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SUMMARY:Medicare 101: Simplifying Enrollment and Benefits
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Though it’s a household name\, many people shudder at the thought of trying to understand the Medicare program or navigate the ins and outs of their benefits. But understanding and utilizing Medicare benefits can be as easy as AB(C)D! \nDuring this session\, participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of Medicare basics\, including its history and the key differences between Medicare and Medicaid. They will learn about the enrollment process and timing to ensure they are properly covered. The session will also cover the various benefits available under Medicare’s different parts\, helping participants to maximize their healthcare coverage. Additionally\, there will be a focus on coordinating care between Medicare and other programs such as Tricare for Life and Veterans Affairs benefits\, ensuring seamless integration and optimized care for all eligible participants. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nDiscover the fundamentals of Medicare.\nReview Medicare enrollment process.\nExplore various benefits available under Medicare.\nIdentify care coordination between Medicare and other programs.\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=”181144″ 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=”Andrew Crocker” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]\nSenior Extension Program Specialist\, Gerontology and Health\nFamily and Community Health\nTexas A&M AgriLife Extension Service \nAs Extension Program Specialist – Gerontology and Health at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service\, Andy Crocker’s focus is the health and well-being of older adults. His main role is to support the County Extension Agents for Family and Community Health in their efforts to educate older adults\, caregivers\, and the professionals who serve them. Since joining AgriLife Extension in 2003\, Mr. Crocker has worked to develop resources to help older adults improve their health literacy through communication with their health provider and better medication management; navigate the Internet and access reliable health information; and provide information and referral to grandparents rearing their grandchildren.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”40″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”top” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Continuing Education (CE) Credit” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][nectar_btn size=”jumbo” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” el_class=”Continuing Education” button_id=”Continuing Education” text=”Continuing Education” url=”https://auburn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5osS0wCt3cI6w6O”][vc_column_text]\n\nCertified in Family and Consumer Sciences (CFCS): This webinar is approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credits from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS).  Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/30/26\nCertified Personal and Family Finance Educator (CPFFE): This webinar is approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credits from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/30/26\nAccredited Financial Counselors (AFC): This webinar is approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credits by the Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education (AFCPE). Eligibility for CE Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/30/27\nBoard Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA): This webinar is approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) contact hours by The Patient Advocate Certification Board. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/30/26\nBoard Certified Case Managers: This webinar is approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) clock hours from the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/30/25\nCertified Personal Finance Counselors (CPFC): This webinar is approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credits from The Center for Financial Certifications (FinCert.org). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/30/26\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar is approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/30/27\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. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/30/26\nOneOp Certificates of Attendance are available for those interested in additional documentation of professional development activities.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_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_1759175128270{padding-left: 15px !important;}”]\n\nWebinar Slides (PDF)\nSecuring Tomorrow: Navigating Social Security Retirement & Survivor Benefits\nThe ABCs of Disability Benefits: Your Guide to SSDI & SSI in 2024\nMedicaid’s Role in Military Family Well-Being & Economic Security\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Photo Credit: iStockphoto\, andreswd[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://oneop.org/learn/160062/
CATEGORIES:Military Service and Family Life
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SUMMARY:Drug Trends in Military Adults: Essential Insights for Mental Health Professionals
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Mr. Haenes is a recognized expert in addiction and adolescent brain development. 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Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/17/26\nBoard Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA): This webinar is approved for 1.5 CE contact hours by The Patient Advocate Certification Board. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/17/26\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar is approved for 1.5 CE credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/17/27\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. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/17/26\nOneOp Certificates of Attendance are available for those interested in additional documentation of professional development activities.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_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_1769529734041{padding-left: 15px !important;}”]\n\nWebinar Slides Handout\nBlog Post (written by webinar presenter John Haenes)\, Substance Use Disorders\, Stigma\, and the Military: Breaking the Silence\nMilitary OneSource\, MilLife Guide: Substance Abuse and Addiction\nThis is the first webinar with presenter John Haenes around drug trends. We also recommend watching the second webinar\, Drug Trends and Impacts on Military Adults: Practical Suggestions for Mental Health Professionals.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_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”][divider line_type=”Full Width Line” line_thickness=”1″ divider_color=”default”][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]This webinar is a part of the Substance Use\, Stigma\, and Recovery: Trends in Military Contexts series.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Photo Credit: Photo by Karolina Grabowska from Pexels[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://oneop.org/learn/160056/
CATEGORIES:Health and Well-Being
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241015T110000
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SUMMARY:Maximizing the Use of 529 Plans for Military Families
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/7i2uc0aUgcY”][/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]529 plans can be a savings tool for more than just college expenses; they can be used for K-12 tuition payments\, to repay student loans\, and to purchase computers or other related educational expenses. This webinar covers how 529 education savings plans can be leveraged to provide tax-advantaged savings for future educational expenses. Gain the knowledge and tools you need to effectively support military families in planning for their children’s education\, including qualifying expenses\, Roth rollovers\, private 529 plans\, and ABLE accounts.  \nLearning objectives: \nBy the end of this webinar\, learners will be able to:  \n\nIdentify the 2024 changes to 529 college savings plans including the option to rollover unused funds.\nUnderstand the tax implications for 529 contributions and withdrawals\, including gift tax exclusions. \nDescribe qualifying expenses covered under 529 plans. \nDistinguish between the 529 plan and 529A (ABLE accounts).\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” 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College.[/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” 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Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/15/27\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 10/15/26\nCertified Personal and Family Finance Educator (CPFFE): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/15/26\nCertified Personal Finance Counselors (CPFC): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from The Center for Financial Certifications (FinCert.org). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/15/27\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar is approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/15/27\nOneOp Certificates of Attendance are available for those interested in additional documentation of professional development activities.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” top_margin=”0″ left_margin=”0″ constrain_group_2=”yes” right_margin=”0″ column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color=”#f7f7f7″ background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_color=”#f7f7f7″ column_border_style=”solid” enable_border_animation=”true” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Event Materials” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1689369183150{padding-left: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1759175253203{padding-left: 15px !important;}”]Webinar Slides \nCollege Savings Calculators (FINRED)[/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: gohgah / Adobe Stock[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://oneop.org/learn/160057/
CATEGORIES:Military Service and Family Life
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SUMMARY:Empowering Military Spouses to Maintain Employment: A Review of the Resources for Holistic Support
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/pXHtGgJXLGQ?feature=shared”][/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]In the United States\, one in five military spouses who want to work remain unemployed\, a statistic that has persisted for nearly a decade (Defense Personnel Analytics Center\, 2021). This ongoing employment crisis affects not only economic and financial security but also health and well-being. In response\, numerous innovative employment initiatives have emerged in both corporate and nonprofit sectors. \nThis presentation employs a socio-ecological framework to explore the who\, what\, when\, where\, and why of cutting-edge military spouse recruitment and retention programs. It will highlight how these programs address the multiple intersecting barriers to employment faced by military spouses. Attendees will gain valuable insights and tools to better support twenty-first-century military spouse job seekers in accessing and maintaining employment throughout the military family life cycle. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nUnderstand current research on how military spouse un- and underemployment influences military family financial\, physical\, and social health.\nApply a socio-ecological framework to diagnosis barriers to maintaining employment through the military family life cycle.\nLearn new Department of Defense\, employer and non-profit resources that address holistic military spouse employment needs.\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=”181617″ 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=”Carrie Carter” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Carrie is a mixed-methods researcher and career advisor who specializes in military family career development. She supports employers and nonprofits with evaluating and improving their professional development programs to meet the needs of military families. She is an active-duty Army spouse and enjoys volunteering in her local military-based community.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”40″ bottom_padding=”20″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”5px” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”top” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”2/3″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Continuing Education (CE) Credit” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][nectar_btn size=”jumbo” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” el_class=”Continuing Education” button_id=”Continuing Education” text=”Continuing Education” url=”https://auburn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1GrDLvSqCngx1EG”][vc_column_text]\n\nCertified in Family and Consumer Sciences (CFCS): This webinar has been 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 10/9/26\nBoard Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA): This webinar has been approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) contact hours by The Patient Advocate Certification Board. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/9/26\nBoard Certified Case Managers: This webinar has been approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) clock hours from the Commission for Case Manager Certification (CCMC). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/9/25\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar has been approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/9/27\nHuman Resource Professionals: This webinar has been approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credit from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/9/26\nSocial Workers\, Licensed Professional Counselors\, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: This webinar has been approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. Check with your state licensing agency for reciprocity and/or credit approval if licensed for other professions or in one of the following states: CO\, FL\, HI\, IA\, KS\, KY\, MI\, NY\, ND\, OH\, OK. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 10/9/26\nOneOp Certificates of Attendance are available for those interested in additional documentation of professional development activities.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]Photo Credit: fizkes | Adobe Stock – 211160599[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Enhancing Military Family Well-Being: Understanding and Nurturing Economic Security
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” column_position=”default” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Dqz20hWBA”][/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]During the 2024 Military Family Readiness Academy\, we will explore the connection between economic security and family well-being and how to address disparities and challenges.  We’ll look beyond achieving and sustaining positive personal and family financial outcomes by exploring how various conditions affect overall economic security. We’ll delve into underlying factors relating to social dynamics\, environmental influences\, and community characteristics. We’ll give special focus to how these factors relate to health and wellness as a foundation of economic security. This webinar will help to empower service providers to leverage their knowledge\, skills\, and available resources to effectively promote health and well-being. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nReview the various factors\, often called the “social drivers of health\,” or SDOH\, that influence health and well-being.\nPromote a mindset that empowers providers to focus on understanding the root causes of health and wellness challenges and to be change agents for positive outcomes.\nRecognize that such a mindset requires a holistic or ecological approach to understanding how underlying contextual factors\, individual circumstances\, institutions\, and programs interact with each other.\nExamine how various organizations and institutions are fostering efforts to encourage awareness and action to address health disparities and to promote well-being – with a special focus on the U.S. military and the Cooperative Extension system.\nIdentify various state and federal programs that can contribute to military family health and wellness\, with a special focus on TRICARE\, VA health benefits\, Medicaid\, and Medicare.\nConsider possible new programs and policy developments relevant to military family health and well-being.\n\nThis webinar is part of the 2024 Military Family Readiness Academy\, Economic Readiness and Military Family Well-Being. With a new series and focus area each year\, the Academy takes a multidisciplinary approach to a complex issue faced by family service providers in their work. Join other programming opportunities in this series: https://oneop.org/series/2024mfra/ \nA case story is used throughout the course and webinars in the 2024 Military Family Readiness Academy. This case story provides an opportunity to examine resources and services within the Military Family Readiness System. This family’s example asks service providers to consider the skills they need to support family well-being through the lens of economic security. 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He is an Eberly Family Professor for Outstanding Public Service Emeritus at West Virginia University. He served as chair of the Department of Public Administration from 2004 until 2011 and also served as an Assistant and Associate Dean for West Virginia University’s Eberly College of Arts & Sciences from 2005 to 2013.[/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=”25″ 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=”124927″ 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” custom_image_size=”thumb” margin_top=”10″ margin_bottom=”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=”Keith G. Tidball” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Keith G. Tidball\, Ph.D. is the Family Transitions Principal Investigator for OneOp. Dr. Tidball is an environmental anthropologist and naturalist who serves as the Assistant Director of Environment and Natural Resources for Cornell Cooperative Extension\, while also serving on the faculty of the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at Cornell University. Keith served in uniform with the Army National Guard as both an enlisted person and as an officer. 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SUMMARY:Balancing the Big Picture with the Small
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Bob guides listeners through a reflection on the interconnectedness of issues and the role each person plays in creating change\, no matter how small their actions might seem. The discussion highlights the importance of patience and acceptance in the face of complex challenges\, encouraging listeners to embrace both their being and creating in the journey toward collective progress. \nLinks\n\nWorksheet: Applying the Community Capitals Framework (CCF) with Military Families\n2024 MFRA: Economic Readiness and Military Family Well-Being\nEmergent Strategy\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nJessica: Hello\, and thanks for listening to the Practicing Connection podcast. I’m Jessica. My co-host\, Bob\, is here as well. Today\, we’re going to be talking about balancing the big picture with the small. Bob’s going to share a practice with us. Hi\, Bob\, how are you? \nBob: I’m doing really well\, Jessica. Thanks so much for asking. Earlier this week\, I was able to attend a retreat for NDSU Extension Family and Community Wellness Specialists\, which I fall in that bucket actually at NDSU\, and it really has me energized. I work remotely 99% of the time\, so I don’t get many chances to meet with colleagues in person and discuss the work that we’re all doing. I had so many interesting conversations at the retreat. It was really fun. We were able\, I think\, to spend more time just sharing about our work and lives. \nIt’s amazing how much deeper conversations can get when they’re not restricted by time. I mentioned the remote thing\, but in regular meetings\, whether they’re in person or online\, I think we all have that time constraint somewhere in our mind. Obviously\, we might have a next meeting coming up or something that we want to work on after this thing is over\, and it’s scheduled for a certain amount of time. \nVampire Weekend has a song where they talk about the slow click of a ticking clock\, and I always think of that lyric when I find myself obsessed by time. At the retreat\, we had a couple of days. Our director was responsible for the schedule\, not for us. There was a schedule\, but I think we all felt freed from that time constraint. That really deepened the conversations. It was really amazing. I’m doing great. How about you? How are you doing? \nJessica: I’m doing good. I’ve been in [unintelligible 00:01:52] Purgatory. I’m not Catholic. I don’t know anything about Purgatory\, but it feels like this might be it. [laughs] That quote you shared with Vampire Weekend\, I think you said the slow click of a ticking clock\, reminds me of something I heard recently about– It’s been stuck in my mind about how the days are long\, but the years are short. I don’t remember where I heard that from\, but it’s in reference to the slow click of a ticking clock\, even though we constantly feel a little bit rushed\, but it’s easy to ignore certain things like relationship building or one of my favorite quotes from Chad Littlefield\, connection before content. \nIt’s easy to forget that connection part because we have the clock ticking\, but the days are long\, and the years are short. If we keep ignoring day to day that bit of connection\, I think that years later\, you find that\, when you’re trying to collaborate with these people or whatever\, it could be a little bit more difficult because you’ve never really established those relationship. One of my favorite things to do\, which is thought partnering with somebody\, somebody just contacts you in your network and says\, “I just need to think through something. Will you help me do that?” I get so energized by that. I got to do that this week. \nI’m helping a colleague out with a project that they’re working on that involves lots of public input and I just really enjoyed spending that time partnering with them on that. Every time I was sharing something\, I’m like\, “I’m so sorry\, I’m making this more complex.” They’re like\, “That’s great.” I love complexity. I don’t like complications\, but I love complexity. It was just fun. It doesn’t bother me if they don’t use any of my ideas\, but they’re very enthusiastic about them. That’s all I need. I just need an ego boost a little\, I guess. I also know that when I need a thought partner\, I can call them\, too. I get really excited about that and inspired by it. \nBob: That’s awesome. You’re a great thought partner. I can speak from experience. I said that to someone recently\, too. We were talking about something. I’m like\, “I’m sorry. I just keep making this more complex.” \n[laughter]\nBob: Maybe that is helpful in thought partnering sometimes anyway. Maybe it’s also helpful if someone tells you\, “What I need right now from you\, thought partner\, is to simplify things a little bit and provide some focus.” \nJessica: Then I’m like\, “You came to the wrong thought partner.” \nBob: Exactly. “We’ll find someone else for you.” \nJessica: We’d love to hear what’s inspiring our listeners. Please share what’s inspiring you by clicking the Send Us a Text message at the top of the description of this episode. When you click the link\, your text messaging app will open\, and you’ll see a seven-digit number and the words Do Not Remove. Type your message after that and click send. Don’t remove that number\, or we won’t receive your message. \nTo protect your privacy\, we won’t see your phone number\, and we can’t text you back\, but we’ll share your feedback on a future episode. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can email us at practicingconnectionatoneop.org. Let us know what’s inspiring you now. \n[music]\nJessica: All right\, let’s learn more about balancing the big picture and the small. Bob\, can you tell us a little more about the practice you’ll be sharing\, and why you chose it? \nBob: Sure. As we’re recording this\, we’re in the midst of the 2024 OneOp Military Family Readiness Academy\, which is titled Economic Readiness and Military Family Well-being. In the self-paced course and in the live events that we’ve had as part of the Academy\, we’ve been learning a lot about some of the frameworks that can help us understand economic readiness. \nThe social ecological model or frameworks can really help us understand the complex interplay between individuals and their environment\, which is very helpful. They remind us that everything is connected\, that economic readiness\, for example\, is not just about an individual’s financial knowledge or behavior. There are various interconnected factors at the individual interpersonal community and societal level that influence financial readiness and all kinds of other issues. I would say almost all human issues are influenced by a lot of complex factors. These frameworks are definitely important\, but they also can make us feel a little helpless. \nRecognizing the complexity of an issue can make it difficult to see how we might make any difference at all or make any change at all. With all of these factors at play\, we might just start to think\, how can my actions have an impact on this huge issue? I think it can take some reflection and practice to find the balance in the big picture and the small\, to acknowledge that an issue is complex and understand that and bring that to our work\, but still sustain the belief that we can make a difference. \nJessica: Yes\, you and I have dedicated our careers to being in both the big picture and the small. I’ll say that when I was in school for my master’s program\, I had a really hard time understanding that I couldn’t save the world with my master’s thesis\, that I could only take the tiniest little biteable bite out of understanding the issue. It took me a bit to get that. When you’re ready for action\, and you’re fired up\, you really want to make a difference. It can feel a little disheartening to know that it’s a much bigger\, more complex issue. Let’s get started. You have some insights and questions to share that can help us balance the big picture with the small. Please walk us through that. \nBob: I’d love to. First of all\, much of what I know about finding the balance between the big picture and the small\, between complexity and individual action comes from Adrienne Maree Brown’s book Emergent Strategy. I highly recommend reading it\, first of all. Adrienne draws on the work of Octavia Butler and Grace Lee Boggs and Margaret Wheatley and others to write about how the idea of emergence can inform our individual and collective action to address the issues we face in our communities and in the world. I’m going to talk about emergence for a second\, but I also want to say a lot of this is out there and in the ether. \nWhat Adrienne is able to do is to express it in a way that we can put it into practice through emergent strategy. What is emergence? Nick Obolensky defines emergence as the way complex systems and patterns arise out of the multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Short-order\, complex systems arise out of lots of different stuff that is related\, lots of different actions that are all related. I find that definition alone helpful in trying to find balance between the big and the small because it connects those two things\, the systems and the interactions. \nIf complex systems arise from simple interactions\, changing those simple interactions will change the system. Maybe that change will not be detectable in the short term\, the medium term\, or even in the span of a human life. In the framework of emergence\, it will make a difference by definition. That reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Devine Carama\, who said\, “It is hubris to expect to see the benefits of our leadership within our lifetime or the impact of our leadership within our lifetime.” \nThat speaks to that. We are making change all the time through our actions\, but I think what affects our ability to see the balance is that we want to see the system\, the big change happen too fast. We might not be able to see that. Accepting that I think is really important. Here’s a passage from Adrienne Maree Brown’s book\, Emergent Strategy\, that I find really helpful to meditate on. If you have a meditation practice\, you could repeat it to yourself when you meditate. If not\, you could put it on a Post-it\, use it as a prompt in your journal\, or just think about it when you’re feeling maybe a little overwhelmed or helpless in the face of complexity. \nHere’s the quote. “Nothing is required of me more than being and creating\, simultaneously being present with who I am\, who we are as a species and creating who we must become\, and within that\, who I must become.” I’m going to repeat that. “Nothing is required of me more than being and creating\, simultaneously being present with who I am\, who we are as a species and creating who we must become\, and within that\, who I must become.” If this feels too big for you\, you can shorten it to something like\, “Nothing is required of me more than being and creating who I must become.” \nThe key here is to take time to reflect on both the complexity and the interconnectedness of the issues we face\, and on yourself as the creator of the simple interactions that give rise to that complexity and interconnectedness. You can zoom out to see the community\, the species\, the universe that you are a part of\, and you can zoom in to see yourself\, the difference you’re making\, and even the multitude of cells that make up your body and the microorganisms that live in you and on you. I hope you’ll take time to reflect on that\, and I hope it helps. \nBob: Thank you so much for guiding us through that. It reminds me a little bit\, and it makes sense. You mentioned that some of the work comes from Margaret Wheatley’s influence as well\, but it reminds me of the islands of sanity that Margaret Wheatley talks about\, how we can create our own islands of sanity in the middle of the complexities. Thanks so much for guiding us through that. I love that. I will definitely go back and listen and think about it and meditate on it. \nJessica: Thanks for the opportunity to share it. \nBob: That’s it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. We’ll be back next week with a practice for applying systems thinking to local efforts. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nSpeaker: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U.S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, U.S. Department of Defense\, under award number 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:13:48] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Balancing Military Spouse Employment with Family Economic Well-Being
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The Department of Defense provides an array of support services\, resources\, community networks\, programs\, and initiatives to assist military spouses in pursuing their career goals while ensuring their family’s well-being. \nThis webinar addresses the ways in which the Department of Defense endeavors to positively influence the career trajectories of military spouses\, contributing to their families’ economic stability and overall well-being. Join us as we work towards creating a more supportive and inclusive environment for those who sacrifice alongside our service members! \nLearning Objectives: \n\nIdentify the unique challenges military spouses face in balancing employment responsibilities with the demands of military life\, including frequent relocations and deployments\, and how these challenges affect family well-being.\nDescribe what the Department of Defense has implemented to collectively address the barriers around military spouse employment in support of military readiness and retention.\nRecognize the correlation between military family systems of support and their economic well-being.\n\nThis webinar is part of the 2024 Military Family Readiness Academy\, Economic Readiness and Military Family Well-Being. With a new series and focus area each year\, the Academy takes a multidisciplinary approach to a complex issue faced by family service providers in their work. Join other programming opportunities in this series: https://oneop.org/series/2024mfra/ \nA case story is used throughout the course and webinars in the 2024 Military Family Readiness Academy. This case story provides an opportunity to examine resources and services within the Military Family Readiness System. This family’s example asks service providers to consider the skills they need to support family well-being through the lens of economic security. 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Eddy Mentzer” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]\n\n\n\n\nEddy brings more than 27 years of personal and professional experience in supporting military families through a variety of roles across the Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal Government. As associate director in the DoD’s Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, he is responsible for management of the family readiness and well-being policies and programs. \n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”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=”179152″ 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=”Josie Beets” font_container=”tag:h3|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Josie is the program manager for the Spouse Education and Career Opportunities (SECO) program\, supporting and empowering more than 1.1 million military spouses through career exploration\, education\, training\, and employer connections. 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Eligibility for CE credit will close on 9/12/26\nCertified Nutrition and Wellness Educator (CNWE): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 9/12/26\nCertified Personal and Family Finance Educator (CPFFE): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 9/12/26\nAccredited Financial Counselors (AFC): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit by the Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education (AFCPE). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 9/12/27\nBoard Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) contact hour by The Patient Advocate Certification Board. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 9/12/26\nRegistered Dietitian Nutritionists (RD/RDN) and Nutrition and Dietetics Technicians\, Registered (NDTR): This webinar awards 1.0 CPEU in accordance with the Commission on Dietetic Registration’s CPEU Prior Approval Program. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 9/12/27\nCertified Personal Finance Counselors (CPFC): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit from The Center for Financial Certifications (FinCert.org). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 9/12/27\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 9/12/27\nHuman Resource Professionals: This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 9/12/26\nSocial Workers\, Licensed Professional Counselors\, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit from the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. Check with your state licensing agency for reciprocity and/or credit approval if licensed for other professions or in one of the following states: CO\, FL\, HI\, IA\, KS\, KY\, MI\, NY\, ND\, OH\, OK. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 9/12/26\nCertified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education credit from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). 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SUMMARY:Strengthening Health\, Wellness\, and Financial Security Through Total Force Fitness
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Total Force Fitness focuses on enhancing eight dimensions of wellness for service members.  This webinar discusses the financial fitness dimension and how economic insecurity can affect the other wellness dimensions including nutritional fitness. This webinar will also highlight initiatives to support financial fitness and food security.\n \nLearning Objectives: \n\nDefine the eight dimensions of wellness in the Total Force Fitness concept.\nDescribe how the eight dimensions of wellness affect each other.\nOutline the risk factors for food insecurity for the U.S. military\nDescribe methods for identifying and assisting economic and/or food-insecure service members.\n\nThis webinar is part of the 2024 Military Family Readiness Academy\, Economic Readiness and Military Family Well-Being. With a new series and focus area each year\, the Academy takes a multidisciplinary approach to a complex issue faced by family service providers in their work. Join other programming opportunities in this series: https://oneop.org/series/2024mfra/ \nA case story is used throughout the course and webinars in the 2024 Military Family Readiness Academy. This case story provides an opportunity to examine resources and services within the Military Family Readiness System. 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She serves as Chair of the Dietary Supplements and Self-Care Products subcommittee\, coordinating dietary supplement education and strategic efforts. 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Her team seeks to champion a culture of health\, wellness\, and readiness that strategically assesses\, develops\, integrates\, standardizes\, and evaluates health promotion and wellness capabilities and effectiveness in support of military communities and the Total Force. 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Ms. Mroszczyk’s priorities are to develop\, manage\, and monitor a comprehensive financial education to meet the requirements of the financial literacy training and readiness program for Soldiers and Families. As the proud spouse of an active-duty Army Soldier\, for over 20 years\, she has a vested interest in ensuring the overall financial well-being of the Total Force. 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Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/29/26\nCertified Nutrition and Wellness Educator (CNWE): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/29/26\nCertified Personal and Family Finance Educator (CPFFE): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/29/26\nAccredited Financial Counselors (AFC): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit by the Association for Financial Counseling & Planning Education (AFCPE). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/29/27\nBoard Certified Patient Advocates (BCPA): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) contact hour by The Patient Advocate Certification Board. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/29/26\nRegistered Dietitian Nutritionists (RD/RDN) and Nutrition and Dietetics Technicians\, Registered (NDTR): This webinar awards 1.0 CPEU in accordance with the  Commission on Dietetic Registration’s Prior Approval Program Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/29/27\nCertified Personal Finance Counselors (CPFC): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit from The Center for Financial Certifications (FinCert.org). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/29/27\nCertified Family Life Educators (CFLE): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/29/27\nHuman Resource Professionals: This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 7/31/26\nSocial Workers\, Licensed Professional Counselors\, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists: This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education (CE) credit from the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. Check with your state licensing agency for reciprocity and/or credit approval if licensed for other professions or in one of the following states: CO\, FL\, HI\, IA\, KS\, KY\, MI\, NY\, ND\, OH\, OK. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/29/26\nCertified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES): This webinar has been approved for 1.0 continuing education credit from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/29/27\nOneOp Certificates of Attendance are available for those interested in additional documentation of professional development activities.\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”padding-2-percent” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”top-left” top_margin=”0″ bottom_margin=”11″ 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=”5px” 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” 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CATEGORIES:Health and Well-Being
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240814T110000
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SUMMARY:Medicaid’s Role in Military Family Well-Being & Economic Security
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For some military families\, Medicaid provides additional support not otherwise provided under TRICARE and other military and community-based services. Participants will learn about Medicaid’s role in providing health insurance coverage for eligible individuals and families. They will also learn about recent developments in Medicaid policy that are intended to address underlying threats to economic security (such as housing and food access). Because Medicaid benefits are not always fully understood or utilized\, this webinar will also focus on approaches to access to care. \nLearning Objectives \n\nDiscuss the broad policy purposes and history of the Medicaid program\, with special focus given to variability across the states in benefits\, eligibility\, and services.\nHighlight how Medicaid is relevant to caregiving across various stages of individual and family lifespans.\nReview Medicaid and TRICARE health benefits for “dually eligible” military families.\nExamine obstacles to accessing Medicaid and other programs due to factors associated with the social drivers of health (SDOH).\nExplore recent Medicaid services and initiatives focused on health\, wellness\, and economic security\, as well as identify possible future developments in the Medicaid program.\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” 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SUMMARY:Improve Your Feedback with Gratitude and Vulnerability
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Hosts Bob Bertsch and Jessica Beckendorf explore the nuances of giving and receiving feedback\, emphasizing its role in personal and professional growth. Jessica shares a practical readiness checklist\, offering valuable insights for enhancing feedback practices. \nLinks\n\n\nDare to Lead: The Engaged Feedback Checklist \n\nListening for Strengths and Values (S.5\, Ep.2)\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nBob: When done well\, feedback can energize\, engage\, and positively motivate both the giver and the receiver. It’s an act of gratitude and vulnerability. Hi everyone. This is Bob. Welcome to this week’s Practicing Connection practicast\, where we highlight a specific practice you can use in your personal and professional growth. \nThis week’s practice is focused on giving and receiving feedback. My Practicing Connection co-host\, Jessica Beckendorf\, is going to be guiding us through a practice in a few minutes\, but first\, let’s talk more about this giving and receiving feedback. Hi\, Jessica. I’d like to know why you think we need practice giving and receiving feedback. \nJessica: Giving and receiving feedback can be really difficult because it involves vulnerability. Researcher Brené Brown has been quoted as saying that\, “Feedback should be as vulnerable for the person giving it as it is for the person receiving it.” I think that’s a really interesting way to think about it because when you are going to be giving feedback\, you often have been thinking about it for a long time\, right? Sometimes the person who’s receiving the feedback is sort of getting a little blindsided. \nWhen you have this in mind\, this idea that the feedback should be as vulnerable for the person giving it as it is for the person receiving it\, I think it puts you in the right headspace for giving the feedback. When you give feedback\, you are communicating what you value and any boundaries associated with that value or those values. That’s why it is also vulnerable for the person giving feedback. It’s one of the reasons why. \nLikewise\, of course\, the person receiving feedback is in a vulnerable position. I think it’s really common\, I’ve been guilty of this to sugarcoat or even skip feedback for a lot of reasons. It feels difficult. We assume that what we want to say\, even if our heart is in the best place and we really want to see this person grow\, and that’s why we have the feedback\, but we’re afraid that they’re going to receive it as criticism. Maybe we like the person and we’re afraid the feedback will hurt their feelings. \nWe might resist or avoid getting feedback because it can feel like straight up criticism\, or it can be triggering for us\, or because we have maybe a fear of failure or a fear of letting people down\, or because it can touch on some deeper stories that we tell ourselves about who we are and our worth in society. Because we need healthy relationships to live and work in this world\, getting better at giving and receiving feedback is a really crucial skill to develop\, I think. \nBob: You alluded to this hurting people’s feelings. I’m wondering how we can keep our feedback from doing that\, from becoming personal or from\, on the other side of it\, taking our feedback personally. \nJessica: Yes\, there’s so much here. I’ll bring Brené Brown’s work into this conversation again because I think that a crucial first step is one that she suggests in her book\, Dare to Lead. We need to have a certain level of readiness before we engage in giving feedback. Being able to talk about the issue from our values and from our integrity is key here. Don’t rush into it. \nKeep the feedback focused on the actions or behavior and how it has affected you\, versus a flaw or weakness that you perceive the other person has. Then as far as receiving feedback goes\, Brené Brown has some good advice here also. One of those pieces of advice is to have a bit of helpful self-talk that you can use to help you in the moment. She likes to structure hers around a strength that she has\, so she’ll say something like\, “I’m brave enough to listen.” Courage is one of her values\, I should say\, not strength. It’s probably a strength of hers as well. \nMine is\, let’s find what I can yes and in what’s being said to me\, staying present and practicing reflecting back what you’re hearing. I think a lot of times our brains are going haywire when we’re getting feedback and they’re like\, “Run away\, run away\, run away.” Try to stay present. Avoid being defensive\, which can be really\, really hard. You want to defend yourself. Maybe you disagree with what’s being said to you. \nI advise you to just refrain from that and maybe at the end you can say\, “Hey\, I need a moment to think about this. I’m going to get back to you and let’s pick up the conversation another time.” That said\, you can also give yourself permission to take a break. I know that in not all situations do you feel like you have the power to do that. You can in a lot of situations acknowledge that\, “Wow\, you’ve given me a lot to think about. I could use a little bit of time here to just absorb it and get back to you. I would definitely like to pick up the conversation again to talk through it.” \nWithin the topic of giving and receiving feedback\, I think a lot of attention is placed on when we have some negative or constructive feedback that we need to deliver. I think it’s equally important for a person’s growth for us to learn to give and receive positive feedback. I used to have a really hard time with positive feedback and once in a while I still do. I’ve learned to just say thank you. Sometimes internally I’m like\, “Oh\, do I actually deserve that feedback?” \nI have a hard time like giving feedback. It’s not that it’s hard for me to say the words\, it’s that I’m not always noticing when I might need to say them\, or I’m not always noticing the things that I should be giving positive feedback for. It’s sometimes harder for us to notice the good things because we’re so wired to just notice when something isn’t going right. Nobody has time for anything else. We just wait till something goes wrong and then we’re like\, “Oh\, whose fault is it?” We can train ourselves to notice the good things. \nStrength spotting\, which we’ve talked about on this podcast before is one way that we can provide and practice positive feedback\, and sharing our gratitude for someone’s contributions is another way. Thinking about what are we grateful? Think about that person\, what am I grateful for about this person’s contributions and then go tell them. [laughs]\nBob: That’s really great advice. Thanks for that\, Jessica. I think when we think about giving or receiving feedback\, the picture that we get in our head is a supervisor-employee relationship or a manager-employee relationship. I’m wondering how giving and receiving feedback works in situations where there isn’t necessarily a hierarchy\, like in a team situation or a collaborative situation. \nJessica: Yes\, I really love this question because I think you’re right. The default that we think about is the supervisor-employee scenario where there’s a different power differential. I think in a situation like a team or collaborative effort\, feedback can be built into your group culture\, and it can be built into your supervisor-employee relationship as well. \nSince you asked about teams or collaborations\, I think there’s some specific things you can do like establishing group principles that are focused on open\, high trust relationship building\, and having some norms around how you bring new people into a group so that they can get accustomed to those group principles. I think even building feedback directly into regular processes like your meeting agendas\, you could leave space for regular kudos\, or you could leave space regularly to discuss what’s working well and what isn’t working as well. \nAgain\, I recommend keeping the feedback focused on processes and actions\, not on individuals and who’s pulling their weight more than others. Not that anyone speaks directly like that\, but the way we talk about and the way we give feedback and the way we talk about it\, it can damage relationships. The beauty here in the situation of a team or collaboration is that the group can decide together how you’ll work together and handle feedback and conflicts. You guys can also hold each other accountable for that. \nThe more you open conversation you have about things like how we’ll do feedback in this group\, the better your group will be. Frankly\, I think it’ll build the individual skills as well for people to go back to other situations in their lives and be able to give feedback and receive feedback better as well. \nBob: All right. You have some advice and a practice to walk us through\, and I’d love to hear more about how I can start doing this better\, honestly. \nJessica: I hope this helps. The practice I have today for giving constructive feedback is actually a readiness checklist from Brené Brown. Today is a Brené Brown day for our podcast. You can download it\, the checklist from the Dare to Lead website. We’ll put the link in the show notes for you. \nYou can use this checklist anytime before you’re going to give feedback. Each question’s a series of 10 questions. Each question is a simple yes\, no. Well\, simple is maybe going to be up to you to decide. For the purpose of this practicast\, I think it’d be really good as you’re listening right now to think about a situation for which you need to provide feedback to a person. If you’re not in a situation like that right now\, think about a situation from the past where you needed to give feedback. As I go through this list\, I want you to notice if you answered no to any of the questions. Ask yourself why and what you need in order to make that answer a yes. The first question\, I know I’m ready to give feedback when I’m ready to sit next to you rather than across from you. I’m ready to give feedback when I’m willing to put the problem in front of us rather than between us. This is the difference between blaming someone and focusing on the fact that something needs to change instead. \nI know I’m ready to give feedback when I’m ready to listen\, ask questions\, and accept that I may not fully understand the issue. I think that last part is really key; accept that I may not fully understand the issue. I think we really want to make our guesses and put people in boxes. I know I’m ready to give feedback when I’m ready to acknowledge what you do well instead of just picking apart your mistakes. I know I’m ready to give feedback when I recognize your strengths and how you can use them to address your challenges. \nI know I’m ready to give feedback when I can hold you accountable without shaming or blaming you. I know I’m ready to give feedback when I’m open to owning my part. I want to acknowledge that that’s another hard one\, I think. I know I’m ready to give feedback when I can genuinely thank someone for efforts rather than just criticizing them for their failings. \nI know I’m ready to give feedback when I can talk about how resolving these challenges will lead to growth and opportunity. I know I’m ready to give feedback when I can model the vulnerability and openness that I expect to see from you. These are all\, I think\, really helpful to slow yourself down to. \nIf we’re in a situation where we need to give some constructive feedback\, I think sometimes we’re ready to rush in and just point out all the things that we need changed. This will help slow down\, help you slow down just a little bit\, think through it and help you become better at giving feedback. I just wanted to point out one more time\, for learning to notice and share positive feedback\, I recommend strength spotting from our Listening for Strengths and Values episode\, season five\, episode two. \nBob: Yes. We’ll put a link to that in the show notes for this episode as well. Thanks so much for guiding us through that\, Jessica. \nJessica: You’re so welcome. This is a topic that I think is really hard for most of us. The more we can help people in this area\, I think the better all of our relationships will be. \nBob: That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. We hope you’ll give this practice a try\, and share your experience in the Practicing Connection LinkedIn group where people supporting military families practice the skills that empower us to work together so that we can positively impact our communities and help families thrive. You’ll find the link to the group on our website at oneop.org/practicingconnection. \nNext week\, we’ll be back with an in-depth episode. We’ll be discussing Share the Work and Love\, one of the eight ways of cultivating community resilience that we identified in our Connecting Communities in Asset-Based Community Recovery project. Until then\, keep practicing. \nSpeaker: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp\, and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:14:29] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Feeding Military Families with Stronghold Food Pantry CEO Monica Bassett
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Monica talks about how she started a food pantry on Fort Riley\, KS and how she launched Stronghold\, highlighting the role military spouses\, like Monica\, can play in supporting military families. \nLinks\n\nStronghold Food Pantry\n\nStronghold on Facebook\nStronghold on Instagram\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”][music]\nKalin Goble: Welcome to Practicing Connection\, a podcast exploring the personal stories and collective practices that empower us to work together to improve our resilience and readiness in a rapidly changing world. Here to start the conversation are Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch. \nBob Bertsch: Hi\, and welcome to the Practicing Connection podcast. I’m Bob Bertsch. \nJessica Beckendorf: I’m Jessica Beckendorf. This year our team at OneOp has been focusing on food security for military families. We came across a news article about Stronghold Food Pantry Founder and CEO\, Monica Bassett. \nBob: Monica’s a military spouse and advocate for the underprivileged in the military community. Through her personal experience with food insecurity as a child and by connecting with military families facing the same struggles\, she’s made it her mission to ease the burden of food insecurity and shine a light on undernourishment of families. She founded Stronghold Food Pantry on Fort Leavenworth\, Kansas to respectfully supply resources to families. \nProvide actionable solutions and educate others on the crisis of food insecurity in the military. Monica was named the Armed Forces Insurance Army Spouse of the Year in 2022 because of her commitment to alleviating food insecurity\, and we are so very excited to have her join us for the podcast and for today’s conversation. Welcome to Practicing Connection\, Monica. Thanks so much for joining us. \nMonica Bassett: Thank you. I appreciate y’all having me on. \nJessica: Monica\, I’m really curious what led you to your work on food security. \nMonica: It really just started over COVID. Military families were stuck in a predicament where children were being sent home\, school was out\, spouses had to either quit their job\, try to find remote work. Things got really tight. I was in an installation Fort Riley\, Kansas at the time\, and we were also very highly deployable that soldiers were always gone. I started seeing the increased need and call to action of families needing help. They weren’t asking for money. They weren’t asking for rides. They weren’t asking for big-ticket items. They were asking for help stocking their refrigerator\, their pantries. I just started it from my garage. \nI started with our funds buying food. What I actually did was bringing it back to something that you guys mentioned in your last podcast\, community resilience. I really identified the gap– I just sort did it backwards. I identified the gap. I started with my own resources\, my family. Then the community came and they found ways that they could contribute. I had neighbors whaling down in wagons foods to stock up so that I could feed more military families\, and it became a coast-wide initiative. After that it grew to civilians wanting to contribute\, and the community wanted to take part in this initiative to help its military families. That’s really how it started. \nJessica: Wow. You started to touch on this\, but how did you know where to start? Tell me more about how you knew where to start. \nMonica: I didn’t. [laughter]\nJessica: That is what pretty much every caring community volunteer has probably ever said\, “I really didn’t know where to start. I just started doing stuff.” Tell me more about that\, Monica. \nMonica: It was a gut punch. It wasn’t something all-inspiring. It was a gut punch to have military spouses like myself asking for assistance. Asking for help in the most humble of ways. It really was something that either was going to bring you into action or face you to put the rose-colored goggles on and look the other way. Me and my family opted to just dive into it\, and it really just started with knowing what I could do personally to help. \nAfter that\, being that person that was in the forefront led others to say\, “I want to join you\,” and then the initiative grew. When I left Fort Riley\, I knew I needed to lead this program with someone who I couldn’t trust because my mission was never to start something and let it die. It has to continue and has to continue helping families. I left it with the Spouses Club there at Fort Riley and that program is still continuing now. \nJessica: Wow. One of the cool things I’m noticing in your story is that sometimes even when we start alone in something like this\, we’re not alone\, people will start to notice. We all have what’s in our circle of control the things that we actually can do ourselves. We all have a circle of influence\, but sometimes we might not know who’s in that circle of influence. \nAs people start to see what we’re doing\, that circle of influence might start to come to you\, which sounds like what happened to you\, Monica. In that same vein\, I’m really interested to know what your collaborations were like both on installation and in the community. Did you collaborate with people who were out in the community as well as on installation? If so\, tell me a little bit more about how that came about and what that was like. \nMonica: Yes\, absolutely. I think it’s very important to build bridges with our civilian community. I think that that is how military installations and military communities thrive. Because we contribute to our outside civilian installation by shopping there\, living there\, paying taxes\, buying vehicles. They want to also tie back into us. When you can build that bridge and let them be helpful to military families in the installation\, things can be very successful. What I started there\, first initially I researched all the food pantries that were civilian food pantries around the installation\, around several counties. \nI started talking to their executive directors\, I started volunteering. I started bringing groups of military spouses to come volunteer with me so that we could see the climate\, the dynamic\, how they operate\, how they service. After that\, I started bringing in our local command team. We had command spouses come out and want to see for themselves what was happening in these outside communities. How they were servicing civilians\, and possibly military personnel that also attended there. I think it’s very important to tie and to build those bridges with our outside community. \nEven now fast forward two years and Stronghold as a nonprofit\, we are bringing in organizations from civilian communities\, Kansas City\, Wichita\, Missouri\, that want to help military families\, but don’t have a tie into the military community. They’re like\, “We don’t even service your county\, we don’t even service that\, will you be an agency we can partner with?” Absolutely. If that means that I can alleviate a burden to a military family somehow\, absolutely. Let’s try to figure out how to make this work. \nJessica: Do you have a sense for how they didn’t have a tie-in to the military community? \nMonica: In the military\, we are personified by the notion of we take care of our own. That is a lot of what civilian organizations\, hospital\, agencies that help a civilian community with diapers\, and formula\, and food. Those are the notions that they have. We didn’t know this was happening in the military community. A big part of what I do as the Founder and CEO of Stronghold is get myself out into the civilian community and educate those individuals. \nBecause they had no idea that military families were living with 24% of food insecurity\, or that they do not qualify for SNAP benefits because after 6 hours and 27 minutes of me personally waiting on hold to apply we don’t qualify. Because from the get-go we’re disqualified because of the way our earnings statement is read. Which is shocking because this same federally funded program of WIC runs a completely different way with regulations and guidelines and military families do qualify for that. \nWhat I am seeing within Stronghold and with different food pantries that run and help military installations\, it’s that our highest demographic of military families needing assistance are not E1Z\, 2Z3s. They are E6s\, E7s who already have grown children in the household\, which makes sense they’re eating more. They’re more hungry. They’re living in a more active lifestyle. What they’re being able to get for their money in a grocery store is not sustaining that active lifestyle\, which in turn equals food insecurity. \nJessica: When my dad was E67\, I was a teenager and I needed money for the movies. [laughs]\nMonica: It’s sad. What you just noted right there is hard because if families do don’t have the funds for groceries\, sadly they also don’t have the funds for any actual fun that the family might have\, and activities that you would really love your children to enjoy. All those extra perks. Currently\, Stronghold is doing Pack the Backpack event next week for families because PCS season is one of the largest factors in what tilts military families into food insecurity. When you compound those expenses with a $200 back-to-school supply bill\, that it’s sometimes doubled and tripled\, that’s a huge burden. I always try to think of that. If military families don’t have the financial means to really supply that adequate food\, there are many other things that are going by the wayside as well. \nBob: Monica\, can you tell us a little bit more about how Stronghold got founded after you left Fort Riley? \nMonica: Yes. It still moves me now because who would’ve thought that something that just started in a garage an agency\, a large organization? Armed Forces Insurance approached me when I moved to our next installation\, Fort Leavenworth. They had read about some of the things that I had done at Fort Riley. They wanted to help military families\, and they wanted to tie into what we were doing. \nThey became a founding sponsor by giving me space. I have zero overhead. Stronghold has space completely donated by Armed Forces Insurance and that includes utilities and anything in their facility that I might need. That is tremendously generous and that really to me shows their dedication to want to help the military community. \nBob: Is that space on installation? \nMonica: It is. We are on Fort Leavenworth in their building\, just right around the corner from the local hospital. \nBob: How have you seen military families adapt to that or come to Stronghold? Do you have a sense of where folks who needed help at Fort Leavenworth were going previously? \nMonica: Yes. Military families here– first and foremost\, Fort Leavenworth is typically known as a very officer-heavy installation because we have the academy here. You have a lot of officers come in\, transitioning from captain to major. However\, we also hold the barracks prison on the other side of the installation\, and we hold over 800 junior enlisted soldiers and families here. That is very predominant in this installation. \nThey used to service. They used to attend services at outside organization\, Salvation Army\, Catholic charities\, things of that nature. There is always those fear of repercussions of who’s going to report me because a lot of outside food pantries they require to take in earning statements income in order to get state and federal grants. Anytime they have to identify who they are\, put down their information. \nThe first question that the director at Catholic charity shared with me was– or that they say\, “Are you going to share this with our commanders? Are you going to share this with the installation?” She’s like\, “I always have to reassure them that we will not.” Where Stronghold stands in the gap is the fact that to reassure them to make sure that we do service and help all military families. Because as I noted earlier\, our families do not qualify for SNAP. \nEven if we did require them to apply\, they would not qualify for our services if we required that. By standing in the gap Stronghold requires no earning statements. If you say that you need assistance\, if you can get past the stigma\, if you can get past the fear of repercussions and the embarrassment and you say you need assistance. Then we’re going to service you\, no questions asked. That’s truly where we stand in the gap because we are not a DOD facility. \nWe do not run the numbers up. We do not take units\, information\, rank\, any of that information\, and pass it along in the chain. We do not make them qualify by an earning statement. We are truly very unique in the space where we do fall into that gap. We have seen that in the course of five months our patrons\, and it’s bittersweet because you never want someone to need this assistance. It’s also at the same time exciting that the word is getting out that they can trust you. \nThe more names that come on and the more relationships that we build with our patrons they’re like\, “My friend told me you guys were safe. They were never reported\, so we really need some help.” Then you have families coming in saying\, “We have an emergency request because my spouse needed to leave or deploy TDY and now we have all these expenses.” The fact that they can trust you and that word of mouth is getting out there is very special to Stronghold because it means that we’re doing something right. \nBob: You talked a little bit about the stigma and I just– in the introduction\, I mentioned that Stronghold tries to respectfully provide these things. What does that mean to you and to Stronghold Food Pantry to respectfully provide this service to our military families? \nMonica: That is probably one of my biggest notions or something I keep in the forefront for me in my mission\, and it’s in the mission statement as well. Because it just means so much protecting a service member and their families anonymity and our culture is huge. This is why they don’t report that they are having issues. It is noted from the Department of Defense that one of the largest issues that military service members\, why they do not report having food insecurity\, financial difficulty\, mental health issues\, any of that is always fear of repercussions and stigma. \nThe way that Stronghold tries to protect their anonymity is they always reserve appointment times that they can have one-on-one time. They have a sanctioned time where they can come in\, they can shop\, have personal attention\, and have someone that they can talk to. Because a lot of the times they open up about various different items that are affecting their life or what brought them to this situation. \nFor instance\, an E-2 that came in\, he and his spouse were leaving a bad situation at home after high school and they join the service. He then brought on his little brother\, who is also a teenager\, became his legal guardian\, and as an E-2 you don’t have the pay to sustain another body\, much less a teenage body. These individuals were trying to be better global citizens. \nThey were trying to do better for themselves\, enroll in higher education paid by the military\, and they were willing to bring on someone else so they wouldn’t become a statistic. These are the stories at that personalized time\, that anonymity that we protect. They bring out these stories in these people. They bring out the trust and you start building these relationships. We do privatize time slots for military families to come in. \nThey can shop and they leave without bumping into a neighbor\, bumping into their NCO\, bumping into an officer or anyone else. I also do not allow any people in uniform personnel in our area\, and that includes my spouse who tries to deliver food sometimes to me. I yell at him\, “No\, no one’s allowed in here. You’re not going to spook any of my patriots because this is what’s important to them. This is how we build trust.” \nBob: What have been some of the biggest challenges in either experience on Fort Riley or Fort Leavenworth with running a food pantry on installation? \nMonica: Especially at Leavenworth because we were getting a whole operational warehouse and it’s the obstacles of weight. You’re not actually sanctioned by the Department of Defense. You’re not ACS\, MWR\, a chaplain\, you are not these entities. We are a complete outside nonprofit organization run volunteered by military spouses. That was probably the biggest thing after people started noticing that we were assisting and we were doing good. \nWe were providing services that are not provided. People are coming around. That was probably the biggest obstacle at this installation at Fort Leavenworth because we do have a warehouse. Fort Riley was a complete different beast. We did have some really phenomenal leadership there who just jumped in and said\, “What is the issue? How can we help? Let’s see this for ourselves.” “Hey\, Monica\, Come work with me and develop a task force to try to help our military families.” “Hey\, Monica\, come sit with my aide and run through this list and let’s give out some resource sheets to all our soldiers.” It really depends. Just like any organization\, whether you’re for-profit or non-profit\, whether you’re civilian or military. It always depends on the climate of your environment\, and it depends on who is working that environment. \nIt’s very different. It’s not what happened for Stronghold at Fort Leavenworth or what happened for me at Fort Riley before Stronghold was actually a nonprofit. Could be very different than what could happen for someone at Whiteman Air Force Base or in Misawa. It would be very different. It just really depends on your climate\, your environment\, and honestly your volunteers and your leadership. \nBob: You have advice for folks. Having said that context matters\, the climate matters\, what advice would you have for somebody who was interested in whether it’s working on food insecurity or another issue for military families as a military spouse? \nMonica: Yes. Recently\, within the last few months\, my email has been getting inundated with emails from various spouses. I mentioned a few of those from Misawa\, Spangdahlem Air Force Base\, Whiteman Air Force Base\, Coast Guard West Coast\, on how can you help me get through this? What are your best practices? One of the most in-depth that I helped was Spangdahlem Air Force Base. We had several Zoom conversations on here are my best practices and here’s where I would start. \nIt always starts with\, first\, get a feel for your climate because we all want to help. Military spouses we are in this community to do whatever we can for our neighbors\, but the biggest thing is– the way I mentioned at Fort Riley\, I started involving myself with outside community organizations. I started asking questions of executive directors\, what’s your percentage\, how many military families? Let me get a feel for how you run. That is always my first step for when people ask me\, how do you start this\, is you have to learn your climate. \nYou can’t just say\, “Well\, I saw five posts of families needing help\, or I need help.” I’m going do this whole pantry or this whole initiative. No\, first research the climate\, find out what resources are there\, how they operate\, maybe where the gaps are. Like maybe this resource is out there. However\, this pantry at this chaplain’s office is really only a coat closet or a cabinet\, and is only open between the hours of 8:00 and 10:00 and you have to answer the chaplain’s 30-minute questions. That already is going deter a family tenfold times. \nThey’re not going to want to answer the chaplain’s questions and sit there and be embarrassed and worry in the back of their head on who this is going to be reported to. Even though they know that that should be a private conversation\, it’s always something that’s going to run in the back of your head. First and foremost\, I always say\, “Go figure out your climate. Go find out those resources. Find out where those gaps fall\,” which leads back to your last podcast that I had listened to on your community resilience. \nThis is how you truly shape a very successful organization that can truly target and benefit your military families. After you figure out climate\, after you figure out where the gaps are or where you can contribute to them. Then you can figure out\, do you actually need a whole new service\, or can you tap into these outside resources. After that\, if then that leads you down the path of talking to garrison command and your chain command on post\, then let it be that\, but you are going armed with information. That is always my biggest thing. You need to be armed with the statistics\, the data. That’s what drives change. \nJessica: By that time you might also be armed with a whole network of other supports that are willing to step in and help if they can. \nMonica: Yes. You nailed it. Absolutely. \nJessica: That was super clear. It’s very clear that you have lots and lots of experience with this. [laughs] It is\, it is\, it’s very clear. Is there a specific practice that’s been really helpful in your work or to you individually that you’d be willing to share with us? Something that you practice maybe regularly? \nMonica: Yes\, a couple of things. As far as food pantry goes\, we practice always in that space of protecting anonymity and being able to serve our military families with dignity and respect. That leads me to the practice of whether you’re a volunteer or whether you’re a staff member or part of our board. My practice of interviewing every single person who comes through that door. Even a partner\, a donor\, I have turned away new stations\, articles being printed about Stronghold\, because anonymity and protecting our service members is always first for me. \nThat is a practice that I will never let go of despite what happens. Like I said\, I’ve turned away news stations who wanted to run stories. I’ve turned away articles because they want names\, and can we be there to film when you’re giving food out? Absolutely not. That also goes to who I bring on board. Even a general volunteer\, even someone that works within the pantry and the warehouse. If you are not in line with our mission and our passion\, because to do this work you have to have a passion for it. Not everyone who is sitting in an office for the Department of Defense\, in organizations\, at the chaplain’s office who are assigned to be a chaplain’s aid. \nNot everyone has a passion to serve military families\, and not everyone has a passion to be embedded in these stories and help them through their dark period and to be that hand up. I am very particular in who I bring in. There has to be the practice of meeting me\, of operating under me for a while before I can say\, “You can fully volunteer here\,” and it’s volunteer\, it’s for free. I’m not going to bring in anyone who can slightly break or cause amend in that relationship with our patriots. \nJessica: I’m a huge proponent of those one-on-one conversations. I really believe that through that you can not only find where there are bridges to be built\, but you can also just continue to deepen the network and deepen the supports for good work. \nBob: Hey\, Monica\, I have one more question for you\, and that is you have accomplished so much and put so much of yourself into this and your family. What do you do for yourself in terms of practice to keep going and stay healthy and do the great work that you’re doing? \nMonica: To be honest\, not much. [laughs] That is what we get into a lot\, but no. I will say something\, my volunteer time at the pantry with like-minded individuals truly helps me get through some obstacles. When we were PCSing we were stuck in a seven-week PCS for a two-hour move. It was supposed to be door to door\, but mishaps with privatized housing\, all the stuff and we were homeless\, PCS homeless for seven weeks. During that time I found a civilian food pantry and food drive to go to. I cannot explain how happy my heart was after that and how centered I felt. There is truly something that happens with giving work back to your community that is fulfilling. \nThere is data out there on what community service does to your mental sanity to help improve your wellness. From the voices of our volunteers\, one in specifically has said\, “I am so happy you exist. I’m so happy you allowed me to volunteer because this got me through the darkest time.” Because we’re building not only community with our patriots\, but we’re building community within our volunteers. We now have friends that they didn’t have before. They now have someone they can depend on. While we’re working and stocking the shelves\, a lot of the times we’re also airing our grievances and our stresses and having a therapy session within ourselves. \nI honestly have to say that a lot of that– and once the kids go back to school it’ll be a lot better too. Because right now my children go to the pantry with me and that’s not very calming. Going to the pantry really does help\, and aside from that we all like to talk to our community\, our friends that have been with us for years and have seen me go from A to Z and all the aspects. I think communication is key to help alleviate a lot of the mental anxiety and mental stress and then like a massage. \nJessica: Yes\, you got to that part at the very\, very end\, yes. No\, wonderful. That’s awesome. \nBob: Monica\, I want to thank you so much for joining us and for the work that you’re doing to support our military families in a time of need. Thank you so much for joining us and for the work that you do. It was great to talk with you. \nMonica: Thank you both for having me. I really appreciate it. Thank you for shining a light on what is happening with our military families and for Stronghold. \nJessica: That’s it for this episode. Thank you so much for joining us. 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The email will help us establish a shared rhythm and some shared experiences in our community. \nListen\n\n \nAbout this episode\nThe Food Security Hawaii Working Group is an amazing cross-sector collaboration to address food security issues military families are facing\, In this episode (Season 4\, Episode 6)\, Bob Bertsch talks with Arletta Eldridge Thompson\, Health Promotion Coordinator for the 15th Medical Group for Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam;  Lorna Souza with the Hawaii Air National Guard Airman and Family Readiness Program; and Kina Mahi\, Director of Advocacy and Strategic Partnerships for the Hawaii Foodbank about the challenges families in Hawaii are dealing with and how people are collaborating to address them. \nTranscript\nKalin Goble: Welcome to Practicing Connection\, a podcast exploring the personal stories and collective practices that empower us to work together to improve our resilience and readiness in a rapidly changing world. Here to start the conversation are Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch. \nBob Bertsch: Hi\, and welcome to the Practicing Connection podcast. I’m Bob Bertsch. I am really excited for this episode. We’re going to be talking about an incredible collaboration to address food insecurity among military families in Hawaii. Unfortunately\, Jessica won’t be here for this conversation\, but I do want to acknowledge all the work that she did to make this conversation happen. Thanks so much\, Jess. Wish you were here. \nThis year\, our team at OneOp has been focusing on food security for military families. Molly Herndon\, learned about the work our guests today are doing in Hawaii. When Molly passed this information on to Jessica and me\, we knew we had to find a way to get these folks on the podcast. After many emails\, a couple of video calls\, at least one approval process\, maybe more\, one that I know about\, I’m really happy to welcome our guests\, Kina Mahi\, Lorna Souza\, and Arletta Eldridge Thompson\, to the Practicing Connection podcast. \nWelcome\, everyone. I think we’ll start with some introductions. Arletta\, can you tell us a little bit more about yourself? \nArletta Eldridge Thompson: Hi. Thanks for inviting us. We’re really excited to be here. I’m Arletta Eldridge Thompson. I’m the Health Promotion Coordinator for the 15th Medical Group for Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam is a joint base with Navy/Air Force. We represent the Air Force side. I’ve been working for the Air Force for about 27 years\, and this is my sixth installation to work for. I’m really excited that this is taking off like it has. \nBob: Thanks\, Arletta. Lorna\, could you share a little bit about yourself with our listeners? \nLorna Souza: Sure. Aloha\, and mahalo for having us. My name is Lorna Souza. I am actually with the Hawaii Air National Guard Airman and Family Readiness Program. We are also located on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Hawaii\, at least the main part of our Hawaii Air National Guard\, so that’s why we’re part of this community. Then we also have GSUs\, or Geographically Separated Units\, on three of the other islands\, so the island of Kauai. Also\, the Hawaii Island\, which is our Big Island\, we have a unit there. Then Maui\, so we also have a unit on Maui. \nYes\, here to support any way we can and take care of our airmen. Mahalo. \nBob: Thank you\, Lorna. Kina\, could you introduce yourself? \nKina Mahi: Aloha. My name is Kina Mahi. Thank you so much for having us today. I’m the Director of Advocacy and Strategic Partnerships for the Hawaii Foodbank. The Hawaii Foodbank has been fighting hunger and food insecurity in Hawaii for 40 years. We’ve been lucky enough in the last year to join up with this food insecurity working group with Arletta and Lorna and several others because we believe nobody should go to bed hungry\, but we also are really dedicated in ensuring our military personnel who are serving don’t have to struggle with basic fundamental rights like food\, and we mean healthy food too. Mahalo. \nBob: I’m going to ask you to share with us again\, because before we jump into the working group and the incredible collaboration that’s going on\, I think it’s really important\, when we talked earlier a couple of months ago\, that we set the context a little bit for food systems and food security in Hawaii. Because it is such a special place and might have some unique benefits\, challenges\, just characteristics that we wouldn’t see here in the continental United States. \nKina\, can you maybe start that conversation for us? What makes the food system in Hawaii so unique? \nKina: Sure. Well\, at any given time\, the island of Oahu has less than a week of food supply on it. 80% to 90%\, depending on who you ask\, of the food that we all consume is imported. At one time\, our island sustained a population of a million people just within the sustainable cultivation of our āina\, which is our land here. Now we have a really different food system\, and as I’m sure you’ve all seen at the grocery store\, wherever you are\, prices have continued to go up and up and up. \nWe have this unique challenge of being the most isolated land mass on the planet and relying on boats that bring us our food. We have so much potential to rely more on our land to provide our food\, but that’s a longer conversation. We also know how when people are moving here to serve\, or when they’re assigned here\, it’s a big shift to see the prices that are here compared to prices elsewhere. It’s not just on a macro level we have some food system challenges\, but also on the individual family level when you’re making that adjustment\, it can be really hard. \nArletta: I can say on the active duty side that it is a shock when they come here because they expect everything to be the same as it was on the mainland\, and then when they transfer over here\, they’re totally unprepared. One of the things that we did with our working group is figure out ways to prepare them ahead of time in trying to get them to understand that they need a financial appointment before they leave and that they can figure out what their finances are before they leave\, then also start paying off as many bills as they can and start stockpiling a savings account. Because once they get here\, trying to do a savings account is really difficult because it’s so expensive\, and they’re going to have to rely on that because there’s a honeymoon period of about six to nine months. \nBecause the first thing is once they get the assignment\, it’s like\, oh my gosh\, it’s the best assignment in the Air Force\, or whatever military branch\, and they don’t realize that once they get here\, it’s not what they thought. I try to tell people early on\, I’m like\, okay\, here’s what you need to think about. There are two Hawaiis. There’s tourism Hawaii that they’ve been marketed to and the beauty and all that sort of stuff\, but then there’s the reality of living in Hawaii\, which is the other Hawaii. \nThat’s what I’m trying to prepare them because they don’t have a choice. Once they get here\, they can’t leave. I mean\, a spouse can leave. They can send their spouse back to the mainland or their children back to the mainland\, but that active duty or even that Guard member\, they can’t leave. They’re here. We have to prepare them the best we can for the environment that they’re living in. Hopefully\, some of the best practices that we come up with can be utilized on the mainland\, or also prepping a member to go overseas. \nBob: Lorna\, what kinds of challenges are your airmen facing and their families facing in the Hawaii Air National Guard regarding food security? \nLorna: Yes\, so it’s the same thing for our members. It is very expensive to live here. Cost of living is high. People are leaving constantly\, getting priced out of paradise and actually going to the mainland. Our local youth are starting to go to college there. Of course\, they end up staying there and not coming home\, and then before you know it\, the parents are following them. A lot of our local people can’t afford to live here\, so they’re moving to the mainland\, which you called continental United States. [chuckles]\nYes\, cost of living is very high here in Hawaii. We have multiple families living in one house\, so we have grandparents\, parents\, and children. Of course\, grandparents are watching the grandchildren\, and then the parents are going to work. I also noticed in the last few years\, we had a paradigm shift where actually now our parents are caring for our grandparents\, our elderly. Not only the stress and struggles of living in Hawaii or in the paradise that we have here\, but they can’t afford certain things\, and food is one of them. \nAnything that we can do for our families\, if we can help them with the food\, and then they can pay for the medical bills\, they can pay for the medication that they need for their grandparents\, or we call them kūpuna\, it’s going to help. \nArletta: I want to hop in and piggyback off of what Lorna said. Not only are they living two- well\, three\, maybe four generations in a house\, most everybody in the house has at least two jobs. When you’re looking at the Hawaii Air National Guard\, they have their normal regular job and then a part-time job\, and then the National Guard on top of that. \nBob: Yes. It sounds like very challenging context for our families to be dealing with\, but the working group that you guys put together to start to address that kind of stuff\, how did that all begin\, Arletta? Where did this idea even spring out of and how did you get it started? \nArletta: Gosh\, this was way back before the pandemic\, October of 2019. Airman and Family Readiness on the Hickam active duty side noticed that– It was started with Drew [unintelligible 00:11:00]. He noticed that when people were coming in for the Air Force Aid Society\, those are emergency loans and grants that people can apply for if they need money for certain things. Usually it’s a car repair or something to that effect. One of the things that he noticed when people were coming in to ask for those loans and grants was they were needing sustenance\, they were needing food. Instead of asking for the grant or the loan\, which I think they can only get maybe one time or it’s a limited time\, he opened up a cabinet with two doors and it was a food pantry. That’s how we started. \nThen once we had that food pantry\, I hopped on board to help him advertise it because as a health promotion coordinator\, I know that if you can get people to donate healthier items\, that’ll change their diet. Then not long after that\, the chaplains over at the Hawaii Air National Guard opened up the Pono Pantry. Pono in Hawaii means balance. They started theirs. It was a little shed out in their parking lot\, [chuckles] and they left it open 24/7 so people could go in and get what they needed. That’s how our food pantry system opened up. \nThen when we were moving forward\, but Jayme Alexander\, she took over the Flight Chief position at the Airman and Family Readiness Center\, and she noticed the same thing Drew did\, only she expanded it by like 1\,600%. Instead of one cabinet; ended up being four. She noticed that there was an extreme need. This was during the pandemic\, so that’s when she expanded it. Well\, the working group happened because our wing commander’s wife at the time– We had expanded to the Airman’s Attic\, and the Airman’s Attic is like a thrift store\, it’s like a free thrift store. They noticed that people were coming in for clothing and things like that\, so they set up a little cabinet at the Airman’s Attic. \nThe wing commander’s wife\, who’s the head person over on the Air Force side\, she noticed that people were taking a lot of food items from the Airman’s Attic\, so she approached me and wanted healthier items. One of the things I had mentioned to her was\, once you reach to the point of you’re getting food at a food pantry\, healthier items are not on your list of to do. I mean\, you’re just wanting to survive. That would fall to us to provide those healthier options so that they could have those. That’s how the working group started was I said\, what we need is to get together as a group and be able to create that type of environment. That’s how the working group started. \nIt’s changed its name three times now. It was the Team Hickam Food Insecurity Working Group. Then I believe it was Laura Kay from the Hawaii Foodbank had said that we are in a unique situation on Oahu as that we have all four services plus the Coast Guard on this island. It was then that I was like\, you know what? We can’t just say this is just an Air Force thing. We opened it up to all services\, and we have representatives from all services that attend this working group. Recently\, we just changed the name again to the Food Insecurity Working Group Hawaii because now we cover the whole state of Hawaii because as Lorna said\, we have assets on outer islands and we are actually servicing those assets\, so it made sense to change the name again. \nHow we ended up being kind of multi-service. In August of last year\, I had a phone call from USARPAC\, which is US Army Pacific. They asked me if I was doing anything on the food insecurity side. I’m like\, well\, yes. The more we got the talk\, they have a– General Flynn is very\, very interested in food insecurity\, and so they piggyback off of us. They ended up attending the working group\, back when we were Team Hickam\, and now they’re like very staunch at showing up every meeting\, they give a lot of input. Not only is our working group dealing with things that happen in Hawaii\, but also across the Pacific we’re having impact. That’s exciting as well. \nBob: Kina\, how did Hawaii Foodbank get involved? \nKina: Hawaii Foodbank has been partnering with the Armed Services YMCA for several years now. Hawaii Foodbank– The way food banks work is like a funnel. The food comes into us from retail donations from the Safeways and the Costcos in our community who have excess\, and also from USDA commodities\, and then also from our community member donations. We do purchase food as well\, especially we like to prioritize from our local farmers and producers. The food funnels in\, and then we funnel it out through a network of community partners like ASYMCA. We have three sites. \nArletta mentioned it\, and I mentioned it\, we really like to focus on healthy food. The number one thing people are asking for is fresh produce. That is the thing that is not affordable\, that is the thing that goes away when a family is struggling. That’s the stories we hear. We partner with ASYMCA in three different locations at three different bases to do monthly distributions where we really focus on produce. We bring\, and we will bring the– We have the refrigeration at the food bank\, so we come out and can do a bigger distribution at a time. \nWe would like to do more. There’s always more to be done. I think this is where we like to partner with very creative folks like Arletta\, who’s thinking about community gardens. A community garden or a family garden may never meet all of your produce and vegetable needs\, but if we can start to- in addition to what we bring on a monthly or a biweekly basis from the food bank\, if we can start to change mindsets and build skills and understand how we can also go back to some of the values that sustains a population here at one time\, if we can go back to some of those values and practices\, we do think it also makes a difference for people. \nBob: Yes\, it’s really great to hear some of the systems approach to preventing food insecurity\, and awesome that you guys are working on that. Lorna\, what kinds of other things is the working group working on? [chuckles] The working group working on. What’s typical of a meeting of what kind of conversations come up? \nLorna: Well\, I think the nice thing about this working group\, it’s various organizations that are coming together\, not only military. We work with the community so much\, and everybody brings their little piece of what they’re doing\, what’s coming up in the future\, the programs that are available for our members or for our service members. That really brings us together and helps us. Then if we have an issue\, we work together on how to resolve it\, or how to take care of just little items that might be challenges we might be facing. \nIt’s a great way to come together and see what’s out there to bring these resources to our members. It’s a really giving group of people too. Arletta said about pono. Pono means righteousness and balance and doing what’s right. That’s exactly what this team does\, is we’re just trying to make sure that everybody gets the information and gets the resources that they need so that they can have a better experience here in Hawaii. \nAlso too\, what we do is we have some volunteer experiences for our members. Not everybody’s having struggles with food\, but they want to help out\, so we do have volunteer opportunities with the food bank. We do that monthly. Then also\, we go up to a farm\, Waihe’e farm. We actually go there and clean up the farm\, make sure that we help them with their taro or kalo\, which actually turns into poi. If you’ve been to Hawaii\, you might have had some poi. That’s the root that you make poi from. It’s a big industry here and very expensive\, so any way we can help to cultivate the taro or the kalo. \nWe go out there\, and we help them with their farm and better their progress of growing this product. Then also\, other products they have. They have watercress there. They have ‘ulu\, which is breadfruit\, and different other local fruits that we can distribute to our community. \nArletta: Actually\, the reason that’s important is because if you look at the bigger picture\, and this is one of the things that you have to give Hawaii credit for\, is they’re trying to go back to the sustainability that they had before modern times. That’s how they sustain themselves. It also gives a hands-on view to everybody on where their food comes from. They could very easily be repeated at farm– You see these sorts of things on farms on the mainland\, people going and volunteering and helping. I had a friend of mine in Missouri that just volunteered to help pick a farm that creates her CSA\, her community support box that she gets. That food\, because it was extra\, went back to the food bank. \nThese are things that we can promote having people understand where their food comes from\, and you’re able to have a hands-on. Hawaii just happens to be unique in the fact that it’s part of their underlying culture. We care about the āina\, or the land\, and so that’s something that’s really important. \nLorna: Yes. Actually\, we started going to the Waihe’e farm because after COVID\, they lost so many sales that they were thinking of shutting down. We got a group of volunteers together and simple things like taking the weeds out of the taro patch or the kalo patch\, and just making sure that the water is flowing from the– The water is wai\, so the wai is flowing from the streams\, taking the weeds out of that in the streams and making sure that everything is flowing correctly. We’re able to clean up their taro patches and production has been better. \nJust little things of getting people together to help out these farmers so that they can produce. It’s going to\, of course\, drizzle down to us and we’re going to end up getting the benefits of it. Poi\, which is made from kalo\, is very expensive and it’s because the lack of the product\, the kalo. This way\, we can actually help them and in turn\, we’re helping ourselves because of reduction of price for poi\, which is one of our staples. \nBob: That’s awesome. I think it’s really great to build that connection back to where your food comes from. It sounds like there’s a lot of great stuff happening and great communication happening. I’m just wondering if\, when the working group was either being formed\, or where you were trying to get your feet\, were there challenges or barriers that you guys encountered in trying to get this set up and to get everybody at the table? \nArletta: I know for me\, the big challenges was trying to get– It’s one thing to have a working group and to be able to move forward\, but when you look at the big picture on the military side of the house\, you have to have leadership involved. You have to have leadership understand that this is an issue. When you look at the big picture\, both on the active duty side\, and the Guard\, and Reserve side\, and the Secretary of Defense said it\, food insecurity is a readiness issue. \nWhen we look at the overall picture\, if you have a military member that can’t afford or doesn’t have the resources to sustain themselves\, then that puts them at risk for\, A\, not doing their job; B\, worrying about their family; C\, becoming a security risk because they become a possible target for our adversaries to offer them money for food. That’s not something that we want. We can’t tolerate that. That’s a no go. The thing for me was trying to get leadership to understand. I am partly there. Not everybody– \nThe first thing\, and I heard this a lot\, is\, “Well\, you make good money. I don’t understand how you are having trouble.” What we found early on was you can be food insecure at any rank. All it takes is one major life event to knock you off the fence. You can have a Lieutenant Colonel seeking food at a food pantry. This isn’t something that is just low-ranking airmen with a lot of kids\, although it is a lot of that. It’s across the board\, and getting leadership to understand that this stuff has been lurking in your ranks for decades. \nThis is not a new problem. This is something\, yes\, the pandemic probably aggravated a little bit\, but when I first started doing research on it– The reason I started doing research was because Major Kevin Watanabe\, the IMA to the PACAF\, Pacific Air Force’s nutrition consultant\, couldn’t go to his base in Alaska during the pandemic\, so he dropped in my lap. I had him for a month\, and I ask him to give me ideas for nutrition\, because nutrition falls to me\, I am not a dietitian\, he is\, and to give me nutrition ideas. \nThe garden was the first idea\, and we’ve been sustaining that garden since October of 2020. The second or the last idea that he gave me right before he left was\, “Check into SNAP and WIC. You may be looking at only low-ranking airmen with a lot of kids\,” so I did. What I found out was this is like the military’s dirty little secret. It’s been happening for years. Nobody’s really been talking about it. That’s how we evolved into where we’re at is once I figured out the issue\, then it’s my responsibility\, because it’s readiness issue\, is to bring it to leadership’s attention. Once leadership gets an idea that this is an issue\, then we can move forward\, and we can actually do a little bit more than what we can just by ourselves. \nMy medical group commander\, who is in charge of our clinic\, she was the first one I got on board. Then she said\, I want this brief to all the group commanders\, and so we were able to take that forward. We still have a lot of work to do because we only targeted a small group of our commanders. The goal is to get them all to understand. Once everybody’s on board and everybody’s aware of it\, they can see those pockets where they can actually make a difference and things they can do. \nThat’s the big thing with leadership is you have to give them action items\, things they can do that is realistic\, in their wheelhouse. You can’t give them the overarching thing and say\, “This is our problem\,” and give them nothing to do. They operate by\, “Give me the reason\, tell me what’s going on\, and then give me something to do.” Right now that’s probably the biggest challenge is being able to get leadership to understand. We’re getting there. It’s not perfect\, but we’re a lot further than we were two years ago. \nI think that with the Secretary of Defense highlighting this\, that it’s made it easier for more commanders to understand. We’re seeing that on the USARPAC side\, the US Army Pacific side\, is they have a senior leader that’s highly engaged. I think that they can make a lot of difference just at that big level. \nBob: Lorna\, did you see similar things in terms of having to get buy-in from leadership on your side of things? \nLorna: The Pono Pantry was actually started by the chaplain program during the COVID situation here in Hawaii\, the pandemic. The chaplains put everything into motion. They got approval and everything. I was not part of that\, but I’m telling you\, with our leadership at the Hawaii Air National Guard\, we have no resistance there. They all would continuously ask if we need any products in the Pono Pantry. Obviously\, we have different needs on the Hawaii Air National Guard side. Rice\, SPAM [unintelligible 00:30:03] diapers\, stuff like that that we need\, and it just flies out of our pantry\, but the leadership continuously supports the program. \nOne thing that we do find is a challenge is having the members come out. That’s why we have it where it’s anonymous. You can come at any time. We do have hours to the open facility\, but we can coordinate with them. They can come in the evening or early morning\, and we’ll have the products available for them. Then we also work very closely with our first sergeants\, and we have them out and about\, finding out where the needs are and then trying to fulfill those needs by providing them the food source. \nIn the future\, this– We just started hurricane season and preparedness is a big part of hurricane season. We’re making sure that we have enough supplies in there\, and we’re going to\, hopefully\, put together some bags of starter sets with maybe a few food items\, some toiletries. We just got a big donation of toiletries\, so toiletries in there\, and just get them started. \nArletta: Yes\, Lorna brings up a really good point. I think the big piece of this that everybody misses is the disaster piece. There are two emergencies. One is the individual person’s emergency and getting a crisis\, and then your goal is to get them stabilized and then help move them forward. The piece that I don’t think we’re talking about enough is the mass disaster piece. For us\, it could be a hurricane. We just went through the Red Hill water crisis where we had some fuel tanks leak into the water system\, and that threw us off. We learned a lot during that water crisis as to what’s going to happen during an emergency. \nSee\, for our members\, and even Lorna’s airmen during an emergency\, those members have to keep on working. It’s not like they can stop and take care of their family. The mission goes on\, so you have to prep them ahead of time so that they can weather that disaster. We learned a lot of lessons during the Red Hill water crisis in the fact that we’re not as ready as we could be. That’s one of the big things that our working group has actually been looking at on a big scale is\, how can we prepare members for an emergency? \nOne of the things that you’re told when you get here is to have two weeks’ worth of food stockpiled so that in case of emergency\, you can fall back on that because 90% of the food is imported here. Unfortunately\, I can’t think of a single person that’s probably as prepared as they should be. That’s one of the things that we’ve been talking about. Maybe somehow educating members to prepare their kit before they leave the mainland. That way\, the government will move it here\, it will be in place\, and they don’t have to worry about the expense once they get here. \nThat’s in the infancy stage\, but that disaster preparedness is a huge thing. Because in a disaster\, the goal is- we’re not there yet\, but the goal is for the active duty or even the military in general\, Guard\, Reserve\, to take the pressure off of the Hawaii Foodbank because in a disaster\, their people are the people of Hawaii. If we can somehow self-contain and prepare those members to be able to be self-contained and to move on with their mission and not have to worry about going out and getting food\, we take that pressure off of the Hawaii Foodbank and they can concentrate on the other people in Hawaii. We’re not there yet\, but that’s one of our ultimate goals. \nBob: Kina\, can you talk about that a little bit? I think there’s a couple things that are really striking me. Just this idea of being here on the mainland\, we have the same risks\, potentially\, of- not the same\, but similar risks of disaster and being prepared for that\, but it’s such a different ask for me to be prepared and have that food in the pantry for two weeks or longer\, or whatever\, than it is for the people of Hawaii. \nThe other thing I’m interested in your comment on is just what Arletta just brought up\, about this relationship between Hawaii Foodbank serving the people of Hawaii\, but knowing that our military families are in need and how that gets discussed and balanced out for you guys. \nKina: Yes\, those are two really big\, really good questions. Let me start with the disaster piece first. If we look at what’s in our warehouse\, and if we think about having to have enough food for everybody on Oahu in the event of a massive disaster\, it’s a day\, maybe. It’s not enough. We are talking with our Department of Emergency Management at the county level\, and with our Hawaii Emergency Management at the state level. There’s a lot that we can do\, both systematically and individually\, to be prepared. \nWe have an internal plan that we’re working on at the food bank. A big part of our plan is also working with the agencies\, with the ASYMCAs and with the other 200 agency partners who run food pantries and soup kitchens to make sure that they have some stockpiles\, that they’re strategically placed around the island\, what we’re calling precovery pods\, with MREs in them\, so in the event that Waianae is cut off from– Farrington Highway that goes out to Waianae often gets cut off for a car accident\, let alone a disaster. That there are places that are going to be hard to reach that have at least some level of preparedness. \nI think one of the things we talk about a lot is how much– If you look at the narrative\, like have your emergency preparedness kit done\, you might get a flyer in the mail. So much of the messaging falls on the individual person or the individual family to get prepared\, but we also have to be prepared as a community and as a state. These are the conversations\, I think\, we’re having in the working group\, how we do that. How we both encourage at the individual level\, but also when a disaster strikes we’re all in it together\, so how we make sure that it’s the communications and the infrastructure that’s in place to do that. \nWe don’t have the answers\, it’s a work in progress\, but it is one of the key pillars\, key priorities that we’re working at\, at Hawaii Foodbank. Because it’s a when. It’s not an if\, and we all know that. COVID was its own disaster of sorts that we learned a lot from. I think we’re trying to apply some of those lessons- not lose those lessons and apply them to thinking about natural and weather-related disasters that we’ll hit. \nOn the second question\, it’s a bigger and harder question around the relationship with the military in Hawaii. I’m not speaking out of turn to say it’s a complex– We are in occupied territory that was controlled by our Indigenous population\, and that’s a complex relationship. On the other hand\, it’s not either or. I have Hawaiian family who served in the military. Hawaiians have a history of military service back to Kalākaua’s days. It’s Hawaiian people who are serving in the Air National Guard\, right\, Lorna? \nI think we\, Hawaii Foodbank\, try to get past the either/or\, us/them narrative\, and nobody should go to bed hungry. You can say\, especially kids\, especially kūpuna\, elders\, especially people serving our country\, but it’s actually\, especially no one. I think that it’s finding these intersections of partnerships where when we come together and link\, we can all do better together. \nI guess maybe if I could say one more thing leading from that\, Arletta and Lorna talked a little bit about the challenges\, but also there’s some really special things about being on an island. All the challenges we have are not unique to other places\, but we’re just closer together. Lorna’s comment about the leadership being so supportive\, I think we have that really in spades here in Hawaii. We are an inspiration for other places. \nAt the Hawaii Foodbank\, we’re part of a cohort of other food banks who serve military families. Colorado\, Savannah\, Georgia\, there’s a handful of food banks across the nation. We asked Arletta to come talk to the group about this working group because what she and her partners have done in creating this all-branch\, all-collaborative\, islands’\, statewide organization of people is pretty tremendous\, and everybody else was blown away. It gave a lot of ideas- not just concrete ideas\, but inspiration and hope for what is possible. \nBob: What I’d like to do is ask each of you about advice you would give to someone who maybe is feeling the need for this on their installation\, in their community\, that you know there’s other people out there working on this issue\, you know it’s an issue for the people that you serve. \nI’ll start with Arletta and then Lorna. What advice would you give to someone who is on installation or working with Guard or Reserve and wants to engage with civilian organizations on the issue of food security for military families? \nArletta: It’s actually a partnership amongst several. I started my relationship with the Hawaii Department of Health\, the public health department. That was a link that was made through Major Watanabe\, but that’s how I fully understood how to deal with the food issue on the healthy side of the house. Reaching out to your public health departments\, reaching out to those local food banks. I think there’s been a roadblock for a long time. It’s like we can’t talk to you because of security issues. I think that we’re all in the same business and all in the same game\, and I think that we can talk to each other and share data and things like that\, and I think that we can help each other. \nI know on the health promotion side of the house\, look at those areas that you’re reaching out to your cooperative extension. Great\, great information on gardening\, recipes\, how to cook. Those are all skills that\, on a military installation\, I think that we need to teach. We need to teach about foodways\, we need to teach about farmers’ markets\, CSAs\, all that stuff is an education piece because it all feeds into that food ecosystem. Because the goal– I know one of the goals that we have here is to try to stretch that food dollar as far as we can. \nBy stretching the food dollar\, it’s buying local\, preventing food waste\, cooking with your scraps. A lot of the stuff that goes into the trash\, that’s edible food\, and there’s a lot of organizations across the country that are actually working on those sorts of things. I was recently\, last week\, at the American College of Sports Medicine meeting. I was able to wander around a Denver park that was near Union Station\, and I stumbled upon the Denver Urban Garden. Which I have a garden. I got a lot of ideas from there. There are agencies in the community that can help you meet those goals. \nAnother thing that you might think about is encouraging breastfeeding in the workplace. That’s an education piece that a lot of people haven’t addressed\, and that feeds right back into our food system as well. Reaching out to those outside partners that can help you. Every places has a little different agency\, but like I said\, the extension\, the public health department\, the local food pantries\, your sister services. I’ve learned so much from the Army side\, and the Army has learned so much from me. Just because you happen to reside in the same place\, you’re not two different services. We’re all one Department of Defense. \nThat would be my advice. \nBob: Lorna\, do you have advice from the National Guard perspective? \nLorna: Sure. I think you have to just set some goals. What do you want? How do you want to get there? Then talk about your ideas. You have to start having the conversation with your leadership\, community organizations. You can talk to other bases. Call us. It doesn’t have to be big. You can actually start small if you wanted to. \nEducation is really the piece too. Of course\, you want to educate the community and our leadership on some of the things that we need in our community or for our members. Schools\, educate the children. [unintelligible 00:44:10]. They are the ones that are going to take it home\, so tell them how you can be more sustainable\, or teach them how you can save on groceries using coupons\, or whatever it takes. Yes\, set the goals\, talk about your ideas. Then also\, it does not have to be huge. Start small. It’ll always grow. \nPeople want to help each other. In the Hawaii community\, like was said earlier too\, we support each other. Even we don’t only care for our kūpuna\, or our elderly within our family\, we actually help our neighbors. We take care of each other. We help our neighbors to make sure they’re okay. During a hurricane\, we walk over to our neighbor’s house\, especially if they’re elderly\, and say\, “Hey\, are you okay? Do you need food? You need us to clean out your house?” Or whatever is needed. We make sure that they’re taken care of. \nOnce you start that conversation\, I think everybody [unintelligible 00:45:09] and will be part of your team will gather. \nBob: Thanks\, Lorna. Kina\, we’ll end with you. Do you have advice for that person who might be in a community food bank or food pantry who knows there might be a need for military families and some opportunities to engage with National Guard or a military installation\, do you have advice for how to get started? \nKina: I think reaching out to your local food bank is a really good start. Then I think for everybody\, whether you’re at a food bank\, or whether you’re in the military\, or you’re a civilian\, helping to reduce that culture of shame and stigma. Everybody needs help sometimes. We’ve all needed a hand up in our life\, and so if we can create the kind of programs that are centered around helping each other\, reciprocity\, giving back. \nI heard a great quote from someone in our community like\, no matter how hard you have it\, you can always help give blessings to other people. If we take that spirit\, that connection in our community as part of the work we’re doing around food insecurity and health\, then I think that goes a long way. \nBob: I want to thank you guys so much for the incredible work that you are all doing\, and for sharing it with us today on the Practicing Connection podcast. Kina Mahi\, Lorna Souza\, Arletta Eldridge Thompson\, thank you so much for joining us. \nLorna: Thank you. Mahalo. \nBob: I want to thank our listeners for joining us for this conversation as well. Thanks again to Jessica. She made this whole conversation possible with her hard work. We’d also like to thank our co-producer\, Coral Owen; our announcer\, Kalin Goble; Hannah Hyde\, Maggie Lucas\, and Terry Meisenbach for their help with marketing; and Nathan Grimm\, who composed and performed all the music you hear on the podcast. We hope you’ll join us again soon. In the meantime\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin: The Practicing Connection is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense under award number 2019-48770-30366.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Navigating TRICARE’s Autism Care Demonstration: A Guide for Providers & Military Families
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SUMMARY:Reduce Your Stress Through Core Values
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Bob Bertsch introduces practical exercises\, guiding you through reflections and rapid assessments to uncover and understand your core values. \nLinks\n\n\nValues Worksheets from the Wellness Society (PDF) \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: Defining your core values helps you make decisions in harmony with your personal and social goals and sharing your core values can help deepen your relationships. Hi\, everyone. This is Jessica and welcome to this week’s Practicing Connection Practicast\, where we highlight a specific practice you can use in your life and work. This week’s practice is defining your core values. It will help you get in touch with your core values\, which can reduce stress\, boost your confidence\, and more. My Practicing Connection co-host\, Bob Bertsch\, will be guiding us through the practice in a few minutes. First\, let’s learn a little bit more about it. Hi Bob\, can you start by talking about what are values? \nBob Bertsch: Values are beliefs that we have that have come to represent what is important to us. Shalom Schwartz\, who developed the Theory of Basic Values\, outlined six main features of values. First\, they are beliefs that when activated\, arouse our emotions. They refer to desirable goals and motivate us to pursue those goals. They transcend specific contexts and situations. Our attitudes and the norms we choose to follow might change depending on where we are and who we’re with\, but our values don’t. Fourth\, they serve as standards that guide our actions and our judgment of other people and their actions. This usually happens without us even being consciously aware of it. \nNext\, we hold our values in an order of importance. Values can come into conflict with each other\, and so we organize them in a hierarchy. Again\, we might not be aware of that. We don’t typically do that with our other beliefs. They’re values because we organize them in a hierarchy. Finally\, the relative importance of multiple values guides our action. According to Schwartz\, any attitude or behavior typically has implications for more than one value. That’s what makes up values. In the book Pro-Social\, the authors describe values as expressing\, “How we want to be as people and the desired qualities we would like our actions to reflect.” \nJessica: That’s a nice way of summarizing it. I think one of the things I’ve heard is that all of us like to go to MSU\, making stuff up. I didn’t realize that our values also help determine what we are making up about other people and about our own stories. Thanks so much for sharing that definition. I’m really curious to know more about how values-based action benefits us in our work and maybe even our communities. \nBob: Yes. We aren’t usually conscious of how values are guiding our actions\, but becoming aware of our values and the social values of the groups that we participate in can have a lot of benefits. Just taking time to reflect on your values can lower your stress response\, possibly because it reminds you of what is important to you. It allows you to focus on what’s important and not get so stressed out about the other stuff. That lower stress response can boost your decision-making and your problem-solving skills. Getting in touch with your values can also increase your motivation for trying something that’s difficult. \nThe things that are important to you can help you overcome your inner critic. Focusing on those values lets you try new things and stuff that might be hard. Values don’t only operate on that individual level. They also operate at the group level. Shared values guide the actions of a group\, just as our values guide our individual actions. When those shared values are known to everyone in the group\, they can lower the instances of conflict within the group and help resolve that conflict if it does come up\, right? There’s some research that indicates when your individual values align with the values of a group that you’re part of\, it can just generally benefit your health and well-being. \nJessica: That’s really interesting. It makes me think about whether we should reassess our values from time to time. Does society and culture and trauma and drama affect our values or change our values in any way? \nBob: To the first question\, yes\, about the reassessing. Values are beliefs that have become really important to us\, right? Like all of our beliefs\, they’re going to be affected by our experiences and other outside forces. Big changes in your life can lead you to reassess your values because they are a belief that’s just become really important and so you might have changed a little bit about what you believe. We often hear people talk about their values changing like after a health scare or some kind of traumatic event. \nExperiences like those can lead you to think about your values\, either revealing a value to you that you may have held without really knowing it\, being conscious of it\, or just leading you to an entirely new value. Maybe even changing the hierarchy of your values. What is most important to you? Any other belief\, your values can be affected\, as I said\, by outside forces like the people around you and the information you consume\, and societal norms. Those societal norms can lead us to think we value something or pressure us to value something. \nIn the book\, Pro-Social\, I’ll bring up again\, there’s a story about a nurse who initially listed compassion as one of their values. After reflection\, they realized they really only wrote that down because nurses are supposed to be compassionate. I’m using finger quotes for podcast listeners there. Nurses we think should be compassionate\, so they wrote compassion as one of their values just because it was that societal norm. They can definitely affect that. As a result\, we might want to think about what values we think we hold\, reassess them\, and potentially change our values if we’re led that direction. \nJessica: We shouldn’t ever “should” all over ourselves\, right? That’s one of the things that I always tell people in my workshops\, don’t “should” all over yourself. Okay\, so let’s get into the practice. How can we practice identifying our values? \nBob: Okay\, so I’m going to share a couple of practices from the Wellness Society with you today. Both of these practices are available in a values worksheet\, and we’re going to put the link to that worksheet in the show notes for this episode. These two practices work well together. My recommendation\, do them both\, right? We can start with a shorter practice\, and this one is called reflecting your values. \nThe worksheet that I mentioned\, you’ll see it has five reflection questions on it. I’m going to share three of those reflection questions with you right now. As I ask each question\, just take a couple of beats to think about it. If it’s possible for you to do it right now\, jot down some of your initial thoughts. You may want to go back and think a little bit more deeply on these later. \nThe first question is\, what qualities do you most appreciate in others and in yourself and what does that say about what you value? Next\, think about this question. What would you do if money and other people’s opinions didn’t matter? Then finally\, which events in your life have been the most meaningful to you? Those three questions and the other two questions that you’ll find on the worksheet can help us start to identify what our values are by reflecting back on what’s important to us and where that might lead us in terms of defining and discovering our values. \nOkay\, so the second practice is called fast values. The first step in this one is to open up on your computer or your phone or print out the list of values from the values worksheet. Unfortunately\, I can’t recreate this in audio for you because there’s 93 different values on the list. I’m not going to list them all for you now\, but when you get the worksheet from the show notes\, open that up or print it out\, have it in front of you. \nJessica: We should have hired an auctioneer. \nBob: Right\, exactly. They could have got them all in time. Just note\, your values don’t have to be included in the list. That list is just there to start to help you brainstorm different values and sort of what’s important to you. You might come up with something that’s not part of the 93 that really resonates with you. That’s absolutely fine. \nAll right. Now that you’ve got that list of 93 different values in front of you\, we’re going to get a timer ready and set it for two minutes. That’s it. Two minutes. That’s why it’s called fast values. Once you’re ready\, start your timer and begin reviewing the values on the list. Just quickly place a checkmark next to or write down the ones that stand out to you the most. Don’t overthink it. Go with your gut. We’re looking for your just initial response to those ones that resonate with you. \nWhen the two minutes are up\, take that list of values that stood out to you and rank them from most to least important. These values may or may not be your core values. The fast values exercise is just a way to get started thinking about what your values might be. Finally\, review both of these exercises. Think about what stood out to you in these exercises\, what you wrote down\, and use those insights to start to lead you toward your core values. \nHere are three questions that might help you think about your core values. What actions have I taken recently that are in line with this value? What actions have I taken recently that are not in line with this value? What actions can I take in the future that would be in line with this value? If you find it difficult to answer these questions for one of your values or you find you’ve taken frequent actions that were not in line with one of your values\, you might want to reconsider if that really is one of your core values. \nJessica: Thank you so much\, Bob\, for bringing us through two practices today. It’s getting two for the price of one today. No\, I found them really valuable myself. I went through them myself as you were talking about them\, except for the fast values one. I should say I went through one of them and it was\, I actually found the answers to my questions really\, really interesting. I thought about the three questions for your second activity in just different ways. I’ve done values explorations a number of times in the past\, and these are two ways that I have not explored so I’m excited to finish going through them myself. Okay. Yes. Thank you. \nBob: You’re welcome. Thanks for the opportunity. \nJessica: That’s it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. We hope you’ll give this practice a try and share your experience in the Practicing Connection LinkedIn group\, where people supporting military families practice the skills that empower us to work together so that we can positively impact our communities and help families thrive. You’ll find the link to the group on our website at OneOp.org/Practicing Connection. We’ll be back next week with a practice for regulating your emotions. Until then\, keep practicing. \nAnnouncer: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense\, under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[00:13:08] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Confronting Imposter Syndrome by Sharing Your Work
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The community is designed for people who support military families in a variety of settings both on installations and in our communities.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column column_padding=”padding-4-percent” 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_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=”Listen” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][vc_raw_html]JTNDZGl2JTIwaWQlM0QlMjJidXp6c3Byb3V0LXBsYXllci0xNTM1MjEwNyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRmRpdiUzRSUzQ3NjcmlwdCUyMHNyYyUzRCUyMmh0dHBzJTNBJTJGJTJGd3d3LmJ1enpzcHJvdXQuY29tJTJGMjA5OTk4MyUyRjE1MzUyMTA3LWNvbmZyb250aW5nLWltcG9zdGVyLXN5bmRyb21lLWJ5LXNoYXJpbmcteW91ci13b3JrLmpzJTNGY29udGFpbmVyX2lkJTNEYnV6enNwcm91dC1wbGF5ZXItMTUzNTIxMDclMjZwbGF5ZXIlM0RzbWFsbCUyMiUyMHR5cGUlM0QlMjJ0ZXh0JTJGamF2YXNjcmlwdCUyMiUyMGNoYXJzZXQlM0QlMjJ1dGYtOCUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRnNjcmlwdCUzRQ==[/vc_raw_html][/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”][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=”About This Episode” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][vc_column_text]Sharing your work\, even before it is done\, is a great practice for dealing with imposter syndrome. It can help you realize no one is perfect and can make your work better\, make you visible to others\, and lead you to a community of support and growth. In this practicast\, Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch talk about the benefits of sharing your work with others and share a practice for getting started. \nLinks\n\nShow Your Work by Jane Bozarth\nShow Your Work! by Austin Kleon\nWorking Out Loud\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nJessica Beckendorf: Sharing your work even before it’s done can make your work better\, it can make you visible to others\, and it can lead you to a community of support and growth. Hi\, everyone. This is Jessica\, and welcome to this week’s Practicing Connection practicast\, where we highlight a specific practice you can use in your life and work. This week’s practice is about sharing your work with others. My Practicing Connection co-host\, Bob Bertsch\, will be guiding us through the practice in a few minutes\, but first\, let’s learn a little bit more about it. Hi\, Bob. Can you start with sharing a little bit of background on the concept of sharing your work with others? \nBob Bertsch: Hi\, Jessica. I’d be happy to. My awareness of this concept comes from back in 2014. There was a couple of books that came out then. Both of them were coincidentally titled Show Your Work\, so it’s a little bit confusing. One is by Jane Bozarth\, and the other is by Austin Kleon. Both books made the argument for sharing your work\, especially your works in progress\, as a way to connect with people. Jane Bozarth focused a little bit more on connections between people within an organization\, and Austin Kleon wrote more about sharing in the open\, in social media\, the wild. \nAbout a year later\, John Stepper released his book called Working Out Loud. That book documented the process that John had developed to help people practice sharing their work in order to find purpose in their work and become more engaged in work. Not necessarily in their organization\, if that’s not where their purpose lied\, or where their engagement lie\, but just in general being more connected with their work through their relationships with other people that were built through the working out loud process. \nThat process has been super important to our work on Practicing Connection\, mostly because it includes so many practices and lessons for building relationships and networks\, which is a big emphasis for us. As a concept\, sharing your work or working out loud can be applied to all kinds of different contexts\, from a work team to an organization or a community issue. Even though the authors that I mentioned focused on different areas\, it’s really a useful tool in almost any area that involves human relationship. \nJessica: I really appreciate this history of it\, for lack of a better word. It’s only back in 2014. I’m familiar with all of these books\, but I didn’t realize their connections and their different specialties. Thank you for sharing that. I’m really curious to learn more about what becomes possible when we share our work. What opportunities does it create for us or for others or for our connections? \nBob: I think there are multitude\, starting with some that Austin Kleon highlighted. He writes about three reasons for sharing your work. I think that these reasons are pretty practical\, and you can adapt them a little bit to different situations. \nFirst\, sharing your work can improve your work. Part of the reason that does that is because it prompts you to think about and document your process. If you think about sharing something that is unfinished\, whomever you’re sharing it with\, you’ll need to be able to explain the stage that work is in. You’re going to have to tell somebody\, hey\, this is just an idea\, or this is my first draft\, or this is a beta version\, or what stage is it at. In the process of doing that\, you develop an understanding of your process\, and that improves your work\, and it also improves your work process because you can see how things are working. \nThe second thing that Austin talks about is that it makes your work visible to others without\, as he puts it\, “the icky feelings of self-promotion.” I can definitely relate to that. \nJessica: Same here. \nBob: If you are a longtime listener\, you probably know that Jessica and I are Midwesterners\, and we fit the stereotype in some ways of keeping our light under a bushel basket and not feeling super comfortable talking about ourselves. I’m sure lots of people outside of the Midwest share that as well. This is a way of getting attention\, I’ll just say it that way\, that helps you self-promote without self-promoting. \nThen the last thing that Austin mentions is that it creates a feedback loop. The helpful feedback we receive can definitely help us improve whatever it is that we’re working on. Even unhelpful feedback can become helpful because it might lead us down new paths. Someone might make a suggestion that really isn’t relevant to what we’re working on\, but that could become an idea for something else or a different project. \nTo add to those three things that Austin Kleon points out\, I think another potential outcome of sharing your work is the idea of making yourself visible\, relates to that self-promotion\, but in a different way\, and I think a really powerful way. When people can see what you’re working on\, it gives them the opportunity to adjust to you. In a work team\, showing what you’re working on can change what other team members are doing. \nHow that might work in the open like on social media or in an organizational sharing platform like Microsoft Teams\, making your work visible could allow people to reach out to you to establish a connection. They might offer an opportunity to deepen an existing connection or even offer to collaborate. This is\, I think\, where the powerful part comes and where this is all going. \nWhen people share information and connect with each other\, it opens up what Steven Johnson calls the adjacent possible\, and that’s the path or the door that neither person could have imagined or seen on their own. It only becomes visible when those people become visible to each other and start sharing information. Making your work visible to others opens up that adjacent possible. I think that’s a big\, big benefit. \nJessica: What are then some of the things that might hold people back from sharing their work? \nBob: The main one for me is imposter syndrome. It’s that feeling that I’m not the “right person” to be sharing this idea or that I’m not an expert in the field that I’m sharing about. That can be a tough one to get over. To get past that\, I try to remind myself that I am the expert in my own experience. No other person has had the exact same combination of experiences that I have had\, and so I’m the expert in how a particular topic looks through my unique lens. That’s true for everybody. Everybody has their own experiences and their own lens and way of looking at things. Even though you might not be an expert in a topic\, it doesn’t mean that you can’t share about it or create work in that area. \nI think when we’re sharing in completely open space like social media\, I know I do and a lot of us might hold back because we’re afraid of saying the wrong thing or experiencing some backlash or being made to feel less than by comments and things like that. I try to manage that feeling by just choosing how vulnerable I want to be in a particular space. Sharing with my work team\, I may choose and do choose to be way more vulnerable and honest if you want to think of it that way than I would be\, say\, like in a private LinkedIn group. \nI might be more vulnerable in a private LinkedIn group than I would be in a completely open social media platform like X or just posting on LinkedIn or Facebook. I think it’s best\, no matter where you’re posting\, to think about the stakes. What are the potential risks and keep those stakes low starting off so that you can build to where you are comfortable from there. I think the danger is you overshare maybe in an open space\, you have a really bad experience and then it becomes such a barrier that you have trouble sharing in other venues as well. Managing that I think is a good way to get started and hopefully not fall into those things that hold us back. \nJessica: Let’s get started. If you could walk us through a practice that will help us share our work. \nBob: Sure. \nJessica: That would be great. \nBob: I’d love to. The easiest way to get ready\, I think\, to share your work is to start sharing what John Stepper calls the universal gifts and those gifts are attention and gratitude. These are called universal gifts because virtually\, everyone enjoys them. Intentionally and authentically sharing attention and gratitude with others is a good way to practice the courage and vulnerability that it might take for us to share our work. If there’s someone you appreciate\, but you haven’t told them so or if you have seen or experienced something that has benefited you\, take the time to give the gifts of gratitude and/or attention. Once you’re ready to start sharing your work\, start with deciding what you want to share. Here are some ideas that you could share just to get you started. You could share an idea that you have for a program or a project or just a random idea. You could share a project that’s in process that you’re working on. You could share your motivations\, why do you do the work that you do? You could share a process that’s helpful for you. Maybe a process for reporting or a process for getting started on a project when you have that blank page staring at you and share that with others. \nYou can share something you’ve learned\, or you could share a challenge that you’re facing and need some help with\, or a challenge that you’re facing you’ve overcome and you’ve learned something from\, and then share what you’ve learned. Once you have decided okay\, this is what I’m going to share\, next\, think about who do I want to share this with. Who is it relevant to\, who could offer supportive feedback. This goes back to earlier in our conversation when we talked about choosing a platform where you’re comfortable\, where it might be low-risk\, or you might get out of it what you want to get out of it while also making sure the person or people that you’re sharing with that it’s relevant to them as well. \nNow that you’ve got a person or a group of people in mind\, ask yourself why might they be interested. Thinking about this can really help us add context to our sharing message. For example\, you might include a phrase like\, I thought you would be interested in this idea because of your work on dot dot dot\, or something like\, I saw your post about this topic on social media so I wanted to share this with you. Why would they be interested helps you add context to that message. Thinking about why someone would be interested in what you’re sharing might also help you think of others that you could potentially share this work with. \nFinally\, you need to decide how you are going to share your work\, like what’s the method? Are you going to send an email to just one person? Are you going to share it in a private chat like Teams or Slack? Are you going to post it in a private group or in the open on social media? Again\, think about what makes you comfortable and what opportunities might be opened up by sharing your work in that particular way. If you’ve thought about all that and answered those questions\, you’ve got a plan. Go ahead and share your work. If you’re having trouble or you’re not quite ready to share your work and you’d like to practice in a safe space\, you can share your work with me. Just email me. My email address is robert.bertsch@ndsu.edu\, and I’ll put that invitation on the show notes as well. \nJessica: What a generous invitation. Thank you so much for sharing this guide to thinking through how to share your work with others. That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. We hope you’ll give this practice a try and share your experience in the Practicing Connection LinkedIn group where people supporting military families practice the skills that empower us to work together so that we can positively impact our communities and help families thrive. You’ll find the link to the group on our website at oneop.org/practicingconnection. We’ll be back next week with a new podcast episode focused on investing time in leisure\, learning\, and yourself. Until then\, keep practicing. \nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U.S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, U.S. Department of Defense under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[00:14:09] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Do Less of What Drains You
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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]The more you understand about yourself\, the better you’ll be able to align your life with the things that are really meaningful to you.  In this episode\,  Jessica Beckendorf shares how to do less of what drains you by using energy and engagement tracking. \nLinks\n\nEnergy & Engagement Tracking Activity Log\nDesigning Your Life (Book)\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nBob Bertsch: The more you understand about yourself\, the better you’ll be able to align your life with the things that are really meaningful to you. Hi\, everyone. I’m Bob Bertsch. Welcome to this week’s Practicing Connection practicast\, where we highlight a specific practice you can use in your personal and professional growth. This week’s practice is Energy and Engagement Tracking from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans’s book Designing Your Life. Here to share her experience with the practice is my practicing connection co-host Jessica Beckendorf. \nJessica Beckendorf: I love this activity. It has helped me to understand which activities\, projects\, and tasks I am most connected to. I’m excited to share my slightly modified version with all of you. \nBob: Can you tell us a little bit about Energy and Engagement Tracking? \nJessica: Absolutely. Energy and Engagement Tracking is all about reflecting on the activities\, projects\, and tasks that make you feel energized and engaged\, and inflow\, or some combination of all three. The goal here isn’t to ensure that everything you do is always energizing\, engaging\, and puts you in flow. The goal is to understand exactly what energizes and engages you and which tasks put you into flow and then examine how much time you’re spending doing the things that make you feel energized and engaged and the amount of time you’re spending on doing things that drain you. \nWhen you have that\, I guess\, figured out\, from there\, you can figure out how you’re going to do more of what you love and a little bit less of what drains you. I know that this can sound almost impossible if you feel like you have no control over what you do or the tasks that you have in your work or frankly at home sometimes\, but you do have some agency over your career or over some bigger picture pieces. \nAn example that Bill Burnett and Dave Evans share where an engineer realized what he loved to do and what drained him. Prior to doing this activity\, he was considering going back to school for a business degree. After doing this activity\, he realized it would’ve really been a big mistake because what he discovered was that he really loved engineering\, so he ended up doubling down and getting an advanced degree in engineering instead. \nHe concentrated on an area that allowed him to solve complex problems because that’s the thing that he loved the most\, was solving complex problems and minimizing the activities that were bogging him down like administrative details. I don’t know who loves administrative details\, but I know that there are probably people who do. \nBob: Some people do. \nJessica: Yes. Sorry. Obviously\, that is my own self coming out there. [laughs] I don’t love administrative details. What I like about using this activity to follow what lights you up\, activity you mentioned or even a values exploration\, you could also use this to follow up a values exploration\, is that it helps you to see what you love to do in the context of what lights you up and the things that you value and care about. \nBob: I know you’ve done this tracking yourself. How has it helped you? \nJessica: Yes\, I’ve gone through this activity a few times. Usually\, I’ll go through the activity when I’m feeling a little bogged down\, or sometimes when I’m feeling overwhelmed\, or when I’m having trouble feeling motivated. I would say that the activity has helped me a few different ways. One way it has helped me is to see patterns in what I enjoy doing. \nWhen I realized that I’m energized and engaged when I have a microphone in my hand\, which is a little embarrassing to admit. [chuckles] I have to say it’s a little embarrassing. [laughs] When I looked at my energy and engagement tracker\, I realized that my current job provided me with many opportunities to have a figurative microphone in my hand\, even if it’s not usually a literal one. \nFacilitating\, for example. It helped me to see my facilitating work differently and enjoy it even more than I already did. I already love facilitating\, but there were times when I just felt very drained by it depending on the circumstance. When I realized that facilitating was one path toward that thing I really love\, which is I guess in a way entertaining or performing– When I realized that that was something– it was a pathway towards something I loved\, it helped me to see facilitating even in those moments where it would’ve been more draining in the past. \nIt helped me to see those moments as something that I love as well. Another way this activity has helped me was to point out that I was spending a lot more time on things that really drained me. While I couldn’t rid myself of all of those tasks\, there were a few I was able to pinpoint to identify and negotiate for someone else to take those tasks on\, like being the primary point of contact for a small program that I ran. It drained me to think that I might be a bottleneck. \nIf I’m being honest\, it drained me to know that I was a bottleneck. I was able to negotiate with one of our administrative staff to be the primary point of contact for that program\, only involving me when there was a more complex issue that required my attention. For the things that I couldn’t offload\, it was still really helpful to know that those tasks drained me because I could plan to do them when I had the most energy for them or I could plan to co-work with a colleague to make it a little more fun. \nBob: When we do this practice\, how are we able to tell what gives us energy or gets us engaged\, or at least\, how did you tell that for yourself? \nJessica: This is a really good question. I think it’s probably a lot easier for some of us to know what drains us versus what gives us energy and puts us into a flow. I bet anyone listening\, and I bet you can as well\, think of some things off the top of your head that you hate doing. A lot of times these are the things that you procrastinate on. They’re the things that you can’t muster the energy to do because it drains your energy so much that you don’t even want to get started on it. Those are the things that you know will drain you. I want you to track those just as much as the things that give you energy and engagement. \nHow I knew is when I thought about the activities that made me feel energized and engaged. It was more of a gut reaction for me. I’ll give you a couple of clues. Reflecting back on how I felt doing that activity or working on that project\, so really trying to immerse myself in that moment\, even though the moment has passed\, and really reflect back\, “How did I feel doing that? How did I feel about the people I was working with\, and how did it feel to work with them?” \nFor me\, when I thought about an activity that made me feel energized or engaged\, I just felt a little lighter. I maybe even smiled a little when I thought about it. Then\, I would think about\, “Okay\, was it energizing or engaging or a little bit of both?” Then after I figured out what level I felt like I was energized or engaged\, I would think about\, “Okay\, was that a flow activity?” I would remember the energy I was feeling in the moment and how it felt to engage in that activity. \nI remembered how focused I was on the activity task or project. Those are the two main things to think about. How did you feel like? Were you energized by the task\, or the project\, or the activity? How did it feel to engage in that activity? Were you highly engaged? Were you sitting back and just listening? Then\, how focused were you on the activity\, task\, or project? \nIf you weren’t very focused on it at all\, then it was not a flow moment. I can tell you that. [chuckles] The questions to ask yourself when you think about flow is\, were you so focused that the next time you looked at your clock\, it was hours later and you only looked up because you were hungry? That’s a good sign that you found an activity that puts you in flow. \nI would say most of the activities that I track\, anytime I do this activity\, most of them are not flow activities\, but tracking when you’re in flow is still a really good way to tell which activities put you in flow. \nThere are a few activities though that were also contextual for me. Writing is one of those activities that seems to show up as an activity that gives me energy and really engages me. It can even put me in flow\, but not always. It depends on what I’m writing\, what mood I’m in\, whether I’m feeling rushed by other projects\, or whether I’m feeling overwhelmed in general. Sometimes\, an activity could be contextual. I always have been a person who felt like writing was part of my identity. When I saw that I was drained by writing\, it was disappointing. I just got curious about that\, and I investigated that a little more\, and I realized it was contextual. \nBob: I think it’s time to give this a try\, Jessica. Would you mind walking us through the steps? \nJessica: Yes\, of course. It’s really a pretty easy activity. I’ll walk you through it the way I like to practice it\, which is a slight modification of how Bill Burnett and Dave Evans teach it. First\, you’ll want to start a page in your journal or start a note in your favorite app or you can download the worksheet at the link that we provided in the show notes. Next\, you’re going to reflect on your activities over the past three to four weeks. \nNow\, this is the way I do it. Sometimes\, getting out your calendar and looking at the same time can help. If looking back three to four weeks is too long of a time period for you\, you can instead just reflect on the past week\, and then you can repeat the activity for the next 2-3 weeks so that you have a little more data to work with. On the far left of your page\, you’re going to list the activities\, tasks\, and projects that you recall doing. I’m not talking about taking out the trash\, although if you want to list it\, you’re very welcome to do that. I’m talking about the activities\, tasks\, and projects that were more significant. \nThen for each item on your list\, you’re going to rate your energy level on a 1-5 scale\, or of course\, if you’re using the downloadable\, there’s a little scale that you can use. Rate your energy level on a 1-5 scale with 1 being low. You’ll then rate your engagement level on a scale of 1-5\, again with 1 being low. Write the word flow next to any activity for what you feel you might have been in flow. Again\, flow is the state of being so energized and focused that you might even lose track of time. Next\, once you have 3-4 weeks of data\, take a look at it and see if you find any patterns\, trends\, or new insights. Think about what specifically contributed to your energy and engagement ratings. \nFor example\, was it the meeting itself that was energizing\, or was it something that happened at the meeting or something that you contributed to the meeting that was energizing for you? Was it because you were able to dig into something with no interruptions\, or was it because there was a group of people involved and everyone was building on an idea together? Be as specific as it’s helpful for you to fully understand why an activity was draining or energizing and engaging. \nFinally\, brainstorm some ideas on how you can make some adjustments that will allow you to do a little more of what you love and a little less of what you don’t. You can take it a little further by imagining some bigger goals if you like. For now\, just even small tweaks to our current situation could go a long way when we’re coming from a place of self-knowledge and intention. \nBob: Thanks for guiding us through that\, Jessica. \nJessica: You’re welcome. I really enjoy this activity because it has been so eye-opening for me in the past. \nBob: That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. We hope you’ll give this practice a try and share your experience in the practicing connection community on LinkedIn\, where people supporting military families practice the skills that empower us to work together so that we can positively impact our communities and help families thrive. You’ll find the link to the community on our website at oneop.org/practicingconnection. We’ll be back next week with an in-depth podcast episode sharing reflections from some of our guests from the past years on the topic of finding balance. Until then\, keep practicing. \nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection Podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military\, Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense\, under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:13:35] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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el_class=”trans-title”][vc_column_text](Season 5\, Episode 27) \nSend us a Text Message \nIn this episode\, co-hosts Bob Bertsch and Jessica Beckendorf talk with Lisa Sapp and James Yracheta about a collaboration between Malmstrom Air Force Base and the Great Falls (MT) School District to provide military-connected kids access to the Transitional Kindergarten program. In addition to providing early childhood education\, the program helped military families with their child care needs. \nLisa Sapp is the school liaison and James Yracheta is the former Child and Youth Services Flight chief at Malmstrom AFB. Lisa and James shared insights into how the partnership with Great Falls Public Schools got started and the factors that helped it thrive. \nLinks \n\nTransitional Kindergarten pilot program takes off\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nKalin Goble: Welcome to Practicing Connection\, a podcast exploring the personal stories and collective practices that empower us to work together to improve our resilience and readiness in a rapidly changing world. Here to start the conversation are Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch. \nJessica Beckendorf: Hi\, welcome to the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Jessica Beckendorf. \nBob Bertsch: I’m Bob Bertsch. \nJessica: Our guests today are Lisa Sapp\, school liaison specialist at Malmstrom Air Force Base\, and James Yracheta\, former Child and Youth Services Flight Chief 341st for Support Squadron at Malmstrom Air Force Base as well in Montana. \nBob: Lisa and James were part of creating a transitional kindergarten pilot program through a collaboration between the Great Falls Public School District and Malmstrom Air Force Base. We’re excited to learn more about this partnership\, which fills a gap in the local education system by providing early childhood education for the community. Hi\, James. Hi\, Lisa. Thanks so much for joining us on Practicing Connection. \nLisa Sapp: Good morning. \nJames Yracheta: Good morning\, Robert. Good morning\, Jessica. Thank you for having us. \nBob: So great to have you here. Maybe we can start by getting to know you a little bit better. Can each of you tell us a little bit about yourselves? Lisa\, why don’t we start with you? \nLisa: Okay. My name is Lisa Sapp. I am the school liaison for Malmstrom Air Force Base. Actually\, next month will be four years in the seat. I had started in August of 2020\, so this past four years has gone by pretty quickly. I’m from the Great Falls area. I grew up here\, actually went through Great Falls public schools\, left and joined the military\, returned\, became a teacher for Great Falls Public Schools\, and then was hired by James to be the school liaison specialist here at Malmstrom. \nBob: James\, how about you? \nJames: I’ve been working with the Air Force Child Youth programs in the management role for over 14 years and three years as a caregiver. Prior to that\, had various roles within Air Force Child Youth programs\, spent time in Alaska\, [unintelligible 00:02:12] Japan\, South Carolina\, Montana\, of course\, just fulfilling these roles. It’s been quite the journey. \nBack in 2020\, I accepted a job at Malmstrom Air Force Base and one of the first roles I had was to select school liaison program manager for the installation. Lo and behold\, Lisa was on that list and by far one of the best selections I’ve made as a manager. \nJessica: I love hearing that. Lisa\, I think I’m going to direct this at you\, but James\, I would welcome you to fill in any blanks because I would love to hear a little bit more about Malmstrom Air Force Base and the Great Falls Montana community. It sounds like you both know a lot about both of those. Lisa: Malmstrom has been here since the 60s. The mission here is intercontinental ballistic missiles\, ICBMs. While the installation is small\, the missile field is the largest in the United States. We’re part of 20th Air Force and under Air Force Global Strike Command. The three missile bases for the Air Force are Effie Warren in Wyoming\, Great Falls\, Montana\, and Minot in North Dakota. \nWe’ve had a long presence here in the community and long time to form those relationships and keep things going. Our mission is unique. Montana is the fourth largest state\, we’re something like one of the least populated states. The community surrounding the installation compared to some other areas of the world is quite small. We have Great Falls Public Schools serves around 10\,200 students. About 11% or 12% of those are military-connected. Great Falls community is unique\, whereas on one end of town on the east side\, Malmstrom Air Force Base exists\, on the west side of town\, we also have the Montana Air National Guard headquarters. We have MANG. Great Falls as far as military student concentration is unique in Montana because there is no other city across the state that has as high of a concentration. \nJames: Yes\, I’ll just add the plug. Lisa nailed it when she mentioned that Malmstrom is a unique installation. I’ve been working with seven other installations throughout my career and Malmstrom is unique in its own way in the sense that\, you’re right\, it’s out there and almost in the middle of nowhere. The partnership with the community is more impaired than ever because it’s unique in so many ways. \nBob: The project that we’re talking about today is about a transitional kindergarten program. I’m wondering what exactly that means. What’s the the transitional kindergarten program? \nLisa: Montana currently is one of the few states left that does not fund universal preschool for everyone. What that means is for the school districts who have the resources and the funding\, is they have to allocate to provide that early childhood education\, they have to take some government funding. They took some COVID funding. They fund from all over the place\, special education funding. They can’t legally call it preschool. What they do is they call it transitional kindergarten\, and so that they offer it in a limited capacity\, so it meets some of those government funding requirements. That’s the best and simplest way I can probably explain it. What Great Falls Public School is able to do\, they’re the second-largest school district in the state. First is Billings\, Montana to the south of us. As far as resources go comparative to all the smaller school districts surrounding Great Falls in the installation\, they have the means to be able to have a building and then select students who meet a specific criteria in order to receive early childhood education. \nJessica: That’s really interesting. I actually didn’t know that there were some states who didn’t fund Pre-K. This makes me wonder\, given that it wasn’t being offered anywhere around\, how did the idea then for a transitional kindergarten program in Great Falls come about? What was that spark like? How did that start to happen? \nKisa: We have some other options outside of the public school system for Pre-K but they’re all private. It has a cost of families with the exception of Head Start programs\, which is another government-funded early childhood education program. I should start by saying that Malmstrom is also unique because we are a missile base\, which means that we are heavy on missileers and security forces who tend to be demographically very young\, so 18 to 25. They’re either single airmen\, or they’re newly married and they have little kids. We’re really heavy on elementary school\, under four years old population. Where we found ourselves in 2020 when the world shut down\, we have a child development center on the base\, but they are limited in their capacity. There is really not enough spots to take care of all of our families. \nWe were faced with a lot of the downtown programs not being available\, and we had a long waitlist of families seeking care. What we learned\, and what the Air Force always knew is that our military members can’t focus on the mission if they’re worried about what’s going on at home. We were looking around going like\, “Gosh\, we have this wait list. What resources do we have? What partnerships do we have? What exists\, and then how do we invoke that conversation?” Fortunately\, the Superintendent of Great Falls Public Schools has really prioritized the base in regards to that community partnership piece. We had a relationship in place where we could go and make that ask. That’s not a simple ask to make. We’re asking you to allocate more money\, and more funding\, and teachers\, and resources to support our families. They didn’t hesitate. \nJames: I think the support of the Military Family Support that came out around that time really ignited the enhancement of collaborations between Malmstrom and Great Falls Public Schools. Like we said at the time\, there was a big wait list for childcare. Also the airmen still have to report to work every single day. All the stars aligned. We had a great partnership between our installation and Great Falls Public Schools. Though it wasn’t an easy ask\, both sides made it happen one way or the other. Because of that\, 18 families are now able to receive that type of support each year. \nLisa: Montana\, because we are not a universal preschool state\, we’re in the red. In order to change that\, the state would have to fund Universal Preschool. That\, however\, was not a barrier for Great Falls Public Schools. They didn’t look at this report and say\, “Well\, it’s not going to turn green if we do this\, so what’s the point?” They said\, “Well\, this is within the look of our control and we want to help.” If anything\, COVID provided a lot of opportunities for the community to come together and pool our resources\, and troubleshoot issues in creative ways. This report exists. We’re still in the red despite the TK program now being up and running\, but we’re inching closer towards the the finish line of getting that universal Pre-K next legislative session\, let’s hope. [chuckles]\nJessica: It sounds like the wheels were in motion already\, but do you feel like COVID was a little bit of a catalyst people were a little more willing to come together\, or how did that play a part? \nJames: I think it was already in play\, but like I said\, the stars aligned\, right? Lisa Sapp came on board. We had a mission support group commander also take command around that same time\, who was really passionate with education because he had kids of his own\, and also knew that that was one of the five factors. sorry\, just to help me out with that\, five to thrive. \nLisa: Five to thrive\, yes. \nJames: Yes. Nailed it. You know\, as part of the retention of airmen throughout the Air Force. Again\, everything aligned\, we had the partnership already there\, but I don’t think it was where it needed to be\, but again\, Lisa took the role. Our former MSG Commander took his spot and once [unintelligible 00:10:48] was in place\, the idea started rolling. Yes\, the catalyst that we needed to make those unique incentives happened. \nLisa: What I will say is sometimes things happen and it’s a catalyst for change. COVID was definitely a negative thing\, but it did have some positive results for us because it forced us to look at situations in new ways. Our MSG commander at the time\, his name is Colonel Carnes\, and he went by his four rules. Not necessarily rules\, but ideas for partnership were luck\, skill\, relationship\, and timing. We’re in the middle of COVID. We’re coming out of the other side\, 2020\, we shut down in the spring\, and then by the fall\, 2020 going into 2021 school year\, things were virtual hybrid. It was messy. \nIt’s the worst time you want to go to a community partner and say\, “Hey\, I know the school district is a mess right now\, and everybody’s scrambling to try and figure things out\, but\, hey\, can you help us out too?” In the world of education\, you have to realize\, unless you’ve actually worked in the trenches with these folks\, they’re answering 150 questions even before breakfast. By 11 o’clock in the morning\, they’ve already had three meetings and four parent phone calls. At every single level of their organization\, at the district level\, at the building level\, in the classroom level\, everybody’s plate is overflowing. \nNow\, we’re throwing everybody into a virtual\, “Teach online now\, and just pivot and do this and do that.” Now Mal\,strom comes to the table and say\, “Hey\, can we get some help with our Pre-K?” They didn’t even hesitate to question any of that\, and that is because at their core\, they want what’s best for kids and they view the military as an important community partner and they understand how it’s going to help the mission. All of these things\, we had an MSG commander who had a background in public affairs and understood how important the community piece was. We had a flight chief who had come in and he was ready to do whatever it is that I asked him to do. He was my absolute wingman. \nIf I needed to elevate or network or pivot or I needed him to do this\, he didn’t question. He just did it. Then the school liaisons what our job is\, it’s vast\, and it varies\, but we’re responsible for the footwork. I’m writing the emails and the proposals and I am setting up the meetings and I’m trying to do all of these things\, but it’s a team effort at the end of the day. All three of those pieces are so critically important. If I really want this\, that’s okay\, but I also have to have that buy-in from leadership\, and I also have to have that buy-in from my flight to kind of drive these partnerships forward. \nBob: James\, I’m wondering\, as Lisa said\, the school district was really ready to step forward\, but it sounds like maybe that’s part of a broader relationship between Malmstrom and the Great Falls community. Are there other partnerships? Are there other collaborations? Was there kind of groundwork that helped set the foundation for this particular collaboration? \nJames: You know\, Bob\, I don’t think so. We had things that we wanted to do and we had discussed and we’re still to this day continuing to work on those different ideas\, but I think that was probably the biggest one that that really took that partnership and that relationship off was the transitional kindergarten program. Yes\, easily. We’re working with the high schools right now for a job shadowing opportunities for different various areas on the base. not just for our Junior Air Force [unintelligible 00:14:48] but for the kids who are looking for [unintelligible 00:14:51] opportunities after high school or childcare opportunities. Yes. No\, that was that’s probably the biggest thing that we focused on at the time\, because again\, it wasn’t an easy lift\, it was an easy\, yes\, but to get to where we initiated that character almost two or three years ago now\, it was a lot of work on this end. She did the heavy lifting\, I just\, whatever she needed\, I was like\, “Let’s do it\, let’s set the meetings up\, let’s go.”\, whether it was with a group commander\, installation\, wing commander or whoever it was\, we were making that happen. \nLisa: Prior to my coming into the position\, the school liaison role had been left\, not intentionally left vacant but the previous school liaison had been multicast into other parts of child and youth in other areas. There was a period of time where there wasn’t a lot of activity from the office. When I came in\, those partnerships really had to be rebuilt a little bit and reestablished. This could have been awkward but fortunately\, it wasn’t because the folks at Great Falls Public Schools are just so great. I used to work for them\, and I left that position to go take another one. Now I go to board meetings\, and I’m talking about base stuff instead of doing special education in the classroom\, which is a hard role to fill. They could have been resentful\, and they could have made things difficult\, and they didn’t have to cooperate\, but they did. It’s because it’s not personal\, it’s about the big picture. I left on positive terms\, knowing that I was going to go into a role where I was going to have to work with these folks. \nThey’re great folks but they have their own needs and their own objectives. Now I have to come in as a community partner and continually make demands upon them to ease local policies and practices within the school system to make things easier for our military families to navigate. I’m not the only community partner they have to contend with. There’s other organizations that are also doing the same thing that also have needs and are advocating for their student populations. I’m one of many voices at the table that are just saying\, “Hey\, we need something from you.” That is a reciprocal relationship\, so inversely\, part of building\, and rebuilding\, and cultivating that relationship is doing stuff for them whenever possible. \nThat’s hard to do in the military because we have so many limitations on what we can and cannot do. You look for opportunities to highlight your partnership\, to highlight the good works that they do and that makes continually coming to the table and asking for favors much easier. I cannot reciprocate to the degree that they’ve supported us but I can do what’s in within my power to make sure the community and our installation leadership and Air Force knows that we have true partnership with the school district and that they are doing the good work to support our military families. \nJessica: Lisa\, I would add that you were reciprocating by helping them to address something that they care very much about. You guys have both gone into a little bit of what your role was. I would love to hear a little bit more about your specific roles in making the partnership happen. \nJames: When I hired Lisa\, I was still in a different position at a different installation. I was down in San Antonio as an Air Force Services Center employee. We call them the dreaded inspectors. We go out to different installations and inspect the Chinese programs to make sure it complies with different public laws and Air Force laws and so forth. I had accepted the job at Malstrom but COVID hit so I was still stuck in San Antonio. My boss at the time was like\, “Hey\, man\, one of your first response was you didn’t hire a school liaison program manager.” I had never stepped foot into Great Falls. I had no idea what it was like\, never even stepped foot at Malmstrom Air Force Base. You mentioned east installation is different even though we’re all Air Force. I had no idea. I looked at the applicants\, I saw that Lisa had a lot of experience within education system. I know that’s probably the most critical piece to a school liaison program manager is that education. \nWe can pick up the Air Force requirements\, that’s no big deal. You can look at it\, refer to it. No\, it’s not an issue. Well\, I knew the hard part was like\, “Hey\, I need somebody who’s going to have that experience.” Are we working in the school? Who knows Great Falls really\, really well?” That way that makes that transition a lot easier\, and to build off that partnership. That was the first big thing. Again\, I was walking in blindly. I don’t know what Great Falls\, I knew I was going to move there in two months or whatever. They allowed me to. Also to add\, I didn’t know what the partnership was like at the time either. Lisa\, the lady who was filling out the position\, she still had it. \nI was working with her at the time. She was School Liaison/Youth Program Director. She helped me as much as I could to understand what the environment and climate was like between Mount Strumet and Great Falls\, but I didn’t know to the extent until I stepped foot and really dove in with Lisa to start working some of those initiatives around August\, September time frame. \nLisa: One of the first things that happened when I came on in 2020 is that support of Military Families report dropped\, and our director of staff reached out to the superintendent and was like\, “Why do we have an F on our report card?” Nobody knew anything about this report\, how it was scored\, even that it was on a curve. All of these things\, little details\, we had no idea. Our superintendent took it really personally. One of the first things that I had to do as soon as I got into the position\, mind you\, I didn’t have a computer yet\, I didn’t have a work phone. I was operating off my own personal cell phone\, making all of this\, trying to set up meetings and do all. I knew nothing about the Air Force side. All I know is education. I\, fortunately\, had a really great MSG commander who was very easy. We got in front of him and had a good meeting with the MSG commander first to say\, “Okay\, these are our immediate needs right now as far as education and childcare.” \nCOVID happened\, and we had no idea the reverberations and the impacts this would have\, the school system being shut down\, and our military members not being able to go out and trying to find care\, and then also try to protect ourselves from this illness that was spreading. There was just so many things happening at the same time. Then there’s this report\, and we got a bad grade\, and our Great Falls Public School Superintendent Moore\, which today is his last day\, he is retiring\, so congratulations Tom. He wanted to talk about this report\, and what does all of this mean? \nThis was a few meetings. Talked to the MSG first and\, “Okay\, this is what our needs are. This report is here. We need to go meet with them and calm everybody’s nerves because this on top of everything else was just the cherry on top.” We’re looking at the categories. There’s mental health\, there’s graduation rates\, and all of these things. Just looking at it\, just going like\, “Okay\, where are our problems right now? What can we fix right now? We have a need for childcare. We also have this report that says we need universal preschool.” \nThen it became a conversation where now we could go to the district and say\, “This is really where we need your support. This report exists\, and I know you got a bad grade\, and I’m sorry\, but right now we have to set that aside and look at our immediate needs as an installation. How do we get our military members back out into the field? How do we alleviate some of the fears that they have leaving their kids? They don’t have care. All of these things are just out there.” \nWe had a meeting with the MSG commander up to visit the superintendent and his assistant superintendents and say\, “Okay\, we have a waitlist of–” I can’t remember how many kids were on the waitlist\, but it was enough to fill a classroom. We just said\, “All we need from you\, if you were willing to try and work with us\, is one classroom in your TK program so these children on the waitlist can have a place for care.” There was silence at the table\, and we’re looking at each other\, and we’re absorbing. This is not an easy ask. “I need your money\, I need your manpower. I need your time. Please give all of these things to us despite getting a bad grade from the Air Force on this report.” \nThere wasn’t really any hesitation. They knew it was what was needed for the mission to continue. They knew it was what was needed for our military members to know that their child is taken care of so they can return to the field and continue their operations. This is all within the first three months of me being hired. I was like\, “What did I do?” [laughs] This is scary\, but at the same time\, though\, very purposeful work to see an actual problem and to be able to work within the community to solve it. That’s rare and very\, very cool. \nBob: It’s really interesting to hear all of these things that came together. Then I’m reminded of what you mentioned about your commander saying the four things about partnerships and one of those being luck. What potentially was a negative in terms of the grade on the report\, provided a little bit of that spark to get the partnership going. \nLisa: 100%. The timing\, you would think COVID would be the worst time\, but actually played into our favor. I had a relationship with the school district. I knew the superintendent. I used to work with him. His assistant\, Superintendent Heather\, used to be my principal. I had that relationship. We were lucky to have an MSG commander who really understood the community piece. We were lucky to have a flight chief to really understand and speak to the programming needs that were missing. Fortunately\, all of us\, I think were skilled enough to negotiate a pathway forward that benefited everybody. Yes\, luck\, skill\, relationships\, timing. I’ll never forget it. \nBob: James\, are there other lessons that you learned about installation and community partnerships through this process? \nJames: Yes\, a couple sticks in mind. One of them\, it’s possible. Each installation and community have their own needs and wants. I think the important thing is to just really work with those community members\, both sides\, whether it’s installation or the community are willing to give and help out\, whatever they can do because we know one can’t exist without the other. That’s number one. Then number two is people want the best for the military youth and the airmen. It’s not going to be easy by any means\, but if you have the right people in place with the right intentions\, I mean truly anything is possible. \nI know this is-we’re only talking about the transitional kindergarten program right now. The things that Lisa and team have in place for military families and youth\, it’s only going to help not just the installation\, but also Great Falls as well. It’s doable. It may look differently at wherever the installation is at or wherever they’re trying to overcome\, but it’s very much possible. Just got to get a little creative sometimes. \nLisa: I will add to that. Any school liaison going into the seat\, one of the first things you need to do is first of all get your bearings. The next piece is identify what your program supports currently and then who your community partnerships are. Make sure that you do immediate outreach to introduce yourself\, set up a meeting\, don’t have an agenda straight out the gate\, just a meet and greet\, get to know\, “If you need anything\, here’s my contact information.” \nThe hard part about the military is the lack of continuity. It’s our strength and it’s also our greatest weakness. When you have folks who– We have installation commanders for two years\, that’s it. Really\, the first three to six months are dicey because they’re still learning their role. Then the last six months are really dicey because they’re looking ahead to the next place. For the community\, our community partners who aren’t military\, a lot of them are there for long periods of time. They have seen leadership come and leadership go and program managers come in and programming managers leave. It’s a constant rotation of characters. It’s easy to let those relationships slide because if there’s not somebody there to immediately pick up the torch and carry on\, then things taper off. \nAssess the health of your program\, assess the health of your partnerships\, and that gives you a good starting place to see where you need to go. Then once you have an assessment of what your needs are\, what your program covers\, where your gaps are\, then you can go to your community partners and say\, “Hey\, this is where we can intersect. This is where we could support each other. This is where we can make change and make things better.” You know\, the military is hard. Our continuity piece\, it’s a struggle. It’s such a struggle. A lot of our program managers of our helping agencies are spouses of military members. They’re in the seat for two to four years\, and then they’re gone. Then we have to go through the hiring piece. Anybody who’s ever applied for a federal job knows how long it takes to get onboarded. \nThere’s those gaps. Then trying to find people to fill in the gaps. It’s always a slippery slope of trying to keep things current and keep those relationships\, keep cultivating them\, and making them a priority. It’s so hard. The military in itself is a unique organization that has unusual impacts on the community. We don’t operate like other organizations do. We have very strict rules and regulations regards to what we can and cannot do. Sometimes when they come to us and ask us for support\, we can’t. If you have that positive relationship with them that you can explain to them\, “This is why we can’t.”\, and they accept it. They don’t have hard feelings\, but if those relationships don’t exist prior and they come to us with an ask and we say no\, well\, then they’re like\, “Ugh\, I don’t want to deal with them anymore.” There’s a lot that goes into it. We place unusual demands upon communities and we have unique needs and circumstances based on what our missions is. \nI think the key takeaway is for leadership and program managers\, schools don’t sound like a big deal until they are. COVID was an unusual circumstance. Thankfully\, we had the right people\, we had the right place\, we had good timing\, luck\, skill\, relationship\, timing\, again\, to navigate that. It’s easy from a leadership perspective to be like\, “Oh\, it’s just the school system. That’s not that big of a deal.” Yes\, I guess that could be true until something big happens and then it is a big deal. Then you want to be proactive and have those relationships in place and then not be left sweeping up glass per se\, trying to work things out with folks that aren’t familiar with each other. \nWe’re going into our third year of the transitional kindergarten program. It’s no longer a pilot program. It is a program. What Great Falls Public Schools is able to do\, they have seven classrooms now. One of them is allocated specifically for children living on the installation. It supports 18 students and 4 of those spots are specifically for students with special education needs. They have onsite speech therapy\, occupational therapy\, school psychologists\, behaviorists\, all in one location. Our families now have access where previously they would not have qualified. \nWe’re going into our third year\, we hope at some point to grow the program. Great Falls Public Schools has taken it upon themselves to provide this\, all of the heavy lifting really for the creation of the hiring of the teacher\, the paraprofessionals\, the materials\, the busing and transportation costs\, all of these\, they have allocated these resources specifically to us to support the mission\, and we are incredibly grateful. \nJessica: I have really enjoyed hearing about this. We always love to close with asking you if there’s a practice that has been helpful in your work or to you individually that you would be willing to share with us. What keeps you going in your work? \nLisa: For me\, I think you have to love working with people. You have to want to have those engagements. You want to look on the installation and off the installation for opportunities to intersect and support programs using collaboration. Collaboration is so important. I’m an office of one. I’m one deep. I can do things by myself\, but it’s certainly not as fun. I’m constantly looking to other helping agencies on base or other programs on base to see where we can collaborate and support our military families and children. In the same breath\, I’m also looking to the community to find new and interesting ways to engage with students in the school systems\, and open up and demystify the base a little bit and bring them onto the installation\, and show them what’s out here. That is what I love about this job. I have a lot of freedom and a lot of autonomy and a lot of opportunity to build things from scratch. \nThe TK program was one of them\, and it had some really positive and meaningful\, and impactful results. These children who wouldn’t have access to early childhood education now do and now bringing high school students on to do job shadows and navigate the base and learn what’s out here. Then see what other\, if they are not interested in joining the military\, how they can have a job and a career living and working in Great Falls. At the base\, I’m not a recruiter\, but I’m maybe a civilian recruiter. I like building things\, I like collaborating\, and I like working with others. I mean if those are three things that you like too\, this job would be great for you. \nJessica: What about you\, James? What keeps you going in your work? What’s a practice that you employ? \nJames: Yes\, just working with others. Then specifically for the TK program\, it was a long process\, but to finally see it happening and still continuing to happen to this day\, I think that seeing the results and doing so much work and seeing the impact it’s having for our youth\, number one\, and also number two\, the installation. Again\, Malmstrom is very unique in the sense that it can’t close. We have an important job over there and having those ICBMs ready to go at any moment’s notice. Then like you said\, working with everyone\, be open to ideas. There’s no bad idea that’s going to benefit our military youth\, our installation\, our local communities\, and just be willing to do the work wherever’s needed. Just keep that end goal in sight\, and yes\, it’ll be good. \nLisa: I think one last thing I’ll add is\, in order to get folks on board\, in order to get our school systems on board\, look for ways to leverage military and Air Force resources to not only support military kids but to support all kids. That is a good way of approaching new ideas and new partnerships with school systems. \nBob: Lisa\, James\, thank you so much for joining us on the podcast. \nLisa: Thank you for having us. \nBob: Lisa Sapp is a school liaison specialist at Malmstrom Air Force Base\, and James Yracheta is a former Child and Youth Services Flight Chief at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana. To learn more about the transitional kindergarten program partnership\, check out the link in our show notes. \n[music]\nJessica: That’s it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. If you enjoyed today’s episode\, click the Share button in your podcast app to share it with a friend. We’d also love to hear what you’ve been thinking about and what’s inspiring you. You can share that with us by clicking the Send Us a Text Message at the top of the description of this episode. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can email us at practicingconnection@oneop.org. We can’t wait to hear from you. \nBob: We’d like to thank our co-producer\, Coral Owen\, our announcer\, Kaylin Goebel\, Maggie Lucas\, and Terry Meisenbach for their help with marketing\, and Nathan Grim\, who composed and performed all the music you hear on the podcast. We hope you’ll listen again soon. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin: The Practicing Connection Podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense\, under award numbers 2019-48770-30366\, and 2023-48770-41333. \n[00:37:50] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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26) \nSend us a Text Message \nMany of us tend to take a linear approach to program development. We develop a program\, implement it fully\, then evaluate it to see if it worked. However\, making small adjustments\, aka iteration\, is an important part on innovations.\nBob Bertsch shares a practice to help us build our capacity for iteration by helping each of us get more comfortable with the process. \nLinks \n\nThe Science of Well-Being course\nThe Cabrera Lab podcast\nPlanning Change: A Case Study on Cooperative Extension’s Contribution to Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement in Educational Programs\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nJessica Beckendorf: Hi\, everyone\, and thanks for joining us for the Practicing Connection Podcast. I’m Jessica Beckendorf\, along here with Bob Bertsch. Hi\, Bob. How have you been? \nBob Bertsch: Hey\, Jessica. I’ve been pretty good. Not bad\, I guess would be the Midwest way. \nJessica: Not bad would be in Midwest is pretty good. \nBob: That’s right. That’s where I’m at. I’ve been working this week on a course\, The Science of Well-Being course. It’s a free course on Coursera that’s taught by a Yale professor\, Dr. Laurie Santos\, and it’s been really helpful for me. Part of the point of the course is to engage in some challenges to increase our own happiness and build more productive habits. Obviously\, that’s something that’s close to our interest area. That’s a little bit of what we’re trying to do with the Practicing Connection Podcast. It’s been nice to have sort of the accountability and also to hear from Dr. Santos about the science behind some of these practices. Yes\, I’ve been really having a good time with that course. How about you? \nJessica: I’m doing great. I just want a quick comment on that course\, because I’ve taken it before\, back when it first was released. I found that course to be incredibly helpful at that moment in time. Actually\, I’ve recommended it many times\, and I would recommend it to anyone now\, and I plan to go back to it. I think it’s super cool that you’re going through that course right now. I loved every minute of it. \nSimilarly\, I’ve had a university-based thing that’s been giving me something to think about. The Cabrera Lab Podcast from Cornell University has been something that I’ve been listening to this week\, and it’s been making me think more deeply. The current episode I’m listening to is Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking. It’s sort of a meta way of looking at critical thinking. Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera talk about different perspectives on different issues. There are only nine episodes currently. It’s a new podcast\, but I’m really enjoying it. I think they have a really good way of talking about the research behind things without making you feel like you’re listening to research. \nBob: That sounds awesome. I’m excited to check that out. I’ll definitely take a look at it. It just occurs to me\, as you were describing that\, and as I’m imagining maybe what Cabrera Lab sounds like\, this is a pretty exciting time\, really\, when so many researchers\, especially researchers in psychology and organizational change\, and some of the things that we deal with\, community development as well\, are out there either starting their own podcasts or appearing on other people’s podcasts\, but talking about this in a way directly to the public and not just to academia through research papers. Yes\, I’m excited to hear about this podcast\, and I look forward to listening to it. \nJessica: Yes\, it’s like we can all get an education in a way even without being a current student\, right? Some of us really value continuing education\, and I’m one of those folks. \nWe’d love to hear what you’ve been thinking about and what’s inspiring you. You can share that with us by clicking the Send us a Text Message link at the top of the description of this episode. When you click the link\, your text message app will open\, and you’ll see a seven digit number and the words Do Not Remove. Type your message after that and click Send. Don’t remove that number or we won’t receive your message. \nJust for your own peace of mind to protect your privacy\, we won’t see your phone number and we can’t text you back\, but we can share your feedback on a future episode. If you’re listening on a computer\, you can also email us at practicingconnection@oneop.org. Let us know what’s inspiring you right now. \n[music]\nLet’s learn more about making small adjustments. Bob\, can you tell us a little more about the practice that you’ll be sharing with us\, and why you chose it? \nBob: Sure. the practice I’m going to share for making small adjustments is based on the continuous improvement process. Sometimes it’s referred to as the iterative process. It’s a process that’s pretty common in business environments. It started in software development\, but has been applied to the development of other products and services in the business world. I don’t think it’s been used as much by family and community service providers. It really could be\, and shout out to some of our colleagues like Nate Meyer who have written about some of these different ways of approaching program development and extension. I want to acknowledge that. It’s not absent from the conversation. I just think we could talk a little bit more about some of these concepts like continuous improvement. \nIn my experience in cooperative extension\, what we tend to do when we develop a program is to start out by just developing it\, right? We’re doing that internally with whoever’s contributing to it. Then we take it out\, we implement it. We take our program\, we go out into the public\, we teach it\, or we implement it in whatever way it needs to be implemented. Then we come back after all that’s done\, program has ended\, or at least hit a big milestone. Then we evaluate it\, and we see if it worked and then we’re done. That tendency is changing\, but it’s a little bit hard to change because it’s supported by theories of behavior change from decades ago. That don’t\, in my opinion\, really fully account for how complex human change is. \nOver time\, as institutions\, we’ve built up practices and structures and systems developed on those theories\, and they perpetuate that tendency to follow this develop\, implement\, evaluate process. The continuous improvement process is different because instead of evaluating only at the end of the process\, we’re always evaluating and adjusting. We start development\, then we test\, then we improve\, then we repeat the process\, right? We develop\, test\, improve\, and continue to do that even after we have implemented a program. We continue to seek feedback\, make improvements\, and adjustments. \nAdopting that continuous improvement model is\, as I said\, easier said than done. There’s a case study out there about creating a culture of continuous improvement\, and it was actually done for a project where Cooperative Extension professionals worked with folks from the US Department of Defense Education Activity\, and they were trying to get this culture of continuous improvement into DODEA\, that’s the acronym for Department of Defense Education Activity\, into DODEA schools. \nResearchers found five themes for a continuous improvement framework. First\, a focus on purpose. Second\, a recognition of change as a continuous and complex process. Third\, utilizing data-based practices\, structures\, and systems. Fourth\, capitalizing on relationships and professional collaboration. Then fifth\, just generally building capacity for continuous improvement. \nThe practice I’m going to share\, I adapted it from this framework\, and I’m hoping it’s going to help us with that building capacity for continuous improvement because if each of us gets more comfortable with the continuous improvement process\, hopefully that will build capacity for this kind of approach in Cooperative Extension\, in military family service programs\, and in other places where we can be more iterative in our program development. \nJessica: Yes\, we have many current states\, we have many future states\, and we don’t just have one current state\, and then we don’t\, as a group or society or whatever\, need to decide what’s the one future state we want\, and then we only go for that because along the way we’re going to learn more information. I love this idea and the example you gave is really interesting. Let’s actually get right into the practice. Please walk us through it. \nBob: What I’m going to ask you to do for this practice is to choose a very simple change that you want to make and practice making small adjustments in it. We’re going to use that continuous improvement process to do that. Practicing in this way will help us apply that process on a broader scale in our work or at least get ready to apply it on a broader scale in our work. \nStart by choosing a small change that we want to make. It can really be anything as long as it’s small. We can think about changing the time that you exercise each day or changing how often you check your email or changing the way that you track your to-do list. Just whatever small change you can think of. A reminder again\, keep it small\, because you’re going to be working alone on this. \nOnce you’ve chosen that small change\, we’re going to go to that first step of the continuous improvement process and think about the purpose behind that change. If you’re changing the time you exercise\, for example\, your purpose might be to be more healthy. That’s why I want to exercise. If you’re changing how often you check your email\, your purpose might be to be more efficient or effective in your work. Try to get to the purpose that you can connect to on an emotional level. We’re trying to get a little bit deeper here and bigger with the purpose. \nIf you’re coming up with purposes that don’t feel big enough\, try asking the question that I learned from Jessica\, what does that make possible? That can be really helpful\, right? If you’re thinking\, I want to change the time I exercise\, the purpose is to avoid a conflict with something else that might not feel big enough\, right? What does avoiding that conflict\, what does that make possible? Then you can keep asking that question until you get to that purpose that you can really connect with. \nNext\, take time to acknowledge that all change\, no matter how small\, is continuous and complex. One way to do that is to think about some of the things outside of your control that might affect your effort. What if I use an online program to track my to-do list\, and then that\, freemium program goes away. Those are things that are outside your control. Recognizing that and accepting that change is continuous and complex is sort of the next step in the continuous improvement process. \nNow we need to think about how we’re going to know if our small change is working or not. Not just whether it’s working in the moment\, does it feel right or am I accomplishing something\, but whether it’s helping us achieve that bigger purpose that we defined behind the change. Think about how you’re going to gather data to evaluate your change and inform the small adjustments that you’re going to make. For example\, you might commit to a weekly reflection on the change\, right? Think about\, hey\, how’s this going? Try to think of at least one data source outside yourself. That can be helpful. You could maybe ask your family\, hey\, I made this adjustment. How’s that working for everybody? Ask a coworker for feedback or use an objective data point\, like the average time it takes you to get through your emails or something that is objective and not just your impression of it. \nNow you’ve gathered all that data\, and we’re going to use that to tweak your change to improve it. Then we’re going to keep gathering data. Gather data\, make a small adjustment in your small change. This is getting meta and complex\, right? We’re making this change in our behavior. What’s a small adjustment we can make to make it more effective? Then we’re going to gather data on that change\, right? Is that tweak\, that small adjustment that you made\, is that working? Are there other ways that you could tweak your process to improve it? \nTry to make only one tweak or small adjustment at a time\, so you know that the reason something is working or not working can be attributed to that small adjustment. If we make a bunch of adjustments all at once\, our data might change\, but we have no idea why or which adjustment to attribute it to. \nI feel like having said this\, Jessica\, it sounds super complex\, but it’s pretty simple\, right? It’s just the idea of changing from\, develop\, implement\, and then evaluate to this continuous improvement process\, just using something small that we can control. Hopefully\, as we get more comfortable with this idea of continuous improvement\, we can think about how we might use it at a bigger scale. \nJessica: The idea that I found really useful in this\, the one thing that really stuck out to me was the take time to acknowledge that all change\, no matter how small\, is continuous and complex. It’s almost sort of a relief to think of it that way because it’s a thing that can maybe stop you from beating yourself up when maybe it doesn’t work out. Okay\, so this little change is going to be complex. It may not work. Okay\, that’s all right. I’ll just keep figuring out until I find something that works for me. \nBob: Yes\, and I think that’s really helpful when we talk about a bigger scale\, too\, because I think that’s part of what we are losing sight of when we aren’t using the continuous improvement process. If we’re just developing\, implementing\, and evaluating\, we’re not acknowledging the fact that there’s stuff we don’t know\, and that can affect whatever change that we’re trying to achieve. \nYes\, knowing that\, and then realizing that\, hey\, well\, one way to address those things that do come up is to make small adjustments. Yes\, that does take some pressure off\, but I think hopefully in the end\, then it actually helps us be more effective in achieving whatever change we seek. \nJessica: Yes\, thank you so much. 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 for you. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection Podcast is a production of One Op\, and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense under Award Numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[00:15:21] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Supporting Special Needs Families: Exploring Trusts & ABLE Accounts
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We also explore the use of ABLE accounts as an alternative to special needs trusts\, or as a tool to be used in conjunction with these trusts. Case scenarios are presented to compare the effectiveness of ABLE accounts with special needs trusts in maintaining eligibility for needs-based government benefits\, avoiding Medicaid reimbursement\, providing alternatives to guardianships\, encouraging a beneficiary’s independence\, avoiding unnecessary costs\, and offering long-term financial strategies for families with special needs. \nLearning Objectives: \n\nGain a comprehensive understanding of special needs trusts and ABLE accounts\, including the unique features\, advantages\, and limitations of each tool.\nIdentify how ABLE accounts can be used in combination with special needs trusts to maximize SSI and simplify trust administration.\nDiscover strategies for selecting an appropriate trustee\, directing income and assets to an ABLE account or trust\, and determining proper expenditures of funds.\nReview the process of assigning military survivor benefit plan (SBP) annuity payments and child support to a first-party special needs trust.\nReceive materials that outline options for dealing with unexpected income and assets that threaten eligibility for important government benefits.\nDevelop a greater appreciation for the benefits of special needs estate planning and the critical need for such plans in families with special needs.\n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” top_padding=”13″ left_padding_desktop=”15″ text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overflow=”visible” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none” gradient_type=”default” shape_type=””][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” 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Alison’s passion for her practice comes from her personal life as the mother to a beautiful 30-year-old daughter with significant special needs.  Alison knows what it means to fight for a child with disabilities.  She understands the worry that parents have as they plan for children who will always need resources\, supports and services. 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el_class=”trans-title”][vc_column_text](Season 5\, Episode 24) \nSend us a Text Message \nGetting to a shared purpose as a group often requires digging a little deeper than usual. Jessica Beckendorf talks about the chaordic stepping stones\, a  helpful tool for going below the surface with a group\, and shares four questions that can help groups work toward a clear statement of purpose together. \nLinks\n\n“You don’t have to be local” by Derek Sivers\n“Keep Going” by Austin Kleon\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nBob: Hi\, and thanks for joining us for the Practicing Connection podcast. I’m Bob Bertsch with Jessica Beckendorf. Hi\, Jessica. How have you been? \nJessica: Hi\, Bob. I’ve been pretty good this week. I actually had the chance to reread an essay by Derek Sivers called You don’t have to be local. As I was reading that essay\, not in the middle of it\, but this week when I was reading the essay\, I also happened to receive an email from one of my community development listservs that was really making a lot of statements about how local is everything and we have to keep everything local. That interacting more with our neighbors and engaging more locally will be better for us and our communities in the long run. \nThese two opposing ideas\, Derek Sivers’ idea of you don’t have to be local and the community development listserv saying local is everything were playing around in my mind a little bit this week. I do believe that engaging more locally with our neighbors\, with our community is better for us and it’s better for our communities in the long run. I don’t know if it’s because I grew up as a military kid or I don’t know what the deal is\, but I’ve never really felt local. To me\, it’s inspiring to read Derek’s words because he’s basically proclaiming that we don’t have to be local if we don’t feel it\, we can be global. \nI don’t know how I feel yet. I think I’m going to keep giving local a try\, but I’ve been thinking about this all week long. [chuckles] I really do believe in the power of the neighborhood\, but this has been a good reflection and some validating words. If you don’t feel local\, it’s okay because you can be global. \nBob: I love that. I love that you’re accepting\, hey\, there’s tension in this and that’s okay. We don’t have to pick one side or the other in this global local debate. I’ve been going back to a book that I pulled off of my shelf this week\, inspired by the way by our discussion of character strengths in last month’s Practicasts. The book is Austin Kleon’s Keep Going. Super useful book. I highly recommend it. It outlines 10 ways to stay creative. One of the ways that I’ve been thinking a lot about this week and right now is forget the noun\, do the verb. That’s about letting go of the thing that you’re trying to be\, which is the noun and focusing on the actual work that you need to be doing\, that’s the verb. \nInstead of focusing on\, I want to be a creative person\, or I want to be an innovator\, or I want to be a leader\, which are labels and nouns\, instead trying to focus on the work that you need to be doing\, the verb\, in order to maybe be that. I guess that’s changing my focus if I’m focusing on trying to be that\, but just the work. Not trying to be a creative person\, but just acting creatively. Love that book. That’s what I’ve been thinking about this week. \nJessica: No\, I love that. All of Austin Kleon’s books are ones that I go back to over and over and over again\, every time I need a little inspiration. I loved this idea of you can work creatively within the verb. You can work innovatively within the verb. You can be a leader within the verb. Just do the verb. [laughs]\nBob: Just do the verb\, everybody. \nJessica: Verb\, verb\, verb. Verb is the word. \n[laughter]\nBob: We’d love to hear what you’ve been thinking about and what’s inspiring you. Please share that with us. You can do that by clicking the send us a text message link at the top of the description of this episode. This is a new feature for us. When you click the link\, your text messaging app will open. You’ll see a seven digit number and the words do not remove. Serious\, do not remove. Type your message after that and then click send. Don’t remove that number or we’re not going to receive your message. That’s our identifier for the podcast. Just a note to protect your privacy. We’re not going to see your phone number and we can’t text you back. If you text us\, we will share your feedback on an upcoming episode. \nIf you’re listening on a computer\, obviously you can’t text us necessarily\, but you can email us practicingconnection@oneop.org Let us know what you’re thinking about\, what’s inspiring you right now. \n[music]\nJessica\, let’s learn more about finding your purpose as a group. Can you tell us a little bit more about the practice you’ll be sharing and why you chose it? \nJessica: Of course I can. I love this practice. I chose a practice from the chaotic stepping stones. I’ll explain a little bit about chaotic because it’s a not really a word. It refers to a combination of words\, the words chaos and order. It was first coined by Dee Hock\, the founder of Visa International. The idea is that for change\, there’s a sweet spot where chaos and order overlap and leadership\, innovation and emergence thrive. If you go too far into chaos\, it can be destructive. If you go too far toward control\, the environment can be stifling. \nThe chaotic stepping stones is a series of practices that guide planning and action for groups to address issues that are important to them. It’s not a strictly linear process as each step can be revisited repeatedly and iterated on. I’m going to actually walk through what some people might call the second step\, which is purpose. I chose this practice because I have found the chaotic stepping stones to be really helpful tool for going below the surface with a group. That’s because each step in the process is designed to encourage dialogue and connection. \nBob: Yes\, I’m excited to hear more about this. Pulling back the curtain a little bit. We use the chaotic stepping stones when we created this podcast. When we had the very initial idea\, we went to the stepping stones as a way of really developing that. That’s\, as you said\, one of the early steps\, was finding our purpose. I’m really anxious to hear about the practice. Could you walk us through it? \nJessica: Yes\, absolutely. Each step in the stepping stones is really a short series of questions that can be used to spur dialogue and develop\, in this case\, a shared purpose. I assembled these from a combination of sources from art of hosting practitioners\, Jerry Nagel\, Kathy Jordan\, and Chris Corrigan. Here’s the series of questions. Use these in a group to spur some dialogue. The first question is\, if this work should live up to its fullest potential\, what do you imagine is possible? What could this work do\, create\, inspire\, and or result in? \nWhat is the next level for our work? Where should we be heading? Then finally\, what is the purpose we can adopt that will best meet the need we are addressing? What you would do is have conversations around these questions and record the shared understanding that comes out of those conversations. As a group\, then\, co-write a clear statement of purpose for the work. I don’t recommend that you have one person take the notes from the shared understanding and have that one person write a purpose. I really think the group should do this together. Co-write a clear statement of purpose for the work\, a statement that will guide the initial direction. \nDon’t become too attached to this statement of purpose. As your group starts to deepen your work and make more connections\, expect to make adjustments as you go because you’re going to probably invite more people in. You need to give them a chance also to share their perspectives\, especially if they’re quite different from the group who initially got together. You can come back to the questions anytime. Expect to make adjustments\, but definitely co-write that statement of purpose. \nBob: Thanks for sharing that\, Jessica. I love the questions. Just so important\, I think to have that shared sense of purpose. Speaking from experience\, it’s easy to just assume we have our sense of purpose. We wrote it three years ago and never revisit it. I love your advice there. \nJessica: Yes. I actually even think a statement of purpose should be revisited every year\, regardless of change. Ask yourself\, is this still the thing that we can adopt that would best meet the need we’re addressing? Is this still that thing? If not\, how do we need to change it? It’s okay for it to change because our work adapts and evolves as we keep addressing the issue together. \nBob: That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app and share it with a friend. We’ll be back next week with a practice for being open to all ideas. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:10:10] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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Emphasis will be placed on understanding the financial foundations of economic security\, including social and economic drivers required to reach and sustain improved quality of life among military families. Consideration will be given to the unique challenges military families face\, especially across times of transition\, such as joining the military\, deployment\, permanent change of station (PCS)\, and navigating major life events. Resources for assisting Service members and their families across these domains will be provided.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Estimated time to complete: 90 minutes \nThis course references the case story of the fictional military family\, the Howards. Read their full case story here.[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\nLearning Objectives\nAfter engaging in this course\, learners will be able to: \n\nDefine and assess barriers to achieving financial readiness and military family well-being in the context of military family quality of life.\nIdentify and understand possible career and financial implications for each of five major service transitions and their impact on military families and their quality of life\, including (1) joining the military\, (2) deployment\, (3) permanent change of station (PCS)\, (4) leaving the military\, and (5) major life events.\nDefine and discuss ways to assess financial literacy\, financial well-being\, and financial security within the context of a military family.\nApply an ecological lens to military family well-being\, including how financial readiness can offer a foundation to improve quality of life.\nDiscuss innovative approaches\, tools\, and technologies to assist military families in accessing financial assistance\, readiness\, and educational programs.\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”][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\nTo be alerted when the course is launched\, sign up for the MFRA Mailing List today! \n\n\n\n\n[/vc_column_text][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” el_class=”MFRA Mailing List” button_id=”MFRA Mailing List” text=”MFRA Mailing List” url=”https://oneop.aweb.page/p/32c3af2a-4882-499e-9318-ba8f44465f6a”][/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 Authors” font_container=”tag:h2|text_align:left|color:%2333004d” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Dr. Nichole Huff\, Course Author \nDr. Jenny Rea\, Course Author \nMolly Herndon\, Instructional Designer[/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\n1.5 CE credits for Certified in Family and Consumer Sciences (CFCS) from the American Association for Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) for CFCS. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/12/26\n1.5 clock hours for Case Managers from the Commission for Case Manager Certification. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/12/25\n1.5 CE contact hours for Board Certified Patient Advocates from the Patient Advocate Certification Board. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/12/26\n1.5 CE credits for Social Work\, LPC\, LMFT from the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/12/26\n1.5 CE units for Accredited Financial Counselors (AFC) from the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education (AFCPE). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/12/27\n1.5 CE credits for Certified Personal Finance Counselors (CPFC) from FinCert for CPFCs. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/12/27\n1.5 CE credits for Certified Family Life Educators (CFLE) from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/12/27\n1.75 CPEUs for Registered Dietitian Nutritionists (RDN) and Nutrition Dietetics Technicians\, Registered (NDTR) from the Commission on Dietetic Registration for RDNs and NDTRs and 1.75 CPEUs in accordance with the Commission on Dietetic Registration’s CPEU Prior Approval Process. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/12/27\n1.5 CE credits for Certified Personal and Family Finance Educator (CPFFE) from the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) for CPFFE. Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/12/26\n1.5 credits for Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) and Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) from the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing (NCHEC) Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/12/26\n1.5 PDUs for Human Resource Professionals from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Eligibility for CE credit will close on 8/12/26\n\nFurther details on requirements for obtaining continuing education credits or a certificate of completion are available at the conclusion of the course. 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SUMMARY:Being Present With Your Strengths
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el_class=”trans-title”][vc_column_text](Season 5\, Episode 22) \nSeparately\, mindfulness practice and character strengths practice have been shown to improve well-being. Recent research has shown that combining these two practices may have even greater benefits. \nIn this episode\, we continue our conversation about character strengths\, a strengths-based approach to identifying the positive traits behind our thinking\, feeling\, and behavior. \nWe discuss Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice\, which synthesizes character strengths and mindfulness into a single practice\, and Jessica Beckendorf guides us through an activity from Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice. \nLinks\n\nThe VIA Classification of Character Strengths and Virtues\nCharacter Strengths Interventions: A Field Guide for Practitioners\nThe Power of Character Strengths: Appreciate and Ignite Your Positive Personality\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nBob Bertsch: Separately\, mindfulness practice and character strengths practice have been shown to improve well-being. Recent research has shown that combining these two practices may have even greater benefits. Hi\, everyone\, this is Bob Bertsch and welcome to this week’s Practicing Connection practicast where we highlight a specific practice you can use in your personal and professional growth. In today’s episode\, we are continuing our conversation about character strengths\, a strengths-based approach to identifying the positive traits behind our thinking\, feeling\, and behavior. We’ll be discussing mindfulness-based strengths practice\, which synthesizes character strengths and mindfulness into a single practice. \nMy Practicing Connection co-host Jessica Beckendorf will be guiding us through an activity from mindfulness-based strengths practice\, which I think she’s going to shorten to MBSP\, which I’m thankful about. That’s going to happen in just a few minutes\, but first let’s learn a little bit more about it. Hi\, Jessica\, can you tell us more about how the combination of mindfulness and character strengths can benefit us? \nJessica Beckendorf: Yes\, we do like our acronyms\, don’t we? There’s actually quite a lot of benefits to integrating mindfulness and character strengths. I’ll focus on a few highlighted by Dr. Ryan Niemiec in his book Mindfulness and Character Strengths\, A Practitioner’s Guide to MBSP\, which stands for Mindfulness-Based Strengths Practice. Dr. Niemiec is a scientist\, educator\, practitioner\, and a global leader in mindfulness and character strengths. He points out that the integration of mindfulness and character strengths increases self-awareness of the positive potential within us\, motivates people to develop\, adapt\, or deepen their mindfulness practice\, and to use their top or signature strengths more\, helps us manage overuse and underuse of strengths. \nIt provides a language for identifying positive traits and a way to deal with barriers during mindfulness practice. It offers a way to practice both mindfulness and a way to practice strengths awareness\, as some people don’t always know where to start either practice. Overall\, character strengths can help us develop our mindfulness practice\, and mindfulness practice can help us deepen our knowledge and use of our character strengths. Practicing both can have positive impacts on our overall well-being across different domains of life\, work\, home\, and beyond. \nBob Bertsch: That’s really interesting\, the symbiotic relationship that\, each practice is enhancing the other. I’d like to talk about some more examples of that. Let’s start with how can mindfulness enhance the character strengths practice? \nJessica Beckendorf: Consciously bringing to mind and using our character strengths with intention can have profound impacts on our overall well-being. It makes sense that applying mindfulness techniques can enhance our character strengths by helping us do things like explore our strengths and be curious about them\, or help us notice when we’re on autopilot and bring our minds back to the present moment\, giving our brains a chance to choose whether to bring our strengths to mind and use them with intention or not. Mindfulness strengths practice is about keeping us awake to our strengths versus on autopilot. \nDay-to-day and moment-to-moment\, we can use mindfulness techniques to keep returning to a state of awakeness or awareness. While you certainly can use character strengths without incorporating mindfulness\, if you’re trying to become more skillful and adept at using your strengths\, and if you’re seeking the benefits to your well-being that the research points to\, you will need to be mindful of your strengths. Awareness alone is important\, but applying mindfulness techniques keeps you aware of your strengths\, how they show up\, and how you might choose to use them or to use them differently\, because research also points to using your strengths differently. There are benefits to that as well. \nBob Bertsch: Awesome. Let’s flip the script. How can our character strengths help us in our mindfulness practice? \nJessica Beckendorf: Yes\, this is a really good question because this is where the inter-connectedness between mindfulness and character strengths I think is harder to separate. I can’t imagine a time when you’re engaging in mindfulness practice without using character strengths to help you with your practice. You might not be using your top or your signature strengths\, but you are using strengths like curiosity\, self-regulation\, and often you’re using gratitude\, spirituality\, or even love\, just for a few examples. If you’re like me\, you might use perseverance\, if you have a difficult time with mindfulness practice. \nBringing strengths to mindfulness can help you deal with obstacles that you typically have in your practice. It gives you a language to recognize a barrier and know how to move through it. If you’re tired\, you can remind yourself to use your perseverance and just hang in there. The language of character strengths is really a wonderful complement to mindfulness practice. One really interesting thing is that we’re all capable of tapping into all of our character strengths. In my example\, even if perseverance is not a strong strength\, I can tell you that it’s at the bottom. It’s like not the bottom\, but it’s like one of my bottom four. \nEven if perseverance is not a strong strength\, you know you can still access it. You have the potential and the power and the choice to access it. It can also help you engage with your practice more deeply. You could choose one of your signature strengths to explore during your mindfulness practice. Explore how it’s showing up in the moment or even seek to find it in the moment\, or\, just simply identify and label a character strength that comes up during your practice to help you engage with your mindfulness practice more deeply\, which will help you to be more mindful of strengths\, yours and others\, during your daily life. \nAn example of where you might just identify and label a character strength that comes up during your practice might be if you’re doing a walking meditation\, for instance. You’re doing a walking mindfulness practice and you’re noticing the beauty in nature. That’s the strength of appreciation of beauty and excellence. You can label that. If you notice that you made a little joke to yourself\, you can notice that you used humor and keep bringing your mind back to your mindfulness practice while you’re labeling these strengths. Those are just a few examples. I feel like we could fill up a whole season on the topic of mindfulness and character strengths. \nBob Bertsch: This is really fascinating and I would love to fill up a whole season\, but we have lots of other practices that we’re excited to share with our folks as well\, including this practice that you have for us today. Can you please walk us through it? \nJessica Beckendorf: Yes\, this activity is from the Mindfulness and Character Strengths book by Dr. Ryan Niemiec. I learned from this and I’ve dug into it. It’s called Character Strengths Breathing Space\, the activity. It’s a mindfulness practice that explores three distinct character strengths\, curiosity\, self-regulation\, and perspective. Even if these aren’t your top strengths\, because we can all access all of the strengths\, I invite you to consider these strengths as we go through the activity. Take a moment to get comfortable. When you’re ready\, you can choose to close your eyes or have a soft focus somewhere on the floor or another neutral space. Begin to just notice your breath without altering how you’re breathing. \nJust simply breathe in and out\, and notice each time you inhale and exhale. Sometimes it can help to label it as in and out. Begin to take notice of your present moment. Open yourself to it. Observe the details. Take an interest in this moment. Notice what you can sense right now. Maybe you’re aware of sounds rising and falling. You might be aware of the contact your body makes with your seat. Allow your curiosity to explore the moment fully. Practice being curious about your thoughts and feelings\, interested in whatever is in your presence right now. \nSimply notice these happenings in your present moment and let each one go. If you find yourself getting caught up in one sensation or feeling. Just simply say\, “What else? What else is happening in my present moment? What else is there to be curious about and take an interest in?” Now\, allow your attention to narrow to just one thing. Let’s use your breath. This is the concentration phase of the breathing space\, where the idea is to let go of all the happenings in your present moment\, with the exception of your breathing. Allow yourself to feel the fullness of your in-breath and the fullness of your out-breath. \nFeel the sensation of your breathing in your body. Concentrate just on the breath. When your mind wanders away from your breath\, simply bring it back to the breath\, over and over. Bring your focus back. Each time you bring your attention back to your breath\, you are practicing self-regulation. This means you’re taking control of your attention\, always back to your breath. While you continue to focus on your in-breath and out-breath\, you can also allow your attention to expand to your body as a whole. As you breathe\, notice your wholeness\, the oneness of your body and mind. Allow yourself to feel a sense of completeness or oneness. \nThis can be viewed as using your strength of perspective\, stepping back to see the wider view of your body and mind and your place in this present moment. This allows you to see and breathe with the bigger picture. When you’re ready\, open your eyes and be in the present moment. \nBob Bertsch: Thanks for that practice\, Jessica. It was really great. \nJessica Beckendorf: You are very welcome. I enjoyed it myself. \nBob Bertsch: That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the Share button in your podcast app and share it with a friend. We’ll be back next week with an episode on Coming Back Better\, one of the eight ways of cultivating community resilience that we identified in our Connecting Communities and Asset-Based Community Recovery Project. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection Podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U.S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, U.S. Department of Defense\, under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:13:57] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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el_class=”trans-title”][vc_column_text](Season 5\, Episode 21) \nMuch of the conversation around character strengths focuses on their positive aspects\, but there are some contexts in which character strengths can lead to negative outcomes. It’s all in how we use them. \nIn this episode\, we continue our conversation about character strengths\, a strengths-based approach to identifying the positive traits behind our thinking\, feeling\, and behavior. \nWe talk about how character strengths can lead to negative coping strategies and emotional states\, and Jessica Beckendorf guides us through a practice to help us avoid using our strengths in ways that lead to negative outcomes. \nLinks\n\nThe VIA Classification of Character Strengths and Virtues\nCharacter Strengths Interventions: A Field Guide for Practitioners\nThe Power of Character Strengths: Appreciate and Ignite Your Positive Personality\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nBob Bertsch: Much of the conversation around character strengths focuses on their positive aspects\, but there are some contexts in which character strengths can lead to negative outcomes. It’s all in how we use them. \nHi\, everyone. This is Bob Bertsch. Welcome to this week’s Practicing Connection Practicast where we highlight a specific practice you can use in your life and work. In today’s episode\, we’re continuing our conversation about character strengths\, a strengths-based approach to identifying the positive traits behind our thinking\, feeling\, and behavior. Today\, we’ll talk about how character strengths can lead to negative coping strategies and emotional states. My Practicing Connection co-host\, Jessica Beckendorf\, will be guiding us through a practice to help us avoid using our strengths in ways that lead to negative outcomes in a few minutes. First\, let’s learn more about what might lead us to those outcomes. \nHi\, Jessica. We’re mostly thinking of our strengths as being positive\, but as much as we might not want to be negative\, let’s talk about how they might lead to negative outcomes. \nJessica Beckendorf: Yes\, I hate being negative. No negativity. Because the goal is to express the most appropriate combination of strengths to the most appropriate degree at the most appropriate times\, there’s some room there for our strengths to lead to negative outcomes. I know that this sounds complex\, but it really isn’t. You are in charge of how you use your strengths and you can decide when to express them and the level of intensity. That’s why becoming more aware of strengths and how they show up in us is really important to being able to decide anything at all about your strengths. \nThe level of intensity is one way that our strengths can lead to negative outcomes. What happens is we may find ourselves overusing or underusing our strengths. Either one of those can produce consequences in our personal and professional lives and relationships. \nFor example\, overusing the strength of forgiveness can cause us to be overly tolerant when we’ve been wronged\, allowing people to walk all over us and possibly building up resentment toward them over time. Underusing forgiveness can cause us to be rigid with others. We can also underuse forgiveness toward ourselves\, so becoming overly self-critical and perfectionistic about our mistakes. \nAnother way that strengths can lead to negative outcomes is when our strengths get activated as hot buttons. Our character strengths are part of who we are. When it feels as though a strength we are very high in is being assaulted\, it can feel like a personal attack on something we value very much. \nWe all engage in overusing and underusing our strengths from time to time. The more mindful we are about how and when we tend to overuse and underuse our strengths\, the more adept we’re going to get at calibrating our strengths to adjust to particular situations. I think the challenges are to use the concept of overuse and underuse as a reframing tool for negativism\, self-judgment\, and perfectionism\, to accept that you might have a preference to overuse and underuse particular strengths at particular times\, and to keep the pursuit of balance as your purpose for reflecting on your over and underuse rather than striving for perfection. Keep a growth mindset\, in other words\, which is something we’ve talked about on more than one occasion on this podcast. \nBob: This is really resonating with me. I’m thinking not even necessarily of character strengths but of other strengths-based assessments and some of the strengths that I scored highly in or whatever\, there’s times when I’m overusing them maybe in the wrong context\, and things like that. Can we dig into that a little bit more? Can you provide maybe some more examples of how we might underuse or overuse our strengths? \nJessica: Yes\, of course. Each strength has its own mix of what overuse and underuse looks like\, and it’s not a scientific mix\, it’s really each individual will overuse and underuse a little bit differently. I’ll just cover a few examples for each\, but let’s start with underuse. Underuse just to remind you is when we are on autopilot. We’re largely unaware\, just going through our life or in many cases\, rushing through our life on autopilot. \nThere are a number of ways that we can engage in underuse. I haven’t yet seen an all-inclusive list\, so I’m going to start by sharing just a few. We might engage in underuse through oversight. This is when we neglect to think of using our strengths in a certain situation or in a context. \nFor example\, realizing that your strengths of hope and humor are applicable not just in your personal life but also at work. We might have lost a strength or we might be slowly losing it over time\, and so this is when you’ve lost touch with a strength that you used to use\, or maybe it’s faded to the background. A common example of this is creativity. Many adults feel as though they’re not as creative as they were when they were younger. \nAnother way that we underuse is that we undervalue a strength. Many people undervalue their strengths usually because they don’t view their character strengths as strengths. They almost always will underuse them when that’s the case. This can also come from a fear of being judged for showing up authentically as well. You might undervalue the strength because you think everyone around you will undervalue it. \nFinally\, for the underuse\, when it’s a lesser strength\, it takes more thought and energy to use the strengths that are lower on our list. If you took the VIA classification\, those that are the bottom four or five\, we might completely ignore them. We might just be like\, “Well\, I’m just not going to ever tap into that strength.” Just because a strength isn’t one of our top strengths doesn’t mean that we can’t still underuse it. \nFor example\, when you’re working on a shared project\, you will need to draw on the strength of teamwork\, even if it’s not something that comes easily to you. I often have to call on perseverance\, which is very low for me\, but knowing that actually helps me to prepare myself to do it. \nOveruse can be harder to pinpoint. This is where we might be able to ask others what they’re seeing in us\, and we can ask people that we trust\, of course\, what they see in us. We can use that to help us determine are we overusing or not. This is when we experience a loss of perspective\, which is why sometimes asking others will help us. We experience a loss of perspective. We can’t see the bigger picture. We get lost in the strength\, and we can’t adjust the intensity to suit the moment. \nThere’s several ways that we can engage in overuse. I’m just going to give a couple of common examples that hopefully you’ll recognize and will help you to recognize it in the future. One way is forcing it. If it feels like you might be acting before you’re ready\, you might be forcing it. You might feel like you’re not being genuine. For example\, using the strength of forgiveness before you’re ready to use it is a pretty common one. \nAnother is being impulsive\, acting without thinking\, which is different than being on autopilot. This is almost like allowing a strength to hijack your actions before you’ve had a chance to take a moment to assess the situation or your own readiness. A common example of this might be with the strength of humor. Being impulsive with this strength in certain situations can be downright hurtful to others\, damaging the relationship overall. \nAnother common example is to be full of the strength of zest for a particular project. The project’s really exciting to us. What happens? We say yes to everything and we end up overwhelmed and unable to contribute at a high level. \nBob: Those are really helpful. Thanks for those examples. How can we avoid this? How can we avoid underusing and overusing our strengths? \nJessica: I would say it’s a combination of being mindful of your strengths and choosing to act according to the situation. I think it can be helpful as you’re on this journey to understanding your strengths\, it can be really helpful to watch for clues that you might be overusing or underusing your strengths. Things like perfectionism\, judgment\, or beating yourself up for something\, for a decision you made or for something you said\, and a lack of self-compassion. \nKeep a growth mindset. That is so important. I know I mentioned it already in this episode\, but the growth mindset is really important. Seek feedback from others. This is particularly helpful with overuse because it’s easier for other people to lend you a perspective on what they’re seeing regarding overuse. Some people might be astute enough to also help you with your underuse. \nThe number one thing I want people to know here\, and one of the reasons I’m not spending a lot of time here is because this is all an exploration. I don’t want you to get caught in the trap of overdoing the exploration of your overuse and underuse\, and just only focusing on those two things as it relates to strengths. This is a strengths-based model\, and the research behind it has pointed to the benefits of leaning into our strengths and using our strengths\, and what’s right about us versus leaning into judging what we judge to be wrong about us. \nBob: You have a practice for us and I’m anxious to hear more about it. \nJessica: Yes. I have a reflection activity. I got this activity from Character Strengths Interventions: A Field Guide for Practitioners by Ryan Niemiec. We’ll provide a link to this book in the show notes in case you’re interested. The purpose is to help you begin to understand where you might be overusing or underusing some of your strengths. \nFor overuse\, you’re going to describe a situation in which you overused one of your strengths. If you don’t know a lot about overuse\, don’t worry about it. Trust your instincts. Describe that situation in which you overuse one of your strengths and think about and journal about how might you temper the overuse or build in another strength to better balance yourself. Again\, I want you to trust your instincts on this. It’s not like you’re working with a coach who can suss that out with you. Trust your instinct. \nLast question\, what does it look like and feel like to express the strength in a balanced way according to you\, not according to the research or anything? For you\, what does it look like and feel like to express the strength in a balanced way? \nAs a bonus\, you can consider a problem you’re struggling with and examine it through the lens of strengths overused. What strength might you be bringing forth too strongly\, even a little bit\, that could be contributing to the problem? \nNow we’ll move on to underuse. The reflection for underuse begins with you describing a situation in which you underused one of your strengths. Again\, trust your instincts\, explore situations that you’ve been in where maybe you were feeling a little bit like you weren’t acting yourself\, and ask yourself whether underuse could have been present. \nDescribe that situation and then ask yourself\, what might you do to become more mindful of this strength in the future? In what situations might you use it more? What does it look like and feel like to express the strength in a balanced way? Again\, trust your instincts. This is according to you. What does it look like and feel like to express the strength in a balanced way? \nAs a bonus for you\, keep a log of strengths used during the week. This will help you become more mindful of underused and under-acknowledged strengths in the future. \nBob: Thanks so much for sharing that with us\, Jessica. \nJessica: You’re welcome. \nBob: That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app and share it with a friend. We’ll be back next week with a practice for being present with your strengths. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U.S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military and Family Readiness Policy\, U.S. Department of Defense under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:13:34] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Lean Into Your Strengths
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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=”About This Episode” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][vc_column_text](Season 5\, Episode 20) \nCharacter strengths are your unique pathways to those positive goals people pursue in life. They can help us amplify positive things in our lives\, like self-acceptance\, autonomy\, goal progress\, and more. \nIn this episode\, we continue our conversation about character strengths\, a strengths-based approach to identifying the positive traits behind our thinking\, feeling\, and behaviors. Jessica Beckendorf guides us through a practice for leaning into our character strengths. \nLinks\n\nThe VIA Classification of Character Strengths and Virtues\nTips for Using Each Character Strength in a New Way\nCharacter Strengths: Research and Practice (PDF)\n\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” text_align=”left” row_position=”default” row_position_tablet=”inherit” row_position_phone=”inherit” overflow=”visible” pointer_events=”all” el_id=”trans”][vc_column_inner column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_direction_desktop=”default” column_element_spacing=”default” desktop_text_alignment=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_backdrop_filter=”none” column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” overflow=”visible” el_class=”entry” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” animation_type=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid” column_padding_type=”default” gradient_type=”default”][vc_custom_heading text=”Transcript” use_theme_fonts=”yes” el_class=”trans-title”][nectar_btn size=”large” button_style=”regular” button_color_2=”Accent-Color” icon_family=”none” nofollow=”true” el_class=”read-it” button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nBob Bertsch: Character strengths are your unique pathways to those positive goals people pursue in life. They can help us amplify positive things in our lives like self-acceptance\, autonomy\, goal progress\, and more. Hi everyone\, this is Bob Bertsch and welcome to this week’s Practicing Connection Practicast where we highlight a specific practice you can use in your life and work. \nIn today’s episode\, we are continuing our conversation about character strengths\, a strengths-based approach to identifying the positive traits behind our thinking\, feeling\, and behaviors. My Practicing Connection co-host\, Jessica Beckendorf\, will be guiding us through a practice for leaning into our character strengths in just a few minutes. First\, let’s explore character strengths a little more. Hi\, Jessica. Can you tell us how leaning into our strengths helps us amplify the positive things in our lives? \nJessica Beckendorf: Of course. Our strengths are so natural to us\, using them just feels right and it gives us energy\, particularly with regard to our top strengths\, those that come easiest to us. One of the best pieces of evidence that I’ve seen about how strengths can amplify the positive things in our lives is actually in workshops I run where I have people bring to mind a character strength that really resonates with them. Then I asked them to imagine that they couldn’t use that strength for a month. \nIf your strength was humor\, you couldn’t make any jokes\, you couldn’t make anyone laugh and you couldn’t find anything amusing at all. What would life be like? How would you feel if you could not use this strength? Most of the answers I get are things like\, life would be depressing. I can tell you the mood of the room shifts and it becomes sad and depressing as well. Most of the answers I get are like\, life would be depressing\, I would feel empty\, or oh\, that would be sad\, very sad\, I would feel sad. \nI have to follow up the activity with something uplifting because it really is such a mood-buster. Just imagining being without one of our top character strengths was literally depressing to people. What if we leaned in even more to understanding and using our strengths? In fact\, researchers have found that simply using one of our top\, or they call it signature\, in a different way every day for a week can increase feelings of happiness and decrease feelings of depression for up to six months. \nAdditionally\, several studies have found connections between employees’ use of their top or signature strengths and higher employee retention and satisfaction. I think one of the keys there is that the employee’s supervisor also needs to recognize the strengths and call them out in the person like\, I see this strength in you. That’s actually part of that besides just the employees being able to use their strengths. \nInterestingly\, many people don’t know their strengths or they don’t recognize them as strengths because they’re just so easy to use for us. There are several areas that character strengths can help us with. That’s why it’s so important for us to recognize this. The areas that they can help us with that produce those positive things is things like they can help us make the most of our talents. Character strengths can be the fuel for how we approach our talents. \nIn one of the character strengths classes I took\, researcher\, Ryan Nemec\, shared that one of the reasons people don’t make the most of their talents is because they haven’t tapped into character yet. Basically\, a lot of us are sitting on untapped potential. Character strengths can help us master skills when we lean into them as an approach to our learning. Start with what’s strong about us and use that to consciously lean into it and help us learn. \nCharacter strengths can also help us connect with others. Developing our ability to spot strengths\, and you can– we have a previous practicast all about how to do this. Developing our ability to spot strengths can help us see\, recognize\, and appreciate people for who they are. How often do we not really see the people that we interact with? Strengths can help us create a moment of connection with them. \nThey can help us explore our interests and what lights us up in new ways. We’ve talked about what lights us up on this podcast a few times. We can ask ourselves if it’s true that love of learning is a top strength for me\, then what else is true? How can I dive into this strength even more? Finally\, they can help us live our values. Think of values as living– values live in our thoughts and feelings\, and character strengths live in your thoughts\, feelings\, and behavior. They’re the way that you can put action behind your values. \nBob: That’s awesome and really\, really helpful. It seems like we’re only talking about the positive\, but maybe this is just reflecting my character strengths somewhere. I’m always thinking\, “Well\, what about the negative\, right?” If there are character strengths we aren’t particularly strong in\, aren’t those weaknesses that we should be strengthening? Is that how to look at it? \nJessica: Human beings really do love thinking about and improving on our weaknesses. Self-acceptance is really hard. I say that because the strengths that don’t come as naturally to us\, those that are close to the bottom of the list\, if you took the VIA Classification Survey. You could think of those strengths at the bottom of the list as strengths that you already possess\, but they take a little more thought or energy to express. \nOur character strengths tend to be somewhat stable\, but they are capable of changing. If there is a strength that you want to work more on\, any strength\, you can. I think what you want to avoid is living in all of the strengths that are difficult for you\, those at the bottom of your list. You don’t want to live there for too long. You want to also really be leaning into your strengths that come naturally to you. \nI think where strengths can end up being a bit of a challenge though\, doesn’t necessarily lie in how low the strength is on our list\, but actually more in whether we might be overusing or underusing a strength\, even a top strength for us. What we’re really seeking is balance to avoid overusing or underusing strengths. I think that’s where we have more challenges. \nLet me explain that a little bit. Underuse is an overall loss of awareness\, like we’re on autopilot. It can also stem from a fear of bringing our best selves forward as well\, like a lack of courage. Overuse is a lack of perspective. We get lost in the strength. If humor is a strength\, you’re making inappropriate jokes at funerals\, you’re overusing that strength. While there’s an assessment to help us determine our character strengths\, there is no assessment that can help you determine if you’re overusing or underusing a strength. \nSelf-awareness and being mindful of our behaviors and thoughts and feelings will be key here. You can also ask people you trust what they’re observing regarding your behavior\, particularly as it relates to overuse. Underuse is harder for other people to see. What we’re striving for\, again\, is to express the most appropriate combination of character strengths to the most appropriate degree and at the most appropriate time. I know that that sounds complex\, but it’s really not. I think it’s really just a lot of self-awareness on whether you’re overusing or underusing strengths. \nBob: Can you give us an example of how being mindful and aware and leaning into your character strengths has helped you? \nJessica: Yes\, absolutely. It was actually really hard to pick one. As you may have figured out by now through all of our side conversations\, as we’ve been planning for this\, I love talking about character strengths. I would say that overall\, leaning into my character strengths has increased my self-acceptance and my confidence. You and I talk a lot\, Bob\, about how important knowing ourselves is. What good is knowing yourself if you’re not accepting and loving who you are as well? \nI have found character strengths to be a way for me to focus those efforts of self-acceptance\, which has had effects on my confidence and just being able to show up\, pretty authentically or just plain authentically. I also just like myself better. Noticing strengths in others has helped me approach them with more empathy and telling them about the strengths that I’m noticing in them has helped me build some trustful relationships and has helped me deepen relationships. I really love validating people and I always go around telling people we need to validate each other more and share the things we appreciate about each other more. \nBob: You have a practice that can help us lean into our strengths\, correct? \nJessica: I do. \nBob: I’d love to hear about it. \nJessica: This is a practice that I have used and gone back to over and over again. Sometimes I’ve used it with strengths that are in my top 10 and other times I’ve done it with strengths in the middle and once or twice I’ve done it with strengths that are at the bottom. For this purpose\, I would love for you to choose a strength that’s in your top 7-10 and I would really start there. The next time you do it\, I wouldn’t go right down to the bottom again. I would keep choosing different strengths that are in your top 7-10. \nWhen I say top 7-10\, if you didn’t take the VIA Character Strengths Assessment\, that’s okay. You can also take a strength that you know you have or a strength that you listed during the You at Your Best activity in the previous Practicast. I want you to choose a strength and reflect on all the ways you already use that strength. If you’re making a physical list\, set a timer for no more than 10 minutes. \nOnce you’ve got a list in your mind or on paper\, I want you to brainstorm at least seven new ways to use that strength. If you’re having trouble thinking of this\, you can find a resource for this for all of the different VIA Character Strengths at a link we’ll provide in the show notes. It’s a resource that has a list of different ways that you can use the strengths. \nThe reason I asked you to brainstorm at least seven new ways to use that strength is because you are going to use that strength in a different way every day for a week. Include some new ways of doing it that you have not already tried or that you haven’t tried in a long time. You can either reflect daily or at the end of the week or both. I recommend both\, but I know people are busy. Reflect on how it felt to use this strength mindfully every day. That’s it. \nBob: Thanks so much for guiding us through that. \nJessica: You are so welcome. I really have used this activity over and over again and every single time I find it really helpful. \nBob: That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the Share button in your podcast app and share it with a friend. We’ll be back next week with a practice for finding balance within your strengths. Until then\, keep practicing. \nAnnouncer: The Practicing Connection Podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense under award numbers 2019-48770-30366\, and 2023-48770-41333. \n[music]\n[00:13:07] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Finding Your Strengths
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19) \nFinding your character strengths can help improve your life and emotional well-being\, as well as meet the challenges and difficulties you are facing. \nSome frameworks and assessments for identifying our strengths focus on workplace performance\, but Character Strengths can be applied to any situation\, leading to positive emotions\, engagement\, meaning\, positive relationships\, and accomplishment. \nIn this episode\, Jessica Beckendorf tells us more about Character Strengths and guides us through a practice to help us find our strengths. \nLinks \n\nThe VIA Classification of Character Strengths and Virtues\nLeveraging Your Character Strengths to Live a Life of Meaning (Army Directorate of Prevention\, Readiness and Resilience)\nListening for Strengths and Values (Practicing Connection podcast)\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” 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Hi\, everyone. This is Bob Bertsch\, and welcome to this week’s Practicing Connection Practicast\, where we highlight a specific practice you can use in your life and work. Some frameworks and assessments for identifying our strengths focus on workplace performance\, but character strengths can be applied to really any situation\, leading to positive emotions\, engagement\, meaning\, positive relationships\, and accomplishment. My Practicing Connection co-host\, Jessica Beckendorf\, will be guiding us through a practice connected to character strengths in just a few minutes. First\, let’s learn more about them. Hi\, Jessica. Can you help us understand what character strengths are? \nJessica Beckendorf: I will do my best. Yes\, of course I can. Character strengths are the positive traits behind our thinking\, feeling\, and behaviors. They’re a reflection of who we are\, and they produce positive results\, both for ourselves and for others. They’re the traits that we possess\, which contribute to the collective good\, in other words. It’s a strengths-based approach\, pun intended\, to understanding what’s best about ourselves and what’s best about human beings in general. \nThe research on character strengths really took off in the 1990s to 2000s with researchers Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman\, who led 55 scientists on the collaborative development of the VIA Character Survey\, which we’ll provide access to in the show notes. These scientists spoke to many thousands of people across the globe\, even speaking with people in some of the most remote regions\, in order to ensure that they captured the traits that would be recognized and understood by all. \nWhat they found were a collection of 24 strengths that were organized into six virtues. There’s the virtue of wisdom\, which includes the strengths of creativity\, curiosity\, judgment\, love of learning\, and perspective. There’s the virtue of courage\, which includes the strengths of bravery\, perseverance\, honesty\, and zest. The virtue of humanity\, which includes the strengths of love\, kindness\, and social intelligence. Justice\, which includes the strengths of teamwork\, fairness\, and leadership. The virtue of temperance\, which includes forgiveness\, humility\, prudence\, and self-regulation as strengths. The virtue of transcendence\, which includes the strengths of appreciation of beauty and excellence\, gratitude\, hope\, humor\, and spirituality. \nCharacter strengths\, the strengths themselves\, are like the pathways to the virtues. I personally think that this is a great frame to reflect on our strengths. For example\, if humor is one of your top strengths\, how does your expression of it contribute to the virtue of transcendence? Thinking about and reflecting on that. \nA quick note about character strengths before we move on to the next question. One of the most interesting things to me is that we don’t express a strength in isolation of our other strengths. Because of this\, the same strength is going to show up differently in different people. Two people with the same strength are going to use it differently. I know I just said that two different ways\, the same thing two different ways\, and I did that on purpose because we want to organize people into neat little boxes. You really can’t do that with character strengths. \nBob: How can exploring our character strengths help us find meaning in our lives? \nJessica: On this very podcast\, we have talked about how important knowing ourselves is to our own wellbeing\, but also how knowing ourselves helps us to build relationships and contribute to collaborative work. Understanding our character strengths is one really excellent way of knowing ourselves and nurturing our character strengths is an excellent way of living authentically. \nLeaning into the capacities\, our character strengths\, that come naturally to us and give us energy and doing it in a mindful way\, meaning that we’re aware of our strengths and how we’re using them\, is a really powerful way to find meaning day to day and even moment to moment. Leaning into our strengths and using them in different ways has also been linked to lasting positive impacts of feelings of happiness and our overall wellbeing. \nCharacter strengths can help us see\, appreciate\, and be grateful for what is best in ourselves and others. When times are challenging\, character strengths can help us focus on what’s right with us instead of engaging in loads and loads of self-criticism\, which I have been guilty of. \nBob: I think\, we both have been guilty of that over time. I’m sure many of our listeners as well. We mentioned before that character strengths are a little bit different than maybe some of the other strengths frameworks that we’ve been exposed to over the years. How are they different than strengths and other frameworks and assessments? \nJessica: I really appreciate this question because I’ve taught on character strengths as well as other strengths models. The thing I appreciate about character strengths is that they are the positive traits that make up being human. They resonate across cultures and geographies. I’ve noticed that some of the other models that I teach on\, all of them very good\, by the way\, they’re just different and they have different focuses. Anyway\, some of these models feel more like they were designed for improving productivity in American or European office teams. \nThat’s a perfectly fine use for strengths. It’s just a different purpose. To me\, it doesn’t get to a person’s core the same way character strengths does. If authentic living\, working and being is important to us\, then let’s go for it with something like character strengths. \nBob: That sounds really awesome and I’m anxious to get into it a little bit. Could you walk us through the practices that you have to share with us today? \nJessica: Yes\, of course. I brought two. The first one is a practice that’s used quite frequently. In fact\, if you search for “You at your best\,” you will find the Greater Good Science Center has a practice for it\, VIA Character has a practice for it\, and you’ll find all kinds of different versions of it. This is a really great activity to get started with identifying your strengths. You don’t even have to have taken an assessment to do this. You can just do it right now. You can do it right now as I speak. \nFor this\, you’ll want to grab maybe a pen or pencil or paper\, an app that you like to take notes in\, just some sort of note taking device or devices\, because I want you to write about a situation when you were at your best. This is a true story\, not one that you’re making up. This is not thinking about what your ideal day would be if it were to happen. This is thinking in the past about a situation when you were at your best. Your performance was strong. Maybe you were thinking and feeling and acting at a high level. You really felt like your authentic self. You were being who you are. \nOnce you’ve written that out\, I’m going to want you to go back to it\, reread it\, and circle the words and phrases that reflect character strengths. How many show up? Which ones are showing up? Are they strengths that you feel really connected to? Are they strengths that you felt like you needed to overcome that’s not easy for you to use? You might want to print a copy of the list of VIA strengths just to make this task a little bit easier\, which we’ll link to in the show notes. \nWrite out that situation when you were at your best\, and I want you to write in as much detail as possible. Reread and circle the words and phrases that reflect the strengths you see. This should help you begin to see where your strengths support your authenticity and how they show up in moments when you’re at your best. \nThe second practice I have for you is\, if you’re curious\, this is a bonus practice\, take the free VIA Character Strengths Assessment at viacharacter.org\, and that’s V-I-A-character.org. You’ll be prompted to set up an account with them\, just like we have to at pretty much every website we visit. After taking the assessment\, you’ll notice that there’s a paid report you can get\, but you really only need the free one for this exercise. It’s up to you. \nThen when you get your report\, reflect on your top seven\, I would say\, your top seven strengths\, the middle 12 and the bottom five. Here are the questions that I would recommend you use when you reflect. What strikes you the most? I might even say what disappoints you the most? \nThere’s not a lot of disappointments so much when I have had people take this assessment. I have seen disappointments with other assessments I’ve had people take\, but this one I haven’t seen quite so much. People often seem to think that it does reflect who they are. I will personally share that I was disappointed in some of those strengths that we have to use on a day-to-day basis like perseverance and prudence and self-regulation. Those are low on my list. [chuckles] I’ve been fighting it my whole life. \nWhat strikes you the most? Does the report reflect the real you? What insights show up for you? What questions does it raise? As you read\, do you find that you’re critical of the results? Which is what I just described to you. Do you find that you’re critical of the results or of yourself? Do you focus on what is strongest\, or are you focusing on what’s low on the list? What’s less strong for you? Do you have a different reaction? \nBob: Thanks so much for sharing those with us today\, Jessica. \nJessica: You’re welcome. I could talk about strengths all day long. \nBob: That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode\, click the share button in your podcast app and share it with a friend or send them the link\, oneop.org/podcast. We’ll be back next week with a practice for leaning into your character strengths. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nJessica: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, U.S. Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, U.S. Department of Defense under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[00:12:37] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Rooted in Resilience: Cultivating Well-Being in Individuals with Disabilities
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Discover how gardens\, thoughtfully designed\, can serve as therapeutic havens\, promoting physical\, emotional\, cognitive and social well-being. Learn about the wide-ranging benefits of gardening\, from sensory stimulation to stress reduction\, and explore practical insights on creating sensory-rich gardens that cater to varying abilities. The presenter will delve into the therapeutic benefits of gardens and gardening\, the principles of garden design for accessibility\, and the importance of creating safe and welcoming environments for all. Gain valuable guidance on initiating and managing community garden projects\, securing funding\, and garnering support within military installations and communities. \nWhether you’re a military service provider\, a family support professional\, or simply passionate about enhancing the well-being of individuals with disabilities\, this webinar will equip you with the knowledge and tools to make a meaningful impact. Uncover the potential for growth\, healing\, and connection that lies within the world of therapeutic horticulture. Join us for “Rooted in Resilience” and be inspired to create nurturing environments where individuals with disabilities can thrive and flourish. 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Dr. Wu brings a wealth of expertise in research\, teaching\, and extension across the interdisciplinary spectrum of science\, art\, business\, technology\, and human aspects in horticulture. Currently\, her projects focus on people-plant interactions\, and health and well-being benefits of plants. Having earned her doctoral degree in 2020\, Dr. Wu embarked on a groundbreaking initiative by co-founding the Horticultural Options in Plant Sciences (HOPS) program—a visionary post-secondary certification program. 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SUMMARY:Networks for Military Family Support with Amy Rodick
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el_class=”pod-trans”][music]\nKalin Goble: Welcome to Practicing Connection\, a podcast exploring the personal stories and collective practices that empower us to work together to improve our resilience and readiness in a rapidly changing world. Here to start the conversation are Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch. \nBob Bertsch: Hi\, welcome to the Practicing Connection podcast. I’m Bob Bertsch. \nJessica Beckendorf: I’m Jessica Beckendorf. \nBob: Our guest today is Ms. Amy Rodick\, Director of the Office of Military Family Readiness and Policy for the Department of Defense. As Director\, Amy is responsible for leadership\, management\, and oversight of programs affecting military families\, including military spouse career advancement\, military family life learning\, and the Office of Special Needs. \nJessica: Amy has 19 years of operations and program management experience as a civil servant in active duty military officer. She’s an Army veteran and a current military spouse\, well-versed in the many benefits and challenges of military life. We are honored to be able to welcome her to the podcast. Hi\, Amy. Thank you for your service and for joining us on our Practicing Connection podcast. \nAmy Rodick: Good morning. Thank you so much. I’m happy to be here. \nJessica: Amy\, you have a wealth of experience\, but what led you to your work with the Office of Military Family Readiness and Policy? \nAmy: I\, as an Army veteran\, as you mentioned\, and current active duty spouse\, and mother of four\, [chuckles] really military family readiness policy is at the very core of who I am personally and professionally. \nBob: Can you tell us more\, Amy\, about how the Office of Military Family Readiness and Policy contributes to military family readiness overall? \nAmy: I would love to\, yes. Actually\, our office\, as well as the entire DoD team\, I would say\, is committed to military family readiness. What does that mean? It means helping members and families to be prepared to face the challenges that military life often throws at you\, and that’s through building skills such as\, knowledge\, awareness of support and resources\, and putting all of those things into action to enhance their own personal readiness and overall well-being. \nJessica: We know that family readiness and resilience can be complex. How does the DoD go about addressing that complexity? \nAmy: I’ll tell you\, they have tried to address it through multiple angles. I think the first step is really recognizing that they do have these complex needs\, which can’t be addressed with just one program or service. It’s really the landscape of all programs\, services\, and communities to help build the support around military families to enhance their readiness and resilience. \nWe really do need that network of support and services to address those needs\, so we do a lot to ensure that programs and services take a holistic approach to identifying these needs\, and of course\, we value the collaboration and partnership of the other stakeholders that we work with\, such as our federal partners\, like the VA\, the Department of Labor\, or community agencies such as the American Red Cross\, local school boards\, or Chambers of Commerce\, but we really see that military family readiness is critical to national security because it enables mission readiness. By ensuring the service members and their families have support and resources they need\, we take care of the entire family unit. \nBob: Amy\, it sounds like you’re describing the Military Family Readiness System. I’m just wondering\, as an entity\, and\, the Military Family Readiness System exists in policy\, how does it impact the work of military family service providers? \nAmy: The term Military Family Readiness System is used in our policy\, as you mentioned\, but people don’t really understand the practical application or what that looks like in everyday life. It’s really not a specific entity\, but it’s more of a framework or an ecosystem\, if you will. You can’t just walk into a military family readiness office. It’s not really a tangible thing\, but really it’s\, like I said\, the ecosystem that surrounds the military service members and their families that provides the support that’s really so critical to that readiness and resilience we just mentioned. \nAs many of us know\, who are familiar with the military lifestyle\, it does present unique challenges\, such as relocation\, deployment\, high stress levels\, high operational demands\, transition with children and schools\, which I have experienced firsthand\, and the constant\, uncertainty of what the next week will look like for you or your family. The DoD really has widened its aperture and recognizes that not one single program or service can address those needs. It really does take that ecosystem within the Military Family Readiness System to provide that support. \nOf course\, we have\, resources such as Military OneSource to include military installations and some of the other support services that are housed on Military OneSource\, but really\, what we’re trying to encourage and trying to inform people and educate folks is that the Military Family Readiness System is really the promotion and the integration of all these services when possible\, and collaboration and partnerships that support the military family. It’s really the act of enabling service providers to meet service members and families where they are with the appropriate resources to address the different dimensions of the issue at hand. \nJessica: I love the description you used of ecosystem. I’ve also described it as like a network of networks\, but I think ecosystem is probably a much better encapsulated word for this. You started to touch on this a little bit. The DoD instruction on military family readiness states that the MFRS\, the Military Family Readiness System\, must among other things\, link informal networks like family\, friends\, neighbors\, the people that are around you\, and formal networks like schools\, and faith based organizations\, medical organizations\, professionals in the community. Why is that important and how do you think service providers can help in linking those networks? \nAmy: It’s a great question. When we think down to the simplest terms and the most common concepts of informal networks\, it’s really your friends and your community. We want people to think about the Military Family Readiness System in a more local manner. It’s not so much the DoD or these federal agencies\, or these big government\, but it’s as important\, and as essential\, and as useful and effective looking at it from the local level. Then those formal networks are your programs and services. \nWhen you think about it\, one of the examples that we wanted to highlight is like when you move to a new location\, you’re a military family\, you pick up about every two years\, the ecosystem or support network that you’ve established at one location now becomes dissolved as you move to another location. There’s a lot of different things that you have to coordinate as a military family for each one of those moves\, trying to establish medical care providers\, trying to get enrolled and informed about the schools within your area\, not to mention jobs for military spouses\, which can be significantly disrupted through all those moves as well. \nWhen you move\, you’re starting out at zero and where you may make some informal connections prior to making that physical move\, it really is a challenge to create some of those more formal networks until you’re physically in place. The Internet and virtual resources are\, of course\, helpful\, but it’s that in-person equity\, it’s that crowdsourcing\, it’s that spouse-to-spouse referral\, or family-to-family referral that really makes the most impact for military families when they move\, and really that is what encompasses this Military Family Readiness System. It’s the combination of those informal networks\, like we mentioned\, the friends and community and as well as combining some of those more formal networks. \nBob: Amy\, with that in mind\, what advice do you have for service providers who are looking to link those formal and informal networks and engage with the Military Family Readiness System? \nAmy: Thank you for that question as well. I think sometimes when we think about this Military Family Readiness System\, we think about it being this very large ecosystem\, but really when you try to scale it down to just the local level\, you realize you’re not alone. You realize\, “I am a part of a larger system\,” but the responsibility for solving some of these issues does not rest solely on you or a program\, but there’s a whole network of resources that are ready within the Military Family Readiness System to support you and your family. You just have to access them and you have to engage in your community to be informed about what resources are available. People are so willing to help\, and especially those who are military connected\, they want to provide support to families\, they just don’t always identify themselves. I would say\, the solution\, again\, is not at the DoD\, federal\, or service level\, but I really do think of it more as a local solution. I would encourage people to be curious about the military population within your community. There’s probably a military-connected family within your neighborhood. It doesn’t have to be installation-based. \nI think sometimes we’re wrapped up in that installation-based military family\, but we have so many more military families and service members who are geographically dispersed\, who aren’t necessarily assigned to a specific installation. We also have our Reserve and National Guard service members and their families who are in your communities. That’s the whole idea\, so how do we go and support them as service providers\, as community members\, in support of the Military Family Readiness System? Be curious and engage. \nJessica: Amy\, what personal practices might you have that help with your own readiness and resilience? \nAmy: One personal practice that I employ is that I don’t give up. I’m not scared by administrative tasks\, that’s the other thing. As a military spouse\, when you move\, you can’t let the administrivia intimidate you\, enrolling children in school\, enrolling in the child development centers\, re-establishing healthcare. I try to just pace myself without trying to become completely overwhelmed\, and at the point of feeling overwhelmed\, which can happen to the best of us\, I take a knee. I take a knee and I just regroup\, set some additional tasks again\, just incrementally\, and then I say\, “Look\, it may not be on my timeline\, but everything will get done.” \nThat’s my mantra just in life and I’m being very honest here. [chuckles] Even in my day-to-day with my family and work schedule\, my mantra is\, it may not be done on my timeline\, but everything will get done. You just keep on pushing through and it will get done. When it does\, you’re like\, “Okay\, I’m onto the next thing.” You just keep on going\, but every once in a while\, taking that\, what we call the tactical pause\, taking that tactical pause\, take a knee\, regroup yourself as you need so that you don’t become completely overwhelmed. Then just set those little tasks leading you into forward movement all over again because it can be daunting. \nThen knowing that there’s resources out there to help you\, if at some point taking that knee and thinking about those next steps is not working for you\, realize there’s other resources out there that you can tap into to get you over that hurdle. I mentioned Military OneSource. We also have amazing non-clinical counseling services through our Military Family Life Counselor Program\, which is amazing\, and I’ve used them. \nWe have the customer as well and they’re extremely helpful. Again\, just to get you through a potential impasse or current impasse that you may be experiencing in your personal life because it is hard. It really is\, but at the end of the day\, nothing that’s worth doing isn’t hard. You just keep on pushing through and you’ll get to the other side\, it’s all good. \nBob: Amy Rodick is Director of the Office of Military Family Readiness and Policy for the Department of Defense. Amy\, thank you so much for joining us. \nAmy: Thank you for having me. It was a pleasure. \nJessica: 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. \nBob: We’d like to thank our co-producer\, Coral Owen\, our announcer\, Kalin Goble\, Maggie Lucas\, and Meisenbach for their help with marketing\, and Nathan Grimm\, who composed and performed all the music you hear on the podcast. We’ll be back next week with a new practicast on exploring your character strengths. Until then\, keep practicing. \n[music]\nKalin: The Practicing Connection Podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense\, under award numbers 2019-48770-30366\, and 2023-48770-41333. \n[00:15:02] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Food Allergies: An Overview and Update
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attendees will be able to: \n\nDefine food allergy and distinguish between food allergy and other adverse reactions to foods.\nDescribe the US food allergen labeling laws and how to identify allergens in the food supply.\nIdentify the evidenced-based approaches to complementary feeding in infancy\, which reduce the risk of developing food allergy.\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” 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SUMMARY:Holding Space for New Possibilities
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el_class=”trans-title”][vc_column_text](Season 5\, Episode 17) \nThis is the third is a series of three practicasts centered around “holding space\,” a concept we learned from Heather Plett\, author of “The Art of Holding Space.” Our co-creator for this series was our OneOp colleague\, Kristen Jowers. \nIn this episode\, Bob Bertsch shares a practice for letting go of something in order to let something new emerge. \nLinks\n\n“What is Holding Space?” – Centre for Holding Space\n\nHeather Plett: On Holding Space and Mutual Liberation (S.3\, Ep.5) \n\n\n“A Brief History of My Blackout Poems” by Austin Kleon \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 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button_id=”read-it” text=”Read More” url=”#trans”][vc_column_text el_class=”pod-trans”][music] \nKristen Jowers: New possibilities are opportunities or potential outcomes that arise from changes\, innovation\, or exploration\, expanding the realm of what can be imagined or achieved. Hi everyone\, this is Kristen Jowers\, guest host for today’s practice. Welcome to this week’s Practicing Connection Practicast\, where we highlight a specific practice you can use in your life and work. In this month’s practicast\, we’ve been talking about different ways to hold space for others. \nHolding space refers to the act of being fully present with someone else without judgment or distraction so that the person can share their experiences and perspective. Bob Bertsch will be guiding us through the practice to help us hold space for new possibilities in a few minutes\, but first\, let’s learn more about it. Hi\, Bob. What does it mean to hold space for new possibilities? \nBob Bertsch: Hi Kristen\, thank you so much for guest hosting and for giving me the opportunity to talk about this. As you mentioned before\, holding space is about being present without judgment so that experiences and perspectives can be shared. Most times when we’re talking about holding space\, we’re doing those things for someone else or even for ourselves. When we’re holding space for new possibilities\, however\, we’re focused not on people but more on the potential for change. \nWhen there’s a potential for change\, we’re in what’s called liminal space\, and that’s a place of transition between where we’ve been and where we’re going or between who we are and who we’re becoming. We’re on the threshold of something new in that space\, but we’re not quite there yet. Understanding liminal space is important when we’re holding space for others because that’s often the space that we’re holding for them. In her book\, The Art of Holding Space\, Heather Plett describes liminal space as the space where something\, “Has dissolved and a new thing has not yet emerged to take its place.” \nWhen people are experiencing some kind of loss and waiting for the next thing to emerge\, we can hold that space for them or help them hold that space so they have the time and support to let that thing emerge instead of clinging to what was before or rushing forward toward things that may mitigate their pain but delay the transition. Let’s think about holding liminal space in the context of any work you’re doing or have done. There’s times when something important in our work\, maybe a process we’ve used or a concept that we’ve relied on\, or maybe a core value that we’ve realized is not just as important as we thought it was when that thing dissolves. \nOur instinct is often to rush to replace it instead of holding that liminal space\, the space that we need for new possibilities to emerge. If we can be more comfortable in that liminal space and learn to hold it\, then new possibilities will have the chance to emerge. They could be possibilities that just wouldn’t have happened if we skipped over that place of uncertainty\, that liminal space. \nKristen: When I hear you describe new possibilities\, I think that sounds really exciting\, but I like certainty and not knowing can be a really uncomfortable place for me. Why is it so hard? \nBob: It’s definitely difficult because we just don’t like uncertainty\, any of us. Like our relations in the animal kingdom\, humans are afraid of uncertainty. In an uncertain situation\, we will try really almost anything to make things more predictable\, including replacing one broken process with another so we can get out of that uncertain liminal space. If we can see liminal space as a space for creation\, I think we can balance the fear of that uncertainty with hope and excitement for the possibilities of what is about to emerge. \nWhile that’s helpful to think about those new possibilities with hope and excitement\, we also need to be aware that there are cultural norms of efficiency and productivity that are constantly pushing us to move faster and skip over that liminal space. We can’t forget that we’re people as we’re operating within this liminal space. That means that on some level\, we’re probably also grieving the loss of what came before. That might sound a little bit weird when we’re talking about a process\, but there is going to be some sense of loss and grief even if that something that is dissolving is something that we all agree was not working.. With all of that going on\, we need to counterbalance that by being very mindful and intentional about holding onto that liminal space and letting new things emerge. \nKristen: I really appreciate how you punctuate that grief process. How do you decide who holds space and who takes up the space and how do I hold space when no one else in the room is? \nBob: That’s a great question. It’s definitely a challenge to hold liminal space in a group. I don’t know if it is possible for one person alone to hold space for a whole group\, like a team\, for instance. First\, let go of any expectation that you might be putting on yourself to hold that space alone for your whole team or organization. That’s a lot of pressure to put on yourself\, and I think we have to let that go. \nThat said\, if the group as a whole is familiar with the concept of holding space and committed to holding space for each other\, I think they can hold space for new possibilities even when a particular group member might want to move ahead. When that’s happening\, a group can hold space for the member who’s experiencing that fear. It takes some empathy to do that and recognition that way we’re all subject to feeling that way and feeling that fear of uncertainty\, and so if the group as a whole can hold space for that person\, it can be really effective. \nIf you’re in a group that hasn’t developed that shared commitment to holding space\, recognize it’s not your responsibility to hold that space for the whole group alone\, but you can still hold space for new possibilities in your own mind. You can offer new directions for the group if you do it with compassion and empathy. You can point out when the group might be clinging to something that has already dissolved\, and you might suggest pausing a conversation when things might be rushing toward a quick fix by just saying something like\, “Hey\, maybe we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Could we take a breath and just think about what might be possible.” \nIf you express that you feel like something new could emerge\, if the group’s willing to hold that space\, it might allow the group to join with you in allowing it to do so. \nKristen: Let’s get started. Please walk us through the practice. \nBob: The practice I want to share helps us hold space for new possibilities by getting us used to letting something go and seeing something new emerge. It was inspired by Heather Plett’s personal practice of painting on the same canvas over and over again. Each time she’s covering up something that she created\, something that might be beautiful or valuable to her\, she’s covering that up with something new. \nHeather’s practice reminded me of Austin Kleon’s blackout poetry. What Austin does with blackout poetry is he lets poems emerge from the words in newspaper articles. The practice today\, we’re going to create a blackout poem\, but if we do it with a newspaper\, I don’t think we’re going to get the full effect because there’s no reason for us to want to cling onto a newspaper article\, so we want to get that idea of letting go of something and taking some liminal space to let something new emerge. \nThe first step in the practice is going to be for you to find a piece of writing that has some value to you. My first thought was a page from a book that I love\, but you could also use something that you wrote yourself or something that was written for you\, like a letter. I think it’s best to do this with a printed copy rather than electronically because we want that little sense of loss. \nA note that this is a practice\, we don’t want to have really\, really high stakes\, at least at the start\, so you might not want to choose your first edition copy of Walden Pond or the letter your great-grandpa wrote to your great-grandma during World War II. We want to choose something that you value\, but something that you can bear to let go of. Now that you have your piece of writing that we’re going to use\, next you’re going to need a pen or a fine-tipped marker\, so we want something that we can make some fine lines with. \nThen we also want a broad-tipped marker\, something that we can use to black out the words. If your piece of writing has multiple pages\, like a book\, randomly choose a page\, and then we’re going to scan the page and just note any words or short phrases that stand out to us by drawing a box around them with our pen or fine-tipped marker. Make sure that we’re scanning the page\, not reading it. We’re not seeking the meaning of what’s already written. We’re trying to create something new. Once you have some words or phrases selected that stand out to you\, and you’ve drawn the box around them\, you can start to look for other words that might help connect them into a poem. Here’s an example. Austin Kleon’s got a blackout poem. It’s called Overheard on the Titanic. The main words and phrases that I’m guessing Austin boxed first\, the ones that stood out to him was the sentence\, “I mean yes\, we’re sinking\,” the word music\, and the word exceptional. Those are the things that probably stuck out to him initially. \nThen he found connecting words to turn that into a poem. The connecting words he found are but\, the\, and is. The poem ends up reading like this. “I mean yes\, we’re sinking\, but the music is exceptional.” You see how that works. We get our big words\, then we can use some connecting words to tie it all together. If you’re having any trouble visualizing this\, check out the show notes for this episode at oneop.org/podcast. We’ll put a link there to Austin Kleon’s video on how to do blackout poetry. \nNow we’ve drawn our boxes around our main words and phrases and our connecting words. They all read the way that we want them to. We’ve connected them all together. We’ve made a little poem. The next step is to take your broad tipped marker and black out all the other words on the page so that all that remains readable are the words that you drew boxes around. This is part of like Heather’s painting over. If we just drew boxes around the words in our book\, for instance\, we might not have really made anything new and we really haven’t let go of that page. \nWe could still read that page just like we read it without the boxes around the words. Once we black out all the other words\, we’re really creating something new and letting go of something old. Then once you’ve blacked out those words\, that’s it. That’s your blackout poem. You’ve let go of something that you valued and held the space necessary for something new to emerge. If you’d like\, take a photo of your blackout poem\, share it with friends\, or you can post it to the Practicing Connection community on LinkedIn\, and that’ll give you an opportunity to share your experience and reflect on how it felt to hold space for new possibilities. \nKristen: That’s wonderful\, Bob. Thank you for guiding us through. \nBob: You’re welcome. \nKristen: That’s it for this episode. Thanks for joining us. We hope you’ll give this practice a try and share your experience\, as Bob said\, in the Practicing Connection LinkedIn group where people supporting military families practice the skills that empower us to work together so that we can positively impact our communities and help families thrive. You’ll find that link to the group on our website at oneop.org/practicingconnection. We’ll be back next week with an in-depth episode discussing how to watch for opportunities to think big\, one of the eight ways of cultivating community resilience that we identified in our Connecting Communities in Asset Based Community Recovery project. Until then\, keep practicing. \nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of One Op and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense\, under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[music] \n[00:14:00] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:Harmony of Expression: Exploring Social and Emotional Development in Middle Childhood Through Expressive Art Approaches
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Presenters will focus on the principles\, foundations\, and evidence-base of expressive art approaches\, including techniques for fostering self-awareness\, empathy\, and interpersonal skills. Participants will also discover how art-based methods facilitate self-expression and communication and how those methods can be applied even by those with limited background in art therapy. \nLearning Objectives: \nIn this webinar we will:\n1. Identify at least one social and emotional challenge faced by individuals during middle childhood (6-12 years old) relating to issues of transition\, grief\, and loss.\n2. Gain an introductory understanding of the potential of artistic expression to support youth social and emotional development.\n3. Describe at least one principle of art-based work and its effectiveness in addressing emotional regulation\, identity formation\, and relational dynamics.\n4. 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His research centers on enhancing social-emotional learning across K-12 populations. Dr. Tan collaborates closely with parents\, educators\, and school administrators to promote youth identity\, agency\, and a sense of belonging in support of positive youth development.[/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=”1/6″ 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=”167172″ 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=”5/6″ 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=”Felicia Li\, MSW\, LCSW” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:25|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][vc_column_text]Felicia Li is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of clinical experience. Her direct service experience with children and youth at an urban residential mental health facility sparked her realization of the transformative power of engaging young individuals through the creative process. Specializing in Expressive Arts Therapy\, Felicia is passionate about its ability to facilitate emotional exploration beyond verbal communication\, catering to individuals of all artistic levels.[/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” text=”Continuing Education” url=”https://auburn.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eyrHHPWxQMGNoai”][vc_column_text]\n\nCertified Family Life Educators: This webinar has been approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the National Council on Family Relations Eligibility for CE credit will close on 4/18/27\nCertified in Family and Consumer Sciences (CFCS): This webinar has been 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 4/18/26\nSocial Workers\, Licensed Professional Counselors\, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists:  This webinar has been approved for 1.5 continuing education (CE) credits from the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work. Check with your state licensing agency for reciprocity and/or credit approval if licensed for other professions or in one of the following states: CO\, FL\, HI\, IA\, KS\, KY\, MI\, NY\, ND\, OH\, OK. 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SUMMARY:Holding Space for Grief
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a series of three practicasts centered around “holding space\,” a concept we learned from Heather Plett\, author of “The Art of Holding Space.” Our co-creator for this series was our OneOp colleague\, Kristen Jowers. \n(Season 5\, Episode 16) \nIn this episode\, Kristen Jowers shares two practices to help us prepare to hold space for someone experiencing grief. \nLinks \n\n“What is Holding Space?” – Centre for Holding Space\n\nHeather Plett: On Holding Space and Mutual Liberation (S.3\, Ep.5) \n\nHolding Space for Difference (S.5\, Ep. 15)\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” 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\nJessica Beckendorf: All of us experience grief and loss. Having someone hold space for us during a difficult time can be just the balm we need. Being able to hold space for someone else is a skill we can all develop. Hi\, everyone\, this is Jessica Beckendorf and welcome to this week’s Practicing Connection Practicast where we highlight a specific practice you can use in your life and work. In this month’s Practicast\, we’ve been talking about different ways to hold space for others. \nHolding space refers to the act of being fully present with someone else\, without judgment or distraction\, so that the person can share their experiences and perspective. We have a special guest today\, Kristen Jowers. Kristen joined the OneOp team in 2023 as a program coordinator. With more than 8 years working in higher education\, Kristen uses her background in psychology\, child development\, and marriage and family therapy to enhance her work at the University of Kentucky. \nPart of her personal development goals this year include getting out of her comfort zone and leaning into new experiences\, like doing this Practicast. Kristen enjoys reading\, resting\, and can be found taking pictures of her dog Copper\, the Basset Hound\, who is\, I can confirm\, incredibly adorable. Kristen will be guiding us through the practice in a few minutes\, but first let’s learn more about it. Hi\, Kristen. \nKristen Jowers: Hey\, Jessica\, thanks for having me on. I am a long-time listener and first-time contributor\, so thanks for having me on to talk about holding space for grief. Before we jump in\, I did want to provide a quick content note as this episode discusses death\, grief\, and loss. We encourage listeners to pause or take breaks as needed to take care of yourself. A transcript and other resources are available on our website at oneop.org/podcast. \nJessica: All right\, thank you so much for sharing that. Kristen\, let’s start with talking about what grief is. Can you share a little bit about that? \nKristen: Oftentimes\, grief is thought of as the loss of a loved one. Today\, I want to expand that and include grief in the context of major changes like separation and divorce\, natural disasters\, school or job changes\, and illness. Grief is one of those human experiences that comes with living and loving. All of us have experienced or will experience grief at some point in our lives\, and some of us may be living with grief right now. \nYou may have heard of the five stages of grief by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. The stages are denial\, anger\, bargaining\, depression\, and acceptance. They’re often thought of as stages\, but they don’t define a linear process or timeline. The stages of grief are not consecutive\, so you might feel some\, all\, or none of these emotions. There really isn’t a timeline for grief\, and you can intersect with someone at different points in their grieving process. \nJessica: Wow\, I actually didn’t realize that. Maybe if I thought back to the times when I was experiencing grief\, I may have realized this\, but I didn’t realize that you may feel all\, some\, or none of those emotions. I found that to be really interesting. Given that that’s the case\, how can we hold space for people who are experiencing grief? \nKristen: Yes\, Jessica. There’s a lot of different complexities that surround grief and loss\, and so the response is nuanced. Heather Plett describes in her book\, The Art of Holding Space\, a collapsible container or silicone bowl\, like one of those bowls that you’ll take camping or that I take to the dog park with Copper. The bowl can be shallow\, medium\, or deep to fit the size\, space\, and need. \nFor example\, we hold shallow space when someone shares about how tired they are from having a new baby. We hold medium space for when someone shares about how their community has been affected by a natural disaster\, and we hold deep space when someone has lost a loved one. Being the bowl is how you serve when you hold space for others. The container provides protection\, support\, and safety. We help them to see that they’re not alone. \nIn Plett’s words\, we give them space for the waiting that they must do before their new story emerges. \nJessica: Oh\, yes\, because with a lot of grief and loss comes change\, right? What keeps us from holding space for grief? \nKristen: I think there are a lot of reasons this is hard\, Jessica. There’s this delicate balance we all manage as we provide care for each other while taking care of ourselves. Heather Plett talks about emotional labor taking more energy than physical labor sometimes. She talks about telling people when we’re at capacity as a way to communicate when our bowl is full. Another consideration is our own experiences of grief and how that might impact how much space we have in our bowl. \nEven when there is space\, our own fears and discomfort can get in the way. I think sometimes we’re worried about saying or doing the wrong thing\, or feeling like when everything is going wrong for someone else\, it’s uncomfortable for us. Our instinct is to want to fix it for them. \nJessica: Yes\, especially someone we love too\, we want to fix\, we want to make them feel better. Let’s get started. I know you brought a practice or two with you today. Please walk us through them. \nKristen: I’m going to talk about two practices today. The first is keep your ego out of it. With grief\, there can sometimes be this feeling that other people don’t understand what you’re going through. I think it’s really natural to say\, “I’ve been there\, I know what you’re going through.” Even if you have been there\, no two people experience things exactly the same way. You don’t want to claim to know what the other person is feeling or compare your grief to theirs. \nLean into your curiosity about their experience. Ask if they like to talk about it. Sometimes what you say is less important than just being with the person. In The Art of Holding Space\, Heather Plett says that one of the hardest things about holding space is that it can feel like you’re doing nothing. It’s going to sound crazy to say this\, but there is an art to doing nothing when there is nothing to be done. Sometimes just being is enough. \nDon’t be afraid of spending time together in silence. \nJessica: That can be tough for a lot of people. \nKristen: Yes. For the next practice\, I want to introduce the acronym SPACE\, created by Gina Ballard and inspired by the work of Harrison Owen\, author of Open Space Technology and The Power of Spirit. SPACE is something you can remind yourself of as you’re being the container and holding space for someone’s grief. SPACE stands for Safety\, Presence\, Acceptance\, Challenge\, Emptiness. \nS\, Safety. Enhance safety through curiosity and non-judgment. Non-judgment of yourself and the one you’re holding space for. P\, Presence. Use breathwork to become increasingly aware of the present moment. A\, Acceptance. Acceptance looks like being with the person. Sit with what is. C\, Challenge. Remember you’re not there to fix the problem. The challenge or opportunity rather is to be with the person. E\, Emptiness. Allow emptiness and silence without filling the space. \nGrief can evoke a lot of emotions. Anger\, sadness\, powerlessness\, hopelessness\, feeling that life is happening to us. As space holders\, we’re saying we’re here. We’re here to listen\, to support\, to liberate\, to empower. We’re here and you’re safe with us. \nJessica: Wow. That was beautiful. I feel like we should just end the episode on we’re here and you’re safe with us. Thank you so much\, Kristen. Absolutely loved hearing your practices and your perspective today. \nKristen: Thanks for having me on\, Jessica. \nJessica: That is it for this episode. Thanks so much for joining us. We hope you’ll give this practice a try and share your experience in the Practicing Connection LinkedIn group where people supporting military families practice the skills that empower us to work together so that we can positively impact our communities and help families thrives. Certainly the SPACE practice and keeping our egos out of it are both something that will empower us to work together. \nYou’ll find the link to the group on our website at oneop.org/practicingconnection. We’ll be back next week with a practice for holding space for new opportunities. Until then\, keep practicing. \nKalin Goble: The Practicing Connection podcast is a production of OneOp and is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture\, US Department of Agriculture\, and the Office of Military Family Readiness Policy\, US Department of Defense\, under award numbers 2019-48770-30366 and 2023-48770-41333. \n[music] \n[00:11:11] [END OF AUDIO][/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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