Living the Mission JCU CSSA

The experimenter innovates, pioneers, invents, course-corrects, pivots, etc. And that’s what we’re chatting about on today’s episode! Please welcome Living the Mission’s #1 fan and CSSA’s Assistant Director for Community Partnerships, John Jackson. He reminds us that when we experiment, there will be failure. But we know that mistakes are proof that we are trying. It’s okay to be humbled and it’s okay to make mistakes and it’s okay that things aren’t always perfect. Anything worth doing is going to be challenging. So let’s live up to the challenge and experiment in every role.

This week on Living the Mission, we are reflecting on the role of the Caregiver with Leah Berdysz, founder of Empowered and Poised.  We will discuss how to nurture and nourish the people around us by creating a community of care and connection. Leah believes that in order to be a changemaker, we cannot just work for others, but rather we must walk with others through life and help them discover their own strengths. On this journey of caring for others, we have to be patient with ourselves and with one another and give everyone a little bit of grace.

Join Jim Krukones, V.P. for Academic Affairs at John Carroll on this episode of Living the Mission. Our discussion draws attention to the influence of all the different members of the JCU community. The builder is the person who develops, organizes and executes the ideas -- the person who tends to actually get the things done. We discuss the importance of giving a quick and authentic apology so that we can rebuild to move forward. Also, we are able to acknowledge and trust the feeling that we’re living the mission.

Join us as we chat with a well known storyteller in the John Carroll Community, Dr. Carrie Buchanan. As a journalism professor and advisor of The Carroll News, she strives to integrate, craft, and share the stories of different communities. She opens up platforms to expand the possibilities for stories to be heard in a unique way. She reminds us how much we love stories, how they are a part of us, and how they help us to navigate our role in the social change ecosystem.

On this episode of Living the Mission we chat with principal of St. Francis Elementary, Scott Embacher. We’ll uncover the role of the guide (and a few other roles) as we learn how to be well rounded for transformational change. Scott reminds us how to stay within our mission so that when the tough times come, our values are already defined. When we do this we’re not shooting into the dark but we are guided by a light.

Welcome back to Living the Mission! This semester we are going to focus on The Social Change Ecosystem and the roles that this model abides by. Our hope is that in the season of life and in this season of the podcast you can identify where your strengths lie according to these roles and where you may have some room to grow. Today we focus on the role of Visionary as we imagine bold possibilities and dream big for the direction of the podcast, directing our efforts towards social change. We’d like to thank you all from the bottom of our hearts for being a part of this journey and can’t wait to see how we can continue to Live the Mission.

For more information on The Social Change Ecosystem please visit: https://buildingmovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Ecosystem-Roles-2020.pdf