My Innermission
Change is inevitable. But transformation asks something more of us.
The My Innermission Podcast explores how we navigate moments of transition—and how those moments can become opportunities not simply to adapt, but to regenerate.
Host Colleen Stanevich talks with people who have experienced meaningful personal and professional change, as well as thinkers, leaders, and practitioners exploring what helps people, organizations, and communities truly flourish.
Together, we examine change through the lens of living systems: paying attention to the conditions beneath the surface, noticing what has become depleted or no longer serves us, learning what needs to be released, and creating the conditions for something healthier to emerge.
Conversations move between the personal and the professional, the individual and the organization, the body and the land—exploring everything from purpose, identity, relationships, and nervous system regulation to leadership, organizational culture, systems change, and regeneration.
Because whether we're navigating a transition in our own lives or stewarding change within an organization, the question isn't simply “What needs to change?”
It's also:
What conditions will allow something to grow in aliveness?
My Innermission is a podcast about navigating change, learning from living systems, and cultivating the conditions for people and organizations to sustain, produce, and flourish.
My Innermission
Leading with Empathy with Liesel Mertes
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We all have been aware or experienced disruptive life events--and 2020 has been a collective disruptive life event for many of us. How can we better meet the grief and trauma of disruptive life events? How can we support each other as others experience them? This week I got the chance to speak with Workplace Empathy Advocate, Liesel Mertes about her own experience with loss and how she supports organizations in considering their own practices around empathy. In our conversation we'll discuss:
- What defines a disruptive life event and what is helpful in supporting someone through a disruptive life event?
- What are our emotional avatars and how can we use them to understand how we support, or do not support, people going through grief or traumatic change?
- What can we offer each other in this collective moment of disruptive life events?
If you want to learn more about Liesel's work visit:
lieselmertes.com
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