This podcast is a home of conversations about how we strengthen kinship and collaboration in times of great change. Host Beth Tener explores stories of how healthy communities and relationships can bring out the best in people and change destructive patterns. We glean what works to give you ideas you can apply in your context. For those ready to generate more human connection and care rather than fear and separation, welcome to the conversation. This podcast is part of Kinship – a hub for pe ...
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At Home with Nature: the Kinship Worldview with Four Arrows
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How can we restore a sense of feeling at home with nature? In this podcast, we explore the sense of disconnection between humans and nature in modern Western cultures and contrast that to indigenous worldview that values interconnectedness. Four Arrows, a.k.a, Donald Trent Jacobs, shares stories from indigenous cultures, and his new book "Restoring…
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Spaces Where Creators Feel at Home with Diannely Antigua and Najee Brown
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This conversation explores how we can create spaces where artists of all kinds can foster a sense of belonging and creative exploration. With Diannely Antigua, a poet and educator, and Najee Brown, a playwright, photographer, and arts producer, we share the story of the SeaCHANGE Conference, a conference like no other. We gather creators of differe…
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Communities Where Everyone Has a Home with Janne Flisrand and Andrea Pickett
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In many communities, we are in a crisis where many people cannot access affordable stable housing. Andrea Pickett shares her experience as a housing advocate who is also navigating the housing crisis herself. She's passionate about giving those with lived experience a voice on these issues. Janne Flisrand shares how the City of Minneapolis, with br…
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Learning with Friends: Reflecting on Episodes 1-4, Season 3 with Nancy Gabriel and Bruce Nayowith
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Join Beth with her guests Nancy Gabriel and Bruce Nayowith as they reflect on highlights and learning from episodes 1-4 in Season 3. We explore how to create intentional “pockets” where people try different ways of working together. The positive examples and inspiration from these experiences can spread. This episode offers facilitators, teachers, …
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Transforming Conflict into Creative Responses with Rosa Zubizarreta
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Conflict is a part of life. Instead of avoiding conflict or allowing it to split communities into polarized sides, how can we transform tension and conflict into creative responses and unity? My guest, Rosa Zubizarreta, author of From Conflict to Creative Collaboration, shares examples of innovative citizen engagement processes that allow people to…
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Classrooms Where Students and Teachers Thrive with Emily Daniels
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Episode 3: Season 3: As we gain a fuller understanding of what stress and overwhelm do to people, it has enormous relevance for classrooms. In this episode, Emily Daniels of The Regulated Classroom shares how she helps teachers create classroom environments where everyone feels a sense of felt safety. Emily has trained thousands of teachers and adm…
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At Home with Change: How Groups Co-Create with Ria Baeck
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If you’re hungry to find ways that groups can adapt to change in fluid, collaborative ways, this podcast conversation with Ria Baeck provides the nourishment of inspiration. She’s a facilitator and author of Collective Presencing, a book and web site exploring how groups can co-create. We explore specific ways that enable people to feel safe to spe…
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What it Means to Feel at Home Here with Bruce Nayowith
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How do we create group experiences where people feel at home? How can we come out of separation back into healthy groups so we can co-create and learn together? In conversation with Bruce Nayowith, we explore the contexts that bring out the best in people. We weave insights from trauma-informed research and practice, neuroscience, and many sources,…
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Trailer for Season 3 of the Living Love Podcast
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Welcome back to Season 3 of the Living Love podcast! One of our listeners said “This podcast reminds me that human relationships are the core of social change.” Sadly, in too many workplaces, classrooms and communities, we have people feeling isolated, unsafe, or not welcome. When people lack this warm connection with others, they can enter a state…
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Learning with Friends: Reflections on Episodes 6 - 9, Season 2
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Episode 10: Season 2 - Join Beth and Nancy Gabriel as they reflect on highlights and learning from episodes 6 to 9 in Season 2. We explore how having the support of a group can help us in times of big decisions and in the hardest times of loss. These are stories of what belonging and healing can look like - the opposite of loneliness. When we accom…
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Episode 9: Season 2 - Community and friendship can provide the support and comfort to cope with the death of a loved one. In this podcast episode, Beth shares personal stories of how her community created meaningful rituals to honor her husband after he died of cancer. She is joined by her friend, Adam, who brings insights from his training in hosp…
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Love and Presence in the Hardest Times with Greta Bro
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Episode 8: Season 2 - In these times of great transition and change, we will encounter the experience of a crucible, where we have to face loss, letting go, and dying. How can we support each other through these most difficult times? In this episode, Beth shares her personal story of accompanying her partner going through cancer. She is joined by G…
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Community through the Cancer Journey with Margie Zohn
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Episode 7: Season 2. How can kinship and community support us in the most challenging times, such as when we suddenly face the cancer journey? Beth shares the story of how she and her community supported her fiance, Rick, as he went through cancer. Her guest is Margie Zohn, a leadership coach, who was a close friend in those times. They share stori…
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Big Decisions and Ways of Knowing with Tenneson Woolf
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How do you decide when you reach a threshold or crossroads? In this episode, Beth talks with Tenneson Woolf, a facilitator, coach, and poet, about how we make big decisions, careful not to let fear be in the lead. We explore how we can slow down as we make decisions, on a personal level or with groups, and use listening and other methods to help wi…
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Learning with Friends, Reflections on Episodes 1-4 with Nancy Gabriel
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Join Beth and Nancy Gabriel as they reflect on highlights and learning from episodes 1 to 4 in Season 2. The fast pace of our lives gives us little time to slow down and feel. Yet, part of why we move so fast is we don’t want to feel. In our conversation, we discuss how the way out of this dilemma is to have kinship and support, to be with people w…
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Love is Listening with Simon D'Orsogna and Bruce Nayowith
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This episode starts with a love story. You’ll hear about a relationship that had profound “growth-promoting” qualities for each of us. My guests, Simon d’Orsogna of Mind Beyond and Bruce Nayowith, reflect on the story with me. We discuss how we can find safety in human connection and we explore how listening allows people to feel held, seen, and un…
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Sources of Connected Strength with Greta Bro
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When the world around us is on overdrive and we are working to make positive change, we can end up in overdrive - and overwhelm. This episode explores how we can find strength and balance through connection with healers, meditation, and the spiritual path. My guest is Greta Bro, a psycho-spiritual guide who I worked with; she coached me to mimic na…
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Disrupting Patterns of Burnout through Community with Jennice Chewlin and Lori Hanau
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One way to see burnout is that “something is wrong with me” but in this podcast, we look at the deeper sources in the cultural norms that make it hard to say no and toxic workplace cultures. Jennice Chewlin of The Chewlin Group and Lori Hanau of Global Round Table Leadership talk with Beth Tener about turning to kinship and community in times of bu…
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Answering the Call to Change with Katherine Golub and Nancy Gabriel
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This first episode of Season 2 explores how we navigate the change when we are called to leave the status quo. Sometimes the need to change arises from exhaustion or heartache, other times it’s your choice. Katherine Golub of the Center for Callings and Courage and Nancy Gabriel talk with Beth Tener about the tensions of making the decision to make…
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Welcome back to Season 2 of the Living Love Podcast! In Season 1, we talked about the spaces where we come together. In Season 2, we'll be exploring kinship through life transitions. I wrote a memoir, and this season, we'll be tracking the arc of those stories in conversations. I look forward to exploring how we navigate life with the support of fr…
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Learning with Friends: Reflecting on Episodes 6 - 9 with Nancy Gabriel
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Join Beth and Nancy Gabriel as they reflect on highlights and learning from the podcast episodes 6 through 9. They explore themes of how to create conferences which create transformational moments, the power of intergenerational collaboration, generosity, and how we can weave the arts into how we gather and work together. In this final episode for …
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Circles That Rekindle Spirit and Wisdom with Hazel Bell Koski and Eimear O'Neill
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Spirit Matters were a series of gatherings, held in Toronto, that created circles where Indigenous wisdom keepers from many places connected with social justice leaders, students, artists, and healers. In this episode, I talk with Eimear O’Neill about how she and her late husband Ed O’Sullivan convened these gatherings, working in partnership with …
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SeaCHANGE Conference: Arts + Conversation with Victoria Carrington & Robert Sapiro
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Imagine a conference where people are still talking about some of the conversations and experiences a year later, using words like ‘magic’ and ‘transformational’. At the SeaCHANGE Conference, we created a space where people of different identities, races, and ages could get into deep conversations that generated mutual understanding. Artists who at…
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What Would Healing Look Like? (Part 2) with Belvie Rooks, Liz Miller, Matt Davis, & Fran Grace
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This episode takes the three stories we heard from Belvie Rooks in Part 1 and shows how those became seeds for inspiration, growth, and meaningful work in others lives. We explore the synchronicity of meeting people who change the course of our lives and the power of intergenerational collaboration. Liz Miller and Matt Davis of the Pseads Institute…
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What Would Healing Look Like? (Part 1) with Belvie Rooks
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What does it mean to commit to love and life, even when facing some of the hardest historic and current struggles? Beth invites Belvie Rooks, an author, activist, and educator, to share how meeting Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as a youth planted seeds that grew over decades. We learn about an educational program she developed for young people dealin…
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Learning with Friends: Reflecting on Episodes 1- 4 with Nancy Gabriel
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Join Beth and Nancy Gabriel as they reflect on highlights and learning from the first four podcast conversations. They explore themes such as the time it takes to build trust, how to draw out the gifts already there in communities, and what can unfold when we listen rather than start by promoting our answers. Plus, Beth shares some questions and a …
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The Village: A Collective People Who Care with Kile Adumene
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In US culture, the values of individualism, mobility, and leaving home are prized; yet, this can also lead to social isolation and a lack of connection to communities that care for each other. How do we recreate the village? This conversation with Kile Adumene, who experienced a village culture growing up in Nigeria and then lived in the US for 24 …
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Activating the Resource of Community with Libby Hoffman
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What can happen when we invest in supporting people and communities to have a voice and take leadership rather than imposing solutions from the outside? This conversation with Libby Hoffman explores the story of a community-led process, begun after the civil war in Sierra Leone, to reconcile and work together to lead change at the local level. We s…
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From Divison to Vision with Charles Gibbs
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This conversation with Reverend Charles Gibbs explores the story of how the United Religions Initiative brought people together to bridge religious and cultural differences and work together for the good of their communities and the world. We explore how they convened inter-faith dialogues around the world to “find words of a common vision that an …
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The Spaces Where We Come Together with Beth Tener and Nancy Gabriel
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In this launch episode, Beth Tener explores how we create communities that generate more love and trust, rather than fear and isolation. She and Nancy Gabriel, a social change facilitator, discuss stories of how a team created high levels of trust and of how a school community came together after a challenging time. Questions Nancy's story of the l…
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Coming February 14th, Living Love is a home of conversations with good people, doing good work, who are not famous…yet. The news is full of stories of the world we don’t want. Beth Tener brings stories of people living into the world we do want and how we can create it together. As an experienced facilitator and community weaver, she engages with i…
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