Dangerous Love Podcast

Desmond Lomax, Co-Director of the Public Safety Practice for the Arbinger Institute, joins Chad to talk about how to correct ourselves and others using Dangerous Love. Desmond, whose background is a African-American law enforcement officer turned mental health therapist, shines a light on how we get correction wrong and what we can actually do, at home, in our communities and in law enforcement to help invite others who are struggling to change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How can Dangerous Love apply practically to organizational culture? Jamie Asante-Asare, Director of Operations for PeacePlayers joins Chad to discuss how to implement the values of Seeing People As People, Inside-Outside Transformation and Culture of Collaboration in withe workplace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Major Charles “Chip” Huth, a Commander in the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, joins Chad to talk about, in the wake of protests against law enforcement in the United States, policing can. be done with a more dangerous love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad and guest Colette Rausch explore the impact of trauma on us as humans, our relationships with each other and our broader society. And the peacebuilding power of healing trauma and strengthening resilience.  You can find more about Colette's work at https://www.coletterausch.com and https://www.transformtraumasolutions.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad and guest Dr. Chris Wallace, a licensed clinical psychologist and therapist, discuss what happens in conflict when someone struggles with self-conflict, self-blame and an unwillingness to see their mistakes as just that, mistakes, instead of character flaws.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad is joined by Sharla Watene, a Marriage and Family Therapist and co-founder of Āhua Wellbeing, a non-profit aimed at helping working mothers develop better work-life balance through education and developing holistic skills. Chad and Sharla discuss how couples can work through conflict by "getting naked", setting boundaries and learning how to show their partners love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad is joined by Dr. Carl Stauffer, Co-Director of the Zehr Institute for Restorative Justice and Associate Professor of Justice Studies at the Center for Justice & Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University. Chad and Dr. Stauffer discuss his work in South Africa as a restorative justice practitioner and researcher and then look at how that work might apply in the context of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission on race in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad is joined by Jessica Murrey a social change communication expert with Search for Common Ground and the Co-founder/CEO of W!CKED SAiNTS Studios.  Chad and Jessica talk about her journey as a bi-racial women to peacebuilding work with Search for Common Ground, her work on the Black Lives Matter movement and a new video game she's creating that helps young people learn how to navigate conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad is joined by Nasiphi "Nas" Khafu, the Executive Director of PeacePlayers South Africa. Nas explores her journey from a participant, to coach, to fellow in Northern Ireland back to leading a peacebuilding program in South Africa aimed at reconciling racial divides and uses her experiences in South Africa to shed insight on how to bridging the current racial divides in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad and Mitch Warner, Managing Partner at the Arbinger Institute, talk about inward and outward mindset, and how it relates to conflict at home, at work and in the context of the larger social conflict happening in America today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad and Dr. Robert E. Quinn, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan Business School, and author of "The Economics of Higher Purpose" and "Change the World," talk about the role that fear and love play in leadership -- both in organizations and in politics. Quinn says that good leaders go forth to die ... and explains how moving from problem solving to finding a higher purpose transforms managers into leaders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad and Jo Schaeffer, a senior consultant with the Arbinger Institute discuss the way fear blinds us in conflict, how to befriend fear and introduce love and wisdom into the conversation and then we talk about Jo's "Fear Year" and how she confronted her biggest fears and learned to love more dangerously. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad and his guest Sally Nnamani, Director of PeacePlayers Brooklyn recount her journey from Nigeria to New York City to Belfast to Brooklyn to help lead a reconciliation effort in the USA. They talk gender, race, economics and how to create a more equitable society through Dangerous Love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad brings on PeacePlayers co-founder Brendan Tuohey and PeacePlayers Executive Director Karen Doubilet to talk about how PeacePlayers got founded, what the program looks like in the Middle East, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Cyprus and in the US and what they've learned about dangerous love through this two decade project. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad speaks with two participants from from his favorite NGO, PeacePlayers. Toot, an Israeli and Duha, a Palestinian, reflect on how basketball helped them bridge one of the biggest divides in the world to become friends, and then peacebuilders, in Jerusalem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad and his guest Sunset Elementary TA Principal Eliza Elkington talk about what dangerous love looks like in parenting. How to teach, set boundaries and rules, and resolve conflict between children and ourselves in a time when it's becoming harder and harder to see them and ourselves as people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad gives a sneak preview of the new Dangerous Love audiobook. He reads from Chapter 13 "Waiting For Them to Change" where he tells the story about a failed attempt to shame a rogue math teacher in high school and addresses pushback from people who feel that the fairest thing to have happen is for the other person, the person that caused the conflict, to turn first in conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Do you ever feel like you're not enough? Not enough to be loved? Not good enough or strong enough to forgive or move on? Or, do you ever feel like, in conflict, someone else isn't enough. Or hasn't done enough to deserve your love? Dangerous love can provide answers to both of these challenges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad and Dangerous Love Social Media Director Bailee Rasmussen highlight Dangerous Love heroes in the world including an ER Doctor, farm laborers and struggling couples and offer a challenge to people who are still struggling with the political polarization of COVID-19. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chad is joined by his wife, Amanda Ford, an adjunct intercultural peacebuilding professor focused on interpersonal and family conflict to discuss how to survive sheltering in place with a partner or spouse that you're struggling with. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the first episode of the Dangerous Love Podcast. COVID-19 has the potential to put our relationships, our communities, our own fears and our own views of the world through the ringer. How are we going to see the conflict of this global public health crisis? Will this destroy us, or will we come out stronger and more united because of it? Chad gives examples from history, conflict theory and a real world example of a doctor practicing Dangerous Love in his community right now to show us the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices