Disrupting Our Practice

I’m a fan of the work Greg and Shannon do and am glad to hear them expanding their reach through this podcast. We practitioners have enormous potential and responsibility to effect positive change. These initial conversations are a reminder to us that we are not some sort of neutral party floating above it all. We are always entangled. Lovely. If you’re not part of the problem you can’t be part of the solution. Thanks for the inspiration and for sharing as you learn out loud. It is a path we can all choose to travel.

Appreciate the conversations Shannon and Greg engage in on the impact that our dominant culture—and positionality within in it—has on facilitatorship and other leadership roles. Through their own willingness to lean into personal discomfort while discussing timely questions regarding race and privilege, I get to cross reference my own experience and see where I can become more aware in my role as a group facilitator. Rather than being another podcast with information that helps me hone my mask of the “expert”, this show provides me space to reflect on and examine my own unconscious tendencies in my work, thereby returning me to the potent place of curiosity about my impact. While it’s uncomfortable at times, it feels important.