Podcast appearances and mentions of ryan bauers

Join us as Ryan Bauers, Consultant and Organization Development Specialist, shares with us about why self-care is so important in the business environment and how it positively impacts those businesses. Hear about his own journey that led him to finding self-care so important: working to the point of total exhaustion, receiving from mentors who offered him a new trajectory, and now living that out on a daily basis. Do you desire to work in or to lead in environments that feel safe? Does your line of work require innovation that you often find difficult to live up to? Do you often feel stretched thin, overworked, and emotionally exhausted? May the contents of this podcast be a balm to your soul. Additional ResourcesWebsite: RyanBauers.comBook: Consolations by David WhyteBook: Crossing the Unknown Sea by David WhyteBook: The Way of Integrity by Martha BeckWebsite: The Work of Byron KatieHashtagsPresent Moment, Sleep Habits, Transition, Burnout, Psychological Safety, Innovation, OverworkedSign up for our newsletter here: https://foundrysc.com/about/newsletter

Ryan Bauers has found Rick Hanson's book Hardwiring Happiness to be the simplest and most-powerful approach to joy he's found. Hanson has a bold idea: by choosing to notice and take in small, pleasant experiences, we can actually create new grooves in our physical brains that will build resiliency and joy and quiet the innate negative thinking that comes with being human. Christina Roberts and Dave Schmelzer join Ryan to explore this big idea. Mentioned in this episode   Hardwiring Happiness, by Rick Hanson   Waking Up app, by Sam Harris

Fran Pratt has journeyed from conservative churches in which, as a woman, she wasn't invited to lead, to becoming a worship leader to discovering the power of scripted prayer in liturgies to finding meditation to writing and distributing her own litanies. Ryan Bauers, Christina Roberts and Dave Schmelzer talk with her about the power she's found in each new form of connecting to God.  Mentioned in Today's Podcast Call and Response: Litanies for Congregational Prayer by Fran Pratt FranPratt.com Ikigai by Hector Garcia

Dr. LaRynda Thoen worked for years as an OB-GYN before becoming a hospice volunteer. Christina Roberts, Ryan Bauers and Dave Schmelzer talk with her about insights from the end of life and the beginning of life, and what those insights mean about why we are here.   Mentioned in Today's Podcast:​ Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life Being With Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death Midwife for Souls: Spiritual Care for the Dying May I Walk You Home?: Courage and Comfort for Caregivers of the Very Ill The Grace in Dying: How We Are Transformed Spiritually as We Die What I'm Into:  Farewell to Disneyland: My Decade of Young Widowhood Ted Talk Davidson's Tea Cocoa Nibs  

On a recent podcast, Ryan Bauers endorsed The Book of Joy, a conversation between the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu about finding joy. Dave Schmelzer read the book, loved it, and he and Ryan have an enthusiastic conversation about the great things there. Mentioned in Today's Podcast: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World Davidson's Tea Cocoa Nibs  

David McKee is a counselor who is also an oblate at a Benedictine monastery (and a member of a Zen center). In a far reaching conversation with Christina Roberts, Ryan Bauers and Dave Schmelzer, he talks about how learning to be present to ourselves with compassion opens us up to healing--and God--but also to the kind of prophetic engagement with the world that he says is a particular gift that Christianity offers other traditions.  Mentioned in Todays Podcast: The Daily Reader for Contemplative Living: Excerpts from the Works of Father -  Thomas Keating New Seeds of Contemplation - Thomas Merton Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice - Shunryu Suzuki

Amy Carlson talks to groups around the country about joyful, thriving eating and the power of eating around a table (or even just at a table, if we're alone) and how learning to notice our body's response to food is a game-changer. In a vibrant conversation with Ryan Bauers, Christina Roberts and Dave Schmelzer, she talks about how churches, sadly, often complicate our relationship with food--even as they provide the powerful community that offers us the good stuff she's so passionate about.  Mentioned in Today's Podcast: Orthodox, By G.K. Chesterton from tablet to table: where community is found and identity is formed, by Leonard Sweet The blessing of a skinned knee: using jewish teachings to raise self-reliant children , by wendy mogel liturgy of the ordinary: sacred practices in everyday life, by Tish Harrison Warren   

On last week's podcast, Dave Schmelzer offered a book report on a book called "Why Buddhism is True" to consider crossover between Buddhist and Christian Contemplative insights. Christina Roberts asks: How should Christians navigate spiritual exploration? Are there things they shouldn't explore because those things expose them to spiritual danger? If so, how might one figure out what's safe and what's not? Ryan Bauers joins Christina and Dave to consider this.

More recent Christian contemplatives like Thomas Merton famously have discovered that what they're learning has a lot in common with what contemplative Buddhists know. Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers commissioned Dave Schmelzer to do a "book report" along these lines, and he chose Robert Wright's (he's a journalist with The New Republic) provocatively-named book "Why Buddhism is True" (not, as Wright points out, in a religious sense, but as a description of how meditation impacts our consciousness for the better). Christina, Ryan and Dave have a vibrant conversation about what Dave reports. Mentioned in Today's Podcast: New Yorker article: Thomas Merton, the Monk Who Became a Prophet, by Alan Jacobs 

A founding perspective of Blue Ocean Faith is that everything is shot through with meaning. This is contrasted with a life devoted to finding meaning only in new truisms--here the meaning comes from being present right now. But this is harder than it looks! Christina Roberts, Ryan Bauers and Dave Schmelzer give you a glimpse into their journey into living each moment.   Mentioned in Today's Podcast:  New Yorker obituary of William Goldman

One of Blue Ocean Faith's founding perspectives is "My drive to judge other people is a big problem." Yet it comes across to us differently in today's ever-more polarized world. As was pressed by our conversation about Ken Wilber and our conversation with Doug Pagitt, what does it look like to embrace people very different from you while also living out your convictions? Christina Roberts, Ryan Bauers and Dave Schmelzer discuss. Mentioned in Today's Podcast:  "Moon River" by Jane Monheit "Moon River" by Audrey Hepburn from Breakfast at Tiffany's "Moon River" by Ben E. King

Doug Pagitt just finished a remarkable, pre-midterms bus tour--that was covered by the New York Times and the USA Today and other media outlets--called Vote Common Good. His idea? To tour red states in order to call his fellow evangelicals back to their faith and away from the madness of--for, they say, religious reasons--supporting Donald Trump and his candidates. Doug talks passionately with Ryan Bauers and Dave Schmelzer about the need for faithful progressive evangelicals to get their voice into the public sphere.  Mentioned in Today's Podcast: What I'm Into: "Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War" by Paul Simon

Ken Wilber is a popular theorist for some in the post-evangelical crowd. He has a fascinating theory of the evolution of consciousness that has overlap with the Stage Theory we talk about here. And he wrote a book called Trump and a Post-Truth World where he applies his theory of consciousness to how we got to a Trump, post-truth presidency. (Spoiler: He lays a good deal of the blame on liberals and offers a clarion call to liberals about what leadership might look like.) It makes for a dynamic conversation between Ryan Bauers and Dave Schmelzer. Mentioned in Today's Podcast: Blue Ocean Faith's "Giving Tuesday" Trump and a Post-Truth World, by Ken Wilber What I'm Into: The Borowitz Report

Francine Kiefer, the congressional correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, has been our unofficial political pastor over the life of this podcast. On this, her fourth visit with us, she gives Dave Schmelzer and Ryan Bauers political and cultural perspective even as she dances a victory dance that her previous prediction that we could trust democracy to work seems to be bearing out. Mentioned in Today's Podcast:   Blue Ocean Faith's "Giving Tuesday" Francine Kiefer at The Christian Science Monitor  

Blue Ocean Faith published perspectives several years back as a way of helping people understand its vibe, one of which was "We've found Jesus to be a particularly helpful North Star." Ryan Bauers, Dave Schmelzer and Christina Roberts talk about how a focus on Jesus might play out in the sometimes unsettling places that accompany an ongoing, often uncertain life of faith.    Mentioned in Today's Podcast Carl Meaderis

Christina Roberts, Ryan Bauers and Dave Schmelzer have all changed and grown in their experience of faith. The Bible was a fixed anchor of a certain sort earlier in their journey. What sort of benefits and challenges does it offer further down the road? Mentioned in Today's Podcast  Books: Peter Enns: The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It Jesus and Empire: The Kingdom of God and the New World Disorder Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels Podcasts: The Pete Enns Podcast What I'm Into: Netflix: The Haunting of Hill House  

A key part of Blue Ocean Faith's perspective on life is that, like Abraham in the Hebrew Bible, our most direct path to what our life is meant to be about comes through a "hero's journey." But it feels risky! Or it feels hard to figure out what it might look like on an ordinary day! Christina Roberts, Ryan Bauers and Dave Schmelzer explore this in a lively conversation.    Mentioned in Today's Podcast:   The Hero's Journey and a Fresh Christianity, Part 1 The Hero's Journey and a Fresh Christianity, Part 2 The Hero's Journey and a Fresh Christianity, Part 3 The Great Work of Your Life: A Guide for the Journey to Your True Calling, by Stephen Cope What I'm Into A Scary Time, by Lynzy Lab    

A recent survey suggested that, worldwide, participation in churches and other civic organizations--like parent meetings at schools--has dramatically dropped. Marlin Watling, an innovative faith and business leader from Germany, joins Christina Roberts, Ryan Bauers and Dave Schmelzer to detail some fascinating responses to this new reality.    Mentioned in Today's Podcast:   Marling Watling Website - http://spark-network.org/ Instagram -  https://www.instagram.com/spark_europe/ What I'm Into:  Strengthsfinder

"God's goodness" is a pretty basic religious teaching. But in Blue Ocean Faith, they've found that this truth triggers surprising, unexpected ways to the life we all want. Christina Roberts, Ryan Bauers and Dave Schmelzer explore the key ways this truth makes it possible to suffer and nonetheless find a great, transcendent world. Mentioned in Today's Podcast:  The Unity of the Bible: Unfolding God's Plan for Humanity | By Daniel P. Fuller

Several weeks back, Blue Ocean Faith's Dave Schmelzer invited members of Blue Ocean's mailing list who regarded themselves as "done with church" to fill that out for him. After a hundred detailed responses within the hour, Dave started compiling. Here, he, Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers take a first pass at passing on what they've learned and what it might mean.  Mentioned in Today's Podcast: Church Refugees: Sociologists Reveal Why People Are Done with Church but not Their Faith | By Josh Packard and Ashleigh Hope The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community | By Marc J. Dunkelman What I'm Into: The Long Goodbye | By Raymond Chandler Grateful: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks | By Diana Butler Bass      

 Erin Lane--who works with Parker Palmer at the Center for Courage and Renewal--has championed women's voices in churches and has written about her own attraction to and challenges with finding her own place in a church. Ryan Bauers, Christina Roberts and Dave Schmelzer explore these and other passions with her in a lively conversation.     Mentioned in Today's Episode   What I'm Into Bucky on Parade Siddhartha - Herman Hesse

Some years back, Dave Schmelzer and Blue Ocean Faith worked with a major evangelical PR person who loved everything about BOF with the strong exception of it's use of the word "mystical" as part of its understanding of spiritual growth. And yet the idea that there really is something going on out there is a big deal to Christina Roberts, Ryan Bauers and Dave. They discuss why as well as kicking around why mysticism can seem so controversial in some religious settings. Mentioned in Today's Episode: Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics -  Dan Harris Insight Timer App - Transform Your Life Through Centering Prayer Bonus Material Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault on Christian Centering Prayer. Sign up for the Blue Ocean Faith newsletter at mail@blueoceanfaith.org  

A constituting idea of Blue Ocean Faith has been that everyone is us, that there is no ultimate us/them. But we developed that idea when the "them" for religious people were secular people, a group that Blue Ocean Faith flows easily with. Years later, the "us" is the other side of a sharply partisan, often vicious political divide. Christina Roberts, Ryan Bauers and Dave Schmelzer discuss whether "everyone is us" holds true in this new world.  Mentioned in Today's Podcast: Helpful Websites Carl Medearis Podcast Episodes Episode 109 - Good Without God's Greg Epstein on Life as an American Atheist/Humanist What I'm Into Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Natural Born Heroes - Christopher McDougal  

Greg Epstein, Harvard and MIT's Humanist Chaplain, joins Blue Ocean Faith's Dave Schmelzer, Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers for a dynamic conversation about life as a nonreligious person in a largely religious country, gathering atheists/agnostics at Harvard and MIT, finding common cause with Christians and other people of faith and much more.  Mentioned in Today's Podcast -    Books Good Without God - Greg Epstein - https://amzn.to/2tO87FI Websites Greg Epstein's Webpage - The Humanist Hub Other Podcast Episodes Mentioned Episode 102 - On Men's Spiritual and Emotional Development What I'm Into Goliath on Amazon TV The Franciscan Spirituality Center

What does it look like to define faith and purpose not through being right about anything or knowing stuff, but through being connected to ourselves, others, God and the world? Christina Roberts, Ryan Bauers and Dave Schmelzer explore the implications of living this way. Mentioned in Today's Podcast: Books Let Your Life Speak - Parker J. Palmer : https://amzn.to/2yuEOwq Websites Blue Ocean Faith Perspectives What I'm Into Tour De France Community Supported Agriculture Lebron James' Free Agency Other Episodes Mentioned Episode 102 - On Men's Spiritual and Emotional Development Episode 106 - Our Controversial Stage Theory of Spritual Growth

Blue Ocean Faith is known for many things. But its take on M. Scott Peck's theory of spiritual and emotional development is right up there. Is it helpful to think about spiritual/emotional growth through the lens of stages? Is it--as is sometimes charged--elitist? Dave Schmelzer, Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers have a lively discussion about how this continues to have leverage in their lives and those of their friends. If you would like to continue the conversation about the stages theory, email mail@blueoceanfaith.org and we will follow up with an online format to continue chatting. Metioned in Today's Episode: Books Faith Shift - Kathy Escober : https://amzn.to/2t944m1 The Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck: https://amzn.to/2JDlXVo Further Along the Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck: https://amzn.to/2MtnxqL The Bible Tells Me So - Pete Enns: https://amzn.to/2MlZKJb Websites Pete Enns: https://peteenns.com/ Podcasts Kate Spade on How I Built This with Guy Raz  Videos Dave Schmelzer - M Scott Peck's Stage Theory : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHyqDGAiEpA What I'm Into Breathe 4 Change Yoga: https://www.breatheforchange.com Biking Backpack for Picnics: https://amzn.to/2sV6kOM From the New Yorker: "Don't Eat Before Reading This" by Anthony Bourdain Previous Episodes Mentioned: Episode 103 - WM. Paul Young on The Shack, God and a New Reformation

The stereotype is that liberal, privileged people care about justice but feel guilty, while conservative, privileged people feel unjustly accused of racism while doing little for the marginalized. Again, a stereotype! Ryan Bauers, Christina Roberts and Dave Schmelzer--white, straight Christians--delve in.    Mentioned in Today's Episode   Books I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness - Austin Channing Brown :  https://amzn.to/2L39vKV Other Episodes Mentioned Episode 100: Why Do Christians So Love Personality Profiles? Podcast Seeing White Podcast Links Bounded/Centered Set Photo Explanation What I'm Into: Madison Farmers Market Stella's Cheesy Bread  

Wm. Paul Young went from working three jobs to doing press conferences in Croatia and South Korea--and throughout the U.S. and the rest of the world. Suddenly he heard many different stories and perspectives about profound worldwide shifts in how people view God and meaning. Dave Schmelzer, Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers have a lively conversation about these big ideas. Mentioned in today's episode: Books: Lies We Believe About God - WM. Paul Young Eve-  WM. Paul Young The Shack - WM. Paul Young Artist: M.C. Escher What I'm Into: I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness The Seagull - Anton Chekhov Ryan's Favorite Hammock

Dan Littauer, who used to work with Blue Ocean Faith, now leads groups focusing on men's spiritual development in several places, from M.I.T. to prisons. How is the path to spiritual and emotional growth the same and different for men and women? Drawing from the wisdom of people like Father Richard Rohr and Carl Jung and many thoughtful teachers, Dan talks about this work with Dave Schmelzer, Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers. Mentioned in today's podcast:   Books: The Drama of the Gifted Child – Alice Miller Practically Shameless – Alice Barry The Language of Emotions – Karla McLaren King, Warrior, Magician, Lover – Robert Moore Wild Man to Wise Man – Fr. Richard Rohr Waking the Tiger - Peter Levine Websites The Mankind Project  Jericho Circle Project     Movies "The Work" trailer  RGB trailer    TV Series  Timeless   Poem The Invitation - www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/the-invitation-by-oriah-mountain-dreamer    

Dave Schmelzer (Blue Ocean Faith's executive director) discovered personality profiles when he joined his first Christian group after a previous life of atheism. And what he discovered was that Christian groups seriously love these things. From the Myers-Briggs to the DISC test to Strengths Finder to the motherlode--the Enneagram--he discovered that learning about the Bible and about God also seemed to involve learning about his and others's personalities. He, Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers celebrate the awesomeness of this while wondering if it has downsides.   Mentioned in today's podcast:   Books: The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective - Richard Rohr & Andreas Ebert The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life - Helen Palmer Quiet - Susan Cain What I'm Into: WTF with Marc Maron Podcast Fountain Pen Article ​

Centered-set faith involves thinking outside of the box, but that sort of thinking can seem threatening in faith communities. Are there genuinely spiritually dangerous lines of thought or can we trust Jesus to be a good guide wherever we go? Ryan Bauers, who leads a Blue Ocean Faith community in Duluth, points to an article that says we in fact need to travel uncharted courses in this way or we actually damage our brains. He, Dave Schmelzer and Christina Roberts kick this around.   Mentioned in todays podcast:   Books Blue Ocean Faith - Dave Schmelzer Not the Religious type - Dave Schmelzer Articles https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/scientists-established-link-brain-damage-religious-fundamentalism/ https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/04/18/jake-locker-nfl-2011-draft-tennessee-titans-why-he-quit Videos   Dave explains the Stage Theory Dave explains Bounded & Centered Set What I'm Into: The Untethred Soul - Michael A. Singer Ryanhood - "Embers" Naked Granola - California Adventures Whole Me Granola Purely Elizabeth Probtiotic Granola

How do kids grow up in Christian families and yet find a faith that they own as their own in adulthood? Centered-set thinking has an unexpected answer to that question. Caroline Park--Blue Ocean's leading thinker on kids' spiritual development--joins Blue Ocean Faith leaders Dave Schmelzer, Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers to hash this out.

Let's be clear: church services work just great for a whole lot of people and a whole lot of Blue Ocean Faith churches. But lots of ex-churchgoers and current churchgoers find themselves triggered by things they used to like. Blue Ocean Faith's Dave Schmelzer and fellow Blue Ocean leaders Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers are each leading local conversations about messing with what churches look like. What are they learning? 

Mindfulness is being taught in most public schools, in businesses, in seminars--but often not in churches. Blue Ocean Faith's Dave Schmelzer is joined by fellow Blue Ocean leaders Christina Roberts and Ryan Bauers. Ryan, a former evangelical pastor, discovered that regular mindful practices "took his anxiety from a 7 to a 4." Christina has reconnected with Orthodox roots and discovered that her version of mindfulness has opened up her relationships and ability to connect with God in more of her day. 

This week, Dave, Val and Tom talk about how we might respond to the threat of ISIS. Do normal citizens have any options beyond living the most authentic life they can despite such threats? In their second segment, they talk about meaning-of-life gatherings for both secular and religious people with Ryan Bauers of “TED at the Teatro.”  And, as always, they close by letting us know what they're into this week.

Guest speaker, Ryan Bauers of Blue Ocean Faith, shares his passion and vision for churches such as Dwell to be radically welcoming towards all people- as expressed in the story of the Apostle Peter in the book of Acts.