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...
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...
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.
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.
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.
In this episode, we share some of the questions we find most helpful for reflection and our answers to those questions.
In this episode (Season 4, Episode 1), Jessica Beckendorf shares highlights from her conversation with Dr. Ron Avi Astor.
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.
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.
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." His current work is the progression of his own social science theory deemed "Audio Intersectionality."
For this episode, we talked to Allison DeMarco, author of the upcoming MFRA course, "What Can Family Service Providers Do to Recognize and Respond to Inequities?" Allison is an advanced research scientist at Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and adjunct faculty at the School of Social Work at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on racial equity, poverty, neighborhood effects, work and family, and well-being for residents of rural communities.
For this episode, we talked to the authors of the upcoming MFRA course, "Social Justice and Military Families," Eduardo Gonzalez, Jr., Julika von Stackelberg, and Keith Tidball. The course they co-authored addresses the specific work of social justice advocacy among military service providers, in the context of military families and their health and well-being, and examines the concept of belonging and inclusion through a framework of self-care, healing, and resilience..
This material is based upon work 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.
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