Living Love

Beth Tener

This podcast is a home of conversations about how we strengthen kinship and collaboration in times of great 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. This podcast is part of Kinship – a hub for people committed to activating the power of healthy community. Learn more at https://kinshiphub.net.

  1. ProAction Cafe: Origins and Some How To's with Ria Baeck

    FEB 25

    ProAction Cafe: Origins and Some How To's with Ria Baeck

    Episode 31  - The ProAction Cafe is a group conversation approach where people can offer peer support for each other's ideas, projects, and challenges. In this episode, I interview Ria Baeck, to learn the origin story of this method that she co-created with Rainer von Leoprechting. She shares how the rounds of conversations work and we explore how this conversation approach allows you to tap a collective intelligence in the room.  For more information the Peer Power Hour events see this link.

    25 min
  2. Peer Power Hour: Gatherings for Peer Support with Andrea Martin

    FEB 10

    Peer Power Hour: Gatherings for Peer Support with Andrea Martin

    Episode 30: In times of fear and uncertainty, we need spaces where people can connect and offer peer support. In this episode, Beth Tener talks with Andrea Martin, also a facilitator, about an in-person space they’re creating called the Peer Power Hour, that allows people to help each other with our ideas, projects, and challenges. Andrea also shares about an initiative she started called Give and Gather, which creates local gatherings for mutual support and community connections. You’ll get practical ideas how you can host these kind of peer-support gatherings and hear about the benefits.

    21 min
  3. Learning with Friends: Reflections on Episodes 6-8 Season 3 with Bruce Nayowith

    08/15/2024

    Learning with Friends: Reflections on Episodes 6-8 Season 3 with Bruce Nayowith

    How can you create experiences of belonging and collective vitality, that support people’s creativity and thriving? Join Beth with her guest Bruce Nayowith as explore stories of how people have created environments of belonging in different contexts, as featured in podcast episodes 6-8 of Season 3. We explore how Minneapolis creatively engaged a diverse range of citizens to transform policies related to housing and hear from a local housing advocate about creating ways to engage residents in policy decisions. We unpack what it takes to ‘design’ inclusive spaces that facilitate authentic social connection and trust, with the story of the SeaCHANGE Conference. Finally, we discuss how people can strengthen a sense of their belonging and interconnectedness with all living things, learning from Four Arrows about moving beyond Western culture's assumptions to discover the kinship worldview. Resources and links:   Home: Living Love Playlist Season 3: My gift to you - a Spotify playlist of favorite songs of the guests on the Living Love podcast Season 3.   Kinship: A Hub to Amplify the Power of Community: Check out this web site to learn about Beth Tener’s work, focused on designing for connection in groups and communities of all kinds. You can join the newsletter here. Interconnected, by Daniel Siegel: Bookshop.org Fire, poem by Judy Brown:  Green Acre Baha’i Learning Center:  Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, by Bill McKibben: Bookshop.org Great March for Climate Action (2014): http://climatemarch.org/  For a transcript of this episode see: Kinship website Audio editing by: Podcasting for Creatives

    47 min
  4. At Home with Nature: the Kinship Worldview with Four Arrows

    08/01/2024

    At Home with Nature: the Kinship Worldview with Four Arrows

    How can we restore a sense of feeling at home with nature? In this podcast, we explore the sense of disconnection between humans and nature in modern Western cultures and contrast that to indigenous worldview that values interconnectedness. Four Arrows, a.k.a, Donald Trent Jacobs, shares stories from indigenous cultures, and his new book "Restoring the Kinship Worldview" which offers 28 precepts for rebalancing life on Earth. You’ll appreciate the richness of how a kinship worldview can help us restore biodiversity and balance with the earth, and personally to find courage in the face of fear and discover a deeper sense of belonging. Resources and links:   Kinship: A Hub to Amplify the Power of Community: Check out this web site to learn about Beth Tener’s work, focused on designing for connection in groups and communities of all kinds. You can join the newsletter here. Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voies Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth, Book by Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez 2019 UN Biodiversity Report Article Worldview Chart by Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez The Evolved Nest, Darcia Narvaez’s Website Wild Geese, poem by Mary Oliver  The Media Have Missed a Crucial Message of the UN’s Biodiversity Report, in The Nation by Four Arrows Differing Worldviews in Higher Education: Two Scholars Argue Cooperatively About Justice Education, Walter Block and Four Arrows   A Time Before Deception: Truth in Communication, Culture, and Ethics, Thomas W. Cooper   You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times, Howard Zinn For a transcript of this episode see: Kinship website Audio editing by: Podcasting for Creatives

    51 min
  5. Spaces Where Creators Feel at Home with Diannely Antigua and Najee Brown

    07/11/2024

    Spaces Where Creators Feel at Home with Diannely Antigua and Najee Brown

    This conversation explores how we can create spaces where artists of all kinds can foster a sense of belonging and creative exploration. With Diannely Antigua, a poet and educator, and Najee Brown, a playwright, photographer, and arts producer, we share the story of the SeaCHANGE Conference, a conference like no other. We gather creators of different identities, races, and ages and explore how the arts can contribute to healing and social change. In this podcast, you’ll learn about the ways that the arts and creative community supported each of my guests in their paths, and how to create conferences where people can form meaningful connections that lead to lasting friendships and collaborations. Kinship: A Hub to Amplify the Power of Community: Check out this web site to learn about Beth Tener’s work, focused on designing for connection in groups and communities of all kinds. You can join the newsletter here.  SeaCHANGE Conference - register for the conference here  SeaCHANGE Conference: Art + Conversation with Victoria Carrington and Robert Sapiro - earlier podcast sharing about the Conference Diannely Antigua:  web site and Instagram   Bread & Poetry Podcast by Diannely Antigu Diannely’s Book Good Monster: https://bookshop.org/p/books/good-monster/20252485?ean=9781556596902  Najee Brown: najee visuals: photography web site   Instagram Theater for the People Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge, MA Green Acre For a transcript of this episode see: Kinship website Audio editing by: Podcasting for Creatives

    51 min
  6. Communities Where Everyone Has a Home with Janne Flisrand and Andrea Pickett

    06/25/2024

    Communities Where Everyone Has a Home with Janne Flisrand and Andrea Pickett

    In many communities, we are in a crisis where many people cannot access affordable stable housing. Andrea Pickett shares her experience as a housing advocate who is also navigating the housing crisis herself. She's passionate about giving those with lived experience a voice on these issues. Janne Flisrand shares how the City of Minneapolis, with broad citizen engagement, created a systemic scale of change towards homes for all. You’ll learn about how the group Neighbors for More Neighbors rallied people to support new housing and the Mapping Prejudice project allowed people to see the harms of historical discrimination. Discover how community artists engaged many voices not usually in the process, wonky bloggers deciphered zoning codes, and elected leaders took bold city-wide policy action…with early signs showing the measures are keeping rents stable.  Kinship: A Hub to Amplify the Power of Community: Check out this web site to learn about Beth Tener’s work, focused on designing for connection in groups and communities of all kinds. You can join the newsletter here.  Kinship Blog Post: An overview of Minneapolis’s 2040 Plan Janne Flisrand Blog Post: Minneapolis’ Secret 2040 Sauce Was Engagement Neighbors for More Neighbors: Website Minneapolis 2040 Plan: Website Mapping Prejudice: Website Streets.MN: Website Wedge LIVE: Website Pew Research on Minneapolis Rents: Article Andrea Pickett TEDx Talk: YouTube Video Literary Hub Article Featuring Janne Flisrand: Article For a transcript of this episode see: Kinship website Audio editing by: Podcasting for Creatives

    52 min
  7. Learning with Friends: Reflecting on Episodes 1-4, Season 3 with Nancy Gabriel and Bruce Nayowith

    06/12/2024

    Learning with Friends: Reflecting on Episodes 1-4, Season 3 with Nancy Gabriel and Bruce Nayowith

    Join Beth with her guests Nancy Gabriel and Bruce Nayowith as they reflect on highlights and learning from episodes 1-4 in Season 3. We explore how to create intentional “pockets” where people try different ways of working together. The positive examples and inspiration from these experiences can spread. This episode offers facilitators, teachers, and coaches ideas on how to create positive environments for dialogue or learning. We draw insights from conversations with Ria Baeck with Collective Presencing, Emily Daniels with The Regulated Classroom, and Rosa Zubizarreta with Dynamic Facilitation and Citizen Assemblies. We discuss how to create environments for collaborative learning.  Resources and links:   Kinship: A Hub to Amplify the Power of Community: Check out this web site to learn about Beth Tener’s work, focused on designing for connection in groups and communities of all kinds. You can join the newsletter here. New Directions Collaborative Dartmouth’s NH/VT Schweitzer Fellows Program Trauma and the Soul by Don Kalsched (book) Thomas Huebl – website and Healing Collective Trauma (book) The Pocket Project Gottman Marriage Counseling Method  Circle Way  How a Caterpillar Turns into a Butterfly - Blog about Imaginal Cells: A Model from Nature for Transforming Systems from a book by Elisabet Sahtouris quoting Norrie Huddle Ladder of Influence - A concept for slowing down our thinking to see how we jump to conclusions and/or interpret things, developed by Chris Argyri. Collaborative Learning and Generous Exchange - Blog  For a transcript of this episode see: Kinship website Audio editing by: Podcasting for Creatives

    42 min
  8. Transforming Conflict into Creative Responses with Rosa Zubizarreta

    05/28/2024

    Transforming Conflict into Creative Responses with Rosa Zubizarreta

    Conflict is a part of life. Instead of avoiding conflict or allowing it to split communities into polarized sides, how can we transform tension and conflict into creative responses and unity? My guest, Rosa Zubizarreta, author of From Conflict to Creative Collaboration, shares examples of innovative citizen engagement processes that allow people to feel a sense of psychological safety in speaking up and feeling heard. We learn about how Citizen Councils were used in Austria to address complex challenges - shifting from two polarized sides to find creative solutions. Rosa offers suggestions of approaches that anyone can use to help a group hold tension and conflict, including Dynamic Facilitation, Restorative Circles, and Empathy Circles.   Resources and links:   Kinship: A Hub to Amplify the Power of Community: Check out this web site to learn about Beth Tener’s work, focused on designing for connection in groups and communities of all kinds. You can join the newsletter here. Rosa’s web site - DiaPraxis: Awakening the Spirit of Creative Collaboration. She is currently a Visiting Fellow in Democracy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. From Conflict to Creative Collaboration - Rosa’s book Scaling Deliberation - Austrian Citizen Councils - article by Rosa The Co-Intelligence Institute - Promoting innovations in collective wisdom, co-creativity, and collaborative governance. Tom Atlee, research director. Citizens - book by Jon Alexander Restorative Circles - An approach to working with conflict, developed by Dominic Barter EmpathyCircles.com   For a transcript of this episode see: Kinship website Audio editing by: Podcasting for Creatives

    46 min
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This podcast is a home of conversations about how we strengthen kinship and collaboration in times of great 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. This podcast is part of Kinship – a hub for people committed to activating the power of healthy community. Learn more at https://kinshiphub.net.

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  • Creator
    Beth Tener
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    34
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Living Love
  • Show Website
    Living Love