The Tension of Emergence: Befriending the discomfort of slowing down to lead and thrive in uncertain times Jennifer England

When you’re confronted by overwhelm and crisis, do you turn away from reality to protect your heart? If so, you’re not alone. Jennifer offers a compassionate practice to help you learn about the denial-acceptance polarity. Inspired by her conversation with Latinx educator and author, Vanessa Andreotti Jennifer guides you to track where you deny or accept challenging experiences and explore the upsides and downsides of both. If you try this practice and have an insight or expe...

In this episode, Jennifer England talks with celebrated Latinx educator and author, Vanessa Andreotti about how to bear the weight of modern crises. They share alternative ways of knowing and being as we begin to hospice modernity itself. They explore:The limits of traditional activism What is quantum embodied wisdom and why we need it The one essential skill we must develop in a post-truth worldHow relational maturity can help us get better at taking responsibility Tune i...

Stifled by status quo scripts of masculinity and femininity? Longing to feel more free in how you express both? Jennifer offers a practice on how to appreciate and let go of old identity scripts that limit your aliveness. Inspired by her conversation with filmmaker and mythopoetic guide, Ian MacKenzie she encourages an experiment with Eros to expand and liberate old identity scripts. If you play with this practice and discover a new way of seeing or experiencing your ‘self’ we’d lo...

A renaissance is happening and it’s dissolving limited stereotypes defined by the “man box” and “toxic masculinity”. Jennifer talks with filmmaker, writer and visionary artist, Ian MacKenzie about his journey through art and village to discover what it means to cultivate a healthy and vibrant masculinity. Tune in to hear: The influence of 80s pop culture on boyhood and fathering Why the liberation of women is intertwined with the liberation of menThe role of Eros and the Lover ...

Jennifer offers a practice to help you get unstuck, inspired by her conversation with filmmaker, writer and educator Nora Bateson.In a culture that privileges the scientific, rational and objective, it’s hard to access other ways of knowing. Yet the intuitive, somatic, spiritual and poetic can give us perspective that might bring perspective and relief. Today, Jennifer encourages you to take an inventory of your preferred “ways of knowing” and how less familiar ones might ease (or heal) ...

Are you caught in a double bind? One of those untenable life situations where you feel torn between two seemingly opposing identities or experiences? Jennifer talks with filmmaker, writer and educator Nora Bateson for an intimate look at double binds and how expanding our capacity to perceive what's missing, through warm data, can help us heal them. Starting with the legacy of system thinking giants (her father and grandfather), Nora and Jennifer get personal and explore—Honoring l...