Welcome, to listeners both new and old, to the Complex Everyday Conflicts podcast about navigating conflicts in ways that are compassionate and trauma-informed.
I’m glad to be finally sharing with you a bonus episode about discomfort that has been brewing in me for months.
In this episode, I share about:
How discomfort may feel personal, but is always inextricably tied up with relationships (with ourselves, others, and the world we live in today)
How dominant cultural messages about comfort and discomfort may not help us navigate these experiences mindfully and compassionately
Different forms that discomfort can take, and how all of these forms can call us toward learning, healing and growth
How conflicts can be indications that things are changing, and how our responses to our discomfort with these changes can lead to greater harm or greater freedom
How social locations (gender, race, etc.) inform our experiences of and meaning making around comfort and discomfort
The importance of relational resource, and of being honest about our collective and individual need to build this resource to in order to hold all the discomforts present today
I also share more about my personal experiences than I have in the past, and how these experiences have shaped me to become the type of guide, facilitator, and coach that I am.
As always, if you think this episode could help others you know, please share it!
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As I mentioned in this episode, my fall/winter coaching program Cave of Wounded Beasts: Repair and Regeneration for Systems Change Agents is now open for enrollment. Please reach out if you are interested in an initial conversation to mutually assess fit.
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