Podcasts about open circle

Tilly's story is one of wild expansion—growing up with a conservative Dad and a strict Seventh Day Adventist upbringing, where sex before marriage was a one-way ticket to hell. Fast forward to now, she's leading The Open Circle, a vibrant community of over 500 people exploring alternative relationships, and co-running FAR, the Festival of Alternative Relationships. Along the way, Tilly has reclaimed the parts of her sexuality once suppressed by the church, stepping into a life of expansion, authenticity, and deep connections.Host application form: ⁠https://forms.gle/eGNUbdpR72EnrtkX6⁠Speaker application form: ⁠https://forms.gle/9fpJTcsf1Fz9cFC29⁠Social media handles: @storiesthatstirEvent links: https://www.storiesthatstir.com/eventsWebsite: https://www.storiesthatstir.com/

In this chat around the fireside, Atz Kilcher shares his deep connection to music, nature, and the journey of self-acceptance. Reflecting on his childhood, he explores how the wilderness shaped his understanding of himself and the world around him. Atz reveals the therapeutic power of music and how returning to nature can help veterans and others find peace, purpose, and personal growth. Weaving stories of his time in Fox Canyon at the head of the Kachemak Bay in Alaska and the art of basket weaving, he illuminates how these practices connect us to nature and the wisdom of community, healing, and shared experiences. November 2nd: Songs from the Wilderness Topa Insitute, Ojai California On November 2nd join Atz Kilcher for an unforgettable evening in the serene beauty of the Topa Topa Mountains. Celebrate the powerful journey of veterans healing through nature and music. Featuring performances by Atz Kilcher, Andrew Wiscombe, Stephen Covell, Kate, and Secily Anderson, this concert brings the stories and songs of veterans to life in a way that inspires, uplifts, and connects us all. All proceeds from this event will support veterans' healing trips to Heroes Healing Homestead, a place where veterans connect with nature, each other, and themselves in the magical setting of Alaska's Kachemak Bay. Help us give back to those who have served by supporting this incredible cause. Families welcome. More Information and Buy Tickets here Special Experiences: Intimate concert and storytelling with Atz Kilcher under the Teaching Tree at 1pm November 2nd. Limited VIP tickets available. Main Concert: Enjoy Sister Friends, Andrew Wiscombe, Steven Covell and Wintergrain - hosted by Atz Kilcher in a stunning outdoor Amphitheatre nestled in the Topa Topa Mountains, Ojai California After party jam with all musicians by the Kiva fire. Limited VIP tickets available.Farmers Market: Explore local food and goodies from veteran-owned businesses from 2pm - 6pm. Silent Auction launched online October 15th: Unique handmade items from Atz Kilcher, musician memorabilia, guided adventures with Open Circle, and a chance for a trip to the Kilcher Homestead in Alaska hosted by Atz Kilcher and his family, fishing trip in the Kachemak Bay and a private concert by the fire with Atz Kilcher at Heroes Healing Homestead. Final bids Veterans Day, November 11th 2024.

Ojai's newest performing venue will be the site of a special benefit for veterans, "Heroes Healing: Songs from the Wilderness," on November 2 from 3 to 7 pm. It's being organized by Open Circle Foundation and Heroes Healing Homestead in Homer, Alaska, to provide a wilderness therapy experience for veterans suffering from service-related PTSD. Joining us on the podcast are Open Circle's founder Miriam Jones and Heroes Healing's Atz Kilcher. If that name sounds familiar, it should. Kilcher was the star of Discovery Channel's "Alaska: The Last Frontier," for 12 seasons. He is also the father of Jewel, the singer-songwriter who has sold 30 million albums. She got her Grammy-nominated start as a young child playing in a duo with her father, who is a well-known songwriter and yodeler in his own right. Kilcher has several connections to Ojai. His mother spent several months here when he was a teenager, leaving him to "hold down the fort" at the family homestead in Kachemak Bay in Homer, Alaska, and he is well acquainted with the numerous contingent of Ojai residents who also homesteaded in Homer (see Mark Lewis' story "O Pioneers!" in the Fall 2019 issue of Ojai Quarterly). The November 2nd concert will take place at the brand-new Topa Bowl in upper Ojai at the Topa Institute. Also on the bill are Andrew Wiscombe, Stephen Covell, and Kate & Secily Anderson. The event will also feature storytelling, crafts, food and more. Operation Encore is another key organizer for this event, helping develop veterans who are musicians through performances and recording opportunities. Open Circle connects veterans and other at-need people with the wilderness for restoring purpose and a sense of community. Kilcher and Jones talked about how this event came together through a fortuitous encounter with Jones and her co-founder in Alaska, Kilcher's Vietnam experiences, why tje wilderness is essential for mental health, what it's like to live on a rugged homestead while being filmed for more than a decade, and their various journeys that led up to this moment. We did not talk about Aztec death whistles, mah jongg or the Japanese royal family. For more information on this event and the organizers check out ... https://www.foundation.weareopencircle.com/ or https://www.homeralaska.org/listing/heroes-healing-homestead/2654/

In this episode, Adam and Miriam, co founders of Open Circle, dive deep into the complexities of guiding change, offering practical insights into both horizontal and vertical transformations. They emphasize the critical need for understanding and accepting change, while also exploring the common resistance humans face, often rooted in our fear of loss. Throughout the conversation, they address the challenges individuals and organizations encounter when guiding change, from managing resistance to recognizing what is truly essential. Adam and Miriam reflect on how our evolutionary attachment to status and identity can make embracing change difficult, sometimes leading to anxiety, depression, or a lack of meaning. Key Takeaways: Change is constant, and learning to navigate it is crucial. There are two types of change: horizontal (superficial) and vertical (deep, fundamental). Resistance to change, rooted in fear of loss, can block growth and lead to anxiety and depression. Nature teaches valuable lessons on cycles of life and interdependence, providing perspective on change. Vulnerability and listening are key skills for effectively guiding others through transformation. Leaders must reflect on their own biases and be open to learning from others. Links Vertical and Horizontal Change: article by Adam Ruumack Open Circle Training: Guiding Change (October 2024) Research Report: Positive Effects of time spent in nature Research Report: Positive effect of Listening Circle and Mindfulness

Join us, to mark two milestones in the We are Open Circle journey: the confirmation of Brandon as a partner and the launch of the Open Circle Foundation. The key theme from today's episode: uplifting humanity. Miriam, Adam and Brandon reflect on their shared journey, the divine appointment of their meeting, and the critical connections that forged their bond - as they reflect on the value of their shared work together: the power of their collaboration. Through their projects, empowering some of the most underserved communities in society, they seek to transform lives, develop leaders and encourage us all to recognize our shared humanity. For more information, or if you are able to support the Open Circle mission, please visit the link below. Each and every contribution will make a huge difference. https://www.foundation.weareopencircle.com/

In this heartwarming episode, certified medium and master teacher Rory Walkom shares her incredible journey into spirit communication following the loss of her father. Through intuitive awakening and meaningful signs, like a butterfly landing on her dress during her wedding, Rory emphasizes the transformative power of mediumship. She inspires us to recognize our own innate abilities and underscores the importance of ongoing development and personal growth in the practice of mediumship. Let's dive in!   About Rory: Rory Walkom is a Certified Medium and Master Teacher through the Trilogy Institute in Lily Dale, NY and author of “11 Lessons from My Dead Dead”. She is based out of Kitchener, Ontario, Canada (fellow canadian). Rory runs The Medium School - an online mediumship and intuitive development school.  The school's philosophy is centred on the idea that we are all innately capable of mediumship and connecting to our intuition.  After the sudden loss of her father, Rory was thrust into the world of spirit communication.  And she knows that if she was able to unblock her intuitive connection, anyone can.    Courses: You can sign up for my free 3-part video training course "Inner Intuition” https://themediumschool.com/free-intuition-training/ And Rory's online course for beginners, Mediumship 101 is now available on The Medium School, too.   Follow Rory on: IG: @themediumschool Website: themediumschool.com     An Evening of Mediumship - November 18, 2023 Link to event:An Evening of Mediumship   Open Mediumship Development Circle - November 23, 2023 Beginners Welcome ! Link to event: Open Circle  

Welcome to a reflection on the process of change. Three years after the pandemic, it's important to take a step back and take stock.  What on earth just happened? And how can we move on? Adam and Miriam fly solo again this week, sharing a candid discussion on how to reintegrate after disruption to our routines, philosophies, organizations and in the world as a whole. They share their own experiences of evolution within We are Open Circle, and the key reintegration lessons of group wilderness retreats, to reveal the steps you can take to battle cynicism and create lasting change in your organization. Experimentation, play, diversity, discovery… let's dive in!

Integrity, capability, commitment. Welcome to a rounded reflection on the role of trust within our communities, organizations and in society as a whole. Trust is a practice, not a skill - a lifelong process of evaluation and maintenance.  Sharing reflections on the ‘three kinds of trust' and the cyclical parallels of our professional lives and the natural world, today's discussion reveals the inner tenets of the We are Open Circle methodology. Join us, as hosts Adam and Miriam share experiences from their careers educating and developing leaders - shining a light on the intrinsic need for trust in individuals, values and systems.

Our Host, Lori La Bey talks with Terri Joski-Lang, the Director of Open Circle of Hopkins, Cora Cromer who is the Director of Open Circle Apple Valley, and Elaine Lofquist who is a loving care partner for her husband Marv who attends the Open Circle program. Learn: What is an Adult Day Program and who attends? What specific types of services does Open Circle offer? What is Open Circles Philosophy and how does it differ from others? What are the benefits for the member who attends and their care partner? Hear beautiful stories from both staff and a family member who has a loved attending Open Circle and how the program empowers them. How leveraging the member's past history can enhance the present; as well as how introducing new things can increase joyful times and help them gain confidence. Where are the Open Circle Adult Day Services located? How is the service paid for? Here Is A Bit More About Our Guests: Terri Joski-Lang has traveled the Alzheimer's dementia journey with several family members, Terri became passionate about improving others' dementia journeys and focusing on what persons living with dementia can still do, with purpose. Cora Cromer has worked at Open Circle of Apple Valley for 11 years.   Her background is in music therapy and education.  Cora is committed to helping older adults find meaningful relationships and providing a space for lifelong learning through person-centered care. Elaine Lofquist's husband Marv has been enrolled at Open Circle Hopkins one day/ week since November of 2021.  The two also participate in Giving Voice Choir of which they are founding members. They have been to Washington DC seven times to advocate for those living with dementia and caregiver support. They also are participants in a Memory Café, to name a few things they do. Contact Open Circle Adult Day Services Website Phone Numbers Apple Valley, MN   952-236-2524  Minneapolis, MN   612-843-4940  Hopkins, MN   952-935-8143  Facebook @OpenCircleAdultDayServices  Contact Lori La Bey Find FREE Educational Resources and a variety of services at www.AlzheimersSpeaks.com Alzheimer's Speaks Radio - Shifting dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world one episode at a time by raising all voices and delivering sound news, not just sound bites since 2011.Support this Show: https://alzheimersspeaks.com/donate-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Host, Lori La Bey talks with Terri Joski-Lang, the Director of Open Circle of Hopkins, Cora Cromer who is the Director of Open Circle Apple Valley, and Elaine Lofquist who is a loving care partner for her husband Marv who attends the Open Circle program. Contact Open Circle Adult Day Services     Website Apple Valley, MN  952-236-2524       Minneapolis, MN  612-843-4940     Hopkins, MN   952-935-8143   Facebook  @OpenCircleAdultDayServices Contact Lori La Bey Find FREE Educational Resources and a variety of services at www.AlzheimersSpeaks.com Alzheimer's Speaks Radio - Shifting dementia care from crisis to comfort around the world one episode at a time by raising all voices and delivering sound news, not just sound bites since 2011.Support this Show: https://alzheimersspeaks.com/donate-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join us as Theodora and Shane Nelson chat about being Pagan in the military, religious discrimination, and much more!  Sacred Well Congregation » https://www.sacredwell.org/ INSTAGRAM » https://www.instagram.com/theodorapendragon/ PODCAST » https://www.witchcasting.com/ EMAIL » TheodoraPendragon@gmail.com LISTEN ON APPLE PODCASTS: https://apple.co/43dBJv2 LISTEN ON SPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/3MjgUIP INSTAGRAM » https://www.instagram.com/theodorapendragon/ ABOUT THE PODCAST » Every day witches emerge from the shadows of secrecy. Broom closets are flinging open, and witches are taking flight. Whether you're hiding in your cozy closet or flying with pride, stay for a spell as Witchcasting with Theodora Pendragon and her guests share magickal moments, stir the cauldron, and debunk misinformation and misconceptions about paganism, witches, and our wonderful world of magick. TAKING THE FLIGHT OUT OF THE BROOM CLOSET » https://amzn.to/3SVZVgLDISCLAIMER: Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. There is no additional charge to you! Thank you for supporting my channel so I can continue to provide you with free content.   

Theodora is joined by US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Morgain Rhiannon, as they talk about Morgain's witchy journey in uniform as she helped facilitate the first Open Circle at the US Air Force Academy, was a board member of the Military Pagan Network, and now is faculty at the US Army War College. Find out why it's so fantastic to be a witch in the military in 2023! 

Theodora is joined Dr. David Oringderff, founder of Sacred Well Congregation. Dr. Oringderff talks about how he facilitated the US Army's first Open Circle at Fort Hood, Texas which was the beginning of the military accommodating Earth-centered religions on military installations. Dr. Oringderff also talks about his involvement with the Pentacle Quest Victory. Dr. Oringderff doesn't stop there. Meet him here on this episode to find out more. Sacred Well Congregation » https://www.sacredwell.org/

Outdoors is where the magic happens. Today we welcome Dustin Diefenderfer, the founder of MTNTough Fitness Labs. A passionate advocate for the power of the outdoors to renew and develop our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, our discussion with Dustin reveals a passion for transforming lives. He shares the life experiences that showed the path to founding the company in 2016, unveiling a consistent theme of entrepreneurship as a journey - one that often mimics the principles and philosophies of backcountry pursuits. Join us as we discover Dustin's drive for giving back to the community and the power of teamwork in the great outdoors. We are Open Circle has partnered with MTNTough to provide training for the physical and mental preparation for our wilderness experiences. All listeners get 3 months free: Use code OC3MO: http://lab.mtntough.com?code=oc3mo

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For something a little different, this week I'm sharing the replay of my Open Circle that I held on Monday night, and I think you're really going to enjoy it! This is a beautiful session, one that you can sit in full (think meditation, journaling, tapping) and experience a release from anything that is weighing you down at the moment. One of my favourite things to do is to create spaces for potent transformation, and the tapping circles I run in Connect + Clear, The Membership are no exception. This is an invitation for you to sit in circle with me, to experience 60 minutes of EFT firsthand and feel the shift take place. This is your chance to bring whatever you feel depleted & disappointed about to the table. To clear the fogginess, the fear, the perceived failures; And release it so you can feel: Relaxed. Lighter. Calm. Confident. Aligned. At peace. Joyful. All of the good stuff! — Opening Journalling Prompts What is the most pressing thing in your life that you would like some support in clearing tonight? Feel free to write down 2 or 3 and feel into what feels most significant today. What emotions come up when you think about this issue? For example, it could be anger, sadness, anxiety. Do you feel anything in the body when you think about this issue? Could be tightness in the chest, sick feeling, headache. Back ache. How strong is this emotion out of 10? 1 being very weak, 10 being extremely strong/present. Closing Journalling Prompts How do you want to feel? What emotions would you like to ground in? Create an affirmation or intention that sums up how you'd like to feel, act or be now that we've cleared the heavy energy. Some prompts to help get you started: I am... I will… I feel… I can… —Thank you for listening! Please subscribe/follow to stay up to date with future episodes and if you feel called to, I would love if you could leave me a 5 star review, and help others find this podcast. ❤️ Free Download: Sign up with your email to receive a Tapping Kit to Help You Get Unstuck and Create Change. Includes a 30 minute audio, Two EFT Tapping Meditations and The Daily Practise. Join Connect + Clear, The Membership for fortnightly tapping circles (group sessions) with me, full access to my courses and more. Learn about The Membership here. Craving some 1:1 support? My calendar is open for private EFT sessions. Book here. Need the visual on tapping? Here are a couple of videos to support you: Basic Recipe - Tapping Demo The 9-Gamut Technique - Tapping Demo And, if we're not already instagram friends, you can find me on the gram via @erinlaishley.

Joining Nadia in the studio for this episode of The Talent of FinTech Podcast is a brilliant duo from Funding Circle: Victoria Bradford, People Director; and Poonam Verma, Director of Talent Development, Culture and Belonging.This episode is an exploration of a firm doing incredible things to redefine what it means to work in financial services. Both Victoria and Poonam share the values that are driving this transformational approach, sharing foundational principles such as:Think Smart; Making It Happen; We Stand Together; Always Be Open; Live The Adventure; Being Obsessed Over The Customer.And this is all underpinned by a wider commitment to DE&I. Most clearly displayed through an initiative they run named Open Circle, DE&I for Funding Circle is about creating a destination where everyone's voice is valued. Uniqueness is celebrated and no voice or question is muted.Poonam and Victoria share what's next for a firm already offering so much. 2023 will see their values truly come alive- and we can't wait to watch this journey!

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Why do we fail to achieve the most important high-stakes changes that our lives demand and that we desire? According to the Immunity to Change approach to human development, it is because we have a sub-conscious "immune system" of competing commitments and assumptions that make those changes nearly impossible; until we uncover and overturn them. In this episode, Deborah Helsing, the Director of Mind at Work, explores the psychological "Immunity to Change" and its roots in proven theories of adult human development. Science has proven that the human mind develops throughout our lives. This development is not just about learning new skills, it's also, and more critically, about developing the capacities to thrive amidst ever-greater complexity. Deb shares with us her personal journey of development, from educator to coach, to a trainer of coaches around the world using Minds at Work's innovative and proven coaching methodology. Deborah Helsing, Ed.D. has coached individuals from many walks of life and consulted with organizations across several sectors to use the Immunity-to-Change approach to reach their most-cherished improvement goals. More recently, her role as Director of Coach Learning Programs at Minds at Work has focused on developing coaches' and consultants' abilities to integrate the ITC method into their own practices. Minds at Work helps people to close the gap between their good intentions and their actual behaviors. Their work is based on Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey's breakthrough discovery of the hidden behavioral dynamic called the “Immunity to Change.” This highly lauded technique is now being used by executives, senior teams, and individuals in business, governmental, and educational organizations in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Learn more at Minds at Work Go deeper with the Minds at Work library. Schedule a discovery call to learn how We are Open Circle uses the Immunity to Change work in our team development and individual coaching approach.

"Culture feels squishy to a lot of people. It is squishy and hard to quantify. When you look at visible and observable behaviors - how people show up - you start to get data that gives you an organizational diagnosis of where and why people are experiencing the organization. Culture is often defined by the worst behavior tolerated. How do people treat the lowest ranking member in your organization? That is the picture of culture that people experience." ~ Julie Diamond Julie Diamond, CEO, and founder of Diamond Leadership joins us in this second part of this three-part series looking at the value and cost of culture for organizations going through transition and growth. Julie dives into the way power-specific assessments can be a useful diagnostic tool in looking at culture through everyday work behavior and insight into drivers for cultural health: job satisfaction, turnover, and retention. The practical and actionable insights Julie brings through her work make this podcast a must for anyone interested in working for organizational health, DEI, and combating burnout. She has spent her entire career creating transformational growth experiences for leaders and organizations around the world for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, labor unions, and international NGOs. She is the developer of Power Intelligence®, a framework and set of competencies for helping leaders understand how to use power and authority with greater impact and effectiveness. Her special passion is to help leaders not only be their best but be able to bring out the best in the people they lead. And her area of focus for the past 30 years has been on the topic of power, a topic that is often misunderstood and maligned. Her latest book, Power: A User's Guide, is a handbook for using power effectively and ethically, no matter what role you're in. We are Open Circle is a certified provider of her DPA and DPI tools, and Adam is a certified Diamond Power Coach. Connect with us if you want to learn more, and go deeper than the symptoms to find real solutions.

Sara and Parisa are sisters who are on a mission to change how we live through personal development and community. They've founded Soulect, a personal development platform where conscious visionaries find each other, form intimate Circles of 5, supporting one another and keeping each other accountable in their personal development journey through ongoing, weekly meetings. Soulect is a personal development space devoted to becoming your highest self and choosing your life consciously while having support, clarity, community, and accountability. This happens in intimate groups who gather weekly with the intention to share, heal, grow, and consciously create our lives. Connect with Sara and Parisa at Soulect! -- Links: Website, Instagram Click here to join an Open Circle!

In this episode, we kick-off a three part series, where we will be looking at the value of culture amidst structural change and strategic growth, and the false separation between culture and strategy. Adam Rumack and Miriam Joy Jones discuss how they assess cultural ecosystems with clients, support an organization's journey through change, and their roles as guides on this journey of transformation. Join us for exploring into questions like: What does it take to shift the focus of traditional corporate meaning making- which says value is determined by outmoded industrial production models- to an organization that leads to new frontiers of collective adaptation? Miriam & Adam's experiments blending circle-based deep listening practice with structural work, circle-based governance, shadow work, conflict exploration, and educational leadership, led to the birth of We are Open Circle in 2016. We are Open Circle works with teams to: remove obstacles to growth broaden perspectives deepen connections and uncover blind-spots ... allowing organizations to drive innovation and maximize results. Our programs enable organizations to understand and grow cultural capacity to solve complex problems at scale. In a client's discovery phase with We are Open Circle, we: map key tension points and opportunities identify effective levers for fostering cultural adaptability and resilience uncovering opportunity gaps in alignment, effectiveness of leadership, and goal related decision making Looking for a clear snapshot of your organization's ability to adapt to strategic growth plans and unexpected market changes? Our Cultural Valuation provides a projection of current culture and human ecosystem's impact on organizational growth, goals, and adaptation. Email info@weareopencircle.com to learn more. More about Adam and Miriam: Adam Rumack is an educator, facilitator, and organizational consultant who is passionate about creating communities and organizations of care and compassion. He has an MBA with a focus on International Management and Leadership and an undergraduate degree in Literary Studies and Critical Theory as well as a deep and wide-ranging interest in, and keen sense of, the subtle dynamics of human behavior that organizations represent and express. Miriam Joy Jones began her career designing and delivering change efforts and leadership programs to organizations across the globe. While looking for new ideas to inform her organizational work and respond to changes she was witnessing in the world, she focused on learning forms influenced by indigenous, nature-based cultures and societies including circle listening, circle governance and rites of passage. Previous client of theirs include: PricewaterhouseCoopers, Coates, Coca-Cola Amatil, Ernst & Young, Snapchat, Canva, Inversion Yoga, B-corporation, Sunny & 72, and Wilderness Torah, The Rites of Passage Institute, the Centre for Men in Australia, Inversion Yoga, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, the Theosophical Society, The Tarzana Treatment Center, among others.

The chaos and confusion of systems collapsing and the dramatic change all around the world, is a call for a broader array of ideas to envision a new way forward. This episode of the Beyond Listening podcast is part of our Getting to Know You Series where we gather a diverse group of people from around the globe to share their stories around a question they are passionate about. In this session, Intergenerational Vision, we ask voices less heard in our community- our elders and our youth- about where they are, where they want to be, and what they want the world to look like. Together the elders and youth play with ways we can work together to build this future. Our guest storytellers are: Eileen Cooper Reed, Paul Hill Jr., Teresa L. Gonzalezis, Quanita Roberson, Mary Jones, Tia Martin, Napali Raymundo, and Aubri Jones. Getting to Know You is a free community series where we reclaim the art of storytelling and listening, from and through our hearts, by learning and growing together in this time of change. Both the Beyond Listening podcast and the Getting to Know You series are brought to you by We are Open Circle.

In this episode of the Beyond Listening podcast, we hear from Dr. Wendy Fraser about the research she captured in her book: Trust Repair: It is Possible! Learn about: psychological safety, mending group conflict, conversational competence, and the journey of trust repair in both personal relationships and groups. Dr. Wendy Fraser believes in and mentors the collective wisdom in an organization by engaging the talents and hearts of people. Through leadership and organization development, she fosters and builds capacity through strengthening human relationships and systems so that groups and organizations thrive. She brings fresh approaches to her work with a flare of humor and can yield results. For over ten years, Wendy actively researched trust behaviors and trust repair in groups. She is an author, speaker, and consultant who helps groups and organizations thrive. She has over twenty-five years' experience in organization development working with public, private, education, and nonprofit clients throughout the United States, Canada, Caribbean Islands, and China. Wendy received the State of Washington Governor's Distinguished Managers Award – Sustaining Leader. And, she was honored with an international humanitarian award for her work with developing leadership strengths in youth around the world. Wendy holds a doctorate and three masters degrees. She teaches at two universities and is a highly sought after consultant and speaker. She lives in Olympia, Washington with her family and is a volunteer in the schools and community service organizations. Wendy's book Trust Repair: It is Possible!, presents a research-based model and behaviors that support healthy relationships. It offers wise strategies, easy-to-use tools, and is a fresh approach to seemingly strengthen trust. You can follow Wendy here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-fraser-phd-a55ba8/ Check out her blog! https://www.wendyfraserconsulting.com/blog/ Learn more about her consulting services here: https://www.wendyfraserconsulting.com/ The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation.

In Episode 24, we hear from Jeff Eckman, Founder and CEO of Blue Green, about creative conflict, and multiplying love through business. Jeff earned his BS in Operations Technology at Northeastern University, and holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. Jeff lives in Belmont, Massachusetts with his wife and two children, and is the drummer for Boston's original reggae band, Pressure Cooker. Blue Green is a marketing technology company that delivers exponential growth in returns on marketing investments to medium and large enterprises. With over 20 years' experience in digital, design, and agile teams, Jeff has a passion for applying simplicity to complex problems, and creating relationships between people and technology that generate novel value. He leads cross-functional teams supporting the diverse and ever-expanding needs and responsibilities of marketing organizations—from strategy to creative to technology. Beneficiaries of Blue Green's work include national and global brands such as NBC Universal, California Closets, athenahealth, and PayPal. Learn more about Jeff, BlueGreen, & Pressure Cooker here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eckman/ https://www.bluegreenbrands.com/ https://www.pressurecooker.net/ The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

A dialogue of reconciling patterns of oppression, shame and silencing. What is it to acknowledge our experience of color and go beyond the trauma and the triggers to a conversation of the human soul, and to carry together the legacy of hurt, oppression, shame and silencing? To step past political correctness to the fullness of story and the healing that comes from being seen and deeply heard. In this listening circle we focus on the color of skin, and its interaction with our stories, our listening and the way we relate to each other in the world. This episode's guest storytellers are: Firman Brown is an avid researcher, modern philosopher, and Founder/CEO of Le Talke Shoppe Online & Centre for Art & Talk. The author of “How To Love People...Regardless of Race Creed or Color”, his mission is to add a truly social dimension to our culture- for us and our next generations. Monil Shah, Marketing Technologist and a part-time actor based in the Boston area, was born and brought up in Bombay, India and moved to the United States when he was 17. More than success, he thinks we need more kindness in our lives. Eileen Cooper Reed is a change maker and advocate dedicated to the improvement of the human condition-particularly for children and families of color. Before becoming a lawyer, she was trained in community development and worked in both rural & urban settings. Tom Keefe is focused on pedagogy & leadership, genocide education, and identity construction. His recent publications include “Race, Identity, and Choice: Black Voices on Liberia and the American Colonization Society” and “Using Art to Trigger Memory, Inter-generational Learning, & Community”. Byron McMillan is a decorated, combat-veteran evolving into a non violent, contemplative peacemaker. He longs to use the entirety of his being to help bring about elder-led communities of radical belonging, by lovingly utilizing the two great implements of compassion, and the wisdom of the interconnectedness of everything. Ingrid Slater is a coach, facilitator and consultant contributing to organizational, community and individual transformation. Hailing from South Africa, she is passionate about social justice, diversity and inclusion, and reconciliation. This episode's hosts are Miriam and Irasha, who share a passion for leading circles that assist in healing patterns of oppression and divide. Together for the last six years, online and in person, they have been creating spaces where all truths and people are welcome. Irasha Talifero has sat in thousands of listening circles and was part of the founding group of The Ojai Foundation where the listening circle was developed as a form of peacemaking for over 40 years. Her most powerful experiences are with “at-risk youth” and “newly released prisoners.” Miriam Joy Jones, co-founder of We are Open Circle, is focused on transformational education, cultural change, and leadership. She was influenced by indigenous nature-based cultures & societies: circle listening & governance, rites of passage, and nature-based rituals. Humans have been practicing meaning-making through telling stories in a circle since the beginning of time. We are Open Circle is a social impact organization that supports change-makers, organizations and community groups working with complexity, collective adaptation and the wisdom of diversity. www.weareopencircle.com

In this episode of the Beyond Listening Podcast, Miriam and Adam (co-founders of We are Open Circle and hosts of the Beyond Listening Podcast) reflect on the value of their mistakes with real-life examples. They share reflections on how valuing mistakes can lead us towards avoiding the pain of "shoulding ourselves to death," and making meaning out of shame, righteousness and everything in between.

This is the story of Tracy and Georgia. Today Tracy shares with us her youngest daughter Georgia, a beautiful soul, a spark of light, a loving, fun filled, compassionate and kind person with a huge heart warming smile. Georgia's big heart enveloped her family, friends and she had a special place in there for animals too- any human or animal to experience Georgia's love was a lucky being! Georgia had a full life and touched many people far and wide. Sadly her life ended shortly after a motor vehicle accident, with her boyfriend Josh, just before she turned 16. The circumstances surrounding the accident buried her family in another layer of grief. Tracy shares with us how the very essence of Georgia has aided and guided her through this journey of grief and life after the accident. Tracy also gives an insight into restorative justice and her experience in the Open Circle program. We hope a little of Georgia's light touches you all through Tracy. This is the story of Tracy and Georgia. Credits: Host- Rebecca Gallagher & Caitlin Epps Guest- Tracy Larsen Follow The Loss Mothers Journey Instagram @thelossmothers Facebook- www.facebook.com/thelossmothers Please remember to subscribe, rate and review... and share with those that would benefit from listening to these stories xo For more information on Open Circle - RMIT Restorative Justice, visit the link below Open Circle | RMIT Centre for Innovative Justice (cij.org.au)

My conversation today is with Kelly Kienzle, the founder of Open Circle Coaching.  Kelly shares pieces of her journey including the loss of her father in the midst of COVID, the deep challenges that exist within long term healthy relationships, and learning to be fully present with herself and be attentive to her own self-care so she can truly be there for others.Kelly  provides leadership coaching and facilitation to individuals and teams to improve organizational performance.  She believes that by strengthening self-awareness and widening perspective, a leader can learn to see scenarios from a new angle that uncovers the possibility for greater productivity, creativity and overall fulfillment.Kelly works with emerging and growing leaders to achieve growth in their professional lives.  She supports their discovery of new mindsets and their experimentation with new behaviors, thus accelerating their career development.  She helps all of her clients build skills in self-identified areas including effective communication, building trust, navigating change, team management, leadership presence and vision-setting.Clients work with her in both one-on-one coaching sessions and highly interactive team workshops.  Her company also designs and delivers leadership development programs for organizations investing in their human capital.Connect with Kelly:Kelly's Website: Open Circle CoachingRead more by Kelly at Open Circle Coaching ViewsReferred to by Kelly:The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruizwww.makelifelessdifficult.com

In episode 10, we talk with Father Jim Heft, an Alton M. Brooks Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California and Founder and President Emeritus of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies (IACS). Father Heft was also honored with the Theodore Hesburgh Award for long and distinguished service to Catholic Higher Education in 2011.  He served on the board of the American Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities and chaired that board for two years. He spent many years at the University of Dayton, serving as chair of the Theology Department for six years, Provost of the university for eight years, and then Chancellor for 10 years. He left the University of Dayton in the summer of 2006 and founded the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies (IACS) at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Father Heft has written and edited numerous books and has written more than one hundred and fifty articles and book chapters. Most recently, he co-edited Empty Churches: Non-Affiliations in America with Jan Stets and wrote and published with Oxford University Press, The Future of Catholic Higher Education. Topics discussed in this episode include the challenges of Catholic Universities such as commercialism and secularism, communication between the disciplines, the idea of the open circle, identifying universal concerns, Catholic social teaching, traditions and traditionalism, and academic freedom and fidelity.

The way we listen forms the way we understand the world. In this session of the Getting to Know You series, we explore different perspectives on The Art of Listening, and how it shapes our actions. This month's featured storytellers are: Dr. Tjanara Goreng Goreng is a Wakka Wakka Wulli Wulli Traditional Owner from Central Queensland who has had a diverse career as both an academic researcher, community development worker and senior policy Director in the Australian Public Service. Lanalle L Smith Dine' works with Indigenous Native communities to develop financial assets and create wealth through financial capabilities trainings. Lorenzo McDuffie is a spiritual, human centered, social activist, and entrepreneur who is looking forward to being a part of this conversation. Mario Fernández Rodríguez of Costa Rica is a musician, song-writer, soul surfer, sport activist and radio producer @PuntoSurf April Petillo is a professor, nonprofit consultant, outspoken advocate, academic activist, proud family member, sassy wife, committed dog mom, and devoted friend--all of which are inspired by community social justice and the idea of mutual aid. Mohsen Mahdawi is a Palestinian refugee with a story of love and peace after surviving fear and war. His passion for peacemaking and justice has led him to Columbia University where he is currently studying. Briony Greenhill is a folk-soul improvisational artist who teaches Collaborative Vocal Improvisation (CVI) internationally. She's co-creating a Center of Improvisation and Regenerative Village in the French Pyrenees. Dr. Jeen Rooks is chiropractor and integrative healer, and studies and guides the body's many forms of communication through engaging in conversations in care and healing. Kimberly Holloway is a Seattle based choreographer, dancer, and teaching artist. Her goal is to share beauty and authentic human experience while striving to create spaces where connection and community can thrive. Getting to Know You and the Beyond Listening Podcast are brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact organization that helps change-makers, community groups, and organizations evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

In Part 2 with Eileen and India, we continue the journey through the territory of discrimination, race and equity- exploring personal and professional stories of societal and organizational transformation. Eileen Cooper Reed is a change maker and advocate. Her entire adult life has been dedicated to the improvement of the human condition particularly for children and families of color. Before becoming a lawyer, Eileen was trained in community development and worked in both rural and urban settings.After graduating from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, she did a stint at the US Court of Appeals before settling in as a Juvenile Court Referee. In 1993, Eileen opened the Cincinnati office of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF). Her passion and dedication for improving the lives of our most vulnerable children and their families was exceptional and eventually she assumed the helm of the Ohio office of CDF. Eileen's devotion to service led to her election to the City of Cincinnati Board of Education where she served two four-year terms and was chosen President by her colleagues four of those years. While on the Board of Education, Eileen was elected to the Executive Committee of the Council for Great City Schools, the preeminent organization committed to urban education. At CCGCS, she chaired the National Advisory Committee on Black Males. India Martin is a 25-year veteran of financial services and member of the Forbes Coaches Council. A career expat, she spent 20 years of her career in Europe and Asia holding global COO, CIO and CTO roles. In her final role at JPMorgan, she was managing director and Global COO for Investment Banking Technology and Operations, where I had multi-billion-dollar budgetary management for a staff of more than 15,000 people in 40 countries. A diversity, equity, and inclusion practitioner, she is focused on race and gender equity and has taken more than 10,000 people through her racial equity capacity building workshops. She is on the coaching faculty of Georgetown University's Executive Master's in Leadership Program and is a visiting instructor at Howard University's for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate program. During her time in Europe, India was named one of the top 50 businesswomen in Europe and also to the UK Powerlist for successive years. India speaks fluent French and functional Japanese. She sits on the board of Euromoney Institutional Investors PLC , is married with 3 children and lives between Washington DC and London. The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact organization that helps change-makers, community groups, and organizations evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

In this first episode of a two part series with Eileen and India, we explore the cross section of family, race, culture, and gender in the forming and reforming of identity. India and Eileen traverse across the broad territory of community, control, the fear of our own power, and transforming equity in corporations, communities and the United States. Eileen Cooper Reed is a change maker and advocate. Her entire adult life has been dedicated to the improvement of the human condition particularly for children and families of color. Before becoming a lawyer, Eileen was trained in community development and worked in both rural and urban settings.After graduating from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, she did a stint at the US Court of Appeals before settling in as a Juvenile Court Referee. In 1993, Eileen opened the Cincinnati office of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF). Her passion and dedication for improving the lives of our most vulnerable children and their families was exceptional and eventually she assumed the helm of the Ohio office of CDF. Eileen's devotion to service led to her election to the City of Cincinnati Board of Education where she served two four-year terms and was chosen President by her colleagues four of those years. While on the Board of Education, Eileen was elected to the Executive Committee of the Council for Great City Schools, the preeminent organization committed to urban education. At CCGCS, she chaired the National Advisory Committee on Black Males. India Martin is a 25-year veteran of financial services and member of the Forbes Coaches Council. A career expat, she spent 20 years of her career in Europe and Asia holding global COO, CIO and CTO roles. In her final role at JPMorgan, she was managing director and Global COO for Investment Banking Technology and Operations, where I had multi-billion-dollar budgetary management for a staff of more than 15,000 people in 40 countries. A diversity, equity, and inclusion practitioner, she is focused on race and gender equity and has taken more than 10,000 people through her racial equity capacity building workshops. She is on the coaching faculty of Georgetown University's Executive Master's in Leadership Program and is a visiting instructor at Howard University's for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Certificate program. During her time in Europe, India was named one of the top 50 businesswomen in Europe and also to the UK Powerlist for successive years. India speaks fluent French and functional Japanese. She sits on the board of Euromoney Institutional Investors PLC , is married with 3 children and lives between Washington DC and London. The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact organization that helps change-makers, community groups, and organizations evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

*** Learn more about how you can join here *** https://weareopencircle.com/bnl-commu... In this conversation Miriam and Adam from We are Open Circle discuss the importance of communities to explore the importance of relating with the community in a transparent, supportive and open way. Relevant questions include: - Why did you feel We are Open Circle was a relevant community service? - What was missing over the many years of being involved in community organizations that drove you to develop the different pieces of training? - What do they offer? and for who are these training? - What do they foresee being able to be accomplished or achieved by people taking the stage 1 training? what insights will they get? - What takeaway from the first training did Souvereign have? Thanks for watching, the only thing that keeps our content flowing and going is YOU. EH, members get access to exclusive videos, benefits and support our shared mission. Become A Earth Hero Member: Click here to learn more https://earthheroestv.com/pages/earth... Join the community here: https://www.bravenewlife.net/ *** Learn more about how you can join here *** https://weareopencircle.com/bnl-commu... #community #weareopencircle #bravenewlife #organisation #together What others are saying: “It has changed me, actually transformed me. I want this for everyone, as we move forward into giving form to this new earth we are all longing to experience.” - Maya “I came away from this training with more inner reflection. The training was practical and showed how a circle functions as a listening form. It also was a tool of self-reflection.” -Janeice Garrard “There is incredible value in the material and in the way that it is presented. I think anyone interested in leading a circle of any kind would benefit from the total experience of this workshop.” -Marsha Straubing “The navigation of the facilitators was eloquent, professional and Intuitive.” -Dean Larsen --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

*** Learn more about how you can join here *** https://weareopencircle.com/bnl-commu... In this conversation Miriam and Adam from We are Open Circle discuss the importance of communities to explore the importance of relating with the community in a transparent, supportive and open way. Relevant questions include: - Why did you feel We are Open Circle was a relevant community service? - What was missing over the many years of being involved in community organizations that drove you to develop the different pieces of training? - What do they offer? and for who are these training? - What do they foresee being able to be accomplished or achieved by people taking the stage 1 training? what insights will they get? - What takeaway from the first training did Souvereign have? Thanks for watching, the only thing that keeps our content flowing and going is YOU. EH, members get access to exclusive videos, benefits and support our shared mission. Become A Earth Hero Member: Click here to learn more https://earthheroestv.com/pages/earth... Join the community here: https://www.bravenewlife.net/ *** Learn more about how you can join here *** https://weareopencircle.com/bnl-commu... #community #weareopencircle #bravenewlife #organisation #together What others are saying: “It has changed me, actually transformed me. I want this for everyone, as we move forward into giving form to this new earth we are all longing to experience.” - Maya “I came away from this training with more inner reflection. The training was practical and showed how a circle functions as a listening form. It also was a tool of self-reflection.” -Janeice Garrard “There is incredible value in the material and in the way that it is presented. I think anyone interested in leading a circle of any kind would benefit from the total experience of this workshop.” -Marsha Straubing “The navigation of the facilitators was eloquent, professional and Intuitive.” -Dean Larsen --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this episode, I speak to Jonathan Gustin. Jonathan is a psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and founder of the Purpose Guide Institute. He has taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Kaiser Permanente, Green Gulch Zen Center, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Open Circle, Bay Area Integral, and The Nondual Wisdom & Mental Health Conference. In the conversation, Jonathan and I discuss:Discovering your soul-level purposeHow we grow into our purpose Navigating our inner voice  How to think about fearLiving the questions and much moreConnect with Jonathan Gustin:Homepage: purposeguides.org/Follow In Search of Wisdom:Twitter: twitter.com/searchofwisdomInstagram: instagram.com/searchofwisdompodcastSign-up for The PATH our free newsletter (short reflections on wisdom). 

In this episode, we hear from Commander Brandon Harding, about military culture, belonging, initiation, and moving beyond the assumptions that keep us disconnected, stuck, and suffering. Brandon Harding is a military chaplain and relationship coach with two decades of experience. His passion is for assisting people and organizations in their pursuit of purpose and meaning, leading to greater productivity, healthier work cultures, and deeply satisfying relationships. He also has a coaching business, Reset Coaching, where he fuses experiences in the wild, with the Immunity to Change process, to facilitate personal and organizational development. Reset Coaching is dedicated to helping individuals live lives full of meaning and purpose, to have a relationships with deep emotional intimacy, and to create organizational culture that promotes learning and growth. Learn more at resetcoaching.com The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact organization that helps change-makers, community groups, and organizations evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

In this episode we hear from Alissa Collins, co-founder of Latitude Regenerative Real Estate. Alissa's passion is centered on the reconnection of people to nature. She is guided by the lens of Spiritual Ecology—the intersection between spirituality, ecology, and culture—and brings this ethos into her daily life and rituals. After working in diverse places and environments, Alissa went to graduate school in Brattleboro, VT to study sustainable development and see the world. It is there she met her husband and business partner Neal—they've been living and working together ever since and founded Latitude together. Latitude is a regenerative focused real estate sales and consulting firm headquartered out of the Pacific Northwest with global aspirations. Alissa has a background in fundraising, program management, and cross-cultural communication spans the US, Europe and South Asia. During her career, she has worked with public universities, corporations, non-governmental organizations, and non-profits. What is Latitude all about? Watch! Check out the The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast and Latitude Insta to dive deeper with Alissa and Neal. The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact organization that helps change-makers, community groups, and organizations evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

In this episode we hear from Ari Weinzweig, world recognized CEO for his unique leadership style, about the freedom to choose, the spirit of generosity, and honoring the discomfort of difficult questions. Ari Weinzweig is CEO and co-founding partner of Zingerman's Community of Businesses, which includes Zingerman's Delicatessen, Bakehouse, Creamery, Catering, Mail Order, ZingTrain, Coffee Company, Roadhouse, Candy Manufactory, Events at Cornman Farms, Miss Kim and Zingerman's Food Tours. Zingerman's produces, sells and serves all sorts of full flavored, traditional foods in its home of Ann Arbor, Michigan to the tune of $50,000,000 a year in annual sales. Ari was recognized as one of the “Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America” by the 2006 James Beard Foundation, was awarded a Bon Appetit Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2017 was named one of “The World's 10 Top CEOs (They Lead in a Totally Unique Way)” by Inc. Magazine. He is the author of a number of articles and books, such as “The Art of Business; Why I Want to be an Artist.”, “Going into Business with Emma Goldman”, “Humility; A Humble, Anarchistic Inquiry”, and most recently, “Working Through Hard Times; Life and Leadership Learnings from 2020”. You can find all of Ari's publications at www.zingermanspress.com The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact organization that helps change-makers, community groups, and organizations evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

In this episode of the Beyond Listening Podcast, Miriam and Adam host Maj Toure, freedom fighter and founder of Black Guns Matter. Black Guns Matter (BGM) educates people, especially youth, in urban communities in all 50 states on their 2nd amendment rights and responsibilities through safe and legal firearms training, education, and conflict resolution. BGM is fundraising for a 50 state tour to continue informing urban communities. Donate here. https://www.gofundme.com/f/black-guns-matter-tour Maj will be hosting The Solutionary Summit from September 3-4, 2021 in Miami, FL. This event features a powerful line up of standout independent thinkers, speakers, celebrities and influencers coming together to discuss economics, culture, political strategy and more. https://solutionarylifestyle.org Check out the featured collection of BGM t-shirts over at: https://blackgunsmatter.myshopify.com (It's not just a shirt it's a lifestyle) The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact organization that helps change-makers, community groups, and organizations evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

In this episode, Miriam and Adam hear from Gregor Maehle, yoga teacher and scholar, about laughing at your own authority, listening to the mystery, spirituality as a community practice, and more. Gregor Maehle began his yogic practices 40 years ago. Together with his wife, Monica, in 1996 he founded 8 Limbs in Perth, Australia.Gregor's internationally acclaimed textbook series consisting of Ashtanga Yoga: Practice and Philosophy, Ashtanga Yoga: The Intermediate Series,Pranayama: The Breath of Yoga, Yoga Meditation: Through Mantra, Chakras and Kundalini to Spiritual Freedom, Samadhi The Great Freedom and How to Find Your Life's Divine Purpose – have sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide and have been translated into eight foreign languages. Today Gregor teaches an anatomically sophisticated interpretation of traditional vinyasa yoga, integrated into the practice of the higher limbs in the spirit of Patanjali and T. Krishnamacharya. His zany sense of humour, his manifold personal experiences, and his vast and deep knowledge of scripture, Indian philosophies and yogic techniques combine to make his teachings applicable, relevant and easily accessible to all his students. He offers workshops, retreats and teacher trainings worldwide. You can find him and his wife, Dr. Monica Gauci, their writing and events, here: https://chintamaniyoga.com www.facebook.com/gregor.maehle The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact organization that helps change-makers, community groups, and organizations evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

When Jonathan Gustin was around 12 years of age, he was enthralled by a 1970s’ television show that featured a blind Buddhist priest teaching a boy his age about enlightenment and duty.  “I would live for these scenes where the priest gave the boy spiritual instruction!” he recounts. That early fascination with enlightenment led him to meditation, and travels through China and India in search of a master. Then, at age 20, he found himself on a solo meditation retreat for three weeks in a log cabin in Northern Ontario, Canada – “alone in wild nature” with “no human company, no distractions, just wild nature and meditation practice.” During the self-retreat, between periods seeking transcendence through meditation, he slipped into another more worldly, but equally profound, contemplation: “What is my place in the world?” he asked. “All at once, an image arose, like the scratchings on an ancient wood block, I saw a scene of a person (me) supporting the birth of a person’s full self,” he later wrote. “The two words that arose alongside this image were, Whole-person midwifery.” Through decades of study and practice, Jonathan eventually learned how to become the image that was revealed to his 20-year-old self. He now is a purpose guide, psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and integral mentor in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years, helping midwife the birth of a person's full self. He combines all three disciplines – meditation, psychotherapy, and purpose guiding – to support individuals seeking to answer the question that came to him in that Canadian log cabin: "what is mine to do in the world?" He helps navigate them in the journey toward wholeness through what he calls the “three worlds” of the human experience – the “upper world” of spirit seeking transcendence and enlightenment through practices such as meditation (“waking up”); the “middle world” of personality and ego seeking emotional healing through practices such as psychotherapy (“growing up”), and the “lower world” of soul seeking embodiment and offering gifts to others through soul work practices (“showing up”). He has been referred to by a luminary peer as a “rare example of a seasoned meditation teacher who understands the spiritual necessity of the descent to soul and sacred darkness — as well as the ascent to the light and the One. He guides his students in both directions, down as well as up.” Jonathan teaches that Purpose Guiding breaks the spell of our default purposes of safety, security, comfort and outward success, and orients us towards our true purpose, which is to embody our unique calling within. He passionately and skillfully invites his students to this contemporary Koan, “Where do I belong in the ecology of life?” – or, as Frederick Buechner famously wrote about life’s calling: “Where does my deep gladness and the world’s hunger meet?” Jonathan writes that finding our purpose is not a choice. It’s a discovery. We can co-create the expression of our purpose, which is where originality and joy happen, but the core of purpose is that we receive it. It is a spiritual revelation from the soul – not a stated desire of the ego – and arrived at largely by subtraction of all that is non-essential, not through formulation or addition of goals and desired impact. It is the “deepest conversation you can have with life,” he says. Jonathan is the founder and lead teacher of the Purpose Guides Institute and Green Sangha, and co-author of Purpose Rising: A Global Movement of Transformation and Meaning with Ken Wilber, Erwin Laszlo, Bill Plotkin  and others. He also serves as adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University in the Consciousness and Transformation Studies program. He has taught at the California Institute Of Integral Studies, Green Gulch Zen Center, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Open Circle, Bay Area Integral, The Nondual Wisdom & Mental Health Conference, iEvolve, San Quentin State Penitentiary, Marina Counseling Center, and iRest Institute. Jonathan says, “When we all have the opportunity to live our calling, we can support our collective true purpose: to become co-creators of our species’ evolution. We may, thus, give birth to more beauty, truth and goodness into the world.” Join us in conversation with this teacher and guide!

When Jonathan Gustin was around 12 years of age, he was enthralled by a 1970s’ television show that featured a blind Buddhist priest teaching a boy his age about enlightenment and duty.  “I would live for these scenes where the priest gave the boy spiritual instruction!” he recounts. That early fascination with enlightenment led him to meditation, and travels through China and India in search of a master. Then, at age 20, he found himself on a solo meditation retreat for three weeks in a log cabin in Northern Ontario, Canada – “alone in wild nature” with “no human company, no distractions, just wild nature and meditation practice.” During the self-retreat, between periods seeking transcendence through meditation, he slipped into another more worldly, but equally profound, contemplation: “What is my place in the world?” he asked. “All at once, an image arose, like the scratchings on an ancient wood block, I saw a scene of a person (me) supporting the birth of a person’s full self,” he later wrote. “The two words that arose alongside this image were, Whole-person midwifery.” Through decades of study and practice, Jonathan eventually learned how to become the image that was revealed to his 20-year-old self. He now is a purpose guide, psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and integral mentor in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 25 years, helping midwife the birth of a person's full self. He combines all three disciplines – meditation, psychotherapy, and purpose guiding – to support individuals seeking to answer the question that came to him in that Canadian log cabin: "what is mine to do in the world?" He helps navigate them in the journey toward wholeness through what he calls the “three worlds” of the human experience – the “upper world” of spirit seeking transcendence and enlightenment through practices such as meditation (“waking up”); the “middle world” of personality and ego seeking emotional healing through practices such as psychotherapy (“growing up”), and the “lower world” of soul seeking embodiment and offering gifts to others through soul work practices (“showing up”). He has been referred to by a luminary peer as a “rare example of a seasoned meditation teacher who understands the spiritual necessity of the descent to soul and sacred darkness — as well as the ascent to the light and the One. He guides his students in both directions, down as well as up.” Jonathan teaches that Purpose Guiding breaks the spell of our default purposes of safety, security, comfort and outward success, and orients us towards our true purpose, which is to embody our unique calling within. He passionately and skillfully invites his students to this contemporary Koan, “Where do I belong in the ecology of life?” – or, as Frederick Buechner famously wrote about life’s calling: “Where does my deep gladness and the world’s hunger meet?” Jonathan writes that finding our purpose is not a choice. It’s a discovery. We can co-create the expression of our purpose, which is where originality and joy happen, but the core of purpose is that we receive it. It is a spiritual revelation from the soul – not a stated desire of the ego – and arrived at largely by subtraction of all that is non-essential, not through formulation or addition of goals and desired impact. It is the “deepest conversation you can have with life,” he says. Jonathan is the founder and lead teacher of the Purpose Guides Institute and Green Sangha, and co-author of Purpose Rising: A Global Movement of Transformation and Meaning with Ken Wilber, Erwin Laszlo, Bill Plotkin  and others. He also serves as adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University in the Consciousness and Transformation Studies program. He has taught at the California Institute Of Integral Studies, Green Gulch Zen Center, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Open Circle, Bay Area Integral, The Nondual Wisdom & Mental Health Conference, iEvolve, San Quentin State Penitentiary, Marina Counseling Center, and iRest Institute. Jonathan says, “When we all have the opportunity to live our calling, we can support our collective true purpose: to become co-creators of our species’ evolution. We may, thus, give birth to more beauty, truth and goodness into the world.” Join us in conversation with this teacher and guide!

In this episode, Miriam and Adam speak with Christopher Arlen, who offers an unguarded expository review on his unique life experience, his burning passion for civics, and on being a good neighbor. Christopher shares stories from his early experiences working to educate and support communities during the AIDS epidemic, how he learned that "invited authority" worked significantly better than "imposed authority”, and why he is changing the way politics are done within his local community. The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact business that helps change-makers, organizations and community groups evolve and thrive with integrity in our rapidly changing world. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way organizations work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

In this episode, Miriam and Adam speak with Bill Donius about how to access an intelligence that can take us to a whole new way of understanding and world of creativity. Bill Donius, former banker and CEO, drove his bank's eightfold growth over twelve years. And the surprising secret to his success is something we all have access to, right in our own two hands. The methodology described in his New York Times best selling book, Thought Revolution, is simple and revolutionary—so simple, it begins by moving your pen from one hand to the other. Whether you're right-handed or left-handed, a whole world of change is possible. In Bill's book, you will find thought-provoking, easy-to-do exercises and prompts showing how to connect more fully with your subconscious right brain to help you reduce stress, discover your hidden talents, heal from trauma, and come to a deeper spiritual awareness. For more information, please visit WilliamAlanDonius.com The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact business that helps change-makers, organizations and community groups evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way organizations work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

I'm so excited to have an amazing guest join me for this episode. Her name is Kamilah Drummond-Forrester. Kamilah is currently a Social and Emotional Learning Consultant and a Racial and Social Justice Facilitator at The National SEED Project. She is the former director of Open Circle, a program with the Wellesley centers for women at Wellesley College. Kamilah's passion for social justice and the social and emotional well-being of children has fueled her vision for advocating for and educating others about the inextricable connections between social and emotional learning and equity. Kamilah is also a trained leader with the National seed project, where she has led cohorts of colleagues, educators, and parents through a year-long, intense community building across difference via storytelling conversation, and teaching around topics of diversity, equity, and social justice. Prior to joining Open Circle, Kamilah was the co-founder and director of wellness at a charter school in Boston and the director of an award-winning educationally-based re-entry program in the Suffolk County House of Corrections. Kamilah is a sought-after speaker, consultant, and workshop presenter on topics of educational equity and social and emotional learning. She writes about these topics and women change worlds blog and recently published articles in EdSurge and the Hechinger Report, Kamilah ground herself and works in the spiritual and contemplate of practices that integrate multiple cosmologies that center healing, radical compassion, and truth as cornerstones to authentic transformation. Kamilah is a first-generation American with Jamaican roots with an unwavering love for her West Indian heritage and history. She is a mother, wife, daughter, sister, and friend. Listen in as we discuss how our stories define us and affect our well-being, our relationships, our present, and our future. We cannot choose our family stories any more than we can choose our ancestors but we can harness light and power from the experiences of our lives to become our best selves.GUEST INFO —Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamilah-drummond-forrester-71595a1b/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/kamilah.drummond.16Twitter - https://twitter.com/kamilahdrummon1?lang=en LET'S GET SOCIAL —Linked in - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tia-navelene-barnes-ab262576/Twitter - https://twitter.com/drtianbarnesWebsite - https://www.drtiabarnes.com/ MORE ABOUT DR. BARNES —Dr. Tia N. Barnes is an education researcher with a passion for improving social/emotional outcomes for culturally diverse students and those with emotional and behavioral disorders. Her research focuses on the social-emotional well-being of minoritized populations. To study this she focuses on the areas of social-emotional learning, culturally responsive pedagogy, and special education. Her research has been published in Prevention Science, International Journal of Educational Research, Aggression and Violent Behavior, Infant and Child Development, Journal of School Violence, and Developmental Review.

In this episode, Adam & Miriam connect with Betsy Perluss, Ph.D. to talk about archetypes, depth psychotherapy, moving towards wholeness, and much more. Betsy is a licensed marriage and family therapist (MFT 32191), professional clinical counselor (LPCC 766) and credentialed school counselor. Her approach is holistic, taking into consideration all aspects of your being - body, mind, and spirit, recognizing the inherent wisdom of psyche that moves toward wholeness no matter how deep the wounding or severe the inner conflict. She is involved in the wilderness guide council, school of lost borders, and many different university's. For more information visit: https://betsyperluss.com/ The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact organization that helps change-makers, community groups, and organizations evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

In this episode, Adam & Miriam speak with Michelle Duval to talk about traits of successful entrepreneurs, servant leadership, and resiliency. Michelle Duval is one of the world's most sought-after business coaches who works with many of Australia's fast growth venture success stories. She is also a successful public speaker, author and entrepreneur. The Sydney born entrepreneur is creating waves in the coaching and entrepreneurial communities with her latest innovation, Fingerprint for Success (F4S) world-first entrepreneurial tech platform. The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact business that helps change-makers, organizations and community groups evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way organizations work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

In episode Adam & Miriam speak with Dr. Tjanara Goreng Goreng about Sacred Leadership-colonialism, First Nation, and leading through collective trauma. Tjanara is a Wakka Wakka Wulli Wulli Traditional Owner from Central Queensland who was born in the outback at Longreach in central western Queensland. Tjanara has had a diverse career as both and academic researcher, community development worker and senior policy Director in the Australian Public Service in particular at the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet and in the Australian Foreign Service. She worked for many years in the Australian Public Service in a range of mainstream departments and rose to a Director in the Office of Indigenous Policy Co-ordination prior to leaving the government for full time academic work in the mid 2000's. Tjanara has also worked in corporate Australia as a transformational leadership senior consultation at Zaffyre International working with overseas and national Australian companies in the energy, insurance, finance and mining sectors. Tjanara has been a psychotherapist in private practice, has trained other therapists in Non Shaming Therapy and worked at the Los Angles Rosemead Hospital's John Bradshaw Centre for Addiction and Abuse Recovery in the mid 1990's. The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact business that helps change-makers, organizations and community groups evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way organizations work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

In this episode Adam & Miriam talk with Janine Firpo about money, power, and ownership. Janine is a seasoned values-aligned investor and social innovator, with a long history of working at the intersection of women and their money. From the early years of Apple Computer to senior positions with Hewlett-Packard, the World Bank, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Janine has always found herself making an impact. In 2017 she left a successful 35-year career in technology and international development to focus on how women can create a more just and equitable society through their financial investments. Her book, Activate Your Money: Invest to Grow Your Wealth and Build a Better World, was a collaborative effort with over 40 financial experts and a larger team of reviewers. It will be published in May by Wiley. Janine walks her talk. She is taking action to move all her own assets into investments she feels good about and is watching them grow with market-rate returns. She is also a lead investor in Next Wave Impact, an impact fund designed to help more women become angel investors. And, she chairs the board of Zebras Unite, an organization that is developing the capital structures, community, and culture that non-unicorn start-up businesses need to thrive. The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact business that helps change-makers, organizations and community groups evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way organizations work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

In this episode, Adam and Miriam chat with Meredith Little to discuss rites of passage, the life and death cycle of an organization, new paradigm shifts, and much more. Meredith Little and her husband Steven Foster co-founded Rites of Passage Inc. in 1976 and The School of Lost Borders in 1981, pioneering new methods and dynamics of modern pan-cultural passage rites in the wilderness and creating innovative practices of “field eco-therapy.” She has dedicated her life to returning meaningful and culturally appropriate rites of passage ceremonies to all people in support of the natural cycles of living and dying necessary for healthy lives and a healthy world. Meredith is also dedicated to reconnecting people with the very roots of their own nature reflected in the wisdom of the land around them. She lives a passion for the diversity of life, for the nature of human, for the voice of ceremony, and for the healing qualities of community. Learn more: http://www.lostborderspress.org/ and http://www.schooloflostborders.org/ The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact business that helps change-makers, organizations and community groups evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way organizations work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

In this weeks episode, Adam & Miriam have a great conversation with Julia Anderson about her journey, identity, equity, and much more. Julia is a Program Management Professional who has worked across the nonprofit and education sectors with a commitment to social justice, creating collaborative and inclusive cultures, and advancing equitable outcomes in education and employment. The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact organization that helps change-makers, community groups, and organizations evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

"Having the mind of Christ is a way of knowing from a heart motivated by love, demonstrated by emptying ourselves and letting go of our position and privilege and everything we think we're entitled to and deserve, doing this all on behalf of others and on behalf of the entire world."In your own words, what does it mean to have the mind of Christ?//Philippians 2:5-11Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited,but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness.And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death— even death on a cross.Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name,so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.//This episode was written and recorded by Matt Laidlaw, the Director and Lead Teacher at Open Circle in Grand Rapids, MI. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat. Background tracks include Button Mushrooms by Podington Bear, Brevivillus by Isaac Joel, and Lady Evelyn by Alsever Lake.Visit www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo to listen to more episodes from all five seasons of Be Still and Go.Visit www.trcnyc.org/Donate to support this podcast and other digital resources from The Riverside Church that integrate spirituality and social justice.Visit www.opencirclecommunity.org to find out more about Open Circle.

On this episode, Adam and Miriam connect with Julie Diamond to discuss her story, morality, use of power, and much more. Julie is an executive coach, educator, author, CEO and founder of Diamond Leadership. which provides leadership and talent development services, including coaching, consulting, assessment, and training to clients worldwide. She is the developer of Diamond Power Index, a leadership 360 which helps leaders understand how to use power and authority with greater impact and effectiveness. Her special passion is to help leaders not only be their best but be able to bring out the best in the people they lead. And her area of focus for the past 30 years has been on the topic of power, a topic that is often misunderstood and maligned. Her latest book, Power: A User's Guide, is a handbook for using power effectively and ethically, no matter what role you're in. The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact organization that helps change-makers, community groups, and organizations evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

On this episode, Adam and Miriam chat with Wendy Palmer to discuss what leadership embodiment is, Aikido, her journey, and so much more. Wendy Palmer is the founder of Leadership Embodiment, a process that uses principles from the non-violent Japanese martial art of Aikido and mindfulness to offer simple tools and practices to increase leadership capacity and respond to stress and pressure with greater confidence and integrity. Wendy holds a seventh degree black belt in Aikido and has practiced mindfulness for over 40 years. She has worked with executive teams and individuals for Twitter, Genentech, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, The Gap, NASA, Salesforce, McKinsey & Co, Oracle, Unilever, The BBC, Gates Foundation, The George Washington University, Comcast, Accenture, BlackRock Funds, and The Daimler Chrysler Group. She is also an author of three books, Leadership Embodiment, The Intuitive Body and The Practice of Freedom, and a supporting CD and DVD. The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact organization that helps change-makers, community groups, and organizations evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way teams work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

This season we have been focusing on the theme of Resilience by checking in with participants in the various programs offered by ConTextos. One of the programs we launched just as the pandemic began to take hold was an online version of Authors Circle called Open Circle. In this episode, Bijou and Kelema, two of our youngest Open Circle participants, join Mariah and Tatiana to talk about the experience of writing with ConTextos during these Open Circle sessions. Open Circle is still open to all at 3PM on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays. For more information and to register for future Open Circle sessions, visit contextos.org/es/open-circle. We look forward to seeing you there!

Join us for this Bonus Episode podcast to hear Pollyanna Lenkic speak on the issues facing women in the workplace.The inspiring Pollyanna Lenkic was the speaker for our last Online Open Circle event for 2020. This episode is your opportunity to hear what she had to share with us.Pollyanna is a regular contributor to Arianna Huffington’s Thrive and has literally written the book on women and success. She is one of Australia’s leading professionals in lifting team performance in global and national organisations. At 24, she co-founded a specialist IT consultancy in London, which grew from humble beginnings to a permanent team of 18 with 100+ consultants and an annual turnover of £11 million.Among her accomplishments are building a multi million dollar business from the ground up, author of the book Women & Success and is a regular contributor to Arianna Huffington’s Thrive.A core focus of hers is working towards building a gender balanced workforce. Her Women & Success program supports women to navigate specific challenges that women face in the workplace.This is one you don't want to miss!Download a copy of the presentation here. Books recommendations made my Pollyanna: How to Say It For Women: Communicating with Confidence and Power Using the Language of Success Paperback – January 1, 2001 - by Phyllis MindellThe Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate - by Crisis by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac

Nici Harrison, Founder of The Grief Space joins me to chat about her apprenticeship with grief. Nici has had an incredibly empowering journey with grief and discusses how the fear of grief and the barriers we put up to resist feeling grief, is worse than feeling grief itself. Nici states 'We believe grief is going to break us, when in fact it breaks us open'. In this episode we talk about grief in our society and how absent it is in our culture which is so driven by growth and positivity that we've lost our ability to hold the space for grief and those grieving. For those wishing to join The Grief Space for either an Open Circle of the Six-Week Journey please find links below. I look forward to seeing you there! Six week Journey: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/grief-gratitude-grace-a-six-week-journey-starting-6th-october-tickets-120098452705 Open Circle: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/open-grief-circle-tickets-120105736491

In this episode I was joined by King David, one of the founders of Open Circle, a youth group in Ireland. We discussed the group's history, the ups and downs and how they have been operating since the pandemic. We also talked about the importance of accountability as a Christian and also gave some practical tips when it comes to evangelism. Open Circle's Instagram page can be found be clicking this link: https://www.instagram.com/opencircledublin/.

This is our follow up interview after our first podcast on Yogic Lifestyle and Living in Alignment episode. I wanted to talk to Belinda more about Goddess Circle, Women Rite of Passage, and building a community of women supporting other women. We also touched on the beauty and joy of women retreats she leads in North India, South India and Japan that include travel, yoga and wellness.  Belinda O'Dea is a heart-based certified Yoga & Meditation Teacher in Hatha, Mantra, Tantra, Vinyasa and Yin yoga. She is also an accomplished fashion designer and she is passionate about yoga, travel and wellness and that's why she now takes women on beautiful retreats several times a year to North India, South India and Japan. She is originally from Australia and currently a citizen of the world. Belinda is an experienced Women's Circle Leader where she creates a safe, welcoming and inspiring space for all women to participate, to feel the connection and the importance of the sisterhood. She also offers personal or business 1-1 mentoring for women as well.  Interview Summary & Highlight What is a Women Circle or Goddess Circle?  Magic happens in a women circle when we form a community of support with transformation, opening, speaking from our hearts and listening. It creates a very safe space for women without judgment. Whatever happens in the circle stays in the circle, there is a lot of opening and sharing  There is a set of agreements to keep the circle to feel safe and scared. It sets the tone of non-judgement and it is not a public speaking platform. It is about speaking from your own feeling inner experience but there is no obligation to speak either.  Some of the agreements include: we all take a turn to speak, but only one person speaking at a time. There is no jumping in, no fixing or “helping”, just listen deeply and wholeheartedly.   As a result, we allow ourselves to free our emotions and express them instead of stopping them from surfacin Women's circle is like "the other sister of yoga" because it's another way of discovering things about ourselves that don't necessarily arise normally. Two type of circles: Open Circle (no fix or set number of members and come with broader questions, e.g. What are you focusing or struggling or grateful for right now?) and Close Circle (it has a fixed number of member each time and come more intimate or deeper questions as you get to know one another  e.g. Spiritual Practice of Women's Cycle, Rite of Passage experience, initiation, etc.) Rite of Passage: Birth, Menstruation, First Sexual Experience, Pregnancy (which can also be about giving birth to an important project), Menopause. There is a lot of healing work that we can do retrospectively and there are layers of information and insights at each rite of passage as we explore and dive deeper each time when we reflect on that we’ve experienced.  Get to know ourselves in this feminine body, in this female existence, learning how to try and rest into being and accepting who we are through the practice of yoga. 10 Days Women Travel, Yoga and Wellness Retreat: North India - it’s like a spiritual pilgrimage, the retreat is called "Divine Mother India”. South India retreat is called “Living in Alignment”, it’s held at an Ayuverdic retreat centre and it’s about living in a yogic way and Ayuverdic lifestyle with workshops and daily massages and treatments. The retreat in Japan is called "The Art of Femininity", it is a cultural yoga tour where we take on different activities like flower arranging, calligraphy and also doing mindfulness meditation and yoga while staying at a Zen Buddhist temple. If you would like to connect with Belinda, please visit: https://belindaodea.com/ or Facebook via her yoga, travel & wellness page Video https://youtu.be/_Gm9oQy5ySw If you have any questions or comments, you can post it here or PM me on my FB page @SzeWingVetault or Instagram or email me at ...

I often talk about “walking the walk.” Dr. Shoshana Simons has been doing that for decades. She is a teacher, leader, coach, essayist, activist, and healer. She has a particular interest in the integration of the arts into spiritual practice, social and emotional development, and the uses of performance and creative expression as catalysts for healing and social change. She helps people live with more presence by deepening their connection to the hidden and often actively suppressed truths of life. This conversation is incredibly timely as the world widely and publicly confronts oppressive power structures. The original title for this episode was “Listening for Hidden Truths,” but after further discussion with Shoshana, it became clear that didn't encompass the entirety of our conversation. It is not enough to listen to the marginalized voices within our organizations, our communities. The next step is to elevate those voices and to give them the proper platform so their truths are no longer suppressed. That is the starting point for deep, lasting change.One program you hear us talk about in this episode is Open Circle, which provides evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum and professional development for elementary schools. They proactively develop children's skills for recognizing and managing emotions, empathy, positive relationships and problem solving and help schools develop a community where students feel safe, cared for, and engaged in learning. Founded in 1987 by our mutual friend and colleague Pamela Seigle, Open Circle is now in over 360 schools, 90 districts, and 16 states across the United States and remains a leading educator of the transformative power of authentic listening.Change takes root when we attend to other people's stories, especially those so different from our own. So listen in to this conversation and learn more about what it means to be in a relationship with each other in a way that is healing, empowering and inspiring. The Wonder Dome Newsletter http://bit.ly/3dTfdPi​Follow Andy on Twitter http://twitter.com/cahillaguerilla​Like us on Facebook http://facebook.com/mindfulcreative.coachEPISODE #09 NOTESciis.eduRelational-Cultural TheoryPower Control and Organizational Silence by Dr. Shoshana Simonsopen-circle.orgAdlerian TheoryNarrative TherapyGregory BatesonAn Ecology of Mind by Nora BatesonConnect with Shoshana on linkedin.com/in/shoshana-simons-b029a34

Josh Stutzman takes us into the importance of praise through the Psalms in quarantine.

We continue looking at kingdom wisdom, and today we focus on the word for ‘wisdom’ in Hebrew and how what makes up this concept is important.

Dr. Cyndi Brannen teaches and writes from the crossroads of personal development, spirituality and true magic, merging ancient wisdom with modern practices. She is the author of the bestselling Keeping Her Keys: An Introduction to Hekate’s Modern Witchcraft which has earned a nomination for a Bram Stoker aware in the best nonfiction book category. Named blogger of the year on Patheos Pagan, she writes one of their most popular columns, also called “Keeping Her Keys.”  Founder of Open Circle, she runs this soul school of true magic and fierce love with several hundred members. In this school, she teaches The Sacred Seven: The Journey From Healing To Wholeness and The Mystai: The Path of Hekatean Witchcraft.    She is also the author True Magic: Unleashing Your Inner Witch,based on the sacred seven principles of witchcraft, is a practical guide to better living through witchcraft.    Dr. Brannen describes herself as a seeker of the goddess within and the mysteries of the deeper world. She is deeply connected to the Witch Mother, Hekate. Her quest to understand both have led her through studies in comparative religion, mythology, gender analysis, and feminist scholarship. Along the way, shehas gained expertise in many areas of spirituality and witchcraft, including meditation, herbalism, energetic healing, shamanic techniques, tarot reading, and mediumship. She is a healer, medical intuitive and practicing witch.    Dr. Brannen holds an earned doctorate in applied social psychology. H Connect with Cyndi at keepingherkeys.com and opencircle.mn.co      

David visits Open Circle in Berkeley, California for an evening talk and a panel discussion. Erik and Tamra open the session with music and songs, and after David’s talk he is joined onstage by Jenny, Greg, Alexandra, and Brian for additional questions and comments - including audience participation.

We are neurologically hardwired to form bonds with concentric levels of friends, family, and community groups.   But these groups are no longer surviving in our 21st century structure.  Old, polarizing, fear-based, tribal norms of 'Us vs Them' are driving us apart as we pursue happiness and power.  If we're going to live as healthy people and families, we have to claim a new kind of connection to the people who matter most.

We are neurologically hardwired to form bonds with concentric levels of friends, family, and community groups.   But these groups are no longer surviving in our 21st century structure.  Old, polarizing, fear-based, tribal norms of ‘Us vs Them’ are driving us apart as we pursue happiness and power.  If we’re going to live as healthy people and families, we have to claim a new kind of connection to the people who matter most.

Adam Holz tells us about new media releases: Mortal Engines, Once Upon a Deadpool, Into the Spiderverse, and Mary Queen of Scots. Then, Stacy Monson discusses alzheimer's through the lens of her book Open Circle.

Small group ministry is a model for how we can engage with each other's spiritual journeys in an intentional, deep way.  This Sunday we'll talk about our Open Circle groups, and you'll have the opportunity to join a group for the year.  

  We get it. It's Saturday and we don't want to take up too much of your time.   That's why today is Quick Bite Saturday!   Here we feature 20-minute conversations with entrepreneurs and their passion projects.   Today, I am rejoined by guest host Kamilah Evans as we continue our conversation with Kerrie-Kim Kirton about marrying his knack for event management with his burning desire to improve our environment.   Cheat Sheet: Kerrie's quest for environmental cleanliness. (0:45) The origin of The Open Circle - an extension of Kerrie's personality. (9:05) Kerrie's long-term goals. (14:54) Building a life that you don't need a vacation from. (16:23) BONUS: The story behind the name "Blaq Phabiyo"   Links: The Green Circle on Facebook The Open Circle on Facebook   Subscribe To This Podcast: iTunes Stitcher RSS Feed

Why do we dim the light of our knowing? Why do we give power away to authorities outside ourselves, forgetting that we hold access to direct knowing through the inherent intelligence of our own light of awareness? Perhaps now is the time to consider connecting to the power of self-direction …

An audio recording of an online interactive satsang with Adam Chacksfield, hosted by Open Circle in March 2017.

In this Easter Sunday talk, I begin with the theme of the Kingdom of Heaven within. We discuss having the attention take a 180 degree turn, and the value of living outer life on the foundation of inner realization.

The more we hold ourselves back from life, the less we know ourselves as the Totality.

Unser erster Gast ist da! Der Musik-Produzent Minhtendo war knapp eine Stunde bei uns zu Besuch und hat über seine Kindheit, Schulzeit und natürlich, über Musik geredet. Abonniert, kommentiert und bewertet uns am besten mit ★★★★★ auf iTunes. Wir sind neuerdings auch auf Spotify! http://spoti.fi/2BKthKH Wie immer gehen die Beschwerden bitte an ersieundich@gmail.com. Minhtendo: https://soundcloud.com/minhtendo https://de-de.facebook.com/Minhtendo/ Minhtendos Crew und so - Open Circle: https://www.facebook.com/people/Open-Circle/100010052976837 Freund + Kupferstecher: https://www.facebook.com/freundundkupferstecher/ Levon: https://opencircle.bandcamp.com/releases RIN: https://www.facebook.com/RINTHETHING/ Dardan: https://de-de.facebook.com/Dardan437/ Veranstaltungsreihen bei den man hin und wieder auf den guten Minh treffen kann: (Letzte) CloudClub: https://www.facebook.com/events/1808234789428924/

Deeper than our surface preferences, concerns and fears, lies a vast reservoir of allowance. We can learn how to access it by tuning into the heart, whose nature is unconditional acceptance and which holds all polarities comfortably within itself.

I was hesitant to put this up because there’s more than enough of me on this site, but a few kind friends encouraged me to, so here it is. I gave this talk at the Open Circle Center in Berkeley, … Continue reading →

As we practice resting in that which is prior to content, we strengthen our capacity to know ourselves as all of creation. But first a solid base needs to be established on which consciousness is no longer glued in identification with what it is focusing on. This broadens one’s capacity …

A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley (in 3 parts). Topics include the falling away of the sense of self (when it is a healthy letting go versus resulting from trauma), as well as letting go of control when it comes to personal will falling away. Resting in the …

A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley (in 3 parts). Topics include the falling away of the sense of self (when it is a healthy letting go versus resulting from trauma), as well as letting go of control when it comes to personal will falling away. Resting in the …

A Mothers Day Open Circle Meeting in Berkeley (in 3 parts). Topics include the falling away of the sense of self (when it is a healthy letting go versus resulting from trauma), as well as letting go of control when it comes to personal will falling away. Resting in the …

I Love My Church 2016, Part 3

Michele Morris, Distinguished Religious Group Leader to the Fort Hood Open Circle, issued an open letter on religious freedom in the United States military on February 21, 2016. The February 25th edition of The Wild Hunt covered the story. Tonight she joins RevKess and KaliSara to talk about the situation with the listeners of the Pagan-Musings Podcast Channel. It is the hope of the Channel's host team that this coverage will help shed light on what some of our military brothers and sisters face when they attempt to worship and honor their Gods in a safe setting while on base. It is also their hope that other military personnel will hear this coverage and be shown just how difficult it can be to face religious intolerance in the military. After Michele's visit your hosts will talk in brief about the upcoming Super Tuesday primary and caucus next week and other news and issues of interest to Pagans in the United States and elsewhere around the globe. Listen through to the end to catch KaliSara's News in a Flash.

Laura's WebsiteLaura Maxwell’s Story.‘What Spiritualism Means To Me Now.’LauraSupernatural phenomena interested me since childhood. I loved reading children’s books containing ‘ghost stories’, or watching TV programs about ‘ghosts’. If Harry Potter had been written then, I’m sure it would have been one of my faveourites!A few psychic episodes as a child added to the intrigue I felt. My mother had also experienced psychic events since her childhood, but didn’t pursue it seriously until later.By the time I began Secondary School, she felt ready to experiment further. When walking her dogs in the park one day, a Medium approached, telling Mum he saw her potential as a Medium and invited her to a Spiritualist Church in Glasgow, Scotland, where we lived.Very quickly, Mum became totally engrossed by the supernatural. As a new member of the Spiritualist Church, she attended Sunday services, mid week psychic development groups and Yoga classes. She shared everything she learned with me and I also became fascinated. Her heart’s desire was to train in Mediumship and the other Mediums encouraged this, asking her to join an Open Circle to learn to meditate to channel ‘spirits of the deceased’. Mum was keen to develop her abilities of Clairvoyance, Clairaudience and Clairsentience and to learn from other Mediums.Every time Mum booked a Private Sitting for a Life Reading with a resident or visiting Medium, she would buy a recording of the session and we’d listen to it later that day. It amazed me that a half-hour recording could contain so much communication from spirits. Minute details were relayed about our lives. Precise names, places and dates were often given. It was obvious the Mediums weren’t charlatans, falling upon names by sheer chance. They accurately described the physical appearance, personalities and even repeated common phrases of our apparent dead relatives as they supposedly conversed with them.I also joined the Spiritualist Church in Glasgow. Mum and I devoured mystical books on Yoga, opening the chakras, Crystal Healing, Reincarnation, Alternative Therapies, etc. Attending New Age Centres and Psychic Fairs, we absorbed as much information as we could to help in our spiritual enlightenment. With our passion for environmental and conservation concerns, social justice and international peace, we gladly participated in attempting to heal people and animals, through either contact or distant psychic healing.We also read books on positive thinking. A faveourite was, ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’, by Norman Vincent Peale, a 33rd degree Free Mason, who also believed in Clairvoyance, claiming to see his dead dad at meetings.Going DeeperEventually, we attended Transfiguration Sessions. Mum developed in the area of Automatic Writing. Mediums predicted I’d become an author on behalf of Spirit Guides and a Psychic Artist, drawing portraits of ‘dead relatives and Spirit Guides’ for clients. I experimented with Kirlian Photography; using infra red film I captured images of ectoplasm as it formed.Over the next 10 – 15 years, we’d often hear of Mediums who could no longer control when spirits spoke to or through them. Many Mediums had nervous breakdowns. Some attacked people claiming their Spirit Guides had forced them to, or were admitted to psychiatric wards. We heard reports of poltergeist activity in Medium’s homes. At first, we accepted explanations that mischievous or obnoxious spirits could sometimes come through and it was a potential hazard of the job. But when it happened to us, it became difficult to tolerate and almost impossible to function properly.Our beloved friends, the other Psychics and Mediums, kindly tried, but failed to free our home from spirits. The spirits spoke to Mum constantly, depriving her of sleep, attacking her physically, chapping loudly from within wardrobes, slamming all the doors, etc.On one of the occasions when they forced her into a trance against her will, she was frying food. When she came out of trance, the kitchen was consumed by fire. I arrived home after the Fire Brigade had extinguished it, just before it spread to other rooms. We all realized Mum, our dogs and cats could have been killed. One afternoon, Mum’s elderly Aunt who had also visited Spiritualist Churches, felt invisible hands grab her and throw her down our stairs. Her wrist was broken. Another day, while approaching shops, I watched in horror as Mum was lifted from the ground and catapulted from the pavement, landing on the bonnet of a passing car. This particular incident happened more than once.Hellish EncountersWe decided to withdraw from Spiritualism and told our Spirit Guides to leave. To our shock, they laughed and insulted us. They began to physically attack us. This was perplexing, as they had provided guidance and kindness for many years. It became obvious they’d clearly deceived us, pretending to be benevolent, when in reality they were wicked all along.The biggest shock however came when even our supposedly ‘dead relatives’ turned against us. They also mocked and hit us. The spirits warned we couldn’t leave the occult, as we had unknowingly given them control from the first day we invited them into our lives.  It became clear to Mum & I there was something not right about Spiritualism, if even the Mediums who had brought our ‘spirit friends’ to us had not discerned their true identity.A Christian EncounterSusan, a Christian I’d met in a Psychology Tutorial, at university, invited me to her Pentecostal Church, explaining other Psychics who had experienced similar tragedies were set free from spiritual attacks when they accepted the Biblical Jesus Christ as their Saviour, (not the New Age false Christ). I renounced Spiritualism & became a Christian.A Darker Tragedy StrikesDuring my 2nd year at university, Mum’s health deteriorated & her ‘Spirit Guides’ threatened to use her to kill people. Mum’s doctor couldn’t accept poltergeist activity & diagnosed as Schizophrenic, Mum was detained in a Psychiatric Hospital, much to the utter shock of my Mum & I.Although my Mum gave her heart to Jesus a few months later, the Pentecostal Church I’d joined had no experience at that point, of helping people like Mum. At that time, they didn’t have the Deliverance Ministry. As a baby Christian myself, I didn’t yet know there were Christians who could’ve cast those demons out of my Mum in Jesus Name. After months of heavy sedation, the psychiatrists discharged her, but when she returned home, she endured further harassment from spirits. Sadly, the church I belonged to didn’t yet have experience of casting demons out of homes or people. So, sadly, my mother committed suicide.Although not rare for someone to do … over the past 17 years I’ve heard of many around the world, affected by the New Age or Occult have been in psychiatric wards or killed themselves. Therefore, I feel it emphasizes the crucial importance for Christians to embrace the Deliverance Ministry, and be God’s instruments to bring freedom to such tortured people in Jesus Name. (Over the years as a Christian, I have been honoured & delighted that the Holy Spirit has used me to see people & homes be set free from demonic harassment/poltergeist type activity, etc). “Greater is He (Jesus), that is in you; than he (satan) that is in the world.”Later, another Pastor more experienced in Deliverance prayer & casting out demons & the co-Pastor, visited my mum’s home, successfully cleansing it the first time they prayed. At the Name of Jesus, all the spirits left & never returned. Later, I sold Mum’s home without worrying the new tenants would be harassed.The Pentecostal Church did not portray dead religious traditions, instead it was lively, loving and joyful. Members are trained by the Holy Spirit to prophesy about the future, bodies are healed and other miracles, signs and wonders occur. Actually, in a couple of years I saw more peopled healed in Pentecostal Churches than I ever saw in over ten years at Spiritualist Churches.Deception ExposedWhen I became a Christian, even before I had read the Biblical warnings of the Occult in Deuteronomy chapter 18, I instinctively realized what had happened. The missing piece of the jigsaw fit into place. When our ‘dead relatives and Spirit Guides’ began to attack Mum and I, it indicated they were actually evil spirits who had deceived us, merely impersonating our loved ones. It made complete sense when Christians explained that it’s impossible for dead souls to return to talk with us, as they remain in heaven or hell for eternity.Also, spirits are evil ‘fallen angels’. They’ve existed since creation, possessing psychic knowledge of our families & historical figures down the generations. They can easily disguise their evil form to pose as our ‘deceased family,’ to mimic ‘Spirit Guides,’ or any famous celebrity that ever lived. The Bible says that the entities who work through Witches, Mediums, Ghost Hunters, etc, are called ‘familiar spirits’, as they are psychic & very familiar with how all your ancestors looked & spoke. Thus, these entities can impersonate them perfectly. The Hebrew word for familiar spirits actually means ‘demon,’ evil spirit.This was confirmed as I read in 2 Corinthians 11 to 14 : “And no wonder! For Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.” The evil spirits working through Spiritualism, serve Satan in deceiving precious people into believing they are their dead relatives and Spirit Guides.This make sense, because many top Mediums even claim that Lucifer is god and the source of all psychic powers! (Benjamine Creme, David Spangler, Madam Helena Blavatsky, etc). They believe Lucifer is still an angel of light; god; the Saviour, and that he did not fall and become Satan, as the Bible states. Thus, Luciferianism is one of the roots of the New Age and Spiritualism. Madam Helena Blavatsky, a self proclaimed Luciferian Medium, was called the ‘mother of the New Age movement’.Before I left the Occult, I was unaware the Bible advises in 1 John 4 verse 1 to 3 : “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God … every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus has come in the flesh is not of God … And this is the spirit of the Antichrist …”(Please see my note with directions on how to Test The Spirits, in the menu bar at the top).A Crucial ObservationSince I left Spiritualism and became a Christian, I have never been contacted by any spirit claiming to be a ‘dead relative’ or ‘Spirit Guide’! All such supernatural activity stopped, when I knew the truth, that they were demons impersonating family or spiritual beings! You’d think, if they were truly real, they’d still try to ‘contact’ me!Sharing With OthersAs a Spiritualist, I had believed Jesus was just a cosmic force; part of the universal consciousness, or a great Psychic Healer. Since my conversion in 1994, I’ve met, spoken to & read of many Ex Psychics, Ex Gypsies, Ex Mediums, Ex Witches, Ex Luciferians, and even Ex Satanists who also discovered the entities of their ‘Spirit Guides’ or ‘dead relatives’ were not who they claimed to be. These people were also set free from demonic attack after receiving Christ into their lives & receiving His deliverance & freedom.Two successful Glasgow Mediums, Sadie Bryce and Geordie Aitken also became Christians. Sadie went to the same Spiritualist Church I did. She spoke of her occult past in BBC programs and an audio tape, while Paul Watson wrote a book detailing Geordie’s experience. As Christians, Sadie and I wrote to each other and I met Geordie several times, discovering we all had been misled by convincing spirits in the same ways.Jesus healed me of fears, phobias and physical conditions. He has given me joy and peace I simply never knew existed. His very tangible Presence of pure love is more real than any powerful encounter I experienced within Spiritualism.Revelation TV, Europe.After sharing my life story in churches, on satellite TV and radio, I’m delighted & blessed to continue to hear from people worldwide, who have also been saved out of the Occult – by the transforming, mighty power of our loving Lord Jesus Christ.Visit her website here.www.seek4truth.tk

As the first and sole intern for Austin Achieve Public Schools in the summer of 2013, one could say that I wore many hats. Hired to create a social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum (based on my on-campus job at Open Circle), I began my internship endeavoring to build a curriculum for Austin Achieve that not only aligned with common SEL standards, but that fit the needs and hopes of this new charter school system. As with any new charter school, however, my responsibilities expanded in surprising ways—including coordination and oversight of Austin Achieve’s new campus, interim manager of school operations, and development of cultural competency training for staff and teachers. Working with a team of two to seven other staff members over the course of the summer, I learned the value of leaps of faith and the importance of a commitment to educational opportunity for all.

Correllian Thursdays starts at 8 pm CST Rev.Terry Power- will be live from Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, where he will be meeting members of the Open Circle there.  With luck, a few of the members will be hanging around to join in the show.  We will be discussing "A Correllian Creed", Rev. Terry's document explaining the belief structure of the Correllian Tradition.  The Pagan Pundit-news and commentary with  Rev. Don Lewis-Chancellor of the Correllian Tradition