It's 2023 and... we're not making resolutions. We are making connections: with our breath, with the sky, with each other, with the earth. And we are seeing that this time may be the time when our perceptions are sharpest, and when our patience is thinnest for things that we shouldn't have been patient with in the first place.

Links:

Marilyn Allysum, founder and Director of Tilopa Tai Chi Qigong Centers:

https://www.itaichi.net/, https://www.marilynallysum.com/

Chris Zydel: "Anything that is even vaguely related to things like planning, productivity or efficiency is making me want to take a nap." https://creativejuicesarts.com/

Full transcript and notes:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/seeping-in

Stubbornness is a gift and a survival tool. But there are other ways to be smart and good in the world. And one of our gifts as intensives is knowing or intuiting how to respond to what is happening in the world right now: So how do we let go of stubbornness when the stubbornness is for its own sake?

Notes and transcript at:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/how-stubborn-are-you

Recorded 27 December, 2022.

"You are not a disappointment. You are a joy, you are a gift. You are all kinds of unknowable possibility."

Sophia Lyon Fahs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Lyon_Fahs

Notes and transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/magic-we-are-part-of-everything

Recorded 24 December 2022.

"How can you lead if you don't know that everything around you is a miracle?"

Considering the magical essence of things, that language is too small for. The squirrels at the windowsill. Grass on the hand. And how we, as people, are part of the earth, of everything. And if everything is medicine, are we not, also, medicine?

notes and transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/magic-we-are-part-of-everything

recorded 26 July 2022.

How do we ask for help when we are too overwhelmed to ask for help? Packing for a move makes a great case study, and can remind us that there are times when we must trust someone's judgment that is not our own. And with that trust, friends, comes the beginning of community.

Notes and transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/how-do-you-get-help

"intensiveness is so invisible, that it was more like a goblin or a fairy seated at the table, but nobody could see it. And it was tired and lonely. "

Why we build spaces where we can belong, and be ourselves, and grow roots and wings, and have love... and snacks. Also, getting ready for the first Annual Intensives Institute Salon, on December 15th, 2022

For information about joining the Intensives Institute, visit:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/membership/

Notes and transcript at:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/belonging-and-the-membership

Recorded 14 December 2022.

We are intensives. We excel at seeing the big picture, and drawing the maps that we and our business can follow to take us to our goals. But with all of those moving parts, how do we decide which piece to move next? Sometimes it's deciding to do just one thing, and then another just one thing. Sometimes it's about finding the sticking point in a project or process and un-sticking it. And sometimes that sticking point is not what we think it will be.

Notes and Transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/just-one-thing

recorded 8 December 2022.

"In this season of gratitude and giving and giving and giving, it becomes really hard to hold on to the fact that we are the first person for whom we are responsible. That our needs still matter."

It's the holiday season, so let's talk about resentment, and all of the extra demands that get put upon us by our families, our culture, ourselves. We must remember to meet own met with grace. And The more of that grace we have, the more of it we hand out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi

Notes and transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/resentment-and-need

recorded 12/10/2022

The little in a little makes a lot process does actually work, even if it can feel weird to an intensive. But sometimes, especially when we've already given everything we've got, it's the only way to make progress. And the good news? You don't have to give up you intensiveness or your intensive way of being to make it work.

notes and transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/a-little-and-a-little

recorded 12/5/2022

"'Tis the season of holiday gatherings. And we're all trying to figure out if we belong in the places where we've gathered."

Leela reflects on the ways that finding we like music in common with others can be a first step towards finding our communities.

Notes and transcript:

https://powerpivot2.captivate.fm/episode/the-joy-of-the-familiar

Recorded 12/1/2022