Alliance for a Viable Future
60 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -What will it take to generate a critical mass of climate leaders in the Northeast bioregion who will do everything in their power to protect life for the future generations? We believe that change flows through relationships, at the speed of trust. Therefore, our mission at Alliance for a Viable Future is to facilitate climate leadership circles that build trust and inspire courageous, wise and intelligent action. On this podcast, we interview change-makers who are blazing new trails with paradigm-shifting solutions that restore justice to our organizations and communities. Together, we are making the impossible possible.
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10. How to Be Resilient in These Uncertain Times - Lev Natan
April 15, 2020 13:00 - 21 minutes - 24.5 MBIn this reflection on Suzanne Koepplinger’s interview on healing trauma (episode 7), Lev speaks about the deep connection between healing and leadership. When we allow for ourselves to be fully human, and therefore, to go on a healing journey of our own, we are actually inviting ourselves to step more powerfully into our leadership. How does this work? Leadership and healing are connected on a spectrum of developmental growth. The deeper you go, on your healing journey, the more aware, intell...
9. Coronavirus & Collective Initiation: Breakdown, Breakthrough and Leadership without Easy Answers - Dr. Kathleen Allen
April 08, 2020 13:58 - 55 minutes - 63.5 MBWe are living in unprecedented times with tremendous uncertainty - all the more reason to focus on this question: how do I want to show up in response to this new reality? In this practical, honest and expansive conversation with Dr. Kathleen Allen, we explore the principle of breakdown/breakthrough in leadership. In other words, as the intensity builds, and disruption continues to multiply, we are learning to change, respond and adapt. There is a presence, deep within us, that guides this pr...
8. Coronavirus / COVID-19: Part Two - How Salmon Swim Upstream and Why that Matters Now
April 01, 2020 17:04 - 23 minutes - 27.1 MBHow do salmon swim against the powerful currents of a river and even jump ten-foot high waterfalls? In the midst of this global Coronavirus pandemic, our resilience is being tested - big time - both individually and collectively. And yet, there are guiding principles that allow us to actually accelerate and evolve our capacity to respond while dealing with intense disruption. Redwood seed pods actually need the heat of a forest fire to explode open and take root. It’s possible that the leader...
7. Healing Trauma in Community: A Key to Climate Leadership - Suzanne Koepplinger
March 25, 2020 16:19 - 53 minutes - 60.9 MBWhat is the connection between healing trauma and addressing the climate crisis? How might a paradigm shift towards community-oriented healing practices transform our capacity to show up for the task at hand, with resilience, courage and wisdom? In this deeply inspiring interview, Suzanne Koepplinger takes us on an inside-out, walking-her-talk leadership journey. She shares her own experience as a Native American community leader who has learned to address generational trauma by listening to ...
6. Why we Need Circles for Climate Leadership - Lev Natan
March 18, 2020 13:33 - 27 minutes - 31.4 MBSitting in circles has been part of human culture since we sat around the fire and told stories of the day’s adventures. We’ve all but forgotten this lost art In the business-as-usual workplace culture which tells us that productivity, efficiency and bottom lines are all that matter. The voice that is driving us to “get it done,” and done quickly, is the same voice that has us running around in a maze that always brings us back to the starting point, more exhausted than before. When we work i...
5. The Magic of CircleWork - Jalaja Bonheim, PhD
March 18, 2020 13:32 - 53 minutes - 61.6 MBGathering in a circle has been a universal technology utilized by civilizations across the globe throughout human history to face our collective challenges. Living in the digital landscape of the cybersphere, we need this vital practice of CircleWork now more than ever. There is a power that comes from the circle’s sacred shape, which brings us resilience, alignment with others, and vision to access our inner resources of wisdom, courage and creative collaboration. Join us for this conversati...
4. How to Apply Nature-Based Principles to Organizational Leadership - Lev Natan
March 18, 2020 13:32 - 24 minutes - 27.9 MBWhat is the most essential ingredient in a business, organization or community? How can we learn to navigate the complex landscape of our world and be responsible, adaptable climate leaders? How might we see through the eyes of nature and why does it matter? In this reflection on Dr. Allen’s interview in episode #2, Lev explores sunlight as a metaphor for positive energy in groups, the distinction between closed systems vs. open systems, and the efficacy of flowing with the laws of nature, wi...
3. Leading from the Roots - Dr. Kathleen Allen
March 18, 2020 13:31 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBHow can an organization be so resilient that it can weather any storm? How can an organizational leader leave a legacy that endures long into the future? What is the most important nutrient for a regenerative, living organization? Join us for this special conversation with Dr. Kathleen Allen, author of Leading From the Roots, as we understand how she found answers to these questions (and more) from her observations of the natural world. Legacy trees, old growth forests, and ecological stages ...
2. Coronavirus / COVID-19: What can it teach us?
March 16, 2020 18:28 - 28 minutes - 32.3 MBHow can we respond with wisdom, courage and intelligent action to this sudden spread of this global pandemic? The more seriously we take it, the less serious it will be. In this time-sensitive podcast, we explore key principles that will allow us to navigate this situation with wisdom, courage and intelligent action. For example, form follows function. What is your function, in your family, your organization, for your clients, and how can you think creatively about designing new forms and...
1. Generating Bioregional Climate Leadership - Lev Natan
March 09, 2020 18:47 - 37 minutes - 42.8 MBWhat will it take for us to generate critical mass for climate solutions before 2030 in the Northeast bioregion? Climate leadership begins with Self and ripples out into our teams and alliance-building efforts. The Alliance’s vision of a latticework of leadership circles in the Northeast bioregion is inspired by a vision that the founder, Lev Natan, saw over ten years ago; old-growth trees sprouting up out of the earth, instantly reforesting the whole planet. This vision has served as a ro...