Fire and Water with Quanita Roberson
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Fire & Water is about coming of age in this age. It is for a unique set of people ready to take significant journey into the internal and the external of leadership.
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Feb 16, 2023
Elder as Envisioning Aspects of Self with Jojopahmaria Nsoroma
What is the difference between an elder versus someone who is a teacher or a guide with the acknowledgment that an individual can inhabit all of these identities or two or one. Eldering as recognizing learning as learning or studying aspects of the self removed by proximity in order to see the whole more clearly, or at different perspectives. You are the other and the other is you. This is why the presence of an elder can facilitate one opening more deeply to different aspects of oneself. Link to book Jojopah's book, Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery:
https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-Walk-Self-Mastery-Ancient-Transforming/dp/1982226587/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1588711966&sr=8-1
My Email: wisdomwalking@gmail.com
My Youtube Channel: Wisdom Walk to Self-Mastery
My website: www.wisdomwalktoselfmastery.com
My Facebook Page: Wisdom Walk Radio
My Facebook Group: Wisdom Walk Community (all are welcome to join)
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Jan 5, 2023
Care in Community with Eileen Reed
Today’s guest is Eileen Cooper Reed. She is a long-time friend and community mama for Quanita, and deeply respected friend for Tenneson. Eileen is our first guest in 2023, a year in which we are committed to more conversations with our elders. We turn to our elders for their guidance, their humor, their wisdom, and their clarity. Eileen offered a bunch of that today with some emphasis about care in community and family. She shares some of what she has eldered in Quanita that she nows sees Quanita engaging in as well. Eileen imparts some guidance to men to contribute to rebalancing masculine and feminine. She offers her love. Big gratitude. What a treat!
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Dec 19, 2022
Wild Cards
Can we be with the flow of life and just offer what's in our hearts and minds right then and right there?
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Nov 15, 2022
Fire & Water Rest
Integrating rest into your life and the gifts that rest offers including timelessness and play.
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Sep 26, 2022
Navigating the Muchness of Life
Sometimes, as a point of fact, there are a lot of things going on in our lives and our schedules are full. Contemplations on how to engage these time periods in our lives.
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Aug 5, 2022
Circle Immersion
We are hosting a Circle Immersion this December 2022, so today we discuss holding the circle in community. More information about this immersion can be found on our website at Circle Immersion . In addition, in some was this is part 3 of a series. Part one can be seen as Circle Buffet Part 1 Podcast and part 2 can be heard here Circle Buffet Part 2 Podcast
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Jul 5, 2022
Most Mornings
Conversation with our very own co-host Tenneson Woolf's new book of poetry, Most Mornings. Poems on practice, learning, insight, discoveries and sense-making in our mundane and magical world.
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Jun 7, 2022
The Water Spirits Are Alive
Community inspired transformation and the journey back to self. Discussion on the Fire and Water Leadership Journey and Rite of Passage 16 month experience as the second cohort approaches their final in person retreat for the course.
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May 5, 2022
Deserving
What is required for one to be deserving? Who stands in judgment? How do our contributions to the wider society play into ideas around what one deserves?
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Apr 5, 2022
Holding Space with Christina Baldwin
Conversation with Christina Baldwin centering holding space for connection using The Circle Way. For a deeper introduction to the Essence of Circle practice. Please check Quanita and Tenneson's upcoming workshops: Essence of Circle Practice Workshops .
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Mar 5, 2022
Reflections on our Wisdom Series on Forgiveness
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.
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Feb 5, 2022
The Masculine & the Feminine
Tenneson and Quanita talk about what is healthy masculine and healthy feminine and how it shows up in men and women.
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Jan 5, 2022
Tenneson asks Quanita about her book The InnerGround Railroad
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.
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Dec 5, 2021
Trauma: Finding Our Way
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.
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Aug 16, 2021
Talking With Our Elders: Today with David O'Fallon
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…
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Jun 5, 2021
Departure as a Part of Initiation
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.
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May 10, 2021
Staying In The Journey
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)
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Jan 12, 2021
Independence?
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.
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Dec 4, 2020
Sacred Surrender
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!
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Nov 18, 2020
Fire & Water - A Reflection
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!
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Nov 11, 2020
On Rites of Passage
Our intent with this Fire & Water Podcast is to cultivate wise and soulful leaders. Our Fire & Water Program is both a Rite of Passage and a Leadership Journey. Today, as we enter our third and final retreat with our cohort, we reflect on several aspects of Rite of Passage, and the need to reclaim contemporary initiation as an essential part of leadership in these times (28 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!
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Sep 29, 2020
Quanita & Tenneson - Conversation on Fear
Quanita and Tenneson have a conversation about fear and how it is showing up in the world today. They also look at what we can do about fear and its relationship to love.
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!
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Sep 7, 2020
The Need for A Cohort Journey -- A Fire & Water Reflection
Tenneson & Quanita reflect on Fire & Water as a program, having just completed their 2nd Fire & Water Retreat, held virtually over five days with a cohort of 18 people, integrating screen times and off-screen times, and weaving focus that appealed to five (or more) senses of learning. They also reflect on Fire & Water as journey and initiation, and the need for such in contemporary times. 18 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!
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Jul 31, 2020
Learning Journey -- Nature, Presence, Encountering Life as Practice
Lots of fun to harvest a time of learning. Having spent 4 July days together in some work, some planning, some design preparation, and of course, some wondering / wandering, Quanita and Tenneson reflect on nature, presence, the practice of encountering self, other, life. With some appreciation for the essentialness of both being and doing.
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!
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Jul 14, 2020
Tenneson & Quanita Talk About Race
Tenneson and I have a conversation about race, how we see it in this moment, and what we believe is being called for. We talk a bit about how it shows up between us. Join us and let us know what questions this conversation brings up for you.
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!
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Jul 3, 2020
Circle Buffet Part 2
Tenneson and I get circly and talk about the different parts of circle that are working us these days. This is Part 2 of our conversation. We touch on lots of different things, hence the buffet reference. Enjoy!
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!
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May 25, 2020
Circle Buffet Part 1
Tenneson and I get circly and talk about the different parts of circle that are working us these days. We touch on lots of different things, hence the buffet reference. Enjoy!
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May 4, 2020
Is this Essentially a Human Experience or a Spiritual One?
Tenneson and I have a conversation about the difference between believing that we are human beings that sometimes have spiritual experiences or spiritual beings that are having a human experience.
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Apr 16, 2020
A Cadence of Despair by Tenneson Woolf
Quanita Roberson interviews Tenneson Woolf about his new book, A Cadence of Despair: Poems and reflections on Heartbreak, Loss, and Renewal.
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Apr 1, 2020
CoVid Grief, Anger, Sadness, Confusion, and Hope
These all go together, don't they. It's important to give ourselves to hope. Or to witness it. It's also important to give ourselves to the grief. Quanita and I reflect on such notions (12 minutes).
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Mar 26, 2020
Paying Attention to the Thing Underneath the Thing
Tenneson and I wanted to invite our Fire & Water online community to our online living room for a coffee/tea call. A big part of Fire & Water is the ability to pay attention to the unseen as well as the seen. In this call we gathered as larger community together and shared what has our attention in this unprecedented time. This episode is the follow up from that call.
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Sep 4, 2019
Quanita & Tenneson Conversation on Initiation
As we step into our work with our Fire & Water 2019-2020 Cohort we are asked often what do we mean by initiation. Here is a conversation we had about the topic.
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Feb 23, 2019
Tenneson and Quanita’s Conversation on Grief Part #2
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Feb 10, 2019
Tenneson and Quanita’s Conversation on Grief Part #1
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Dec 1, 2018
Fire and Water Teaser #3
Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time.
We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.
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Nov 20, 2018
Fire and Water Teaser #2
Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time.
We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.
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Nov 20, 2018
Fire and Water Teaser #1
Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time.
We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.
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