Positivity Strategist

Insights about the embodied brain and why cultivating a conscious relationship with the body matters at all times, and, especially when experiencing times of uncertainty. We touch on these topics and the integration of neuroscience and spirit. We offer three practical activities to develop an embodied consciousness. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at http://positivitystrategist.com/ps119 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps119)

"To embody" means what? This is a naive exploration. Topics include designing experiences that use the whole body and ways that integrate head, heart and body. We vote with our feet, we make choices through conversations that come from where we are literally standing. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at http://positivitystrategist.com/ps118 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps118)

This show as an inquiry or a search into the topic of embodying, specifically appreciative embodying. How do you move from acute awareness to deliberate action? This is an exploration of how embracing the wholeness of who we are, we embark on a developmental and generative process.For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://positivitystrategist.com/ps117 (https://positivitystrategist.com/ps117)

Reflecting on all the delicious diversity of perspectives on the topic of Appreciative Leading including stories on the significance of the relational process, connection, collaboration, love. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at http://positivitystrategist.com/ps116 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps116)

Going meta on the topic of Appreciative Leading, Sheila McNamee offers us the social constructionist's perspective: what leading means as a relational process rather than as an individual's characteristics, traits or skills. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at http://positivitystrategist.com/ps115 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps115)

A well-connected, social entrepreneur, committed to bringing a positive impact to his city is convening an Appreciative Inquiry Summit, calling all interested stakeholders to come together to imagine the future of their city. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at http://positivitystrategist.com/ps114 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps114)

Applying Appreciative Inquiry in framing conversations to build the partnerships and strengthen collaboration in healthcare. Storytelling is a way to pull forward the positive from the past to envision more positive futures. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at http://positivitystrategist.com/ps113 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps113)

When leading in challenging times, what if we asked questions about what is going right rather than what is going wrong? Where would people's energy go? For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at http://positivitystrategist.com/ps112 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps112)

Searching for the soul of leading requires that you love people. You can never be a good leader if you don't have a good follower and you can never be a good follower if you don't have a good leader. So you really need each other. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at http://positivitystrategist.com/ps111 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps111)

J. Kim Wright: "Lawyers, in general, have much higher rates of addiction and suicide. Yet, people who were practicing these new holistic ways were much healthier. I took that on. My mission was to learn about this and then to actually bring this message to the mainstream." For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at http://positivitystrategist.com/ps110 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps110)

Creating a community conversation for input into our strategic plan to tap into the energy, passion, excitement and good ideas across our community, thereby helping us to navigate these very interesting times in higher education. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at http://positivitystrategist.com/ps109 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps109)

Creating a culture to bring extraordinary health and happiness inside and outside the organization to become a truly flourishing enterprise in all ways. The Appreciative Inquiry summit is a really powerful event my guest describes as just magical. For links and resources mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps108 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps108)  

On the topic of Appreciative Leading, Peter Pula was the first and obvious choice in the profession of journalism as he is at the forefront of generative journalism. I wanted him to share with us his craft and art as a journalist and his vision and practice to transform journalism. For links and resources mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps107 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps107)

Leading is much more than having the title of leader or being engaged in the process of leadership. Leading can be a deliberate and conscious act, and it can come from spontaneity and impulse. It's about innovation and making a difference. Excerpts from inspirational stories show the way. For links and resources mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps106 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps106)

It's time to do something different again.  Change is good. This episode closes out Season 2, co-hosted with Sallie Lee. If you missed any of those 10 episodes, I urge you to listen: seven literacies are explained for living and leading in our times. In this show find out about our next new Season, entitled Appreciative Leading - conversations with leaders across all sectors who are agents of positive change. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps105 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps105)

To close this Season, we reflect on Appreciative Voice and how the seven literacies are impacting our thinking and relationships. You'll hear examples of others working to build capacity for increased well-being in life and in leadership roles. They talk about what more they can do on a daily basis to build voice.  And, we introduce our new thinking and learning about human capacity: four assumptions of changing beliefs about what we're all capable of and how that might reframe our realities. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps104 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps104)

Anticipating what is possible and how we fuel it is the topic of this literacy: Finding the Future.  It helps to envision a better future if we shift what's going on that isn't serving to that which is serving in any given situation because all futures are shared futures. We shape the future through the images we hold and the conversations we participate in.  For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps103 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps103)  

Connecting the collective is the work of hearts and minds.  This literacy focuses us on living into the "we." Connecting and belonging are the life-blood of human organizing and relationships. Starting conversations that are real and inclusive lifts up our appreciative voice. When we acknowledge the wisdom available to us and put greater value on that which the collective offers us, we open up to new insights about dynamics, dialogue and decisions.For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps102 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps102)  

We need one another to make sense of all that is going on around us. Finding our personal and collective wholeness contributes to our sense of belonging. In coming together, our combined intelligence, and intent for wholeness and belonging enables new wisdom and solutions to surface. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps101 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps101)  

Paying attention to and magnifying the positive in people, communities, and networks help us flourish. Among the benefits of knowing our strengths include finding more flow and meaning in work, feeling more energized than drained and seeing our relationships improve by coming from a place of greater ease. For resources and links mentioned in this episode, visit http://positivitystrategist.com/ps100 (http://positivitystrategist.com/ps100)