Episodes

Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Reflections on our Wisdom Series on Forgiveness
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Saturday Mar 05, 2022
Tenneson and Quanita reflect on their Wisdom Series that focused on our relationship to forgiveness. This journey took two groups through anger, grief, compassion, and grace.

Saturday Feb 05, 2022
The Masculine & the Feminine
Saturday Feb 05, 2022
Saturday Feb 05, 2022
Tenneson and Quanita talk about what is healthy masculine and healthy feminine and how it shows up in men and women.

Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Tenneson asks Quanita about her book The InnerGround Railroad
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Quanita Roberson and Amy Howton have written a healing book, The InnerGround Railroad: A 40 Day Journey to Remembering Soul & Spirit. Tenneson asks Quanita several questions about how it feels for her see the first printed copy, how she feels herself grown and changed by writing the book, and how she hopes people encounter the book and its stories.

Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Trauma: Finding Our Way
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Sunday Dec 05, 2021
Tenneson and Quanita talk about trauma and the way that they are experiencing our culture right now. Asking questions about how we are to be trauma informed but not have everything be tseen through the lens of trauma.

Monday Aug 16, 2021
Talking With Our Elders: Today with David O'Fallon
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Tenneson and I spend some time with one of our elders, David O'Fallon. He shares his thoughts on views on how things are and what is needed in these times.
David O’Fallon PhD
David’s life themes are education and education reform, arts and cultural work, creating community and imagining and creating the future. He has followed these themes through senior positions at the National Endowment for the Arts’s, the John F Kennedy Center and the University of Minnesota. He has led three state agencies in Minnesota as president or CEO; The Perpich Center for Arts Education, MacPhail Center for Music and recently the Minnesota Humanities Center. He has consulted widely, nationally and internationally, with small and large organizations on these themes.
This is a moment of fundamental change in this nation and the world. Old narratives and the organizations they formed are failing; some are becoming destructive as they fall. David is committed to working with organizations to create the new relationships and new narratives needed to connect us all, to courageously imagine and create a thriving, sustainable future. To work with those who are creating the new organisms (rather than organizations) needed to thrive and sustain and create. He is passionate and practical about working with people and organizations who want to make this transition and to walk into the future.
His PhD is in Theatre and Community and he is proud to be one of the founders of In the Heart of the Beast Theatre in Minneapolis.
He lives in Minneapolis,MN,USA
Contact him at: davidof43@gmail.com

Saturday Jun 05, 2021
Departure as a Part of Initiation
Saturday Jun 05, 2021
Saturday Jun 05, 2021
Tenneson Woolf and Quanita Roberson have a conversation about departures as a part of the initiatory process. They serve how departure has shown up for them and what they have learned.

Monday May 10, 2021
Staying In The Journey
Monday May 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
One of the critical aspects of Fire & Water is staying in the journey through the 16 months. It takes effort and deliberateness to do so, for participants to stay attentive to what unfolds. Quanita and I reflect on a few aspects of staying in -- the spaces in between, critical connections to maintain and to grow, staying in vs just passing time, ritualizing, and the covenant we hold when departure is part of the plan. Enjoy. (22 minutes)

Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Independence?
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
Tuesday Jan 12, 2021
In this episode (30 minutes), Quanita and Tenneson explore the possibility that there be no such thing as independence. Which is, of course, a conversation about connection. We explore scarcity as a pattern in codependence. We explore abundance as a pattern in interdependence. And we wonder about the ways that unresolved wound and trauma foster a coping, shadow side of what so many reference as independence. Enjoy the listen. We hope it adds a little wisdom and soulfulness.

Friday Dec 04, 2020
Sacred Surrender
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Tenneson and Quanita have a conversation with special guest Krister Linder, a Swedish Musician and spiritual seeker about Sacred Surrender.
You can find more on Krister Linder at:
"The Great Surrender" - the song mentioned in the podcast: https://youtu.be/g-YbW6gPCuA
"Across the Never" - Krister Linder's latest album, as free stream on YouTube: https://youtu.be/GLovy1jf-T8
Thank you again Krister for joining us.
For more information on Tenneson and Quanita's work please check out Tenneson's website at http://www.tennesonwoolf.com/ , Quanita's website at https://www.nzuzu.com/ . For more information on being a part of our 2021/2022 Fire & Water Leadership Journey & Rite of Passage Cohort please check out https://fireandwaterleadership.weebly.com/ . Thank you!

Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Fire & Water - A Reflection
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
Wednesday Nov 18, 2020
It was the day after completing Fire & Water. Sixteen months of journey. Of passage. Quanita and Tenneson take a moment to witness the feeling of a group welcomed those many months ago, and then released. Released with wisdom and soul given permanent seat at the table. And with welcome of applications, through January 31, 2021, for the next cohort. (6 minutes)
For more information on Tenneson and Quanita's work please check out Tenneson's website at http://www.tennesonwoolf.com/ , Quanita's website at https://www.nzuzu.com/ . For more information on being a part of our 2021/2022 Fire & Water Leadership Journey & Rite of Passage Cohort please check out https://fireandwaterleadership.weebly.com/ . Thank you!