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
Positive Rants: How to Reframe Negativity So You Can Move Forwards
What do you do after you listen to understand someone else?It can be a real challenge to figure out how to collaborate with someone who only complains. Listening to understand is a great first step, but what do you do next?...
The Military-Civilian Divide: Why Transition is More Than Culture Shock. With Dr. Seth Hayden
Many professionals want to help military families. Few understand the invisible barriers they're navigating.When service members and military families transition to civilian life, they're often told to expect "culture shock." But ...
Stronger Together: A Change Framework for Community Action. With Tom Mosgaller
In this conversation with Tom Mosgaller, we unpack a flexible Change Framework designed for communities of any size or location. Tom explains why relationships and taking action together are central, and how aligning desire, vision, power, and ...
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...
