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

E46 Housing as Community Social Enterprise

Beth Sanders and Jason Syvixay investigate how their locational, gender, sexual orientation, age and racial identities shape their experience of cities, their work as city planners and some implications for the planning profession. (Note: you don’t have to be a city planner to enjoy this conversation!)

Civic Practice, Conversation, WorkBeth SandersJanuary 30, 2024housing, community, community social enterprise, Work

E42 Radical Reflection

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

Civic Practice, WorkBeth SandersJune 6, 2023Civic Practice, Values, work

E40 The Inconceivable Inconceivable

There are two kinds of inconceivable: 1) the one I tell myself isn’t possible and 2) the one I can’t imagine.

Civic Practice, WorkBeth SandersMarch 21, 2023Ski patrol, Mountain, Skiing, Jasper, Conversation

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