E48 How Much Ballast?

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

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

E47 Speaking From (vs talking about)

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

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

E45 It's All in the Cards

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

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

E44 Community Learning

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

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

E43 Stepping Into Vulnerability

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

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

E39 Change as a Verb

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

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

E38 Intersectionality, GBA+ and City Making

What on earth are intersectionality and GBA+? And what do they have to do with city making? Beth Sanders and Soni Dasmohapatra explore intersectionality and Gender-Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) in their work as city makers; they land on this understanding: GBA+ is a means to be in a conversation about improvement.

City Making, Civic Practice, Social ProximityBeth SandersJanuary 30, 2023Intersectionality, GBA+, Soni

E37 The Agony of Conversation

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

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

E32 Relationship Bypassing

Agreements about how we’ll talk and relate to each other are a commitment to be responsible for the quality of our relationships. In this article: 2 symptoms of, and 7 antidotes to, relationship bypassing.

Images created for this episode can be found here.

Conversation, Art of Hosting, Social ProximityBeth SandersMarch 29, 2022Relationship, Conversation, Connection, Bypassing

E30 Connection Bypassing

Whether online or in-person, how we gather fosters connection between people only when we design in opportunities for people to make contact with each other. When we don’t, we engage in connection bypassing.

Civic Practice, Art of Hosting, Social Proximity, Community BypassingBeth SandersJanuary 21, 2022Bypassing, Connection, Contact

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