1.21: School's Out: Reflecting On A Year Of Reflection - How To Take Heart & Cultivate Readiness For Bold Change

In season one’s final episode, Tim and Tuesday wrap a year of incredible conversations with a summer assignment: how do we cultivate readiness? Along the road as systems change facilitators, we wonder: are we really doing what we set out to do? And how can we find fertile and steady ground in emergent work?1.21 —— SHOW NOTESTues: This is our Season Finale episode!Tim: The number of people listening has been steadily increasing. I know there are groups listening together. I love the honour and opportunity we’ve had in being in people’s lives. It makes me really happy.Tim: The Outside has exploded. It’s busy and we are still trying to figure out how to deal with that because we did not expect it to grow this fast, this soon. And so, the podcast has become a space to stop, reflect, think bigger, reconnect around the work, challenge each other.Tim: Looking back on our year, what is important to leave with our podcast listeners?Tues: Two things: (1) Work-wise, one of our learnings is that systems change, with equity at the centre, takes a long time to really catch. It can be years into an effort before those pieces really come together. (2) Personal: Keep learning and understanding and moving from your centre. If you do nothing else this summer, except discover more about yourself, you will have done some pretty amazing work and some pretty amazing work in the world.Tim: My personal practice of meditation, of spending time in nature, of being in therapy that allows me to revisit things in my childhood that set fundamental patterns for my behaviour… there’s something in all of that which is about letting go of who I think I am, what I think I am, what I think my work is.Tim: Accessing “readiness” is one of the things I want to start exploring. How to we map the stages of this [client’s] journey over multiple years. When I was in my early 20’s coaching with Meg Wheatley, she used to talk about ‘one step at a time leadership.’ Stop, Re-orient, Re-organize, Move.Tim: My wife and I choose a word or a sentence that sets a tone for the year. The one we landed on for 2019 was ‘balance’. What is the balance I want in my life? Inviting everyone into this — how are we giving all parts of ourselves what we need?Tues: Next season, we’ll interview Jacob Watkins, Trupti Sarode & Gabrielle Donnelly about co-existence of data and analysis. We’ll speak with Alastair Jarvis about Two Loops of Systems Change. We’ll explore balance, and continue to share what we’re learning about equity and systems change. We’ll also feature Ole Qvist-Sørensen from Bigger Picture, around visualizing shifted futures.Tues: We will be back next fall (Date: TBC)! In the meantime, please revisit season one, and share and subscribe!Poem: “Find a Point on the Wall” by our friend, Lex SchroederFind a Point on the Walltry holding your leg out straight from your hipturn outbend, and dippointnow hold it straight outbe longwhere's your corepointturn outbendnow hold it straight outgrow tallertake it to the sidehigherbackwe’ll do 8take it up nowball of the footturn aroundhighergrow 5 inches morearms upturnkick it outtry not to collapse into your standing legwhere’s your coregoodnow try letting your friends feel painlet them live with a steady achelet them bring themselves back from the deadlet your loved ones grow olderkeep going, let people get sicklet someone worry about youtry laughing during a nuclear warlet beauty wash over youfeel loved, try to love somebody welltake up a bit more space, back upwe’ll do 3 sets of 8softenhigherlet it be bigger than yougrow 5 inchessay it straight outdon't rush theseforget yourselftry practicing gracelet your heart break for the worldtry crying after a dry spellroot into the groundsoftennow stay longwe’ll do 3 more setsOccupyand backbackjust 2 morewhere’s your chestdon’t scrunchgrow tallermake more spaceit's ok, be exhaustedlet it be easylook upHello!relax into the breathfind your corethereSong: “Incapable” by Róisín MurphySubscribe to the podcast now—in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or anywhere else you find podcasts. New episodes will be available every second Tuesday. If you’d like to get in touch with us about something you heard on the show, reach us at [email protected]. Find the song we played in today’s show—and every song we’ve played in previous shows—on the playlist. Just search ‘Find the Outside’ on Spotify.Duration: 33:28Produced by: Mark Coffin @ Sound Good StudiosTheme music: Gary BlakemoreEpisode cover image: source Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.