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#11: Rob McNamara — Inhabiting Our Unconditioned Completeness and Adequacy

Posted on July 12, 2020

Episode description and synopsis

Guiding our communities to greater coherence requires leaders less armed with strategies and techniques, but with the courage of the heart to navigate and move with the broader complexities of human experience. Rob is someone I’ve admired from afar for his nuanced and articulate understanding and insight into navigating paradox, participatory leadership and facilitating regenerative social spaces.

In this conversation we explore the roots of inadequacy, the paradox of completeness and the foundations of integral leadership. It’s a wide-ranging conversation that includes many practical tools for integrating these perspectives into our everyday living and leading.

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Guest bio

Rob McNamara is an author, advisor, consultant and leadership coach with an expertise in adult development and human performance. He is a co-founder of the advisory firm Delta Developmental and is the Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at the World Communiversity educational initiative.

Rob serves on faculty at the Ivey School of Business’ LIFT Advanced Coaching Program and is a former Harvard University Teaching Fellow. McNamara currently advises and coaches initiatives advancing National Security efforts and provides learning, development and educational direction for individuals, organizations and governments navigating civilizational transitions.

He is an Integral Zen Dharma Holder training under Diane Musho Hamilton Roshi. Rob’s current areas of focus join meta-psychology, ethics, leadership development and human performance. He’s known for his big heart, radical embodied presence and purpose-driven commitment to enacting new visions of the future of humanity.

Show notes and links

Poem: Break by Brooke McNamara
Break film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zbv6opaTn68&t=9s

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#9: Jessica Multini — Tending To Our Internal Injustices with Ritual & Reflection

Posted on June 30, 2020

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Episode description and synopsis

In this time, we are asked to walk the “twin-trail,” to balance the necessity for action in the world, as well as take responsibility for that which our current climate is reflecting within ourselves. Jessica is the founder at MEISOU, a brand supporting people in embedding rituals of mindfulness and meaning into their everyday life. As a Brazilian women, global traveller and mindfulness facilitator in-training at UCLA, I’ve always admired her ability to honour her internal landscape and integrate both action and insight.

In this spacious and tender conversation we explore how we might honour our privilege in this time, tending to the work we must do within ourselves whilst also taking wisdom-guided action. If you’re also sitting with questions surround how to show up in this time, what “sacred activism” means in this time and where to place your energy, this one might just offer some feathers for your tool-bag.

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Guest bio

Jessica is the founder of MEISOU, a lifestyle brand and community supporting people in embedding rituals of mindfulness and meaning into their lives; through products, retreats and experiences. As a mindfulness-facilitator in training at UCLA MARC, she has been someone I’ve admired for her ability to honour and integrate both the ‘inner’ and ‘outer’ work, especially in times when radical self, cultural and systemic renewal are vital.

Show notes and links

Jessica on Instagram
MEISOU: Life as Ritual
Gary Weber – Happiness Beyond Thought (Book)

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#8: Mac Macartney — Elderhood and Protecting The Children’s Fire

Posted on June 15, 2020

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Episode description and synopsis

Acknowledging the fragility, tenderness and humility required in this time, Mac is someone I admire for his ability to form relationships across cultures and generations in order to bridge worlds.

He has worked with Indigenous elders over many years and has incredible insight and experience in forming mutually-beneficial relationships so as to form genuine alliances, rooted in reverence. I share this conversation in this time, as we explore what it means to be in relationship with who Mac’s guides name The Original Elder, Earth herself.

We explore what it might take to form trusted alliances across generations, races and culture; to form mentor-relationships with elders in a reverent and honouring manner and to connect to the Original Elder as our meeting place in this time. From this place, how might we tend to systemic injustices, inequalities of all manners and to difference?

Join us for a conversation that Mac might remark as an act of “lifting our eyes to the privilege of being alive with possibility.”

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Guest bio

Mac is an international speaker, writer, change-maker and Founder of Embercombe. Mentored by indigenous people over many years, he has acquired profound and original insights into questions preoccupying many contemporary leaders. Mac seeks to inspire the emergence of the leader in each of us, the leader who will take courageous action for a better world.