I’m a Poet, a Coach, and a Group Process Facilitator. Human to Human, The Podcast is where I have conversations with colleagues and friends about compelling themes. In 2024, that theme is Practicing For Peace. So many of us seek connection, learning, and practice. Human to Human explores that.
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Nadia Von Holzen "Unhurried" (August 2024, 51 minutes)
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So good to talk with Nadia. It's sharing life, sharing learning. It's exploring the extraordinary in the ordinary. It's commitment to joy. It's weaving that into practicing peace. Enjoy. I did. About Nadia von Holzen -- Nadia is an experienced social innovator, workshop coach and facilitator. As the founder of Learning Moments, she aims to inspire …
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Rowan Francis Simonsen, Skanderborg, Denmark "Connect to Stillness Within" (June 2024, 51 minutes)
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What a sweet collage of explorations and insights with Rowan. We go back to first meeting in 2010. It's been years of sporadic yet well-timed connection. Lots of shared inspiration. This collage includes a bunch. Clarity of the inner lived in the outer. That's peace. Memories of train rides. Invitations to join what you are passionate about. Holdin…
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Toke Moeller, Sejs, Denmark "The Art & The Heart -- Practicing Peace" (May 2024, 58 minutes)
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Such a delight! Toke brings it all. The art. The heart. The personal. The professional. The joy. The discipline. The story. The learning. I loved our conversation. I loved the long pauses when I could see Toke thinking. I loved his joy, and mine, to be in such learning and clarity today. As we've done so much over 25 years. Enjoy listening. I am. A…
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Tenneson Woolf, South Jordan, Utah, USA "Attentive Peace" (April 2024, 28 minutes)
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A little solo reflection on this one. Fun to do. I track a few thoughts that contribute to my peace path and the most simple of that that I encourage. - We live Life. Life lives us. - What has our attention likely has some medicine for our learning and evolution. - When we develop familiarity with what has our attention (as guide, + some associativ…
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Samantha Slade, Montreal, Quebec, Canada "Peace & Big Self" (March 2024, 55 minutes)
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Yup -- so much good. Big self. Staying with. Centering. Unlearning. All of it connected to practicing peace. Great to learn with, dwell with, wonder with. I appreciate Sam's ability and orientation to practice in the small things and in the big things. And so often, to connect some of the things that live near by. SAMANTHA SLADE, Collective governa…
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Cory Thorell, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA "Choose Peace, Love Gigantically" (February 2024, 58 minutes)
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Lots of good, inviting, wonder, wander, and ponder in this episode. I'm theming this year's podcasts -- all in 2024 will have focus on "practicing for peace." It's broad topic, yes. It has heart calling in it for me. It has inspiration from a few of my most beloved mentors. It has potent invitation to the smallest of personal self care peace moves,…
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I've chosen a theme for 2024 episodes of this Human to Human Podcast. The theme is Practicing for Peace. As before this will be conversational with guests. I hope that the stories and insights inspire your own Practicing for Peace. Be it in the daily small things of the inner, or in the longer arc big things of the outer. Stay tuned. I'm excited fo…
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Dave Fearon, Connecticut, USA ”Practice” (November 2023, 51 minutes)
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A pleasure to be in conversation with Dave Fearon. Due to a tech glitch I missed adding some recorded appreciations about Dave. I felt encouraged by Dave's wise words and calming voice. He's a long time academic, who got some of his starts in the YMCA. Enjoy the listen. We touch upon the field of humanism needed for serious problems in the world. D…
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Field Learning, and a Bunch More -- Katie Kinnemeyer, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA -- 48 min)
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Lots of fun with Katie Kinnemeyer. She has a brain and a heart that I appreciate. In this conversation, she shares some of the core of her unfolding work. We touch upon field working, field listening, emergence, sense-making, her work with women entrepreneurs, relationship with slowing down, with calling, and with her orientation to generosity and …
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Stop, Exhale, Ground -- Janice Stieber Rous, Orlando, Florida, USA -- 53 minutes, Recorded 9/12/23
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What a treat. Janice has been a personal friend. She's been a guide. She's been an inspiring figure. She's been smart and sharp. She's been playful and jesterful. I've known her in each of these ways. Our recent call for the podcast covered relation to water, getting quiet, learning to say no, guidance for the physical and emotional body, guiding a…
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LaTanya Wilson, Chicago, Illinois, USA ”If You Have Desire To Meet Spirit, Spirit Has A Desire To Meet You” (08/28/23 -- 40 minutes)
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A delightful conversation with my friend LaTanya. We cover a range: her work at Shriver Poverty Law as a policy organization changing rules to change lives growing up in a Mennonite Pastor family faith and a calling to law at 15 years old aggressiveness needed in systemic injustice speaking up in difference being a good listener how we all lose in …
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Amaha Sellassie, Dayton, Ohio, USA -- Live Real in a Real Time
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Amaha is brilliant. As a community organizer. As a colleague. As a justice worker. As a friend and brother. See his bio below. I love the way Amaha lives from love and spirit. I loved reconnecting with him about that in this recording. Enjoy the listen, 46 minutes: 1:00 Human to human distills to essence....quest to understand our humanity...the so…
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Myriam Hadnes, ”Global Community of Practitioners” (6/21/23, 54 minutes)
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With Myriam, I love her pace and commitment to slow down and to enjoy. It's living wonder out loud. It's listening to stories and what lives under the stories. Myriam reminds me of the kind of person, guide, and coach that I most want to be. Have a listen. Thx for shares and instincts to reach back to begin our own threads of this human to human wa…
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Chris Corrigan, ”Support is Life” (5/18/23, 55 minutes)
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This was such a treat to welcome Chris Corrigan to the podcast. He is as articulate as they come. He is someone that I love for is insatiable learning and mass ability and instinct to connect. He is someone that weaves generosity and kindness to that learning and to the baseline invitation of being curious together -- I've know this in him over the…
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Beth Tener - ”Kinship” (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA)
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Lots of delight to connected with Beth Tener, a friend / colleague over the last 10+ years. We share a lot of similar values in our respective work, including the desire to foster wholeness and health. We both have appreciation for practices that bring connection, authenticity, and learning. Enjoy the listen. Thx for forwards, etc where inspired. A…
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Lawrence Kampf - ”Higher Expressions of Selves” (Motovun, Croatia)
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Yup, a real treat to connect in this format with my pal Lawrence Kampf (48 minutes, recorded 3/9/23). He's a brother. He's a colleague. He's a wise being. He's a kind soul. As Lawrence shares, he's a person that "can't not help people grow to higher expressions of themselves." I've felt that with him. In laughs and in tears. A few show notes are he…
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Linnea Bjorkman - ”Holistic Living” (Denver, Colorado)
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I loved the conversation with Linnea (49 minutes, recorded 1/25/23). As friend. As colleague. As fellow learner. To revisit Circle (how we met), her work with Yoga, Breath, Gardening, Permaculture, and a bunch more. When I think Linnea I think holistic living. And groundedness. A few show notes are here -- a few headlines of topics and times when t…
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I love feeling a big topic (Relational Leadership) and translating it to a few questions that can be used in participative process to create some connection and wisdom. The three questions I'm using a lot are: 1)What do you care about? 2) What might you uniquely be seeing? 3) How are you doing? (12 minutes)…
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The Violence of The Binary; The Kindness of the Multiplicity
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Been thinking a bunch about this one. The subtle ways that too much of contemporary life is skewed to either / or, right / wrong, this / that. The binary is embedded in way too much, acting as a vicegrip on our brains and hearts. It's an age old issue, perhaps amplified by the digital revolution. I believe our times call for us to grow much more ab…
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For Guidance In These Times -- 8 Orientations to Grounded Journey
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From some early morning reflection, stillness, and musing I found an updated guidance system. Eight principles or orientations. You could call them practices. From commitments to simplicity, to being in nature. From tending to physical body to fierce commitment to the inner work. From honesty with pain and challenge to the alchemical path that is j…
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One of the skills I most rely on as a facilitator, and as the human being that I am, is being able to ask good questions. I've learned a few goto reliances that connect people to an ecosystem of curiosity -- like the web that connects morning dew in the photo I took recently. Some of the reliance is attitude that infuses simple questions with added…
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With Kate McCracken -- Sense-Maker, Writer, Parent, Leadership Facilitator
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I love the connection with Kate. She thinks so well on her feet. She connects insights. She knows stuff. She's not afraid to lean to the not knowing. I start with a simple question -- What has your attention these days? We follow that through writing, parenting, CoVid, humaning, and a few other topics. I love her reference to "returning to somethin…
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I loved the recent conversation I had with friend Bob Stilger, that then inspired my blog post of the same name, From Normal to Now. It's not "getting back to normal" that feels helpful or honest in these CoVid times. It's more learning to be in the "now" and seriously revising our psyche's relationship with "normal." (Program Note -- I mistakenly …
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In The End of the World (As We Think We Know It)
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For a while during this CoVid pandemic, I found myself oddly resisting, yet also turning toward, the idea of catastrophe. In the resistance, I guessed that there was something fruitful to give myself permission to explore. There is potency in going toward that which we fear or resist, right. Well, these 16 minutes are a version of that. It's six th…
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With Casey Tinnin -- Pastor, Community Activist, Friend
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Casey is one of my favorite people in the world. His energy and his honesty are very inviting. I met him through the United Church of Christ Next Generation Leadership Initiative, at which I've been faculty now for three years. Casey brings insight, wonder, compassion and so many other delicious slivers of aliveness in making space for people.…
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Another Systems View of This Virus and These CoVid Times
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I’m a group process person, that comes from an orientation of living systems, and that has particular interest in how the humanity of things plays out in a world in which everything is connected to everything. I’ve been afraid with CoVid. Yup. Worried. Yup. Trying to offer clarity to those near me. Yup. Here’s some of that clarity, a few headlines,…
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I love talking / listening with my friend and colleague Quanita (13 minutes). She brings insightful reflection and wonder to her becoming -- the deep, fun, and easy; the relationship with mentors and elders; the relationship that she sees with divine order. Enjoy.By humantohuman
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Who are you? What's it like to be you? How did you become you? What's now got to do with the long arc? Jim can follow the prompt with spontaneity, seriousness, humor. I like all of that. I've come to learn that these questions are ongoing for all of us.By humantohuman
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The Thing Behind The Thing Behind The Thing -- The Circle Way
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This phrase is one of my favorites these days -- The thing behind the thing behind the thing. It suggests quest. It suggests layers. It suggests “ongoing” (I could very easily add ellipsis…). It’s narrative for what I feel we are so often up to in teams, groups, communities, and families. It’s also straight talk, plain and simple.…
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From The Blog -- On Operating Systems in Groups: Try Thinking Less
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I’m the kind of human that likes to explore the operating systems for working with groups. I suppose I’ve been searching for and experimenting with improvements most of my life. So as to add more consciousness. Or kindness. Or brilliance accessed through the whole of it.By humantohuman
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From The Blog -- Psychological Maturity and The Words That Come From Our Mouths
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I have learned over the years that one of the key aspects of psychological maturity is the ability to hold as valid, opposing thoughts, or simultaneous but different truths, at the same time. Let’s over simplify what plays out in millions of moments every day, and then learn from that.By humantohuman
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