Healing Division: How to Listen When We Can’t Agree- with Diane Musho Hamilton

07/12/22 • 48 min

The Tension of Emergence: Thriving in a world that remakes, not breaks

What will it take to heal division and the pervasive sense of separateness we feel right now? How can we soften our attachment to being right and in control? Our cultural collective needs a new way of relating and being present to one another, even when we don’t want to.

In this episode Jennifer talks with her Zen teacher, award-winning mediator, facilitator and author Diane Musho Hamilton about how to heal and transform the fundamental problem of seeing ourselves as separate. Together they explore:

How to develop the capacity to be with things “as they are”
The potential of conflict as relational intimacy
One essential communication skill that helps when we feel threatened
A different way to understand power to help us surrender and serve the whole

Tune in to discover your natural capacity to navigate tension and heal divisions- even when it feels like we’ll never get along. At the end, Jennifer offers a practice to support you to trust and free fall into the messiest of relational spaces.

Links & resources—

Learn more about Diane Musho Hamilton’s writing, teaching, and facilitation here.
Interested in Zen practice? Discover Two Arrows Zen

Gratitude for this show’s theme song Inside the House, composed by the talented Yukon musician, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Jordy Walker. Artwork by the imaginative writer, filmmaker and artist Jon Marro.

How to develop the capacity to be with things “as they are”
The potential of conflict as relational intimacy
One essential communication skill that helps when we feel threatened
A different way to understand power to help us surrender and serve the whole

Links & resources—

Learn more about Diane Musho Hamilton’s writing, teaching, and facilitation here.
Interested in Zen practice? Discover Two Arrows Zen

Previous Episode

Our Body’s Wisdom: Making the Invisible Visible -with Arawana Hayashi

Bringing the wisdom of our bodies into change-making and leadership circles is becoming commonplace. But it involves being awkward, vulnerable and still so we can feel and integrate what our bodies tell us.

Jennifer is joined by Presencing Institute co-founder, choreographer, and teacher Arawana Hayashi to talk about overlooked assets in any creative process that help overcome impasse and ignite innovation. In this episode they discuss-

How Social Presencing Theater makes invisible stuck patterns visible
Why listening to our body takes the pressure off to “know the answer” and speeds up resolution and prototyping
How to move from stuck to wise and skillful action in groups or teams

Discover how our bodies can help us identify social blind spots and create timely resolution to some of our biggest challenges. Jennifer also offers a practice to guide you through a current stuck pattern to greater flow and emergence.

Links & resources—

Learn more about choreographer, teacher of meditation and creative process Arawana Hayashi. Arawana’s website and offerings can be found here.
Get Arawana’s book, Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making A True Move
Interested in systems change? Discover the Presencing Institute
Want to learn more about host Jennifer and her offerings? Subscribe here or follow her on Instagram.
Show music by the talented Jordy Walker

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Learning to See with Peripheral Vision- Season 1 Finale with Jennifer England

Often we see tension or constriction, cracks or conflict as a sign that something’s terribly wrong. Yet if we’re curious about the wisdom of tension itself, we can alchemize our experience for greater flow and trust.

As we wrap Season 1 of Tension of Emergence, Jennifer distills the wisdom from a brilliant constellation of guests. She reflects on what's possible when we don't turn away from the violent winds of change but stand solid in a new emergence. Jennifer highlights—

The potentiality of coming at our struggles sideways
8 key themes (all beginning with the letter P!)
How to use the power of practice to support your own edge-walking
A new edge for Jennifer as she creates, teaches and coaches

Tune in to join Jennifer on what she discovered in the making of Season 1, and what’s coming up in Season 2.

Links & resources—

Jennifer invites you, alongside visionaries, leaders, and changemakers, into her 5 month coaching program Becoming, which starts September 19th, 2022. Learn more here or get on the wait-list.
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