Community inspired transformation and the journey back to self. Discussion on the Fire and Water Leadership Journey and Rite of Passage 16 month experience as the second cohort approaches their final in person retreat for the course.By QTfireandwater

Tenneson and I have a conversation about race, how we see it in this moment, and what we believe is being called for. We talk a bit about how it shows up between us. Join us and let us know what questions this conversation brings up for you. For more information on Tenneson and Quanita's work please check out Tenneson's website at http://www.tennes…

Tenneson & Quanita reflect on Fire & Water as a program, having just completed their 2nd Fire & Water Retreat, held virtually over five days with a cohort of 18 people, integrating screen times and off-screen times, and weaving focus that appealed to five (or more) senses of learning. They also reflect on Fire & Water as journey and initiation, and…

Meditation on Your Mother Line for Mother's Day. Transcript: Meditation on your mother line is a practice that connects you deeply with your ancestry and lineage. It reminds us that we belong to something bigger than ourselves. It involves reflecting on the women in your family who came before you, their stories, their struggles, their triumphs, an…

After a thirty-plus-year profession in design and visual communication, Kinde began transitioning into wilderness rites of passage guiding in 2008. She started New Moon Rites of Passage in 2011, which offers wilderness rites of passage, ecopsychological daywalks, community grief tending, one-on-one integral coaching, and various programs. She has l…

“They will remain shut away behind a hedge of thorns. The journey in search of soul is difficult and even dangerous because it requires that we relinquish the certainty of what we think we know and what we have been taught for generations to believe. It means surrendering the desire to be in control and opening ourselves to a quest, a path of disco…

What is the difference between an elder versus someone who is a teacher or a guide with the acknowledgment that an individual can inhabit all of these identities or two or one. Eldering as recognizing learning as learning or studying aspects of the self removed by proximity in order to see the whole more clearly, or at different perspectives. You a…

Today’s guest is Eileen Cooper Reed. She is a long-time friend and community mama for Quanita, and deeply respected friend for Tenneson. Eileen is our first guest in 2023, a year in which we are committed to more conversations with our elders. We turn to our elders for their guidance, their humor, their wisdom, and their clarity. Eileen offered a b…

Can we be with the flow of life and just offer what's in our hearts and minds right then and right there?By QTfireandwater

Integrating rest into your life and the gifts that rest offers including timelessness and play.By QTfireandwater

Sometimes, as a point of fact, there are a lot of things going on in our lives and our schedules are full. Contemplations on how to engage these time periods in our lives.By QTfireandwater

We are hosting a Circle Immersion this December 2022, so today we discuss holding the circle in community. More information about this immersion can be found on our website at Circle Immersion . In addition, in some was this is part 3 of a series. Part one can be seen as Circle Buffet Part 1 Podcast and part 2 can be heard here Circle Buffet Part 2…

Conversation with our very own co-host Tenneson Woolf's new book of poetry, Most Mornings. Poems on practice, learning, insight, discoveries and sense-making in our mundane and magical world.By QTfireandwater

What is required for one to be deserving? Who stands in judgment? How do our contributions to the wider society play into ideas around what one deserves?By QTfireandwater

Conversation with Christina Baldwin centering holding space for connection using The Circle Way. For a deeper introduction to the Essence of Circle practice. Please check Quanita and Tenneson's upcoming workshops: Essence of Circle Practice Workshops .By QTfireandwater

Tenneson and Quanita reflect on their Wisdom Series that focused on our relationship to forgiveness. This journey took two groups through anger, grief, compassion, and grace.By fireandwater

Tenneson and Quanita talk about what is healthy masculine and healthy feminine and how it shows up in men and women.By fireandwater

Quanita Roberson and Amy Howton have written a healing book, The InnerGround Railroad: A 40 Day Journey to Remembering Soul & Spirit. Tenneson asks Quanita several questions about how it feels for her see the first printed copy, how she feels herself grown and changed by writing the book, and how she hopes people encounter the book and its stories.…

Tenneson and Quanita talk about trauma and the way that they are experiencing our culture right now. Asking questions about how we are to be trauma informed but not have everything be tseen through the lens of trauma.By fireandwater

Tenneson and I spend some time with one of our elders, David O'Fallon. He shares his thoughts on views on how things are and what is needed in these times. David O’Fallon PhD David’s life themes are education and education reform, arts and cultural work, creating community and imagining and creating the future. He has followed these themes through …

Tenneson Woolf and Quanita Roberson have a conversation about departures as a part of the initiatory process. They serve how departure has shown up for them and what they have learned.By fireandwater

One of the critical aspects of Fire & Water is staying in the journey through the 16 months. It takes effort and deliberateness to do so, for participants to stay attentive to what unfolds. Quanita and I reflect on a few aspects of staying in -- the spaces in between, critical connections to maintain and to grow, staying in vs just passing time, ri…

In this episode (30 minutes), Quanita and Tenneson explore the possibility that there be no such thing as independence. Which is, of course, a conversation about connection. We explore scarcity as a pattern in codependence. We explore abundance as a pattern in interdependence. And we wonder about the ways that unresolved wound and trauma foster a c…

It was the day after completing Fire & Water. Sixteen months of journey. Of passage. Quanita and Tenneson take a moment to witness the feeling of a group welcomed those many months ago, and then released. Released with wisdom and soul given permanent seat at the table. And with welcome of applications, through January 31, 2021, for the next cohort.…

Our intent with this Fire & Water Podcast is to cultivate wise and soulful leaders. Our Fire & Water Program is both a Rite of Passage and a Leadership Journey. Today, as we enter our third and final retreat with our cohort, we reflect on several aspects of Rite of Passage, and the need to reclaim contemporary initiation as an essential part of lea…

Quanita and Tenneson have a conversation about fear and how it is showing up in the world today. They also look at what we can do about fear and its relationship to love. For more information on Tenneson and Quanita's work please check out Tenneson's website at http://www.tennesonwoolf.com/ , Quanita's website at https://www.nzuzu.com/ . For more i…

Lots of fun to harvest a time of learning. Having spent 4 July days together in some work, some planning, some design preparation, and of course, some wondering / wandering, Quanita and Tenneson reflect on nature, presence, the practice of encountering self, other, life. With some appreciation for the essentialness of both being and doing. For more…

Tenneson and I get circly and talk about the different parts of circle that are working us these days. This is Part 2 of our conversation. We touch on lots of different things, hence the buffet reference. Enjoy! For more information on Tenneson and Quanita's work please check out Tenneson's website at http://www.tennesonwoolf.com/ , Quanita's websi…

Tenneson and I get circly and talk about the different parts of circle that are working us these days. We touch on lots of different things, hence the buffet reference. Enjoy!By fireandwater

Tenneson and I have a conversation about the difference between believing that we are human beings that sometimes have spiritual experiences or spiritual beings that are having a human experience.By fireandwater

Quanita Roberson interviews Tenneson Woolf about his new book, A Cadence of Despair: Poems and reflections on Heartbreak, Loss, and Renewal.By fireandwater

These all go together, don't they. It's important to give ourselves to hope. Or to witness it. It's also important to give ourselves to the grief. Quanita and I reflect on such notions (12 minutes).By fireandwater

Tenneson and I wanted to invite our Fire & Water online community to our online living room for a coffee/tea call. A big part of Fire & Water is the ability to pay attention to the unseen as well as the seen. In this call we gathered as larger community together and shared what has our attention in this unprecedented time. This episode is the follo…

As we step into our work with our Fire & Water 2019-2020 Cohort we are asked often what do we mean by initiation. Here is a conversation we had about the topic.By QTfireandwater

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Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time. We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.…

Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time. We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.…

Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time. We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.…