Listen to Krista read the post... I'm not going to lie. I am nervous about you. No. More than that. I am anxious and border-line dreading you. It's not your fault, really. You just happen to be the year of another U.S. election cycle, my kid starting with a new...
Do you still have hope? On climate change, despair, and holding space
by Heather Plett | Oct 16, 2023 | Brave Space, Community, Complexity, Grief, Liminal Space
Listen to Heather read the post: I wonder sometimes if I still have hope. Every time I read the news (and those times are becoming fewer and fewer) there are more reasons for despair. We hear dire warnings of what will happen if our global climate increases by...
Fall Orientations: Reflecting on Seasons, Activism, and Holding Space
by Krista dela Rosa | Oct 2, 2023 | Complexity, Holding Space for Others, Holding Space for Yourself, Liminal Space
Listen to Krista read the post: It’s sunny this morning. An autumn sun - somehow mellower than how I experience it in the spring or summer — or even the winter. No doubt I’m reacting more to its reflection off yellowing leaves and browning grass, the tell-tale signs...
Holding Space for Grief is a Practice of Community
by Heather Plett | Sep 19, 2023 | Brave Space, Community, Grief, Holding Space for Others, Leadership, Liminal Space
We are delighted to share this blog post written by Holding Space Master Practitioner, Nam Pham, one of the primary teachers in our How to Hold Space Foundation Program. Nam lives in Viet Nam and has worked with us at the Centre since its inception. We are so grateful...
The Complexity of Rest
by Krista dela Rosa | Aug 16, 2023 | Brave Space, Complexity, Holding Space for Yourself, Liminal Space
Listen to me read the post: I don’t even know how to start this post. I’ve been thinking about it since I started my semi-forced month of rest at the beginning of July. I knew I needed the rest. Had known it for quite a while. But my past versions of ‘rest’...
Meet me at the dinner table (a post about the end of the world)
by Heather Plett | Jul 21, 2023 | Brave Space, Community, Holding Space for Others, Liberation and Tenderness, Liminal Space
Listen to me read the post: In the movie Don’t Look Up, two scientists (played by Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio) try to convince the public that an astroid is about to hit and, unless some action is taken to mitigate the threat, the earth is about to...
Prepare for the lurch (on launching and letting go)
by Heather Plett | Aug 4, 2022 | Liminal Space
Listen to me read the post... On summer mornings, I like to cycle to the park and then sit with my journal on a bench overlooking the boat launch (a practice I wrote about on my personal blog). Sometimes it’s a quiet place and sometimes (especially on weekends)...
Holding Space is Not Annoying and Meaningless
by Krista dela Rosa | Jun 13, 2022 | Complexity, Hijacking Space, Holding Space for Others, Liminal Space
"Holding Space is annoying and meaningless!" Or, that was the recent opinion of someone I follow on Twitter anyway. This tweeter went on to suggest that, instead of offering that phrase to folks, you simply say, “Damn, that sucks”. The replies went on to mostly agree...
Let’s be in Messy Practice Together: a guide for holding space as we emerge from this pandemic
by Heather Plett | Oct 14, 2021 | Brave Space, Complexity, Holding Space for Others, Leadership, Liminal Space
Listen to me read the post... We are now in the twentieth month of this pandemic. That’s twenty months of a global liminal space that has disrupted the lives of everyone on this planet – some more than others. It’s not surprising, after such a long time of uncertainty...
Food for Thought: Beginning to Be Back Together
by Krista dela Rosa | Jun 12, 2021 | Brave Space, Community, Complexity, Holding Space for Others, Holding Space for Yourself, Leadership, Liminal Space
Listen to Krista read the post... There are days I know for sure that we are getting closer and closer to being able to be together in person again, and there are other days I despair that it will ever happen. Here, in my part of the world, we are still in the...
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