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Jess Malz, Founder and CEO of Inbo, is driven by a passion for reshaping the future of work through dynamic, participatory, and collaborative processes. With over fifteen years of experience in learning experience design, facilitation, and leadership coaching, they’re dedicated to pushing boundaries and fostering growth. Their true joy lies in empowering leaders to embrace creativity, agility, and whole-heartedness. 

Juniper Belshaw, executive coach, facilitator, and managing partner at Inbo, has 15+ years experience guiding senior leaders and their teams towards increased performance, strengthened leadership, and better work relationships in organisations like Cirque du Soleil, Mila-Quebec AI Institute, David Suzuki Foundation, and federal and provincial governments. She’s passionate about building cultures of belonging where all people, including those from equity-deserving groups, can bring their full gifts to the table without barriers.

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PRACTICES: 

• Practice the erotic mundane: laughing, taking care of animals, cooking, dancing, lighting candles, hiking, cleaning, folding laundry, puttering. 
• Give your partner reassurance that you aren't going anywhere.
• Create a couple’s voice. 
• Do group therapy together - it can be fun! 
• Make it a priority for both people to be their authentic selves. 
• Commit to whatever is arising in the moment. Actually drop in and go through it together, e.g. ‘this is what is happening for me’, ‘this is what I'm scared of’. 
• When a conflict pattern emerges (ex. A figure eight), disarm it by: taking off your clothes, lying on the floor, taking a breath and pausing, having empathy, exaggerate what the other person is saying. 
• Know when a conflict won’t lead to more insight in the moment. 
• Facilitate your own retreat for you and your partner. 
• Take a weekend away in a hotel with your partner. 
• Make intentional time to connect together. 
• Debrief every week together. 

IDEAS: 

• A relationship can be seen as a commitment to growth and learning and evolution. 
• People get cranky before relationship and after they are in relationships. 
• The couple can be a healing ground. 
• It’s best to look at the baggage each person brings. Then you can notice the impact it is having today. 
• Sometimes relationships just work out. 
• There is infinite insight and depth in each person. 
• Remove the expectation there will be a moment when there aren’t conflicts or fights in the relationship. 
• Vitality can come from fully exploring and living what is right in front of you.

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