Practicing Connection
Improve your resilience and readiness in a rapidly changing world.
Jessica Beckendorf and Erin Carlson Rivera host this exploration of personal and collective practices that empower us to work together to help each other, our families, and our communities improve our resilience and readiness.
Practicing Connection
Latest Episodes
Pressure Relief: What Cooperatives Can (and Can't) Do for Child Care. With Kristin Forde Hurckes
When child care is hard to find and harder to afford, some communities aren't waiting for a fix. Kristin Forde Hurckes of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension Center for Cooperative explains how cooperative models ar...
The Connective Tissue: A Look at Statewide Collaboration to Support Military Families. With Jennifer Holliday
Many military families don't live near a large installation. Jennifer Holliday, Alabama's first Military Family Liaison shares what it takes to coordinate support for geographically dispersed families and what any service pro...
When Community Works: Care, Connection, and Collective Resilience. With Julika von Stackleberg, Ph.D.
Belonging isn’t just a warm feeling - it’s something people build together over time. In this episode, we’re talking about how communities learn to do that in ways that are genuinely caring, how they keep it going, and wha...
Asking Powerful Questions
Community engagement, co-creation and collaboration depend on meaningful conversations. Asking the right question is the most effective way of expanding a conversation, keeping it engaging and making it meaningful.In t...
Finding Your Purpose as a Group, Four Questions That Can Help
Getting to a shared purpose as a group often requires digging a little deeper than usual. In this replay episode from 2024, Jessica and Bob talked about the "chaordic stepping stones," a helpful tool for going below the surfa...
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