E48 How Much Ballast?

A “just right” amount of ballast provides steadiness so people can choose where they want to go—and choose a course to get there.

Work, Social ProximityBeth SandersApril 16, 2024Art of Hosting, Facilitation, Social Habitat, ballast, coaching

E47 Speaking From (vs talking about)

It feels good to fight and argue, but when there’s no pressure to convince others or be convinced, we listen in ways that allow us to improve our communities.

Civic Practice, Social ProximityBeth SandersFebruary 13, 2024Art of Hosting, city making, Social Habitat, Social Proximity, Speaking from, Civic Practice, Connection

E45 It's All in the Cards

City making, the weaving of city building and city caring, only happens when we have a social habitat in which we choose to weave these perspectives together.

Civic Practice, Social ProximityBeth SandersOctober 25, 2023Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city making, Social Habitat, Social Proximity, city caring, city building

E44 Community Learning

We only organize together if we are in the push and pull of conversation, wrestling with the action we feel we need to take. If not, we are being organized, passive participants in the status quo doing others’ bidding.

Art of Hosting, Social ProximityBeth SandersAugust 24, 2023Art of Hosting, Connection, Conversation, Conversation Bypassing, Social Proximity, Social Habitat

E43 Stepping Into Vulnerability

An impromptu check-in invited awe in self, others and a beautiful place.

Civic Practice, Social ProximityBeth SandersJuly 17, 2023Art of Hosting, Social Habitat, Check-in, sacred mountain, Lake O'Hara, Yoho National Park, Backcountry, Mountain

E39 Change as a Verb

Beth has landed in perimenopause, asking herself the question she asks others everywhere she goes: How do I make my way through this transition with care and compassion? The answer is in thinking not of The Change but of changing. Change as a verb.

Civic Practice, Social ProximityBeth SandersFebruary 27, 2023Art of Hosting, Perimenopause, Transition-making, Transition, Transition thinking, Thresholds

E37 The Agony of Conversation

How do you design a public meeting when you believe that everyone has something to say, not just the vocal few?

Civic Practice, Conversation, Social ProximityBeth SandersOctober 26, 2022Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city making, engagement, Community

E36 Transition-Making is Choosing Changing

When we avoid sharing opportunities to make meaning of our experiences and make choices from the meaning we've made, we avoid the challenges and brilliance of community. And the choice, in every moment, rests with each of us. Choosing transition means choosing to participate in our changing.

Civic PracticeBeth SandersAugust 31, 2022Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city making, Community, Transition-making, Transition

E35 Transition Bypassing

We want change to happen without changing ourselves, without having to do anything differently. Yet, choosing transition means choosing to participate in our changing.

Civic Practice, Community Bypassing, Art of HostingBeth SandersJuly 19, 2022Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city making, Community, Relationship, Conversation, Connection, Transition

E34 Community Bypassing

When we avoid sharing opportunities to make meaning of our experiences and make choices from the meaning we’ve made, we avoid the challenges and brilliance of community.

Civic Practice, Community Bypassing, Art of HostingBeth SandersMay 31, 2022Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city making, Community, Relationship, Conversation, Connection

E31 Conversation Bypassing

Assuming that the expertise in the room is in one or a few people disables and minimizes the resilience of a community. In this episode: 4 symptoms of conversation bypassing and 5 antidotes.

Civic Practice, Art of HostingBeth SandersFebruary 15, 2022Bypassing, Connection, Conversation, Art of Hosting

E29 Explicit Agreements

Agreements about how we’ll talk and relate to each other are a commitment to be responsible for the quality of our relationships.

Civic Practice, Art of HostingBeth SandersDecember 3, 2021Art of Hosting, Facilitation, Agreements

E28 I Said YES to Evolving Professionals

In my quest to figure out how planners and everyone else in the city can work better together, I’ve learned the magic of finding the minimal critical structure that enables new possibilities.

Civic Practice, Art of Hosting, City MakingBeth SandersNovember 15, 2021Art of Hosting, city making, Civic Practice, work, Planning, Planners, city planning

E25 Rescue is Not Resilience

Rescue embodies resilience only when the rescuer takes action the rescued can’t do for themselves (and wants).

Civic PracticeBeth SandersOctober 4, 2021Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city making

E20 Make People Visible to Each Other

In my quest to figure out how planners and everyone else in the city can work better together, I’ve learned the magic of finding the minimal critical structure that enables new possibilities.

Art of Hosting, Civic Practice, ConversationBeth SandersJune 15, 2021Art of Hosting, Facilitation

E16 Fighting Is Infectious

In my quest to figure out how planners and everyone else in the city can work better together, I’ve learned the magic of finding the minimal critical structure that enables new possibilities.

Civic PracticeBeth SandersMay 14, 2021Heart at War, Heart at Peace, Art of Hosting, Participatory Leadership

E8 Prescribe AND Enable

In my quest to figure out how planners and everyone else in the city can work better together, I’ve learned the magic of finding the minimal critical structure that enables new possibilities.

Civic PracticeBeth SandersMarch 25, 2021Art of Hosting, Facilitation, city making

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