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Stories Lived. Stories Told.

Abbie VanMeter and The CMM Institute

153 episodes

17 hours ago

Welcome to the RSD14 Participant Podcast! ... Today, Abbie is joined by the participants of the Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD14) Conference in Toronto to reflect on their own experiences of both the online and in-person conference, the stories and contexts around design that they bring with them, and the conversations they are a part of and what they hope is next for this community. In this episode, you will hear from 13 conference participants who stopped to speak with Abbie duri...

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Society & Culture,

Self-Improvement

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Welcome to the RSD14 Participant Podcast! ... Today, Abbie is joined by the participants of the Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD14) Conference in Toronto to reflect on their own experiences of both the online and in-person conference, the stories and contexts around design that they bring with them, and the conversations they are a part of and what they hope is next for this community. In this episode, you will hear from 13 conference participants who stopped to speak with Abbie duri...

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Society & Culture,

Self-Improvement

Episodes (20/153)

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Relating Systems Thinking and Design at RSD14 | Ep. 149

Welcome to the RSD14 Participant Podcast! ... Today, Abbie is joined by the participants of the Relating Systems Thinking and Design (RSD14) Conference in Toronto to reflect on their own experiences of both the online and in-person conference, the stories and contexts around design that they bring with them, and the conversations they are a part of and what they hope is next for this community. In this episode, you will hear from 13 conference participants who stopped to speak with Abbie duri...

1 week ago

1 hour 59 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Collaboration & Chamber Music with Annie Fullard and Dorianne Cotter-Lockard | Ep. 148

In what ways are you an artist? ... Today, Abbie, Annie, and Dorianne discuss ‘The Art of Collaboration: Chamber Music Rehearsal Techniques and Team Building,’ Annie and Dorianne’s new book that introduces themes of co-leadership and empathy which are relevant for all small group communication. Particularly, Abbie, Annie, and Dorianne talk about ‘We Presence,’ LBAD (Live, Breath, and Die), and “trying out everyone’s ideas as if they were your own.” ... Violinist Annie Fullard, celebrated for ...

3 weeks ago

1 hour 5 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On A Relational Approach to Disorganizing with Kate Lockwood Harris | Ep. 147

What does it look like to connect everyday interactions to broader social dynamics? To use our knowledge of interpersonal communication to create the kinds of organizations, communities, and systems we want to make? ... Today, Abbie and Kate talk about a relational approach to disorganizing systemic violence in organizations, exploring themes from Kate’s new book Transforming Trauma to discuss different ways of knowing (and not knowing) in our bodies, minds, and relationships; flexibility and...

1 month ago

1 hour 6 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Social Therapeutics and Performance Activism with Lois Holzman | Ep. 146

How do we embrace the unknowability of being alive? ... Today, Abbie and Lois explore social therapeutics and performance activism as avenues for “performing beyond ourselves,” embracing life as play (and play as life), and creating stages- not of development- but, for development. ... As director of the East Side Institute, the research and education center for social therapeutics and performance activism, Lois Holzman has broadened its reach globally across geographical and practice/p...

1 month ago

58 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Communication, Interactions & Systems with Laura Fruggeri | Ep. 145

What CMMish tools help us to end a conversation in a different place than where we started? ... Today, Abbie and Laura explore the stories of Laura’s evolving approach to therapy, including the introduction of paradox and counterparadox developed by the Milan Center; the adoption of a more strategic approach to communication from a pragmatic perspective; the shift in seeing the therapist as both observer and participant; and the centering of interaction as the place where social realities are...

2 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Practicing Leadership Playing Dungeons & Dragons with Tom Watkin | Ep. 144

How do games like Dungeons and Dragons enable us to practice a CMM-informed way of relating, participating, and communicating? ... Today, Abbie and Tom explore Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) as a powerful practice and metaphor for developing more relational, emergent, and collaborative ways of being and leading, touching on the value of experiential learning in scenarios our brains will remember as real; the need (both in game and out) to coordinate across different meanings being made ...

2 months ago

1 hour

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Creating 'Grains of Empowerment' for Women and Girls with Mil Niepold | Ep. 143

Who isn't being invited to the conversation? ... Today, Abbie and Mil explore ways to create “grains of empowerment” that enable every individual to participate in community-based solutions to our global problems, beginning with each of us asking the question “who is missing?” in every space we enter; systematically inviting people with differing perspective, identities, and experiences to the table; and naming the invisible patterns of communication that keep us from hearing each other in co...

3 months ago

58 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Observing Mindfulness, Innovation & Complexity with Mattia Vettorello | Ep. 142

How do we create better social worlds at the intersection of mindfulness, innovation, and complexity? ... Today, Abbie and Mattia consider the responsibility humans have to mindfully engage with tools like artificial intelligence by prioritizing our own imagination; the lessons we can learn from experiences of uncertainty and ambiguity; the need for us to practice thinking in an agile way as we look to the future; and the role we have as participant-observers. ... Mattia Vettorello is a...

3 months ago

55 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Predictions, Expectations & the Neurobiology of Sensemaking with Rachel Lilley | Ep. 141

How can we learn to see more of our expectations and assumptions? ... Today, Abbie and Rachel are two 'embodied minds' exploring the neurobiology of sensemaking, including our brains being more prediction than reaction, the controlled illusion of acting out of our expectations, the 'felt sense' we experience that encodes all information about priors, and the perception practice that allows us to check our assumptions. ... Rachel Lilley is an Associate Professor at the Birmingham Leaders...

4 months ago

1 hour 4 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Designing Complex Conversations with Celiane Camargo-Borges | Ep. 140

How do we understand the complexity of who we are and who we are becoming? … Today, Abbie and Celiane use social construction as a framework to explore forming futures, intent v. impact, "good" design, and sustainability transitions. ... Celiane Camargo-Borges is an intercultural explorer, researcher, and facilitator with a passion for fostering collaboration across diverse communities. Born and raised in Brazil, she embarked on a global journey of learning and discovery, moving to England as...

4 months ago

1 hour 5 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Being Polyvagal-Informed with Evelien van den Kerkhof and Martie van der Reijden | Ep. 139

What changes when you begin to recognize, name, and move through your icy blue, fiery orange, and calm green areas? ... Martie van der Reijden and Evelien van den Kerkhof are both Orthopedagogue Generalist / child and youth therapist and EMDR Europe Practitioners. They have been working together for years in their independent practice in Voorschoten (the Netherlands) and have a lot of experience in treating children, adolescents and their families with attachment issues and trauma. They work ...

4 months ago

54 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Creating Relational Resilience Through Reflecting Dialogue with Deb Nathan | Ep. 138

How can you speak in a way that allows others to hear you? And listen in a way that allows others to speak? ... Deb Nathan is a licensed art therapist and psychotherapist with extensive experience as an educator, artist, therapist and supervisor. In 2008, Deb founded Artsbridge, Inc. – an organization that utilizes a unique methodology to bring together teens from communities in conflict. Artsbridge has primarily focused on Israelis and Palestinians, while lately expanding its work to the Uni...

5 months ago

1 hour 3 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Emergent Sensemaking and Social Cohesion with Karina Solsø | Ep. 137

What are responsible ways of engaging with ambitions around change? ... Karina Solsø is a self-employed organizational psychologist, who works part-time at the Doctor of Management Programme at University of Hertfordshire, where she supervises Ph.D. students researching complexity in organizations. She also works as an external lecturer at Aalborg University supervising students doing a masters degree. Except from the work at universities, most of her clients work in senior roles in pub...

5 months ago

57 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Trading Super-Coherence for Incoherence with Anokh Goodman and Rana Kökçinar | Ep. 136

Rana Kökçinar is a Systemic Psychotherapist and Family Therapist working on unceded Kaurna Land, South Australia. Anokh Goodman is a Systemic Psychotherapist, Clinical Lead and Training Consultant with Sikh heritage and a working-class background, living in Leeds, North England. Passionate about relationships, narratives, social justice, poetry, and spoken word, he brings an intersectional lens to his work, exploring ideas of radical love to foster inclusive, culturally responsive change. Th...

6 months ago

1 hour 6 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Appreciative Inquiry and Positive Change with Diana Whitney | Ep. 135

Is your communication relationship enhancing or relationship destroying? ... Dr. Whitney is a global social entrepreneur. She is the founder of Corporation for Positive Change, a global consulting cooperative; co-founder of the Taos Institute, an international think tank dedicated to relational processes in business, education, families and communities; and a founding advisor to the United Religions Initiative, a global network of interfaith cooperation circles working for peace and social ju...

6 months ago

56 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Researching and Practicing Therapy as Social Construction with Pedro Martins | Ep. 134

How do we create conversations in the world that make us feel inspired? ... Pedro Martins, Ph.D., is a Brazilian psychologist. He obtained his Doctoral and Master’s degree at the University of São Paulo. He is interested in the practice of therapy as social construction in different contexts, and his main goal is to create generative conversational resources that bridge academic and practical knowledge. He works as a clinical psychologist in his private practice. His research focuses on the w...

7 months ago

1 hour 2 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Nurturing Collective Reflexivity in Design with Josina Vink | Ep. 133

What agency can you identify in the systems you are in? And how can you use it to invite others to design with intention together? ... Josina Vink is a designer and researcher with expertise in health system transformation. They have extensive experience leading and facilitating participatory system and service design processes in health care, government, non-profit and community settings. Josina has worked as a service and systemic designer in healthcare internationally including at th...

7 months ago

1 hour 7 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Relationality in Regenerative Food Systems with Edona Arnesen | Ep. 132

How can we design in ways that are "conducive to life"? ... Edona Arnesen is highly passionate about food, farming, food systems, relationships and regeneration in unison, and how we can co-create better communities and systems for the common health of everything on Earth; the human and the non-human, and Nature whom we're all a tiny, connected part of. She finds systems thinking and systemic design fantastically interesting as philosophies and practices to act through. Edona went on to...

8 months ago

1 hour 4 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On The Tenderness Tour with Richard Propes | Ep. 131

Please be aware that this conversation contains references to sexual abuse and suicide. ... Where in your life can you create the conditions for tenderness? ... In 1989, Richard Propes left downtown Indianapolis in his wheelchair with $20 in his pocket, a backpack on his wheelchair, and a handful of press releases announcing his "Tenderness Tour." A paraplegic/double amputee born with spina bifida, Propes traveled for 41 days and over 1,000 miles alone around Indiana in an effort to look for ...

8 months ago

57 minutes

Stories Lived. Stories Told.

On Death, Life & Palliative Care with Christiaan Rhodius | Ep. 130

Where can you create care and connection in unexpected places? ... Chistiaan Rhodius is a Dutch doctor specialized in palliative medicine. Together with his wife and four children he currently lives and works in Oslo (Norway). He is convinced that 'if we ignore death we miss out on life'. He is passionate for stories and the shaping of new stories (through the process of improvisation). At this moment he explores ways of how the artwork of Edvard Munch can stimulate our storytelling. To...

9 months ago

58 minutes