This podcast is a home for conversations about how we strengthen kinship and collaboration in times of 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.
Learning with Friends: Reflections on Episodes 6-9, Season 2 with Nancy Gabriel
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...
Grief Held in Community
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...
Love and Presence in the Hardest Times with Greta Bro
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...
Community through the Cancer Journey with Margie Zohn
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,...
Big Decisions and Ways of Knowing with Tenneson Woolf
Episode 6: Season 2, 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...
Learning with Friends Reflections on Episodes 1-4, Season 2, with Nancy Gabriel
Episode 5: Season 2 Learning with Friends, Reflections on Episodes 1-4 with Nancy Gabriel 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...
Love is Listening with Simon d’Orsogna & Bruce Nayowith
Episode 4: Season 2 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,...
Sources of Connected Strength with Greta Bro
Episode 3: Season 2 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...
Disrupting Patterns of Burnout through Community with Jennice Chewlin and Lori Hanau
Episode 2: Season 2 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...
Answering the Call to Change with Katherine Golub & Nancy Gabriel
Episode 1: Season 2 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...