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#14: Rich Bartlett — Micro-solidarity, Growing Up and Reconditioning Our Relational Inheritance

Episode description and synopsis

In a world where it can seem we have lost touch with what it means to be together, to live, work, and grow in community, practices to remember and recondition our relational patterns seem crucial.

Rich is a Co-Founder of Enspiral, The Hum, and a brilliant thinker and facilitator when it comes to re-thinking social systems, designing spaces for meaningful culture, and practical ways to re-build community from the ground up.  

Join us as we explore questions of building “micro-solidarity,” circles of practice, and emotional intimacy for “growing up together.” We touch on some of the intrapersonal threads that need to be acknowledged if we are to re-pattern our ways-of-being-together for community, as well as what we might learn from feminism and grassroots activist movements when it comes to community resiliency.  

This is a good’n – grab a tea and join us for a hope-giving conversation.  

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Guest bio

Rich is a Co-Founder of Loomio, the Enspiral Foundation, The Hum and deep thinker and feeler around the renewal of community and systems for collaborative change.

He’s enthusiastic about co-ownership, self-governance and building relationships of partnership instead of domination to create collaborative workplaces. You can also checkout his vision and proposal to start a “microsolidarity” group – a small mutual aid community for people to do a kind of personal development, in good company, for social benefit.

Read his articles or hear his interviews at: richdecibels.com

Show notes and links

• RichDecibels.com
• TheHum.org
• Enspiral Foundation
• Microsolidarity Proposal

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#13: Spencer Honeyman — Rhythm, Music and Holding Space for the Invisible

Episode description and synopsis

There is much that happens in teams, relationships and our lives that words simply cannot touch. There is much that we experience in our lives that without alternative tools to touch, we remain distant to and fragmented by.

Join me in this rich dialogue with Spencer Honeyman as we explore the necessity of rhythm, music, improv-theatre and other creative practices to give voice to the transpersonal and invisible dimensions of leadership and culture. We explore the “subtle energy competency” within leadership as the ability to attune to the somatics and collective intelligence in a room. 

This one is most definitely for those who find themselves in leadership roles, or simply fascinated by the art of facilitating spaces for collaborative and collective flourishing. 

Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts

Guest bio

Spencer is an executive coach, group facilitator, and consultant committed to helping to bring about an innovative Earth society that works for all. He is a graduate Pomona college’s interdisciplinary Environmental Analysis program and is a Certified Integral Facilitator.

Spencer has studied in-depth with master facilitators Thomas Hubl &  Diane Hamilton in the subjects human development, group dynamics, and improvisation. He has over a decade of practice in Shadow yoga & Tibetan meditation practice and he is a musician trained in the Art of Circlesinging in the lineage of Bobby McFerrin.

Spencer brings this diverse experience of somatics, embodiment, subtle energetics, the arts, and spiritual development combined with a deep sense of fun to his work. He lives with his wife and son in the Bay Area, CA.

Show notes and links

Poem: The Way It Is by William Stafford

• EnlivenAcademy.com
• DeltaDevelopmental.com
• OpenDoor.io
• Thomas Hübl (“subtle energy competency”)

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#12: John Wolfstone — Queering Masculinity & the Paradox of Wholeness

Episode description and synopsis

If we are come to live and lead in a way that truly nourishes life, allows for creativity to flourish and mends our relationship with both place and people, integrating opposites and learning to live at the threshold of polarities is crucial.

John Wolfstone and I embark on a wild journey here from an adolescent leadership, to a more integrated, humble and reverent leadership. Touching on many nuanced and subtle threads of what it means to embrace our brokenness, transition to adulthood and exist at the threshold of binaries. We land on some exciting emerging conversations around ‘queering masculinity,’ diving into what queerness and non-binary means beyond an orientation, as a state of maturation.

What would our world look and feel like with leaders who had the capacity to hold paradox gracefully, to welcome otherness?

Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts

Guest bio

John Wolfstone is a filmmaker, wilderness rites-of-passage guide, and sacred clown focused on the work of cultural redemption. Over the past 10 years, he has been in service toward restorative justice, ancestral healing and peace building in conflict zones from rural Guatemalan villages, to Middle Eastern refugee camps and inner cities of the United States.

I’ve admired his articulation of the importance of rites of passage in the maturation of a culture, the power of grief in the individual’s maturation process and his perspectives on relationship in the 21st Century.

It was a real pleasure to share in this conversation (the first of many)!

Show notes and links

• Love School: The Film
• Tamera – community and cultural renewal biotope in Portugal
• John’s website

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