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
Empathy in Action: Going Beyond Surface-Level Interactions
Empathy mapping is a simple tool for helping you imagine someone else and their experience.In this From the Archive episode, Bob and Jessica explore a powerful tool designed to deepen your connection with others—empathy mapping.&n...
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School Liaisons and Extension: A Network of Support for Military Youth
When military kids move, their whole world shifts—schools, friends, routines, and support systems. In this episode of Practicing Connection, school liaison Karen Watkins-Diouf and 4-H educator Jeremiah Johnson share how th...
Who's Missing From Your Network?
Most of us don’t mean to work in silos - but our calendars and inboxes quietly build them for us. In this episode, Jessica and Erin guide you through a five-minute exercise to map your work relations...
How to Handle Workplace Expectations, and Other Listener Q&A
This month’s listener Q&A gives us three juicy areas to cover: struggling with frequent task switching, dealing with burnout and unachievable workloads (and the expectations associated with this), and how our practices integrate with per...
