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Format: Practicing Connection Podcast

Collaboration

SUBSCRIBE NOW Listen now: About this episode: (Season 1, Episode 2) In this episode, hosts Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch 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? Jessica and...

Community Resilience

SUBSCRIBE NOW Listen now: About this episode: (Season 1, Episode 3) In this episode, hosts Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch collaborate with Danielle Swallow and Chris Petrone of Sea Grant Delaware to explore community resilience in the face of hazards and disasters. Danielle and Chris have been integrating resilience into...

Working Out Loud

SUBSCRIBE NOW Listen now: About this episode (Season 1, Episode 4) 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...

VUCA and VUCA Prime

SUBSCRIBE NOW About this episode (Season 1, Episode 5) In this episode, Karen Pedersen, Dean for Global Campus at Kansas State University, talks about how the VUCA framework (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity) has helped her better understand the world, and how the VUCA Prime framework (vision, understanding, clarity, and...

Practicing Reflection

SUBSCRIBE NOW About this episode (Season 1, Episode 6) In this episode, Jessica and Bob take some time to reflect on 2020 and look forward to 2021, sharing some of the questions they find most helpful for reflection and their answers to those questions. Special thanks to Nathan Grimm, who...

Celebrating (or at least dealing with) Failure

In this episode, Jessica and Bob discuss the idea of "celebrating failure." While we know a healthy attitude towards failure can make us more innovative, failing still feels bad. How can we deal with those feelings and develop a practice helps us deal with failure? Jessica and Bob share some of their ideas.

How Networks Can Help Reduce Stress

In this episode, Naava Frank and Ziva Mann, authors of the article "How to Reduce Stress and Increase Learning: The Power of Professional Networks," join Jessica and Bob to discuss how our network connections can help support us in difficult times.

Warm Collaboration

In this episode, we explore the concept of warm collaboration. In Nora Bateson and Mamphela Ramphele's article "Finding a Way," warm collaboration and warm data are important parts of an approach to environmental and social change centered in relationship. These concepts offer a way of seeing the world that draws on complexity, instead of seeking to simplify. They show us a way of thinking in which people are not numbers and a way of working together in which people are not roles.

Replay of Practicing Reflection

In this episode, we share some of the questions we find most helpful for reflection and our answers to those questions.

Why Knowing Yourself Matters

In this episode (Season 4, Episode 1), Jessica Beckendorf shares highlights from her conversation with Dr. Ron Avi Astor.

Why Knowing Yourself Matters, Pt. 2

In this episode, we continue our discussion self-knowledge with Teresa Curtis and Jessica Jane Spayde. Teresa and Jessica share ideas for getting started on your journey toward self-knowledge.

Questions for Reflection

For our final episode of Season 2, we asked two of our guests from the past year to share one of their favorite year-end reflection questions and their response to that question with all of us.