In which the actual theory begins to emerge. 

Final episode, in conversation with Cath Wright. 

The 'so what' and  summary of emerging theory and findings.

In which we discuss:

•  "How justice and injustice are enacted processes made real as they are performed again and again,” Constructivist Grounded Theory (Kathy Charmaz) and emancipatory and transformational research addressing inequality and justice. 
• Wonder woman’s plane. 
• Hidden structures of homophobic binary enforcement in the workplace and how this is enacted. 
• Homophilial mentoring. 
• Policing leadership style. 
• Holding the paradox, tension and duality as an Unbound Leader in the heteronormative workplace - Brene Brown
• Creative problem solving as Unbound Leaders. 

Link to TEDx-style talk - https://www.nbresearchproject.com/research

Part 2 of the research findings conversation with Meryn Cadell

In this episode we talk about: 

• Unbound Leadership and reflexive praxis. 
• Pride and resilience as protective factors. 
• Pronouns as gender signifiers. 
• Non-binary, queer precarity as experienced by Unbound Leaders
• Gender spectrums, and not telling or identifying exactly where Unbound Leaders sit…
• Homophobic binary policing in the workplace, and how Unbound Leaders step up to facilitate HR and co-workers addressing it through calling in, training, and policy (including policy enforcement). 
• Research as a process that finds and builds solidarity, and how it can be used to raise awareness around homophobic policing in HR. 
• The importance of bystanders and allies (and friends and family and community) in challenging the intersection of misogyny and homophobia, and homophobic binary enforcement. 

Link to Tedx talk - https://www.nbresearchproject.com/research

Part 1 - in conversation with  Meryn Cadell.

In which we discuss:  

• Transcribing interviews - Meryn serving as a research credibility check (“God, that came up again…”) when I came to analyze the data from interviews with 25 Unbound Leaders. 
• Research as creating meaning together, transparently. 
• The power of visibility, and a reflective process as non-binary, queers in the world, and workplace.  The concept of the embodiment and the nexus of misogyny and homophobia. 
• The research interview process as transformative experiences - a sense of bonding to each other. 
• Bathrooms as liminal spaces where binary expectations are enforced and policed, and how it is navigated and mitigated in relation to gender in heteronormative spaces (and in relation to J Halberstrom’s Female Masculinity).  Solution to the bathroom and gender policing is discussed. 
• Being non-binary and queer in hyper-feminized and heteronormative workplaces and erasure and/or hyper-sexualization.

Link to NB Research Project Tedx-style talk - https://www.nbresearchproject.com/research

In which we talk about  the non-binary, gender non-conforming queer/lesbian research project questions, the nexus of misogyny  and homophobia, interview questions, and intwined gender identity and sexual orientation, and visibility. 

In which the GNC/NB (Gender non-conforming/non-binary) research project findings are discussed with Cath Wright. The GNC/NB research project is the doctoral work  of Michelle Hamilton-Page answering the research question, "How do non-binary and gender non-conforming lesbians (queers) navigate the workplace from a place of visibility?" This episode is a great conversational introduction to the research and the findings.

Learn more about the research and the project at nbresearchproject.com
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In this episode, Cath Wright and I discuss how we were drawn to the practice of forest bathing, or forest therapy, we tell our tree stories and get ready to do some deeper dives into the wild and wonderful world of Shinrin-Yoku, and our journey to healing. 

Here is what Cath wrote about the episode: 

Cath, the Moose and why do we want to guide Forest Therapy?

At the turn of 2020, we started individual journeys of training and personal development…. what actually came along was laughter, tears, self-healing and an awesome friendship. With one of us (me) in the Scottish Highlands and the other some 7000 miles away in British Columbia, we have walked alongside each other in our own forests and on our trails, as we’ve trained to be Forest Therapy Guides with the ANFT. Words may sometimes get lost in translation from British to Canadian and we may head way off topic and meander back eventually, but we’ve a shared understanding of the healing power of nature; those big old Granny trees and the beauty of early morning light as it slices through the forest.

In our first podcast we discuss just how we heard about Forest Therapy, why we wanted to become guides and just what is the ‘it’ we talk about.