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In this episode, four of our guests from this year return to share their year-end reflections on seeking balance.  Central to connection and communication and collaboration with others is knowing yourself, learning and growing. Regular reflection practice can help with that.
Featured guests:

• Randy Lioz, Founder of DOC: Depolarizing Organizational Cultures
• Courtney Paolicelli, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense. Military Community and Family Policy
• Cathy Marcello, Assistant Director of Programs, Modern Military Association of America
• Arleltta Eldridge Thompson, 15 Medical Group Health Promotion Coordinator, Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam 

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The more you understand about yourself, the better you’ll be able to align your life with the things that are really meaningful to you.  In this episode,  Jessica Beckendorf shares her experience with energy and engagement tracking.

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When it comes to reducing the effects of stress on our bodies, a growing amount of research supports meditation as a practice that pays off in a big way.
In this practicast, Practicing Connection co-host, Bob Bertsch, guides us through a grounding chair meditation, a practice that can help reduce stress levels in the moment, while helping to restore calm. 

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In this practicast, Practicing Connection co-host, Bob Bertsch, guides us through how to use the question, "What Lights You Up?" to begin to find a sense of purpose, an important factor in individual resilience.

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In this practicast, Practicing Connection co-host, Jessica Beckendorf, guides us through how to use the Feeling Wheel, a free, printable resource, to help us identify what we are feeling. Knowing and naming your feelings can be really helpful for allowing yourself to feel it, reflecting to pinpoint the cause, knowing what actions you can take to help regulate the feeling a bit, and deepening relationships by accurately communicating your feelings when you need to. 
 "Practicasts”, a shorter episodes of the podcast highlighting a specific practice to help empower us to work together to improve our resilience and readiness. 

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A conversation about burnout and resilience with guests Dr. Charles (Chip) Benight and Nicole Weis from the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. Their  research on human resilience paves the way for therapies that address the needs of trauma survivors, including service providers and others who may suffer secondary trauma.

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In this episode (Season 4, Episode 9), co-hosts Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch talk about how to applying technology to community and community to technology - one of the eight ways of cultivating community resilience that we identified in their “Connecting Communities in Asset-based Community Recovery” project.

"Connecting Communities in Asset-based Community Recovery" is a collection of resources developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic presented some really difficult challenges, but it also revealed some opportunities for building better systems and communities.

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A conversation with Monica Bassett, founder and CEO of Stronghold Food Pantry, a resource for military families on Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. Monica talks about how she started a food pantry on Fort Riley, KS and how she launched Stronghold, highlighting the role military spouses, like Monica, can play in supporting military families.

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In this episode (Season 4, Episode 7), co-hosts Jessica Beckendorf and Bob Bertsch talk about how to adapt, flex and be resilient - one of the eight ways of cultivating community resilience that we identified in their “Connecting Communities in Asset-based Community Recovery” project.

"Connecting Communities in Asset-based Community Recovery" is a collection of resources developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic presented some really difficult challenges, but it also revealed some opportunities for building better systems and communities.

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The Food Security Hawaii Working Group is an amazing cross-sector collaboration to address food security issues military families are facing, In this episode, we talk with Arletta Eldridge Thompson, Health Promotion Coordinator for the 15th Medical Group for Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam;  Lorna Souza with the Hawaii Air National Guard Airman and Family Readiness Program; and Kina Mahi, Director of Advocacy and Strategic Partnerships for the Hawaii Foodbank about the challenges families in Hawaii are dealing with and how people are collaborating to address them.

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