Gather At The Well: Holding Fast + Staying Steady When You Need it the Most - Lindsey Fuller

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Chapters
0:03
Introduction to Gather at the Well
0:33
Grounding Exercise for Uncertainty
4:30
Defining What It Means to Hold Fast
7:53
Bilateral Stimulation for Stability
15:03
Creating Systems for Team Stability
21:57
Gaze Stabilization Practice
24:40
Accessing Your Inner Knowing
28:13
Closing Thoughts on Critical Hope
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Gather At The Well: Holding Fast + Staying Steady When You Need it the Most - Lindsey Fuller
Apr 09, 2025
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How do we stay steady when we need it most?

In this episode of Gather At The Well, Lindsey explores what it means to hold fast — to your values, your purpose, and your inner knowing. Through grounding somatic practices, personal reflections, and the rhythms that keep her team at The Teaching Well aligned, she offers a framework for leading with clarity and care.

This episode is full of tools to help you slow down, tune inward, and lead from a place of steadiness. You’ll walk away with:

 🧘‍♀️ Somatic practices you can use in real time
 📅 Weekly, quarterly & annual rhythms for aligned leadership
 🔁 The “Keep, Stop, Start” framework for intentional reflection
 🫶 A reframe for what it really means to be resilient

Because holding fast isn’t about freezing — it’s about showing up, soft and steadfast, again and again. “You’re here in this moment. You’re holding fast.”✨


Episode Highlights: 

  • Tone-setting: Staying steady when you need it most (1:00)
  • Somatic Practice: Grounding Exercise (4:00)
  • What does it mean to “Hold Fast”? (7:00)
  • Strategies for staying grounded (10:11)
  • Weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual alignment strategies for you and your team (13:00)
  • Somatic Practice: Anchor yourself in moments of unrest (15:00)
  • Creating collective resilience (19:59)
  • Somatic Practice: Gaze stabilization (26:00)
  • Self-Care and community support (29:46)
  • Advice for the busy leader + personal resilience strategies (36:00)
  • Homework: Find 3 ways to tend to self - one somatic, one self care, and one social
  • Critical Hope: Holding fast doesn’t mean freezing. It means showing up as the change leader that you are.


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