Human to Human

Dave Fearon, Connecticut, USA ”Practice” (November 2023, 51 minutes)

A pleasure to be in conversation with Dave Fearon. Due to a tech glitch I missed adding some recorded appreciations about Dave. I felt encouraged by Dave's wise words and calming voice. He's a long time academic, who got some of his starts in the YMCA.

Enjoy the listen. We touch upon the field of humanism needed for serious problems in the world. Dave was deeply impacted by his shared work with Peter Vaill. I loved asking him about that and the focus of contributing to learning, connecting theory to practice. Dave has a way of living imagination, stories, spirit, passion, love.

I'm moved.

Check Dave out on Facebook and Linked In. He offered this as bio: A lifelong teacher by "all means available" -from five decades in the college classroom to post-retirement podcasting. With the late OD pioneer Peter B. Vail, Dave wrote On Practice as a Way of Being and co-originated the Practice? Podcast. 

Field Learning, and a Bunch More -- Katie Kinnemeyer, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA -- 48 min)

Lots of fun with Katie Kinnemeyer. She has a brain and a heart that I appreciate. In this conversation, she shares some of the core of her unfolding work. We touch upon field working, field listening, emergence, sense-making, her work with women entrepreneurs, relationship with slowing down, with calling, and with her orientation to generosity and prosperity. I appreciate her voice, a voice of wisdom gained and wisdom in process. 

On Katie (www.katiekinnemeyer.com)

Katie Kinnemeyer holds entrepreneurs in the unfolding of their soul's mission through group experiences. She mirrors a higher imagination of what's possible in their work by seeking what is alive and emergent in her clients' journey. She advises on the design and facilitation of deeply transformational, integrous, activating journeys through powerful, attuned group facilitation. Katie lives her charmed life in Cincinnati, OH.

Stop, Exhale, Ground -- Janice Stieber Rous, Orlando, Florida, USA -- 53 minutes, Recorded 9/12/23

What a treat. Janice has been a personal friend. She's been a guide. She's been an inspiring figure. She's been smart and sharp. She's been playful and jesterful. I've known her in each of these ways. Our recent call for the podcast covered relation to water, getting quiet, learning to say no, guidance for the physical and emotional body, guiding and preparing younger people, and giving permission to know that you are enough. Yup, she's a gem. Enjoy the listen and the building up of our exploring together.

Janice Stieber Rous (www.bodydialogues.com; janice@bodydialogues.com) is a mother and grandmother. She founded BODY DIALOGUE, a practice that is a synthesis of THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE, Stough BREATHING COORDINATION, YOGA, PILATES, MINDFULNESS and JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY. She teaches  classes at UNIVERSITY of CENTRAL FLORIDA, Atlantic Center for the ARTS. Her private works are here in Florida but also NYC and Israel. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. At that time she said she wanted to be a dancing philosopher and today she is just that.

LaTanya Wilson, Chicago, Illinois, USA ”If You Have Desire To Meet Spirit, Spirit Has A Desire To Meet You” (08/28/23 -- 40 minutes)

A delightful conversation with my friend LaTanya. We cover a range:

• her work at Shriver Poverty Law as a policy organization changing rules to change lives
• growing up in a Mennonite Pastor family
• faith and a calling to law at 15 years old
• aggressiveness needed in systemic injustice
• speaking up in difference
• being a good listener
• how we all lose in exclusion
• meeting Spirit

I love LaTanya's ways of learning, sharing, wondering.

You can reach LaTanya at, latanyawilson@povertylaw.org. More about LaTanya: As Vice President of Advocacy, LaTanya manages a cross-disciplinary team of experts and oversees the Shriver Center’s work to integrate policy advocacy, community-centered organizing, and legal strategy in pursuit of systemic change.

Amaha Sellassie, Dayton, Ohio, USA -- Live Real in a Real Time

Amaha is brilliant. As a community organizer. As a colleague. As a justice worker. As a friend and brother. See his bio below.

I love the way Amaha lives from love and spirit. I loved reconnecting with him about that in this recording. 

Enjoy the listen, 46 minutes:

1:00 Human to human distills to essence....quest to  understand our humanity...the social choice of ubuntu

3:20 How did we get off the narrative? How did we get stuck in the manipulation of "lesser human"

6:20 What is hard in activism?

9:20 Do you have an experience of waking up -- agape at my Aunt's gas station

13:20 Forgiveness is the key...the truest of bringing gifts together.

16:50 Learning, seeing, feeling about connection in food systems, black farming, praxis, and belonging

22:30 Crossing over from aspiration to acceptance...living in to deep beliefs... embodied community

27:40 Unlearning at Gem City...paradigm shifts...the food apartheid in Dayton West...community has power to reimagine

32:30 On becoming a person who leads with love and spirit

35:20 How bright is your light shining...beyond head knowledge

38:00 The most simple step to adding healing in the world = slowing down... there is now shame in the healing journey

40:45 Live real in a real time...it is a social choice to love...we have the power to choose

44:40 Tenneson's appreciation of Amaha

Amaha Sellassie (www.amahasellassie.com) is a afrofuturist, peace builder, social healer, freedom fighter, network weaver, student of cooperation and lover of humanity.  He’s an Associate Professor of Sociology at Sinclair Community College in Dayton Ohio. Amaha is a practitioner scholar and participatory action researcher dedicated towards building bridges of trust, healing historical wounds, and harnessing the unique gifts and talents of every human being as we press towards a just and equitable society. As the former chair of the Dayton Human Relations Council Board, his areas of interest include health and education equity, praxis, cooperative economic development, dismantling structural violence and getting the voice of marginalized communities into the center of public policy in order to emerge structures of belonging that acknowledge the dignity and worth of every human being. He is co-founder and board chair of the Gem City Market, a community driven effort to address food apartheid through a food coop dedicated to increasing access to fresh fruits and vegetables within west Dayton. He is also a co-founder and co-ed of CO-OP Dayton a coop incubator that is guided by the Mondragon model towards building a Just Economy Ecosystem. Currently he is working towards his Ph. D. in Sociology at the University of Cincinnati with an emphasis on utilizing community based participatory action research (CBPAR) towards emerging health equity, co-creating opportunity and community transformation.  

Myriam Hadnes, ”Global Community of Practitioners” (6/21/23, 54 minutes)

With Myriam, I love her pace and commitment to slow down and to enjoy. It's living wonder out loud. It's listening to stories and what lives under the stories. Myriam reminds me of the kind of person, guide, and coach that I most want to be. Have a listen. Thx for shares and instincts to reach back to begin our own threads of this human to human way of living, learning, and leading.

A few notes:

0:00 Setup + Context + Welcome in Joy

2:30 Myriam’s Intro & Hello

3:20 Psychological Safety is on my mind — so is potting plants on my balcony

4:20 Myriam’s Course Development + Imposter Syndrome

5:20 Go toward the big things, a workshop in many languages

8:20 To create psychological safety, we have to create it for ourselves

11:00 Just showing up is at the core of our work

14:10 Self-Sabotoge Favorites

16:30 Running the 1/2 Marathon; Then My Body Needs a Break — What is it to take care of ourselves?

20:15 Appreciating ourselves, appreciating inner and outer cleanings.

23:00 Baking in celebration.

23:30 Myriams Economics background, studying forced solidarity, and published 20 years later!

25:30 Things take time. Encourage mindful.

27:00 Workshops Work (Episode #218), Never Done Before Festival

34:00 Just try an idea — everyday a new idea in a global community of facilitators.

37:50 The importance of setting the stage, creating the framework

38:45 Inner change in Myriam — a few highlights

43:50 An essence of encouragement — offer ease, ask follow-up questions

46:20 Ways to contact Myriam

47:00 Myriam’s gracious way of learning and other closing words

50:00 Tenneson reflecting about Myriam

 

Myriam Hadnes, a facilitator with a PhD in behavioural economics, hosts the "Workshops Work" podcast. She firmly believes that workshops have the power to change the world and is passionate about inspiring others to join her cause. Myriam is the mastermind behind the "NeverDoneBefore" community, which is dedicated to exploring the art and science of facilitation. By leveraging scientific insights into human behaviour and group dynamics, as well as the knowledge shared by industry experts on her podcast, she is devoted to elevate collaborative work to new heights. Discover more about Myriam and connect with her through https://linktr.ee/myriamhadnes

Chris Corrigan, ”Support is Life” (5/18/23, 55 minutes)

This was such a treat to welcome Chris Corrigan to the podcast. He is as articulate as they come. He is someone that I love for is insatiable learning and mass ability and instinct to connect. He is someone that weaves generosity and kindness to that learning and to the baseline invitation of being curious together -- I've know this in him over the 20 years of our friendship and working together. He's a man whose eyes light up when invited to go it together. So, a big bow. A big smile. And an appreciative grin to Chris and this time together.

By way of Show Notes:

0:00 Welcome, Context

2:00 Hello and Getting Convercircly

3:00 What's it like to be you? A beautiful question to get to depth. Appreciating joy, goodness, beauty, reciprocity in the serious and the silly together.

9:15 Drawn to joy as contemplative practice, 50 days of watching for joy in the big and in the microdoses.

19:00 "Optimistic to the point of uselessness" -- when you hire me, you get me.

20:45 Welcoming builders, and a bit of scolding by the elders

24:00 My Dad -- super curious from the beginning.

28:15 What would it take to be more curious? A question to guide in groups.

37:15 Three Days of Connecting -- Then the best campfire of your life. Then action planning.

40:00 Activating curiosity. This is the outcome.

43:00 The essence that helps in our field is support, a field of mutual supportive generosity.

45:50 Giving yourself away initiates a cycle. "Support is life."

49:30 Contracting Chris.

51:10 Tenneson reflecting on Chris.

Chris is a long time friend, colleague, and companion. He is deeply committed to learning, teaching and practicing complexity and dialogic change. He’s a musician, poet, writer. He’s generous with his words and heart, going about connecting people in conversations, work and play, with the things they most care about. To get more curious — www.chriscorrigan.com

 

Beth Tener - ”Kinship” (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA)

Lots of delight to connected with Beth Tener, a friend / colleague over the last 10+ years. We share a lot of similar values in our respective work, including the desire to foster wholeness and health. We both have appreciation for practices that bring connection, authenticity, and learning. Enjoy the listen. Thx for forwards, etc where inspired.

A Few Show Notes:

0:30 Welcoming wonder and wander with interesting people.
3:25 Living love in social change work.
6:52 Live as one person, as whole and healthy human beings.
9:30 Quality of relationship goes with the quality of result, health of the whole.
11:30 What compels you, Beth, to work in this way? Coherence of emergence. Joy of curious kinship together.
15:50 Inviting relating: nobody should go home unconnected.
22:25 Kinship and friendship as forces for social change.
28:30 Vibrational resonance and change.
30:00 Kinship with all life, ancestors, the unseen.
32:00 Hungry to listen in walk & talks.
36:00 Connecting to nature.
38:00 Core encouragements.
42:00 Warm curiosity.
43:30 More slowness needed to make good friendships.
46.15 Tenneson's reflections and appreciations of Beth.

Beth Tener is a facilitator who is passionate about how we bring people together in ways that enable healing and ignite personal, group, and community potential. Her new initiative is called Kinship, which focuses on how to strengthen relationships with each other and nature, and grow trusting supportive communities as a “root solution” to many of our ills.  She lives along a tidal river in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Abenaki lands, and she loves creating contexts that feed life, whether in the garden, the kitchen, or in gatherings with friends and family.

Lawrence Kampf - ”Higher Expressions of Selves” (Motovun, Croatia)

Yup, a real treat to connect in this format with my pal Lawrence Kampf (48 minutes, recorded 3/9/23). He's a brother. He's a colleague. He's a wise being. He's a kind soul. As Lawrence shares, he's a person that "can't not help people grow to higher expressions of themselves." I've felt that with him. In laughs and in tears.

A few show notes are here -- headlines of topics and times when they show up in the recording.

Lawrence Kampf (www.novaearthinstitute.com) is a senior consultant, coach, educator, advisor, meditator, and energy healer specializing in supporting visionary creators and leaders. He is a natural bridgebuilder across geographies, industries, cultures, paradigms and dimensions. American by passport, he resides full time in Motovun, Croatia and is slowly tuning his New Mexican green chili adapted to Hungarian paprikas game.

Linnea Bjorkman - ”Holistic Living” (Denver, Colorado)

I loved the conversation with Linnea (49 minutes, recorded 1/25/23). As friend. As colleague. As fellow learner. To revisit Circle (how we met), her work with Yoga, Breath, Gardening, Permaculture, and a bunch more. When I think Linnea I think holistic living. And groundedness. 

A few show notes are here -- a few headlines of topics and times when they show up in the recording.

Linnea Bjorkman (pronounced Lin NAY uh) (pronouns: she/they/ella/elle) is an ever-evolving human. I’m curious, kind, do my best, smile often, cry often, make mistakes, and need at least 8 hours of sleep per night. I'm queer, bilingual (Spanish/English), and a Colorado Native. I've been told I am heartful and possess gentle wisdom. Whole Root Wonder is my small business. I support individuals and communities who are looking to deepen their experience of delight, harmony and well-being through yoga, meditation, food gardening, permaculture, and intentional heart-centered group practices. www.wholerootwonder.com