public health professionals\, registered dietitians\, food service leaders\, health promotion specialists\, and providers to assess the food environment.\nIdentify practical ways to improve the nutrition environment at your installation or workplace.\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_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=”Capt. Amanda Diaz\, RD” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]\nHealth Promotion Element Chief\nRegistered Dietitian\nRamstein AB\, Germany \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=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” 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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=”Ms. Katie Kirkpatrick\, MS\, RD\, CSSD” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]\nMilitary Nutrition Environment Project Manager\nHJF employee collaborating with the USU Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP) \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=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” 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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=”Jonathan Scott\, PhD\, RD\, CSSD\, LD\, FAND” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]\nAssociate Professor\nDepartment of Military and Emergency Medicine\nUniformed Services University \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=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”left” 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Carrissa Thomas\, MS\, RD\, CSSD” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]\nHealth Promotion Element Chief\nRegistered Dietitian\nNellis AB\, Las Vegas \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=”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”][vc_column_text]\n\nCertified in Family and Consumer Sciences (CFCS): This webinar is pending approval for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close December 4\, 2027 \nCertified Nutrition and Wellness Educator (CNWE): This webinar is pending approval for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close December 4\, 2027. \nRegistered Dietitian Nutritionists (RD/RDN) and Nutrition and Dietetics Technicians\, Registered (NDTR): This webinar is pending CDR review and approval for 1.5 CPEUs.\nCertified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES): This webinar is pending approval for 1.5 continuing education credit from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). Note: Eligibility for CE credit will close December 4\, 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_1691082428112{padding-left: 15px !important;}”]Webinar slides and resources will be added the day prior to the live session.[/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: AdobeStock_1411905923.jpeg[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://oneop.org/learn/160108/
CATEGORIES:Health and Well-Being
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