The PIVOT: Navigating Uncharted Territory with Dave Schoof
Dave Schoof
6 episodes
3 months ago
The PIVOT is a shift in our lives that allows us to be less bound to our past experiences, habits, and ways of figuring the world out. We still carry with us our wisdom, skills, and sense of ourselves, but we also make room for new ways of seeing, doing, navigating, and checking. This show will explore how to thrive while navigating with cutting-edge thinkers, practitioners, and pioneers.
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The PIVOT is a shift in our lives that allows us to be less bound to our past experiences, habits, and ways of figuring the world out. We still carry with us our wisdom, skills, and sense of ourselves, but we also make room for new ways of seeing, doing, navigating, and checking. This show will explore how to thrive while navigating with cutting-edge thinkers, practitioners, and pioneers.
Part 1: Depth, Coherence, and Leadership When the Maps Fail. What if the space between us is the map?
The PIVOT: Navigating Uncharted Territory with Dave Schoof
1 hour 22 minutes 48 seconds
3 months ago
Part 1: Depth, Coherence, and Leadership When the Maps Fail. What if the space between us is the map?
🎙️ Part 1 — Depth, Coherence, and Leadership When the Maps Fail
Subtitle: “What if the space between us is the map?”
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Rob McNamara joins Dave to explore how relational depth, love, and presence may be the most strategic responses to the crises of our time.
Guest Bio – Rob McNamara
Rob McNamara is a transmitted Zen master, advisor, consultant, and executive coach. He is the author of four books, most recently "Foundations for Elegant Relationships and Powerful Listening."  He is a co-founder of Dragon Lake Zen, where he works to fit the lineage to address existential and catastrophic risk. Rob serves on faculty at the Ivey School of Business’s LIFT Advanced Coaching Program and Real LIFE Programs. He is a former Harvard University Teaching Fellow, teaching adult development at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

Rob currently coaches, trains, and advises individuals, teams, and communities on how to protect and cultivate value-dense capabilities necessary for successfully navigating today’s changing landscapes.
Standout QuotesÂ
“Depth isn’t a luxury. It’s a survival skill.”
“The crisis isn’t out there—it’s moving through us.”
“You don’t need a new map. You need a deeper relationship with the unknown.”
Timeline:
0:00 – Meta-crisis, personal pivot, and transformation as orientation
6:00 – From individual growth to collective and relational transformation
13:00 – Polarization, limbic overwhelm, and the weaponization of media
21:00 – Psychological warfare, attentional hijack, and digital overwhelm
29:00 – Death as a calibration tool for meaning and perspective
37:00 – Coherence, sameness/difference, and leadership blind spots
Referenced ResourcesÂ
Zachary Stein – Educational Meta-Crisis.Â
Forest Landry – 'The faster the change, the deeper the depth required'. Video.Â
Concepts: psychological warfare, digital overwhelm, coherence, relational practice, death as a calibration lens
Music and production: Â Phil Schoof
The PIVOT: Navigating Uncharted Territory with Dave Schoof
The PIVOT is a shift in our lives that allows us to be less bound to our past experiences, habits, and ways of figuring the world out. We still carry with us our wisdom, skills, and sense of ourselves, but we also make room for new ways of seeing, doing, navigating, and checking. This show will explore how to thrive while navigating with cutting-edge thinkers, practitioners, and pioneers.
