Our guest for this episode is Lauren O'Donnell (LinkedIn), a consultant with extensive experience in facilitation, communication, strategic planning, engagement and much more. She’s currently working as a curriculum developer and operations officer at the United States Army War College, where she organized and led the Senior Spouse Leadership Seminar (SSLS).
In this episode, we explore different perspectives on collaboration. Is there a mindset that leads to collaboration? How can we encourage collaborations that create something new? What makes for a good collaboration?
In this episode, we talked to Heather Plett about what it means to practice "holding space" for ourselves and others, what it looks like when we hijack space, how holding space is an act of mutual liberation, and the practice of honoring shared needs and shared responsibility in community.
In this episode, Jessica and Bob discuss the concept of "practicing connection" and the podcast and other programming that have emerged from it.
In this episode, we talked to Bjørn Peterson about bringing clarity, courage and creativity to our relationship practice.
In this episode, we talked to Bjørn Peterson about bringing clarity, courage and creativity to our relationship practice.
For this episode, we talked to Shawn Trenell O'Neal, author of the upcoming MFRA course, "Introduction to Social Justice Lenses for Family Well-Being." Shawn is DJ, musician, and sound engineer, whose PhD research at the University of Colorado - Boulder examines the "processes of colonization and settler colonialism and its effects on cultural components such as visual art and music."
In this episode, we share the year-end reflections of some of our past collaborators. Inspired by our conversation with Bjørn Peterson in a previous episode, we asked our contributors to share something that helped inspire their reflection; a piece of art or poetry, a song, a quote or whatever inspired them. The episode features the reflections of Allison DeMarco, Kalin Goble, Bjørn Peterson, and podcast hosts Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch.
In this episode, hosts Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch explore john Stepper's Working Out Loud framework in the context of building relationships for resilience. Jessica and Bob discuss five elements of Working Out Loud: purposeful discovery, relationships, generosity, visible work, and growth mindset.
In this episode (Season 4, Episode 1), Jessica Beckendorf shares highlights from her conversation with Dr. Ron Avi Astor.
In this episode (Season 4, Episode 2), co-hosts Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch talk with Cathy Marcello about the challenges faced by military families with LGBTQ+ youth and all of us can do to support those families. Cathy leads the MilPride program for the Modern Military Association of America, the nation's largest LGBTQ+ military and veteran non-profit.
In this episode (Season 4, Episode 3), co-hosts Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch talk grounding yourself in your strengths and values - one of the eight ways of cultivating community resilience that we identified in our “Connecting Communities in Asset-based Community Recovery” project.
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