https://simplecast.com The Foreseeable Now In this moment, in these times, how do we orient ourselves? How do we navigate change - the kind we choose and the kind we don’t? And who do we become in the process? What can be revealed - and healed - when we question the stories we tell ourselves about who we think we are? Join award-winning journalist and former network anchor Lu Hanessian as she and special guests explore the living potential of the moment. To better see who and where we are, looking inward, outward, and forward. Captivating conversations with authors and artists, scientists and activists, historians and futurists, trailblazers, storytellers, and change navigators - about the power of big ideas and tiny revolutionary shifts; about the purpose of fear and the anatomy of choice; the paradox of what makes us human; and how to harvest hope in upheaval as we re-imagine our collective maps for making sense of our stories and leveraging the present as living potential. There’s power in this moment: right here between our lived histories and our unlived futures. Right now, between our stuck points and our tipping points for change. Right here, right now, how can we make the foreseeable moreseeable? 2022 en Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:44:43 +0000 Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:12:08 +0000 https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com The Foreseeable Now https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/656eb7c9-0635-41ed-bbee-e6d836add118/9e53e443-f471-40a9-812e-b7eaebf37cae/3000x3000/tfn-podcast-art.jpg?aid=rss_feed https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com episodic In this moment, in these times, how do we orient ourselves? How do we navigate change - the kind we choose and the kind we don’t? And who do we become in the process? What can be revealed - and healed - when we question the stories we tell ourselves about who we think we are? Join award-winning journalist and former network anchor Lu Hanessian as she and special guests explore the living potential of the moment. To better see who and where we are, looking inward, outward, and forward. Captivating conversations with authors and artists, scientists and activists, historians and futurists, trailblazers, storytellers, and change navigators - about the power of big ideas and tiny revolutionary shifts; about the purpose of fear and the anatomy of choice; the paradox of what makes us human; and how to harvest hope in upheaval as we re-imagine our collective maps for making sense of our stories and leveraging the present as living potential. There’s power in this moment: right here between our lived histories and our unlived futures. Right now, between our stuck points and our tipping points for change. Right here, right now, how can we make the foreseeable moreseeable? Lu Hanessian no https://feeds.simplecast.com/_UcMjSMk relationships, culture, time, awareness, trauma awareness, wellbeing, ways of seeing, leadership, wisdom, connection, change, future, conflict resolution, brain, story, living, health, emotional intelligence, conflict, psychology, life, neuroscience, self-understanding, growth, mindfulness, peace, mental health, inner peace, humanity, resilience, social justice, society, healing, mind, mindset, belonging, brain science Lu Hanessian hanessianlu@gmail.com 145ff3e1-261f-4668-b5fc-85abbbce3b94 Conflict Hooks, Stuck Stories, and Disagreeing Better with Tammy Lenski For more on Dr. Tammy Lenski's wonderful work, check out her website: www.tammylenski.com

Check out her book The Conflict Pivot: Turning Conflict into Peace of Mind.

Explore her deeply thoughtful, smart and highly accessible Conflict Resolution Tools. https://tammylenski.com/conflict-resolution-tools/

Reflect with her Query Cards: https://tammylenski.com/conflict-resolution-tools/querycards/

And listen to her wisdom on her Disagree Better podcast: https://tammylenski.com/disagree-better-podcast/

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The Foreseeable Now is hosted and executive produced by Lu Hanessian. Original music by KANO SOUND. 

Mixed and mastered by Nick Kepron. Subscribe where you listen, share and follow us @theforeseeablenowpodcast.

]]> Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:44:43 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (tammy lenski, Lu Hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/disagreeing-better-with-tammy-lenski-r6EMJfcn For more on Dr. Tammy Lenski's wonderful work, check out her website: www.tammylenski.com

Check out her book The Conflict Pivot: Turning Conflict into Peace of Mind.

Explore her deeply thoughtful, smart and highly accessible Conflict Resolution Tools. https://tammylenski.com/conflict-resolution-tools/

Reflect with her Query Cards: https://tammylenski.com/conflict-resolution-tools/querycards/

And listen to her wisdom on her Disagree Better podcast: https://tammylenski.com/disagree-better-podcast/

****

The Foreseeable Now is hosted and executive produced by Lu Hanessian. Original music by KANO SOUND. 

Mixed and mastered by Nick Kepron. Subscribe where you listen, share and follow us @theforeseeablenowpodcast.

]]> Conflict Hooks, Stuck Stories, and Disagreeing Better with Tammy Lenski tammy lenski, Lu Hanessian 01:08:58 What is conflict trying to tell us? What's the "wish" behind criticism? How can conflict be a portal to connection? Dr. Tammy Lenski is one of my favorite experts on conflict. She really gets the dynamics of conflict which means she deeply understands the heart of connection and our universal human need to be seen. She is masterful at inviting us into the questions, and helping people understand how the past is present and the present moment holds our potential and power to "pivot" and write a new story. She says that the "relief" that comes from working through our conflicts comes "from the now, not from the past." She is a conflict resolution educator, speaker, author, coach, and mediator. For more than twenty years, she has helped individuals, teams, and groups navigate disagreement better, understand and dissolve interpersonal friction, and consider different ways of seeing to build alignment. I love how she says "good questions and good listening are the rock star duo" of conflict resolution, and that these can get us "80% of the way". The rest, as she explains, is the work we do with ourselves. In this deeply human, clear-eyed, provocative, and hopeful conversation about conflict and its painful hooks, I've come to realize that Tammy Lenski is truly an expert in cultivating the "willingness to see something different." We talk about how our conflict stories can become what Tammy calls our "stuck stories" (the "movie trailer of the conflict"), how the past is present, and she explains her six conflict hooks. We explore the pain and potential of distancing spirals, the wish behind criticism, and her three conflict pivots. The good news is that we can rewrite our conflict stories by exploring our own needs, wishes, and values, find our strengths, and cultivate connection in our relationships with others - and ourselves. What is conflict trying to tell us? What's the "wish" behind criticism? How can conflict be a portal to connection? Dr. Tammy Lenski is one of my favorite experts on conflict. She really gets the dynamics of conflict which means she deeply understands the heart of connection and our universal human need to be seen. She is masterful at inviting us into the questions, and helping people understand how the past is present and the present moment holds our potential and power to "pivot" and write a new story. She says that the "relief" that comes from working through our conflicts comes "from the now, not from the past." She is a conflict resolution educator, speaker, author, coach, and mediator. For more than twenty years, she has helped individuals, teams, and groups navigate disagreement better, understand and dissolve interpersonal friction, and consider different ways of seeing to build alignment. I love how she says "good questions and good listening are the rock star duo" of conflict resolution, and that these can get us "80% of the way". The rest, as she explains, is the work we do with ourselves. In this deeply human, clear-eyed, provocative, and hopeful conversation about conflict and its painful hooks, I've come to realize that Tammy Lenski is truly an expert in cultivating the "willingness to see something different." We talk about how our conflict stories can become what Tammy calls our "stuck stories" (the "movie trailer of the conflict"), how the past is present, and she explains her six conflict hooks. We explore the pain and potential of distancing spirals, the wish behind criticism, and her three conflict pivots. The good news is that we can rewrite our conflict stories by exploring our own needs, wishes, and values, find our strengths, and cultivate connection in our relationships with others - and ourselves. conflict resolution tools, peace of mind, pivoting, conflict transformation, tammy lenski, disagree better, being seen, connection, stories, conflict resolution, conflict, peace, lu hanessian, belonging, listening, seen and heard no full 13 8fdacc92-a3df-4f7e-97fa-0a5397fb1139 Saying Yes, Fearing Less, and Climbing the Mountain with Jennifer Dulski Global leadership expert Jennifer Dulski is the founder and CEO of Rising Team, a leadership development platform that creates and provides tools and training, through "blending experience and science to help leaders at all levels ensure people on their teams feel valued, motivated, and connected" - especially in our present remote and hybrid work realities that we've all been trying to understand and re-imagine. 

We talk about values, vision, vulnerability, and how a single moment at any time of our lives can shift our thinking and set us off on a course that changes the rest of our lives. And the lives of others. 

Read Jennifer Dulski's bestselling book ~

Purposeful: Are You a Manager or a Movement Starter? 

Find out more about Rising Team ~

https://risingteam.com/

]]> Fri, 3 Jun 2022 18:25:22 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (Jennifer Dulski, Lu Hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/vulnerability-uncertainty-and-present-moment-leadership-with-jen-dulski-wmy__IQW Global leadership expert Jennifer Dulski is the founder and CEO of Rising Team, a leadership development platform that creates and provides tools and training, through "blending experience and science to help leaders at all levels ensure people on their teams feel valued, motivated, and connected" - especially in our present remote and hybrid work realities that we've all been trying to understand and re-imagine. 

We talk about values, vision, vulnerability, and how a single moment at any time of our lives can shift our thinking and set us off on a course that changes the rest of our lives. And the lives of others. 

Read Jennifer Dulski's bestselling book ~

Purposeful: Are You a Manager or a Movement Starter? 

Find out more about Rising Team ~

https://risingteam.com/

]]> Saying Yes, Fearing Less, and Climbing the Mountain with Jennifer Dulski Jennifer Dulski, Lu Hanessian 00:57:35 Jennifer Dulski says yes. To change. To risk. To connection. To empowering people to live their potential right now. To be in conversation with her is to open a door into a world of possibility, to see people as human portals to shared values and co-creating vision with purpose and meaning. Her career is storied and immense in its depth and scope. For more than twenty-five years, she has been leading winning teams at companies including Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, as well as Change.org. In this conversation, we talk about what we really need at work. We talk values, vulnerability, and future-oriented presence. She shares her insights on two kinds of resilience: everyday resilience and crisis resilience. And explains why she lives and leads from a place of yes, fearing less, and connecting more. Jennifer Dulski is the founder and CEO of Rising Team, a leadership development platform that creates and provides tools and training, through "blending experience and science to help leaders at all levels ensure people on their teams feel valued, motivated, and connected" - especially in our present remote and hybrid work realities that we've all been trying to understand and re-imagine. If you've wondered how a highly successful global leader can be both focused and open-hearted, powerful and empowering, confident and humble... a leader who knows how to, as someone once told her, "run her to do list by her vision," you'll find this conversation revealing, clarifying, and deeply re-affirming of just how powerful we are in this very moment. Jennifer Dulski says yes. To change. To risk. To connection. To empowering people to live their potential right now. To be in conversation with her is to open a door into a world of possibility, to see people as human portals to shared values and co-creating vision with purpose and meaning. Her career is storied and immense in its depth and scope. For more than twenty-five years, she has been leading winning teams at companies including Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, as well as Change.org. In this conversation, we talk about what we really need at work. We talk values, vulnerability, and future-oriented presence. She shares her insights on two kinds of resilience: everyday resilience and crisis resilience. And explains why she lives and leads from a place of yes, fearing less, and connecting more. Jennifer Dulski is the founder and CEO of Rising Team, a leadership development platform that creates and provides tools and training, through "blending experience and science to help leaders at all levels ensure people on their teams feel valued, motivated, and connected" - especially in our present remote and hybrid work realities that we've all been trying to understand and re-imagine. If you've wondered how a highly successful global leader can be both focused and open-hearted, powerful and empowering, confident and humble... a leader who knows how to, as someone once told her, "run her to do list by her vision," you'll find this conversation revealing, clarifying, and deeply re-affirming of just how powerful we are in this very moment. community, to do list, values, psychological safety, connection, inclusion, community building, growth, adaptive leadership, leadership, resilience, rowing, authentic leadership, remote work, work life, belonging, tradition, vulnerability, change, rising team, uncertainty, mountain climbing no full 12 266da595-83e6-4402-b2ad-19aa461291aa Letting Go of Grudges, Freeing Our Hearts, and Forgiving for Good with Fred Luskin World-renowned social scientist, best-selling author of "Forgive for Good," and director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, Dr. Fred Luskin recognizes why forgiveness is so "unpopular." It takes hard work, intentional practice, and deep vulnerability. 

 

Grudge-holding may feel more justified, but it only makes us sick. In his seminal "Forgive for Good" workshop and class series, which he has presented around the world, Dr. Luskin takes people through his forgiveness training methodology that’s been validated through six successful research studies conducted through the Stanford Forgiveness Projects. Workshop participants learn to move from hurt to hope as they learn how to release grudges and free themselves from grievance. 

 

Through his research at Stanford University, over the past 25 years, Dr. Luskin has confirmed that forgiveness has been shown to reduce anger, hurt, depression and stress and lead to greater feelings of optimism, hope, compassion and self confidence. 

Dr. Luskin holds a Ph.D. in Counseling and Health Psychology from Stanford University.

 

He continues to serve as Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, an ongoing series of workshops and research projects that investigate the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on a variety of populations. The forgiveness project has successfully explored forgiveness therapy with people who suffered from the violence in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone as well as the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11. 

 

In addition his work has been successfully applied and researched in corporate, medical, legal and religious settings. He currently serves as a Senior Consultant in Health Promotion at Stanford University and is a Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. 

Website:  https://learningtoforgive.com/

Dr. Luskin's books: https://learningtoforgive.com/tools/

]]> Thu, 26 May 2022 19:39:10 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (fred luskin, lu hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/forgiving-for-good-with-fred-luskin-1TpCekkQ World-renowned social scientist, best-selling author of "Forgive for Good," and director of the Stanford Forgiveness Project, Dr. Fred Luskin recognizes why forgiveness is so "unpopular." It takes hard work, intentional practice, and deep vulnerability. 

 

Grudge-holding may feel more justified, but it only makes us sick. In his seminal "Forgive for Good" workshop and class series, which he has presented around the world, Dr. Luskin takes people through his forgiveness training methodology that’s been validated through six successful research studies conducted through the Stanford Forgiveness Projects. Workshop participants learn to move from hurt to hope as they learn how to release grudges and free themselves from grievance. 

 

Through his research at Stanford University, over the past 25 years, Dr. Luskin has confirmed that forgiveness has been shown to reduce anger, hurt, depression and stress and lead to greater feelings of optimism, hope, compassion and self confidence. 

Dr. Luskin holds a Ph.D. in Counseling and Health Psychology from Stanford University.

 

He continues to serve as Director of the Stanford Forgiveness Projects, an ongoing series of workshops and research projects that investigate the effectiveness of his forgiveness methods on a variety of populations. The forgiveness project has successfully explored forgiveness therapy with people who suffered from the violence in Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone as well as the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11. 

 

In addition his work has been successfully applied and researched in corporate, medical, legal and religious settings. He currently serves as a Senior Consultant in Health Promotion at Stanford University and is a Professor at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. 

Website:  https://learningtoforgive.com/

Dr. Luskin's books: https://learningtoforgive.com/tools/

]]> Letting Go of Grudges, Freeing Our Hearts, and Forgiving for Good with Fred Luskin fred luskin, lu hanessian 00:59:25 We’ve all heard the phrase "forgive and forget." We might negatively associate forgiveness with 'letting someone off the hook'. No wonder so many of us can feel so resistant to forgiveness. The truth is, the hook is in us. Not the other. Dr. Luskin is the world's foremost authority on forgiveness. Which means he's a global expert on grudges, grievances, and gridlock. What's fueling our grievance stories and resentments? What's beneath the bitterness that turns our hearts, minds and bodies sour to life, to another, to the possibility of something better? Dr. Luskin says that a grudge is an "objection to the past." And holding onto grudges is a defense against our own vulnerability. In today's episode, he explains that one of the negative effects of holding onto grudges, to our grievance stories, to our hooks, is that we're then "constantly paying this pain forward" in our lives, toward others, spilling over into every situation. Because we perceive that everything becomes related to our pain. Since we all have nervous systems so tuned to our built-in negativity bias, he says staying vigilant to threat means that "our very basic perceptual mechanisms are constantly misperceiving things." In that state, we perceive threat everywhere. And when we're stuck in that place, in that story, he says, we lose gratitude. Our capacity to even notice goodness and kindness around us. Our capacity to feel loving, to feel loved. And to love in return. Dr. Luskin explains that, when we begin to realize that forgiving is not about letting go of who and what hurt us in the past, we realize we have "infinite choice" to free ourselves NOW, in the moment, from the pain and suffering caused by that hook inside us that keep re-wounding us as we try to move forward and can’t. In this deep, direct, and paradigm-shifting conversation, we talk about the purpose and power of forgiveness, why we get stuck in our stories, and why grudge-holding is dehumanizing. We talk about the difference between grief and grievance, between forgiveness and reconciliation — how the impact of a very painful experience can be a rupturing of “something that we use in order to feel safe in the world." And why holding and harbor our grudges and resentments which become hazardous to our health. Ultimately, forgiveness is a kind of resilience. Grieving and forgiving help return us to the very essence of what makes us feel human, alive, and capable of living healthy lives. ********* We’ve all heard the phrase "forgive and forget." We might negatively associate forgiveness with 'letting someone off the hook'. No wonder so many of us can feel so resistant to forgiveness. The truth is, the hook is in us. Not the other. Dr. Luskin is the world's foremost authority on forgiveness. Which means he's a global expert on grudges, grievances, and gridlock. What's fueling our grievance stories and resentments? What's beneath the bitterness that turns our hearts, minds and bodies sour to life, to another, to the possibility of something better? Dr. Luskin says that a grudge is an "objection to the past." And holding onto grudges is a defense against our own vulnerability. In today's episode, he explains that one of the negative effects of holding onto grudges, to our grievance stories, to our hooks, is that we're then "constantly paying this pain forward" in our lives, toward others, spilling over into every situation. Because we perceive that everything becomes related to our pain. Since we all have nervous systems so tuned to our built-in negativity bias, he says staying vigilant to threat means that "our very basic perceptual mechanisms are constantly misperceiving things." In that state, we perceive threat everywhere. And when we're stuck in that place, in that story, he says, we lose gratitude. Our capacity to even notice goodness and kindness around us. Our capacity to feel loving, to feel loved. And to love in return. Dr. Luskin explains that, when we begin to realize that forgiving is not about letting go of who and what hurt us in the past, we realize we have "infinite choice" to free ourselves NOW, in the moment, from the pain and suffering caused by that hook inside us that keep re-wounding us as we try to move forward and can’t. In this deep, direct, and paradigm-shifting conversation, we talk about the purpose and power of forgiveness, why we get stuck in our stories, and why grudge-holding is dehumanizing. We talk about the difference between grief and grievance, between forgiveness and reconciliation — how the impact of a very painful experience can be a rupturing of “something that we use in order to feel safe in the world." And why holding and harbor our grudges and resentments which become hazardous to our health. Ultimately, forgiveness is a kind of resilience. Grieving and forgiving help return us to the very essence of what makes us feel human, alive, and capable of living healthy lives. ********* forgiveness, science, forgiveness project, healing, relationships, research, fred luskin, stanford, wellbeing no full 11 882dab82-98c6-476d-892e-23c60ddc4d59 Generation Maps, Sharing the Road, and the Future of History with Rick Miller Rick Miller is a multi-hyphenate wonder. A multi-disciplinary artist. Multi-media, multi-lingual writer, actor, director, educator, musician, singer, and podcast host of the intergenerational series Xing the Gap. He's also the founder and creative director of WYRD Productions, and co-creative director of Kidoons.

Rick received Dora and Gemini awards for his critically acclaimed work, which he has performed in five languages on five continents. Entertainment Weekly called him “one of the 100 most creative people alive today...” 

Check out his podcast here:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/xing-the-gap-with-rick-miller/id1598424688

Explore his works on his website: http://www.rickmiller.ca/

Behold his Boom Trilogy: http://www.boomshow.ca/

More about MacHomer: http://machomer.com/about

MacHomer as Educational Curriculum:  http://machomer.com/outreach

Rick's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/WYRDRickMiller

Follow Rick on social:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RickMillerActor

IG https://www.instagram.com/rickmilleractor/

Podcast IG: https://www.instagram.com/xingthegap/?hl=en

He also plays in a 10-piece band called Trainwreck, with his life partner Stephanie Baptist:

http://www.trainwreck.band/

All clips from BOOM YZ courtesy WYRD Productions and Rick Miller Copyright All rights reserved. 

]]> Thu, 19 May 2022 18:03:17 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (Rick Miller, Lu Hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/generation-maps-gaps-and-the-future-of-history-with-rick-miller-BDRjlmXC Rick Miller is a multi-hyphenate wonder. A multi-disciplinary artist. Multi-media, multi-lingual writer, actor, director, educator, musician, singer, and podcast host of the intergenerational series Xing the Gap. He's also the founder and creative director of WYRD Productions, and co-creative director of Kidoons.

Rick received Dora and Gemini awards for his critically acclaimed work, which he has performed in five languages on five continents. Entertainment Weekly called him “one of the 100 most creative people alive today...” 

Check out his podcast here:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/xing-the-gap-with-rick-miller/id1598424688

Explore his works on his website: http://www.rickmiller.ca/

Behold his Boom Trilogy: http://www.boomshow.ca/

More about MacHomer: http://machomer.com/about

MacHomer as Educational Curriculum:  http://machomer.com/outreach

Rick's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/WYRDRickMiller

Follow Rick on social:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RickMillerActor

IG https://www.instagram.com/rickmilleractor/

Podcast IG: https://www.instagram.com/xingthegap/?hl=en

He also plays in a 10-piece band called Trainwreck, with his life partner Stephanie Baptist:

http://www.trainwreck.band/

All clips from BOOM YZ courtesy WYRD Productions and Rick Miller Copyright All rights reserved. 

]]> Generation Maps, Sharing the Road, and the Future of History with Rick Miller Rick Miller, Lu Hanessian 01:01:11 Rick Miller is a multi-hyphenate wonder. A multi-disciplinary artist, multi-media, multi-lingual writer, actor, director, educator, musician, singer, and podcast host of the intergenerational series "Xing the Gap." Although he graduated with two architecture degrees, he always dreamed of the stage. His first small role was in a Shakespeare-in-the-park production of Macbeth. He never imagined that a play in a park would inspire him to create his first solo show. And not just any solo show. His gift for uncanny spot-on vocal impersonations, performance, writing and lightning speed delivery fueled the creation of MacHomer, his one-man version of Macbeth with 50 characters from The Simpsons. All played by Rick. (And blessed by Simpsons creator Matt Groening.) It premiered at the Montreal Fringe festival in 1995. And then ran for 17 years in different countries. (Yes, he slips into a few Simpsons' voices in our conversation!) Over more than twenty years, Rick has conceived extraordinary worlds and critically acclaimed productions. He has become one of Canada’s most versatile stage performers, from classical theatre to avant-garde creations, from his smash-hit solo shows to collective ensembles. He has performed his own work in more than 200 cities around the globe. In 5 languages and on 5 continents. Entertainment Weekly once called him one of the "100 most creative people alive..." His latest tour de force is a trilogy. Three explosive solo stage shows chronicling 75 years of history: BOOM, BOOM X, and BOOM YZ collectively and chronologically documenting the music, politics, cultural milestones and generation-defining events from 1945 to 2020 - woven with personal stories. 75 years, 300 minutes, all written, directed and performed by Rick himself. I caught up with Rick, between shows, between breaths, between then and now, to explore the world wonder between his two musical ears. We talk about the future of history, generation maps, minding the gaps, the brain as a time machine, nostalgia and attention...and what he calls "our magic powers as human beings" to imagine possible futures in the present moment. A creatively rich, captivating, warm, entertaining, and profound conversation with my longtime friend Rick Miller. Rick Miller is a multi-hyphenate wonder. A multi-disciplinary artist, multi-media, multi-lingual writer, actor, director, educator, musician, singer, and podcast host of the intergenerational series "Xing the Gap." Although he graduated with two architecture degrees, he always dreamed of the stage. His first small role was in a Shakespeare-in-the-park production of Macbeth. He never imagined that a play in a park would inspire him to create his first solo show. And not just any solo show. His gift for uncanny spot-on vocal impersonations, performance, writing and lightning speed delivery fueled the creation of MacHomer, his one-man version of Macbeth with 50 characters from The Simpsons. All played by Rick. (And blessed by Simpsons creator Matt Groening.) It premiered at the Montreal Fringe festival in 1995. And then ran for 17 years in different countries. (Yes, he slips into a few Simpsons' voices in our conversation!) Over more than twenty years, Rick has conceived extraordinary worlds and critically acclaimed productions. He has become one of Canada’s most versatile stage performers, from classical theatre to avant-garde creations, from his smash-hit solo shows to collective ensembles. He has performed his own work in more than 200 cities around the globe. In 5 languages and on 5 continents. Entertainment Weekly once called him one of the "100 most creative people alive..." His latest tour de force is a trilogy. Three explosive solo stage shows chronicling 75 years of history: BOOM, BOOM X, and BOOM YZ collectively and chronologically documenting the music, politics, cultural milestones and generation-defining events from 1945 to 2020 - woven with personal stories. 75 years, 300 minutes, all written, directed and performed by Rick himself. I caught up with Rick, between shows, between breaths, between then and now, to explore the world wonder between his two musical ears. We talk about the future of history, generation maps, minding the gaps, the brain as a time machine, nostalgia and attention...and what he calls "our magic powers as human beings" to imagine possible futures in the present moment. A creatively rich, captivating, warm, entertaining, and profound conversation with my longtime friend Rick Miller. creativity, solo stage show, canadian stage, music, generation gaps, boom show, history, performance, future, podcast, theater, kidoons, multidisciplinary artist, culture, machomer, audience, wyrd productions, xing the gap, rick miller, nostalgia no full 10 e8504791-a36b-4af7-9821-325e18326161 Flexibility Mindset and the Dynamics of Resilience with George Bonanno George Bonanno is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University's Teachers College and internationally recognized for his pioneering research on human resilience in the face of loss and potential trauma, listed as one of the top 1 % of the most cited scientists in the world. He is the author of The Other Side of Sadness, and his most recent book The End of Trauma.

Dr. Bonanno has been honored by the Association for Psychological Science with its highest award, the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for his “lifetime of significant intellectual achievements in applied psychological research and their impact on a critical problem in society at large." He has published hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles, many appearing in leading journals. He has been listed by the Web of Science among the top one percent most cited scientists  in the world.
 

~ "INSIDE THE PSYCHOLOGIST'S STUDIO": Lisa Feldman Barrett interviews George Bonanno 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF-PfFLnLb8

~ “Loss, Trauma and Human Resilience: Have We Underestimated the Human Capacity to Thrive After Extremely Aversive Events?” (American Psychologist)

https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/gab38/faculty-profile/files/americanPsychologist.pdf

 

 

 

]]> Wed, 11 May 2022 20:41:24 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (George Bonanno, Lu Hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/flexibility-mindset-and-the-dynamics-of-resilience-with-george-bonanno-hhAv8JH3 George Bonanno is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University's Teachers College and internationally recognized for his pioneering research on human resilience in the face of loss and potential trauma, listed as one of the top 1 % of the most cited scientists in the world. He is the author of The Other Side of Sadness, and his most recent book The End of Trauma.

Dr. Bonanno has been honored by the Association for Psychological Science with its highest award, the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award for his “lifetime of significant intellectual achievements in applied psychological research and their impact on a critical problem in society at large." He has published hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles, many appearing in leading journals. He has been listed by the Web of Science among the top one percent most cited scientists  in the world.
 

~ "INSIDE THE PSYCHOLOGIST'S STUDIO": Lisa Feldman Barrett interviews George Bonanno 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF-PfFLnLb8

~ “Loss, Trauma and Human Resilience: Have We Underestimated the Human Capacity to Thrive After Extremely Aversive Events?” (American Psychologist)

https://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/gab38/faculty-profile/files/americanPsychologist.pdf

 

 

 

]]> Flexibility Mindset and the Dynamics of Resilience with George Bonanno George Bonanno, Lu Hanessian 01:23:01 Resilience. What does it really mean? How do we know we’re resilient? What are the factors and practices that determine resilience as a trajectory after adverse events and experiences? Is resilience something we learn or something we earn? George Bonanno is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University's Teachers College and internationally recognized for his pioneering research on human resilience in the face of loss and potential trauma, listed as one of the top 1 % of the most cited scientists in the world. He is the author of The Other Side of Sadness, and his most recent book The End of Trauma. As a boy, he dreamed of adventure, of traveling the world, sleeping in fields, reading books and painting. By 17, he hit the road, hitchhiking, painting, and working across the United States. Soon, he found himself taking care of people, juvenile offenders, older adults, at one point working directly with severely psychotic patients at Northampton State Psychiatric Hospital. That made a profound impression on him, he noticed that some of the patients recovered surprisingly quickly after leaving the hospital. Nine years after finishing high school, he got a scholarship to study at Hampshire College, and was soon designing his own psychological experiments - which led to his first peer-reviewed publication. He went on to get his PhD in Clinical Psychology at Yale University. Years later, he founded the Loss, Trauma, and Emotion lab at Columbia University in New York City, expanding his research to include the study of resilience following 9/11, military combat deployment, traumatic injury, life-threatening medical events, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, divorce, and job loss. The lab has been doing groundbreaking research on what he has discovered is the key process underlying human resilience: flexibility. In this episode, he describes the research behind the Flexibility Mindset, and the flexibility sequence. One of the most fascinating aspects of the science of flexibility and resilience-building is what happens in the ‘right now’... what we have the opportunity to harness and practice in the present moment that both integrates the past and opens up the vista of our future. This conversation is fascinating, hopeful, and packed with the science and practice of resilience from one of the most renowned researchers of our time. Resilience. What does it really mean? How do we know we’re resilient? What are the factors and practices that determine resilience as a trajectory after adverse events and experiences? Is resilience something we learn or something we earn? George Bonanno is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University's Teachers College and internationally recognized for his pioneering research on human resilience in the face of loss and potential trauma, listed as one of the top 1 % of the most cited scientists in the world. He is the author of The Other Side of Sadness, and his most recent book The End of Trauma. As a boy, he dreamed of adventure, of traveling the world, sleeping in fields, reading books and painting. By 17, he hit the road, hitchhiking, painting, and working across the United States. Soon, he found himself taking care of people, juvenile offenders, older adults, at one point working directly with severely psychotic patients at Northampton State Psychiatric Hospital. That made a profound impression on him, he noticed that some of the patients recovered surprisingly quickly after leaving the hospital. Nine years after finishing high school, he got a scholarship to study at Hampshire College, and was soon designing his own psychological experiments - which led to his first peer-reviewed publication. He went on to get his PhD in Clinical Psychology at Yale University. Years later, he founded the Loss, Trauma, and Emotion lab at Columbia University in New York City, expanding his research to include the study of resilience following 9/11, military combat deployment, traumatic injury, life-threatening medical events, natural disasters, disease outbreaks, divorce, and job loss. The lab has been doing groundbreaking research on what he has discovered is the key process underlying human resilience: flexibility. In this episode, he describes the research behind the Flexibility Mindset, and the flexibility sequence. One of the most fascinating aspects of the science of flexibility and resilience-building is what happens in the ‘right now’... what we have the opportunity to harness and practice in the present moment that both integrates the past and opens up the vista of our future. This conversation is fascinating, hopeful, and packed with the science and practice of resilience from one of the most renowned researchers of our time. recovery, healing, confidence, post traumatic growth, challenge, adversity, ptsd, trauma, flexibility mindset, research, resilience, survival, 9/11, optimism, flexibility, hope, resilience stories, columbia university no full 9 cf2b1622-97ba-4bd5-9a6e-4244232e3020 The Power of Staying Present, Listening, and Building Empathy at Work with Katharine Manning "Are we going to lead with fear or empathy?" - attorney Katharine Manning, author of The Empathetic Workplace: Five Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job (HarperCollins Leadership 2021).

Katharine Manning has worked on issues of trauma and victimization for more than 25 years. As a Senior Attorney Advisor with the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, for fifteen years she guided the Justice Department through its response to victims in cases ranging from terrorism to large-scale financial fraud to child exploitation. 

Some of the cases she advised on include the Boston Marathon bombing, the Pulse nightclub and South Carolina AME church shootings, the uprising in Charlottesville, the Madoff investment fraud, and the federal case against Larry Nassar, doctor for the U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastics team.

Katharine Manning's expertise helps organizations to prepare for and respond to the challenges they face involving employees and clients who may be in trauma. A member of the bar in Washington, D.C. and California, she also served as an attorney with the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop in San Francisco, where she represented Fortune 500 companies in class actions, insurance, and media cases. 

She is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Virginia School of Law and teaches at American University and in the Master’s in "Trauma-Informed Leadership Program" at Dominican University. 

Website www.katharinemanning.com

"We Need Trauma-Informed Workplaces" (Harvard Business Review)

https://hbr.org/2022/03/we-need-trauma-informed-workplaces

Katharine's book: "The Empathetic Workplace"

https://www.katharinemanning.com/my-book/

 

]]> Wed, 4 May 2022 04:10:28 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (Katharine Manning, Lu Hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/the-power-of-empathy-at-work-8faG1H06 "Are we going to lead with fear or empathy?" - attorney Katharine Manning, author of The Empathetic Workplace: Five Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job (HarperCollins Leadership 2021).

Katharine Manning has worked on issues of trauma and victimization for more than 25 years. As a Senior Attorney Advisor with the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, for fifteen years she guided the Justice Department through its response to victims in cases ranging from terrorism to large-scale financial fraud to child exploitation. 

Some of the cases she advised on include the Boston Marathon bombing, the Pulse nightclub and South Carolina AME church shootings, the uprising in Charlottesville, the Madoff investment fraud, and the federal case against Larry Nassar, doctor for the U.S. Women’s Olympic Gymnastics team.

Katharine Manning's expertise helps organizations to prepare for and respond to the challenges they face involving employees and clients who may be in trauma. A member of the bar in Washington, D.C. and California, she also served as an attorney with the law firm Pillsbury Winthrop in San Francisco, where she represented Fortune 500 companies in class actions, insurance, and media cases. 

She is a graduate of Smith College and the University of Virginia School of Law and teaches at American University and in the Master’s in "Trauma-Informed Leadership Program" at Dominican University. 

Website www.katharinemanning.com

"We Need Trauma-Informed Workplaces" (Harvard Business Review)

https://hbr.org/2022/03/we-need-trauma-informed-workplaces

Katharine's book: "The Empathetic Workplace"

https://www.katharinemanning.com/my-book/

 

]]> The Power of Staying Present, Listening, and Building Empathy at Work with Katharine Manning Katharine Manning, Lu Hanessian 00:54:16 My guest today is Katharine Manning, an attorney and victim's rights advocate for the past 25 years training and consulting on effective empathy in difficult times, and the author of the acclaimed book "The Empathetic Workplace: Five Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job" (HarperCollins Leadership 2021). In this timely, grounding and generous conversation, she shares some of her deep insights on the perils of fear-based leadership versus the generative effects of empathy-based leadership. She explains how the vulnerability of sharing our difficult stories with others is not necessarily in the content of those stories, but in the need for reciprocity. We need people to bear witness to us, to listen. That’s the L in her powerful LASER Method. And as you’ll hear, that’s not a skill many of us have in our back pocket. We talk about MeToo, the necessity of a response to our story, and what gets in the way of truly seeing and hearing other people in their pain. And when we are listening to people’s stories, she describes the challenge of trying to stay present, to quell our own anxieties, and why it’s so hard to hold off on jumping in with quick fixes and solutions they didn’t ask for and don’t need from us. We discuss why it's so important to shift the workplace mindset from trauma denial with an exclusive focus on productivity to trauma literacy and the need for us to be more proactively curious about people as human beings. What does a workplace look, sound and feel like when we trust that people know what they need…when we trust that we can respect those needs enough to trade defensive barriers for good healthy boundaries? As a Senior Attorney Advisor for fifteen years, Katharine guided the US Department of Justice through its response to victims in cases ranging from terrorism to large-scale financial fraud to the exploitation of children and domestic violence. Katharine Manning is a beacon of wisdom and compassion, a voice of grounded empathy and tireless advocacy. She has witnessed how the power of story can help people reclaim voice, restore a sense of safety and dignity, return us to ourselves and each other...and recognize the possibilities for healing and growth that can emerge through empathy. She is the founder of a company called Blackbird, DC in Washington - as the Beatles lyric goes… "take these broken wings and learn to fly…" My guest today is Katharine Manning, an attorney and victim's rights advocate for the past 25 years training and consulting on effective empathy in difficult times, and the author of the acclaimed book "The Empathetic Workplace: Five Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job" (HarperCollins Leadership 2021). In this timely, grounding and generous conversation, she shares some of her deep insights on the perils of fear-based leadership versus the generative effects of empathy-based leadership. She explains how the vulnerability of sharing our difficult stories with others is not necessarily in the content of those stories, but in the need for reciprocity. We need people to bear witness to us, to listen. That’s the L in her powerful LASER Method. And as you’ll hear, that’s not a skill many of us have in our back pocket. We talk about MeToo, the necessity of a response to our story, and what gets in the way of truly seeing and hearing other people in their pain. And when we are listening to people’s stories, she describes the challenge of trying to stay present, to quell our own anxieties, and why it’s so hard to hold off on jumping in with quick fixes and solutions they didn’t ask for and don’t need from us. We discuss why it's so important to shift the workplace mindset from trauma denial with an exclusive focus on productivity to trauma literacy and the need for us to be more proactively curious about people as human beings. What does a workplace look, sound and feel like when we trust that people know what they need…when we trust that we can respect those needs enough to trade defensive barriers for good healthy boundaries? As a Senior Attorney Advisor for fifteen years, Katharine guided the US Department of Justice through its response to victims in cases ranging from terrorism to large-scale financial fraud to the exploitation of children and domestic violence. Katharine Manning is a beacon of wisdom and compassion, a voice of grounded empathy and tireless advocacy. She has witnessed how the power of story can help people reclaim voice, restore a sense of safety and dignity, return us to ourselves and each other...and recognize the possibilities for healing and growth that can emerge through empathy. She is the founder of a company called Blackbird, DC in Washington - as the Beatles lyric goes… "take these broken wings and learn to fly…" justice, empowerment, trauma informed, human rights, women's rights, survivor, empathic leadership, victims' rights, advocacy, empathy, leadership, trust, listening, lawyer, sharing our stories no full 8 10fbff03-1041-4d61-958f-360c3a28c78f Love, Loss, and Grieving Mindfully with Sameet Kumar Sameet Kumar, PhD is a clinical psychologist, international speaker, and author of three books, including the best-selling book Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss, as well as The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination.

For more than twenty, he has specialized in palliative and end of life care, and has extensive experience in the use of spiritual and meditative techniques and therapies to support people through grief and loss. A practicing Buddhist, he has trained several Hindu and Buddhist spiritual teachers.

He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology, University of Miami. 

Check out his website: http://www.sameetkumarphd.com/

Dr. Kumar's 3-part workshop: https://tricycle.org/mindful-grieving/

Facebook: Sameet Kumar, PhD

 

 

]]> Wed, 27 Apr 2022 11:12:41 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (Sameet Kumar, Lu Hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/grieving-mindfully-and-spiral-staircase-healing-with-sameet-kumar-LjK2AWw4 Sameet Kumar, PhD is a clinical psychologist, international speaker, and author of three books, including the best-selling book Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss, as well as The Mindful Path Through Worry and Rumination.

For more than twenty, he has specialized in palliative and end of life care, and has extensive experience in the use of spiritual and meditative techniques and therapies to support people through grief and loss. A practicing Buddhist, he has trained several Hindu and Buddhist spiritual teachers.

He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology, University of Miami. 

Check out his website: http://www.sameetkumarphd.com/

Dr. Kumar's 3-part workshop: https://tricycle.org/mindful-grieving/

Facebook: Sameet Kumar, PhD

 

 

]]> Love, Loss, and Grieving Mindfully with Sameet Kumar Sameet Kumar, Lu Hanessian 01:03:00 “Suffering is completely natural. it doesn't request. It doesn't ask 'is now a good time?' ” - Dr. Sameet Kumar, clinical psychologist, author of Grieving Mindfully. This conversation is an absolute gift. Clinical psychologist and author of Grieving Mindfully Dr. Kumar shares that our capacity to love and grieve are not only interconnected but the very way we navigate the pain that naturally unfolds on our journeys through "life’s unforeseen and inevitable hurdles.” We talk about what he calls “the alchemy of grief” … our fear of getting swept up in pain, spiraling down in pain, and the challenge of trying to shield ourselves from pain. He explains why grief is a teacher, how the present moment invites us again and again… to discover how our “emotional vulnerability” can help us “redirect our pain toward our growth.” He helps us to depathologize our pain and humanize our suffering through the powerful medicine of practicing mindfulness in the present moment. There’s a moment in this conversation when I think I’m asking him about the fear so many of us have about slipping into a downward spiral and he gently redefines the very concept and process that's a deeply hopeful revelation. I ask Dr. Kumar how he preserves himself in his palliative care work. Four words, he says. Four words one of his teachers told him years ago, a 4 word practice that helps him stay connected to his core, to his patients, to hope and love for life. And he guides us through it in a short, powerful exercise. As Dr. Kumar says, "One day at a time is absolutely immense. We have this capacity to experience immensity. Love, joy, the present moment, our breath... those are the counter balances to the pain..." “Suffering is completely natural. it doesn't request. It doesn't ask 'is now a good time?' ” - Dr. Sameet Kumar, clinical psychologist, author of Grieving Mindfully. This conversation is an absolute gift. Clinical psychologist and author of Grieving Mindfully Dr. Kumar shares that our capacity to love and grieve are not only interconnected but the very way we navigate the pain that naturally unfolds on our journeys through "life’s unforeseen and inevitable hurdles.” We talk about what he calls “the alchemy of grief” … our fear of getting swept up in pain, spiraling down in pain, and the challenge of trying to shield ourselves from pain. He explains why grief is a teacher, how the present moment invites us again and again… to discover how our “emotional vulnerability” can help us “redirect our pain toward our growth.” He helps us to depathologize our pain and humanize our suffering through the powerful medicine of practicing mindfulness in the present moment. There’s a moment in this conversation when I think I’m asking him about the fear so many of us have about slipping into a downward spiral and he gently redefines the very concept and process that's a deeply hopeful revelation. I ask Dr. Kumar how he preserves himself in his palliative care work. Four words, he says. Four words one of his teachers told him years ago, a 4 word practice that helps him stay connected to his core, to his patients, to hope and love for life. And he guides us through it in a short, powerful exercise. As Dr. Kumar says, "One day at a time is absolutely immense. We have this capacity to experience immensity. Love, joy, the present moment, our breath... those are the counter balances to the pain..." buddhist, hospice, healing, upward spiral, psychotherapy and buddhism, mindfulness, alchemy of grief, compassion, grief, finding meaning, suffering, presence, downward spiral, breath practice, grieving mindfully, healing journey, personal growth, loss, grieving, resilience, trust, acceptance, compassionate wisdom, love, wisdom, death no full 7 e2bc407e-884a-477b-b57a-126dda823d8e Chaos, Callings, and Questioning Our Stories with Gregg Levoy Since he was a boy, Gregg Levoy has always been fueled by a lifelong quest for the questions. Little wonder he grew up to become a brilliant journalist, international speaker, and bestselling author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life and Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion, among many other publications.

He just exudes curiosity, insight and wonder, and shares the gifts of his incredible enthusiasm for life, for curiosity itself and for discovering and living the practices that cultivate aliveness right now. 

Honestly, I feel like I could ask him anything and he'd give it his full attention and draw deep from his well of intuition and awe, and take a shot at it. He is both wise and wide-eyed, both a giver and a humble receiver. Our conversation is full of soul and surprise - and little suspense. I felt like we were on a kind of an archeological dig. We riff on how to stay in conversation with ourselves during chaos, and why the power of rituals  can mark our turning points in profound ways. 

And I just love how he spontaneously offers up real-time guidance on some really interesting practices that help us get to the truth of the stories we tell ourselves - to, as he puts it, "make a little edgewise room for doubt just enough that the story begins to change and crumble.”

We talk about the power of presence, the hidden energy of stuckness, and his "deep trust in the relationship between setbacks and breakthroughs" as he navigates the now.

***

Gregg Levoy is the author of Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion (Penguin), and Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life (Random House) –rated among the "Top 20 Career Publications" by the Workforce Information Group and a text in various graduate programs in Management and Organizational Leadership. He is a former "behavioral specialist" at USA Today, and a regular blogger for Psychology Today.

A former adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico, former columnist and reporter for USA Today and the Cincinnati Enquirer, and author of This Business of Writing (Writer’s Digest Books), he has written for the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Omni, Psychology Today, Christian Science Monitor, Fast Company, Reader’s Digest, and many others, as well as for corporate, promotional and television projects.

He lives in Santa Cruz, CA.

Gregg's website www.gregglevoy.com

Gregg's writing at Psychology Today:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/passion/202204/the-tug-war-between-our-wild-side-and-our-tame-side

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/passion/202202/the-power-passionate-curiosity-and-the-fear-it

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/passion/202108/why-you-have-question-the-stories-you-tell-yourself

 

 

]]> Wed, 20 Apr 2022 20:21:09 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (Gregg Levoy, Lu Hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/callings-questioning-our-stories-and-the-power-of-doubt-with-gregg-levoy-gLpGuKS2 Since he was a boy, Gregg Levoy has always been fueled by a lifelong quest for the questions. Little wonder he grew up to become a brilliant journalist, international speaker, and bestselling author of Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life and Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion, among many other publications.

He just exudes curiosity, insight and wonder, and shares the gifts of his incredible enthusiasm for life, for curiosity itself and for discovering and living the practices that cultivate aliveness right now. 

Honestly, I feel like I could ask him anything and he'd give it his full attention and draw deep from his well of intuition and awe, and take a shot at it. He is both wise and wide-eyed, both a giver and a humble receiver. Our conversation is full of soul and surprise - and little suspense. I felt like we were on a kind of an archeological dig. We riff on how to stay in conversation with ourselves during chaos, and why the power of rituals  can mark our turning points in profound ways. 

And I just love how he spontaneously offers up real-time guidance on some really interesting practices that help us get to the truth of the stories we tell ourselves - to, as he puts it, "make a little edgewise room for doubt just enough that the story begins to change and crumble.”

We talk about the power of presence, the hidden energy of stuckness, and his "deep trust in the relationship between setbacks and breakthroughs" as he navigates the now.

***

Gregg Levoy is the author of Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion (Penguin), and Callings: Finding and Following An Authentic Life (Random House) –rated among the "Top 20 Career Publications" by the Workforce Information Group and a text in various graduate programs in Management and Organizational Leadership. He is a former "behavioral specialist" at USA Today, and a regular blogger for Psychology Today.

A former adjunct professor of journalism at the University of New Mexico, former columnist and reporter for USA Today and the Cincinnati Enquirer, and author of This Business of Writing (Writer’s Digest Books), he has written for the New York Times Magazine, Washington Post, Omni, Psychology Today, Christian Science Monitor, Fast Company, Reader’s Digest, and many others, as well as for corporate, promotional and television projects.

He lives in Santa Cruz, CA.

Gregg's website www.gregglevoy.com

Gregg's writing at Psychology Today:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/passion/202204/the-tug-war-between-our-wild-side-and-our-tame-side

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/passion/202202/the-power-passionate-curiosity-and-the-fear-it

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/passion/202108/why-you-have-question-the-stories-you-tell-yourself

 

 

]]> Chaos, Callings, and Questioning Our Stories with Gregg Levoy Gregg Levoy, Lu Hanessian 01:16:49 Today’s episode is a kind of magic carpet ride across time and place with bestselling author, journalist, international speaker and one-of-a-kind thought leader, Gregg Levoy. He exudes insight and wonder, with an incredible enthusiasm for life, for curiosity itself AND for discovering and living the practices that cultivate aliveness right now. Our conversation is full of soul and surprise and little suspense. Kind of an archeological dig. We riff on how to stay in conversation with ourselves during chaos, and why the power of rituals  can mark our turning points in profound ways. We talk about the power of presence, the hidden energy of stuckness, and his "deep trust in the relationship between setbacks and breakthroughs" as he navigates the now. Get ready for this deep-dive, flip-the-script, wayfinding mission to harness the living potential of this moment. **** Today’s episode is a kind of magic carpet ride across time and place with bestselling author, journalist, international speaker and one-of-a-kind thought leader, Gregg Levoy. He exudes insight and wonder, with an incredible enthusiasm for life, for curiosity itself AND for discovering and living the practices that cultivate aliveness right now. Our conversation is full of soul and surprise and little suspense. Kind of an archeological dig. We riff on how to stay in conversation with ourselves during chaos, and why the power of rituals  can mark our turning points in profound ways. We talk about the power of presence, the hidden energy of stuckness, and his "deep trust in the relationship between setbacks and breakthroughs" as he navigates the now. Get ready for this deep-dive, flip-the-script, wayfinding mission to harness the living potential of this moment. **** journalist, authentic life, gregg levoy, authenticity, inner compass, personal growth, grief work, rituals, callings, intuition, ], vulnerability, questions, passion no full 6 2b6d49ae-f451-4e04-9ec6-ac76ac1676eb Presence, Delight, and the Science of Attachment with Bethany Saltman "We heal the past by embodying the present. Now, now, now, now, now. That's all we have. When we change the present, history changes." ~ Bethany Saltman

Bethany Saltman is a phenomenon. She's also the author of a brilliant and poignant book called Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey into the Science of Attachment (Ballantine Books, 2020). This book absolutely floored me. 

“A fascinating mix of memoir and the history of a major revolution in the scientific theory of the relationships we form in our first year of life…” —BOOKLIST (Starred Review)

It was her pursuit of the answer to a daunting question - what kind of mother am I? -  that captivated me. This question led her to search for, find, and follow clues that offered no map, no timeline, and no guarantees...and also eventually led to unforeseen discoveries about herself, her family, the science of attachment, the guiding figures she would meet along the way, and of course the scientist she would only know through archives, records, recordings, and notes - Mary Ainsworth, the attachment researcher who captured Bethany’s imagination and heart.

From her Zazen meditation years seated on her cushion “being with what is” to the years of searching to discover what is, what was, and what might be, Bethany teaches us what it means to see ourselves and our children more clearly. We talk about the practice of awareness, the power of sensitivity, the reality of presence, the process of seeing and trusting in ourselves, self-care as child-care, and the predictive power of delight. This conversation is just a wonder. 

LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE and FOLLOW us on social @theforeseeablenowpodcast. 

LINKS:

Strange Situation is now out in paperback.

Bethany's website https://www.bethanysaltman.com/

Strange Situation ~ video https://www.bethanysaltman.com/related-videos

A couple of Bethany's acclaimed articles:

https://www.thecut.com/2016/06/attachment-theory-motherhood-c-v-r.html

https://www.thecut.com/2014/10/we-fought-for-affirmative-consent-in-the-90s.html

Bethany's "Secret Teachings Study Group" ~ https://www.bethanysaltman.com/mary-ainsworth-attachment-study-group

 

]]> Wed, 13 Apr 2022 04:00:00 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (Bethany Saltman, Lu Hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/presence-delight-and-science-of-attachment-with-bethany-saltman-DXDpfBHI "We heal the past by embodying the present. Now, now, now, now, now. That's all we have. When we change the present, history changes." ~ Bethany Saltman

Bethany Saltman is a phenomenon. She's also the author of a brilliant and poignant book called Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey into the Science of Attachment (Ballantine Books, 2020). This book absolutely floored me. 

“A fascinating mix of memoir and the history of a major revolution in the scientific theory of the relationships we form in our first year of life…” —BOOKLIST (Starred Review)

It was her pursuit of the answer to a daunting question - what kind of mother am I? -  that captivated me. This question led her to search for, find, and follow clues that offered no map, no timeline, and no guarantees...and also eventually led to unforeseen discoveries about herself, her family, the science of attachment, the guiding figures she would meet along the way, and of course the scientist she would only know through archives, records, recordings, and notes - Mary Ainsworth, the attachment researcher who captured Bethany’s imagination and heart.

From her Zazen meditation years seated on her cushion “being with what is” to the years of searching to discover what is, what was, and what might be, Bethany teaches us what it means to see ourselves and our children more clearly. We talk about the practice of awareness, the power of sensitivity, the reality of presence, the process of seeing and trusting in ourselves, self-care as child-care, and the predictive power of delight. This conversation is just a wonder. 

LISTEN, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE and FOLLOW us on social @theforeseeablenowpodcast. 

LINKS:

Strange Situation is now out in paperback.

Bethany's website https://www.bethanysaltman.com/

Strange Situation ~ video https://www.bethanysaltman.com/related-videos

A couple of Bethany's acclaimed articles:

https://www.thecut.com/2016/06/attachment-theory-motherhood-c-v-r.html

https://www.thecut.com/2014/10/we-fought-for-affirmative-consent-in-the-90s.html

Bethany's "Secret Teachings Study Group" ~ https://www.bethanysaltman.com/mary-ainsworth-attachment-study-group

 

]]> Presence, Delight, and the Science of Attachment with Bethany Saltman Bethany Saltman, Lu Hanessian 01:15:00 “One of the best science books of 2020.” –NEW SCIENTIST When researcher, writer, and longtime Zen student Bethany Saltman gave birth to her daughter Azalea sixteen years ago, she felt like something was missing. She knew she loved her baby but she would find herself feeling angry, short on patience, sometimes frightening herself with doubt about her capacity to love her daughter well. She didn't know she was about to embark on a 10-year quest to understand the nature of attachment and her own nature as a mother. She launched her own full-scale investigation into the history of attachment research, visiting labs, archives, and training sessions around the country, meeting scientist giants, and exploring the life and work of Mary Ainsworth, an American-Canadian developmental psychologist who would become one of psychology’s most important, but unsung, researchers - the creator of the "Strange Situation" in the 70's. An intriguing laboratory procedure used around the world that revealed the inner dynamics of attachment between parents and children. "Strange Situation" would spur decades of research on child development and parent-child relationships, and has become a gold standard for identifying and classifying individual differences in infant attachment security. If Ainsworth was "unsung" hero of attachment science, then Bethany's book "Strange Situation" is an aria to her remarkable work and a kind of love letter to science, to parent-child delight...and to Mary herself. I was so curious to talk with Bethany not just because her book floored me - her deliberate way of wondering and wandering, her fierce trust in what she couldn’t see, year after year, until she found answers to her questions... But it was her pursuit of the answer to this ONE daunting question - what kind of mother am I? - that really intrigued me. The question led her to search for, find, and follow clues that offered no map, no timeline, and no guarantees...and also eventually led to unforeseen discoveries about herself, her family, the science of attachment, the guiding figures she would meet along the way, and of course the scientist she would only know through archives, records, recordings, and notes - the attachment researcher who captured Bethany’s imagination and heart. "Oh Mary... how did you know?" Bethany’s intimate fascination with Mary is such a powerful element in this book - a kind of amazing alchemy between now and then, between Mary’s footprints in history and Bethany’s footsteps tracking her story NOW…and underneath it all, this quiet pulsing heartbeat of anticipation and hope. She writes in the book, “Mary has magical, mystical powers of attention.” That’s interesting because, reading her book and talking with Bethany, that’s what I sensed about her. From her Zazen meditation years seated on her cushion “being with what is”... to the years of searching to discover what is, what was, and what might be, Bethany teaches us what it means to see ourselves and our children more clearly. We talked about the practice of awareness, sensitivity, presence, seeing, trusting in ourselves, self-care as child-care, and the predictive power of delight. She lives in the Catskills with her husband, daughter, two dogs. And...a lot of books. “One of the best science books of 2020.” –NEW SCIENTIST When researcher, writer, and longtime Zen student Bethany Saltman gave birth to her daughter Azalea sixteen years ago, she felt like something was missing. She knew she loved her baby but she would find herself feeling angry, short on patience, sometimes frightening herself with doubt about her capacity to love her daughter well. She didn't know she was about to embark on a 10-year quest to understand the nature of attachment and her own nature as a mother. She launched her own full-scale investigation into the history of attachment research, visiting labs, archives, and training sessions around the country, meeting scientist giants, and exploring the life and work of Mary Ainsworth, an American-Canadian developmental psychologist who would become one of psychology’s most important, but unsung, researchers - the creator of the "Strange Situation" in the 70's. An intriguing laboratory procedure used around the world that revealed the inner dynamics of attachment between parents and children. "Strange Situation" would spur decades of research on child development and parent-child relationships, and has become a gold standard for identifying and classifying individual differences in infant attachment security. If Ainsworth was "unsung" hero of attachment science, then Bethany's book "Strange Situation" is an aria to her remarkable work and a kind of love letter to science, to parent-child delight...and to Mary herself. I was so curious to talk with Bethany not just because her book floored me - her deliberate way of wondering and wandering, her fierce trust in what she couldn’t see, year after year, until she found answers to her questions... But it was her pursuit of the answer to this ONE daunting question - what kind of mother am I? - that really intrigued me. The question led her to search for, find, and follow clues that offered no map, no timeline, and no guarantees...and also eventually led to unforeseen discoveries about herself, her family, the science of attachment, the guiding figures she would meet along the way, and of course the scientist she would only know through archives, records, recordings, and notes - the attachment researcher who captured Bethany’s imagination and heart. "Oh Mary... how did you know?" Bethany’s intimate fascination with Mary is such a powerful element in this book - a kind of amazing alchemy between now and then, between Mary’s footprints in history and Bethany’s footsteps tracking her story NOW…and underneath it all, this quiet pulsing heartbeat of anticipation and hope. She writes in the book, “Mary has magical, mystical powers of attention.” That’s interesting because, reading her book and talking with Bethany, that’s what I sensed about her. From her Zazen meditation years seated on her cushion “being with what is”... to the years of searching to discover what is, what was, and what might be, Bethany teaches us what it means to see ourselves and our children more clearly. We talked about the practice of awareness, sensitivity, presence, seeing, trusting in ourselves, self-care as child-care, and the predictive power of delight. She lives in the Catskills with her husband, daughter, two dogs. And...a lot of books. parenting joy, strange situation, babies, howard steele, attachment theory, parent love, mother, attachment science, mothering, presence, mary ainsworth, john bowlby, bowlby, self-understanding, parent growth, attachment, parenthood, secure attachment, parenting, delight, adult attachment interview, mary main, motherhood no full 5 dfb6007a-f7d7-4b82-97cc-f79b7803c9ef Trauma and the Power of Self-Agency, Knowledge and Love with Mike Niconchuk A profound, illuminating, and unvarnished conversation with neuroscientist Mike Niconchuk about polarization and the biology of belonging; the power of science, storytelling, and the narrative of trauma; the constant balance between urgency and safety; and what's possible when we center collective care, and take a "do no harm" oath with ourselves as "wounded healers" trying to reduce suffering in the world. 

Mike demythologizes the concept of ‘bouncing back,’ calls "science-activists" into action, and shares why he believes "nothing is more relevant than how the body responds to trauma." 

Mike Niconchuk is the Program Director for Beyond Conflict’s work on Trauma and Violent Conflict. Beyond Conflict combines nearly 30 years of experience in conflict prevention, resolution, and reconciliation with the latest cognitive and behavioral science. Mike leads the strategy and execution of initiatives focused on trauma and violence prevention in the U.S., Germany, Jordan, and Lebanon. These initiatives focus on the link between neuroscience and participation in group violence and the mind-body effects of conflict, forced displacement, and violence on youth and adults. 

He’s the author of the Field Guide for Barefoot Psychology, a unique psycho-educational and trauma recovery program for communities affected by trauma and adversity. The Field Guide is grounded in the belief that “science is a right and self-awareness is an asset”. First piloted in the Za’atri Refugee camp in Jordan with 160 participants, it now exists in both print and mobile app formats. In one of the largest neurophysiology studies ever conducted in a post-conflict setting, the Field Guide was determined to be effective in reducing mental health stigma, PTSD symptoms, and emotion regulation, even 3 months later.

Listen, subscribe, and share. The Foreseeable Now is hosted and produced by Lu Hanessian. Co-production and original music by KÁNO SOUND.

PROGRAM NOTE:  This conversation was recorded a few months ago. Our conversation remains both timely and timeless. 

*****

SHOW LINKS ~

Beyond Conflict  https://beyondconflictint.org/

The Field Guide for Barefoot Psychology TFG) is a trauma-focused psychosocial program that uses storytelling, psychoeducation, and self-care exercises delivered across 12-15 sessions by trained peer facilitators to (1) clarify why and how adverse experiences can affect the brain, body, and social behavior, and (2) ameliorate the negative effects of stress and trauma and promote help-seeking behaviors.

  • https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/self-help-tool-reduces-refugees-psychological-distress-and-mental-health-stigma-301148042.html

WATCH:
"Program aims to help Syrian refugees recover from psychological trauma"

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9w0K-gw0lc
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/syrian-refugees-importance-of-mental-health-aid-inside-zaatari-refugee-camp-in-middle-east/

Some of the research mentioned in this episode:

"Why Rejection Hurts" by Naomi Eisenburger

  • https://www.edge.org/conversation/naomi_eisenberger-why-rejection-hurts
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661304001433

Dr. Paul Zak 

  • https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-neuroscience-of-trust
  • https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_zak_trust_morality_and_oxytocin?language=en

Check out these interviews, articles, and presentations featuring Mike:

  • An interview with Mike in the Europe Now Journal  https://www.europenowjournal.org/2017/01/31/our-brains-on-conflict-trauma-healing-and-the-politics-of-fear-an-interview-with-mike-niconchuk/
  • UNHCR ~ https://www.unhcr.org/innovation/connecting-neuroscience-storytelling-psychology-can-create-measurable-impact-refugee-youth/
  • RESOLVE Network Global Forum 2018 ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bruiloSuD2E
]]> Wed, 6 Apr 2022 04:00:00 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (Mike Niconchuk, Lu Hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/trauma-and-the-power-of-self-agency-knowledge-and-love-MvtQRFD7 A profound, illuminating, and unvarnished conversation with neuroscientist Mike Niconchuk about polarization and the biology of belonging; the power of science, storytelling, and the narrative of trauma; the constant balance between urgency and safety; and what's possible when we center collective care, and take a "do no harm" oath with ourselves as "wounded healers" trying to reduce suffering in the world. 

Mike demythologizes the concept of ‘bouncing back,’ calls "science-activists" into action, and shares why he believes "nothing is more relevant than how the body responds to trauma." 

Mike Niconchuk is the Program Director for Beyond Conflict’s work on Trauma and Violent Conflict. Beyond Conflict combines nearly 30 years of experience in conflict prevention, resolution, and reconciliation with the latest cognitive and behavioral science. Mike leads the strategy and execution of initiatives focused on trauma and violence prevention in the U.S., Germany, Jordan, and Lebanon. These initiatives focus on the link between neuroscience and participation in group violence and the mind-body effects of conflict, forced displacement, and violence on youth and adults. 

He’s the author of the Field Guide for Barefoot Psychology, a unique psycho-educational and trauma recovery program for communities affected by trauma and adversity. The Field Guide is grounded in the belief that “science is a right and self-awareness is an asset”. First piloted in the Za’atri Refugee camp in Jordan with 160 participants, it now exists in both print and mobile app formats. In one of the largest neurophysiology studies ever conducted in a post-conflict setting, the Field Guide was determined to be effective in reducing mental health stigma, PTSD symptoms, and emotion regulation, even 3 months later.

Listen, subscribe, and share. The Foreseeable Now is hosted and produced by Lu Hanessian. Co-production and original music by KÁNO SOUND.

PROGRAM NOTE:  This conversation was recorded a few months ago. Our conversation remains both timely and timeless. 

*****

SHOW LINKS ~

Beyond Conflict  https://beyondconflictint.org/

The Field Guide for Barefoot Psychology TFG) is a trauma-focused psychosocial program that uses storytelling, psychoeducation, and self-care exercises delivered across 12-15 sessions by trained peer facilitators to (1) clarify why and how adverse experiences can affect the brain, body, and social behavior, and (2) ameliorate the negative effects of stress and trauma and promote help-seeking behaviors.

  • https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/self-help-tool-reduces-refugees-psychological-distress-and-mental-health-stigma-301148042.html

WATCH:
"Program aims to help Syrian refugees recover from psychological trauma"

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9w0K-gw0lc
  • https://www.cbsnews.com/news/syrian-refugees-importance-of-mental-health-aid-inside-zaatari-refugee-camp-in-middle-east/

Some of the research mentioned in this episode:

"Why Rejection Hurts" by Naomi Eisenburger

  • https://www.edge.org/conversation/naomi_eisenberger-why-rejection-hurts
  • https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661304001433

Dr. Paul Zak 

  • https://hbr.org/2017/01/the-neuroscience-of-trust
  • https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_zak_trust_morality_and_oxytocin?language=en

Check out these interviews, articles, and presentations featuring Mike:

  • An interview with Mike in the Europe Now Journal  https://www.europenowjournal.org/2017/01/31/our-brains-on-conflict-trauma-healing-and-the-politics-of-fear-an-interview-with-mike-niconchuk/
  • UNHCR ~ https://www.unhcr.org/innovation/connecting-neuroscience-storytelling-psychology-can-create-measurable-impact-refugee-youth/
  • RESOLVE Network Global Forum 2018 ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bruiloSuD2E
]]> Trauma and the Power of Self-Agency, Knowledge and Love with Mike Niconchuk Mike Niconchuk, Lu Hanessian 01:15:37 “What happens in the brain and body when you live through tremendous adversity?" That's just one of the powerful questions Mike Niconchuk asks and answers in today's episode on trauma and the power of self-agency, knowledge and love. Mike is a brain scientist, researcher, and practitioner focusing on trauma recovery in communities affected by conflict. As Program Director for Beyond Conflict’s work on Trauma and Violent Conflict, he leads the strategy and execution of initiatives focused on trauma and violence prevention in the U.S., Germany, Jordan, and Lebanon. In this profound, intimate, and honest conversation, Mike Niconchuk doesn’t mince words. He demythologizes the concept of ‘bouncing back,’ calls "science-activists" into action, and shares why he believes "nothing is more relevant than how the body responds to trauma." I reached out to Mike, because I had a deep sense that his work and vision embody the heart of "the foreseeable now." He’s acutely aware of how much potential for healing can be found in present moment-to-moment reality...at the same time that he holds this vision of the future, working with what’s possible, predictive, preventative...even in our global crises, even in this pandemic, even if the future is next week... all while he navigates the urgency of *now*. He’s the author of the Field Guide for Barefoot Psychology, a unique psycho-educational and trauma recovery program for communities affected by trauma and adversity. The Field Guide is grounded in the belief that “science is a right and self-awareness is an asset.” He describes how it all started...with a letter to his friends, and his plea for them to "hang on"... to "not let trauma win.” Somehow, he’s able to hold all these tensions of time and place, of people hurting and healing, of conflict and peace work, of the enormity of crisis and the “victory” of personal resilience in the communities he works with... and still keep his wits and his will intact. It's the way his research on dehumanization, violent conflict, and trauma so deeply interconnects with his study of social inclusion, belonging, and wellbeing...that I find deeply poignant and compelling. An unforgettable, deeply emotional, unvarnished conversation about the biology of belonging, stress and trauma responses, the power of science and storytelling, and what's possible when we center collective care, and take a "do no harm" oath with ourselves as "wounded healers" trying to reduce suffering in the world. He gives us real talk on resilience in the face of uncertainty and chronic stress, and shares his own deep vulnerability and hope around the motivating force that drives all of his work: Love. "Where we belong deeply affects how we see the world." - Mike Niconchuk PROGRAM NOTE: This conversation was recorded a few months ago. What we discuss remains relevant, timely, and ubiquitous. “What happens in the brain and body when you live through tremendous adversity?" That's just one of the powerful questions Mike Niconchuk asks and answers in today's episode on trauma and the power of self-agency, knowledge and love. Mike is a brain scientist, researcher, and practitioner focusing on trauma recovery in communities affected by conflict. As Program Director for Beyond Conflict’s work on Trauma and Violent Conflict, he leads the strategy and execution of initiatives focused on trauma and violence prevention in the U.S., Germany, Jordan, and Lebanon. In this profound, intimate, and honest conversation, Mike Niconchuk doesn’t mince words. He demythologizes the concept of ‘bouncing back,’ calls "science-activists" into action, and shares why he believes "nothing is more relevant than how the body responds to trauma." I reached out to Mike, because I had a deep sense that his work and vision embody the heart of "the foreseeable now." He’s acutely aware of how much potential for healing can be found in present moment-to-moment reality...at the same time that he holds this vision of the future, working with what’s possible, predictive, preventative...even in our global crises, even in this pandemic, even if the future is next week... all while he navigates the urgency of *now*. He’s the author of the Field Guide for Barefoot Psychology, a unique psycho-educational and trauma recovery program for communities affected by trauma and adversity. The Field Guide is grounded in the belief that “science is a right and self-awareness is an asset.” He describes how it all started...with a letter to his friends, and his plea for them to "hang on"... to "not let trauma win.” Somehow, he’s able to hold all these tensions of time and place, of people hurting and healing, of conflict and peace work, of the enormity of crisis and the “victory” of personal resilience in the communities he works with... and still keep his wits and his will intact. It's the way his research on dehumanization, violent conflict, and trauma so deeply interconnects with his study of social inclusion, belonging, and wellbeing...that I find deeply poignant and compelling. An unforgettable, deeply emotional, unvarnished conversation about the biology of belonging, stress and trauma responses, the power of science and storytelling, and what's possible when we center collective care, and take a "do no harm" oath with ourselves as "wounded healers" trying to reduce suffering in the world. He gives us real talk on resilience in the face of uncertainty and chronic stress, and shares his own deep vulnerability and hope around the motivating force that drives all of his work: Love. "Where we belong deeply affects how we see the world." - Mike Niconchuk PROGRAM NOTE: This conversation was recorded a few months ago. What we discuss remains relevant, timely, and ubiquitous. science, activism, barefoot psychology, wounded healer, neuroscience, trauma response, field guide to barefoot psychology, do no harm, adversity, trauma, displacement, beyond conflict, survival mode, global crisis, trauma informed fieldwork, resilience, agency, belonging, conflict zone, brain, storytelling, love, global health, syrian refugees, self-care, psychology, brain research, migration yes full 4 55a7bfb7-5a5d-4f04-8824-d7579f584020 Brain Huddles, Peace Circuitry, and the Anatomy of Choice with Jill Bolte Taylor This conversation is pure BOLTE-energy. Enthusiastic. Enlightening. Irreverent. Profound. Deeply human. And, at times, hilarious. (Nothing quite prepared me for her answer to my last question!) She is equal parts gritty, gutsy, and grateful to be alive. We talk about the morning, 13 years ago, when a massive stroke struck her left brain. We talk about her eight-year recovery and her life's discovery.  We dive into her new book "Whole Brain Living", her acronym BRAIN, and how to "huddle" with our brain distinctly designed four modules in order to create opportunity for creating change, agency, and wellbeing. 

This conversation is will make you think again about your own brain and its (your) functional relationship with the past, present, and future. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor joins me from her boat...named "Brain Waves."

Dr. Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist whose research specialized in understanding how our brain creates our perception of reality. She was interested in this subject because she has a brother who is diagnosed with the brain disorder schizophrenia. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey (Viking Penguin, 2008). Her new book is Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life (Hay House, 2021).

Her Foundation Jill Bolte Taylor BRAINS is dedicated to providing educational services and promoting programs related to the advancement of brain awareness, appreciation, exploration, education, injury prevention, neurological recovery, and the power of movement for mental and physical health. She is the National Spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Harvard Brain Bank), and educates the public about the shortage of brain tissue donated for research into the severe mental illnesses.

Link to her website www.drjilltaylor.com.

Link to her viral TED talk from 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU

Follow her on IG https://www.instagram.com/drjillboltetaylor/

Watch her on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHfUhV_xjrJLPiLZSlTRNvg

*****

The Foreseeable Now is hosted and executive produced by Lu Hanessian. Co-production and original music by KÁNO SOUND. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode...and share!

]]> Wed, 30 Mar 2022 04:00:00 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Lu Hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/brain-huddles-peace-and-the-anatomy-of-choice-with-jill-bolte-taylor-TUkEj5NV This conversation is pure BOLTE-energy. Enthusiastic. Enlightening. Irreverent. Profound. Deeply human. And, at times, hilarious. (Nothing quite prepared me for her answer to my last question!) She is equal parts gritty, gutsy, and grateful to be alive. We talk about the morning, 13 years ago, when a massive stroke struck her left brain. We talk about her eight-year recovery and her life's discovery.  We dive into her new book "Whole Brain Living", her acronym BRAIN, and how to "huddle" with our brain distinctly designed four modules in order to create opportunity for creating change, agency, and wellbeing. 

This conversation is will make you think again about your own brain and its (your) functional relationship with the past, present, and future. Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor joins me from her boat...named "Brain Waves."

Dr. Taylor is a Harvard-trained and published neuroanatomist whose research specialized in understanding how our brain creates our perception of reality. She was interested in this subject because she has a brother who is diagnosed with the brain disorder schizophrenia. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey (Viking Penguin, 2008). Her new book is Whole Brain Living: The Anatomy of Choice and the Four Characters That Drive Our Life (Hay House, 2021).

Her Foundation Jill Bolte Taylor BRAINS is dedicated to providing educational services and promoting programs related to the advancement of brain awareness, appreciation, exploration, education, injury prevention, neurological recovery, and the power of movement for mental and physical health. She is the National Spokesperson for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Harvard Brain Bank), and educates the public about the shortage of brain tissue donated for research into the severe mental illnesses.

Link to her website www.drjilltaylor.com.

Link to her viral TED talk from 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyyjU8fzEYU

Follow her on IG https://www.instagram.com/drjillboltetaylor/

Watch her on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHfUhV_xjrJLPiLZSlTRNvg

*****

The Foreseeable Now is hosted and executive produced by Lu Hanessian. Co-production and original music by KÁNO SOUND. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode...and share!

]]> Brain Huddles, Peace Circuitry, and the Anatomy of Choice with Jill Bolte Taylor Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Lu Hanessian 01:17:35 In 2008, my guest today was invited to give a TED talk. At the time, there were just 6 TED talks online, and so she didn’t even know what TED was. She said yes. What she couldn’t have foreseen in that moment was that her TED talk would catapult her onto the world stage, that in 3 months, her talk would become the first TED talk to go viral (now viewed more than 27 million times), that Oprah would call, that her talk would birth a book. A one-of-a-kind bestseller called "My Stroke of Insight". Overnight, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor became one of the most famous neuroscientists on the planet. It’s not just because her talk was witty and riveting and profound. It’s because the story she told was one of her near-death survival and unimaginable discovery. She is equal parts gritty, gutsy, and grateful to be alive. We talk about the morning, 13 years ago, when a massive stroke struck her left brain. We talk about her eight-year recovery and her life's discovery. We dive into her new book "Whole Brain Living", her acronym BRAIN, and how to "huddle" with our brain distinctly designed four modules in order to create opportunity for creating change, agency, and wellbeing. This conversation is pure BOLTE-energy. Enthusiastic. Enlightening. Irreverent. Deeply human. And I'm right there with her for the ride. This conversation is will make you think again about your own brain and its (your) functional relationship with the past, present, and future. Oh, one more thing. She lives in Kentucky - on a boat...named "Brain Waves." In 2008, my guest today was invited to give a TED talk. At the time, there were just 6 TED talks online, and so she didn’t even know what TED was. She said yes. What she couldn’t have foreseen in that moment was that her TED talk would catapult her onto the world stage, that in 3 months, her talk would become the first TED talk to go viral (now viewed more than 27 million times), that Oprah would call, that her talk would birth a book. A one-of-a-kind bestseller called "My Stroke of Insight". Overnight, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor became one of the most famous neuroscientists on the planet. It’s not just because her talk was witty and riveting and profound. It’s because the story she told was one of her near-death survival and unimaginable discovery. She is equal parts gritty, gutsy, and grateful to be alive. We talk about the morning, 13 years ago, when a massive stroke struck her left brain. We talk about her eight-year recovery and her life's discovery. We dive into her new book "Whole Brain Living", her acronym BRAIN, and how to "huddle" with our brain distinctly designed four modules in order to create opportunity for creating change, agency, and wellbeing. This conversation is pure BOLTE-energy. Enthusiastic. Enlightening. Irreverent. Deeply human. And I'm right there with her for the ride. This conversation is will make you think again about your own brain and its (your) functional relationship with the past, present, and future. Oh, one more thing. She lives in Kentucky - on a boat...named "Brain Waves." neuroscience, neuroplasticity, neuroscientist, viral ted talk, whole brain living, brain science, left brain, jill bolte taylor, ted conference, ted, mental health, right brain, lu hanessian, emotion, ted talk, stroke, brain huddle, brain plasticity, harvard, brain no full 3 c2fe3657-31f9-4735-ada5-37e97ed6f120 Finding the Gifts Underneath Our Fears with Gareth Higgins Gareth Higgins was born in Belfast in 1975, grew up during the northern Ireland Troubles, and now lives in the US. He writes and speaks about the power of storytelling to shape our lives and world, peace and making justice, and how to take life seriously without believing your own propaganda. 

He has been involved in peace-building and violence reduction in northern Ireland and helping address the legacy of conflict, received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Queen’s University Belfast, and co-taught the world’s first graduate course in Reconciliation Studies at Trinity College Dublin. 

He also helped found the Wild Goose, New Story and Movies & Meaning festivals. Gareth leads retreats in North America and Ireland; and edits The Porch  Magazine. He says he's happy to be a work in progress. 

Connect with all of his beautiful work and projects here:

The Porch Magazine

Ireland Retreats

Movies & Meaning

 GarethHiggins.net

The Foreseeable Now is hosted and executive produced by Lu Hanessian, co-production and original music by KÁNO SOUND. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode...and share! Follow us on IG @theforeseeablenowpodcast

 

]]> Wed, 23 Mar 2022 04:00:00 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (Gareth Higgins, Lu Hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/on-love-fear-and-keeping-the-porch-light-on-mRc0uO6o Gareth Higgins was born in Belfast in 1975, grew up during the northern Ireland Troubles, and now lives in the US. He writes and speaks about the power of storytelling to shape our lives and world, peace and making justice, and how to take life seriously without believing your own propaganda. 

He has been involved in peace-building and violence reduction in northern Ireland and helping address the legacy of conflict, received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Queen’s University Belfast, and co-taught the world’s first graduate course in Reconciliation Studies at Trinity College Dublin. 

He also helped found the Wild Goose, New Story and Movies & Meaning festivals. Gareth leads retreats in North America and Ireland; and edits The Porch  Magazine. He says he's happy to be a work in progress. 

Connect with all of his beautiful work and projects here:

The Porch Magazine

Ireland Retreats

Movies & Meaning

 GarethHiggins.net

The Foreseeable Now is hosted and executive produced by Lu Hanessian, co-production and original music by KÁNO SOUND. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode...and share! Follow us on IG @theforeseeablenowpodcast

 

]]> Finding the Gifts Underneath Our Fears with Gareth Higgins Gareth Higgins, Lu Hanessian 01:11:11 Gareth Higgins is a global treasure. The way he sees the world, understands complex forces, distills the most painful and beautiful aspects of our human condition with a hopeful and discerning heart...all of it and more are shared in this intimate conversation. His new book "How Not to Be Afraid" is timely, brilliant, profound ~ balm for our spirit and a portal to living and understanding fear(less). He invites us to think, feel, and wrestle with our stories, and questions our narratives of unworthiness, isolation, aloneness, loss, and division. He doesn't just talk about the gifts hidden within our fears, but he shows us how fear can lead us to a deeper knowing of who we are, a healing of our disconnections, and reveal our map for love. We talk about the power of the present moment to notice, to attend, and to change the way we see. At the end of our conversation, he reads an extraordinarily powerful excerpt from his wonderful book, and finally lands on one of the most breathtaking lines I've heard. His words are still resonating with me. NOTE: In pre-production for the launch of this new podcast series, this conversation was recorded prior to the start of the year. Gareth Higgins is a global treasure. The way he sees the world, understands complex forces, distills the most painful and beautiful aspects of our human condition with a hopeful and discerning heart...all of it and more are shared in this intimate conversation. His new book "How Not to Be Afraid" is timely, brilliant, profound ~ balm for our spirit and a portal to living and understanding fear(less). He invites us to think, feel, and wrestle with our stories, and questions our narratives of unworthiness, isolation, aloneness, loss, and division. He doesn't just talk about the gifts hidden within our fears, but he shows us how fear can lead us to a deeper knowing of who we are, a healing of our disconnections, and reveal our map for love. We talk about the power of the present moment to notice, to attend, and to change the way we see. At the end of our conversation, he reads an extraordinarily powerful excerpt from his wonderful book, and finally lands on one of the most breathtaking lines I've heard. His words are still resonating with me. NOTE: In pre-production for the launch of this new podcast series, this conversation was recorded prior to the start of the year. gareth higgins, community, ireland, gathering, authenticity, story, fear, love and fear, authentic self, storytelling, love, peacebuilding no full 2 08eab999-f995-4f3e-b6d6-f263d7c0a933 Unearthing and Trusting Our Inner Compass with April Rinne April Rinne holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and an M.A. in International Business and Finance from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is a Fulbright Scholar and has also studied at Oxford University, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the European University Institute.

Her special interests include running, yoga, and hiking from the Himalayas to Aconcagua. Extended solo travel. Maps. Photography. Architecture and more.

Check out April Rinne's internationally acclaimed book "FLUX: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change."

Drop in and visit her unique and captivating website www.aprilrinne.com 

"What is a Flux Mindset?" https://fluxmindset.com/what-is-a-flux-mindset

"The 8 Superpowers" https://fluxmindset.com/8-superpowers

Read April's global publications https://aprilrinne.com/author

Marvel at April's handstands around the world ~ https://aprilrinne.com/handstands

Instagram @aprilrinne

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aprilrinne

Twitter @aprilrinne

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilrinne/

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]]> Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:58:53 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (Lu Hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/unearthing-and-trusting-our-inner-compass-vC0x3BrV April Rinne holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and an M.A. in International Business and Finance from the Fletcher School at Tufts University. She is a Fulbright Scholar and has also studied at Oxford University, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and the European University Institute.

Her special interests include running, yoga, and hiking from the Himalayas to Aconcagua. Extended solo travel. Maps. Photography. Architecture and more.

Check out April Rinne's internationally acclaimed book "FLUX: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change."

Drop in and visit her unique and captivating website www.aprilrinne.com 

"What is a Flux Mindset?" https://fluxmindset.com/what-is-a-flux-mindset

"The 8 Superpowers" https://fluxmindset.com/8-superpowers

Read April's global publications https://aprilrinne.com/author

Marvel at April's handstands around the world ~ https://aprilrinne.com/handstands

Instagram @aprilrinne

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aprilrinne

Twitter @aprilrinne

https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilrinne/

*****

The Foreseeable Now is hosted and executive produced by Lu Hanessian, co-production and original music by KÁNO SOUND. 

Follow us on our new IG page @theforeseeablenowpodcast!

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]]> Unearthing and Trusting Our Inner Compass with April Rinne Lu Hanessian 01:23:32 We launch The Foreseeable Now with one of the world's top 50 female futurists, April Rinne. April is a global authority, advocate, ally, adventurer, and author of the wonderful new book "FLUX: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change." In this conversation with April Rinne, we explore the many facets of change - the kind we choose and the kind we don't - and what April discovered throughout her own life about cultivating trust in our "inner compass" to navigate change. And we explore a fascinating crossroads: what do we ask ourselves at a threshold moment when the question we choose will influence our journey from that point on? Whether we know it or not. What kind of power does that moment hold in shaping future moments? We talk about navigating grief, how ways of seeing shape our ways of choosing, and why everything starts with trust. Starting with trust, she says, is one of the 8 superpowers of what April calls a "flux mindset." As a child, her father, a cultural geographer, taught how to use a compass and orienteer - go off the beaten path. He told her, “The world is a marvelous place — go check it out!” And she did. As of the summer of 2017, she had traveled to more than 100 countries, worked in more than 50, and lived overseas for more than 10 years. Every year, she works in about 20 different countries. I haven't stopped thinking about this conversation. The stories of her as a child, compass in hand. The stories of her growing up traveling the country with her family. The story of the day her whole world came crashing down. We take time to unfold and understand this story in particular, deeply listening into how April recounts it, because the threads of that story are inextricably woven into the next twenty-five years of her life and work. How she survived. How she made sense of the unexpected. How she learned to find her way through grief. How navigating the change of loss helped her understand the deepest layers of navigating any kind of change. And how her life journey, unforeseeable as it was, revealed to her her own wisdom of orienteering our lives in flux...with flux...by developing what she now calls a "flux mindset". I keep imagining her as a four year-old with compass in hand, a pre-schooler who already knew how to orienteer and map her environment without fear of the unknown. She was taught that the world was vast and vivid and meant for exploration without hesitation, that humanity was a precious resource, that service was calling, that diversity wasn't an option for seeing the world but the clearest lens through which to see, live and grow in it. I've never met anyone like April. She has both an open-hearted curiosity and an ancient wisdom. She is warm, brilliant, and full of surprises. I'll leave one of those to the end of the interview. Let's just say she knows how to keep her center of gravity when the world is upside down. We launch The Foreseeable Now with one of the world's top 50 female futurists, April Rinne. April is a global authority, advocate, ally, adventurer, and author of the wonderful new book "FLUX: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change." In this conversation with April Rinne, we explore the many facets of change - the kind we choose and the kind we don't - and what April discovered throughout her own life about cultivating trust in our "inner compass" to navigate change. And we explore a fascinating crossroads: what do we ask ourselves at a threshold moment when the question we choose will influence our journey from that point on? Whether we know it or not. What kind of power does that moment hold in shaping future moments? We talk about navigating grief, how ways of seeing shape our ways of choosing, and why everything starts with trust. Starting with trust, she says, is one of the 8 superpowers of what April calls a "flux mindset." As a child, her father, a cultural geographer, taught how to use a compass and orienteer - go off the beaten path. He told her, “The world is a marvelous place — go check it out!” And she did. As of the summer of 2017, she had traveled to more than 100 countries, worked in more than 50, and lived overseas for more than 10 years. Every year, she works in about 20 different countries. I haven't stopped thinking about this conversation. The stories of her as a child, compass in hand. The stories of her growing up traveling the country with her family. The story of the day her whole world came crashing down. We take time to unfold and understand this story in particular, deeply listening into how April recounts it, because the threads of that story are inextricably woven into the next twenty-five years of her life and work. How she survived. How she made sense of the unexpected. How she learned to find her way through grief. How navigating the change of loss helped her understand the deepest layers of navigating any kind of change. And how her life journey, unforeseeable as it was, revealed to her her own wisdom of orienteering our lives in flux...with flux...by developing what she now calls a "flux mindset". I keep imagining her as a four year-old with compass in hand, a pre-schooler who already knew how to orienteer and map her environment without fear of the unknown. She was taught that the world was vast and vivid and meant for exploration without hesitation, that humanity was a precious resource, that service was calling, that diversity wasn't an option for seeing the world but the clearest lens through which to see, live and grow in it. I've never met anyone like April. She has both an open-hearted curiosity and an ancient wisdom. She is warm, brilliant, and full of surprises. I'll leave one of those to the end of the interview. Let's just say she knows how to keep her center of gravity when the world is upside down. navigating grief, flux mindset, inner compass, april rinne, navigating change, resilience, trust, lu hanessian, facing the unknown, flux, change, thriving in change, hope no full 1 827f9d6b-5efd-4e6e-a947-10b8db116f1d Trailer Mon, 28 Feb 2022 23:47:38 +0000 hanessianlu@gmail.com (Lu Hanessian) https://the-foreseeable-now.simplecast.com/episodes/trailer-DS3lQ0az Trailer Lu Hanessian 00:06:08 Welcome to The Foreseeable Now! Episode One: Our TFN Trailer. Experience some of the fascinating guests that you'll hear over the coming weeks. Authors and artists, scientists and activists, historians and futurists, trailblazers, storytellers, and social change catalysts, exploring the power of big ideas and tiny revolutionary shifts; the transformative potential of love and the purpose of fear; the paradox of what makes us human; the chasms and bridges between us; the anatomy of choice; and how we can harvest hope in upheaval as we unlock what's possible in this moment. Listen now! And take a moment to subscribe and share. The Foreseeable Now ~ how do we make the foreseeable moreseeable? Follow us on IG and FB @theforeseeablenowpodcast Original music by KÁNO SOUND. Welcome to The Foreseeable Now! Episode One: Our TFN Trailer. Experience some of the fascinating guests that you'll hear over the coming weeks. Authors and artists, scientists and activists, historians and futurists, trailblazers, storytellers, and social change catalysts, exploring the power of big ideas and tiny revolutionary shifts; the transformative potential of love and the purpose of fear; the paradox of what makes us human; the chasms and bridges between us; the anatomy of choice; and how we can harvest hope in upheaval as we unlock what's possible in this moment. Listen now! And take a moment to subscribe and share. The Foreseeable Now ~ how do we make the foreseeable moreseeable? Follow us on IG and FB @theforeseeablenowpodcast Original music by KÁNO SOUND. no trailer