PowerPivot

"the bottom line is I want to give you everything all at once. All at once, all at once, all at once. Which is such an intensive thing to do, right? Like I'm so into all these different things that I'm learning and exploring and getting deeper in. And I want to share them with everybody. The impulse to everything all at once has a reason. And it needs to be celebrated."

Celebrating intensiveness, and intensiveness in community.

For more information on joining the Intensives Institute:

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

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/everything-all-at-once

Recorded 16 April 2023.

"As an intensive, you know, if it's not quite right, it's not right.

And if it's not right, it's not been done.

And if it hasn't been done, well, then we're gonna have to do it, aren't we?"

A look into the thought process behind the construction of the Sinha Intensive-Expansive Framework, and how it can be a tool that helps us meet everyone's needs, all the time.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/why-is-the-sief-like-this

Recorded 29 March 2023.

"I want to say something about the shooting. But I'm out of words. I found just enough, scraped out of the corners with a corner of a spoon, to say: I'm so sorry. We are together. Here are a few threads of hope. But that's all I've got. That's all I've got...."

This episode refers to the school shooting in Nashville on March 27, 2023.

Editor's note: While Leela says that to zir memory only one student was killed in the shooting at Simon's Rock at Bard College in 1992, there were in fact two people killed: one student and one professor, as well as four others wounded.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/different-choices

Recorded 30 March 2023

We have many interests. We work with different types of clients and different organizations. How do we- especially intensives- create the conditions that allow us to get into the right flow, where we can do our best work, smoothly and at the times when it is required? Sometimes a little nudge, and a little context- and perhaps the right feather boa- is all we need.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/a-little-nudge-and-a-little-context

Recorded 20 March 2023.

"If you have a community, or a company, or a team, probably you have mostly people who believe in airing it all,o r they believe in not talking about it. I'm here to advocate for a blend, a mix of the two. I'm here to advocate for the judicious use of gentle silence."

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-judicious-use-of-gentle-silence

Recorded 20 March 2023.

"this culture, the one that holds the power around us is a culture that asks us to suffer. It invites, it expects, it valorizes suffering. It wants us- It tells us that if we aren't hurting, it doesn't count... But let's bring it back to pleasure. What is the tiny thing that still feels good?"

Is it the gift of giving, and the gift of receiving?

Here is a link to Leela's recent guest sermon at Northwest Inland Universalist Unitarian Community, which ze refers to in this episode:

https://youtu.be/CR0hjR_ZoP8

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-gift-of-a-plant

Recorded 26 February 2023.

"I can't say as I'd know how to tell what it was like to take the road more traveled, because I'm not sure I've ever done that."

Join Leela on a walk to sit near a pond and get close to the pond's inhabitants. And do some deep thinking in the quiet, of course.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/the-pond-and-the-gate

Recorded 16 March, 2023.

How often do we stray from ourselves in pursuit of survival for ourselves? How often do we do things that put bread on our tables, but don't truly feed us?

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/straying-from-my-roots

Recorded 1 March 2023.

"These shoes mean to me the ability to inhabit my gender. I, and this complex gender of mine, belong everywhere."

Gender, complex gender, representation, bookstores, long distance love and... whole-cut Venetian loafers? Naturally, when Leela Sinha is doing the talking, it all fits together.

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/venetian-loafers

Recorded 1 March 2023

Making space to find- and create- beauty where we need and want it.

Cole Arthur Riley:

https://colearthurriley.com/

The type of camera that Leela carried in zir pocket in Chicago:

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Canon_MC

Transcript and notes:

https://dev.intensivesinstitute.com/captivate-podcast/something-beautiful