Answering the Call to Change with Katherine Golub and Nancy Gabriel

Living Love

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 Callings and Courage and Nancy Gabriel talk with Beth Tener about the tensions of making the decision to make a big change, the big callings and the little gates of small steps, and listening to your inner guidance amidst the waters of self-doubt.
Resources and links:
Kinship: A Hub to Amplify the Power of Community: This is Beth Tener’s current initiative. You can sign up for her newsletter here.
Beth Tener and Nancy Gabriel work with New Directions Collaborative. Nancy also works with the New Hampshire/Vermont Schweitzer Fellows Program.
Katherine Golub is a coach with the Center for Callings and Courage. She works with changemakers and has a podcast called Radical Discernment. You can sign up for her newsletter here.
The Natural Step - The teachings in this approach were one of the sparks for Beth’s calling to focus on an innovation-oriented approach to sustainability.
Study circles offered by EcoChallenge are a great way to create a small group learning experience, to get inspired to take action. Examples are Choices for Sustainable Living and Living Simply in a Complex World.
Cobb Hill Cohousing - This is a link to learn about the co-housing community in Vermont, co-founded by Donella Meadows.
Donella Meadows - Learn about the work of Donella Meadows here. She wrote over 700 newspaper columns, books, and inspired many.
Joseph Campbell and the Hero’s Journey - Here is a graphic of the phases of the hero’s journey.
This is the quote from William H. Murray that Beth mentioned:

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it!” ― William H. Murray
Peter Senge - Here’s a quote on the creative tension between current reality and your vision.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle - Excellent book Katherine mentions by Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA
Transcript available at: KinshipHub web site
Audio