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