Common Good Podcast

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  For this week's episode, we begin a live podcast series with The Hive about Collective Change.

Join us for any or all of these conversations, either in person at The Hive in Cincinnati or online via Zoom. This event will include music, poetry and small group discussion and while this event is free, attendees will be invited to be active participants in this emerging conversation.

The Hive  is a grassroots mindfulness community curating multi-week classes, workshops and a Membership community. It has been formed by facilitators asking the question, "What are the resources that lie within our vast lineages, traditions, and modalities of healing, and how can we place them in service of the common good?" In this series we’re talking to The Hive’s 6 core faculty members, all of whom have a unique perspective on navigating collective change.

For this first conversation, Chris Larue, the Director of The Hive, joins us in speaking with Leslie Hershberger, about collective change, three-centered awareness, hope and the importance of practice.

Introductory Resources for the 3 centered Enneagram and the centers.

The recited poems were For the Interim Time by John O'Donohue and Start Close In by David Whyte.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation.

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  This episode is a snapshot from the Abundant Community Conversation on October 26 where Amy Howton speaks with Parker Palmer and Peter Block. This event was produced in partnership with Designed Learning, Abundant Community, Faith Matters Network and Common Change. These conversations happen on Zoom and they always contain poetry, small groups and an exploration of a particular theme.

The recited poem: Everything Falls Away by Parker Palmer

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The next Abundant Community conversation is on October 26 with Parker Palmer, Peter Block and Sushama Austin-Connor. You can register here.

You can order Julia's new book, Habitats, here.

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.   For this episode, I speak with multidisciplinary artist and teacher Julia Orquera Bianco.

Julia Orquera Bianco was born in Argentina and lived in Mexico before moving to the United States. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Drawing and Painting from Universidad del Museo Social Argentino (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in 2012. In 2018 she graduated from the MFA program at Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. In 2020, Bianco earned a Certificate on Sustainability from University of California, Los Angeles.​ Bianco works through interrogating constructs resulting from Modern Western Culture, collective memory, and the experience of migration and gender. This allows her to speak about an identity constantly being renegotiated and in motion, in deep relation and conversation with the environment. Her explorations use her family legacy of labor as a strategy to connect with worlds that she is foreign to, experiencing them while remembering. She currently teaches at University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her work has been showcased in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, and the United States.

The recited poem was Shared Breath from Julia's new book, Habitats. Order it here.

I came out wandering, asking the trees and the singing birds for words to help me understand what it means to be present with others. 
Water fell from the gray sky in drops, 
sometimes thick and abundant, 
sometimes slim and sharp, 
sometimes tiny and gentle. 
Birds sang next to each other, 
asking and answering to their correspondence and inquiries as a whole. 
All different songs, 
overall a complex melody that I fail to understand, 
but that for me blends into a harmony of mystery that hides the clues to my predicament. 
We feel alone in a world full of others. 
Our souls touch even when our hands and feet remain distant. 
The forest is like a family where everyone is essential in its own uniqueness and individuality. 
There is nothing I have to do except to embrace this generosity. 
One thing I can offer is the presence of a shared breath for me to extend myself for others to expand for us to grow together. 

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  This episode is the Abundant Community Conversation from September 14 where Troy Bronsink speaks with David Brooks and Peter Block about David’s new book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. This event was produced in partnership with Designed Learning, Faith Matters Network, Abundant Community and Common Change. These conversations happen on Zoom and they always contain poetry, small groups and an exploration of a particular theme.

The next conversation is on October 26 with Parker Palmer. You can register here.

The recited excerpts came from Reverend Ben McBride's book, Troubling the Water: The Urgent Work of Radical Belonging. You can also check out our previous conversation with Ben here.

Peter also has a new book coming out in November that you can pre-order now. It's called Activating the Common Good: Reclaiming Control of Our Collective Well-Being.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.   For this episode, I speak with Reverend Sushama Austin-Connor, DMin about Faith Matters Network, which envisions communities rooted in wisdom, spiritual practice, & healing. FMN is a womanist-led organization that equips justice leaders and heals the healers. Also, Sushama will be the host for the upcoming series of Abundant Community Conversations with Peter Block, David Brooks, Parker Palmer and many more.

The next Abundant Community conversation is on September 14 with David Brooks. You can register here.

The recited poem was "Poetry Should Ride the Bus" by Ruth Forman.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.   For this episode, Devin Bustin and I speak with Mary Pierce Brosmer. Mary founded Women Writing for a Change and for over 30 years WWf(a)C has provided a safe and non-competitive environment for individuals to develop their writing skills, cultivate their creativity and strengthen their voices. We speak to Mary about her poetry, how she holds space, her life as a teacher and what led her to develop the organization.

You can find copies of Mary's recited poems here.

The next Abundant Community conversation is on September 14 with David Brooks. You can register here.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  This episode is the Abundant Community Conversation from August 2 where Amy Howton speaks with Meg Wheatley and Peter Block about the new edition of Meg’s book, Who Do We Choose to Be? This event was produced in partnership with The Berkana Institute, Designed Learning, Abundant Community and Common Change. These conversations happen on Zoom and they always contain poetry, small groups and an exploration of a particular theme.

The next conversation is on September 14 with David Brooks. You can register here.

The recited poem: From the Elders of the Hopi Nation

To My Fellow Swimmers:

Here is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are
those who will be afraid, who will try to hold on to the shore. They are
being torn apart and will suffer greatly.

Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the
shore, push off into the middle of the river and keep our heads above water.

And I say see who is there with you and celebrate. At this time in history,
we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves. For the moment
that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves. Banish the word
struggle from your attitude and your vocabulary.

All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
For we are the ones we have been waiting for.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging.  For this week's episode Joey Taylor speaks with Amaha Sellassie about the Gem City Market, West Dayton Strong and his article, Beloved Community is a Present Possibility.

The recited poem was New Day's Lyric by Amanda Gorman.

Excerpts:
Heed the Word of the Brother by X-Clan
World is MIND from KRS-One
Love Supreme by John Coltrane

This episode was hosted by Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp and produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging.  For this week's episode we partner with April Doner and the Abundant Community to speak with Quanita Roberson and Amy Howton about their book, The Inner Ground Railroad.
 
The recited poems were On Children by Kahlil Gibran and Still I Rise by Maya Angelou.

Abundant Community is a place to visit. To read and hear stories of action. More valuable than your daily newspaper. A way to learn about citizen-led action that illuminates a new direction, away from the dominant consumerist and dependency-producing habits that we thought we had to purchase. Communities forever have known how to produce family and neighborhood functions such as raising children, building healthy local economies and caring for people on the margin. This website invites you into this possibility.

This episode was hosted and produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation. 

Link to Shavuot prompt.  If you’ve created something during this time you’d like to share with us we’d love to see it! You can send an email to Joey at [email protected].

The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging.  Your host is Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp. In this episode, Joey Taylor and Miriam speak with Rabbi Adina Allen.

Rabbi Adina Allen is a spiritual leader, writer and educator who believes in the power of our inherent creativity. Adina is co-founder and Creative Director of Jewish Studio Project (JSP), a national organization that cultivates creativity as a practice for spiritual connection and social transformation. JSP builds resilience and empathy, activates prophetic imagination, and inspires new approaches to society’s most pressing problems through the synergy of Jewish learning and creative practice. Adina developed JSP’s core methodology — the Jewish Studio Process — which is used by clergy, educators, activists, artists and lay leaders in hundreds of Jewish communal institutions across the country. Her writing is widely published and can be found at www.adina-allen.com.

Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp serves as the spiritual leader of Temple Sholom in Cincinnati, Ohio. Temple Sholom sets itself apart through dynamic, mission-driven initiatives. Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp, a native of Seattle and previous to joining Temple Sholom, she served as chaplain and at the Los Angeles County Men’s jail, the Los Angeles Home for the Aging, as a rabbinic fellow at Temple De Hirch Sinai in Seattle and a national Kol Tzedek fellow for American Jewish World Service. Rabbi Terlinchamp serves as the Immediate Past President of The Amos Project, the largest faith-based organizing body in Ohio with 55 Cincinnati-area congregations. She serves on the national clergy organizing board and the Large Grant Commission of Faith in Action. She is a Rabbis Without Borders Fellow and part of the CLAL Spiritual Entrepreneur 2017 cohort incubator, a collaborative partnership between CLAL and the Columbia Business School. Rabbi Terlinchamp received her Masters degree in Hebrew Letters in 2008, was ordained as a rabbi in 2010 at HUC-JIR, Los Angeles, received BA in Philosophy of Religion and Studio Art from Scripps College in Claremont, CA and received additional studio art training at the London Slade School of Art. Rabbi Terlinchamp is a poet, an artist and a mother to two fabulous daughters, Sienna and Magnolia.

This episode was produced by Joey Taylor and the music is from Jeff Gorman. You can find more information about the Common Good Collective here. Common Good Podcast is a production of Bespoken Live & Common Change - Eliminating Personal Economic Isolation.