Fire & Water is about coming of age in this age. It is for a unique set of people ready to take significant journey into the internal and the external of leadership.
Madge is a traditional singer whose family roots lie in the North East of Scotland, who was born and brought up in Argyll. After a life working in therapeutic work in the field of trauma, she went on to explore human harmony in sound and immersed herself in Georgian Polyphonic song and the keening rituals of the Svan people in the Georgian High Caucasus Mountains. The powerful and challenging Svan vocal styles now inform her interpretation of Gaelic laments. This long and fascinating process has brought her back to personal experiences as a young woman in the Hebrides, that hint at keening rituals in the Scottish Gàidhealtachd. In this episode we explore holding transitions into and out of this life, intergenerational gifts with children and godsons, and the esteemed poet Robert Burns. How all of these things bring us deeper into our humanity and our relationships with each others. Biography from http://www.keeningwake.com
Learning how to navigate through the stories of life with the lessons you are meant to learn. Grandmother Enolia, as an elder of the Ojibwa nation, is a great teacher, who loves to conduct classes based on her own experience with different modules of Healing, Dynamic Meditations, Conscious Mindset, and Energy Medicine. She practices and applies Ancient Indigenous Traditions from around the world and transforms them in an easy way that integrates completely with the needs of a modern person. She provides a wide variety of programs, retreats, and training that help to restore balance, accelerate healing, and encourage transformation at all levels of well-being. As a thought leader, she has been recognized as an international speaker invited to engage in speaking events all around the world from Asia, India, America, Europe, Australia, and Africa. She writes articles on “Self-Mastery”, and “Self-Awareness”, and has published books that help people to learn tools and techniques to improve their personal development otherwise suffering the impact of a new age lifestyle. Moe information on Enolia is available at https://enolia.live/about Grandmother Enolia will be holding a special event in Cincinnati September 5, 2024. More information to register for that at https://www.nzuzu.com under events.
Meditation on Your Mother Line for Mother's Day. Transcript: Meditation on your mother line is a practice that connects you deeply with your ancestry and lineage. It reminds us that we belong to something bigger than ourselves. It involves reflecting on the women in your family who came before you, their stories, their struggles, their triumphs, and their legacy. By doing so, you can gain a better understanding of yourself, your roots, and the patterns and traits that have been passed down to you. The gifts and the wounds that still live in your own body. To begin, find a quiet and comfortable space where you can sit or lie down. Take a few deep breaths and close your eyes. Visualize yourself standing at the beginning of a long and winding path. This path represents your mother line. As you walk down the path, try to imagine the women who came before you. Your mother, when was she born? You don't have to know the exact date but think about the decade she was born in. What was happening in the world? What were the stories around women then? What freedoms and restraints might have influenced her choices? Your grandmothers, when were they born? What decade were they born in. What was happening in the world during their lifetime? What were the stories around being a woman then? What freedoms and restraints might have influenced their choices? your great-grandmothers, and so on. Think about their lives, their experiences, and their contributions to your family and the world. As you continue down the path, pay attention to any thoughts or feelings that come up for you. Notice any patterns or similarities between yourself and the women in your family. Consider how their stories have influenced your own story and shaped who you are today.
After a thirty-plus-year profession in design and visual communication, Kinde began transitioning into wilderness rites of passage guiding in 2008. She started New Moon Rites of Passage in 2011, which offers wilderness rites of passage, ecopsychological daywalks, community grief tending, one-on-one integral coaching, and various programs. She has led fasts in the tradition of the School of Lost Borders in Northern Utah since 2014 and has guided with Veteran's Rites. More information can be found at Kinde's website: https://www.newmoonritesofpassage.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/newmoonritesofpassage Additional Links: https://www.iamrootedexpansion.com/ https://wildernessguidescouncil.org/
“They will remain shut away behind a hedge of thorns. The journey in search of soul is difficult and even dangerous because it requires that we relinquish the certainty of what we think we know and what we have been taught for generations to believe. It means surrendering the desire to be in control and opening ourselves to a quest, a path of discovery. Many myths and fairy tales emphasize the need for surrender and trust in the strange non-rational guidance offered by animals or shamans on the quest. As the hero follows their guidance, so the hedge opens, the way unfolds. Following the guidance and wisdom of the instinct is the royal road into the realm of soul.” ― Anne Baring, The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul In our continuing podcast series of inviting elders into deep conversation, Quanita and Anne cover a myriad of topics. However, it all leads to acknowledging the precariousness of the present moment and that a change must come in the human consciousness for us to be able to survive. Anne Baring b. 1931. MA Oxon 1951. PhD (Hons) in Wisdom Studies Ubiquity University 2018. Jungian Analyst, author and co-author of 7 books including, with Jules Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess; Evolution of an Image; with Andrew Harvey, The Mystic Vision and The Divine Feminine; with Dr. Scilla Elworthy, Soul Power: An Agenda for a Conscious Humanity. Also, a book for children, The Birds Who Flew Beyond Time. Her most recent book The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul (2013, updated and reprinted 2020) was awarded the Scientific and Medical Network Book Prize for 2013. The ground of all her work is a deep interest in the spiritual, mythological, shamanic and artistic traditions of different cultures. Her two websites are devoted to a new vision of reality and the issues facing us at this crucial time of choice. www.annebaring.com and www.anne-baring.com Humanity Rising discussion on YouTube: Humanity Rising with Anne Baring Urgent Call to All Women: War Stops Now! Women are one half of humanity, yet our voice is not heard in relation to war. We see, every day, how war is destroying human life and the precious life of the planet. This must stop. Most of us do not experience the full horror of what is happening. But those who are ordered to fight and kill, if they survive, are condemned to suffering for the rest of their lives from the atrocities they have witnessed and the injuries they have sustained. The families of those who have been sacrificed live in grief forever. Mothers and grandmothers never recover from the loss of their beloved sons and grandsons, the rape of their daughters and granddaughters. Bitterness, hatred, fear and trauma pass from generation to generation. Trauma does not vanish with time but is held within the collective psyche of humanity. That is why ALL war must stop. This is a key moment in our evolution. The choices we make now will determine our future – and whether there is a future. There is only one power in the world that can eliminate war. That power is Women in service to Love. So we proclaim: We, the Women of the World, command that ALL war stops NOW!
What is the difference between an elder versus someone who is a teacher or a guide with the acknowledgment that an individual can inhabit all of these identities or two or one. Eldering as recognizing learning as learning or studying aspects of the self removed by proximity in order to see the whole more clearly, or at different perspectives. You are the other and the other is you. This is why the presence of an elder can facilitate one opening more deeply to different aspects of oneself. Link to book Jojopah's book, Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery: https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Walk-Self-Mastery-Ancient-Transforming/dp/1982226587/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1588711966&sr=8-1 My Email: wisdomwalking@gmail.com My Youtube Channel: Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery My website: www.wisdomwalktoselfmastery.com My Facebook Page: Wisdom Walk Radio My Facebook Group: Wisdom Walk Community (all are welcome to join)
Today's guest is Eileen Cooper Reed. She is a long-time friend and community mama for Quanita, and deeply respected friend for Tenneson. Eileen is our first guest in 2023, a year in which we are committed to more conversations with our elders. We turn to our elders for their guidance, their humor, their wisdom, and their clarity. Eileen offered a bunch of that today with some emphasis about care in community and family. She shares some of what she has eldered in Quanita that she nows sees Quanita engaging in as well. Eileen imparts some guidance to men to contribute to rebalancing masculine and feminine. She offers her love. Big gratitude. What a treat!
Can we be with the flow of life and just offer what's in our hearts and minds right then and right there?
Integrating rest into your life and the gifts that rest offers including timelessness and play.
Sometimes, as a point of fact, there are a lot of things going on in our lives and our schedules are full. Contemplations on how to engage these time periods in our lives.
We are hosting a Circle Immersion this December 2022, so today we discuss holding the circle in community. More information about this immersion can be found on our website at Circle Immersion . In addition, in some was this is part 3 of a series. Part one can be seen as Circle Buffet Part 1 Podcast and part 2 can be heard here Circle Buffet Part 2 Podcast
Conversation with our very own co-host Tenneson Woolf's new book of poetry, Most Mornings. Poems on practice, learning, insight, discoveries and sense-making in our mundane and magical world.
Community inspired transformation and the journey back to self. Discussion on the Fire and Water Leadership Journey and Rite of Passage 16 month experience as the second cohort approaches their final in person retreat for the course.
What is required for one to be deserving? Who stands in judgment? How do our contributions to the wider society play into ideas around what one deserves?
Conversation with Christina Baldwin centering holding space for connection using The Circle Way. For a deeper introduction to the Essence of Circle practice. Please check Quanita and Tenneson's upcoming workshops: Essence of Circle Practice Workshops .
Tenneson and Quanita reflect on their Wisdom Series that focused on our relationship to forgiveness. This journey took two groups through anger, grief, compassion, and grace.
Tenneson and Quanita talk about what is healthy masculine and healthy feminine and how it shows up in men and women.
Quanita Roberson and Amy Howton have written a healing book, The InnerGround Railroad: A 40 Day Journey to Remembering Soul & Spirit. Tenneson asks Quanita several questions about how it feels for her see the first printed copy, how she feels herself grown and changed by writing the book, and how she hopes people encounter the book and its stories.
Tenneson and Quanita talk about trauma and the way that they are experiencing our culture right now. Asking questions about how we are to be trauma informed but not have everything be tseen through the lens of trauma.
Tenneson and I spend some time with one of our elders, David O'Fallon. He shares his thoughts on views on how things are and what is needed in these times. David O'Fallon PhD David's life themes are education and education reform, arts and cultural work, creating community and imagining and creating the future. He has followed these themes through senior positions at the National Endowment for the Arts's, the John F Kennedy Center and the University of Minnesota. He has led three state agencies in Minnesota as president or CEO; The Perpich Center for Arts Education, MacPhail Center for Music and recently the Minnesota Humanities Center. He has consulted widely, nationally and internationally, with small and large organizations on these themes. This is a moment of fundamental change in this nation and the world. Old narratives and the organizations they formed are failing; some are becoming destructive as they fall. David is committed to working with organizations to create the new relationships and new narratives needed to connect us all, to courageously imagine and create a thriving, sustainable future. To work with those who are creating the new organisms (rather than organizations) needed to thrive and sustain and create. He is passionate and practical about working with people and organizations who want to make this transition and to walk into the future. His PhD is in Theatre and Community and he is proud to be one of the founders of In the Heart of the Beast Theatre in Minneapolis. He lives in Minneapolis,MN,USA Contact him at: davidof43@gmail.com
Tenneson Woolf and Quanita Roberson have a conversation about departures as a part of the initiatory process. They serve how departure has shown up for them and what they have learned.
One of the critical aspects of Fire & Water is staying in the journey through the 16 months. It takes effort and deliberateness to do so, for participants to stay attentive to what unfolds. Quanita and I reflect on a few aspects of staying in -- the spaces in between, critical connections to maintain and to grow, staying in vs just passing time, ritualizing, and the covenant we hold when departure is part of the plan. Enjoy. (22 minutes)
In this episode (30 minutes), Quanita and Tenneson explore the possibility that there be no such thing as independence. Which is, of course, a conversation about connection. We explore scarcity as a pattern in codependence. We explore abundance as a pattern in interdependence. And we wonder about the ways that unresolved wound and trauma foster a coping, shadow side of what so many reference as independence. Enjoy the listen. We hope it adds a little wisdom and soulfulness.
Tenneson and Quanita have a conversation with special guest Krister Linder, a Swedish Musician and spiritual seeker about Sacred Surrender. You can find more on Krister Linder at: "The Great Surrender" - the song mentioned in the podcast: https://youtu.be/g-YbW6gPCuA "Across the Never" - Krister Linder's latest album, as free stream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GLovy1jf-T8 Thank you again Krister for joining us. For more information on Tenneson and Quanita's work please check out Tenneson's website at http://www.tennesonwoolf.com/ , Quanita's website at https://www.nzuzu.com/ . For more information on being a part of our 2021/2022 Fire & Water Leadership Journey & Rite of Passage Cohort please check out https://fireandwaterleadership.weebly.com/ . Thank you!
It was the day after completing Fire & Water. Sixteen months of journey. Of passage. Quanita and Tenneson take a moment to witness the feeling of a group welcomed those many months ago, and then released. Released with wisdom and soul given permanent seat at the table. And with welcome of applications, through January 31, 2021, for the next cohort. (6 minutes) For more information on Tenneson and Quanita's work please check out Tenneson's website at http://www.tennesonwoolf.com/ , Quanita's website at https://www.nzuzu.com/ . For more information on being a part of our 2021/2022 Fire & Water Leadership Journey & Rite of Passage Cohort please check out https://fireandwaterleadership.weebly.com/ . Thank you!
Our intent with this Fire & Water Podcast is to cultivate wise and soulful leaders. Our Fire & Water Program is both a Rite of Passage and a Leadership Journey. Today, as we enter our third and final retreat with our cohort, we reflect on several aspects of Rite of Passage, and the need to reclaim contemporary initiation as an essential part of leadership in these times (28 minutes). For more information on Tenneson and Quanita's work please check out Tenneson's website at http://www.tennesonwoolf.com/ , Quanita's website at https://www.nzuzu.com/ . For more information on being a part of our 2021/2022 Fire & Water Leadership Journey & Rite of Passage Cohort please check out https://fireandwaterleadership.weebly.com/ . Thank you!
Quanita and Tenneson have a conversation about fear and how it is showing up in the world today. They also look at what we can do about fear and its relationship to love. For more information on Tenneson and Quanita's work please check out Tenneson's website at http://www.tennesonwoolf.com/ , Quanita's website at https://www.nzuzu.com/ . For more information on being a part of our 2021/2022 Fire & Water Leadership Journey & Rite of Passage Cohort please check out https://fireandwaterleadership.weebly.com/ . Thank you!
Tenneson & Quanita reflect on Fire & Water as a program, having just completed their 2nd Fire & Water Retreat, held virtually over five days with a cohort of 18 people, integrating screen times and off-screen times, and weaving focus that appealed to five (or more) senses of learning. They also reflect on Fire & Water as journey and initiation, and the need for such in contemporary times. 18 minutes. For more information on Tenneson and Quanita's work please check out Tenneson's website at http://www.tennesonwoolf.com/ , Quanita's website at https://www.nzuzu.com/ . For more information on being a part of our 2021/2022 Fire & Water Leadership Journey & Rite of Passage Cohort please check out https://fireandwaterleadership.weebly.com/ . Thank you!
Lots of fun to harvest a time of learning. Having spent 4 July days together in some work, some planning, some design preparation, and of course, some wondering / wandering, Quanita and Tenneson reflect on nature, presence, the practice of encountering self, other, life. With some appreciation for the essentialness of both being and doing. For more information on Tenneson and Quanita's work please check out Tenneson's website at http://www.tennesonwoolf.com/ , Quanita's website at https://www.nzuzu.com/ . For more information on being a part of our 2021/2022 Fire & Water Leadership Journey & Rite of Passage Cohort please check out https://fireandwaterleadership.weebly.com/ . Thank you!
Tenneson and I have a conversation about race, how we see it in this moment, and what we believe is being called for. We talk a bit about how it shows up between us. Join us and let us know what questions this conversation brings up for you. For more information on Tenneson and Quanita's work please check out Tenneson's website at http://www.tennesonwoolf.com/ , Quanita's website at https://www.nzuzu.com/ . For more information on being a part of our 2021/2022 Fire & Water Leadership Journey & Rite of Passage Cohort please check out https://fireandwaterleadership.weebly.com/ . Thank you!
Tenneson and I get circly and talk about the different parts of circle that are working us these days. This is Part 2 of our conversation. We touch on lots of different things, hence the buffet reference. Enjoy! For more information on Tenneson and Quanita's work please check out Tenneson's website at http://www.tennesonwoolf.com/ , Quanita's website at https://www.nzuzu.com/ . For more information on being a part of our 2021/2022 Fire & Water Leadership Journey & Rite of Passage Cohort please check out https://fireandwaterleadership.weebly.com/ . Thank you!
Tenneson and I get circly and talk about the different parts of circle that are working us these days. We touch on lots of different things, hence the buffet reference. Enjoy!
Tenneson and I have a conversation about the difference between believing that we are human beings that sometimes have spiritual experiences or spiritual beings that are having a human experience.
Quanita Roberson interviews Tenneson Woolf about his new book, A Cadence of Despair: Poems and reflections on Heartbreak, Loss, and Renewal.
These all go together, don't they. It's important to give ourselves to hope. Or to witness it. It's also important to give ourselves to the grief. Quanita and I reflect on such notions (12 minutes).
Tenneson and I wanted to invite our Fire & Water online community to our online living room for a coffee/tea call. A big part of Fire & Water is the ability to pay attention to the unseen as well as the seen. In this call we gathered as larger community together and shared what has our attention in this unprecedented time. This episode is the follow up from that call.
As we step into our work with our Fire & Water 2019-2020 Cohort we are asked often what do we mean by initiation. Here is a conversation we had about the topic.
Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time. We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.
Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time. We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.
Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time. We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.
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