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A “just right” amount of ballast provides steadiness so people can choose where they want to go—and choose a course to get there.Images in this episode can be found in this blog post. Reflection: In what ways do you feel out of ballast? H
It feels good to fight and argue, but when there’s no pressure to convince others or be convinced, we listen in ways that allow us to improve our communities.Images for this episode can be found in this blog post. ReflectionAbout what subj
Beth Sanders and Yasushi Ohki explore how being a land developer can be good for a community’s well-being, rather than the maligned role many believe. Yasushi innovates, pilots and demonstrates new housing forms with a dogged entrepreneurial s
City making, the weaving of city building and city caring, only happens when we have a social habitat in which we choose to weave these perspectives together.Images for this episode can be found here.
We only organize together if we are in the push and pull of conversation,wrestling with the action we feel we need to take. If not, we are beingorganized, passive participants in the status quo doing others’ bidding.Images for this episode c
An impromptu check-in invited awe in self, others and a beautiful place. Images for this episode can be found here.
Receiving a big award made me notice how integrity and values shape my life and work, from the scale of me to the scale of communities, neighbourhoods, and cities. Images for this episode can be found here.
Think about an activation like a guided meditation. You can listen to them in order or in response to your intuition--which one catches your eye? In listening to the activations, you'll get a few benefits: Calm. When we spend time connectin
Is it possible that being more honest about what I don't know and what I don't know how to do makes me feel less scared? It looks like radical honesty with my ski patrol colleagues makes me feel less scared. And more capable, too. NOTE: You c
There are two kinds of inconceivable: 1) the one I tell myself isn’t possible and 2) the one I can’t imagine. In this episode, Beth reveals a 35-year-old wish that came true and where that wish fulfilled is taking her. There are great images
Beth has landed in perimenopause, asking herself the question she asks others everywhere she goes: How do I make my way through this transition with care and compassion? The answer is in thinking not of The Change but of changing. Change as a v
What on earth are intersectionality and GBA+? And what do they have to do with city making? Beth Sanders and Soni Dasmohapatra explore intersectionality and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) in their work as city makers; they land on this under
How do you design a public meeting when you believe that everyone has something to say, not just the vocal few? Images for this episode can be found here.
When we avoid sharing opportunities to make meaning of our experiences and make choices from the meaning we've made, we avoid the challenges and brilliance of community. And the choice, in every moment, rests with each of us.Images created for
We want change to happen without changing ourselves, without having to do anything differently. Yet, choosing transition means choosing to participate in our changing. Images created for this episode can be found here.
We level up our experience of community by growing beyond sharing an experience to shared choice-making. Podcast episodes mentioned in this episode: connection bypassing, conversation bypassing, and relationship bypassing.Images created for t
An emotional upset and a ski trip helped me unearth two limiting beliefs about relationship skills.Images created for this episode can be found here.
When we avoid accountability and responsibility, we become untrustworthy and bypass opportunities to be in relationship with each other—in both our personal and professional lives. In this episode: 2 symptoms of, and 7 antidotes to, relationshi
Assuming that the expertise in the room is in one or a few people disables and minimizes the resilience of a community. In this episode: 4 symptoms of conversation bypassing and 5 antidotes. Images created for this episode can be found here.
Whether online or in-person, how we gather fosters connection between people only when we design in opportunities for people to make contact with each other. When we don’t, we engage in connection bypassing.Images created for this episode can
Agreements about how we’ll talk and relate to each other are a commitment to be responsible for the quality of our relationships. Images created for this episode can be found here.I invite you to explore the following resources for agreements
To participate in the evolution of our cities and communities, city planners can no longer work the way they’ve worked for decades. In addition to our content expertise, we need to cultivate our social habitat expertise by letting go of our hea
Community has a vital role to play when emergencies arise: to enable transition from what was to what could be.Images created for this episode can be found here.This episode is the fifth in a series about the relationship between community an
When busy rescuing others or looking for others to rescue us, we miss the opportunity to renew ourselves, to engage and embrace the transition from one way of thinking, making and doing, to another. A healthy relationship with transition is nec
Rescue embodies resilience only when the rescuer takes action the rescued can't do for themselves (and wants). Whatever the scale of emergency (E23), we have choices to make about how to respond (E24)--and the language we use reflects the choic
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