Learning with Friends, Reflections on Episodes 1-4 with Nancy Gabriel

Living Love

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 conversation, we discuss how the way out of this dilemma is to have kinship and support, to be with people who create space for us to be ourselves and discern what we need and feel in the moment. We explore the ways that friendship and peer support in small groups can help us find balance and avoid burnout. We each share stories of friendships or interactions with strangers where the quality of listening and “taking delight in” allowed us to grow.

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.
The Joy & Necessity of Micro-Collaborations: This two-part blog by Beth Tener is full of examples of micro-collaborations – when two people or small groups work together in ways that support one another’s work or to co-create new work together. Here is part 1 and here is part 2.
What Google Learned from It’s Quest to Build the Perfect Team - Article about Google’s research on team that found that a sense of psychological safety was most important to team performance.
Thomas Kuhn’s theory of how paradigms shift - Article about Kuhn’s research in science that can apply at a personal or societal level as well.
Thirty Archaic Best Business Practices - Article by Carol Sanford, author of The Regenerative Business, about how we change and grow, yet business practices based on outdated values can hinder and block the “new” taking root.
Transcript: At Kinship web site
Audio editing by: Podcasting for Creatives