Introducing: Wider Roots

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01/27/24 • 1 min

In order to navigate the breakdowns we’re in, we need coaches and leaders who can help us bring out the best qualities of humanity and tap into our deepest longings for the future.

This podcast is my attempt to do “research in public” and explore the questions that have been in my heart for over a decade:

How can coaching skills and practices support changemakers and social movements working for systemic change?
How can social, political, and ecological realities inform the foundation of HOW we coach? (Rather than being de-politicized and individualistic.)
What does it look like to place our commitment to the well-being of the whole at the center of a coaching conversation/relationship?

This podcast is my quest to understand more about these questions. I hope you walk away with ideas, inspiration, and resources to coach in a way that makes a difference for the world we want to live into.

I invite you to join the newsletter where we'll be sharing additional resources, links, training opportunities and more: https://widerroots.com/

In order to navigate the breakdowns we’re in, we need coaches and leaders who can help us bring out the best qualities of humanity and tap into our deepest longings for the future.

This podcast is my attempt to do “research in public” and explore the questions that have been in my heart for over a decade:

How can coaching skills and practices support changemakers and social movements working for systemic change?
How can social, political, and ecological realities inform the foundation of HOW we coach? (Rather than being de-politicized and individualistic.)
What does it look like to place our commitment to the well-being of the whole at the center of a coaching conversation/relationship?

I invite you to join the newsletter where we'll be sharing additional resources, links, training opportunities and more: https://widerroots.com/

Next Episode

Why coaching + social change?

Welcome to the podcast! This episode is going to be different than our usual format because I wanted to take some time to lay the foundation for the questions we’ll be exploring on this show. Questions like “How can our movement spaces actively create more opportunities for deep, internal transformation while we work for external change?”

I invited my dear friend Jess Serrante (a long-time coach for climate leaders) to help shed some light on the purpose of this podcast and our hopes for justice-oriented coaches.

Check out the episode page for the transcript and all the resources related to this episode: https://widerroots.com/1

Make sure to subscribe through your podcast app: https://widerroots.com/subscribe

Timestamps

[00:32] - What this show is about
[08:26] - Intro to my conversation with Jess
[10:14] - Jeremy's coaching origin story
[14:24] - What would it be like if we all had these skills?
[18:40] - Who this is for and what we'll be exploring
[21:29] - Coaching industry & how we don't see ourselves in it
[26:03] - Why we find coaching so powerful in movement work
[31:52] - Being in community with one another as practitioners

Connect with Jess

Connect with Jess at JessSerrante.com or @jess_serrante. Sign up for her newsletter to get notified when the We Are The Great Turning podcast (with Joanna Macy!) is released later this year.

Follow the podcast

Join the newsletter at WiderRoots.com for more resources on personal + systemic transformation.
Instagram @WiderRootsPod
Connect with Jeremy on his coaching website.

Wider Roots - Introducing: Wider Roots

Transcript

Jeremy Blanchard00:00:01.374

Welcome to the Wider Roots podcast. A show about how we can use the power of coaching and personal transformation to help create the world we most want to live in. Here we'll be exploring approaches to coaching and personal growth that focus more on the wellbeing of the collective instead of just the individual. And we'll look at how our movement spaces can actively create more opportunities for deep internal transformation while we work f