Podcasts about gracious space

Can there really be such a thing as a "good divorce"? In this episode, I sit down with Karen McNenny, a divorce consultant and founder of The Good Divorce Experience, to explore how separation can be handled with dignity and care.Karen's story is both inspiring and relatable—she's gone from actress and dancer to therapist, mediator, and divorce coach, all while navigating her own divorce as a mom of young kids. She shares how divorce, when approached thoughtfully, can be a transformative tool for building a healthier co-parenting relationship.In our conversation, we dive into:The biggest mistakes parents make during divorce and how to avoid them.How to create a solid communication plan for your kids, their teachers, and extended family.Tips for breaking the news to children in a way that minimizes trauma.Practical ways to let go of resentment, shift your mindset, and focus on growth—even if your ex isn't on the same page.Whether you're just beginning the separation process or further along in your journey, Karen's insights will help you reframe divorce as an opportunity for growth and healing.Karen is a Certified Divorce Coach, Mediator, CoParenting Specialist, Crucial Conversations trainer, Gracious Space facilitator, and host of the The Good Divorce ShowTM podcast. Click here to learn more about Karen and her services.If you'd like to feel more joyful and fulfilled in midlife, I can help. Here's how:Work together 1:1Join my free community

Send us a textJust under a year ago on Talking About Kids, the attorney Charles Jamieson recommend mediation, not litigation, to protect kids' well-being during a divorce. My guest today, Karen McNenny, is a mediator and more. Karen is a Certified Divorce Coach, CoParenting Specialist, Crucial Conversations trainer, and Gracious Space facilitator. As you will hear, Karen is passionate about shifting the focus from “getting a divorce” to “being divorced,” because, she contends, it is everything that happens after the paperwork that really impacts kids. More information about Karen and divorce coaches is at talkingaboutkids.com.

LISTEN FIRST MONTANA Listen first. It is what all great leaders do. Episode 52: Hatton Littman 20 Questions   To celebrate Leadership Montana's 20 Year Anniversary, we're getting to know the Leadership Montana staff by asking each of them 20 Questions. For this episode, we're joined by Leadership Montana Gracious Space Director, Hatton Littman. Hatton shares what she loves about heading up Gracious Space facilitation and training for Leadership Montana, her deep connection to creative work, her leadership philosophy, and much more. 

This Sunday we'll celebrate the 32nd anniversary of the founding of our church! Jeff's sermon will delve into the sorry state of the church in the world today and what we at LifeJourney are called to be and do about it. You'll hear some examples of how God is using our church – at home and abroad – that will knock your socks off! Join us for a big celebration that will also include awarding membership pins and dedicating our new nursery.

This Sunday Pastor Jeff begins a new sermon series that explores who bears ultimate responsibility for the death of Jesus. Many different people had a motive to remove Jesus from the scene, including some who will really surprise you. There will be unexpected plot twists. We will look at the case against each suspect, then you (the jury) will decide. In the process, we'll learn a lot about Jesus, the people around him, ourselves, God, and history. Each week will have a powerful practical lesson we can carry away.

Rashard Curmon is a graduate of Elizabeth City State University and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, with a minor in Speech Pathology, a Master of Arts degree in Teaching from East Carolina University, and a Master in School Administration NC State University. Rashard is a former Language Arts teacher. Rashard has served as an Assistant Principal, Instructional Coach and has worked at all three levels: elementary, middle, and high school. He currently resides in Winterville, North Carolina, and is a Principal for Lenoir County Public Schools. Elementary school principal - School opened in 2009 6th in 12 years Learn as much as you can. Don't come in with a savior complex. What are the early wins for you? Clear vision and mission Didn't take the route where you watch for six months to a year. Culture of collaboration Gracious space My total focus was achievement. Urgency is now! Instructional framework I had to bei n classrooms. I can't move our school instructionally if I don't know what's going on. When I focus on culture, instruction goes down, when I focus on instrcution, culture goes down. Engulfed our staff in the why. Dr. Donyell Dickey Once you have results it doesn't matter. How to be a transformative principal? Be someone who gives themselves totally to this work. Study, read, understand the research. Use Twitter to follow some other people. Do what you ask your teachers to do. Sponsors InControl SEL for Middle School In Control created an effortless social and emotional, character development video curriculum for your students that's ZERO-TEACHER-PREP AND it's so cool looking- it feels like a Youtube or Netflix Series- and that's purposeful, they meet students right where they're at. The videos are 5–6 minutes, kids love them, teachers love them, and you will too. There's no guesswork in the program because there's a 21-video progression for each grade level. They've thought of everything– because it's a group of award winning counselors, teachers, and principals that came up with this thing. It'll help you save tons of time and headaches. Take it from me, it's time to check that social-emotional learning box, the empty one that's been keeping you up at night–and it's time to do it in a meaningful, measurable, magnetic way. If you go to www.InControlSEL.com/jethro you can check out some of the videos and even receive 20% off if you pre-order for next school year John Catt Today's Transformative Principal sponsor, John Catt Educational, amplifies world-class voices on timeless topics, with a list of authors recognized globally for their fresh perspectives and proven strategies to drive success in modern schools and classrooms. John Catt's mission is to support high-quality teaching and learning by ensuring every educator has access to professional development materials that are research-based, practical, and focused on the key topics proven essential in today's and tomorrow's schools. Learn more about professional development publications that are easy to implement for your entire faculty, and are both quickly digestible and rigorous, by visiting https://us.johncattbookshop.com/. Learn more about some of the newest titles: - The Coach's Guide to Teaching by Doug Lemov The Feedback Pendulum: A manifesto for enhancing feedback in education by Michael Chiles Putting Staff First: A blueprint for revitalising our schools by John Tomsett and Jonny Uttley 10 Things Schools Get Wrong (And How We Can Get Them Right) by Jared Cooney Horvath and David Bott Let's Talk About Flex: Flipping the flexible working narrative for education by Emma Turner A Parent's Guide to Powerful Teaching by Patrice Bain John Catt is also proud publisher of the new book from Transformative Principal host Jethro Jones: SchoolX: How principals can design a transformative school experience for students, teachers, parents – and themselves Visit this page to learn more about bulk orders and how to bring John Catt's research-based materials to your school: https://us.johncattbookshop.com/pages/agents-and-distributors

This Sunday, July 11, Pastor Vivian will preach her finale sermon before retiring at the end of July. She will preach at both services on Sunday, sharing beautiful memories while reminding us of several critically important spiritual lessons. Don't miss this beautiful moment in the life of our church!

I am still dancing around my house over this interview with the one and only Julie Bogart.  In this episode of "The Home school Conversation Podcast," I will interview the famous  veteran home school mom and guru, Julie Bogart who created The Home school Alliance which is now the Brave Learner Home which is a home school support system with book clubs, discussion boards, and curriculum help. She also has continued to improve her writing curriculum, "Brave Writer"  to help families develop their best language arts approach in their home school.  Julie is also the author of the home school book loved by ALL, "The Brave Learner" and "A Gracious Space".  Julie also has an amazingly insightful podcast that has been a source of encouragement to many homeschooling families called, "A Brave Writers Life in Brief" and I am not hired by her to say that I highly recommend all of the above! It has changed my homeschooling LIFE. In this episode, we will explore her new support system for the home school community, and also explore curriculum decision paralysis, how to value a lifestyle of learning and dive into examples of how we have learned to truly enjoy learning with our children. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ashley-davis42/support

Ned Cooney loves meetings, good meetings! Ned says that just as a river guide may not know a particular river or a particular group, the guide has been on a lot of rivers and knows what to do if the boat turns over. His job as a facilitator is to bring a group of people together and bring out the best thinking that leads the group to a better path. Listen and Ned and I discuss how his facilitation skills and his knowledge of music and its effects on the brain to bring out the best in people.   How finding sacredness leads to fulfillment How asking why you do what you do leads to discovery Why forgetting self allows you to be fully present     Links Mentioned:   Helpline https://connectriverside.org/helpline/ Malcolm Gladwell quote https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3364437-outliers-the-story-of-success Gracious Space http://www.washington.edu/admin/hr/publications/email/pod/convio/leadingedge/au17/gracious-space.htm Open Space https://openspaceworld.org/wp2/what-is/ Ned Cooney www.nedcooney.com     Show Highlights: 1:00 Introduction 4:08 Exploration of the sacred, being invited into a community and share in exploration 9:50 What it’s really like to bea facilitator 15:35 Fearlessness -- what it means to Ned 20:55 The role music plays in Ned’s life 33:00 Ned’s journey toward facilitation 41:20 Meeting strategies and the spectrum of “tions” 51:30 Ned’s self care tips   Favorite Quotes: “Sacredness, to me, is being invited into a common mission to help people with their passions.” -Ned Cooney “Selflessness helps me be fully present. When you forget yourself, you can be open to what comes and what shows up without having to own the outcome. -Ned Cooney “When you are nervous, switch your energy to being eager. Eagerness allows us to use energy without being frozen in fear.” -Andrea Catherine “Music creates richness, collaboration and connection. It is a common experience. Music makes us conscious of things we’re not really conscious of. It improves our lives and hearts.  It touches people’s core without words.” -Ned Cooney “Music is a uniquely human endeavor. Our brains are wired to respond to music.” -Andrea Catherine “If we’re going to be a civilization that has institutions and organizations then we should not avoid meetings or destroy them with our lack of attention.” -Ned Cooney Everything that we are passionate about or care about probably started with people gathering together to talk about it.” -Andrea Catherine   Meet Ned: Ned Cooney, Facilitator/Consultant is an independent consulting practice, specializing in nonprofits, philanthropy and public agencies. His early career has been in the nonprofit sector, as executive director, program staff and board member. Now, Ned serves many organizations by helping people learn and make better decisions together.  Ned specializes in organizational planning, board development, funding strategies, support for executives, and meetings/retreats. He is also rumored to be one Mellow Waters while singing songs on stage with a guitar.

We often see families join Brave Writer or The Homeschool Alliance who get excited about this style of living, but then we struggle to find other like-minded individuals out there in the world.   Even in the homeschooling community, there can be a big disconnect between your theory of education and a friend’s. This may be someone you like personally, but they have a different vision of homeschool and it causes a little bit of conflict.   There are a few types of friends that you’ll want to cultivate in your homeschooling life, and today we want to share principles and stories that will help you do that.   You can download show notes for the podcast here: http://blog.bravewriter.com/category/podcasts/   Resources: Join The Homeschool Alliance Join the Brave Writer Lifestyle Facebook Group Check out this brand new, free product designed to kickstart your writing program this school year: 7-Day Writing Blitz (and tag your creative young writers using #BWBlitz on Twitter & Instagram!) You can download Free Writing Lessons here: go.bravewriter.com/free-writing-lessons Need support in sustaining your homeschool commitment? We invite you to read Julie’s three-part A Gracious Space series. You can find print copies on Amazon or digital copies in the Brave Writer store   -- Brave Writer is produced by Podcast Masters

It's our 20th Episode and we are celebrating by getting chatty!  We talk all about how our homeschools are going - what's going well and what needs a little tweaking.  We also chat about where we find inspiration these days. Join us! Voxer Bravewriter Math Lessons for Living Education Prodigy Math  Poetry Tea Time Esperanza Rising Read Aloud Revival Podcast Susan Wise Bauer's Audio Workshops - Homeschooling the Real Child, A Plan for Teaching Writing (Elementary Grades) Maren's Favorite Instagram Follows - maandpamodern, naturepalexchange, wrightathomeschool, 3kidstravel, my_little_poppies, readaloudrevival, juliebravewriter, myheartshomestead, aliciahutchinson, treehouse_schoolhouse, saltytribe.co, wanderlust.crew, not.quite.charlotte A Gracious Space by Julie Bogart The Writer's Jungle by Julie Bogart Loving This Week Angela - Sweeter Than Honey: A Coloring Book to Nourish Your Soul The Happiness Project Mini Posters: A Coloring Book Prismacolor Premier Colored Pencils Maren - Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt   Visit our website Join our closed Facebook group: Unrefined Homeschoolers Follow us on Facebook and Instagram  Email us any questions or feedback at homeschoolunrefined@gmail.com

This episode will feature a discussion of the Center for Ethical Leadership's new book --Courageous Collaboration with Gracious Space: From small openings to profound transformations.  The guest will be Pat Hughes, one of the book's co-authors who will share important insight into the lessons learned since their preceding book on Gracious Space was published in 2004.  

This episode will feature a discussion of the Center for Ethical Leadership's new book --Courageous Collaboration with Gracious Space: From small openings to profound transformations.  The guest will be Pat Hughes, one of the book's co-authors who will share important insight into the lessons learned since their preceding book on Gracious Space was published in 2004.  

September 19, 2010, sermon by Dr. Janet Forbes

Join Rev. Carla and guest Dru Rafkin, life and organizational coach. After a successful 15-year career in the entertainment industry, Dru shifted her focus to organizing consulting. Quickly Dru became known for her streamlining and organizing skills but also in diffusing stress. Dru is also a Gracious Space practitioner for the Center for Ethical Leadership in Seattle, Washington.