Living Love
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.
Episodes
34 episodes
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 s...
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...
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 con...
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. Fou...
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,...
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...
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 positiv...
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 Confl...
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Classrooms Where Students and Teachers Thrive with Emily Daniels
Episode 3: Season 3: As we gain a fuller understanding of what stress and overwhelm do to people, it has enormous relevance for classrooms. In this episode, Emily Daniels of The Regulated Classroom shares how she helps teachers create classroom...
At Home with Change: How Groups Co-Create with Ria Baeck
If you’re hungry to find ways that groups can adapt to change in fluid, collaborative ways, this podcast conversation with Ria Baeck provides the nourishment of inspiration. She’s a facilitator and author of Collective Presencing, a book and we...
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What it Means to Feel at Home Here with Bruce Nayowith
How do we create group experiences where people feel at home? How can we come out of separation back into healthy groups so we can co-create and learn together? In conversation with Bruce Nayowith, we explore the contexts that bring out the bes...
Trailer for Season 3 of the Living Love Podcast
Welcome back to Season 3 of the Living Love podcast!One of our listeners said “This podcast reminds me that human relationships are the core of social change.”Sadly, in too many workplaces, classrooms and communities, we have pe...
Learning with Friends: Reflections on Episodes 6 - 9, Season 2
Episode 10: Season 2 - Join Beth and Nancy Gabriel as they reflect on highlights and learning from episodes 6 to 9 in Season 2. We explore how having the support of a group can help us in times of big decisions and in the hardest times of...
Grief Held in Community
Episode 9: Season 2 - Community and friendship can provide the support and comfort to cope with the death of a loved one. In this podcast episode, Beth shares personal stories of how her community created meaningful rituals to honor her husband...
Love and Presence in the Hardest Times with Greta Bro
Episode 8: Season 2 - In these times of great transition and change, we will encounter the experience of a crucible, where we have to face loss, letting go, and dying. How can we support each other through these most difficult times? In this ep...
Community through the Cancer Journey with Margie Zohn
Episode 7: Season 2. How can kinship and community support us in the most challenging times, such as when we suddenly face the cancer journey? Beth shares the story of how she and her community supported her fiance, Rick, as he went through can...
Big Decisions and Ways of Knowing with Tenneson Woolf
How do you decide when you reach a threshold or crossroads? In this episode, Beth talks with Tenneson Woolf, a facilitator, coach, and poet, about how we make big decisions, careful not to let fear be in the lead. We explore how we can slow dow...
Learning with Friends, Reflections on Episodes 1-4 with Nancy Gabriel
Join Beth and Nancy Gabriel as they reflect on highlights and learning from episodes 1 to 4 in Season 2. The fast pace of our lives gives us little time to slow down and feel. Yet, part of why we move so fast is we don’t want to feel. In our ...
Love is Listening with Simon D'Orsogna and Bruce Nayowith
This episode starts with a love story. You’ll hear about a relationship that had profound “growth-promoting” qualities for each of us. My guests, Simon d’Orsogna of Mind Beyond and Bruce Nayowith, reflect on the story with me. We discuss how we...
Sources of Connected Strength with Greta Bro
When the world around us is on overdrive and we are working to make positive change, we can end up in overdrive - and overwhelm. This episode explores how we can find strength and balance through connection with healers, meditation, and the spi...
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Disrupting Patterns of Burnout through Community with Jennice Chewlin and Lori Hanau
One way to see burnout is that “something is wrong with me” but in this podcast, we look at the deeper sources in the cultural norms that make it hard to say no and toxic workplace cultures. Jennice Chewlin of The Chewlin Group and Lori Hanau o...
Answering the Call to Change with Katherine Golub and Nancy Gabriel
This first episode of Season 2 explores how we navigate the change when we are called to leave the status quo. Sometimes the need to change arises from exhaustion or heartache, other times it’s your choice. Katherine Golub of the Center for Cal...
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Welcome to Season 2 of Living Love
Welcome back to Season 2 of the Living Love Podcast! In Season 1, we talked about the spaces where we come together. In Season 2, we'll be exploring kinship through life transitions. I wrote a memoir, and this season, we'll be trac...
Learning with Friends: Reflecting on Episodes 6 - 9 with Nancy Gabriel
Join Beth and Nancy Gabriel as they reflect on highlights and learning from the podcast episodes 6 through 9. They explore themes of how to create conferences which create transformational moments, the power of intergenerational collaboration, ...
Circles That Rekindle Spirit and Wisdom with Hazel Bell Koski and Eimear O'Neill
Spirit Matters were a series of gatherings, held in Toronto, that created circles where Indigenous wisdom keepers from many places connected with social justice leaders, students, artists, and healers. In this episode, I talk with Eimear O’Neil...
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