The Tension of Emergence: Thriving in a world that remakes, not breaks – Details, episodes & analysis

Does joy sometimes feel hard to access? Ever find yourself focusing more on where you’re suffering or experiencing pain? Or perhaps you find it easy in this season of your life but want to experience joy even more? 

In the last micro-episode of Season 3, Jennifer guides you to amplify joy on three different levels: the gross, subtle and causal. She encourages you to enhance the experience of joy, even amidst pain and includes a suggestion to explore the Buddhist practice of Tonglen if you’re facing difficult times. 

If you play with this practice and have an insight you’d like to share, we’d love to hear from you! 

Links & resources—

• For more practices, offerings and writing from Jennifer, subscribe to Jennifer’s newsletter
• Follow Jennifer on Instagram or LinkedIn
• Email Jennifer with any questions or observations- jennifer@sparkcoaching.ca

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We’ve been talking about “feeling more” so we can access more wisdom in our leadership, but what if we’re really good at avoiding pain?  

In the final week of season three of the Tension of Emergence, Jennifer delves into the question of how to work with personal and collective pain with the co-founder of Mobius Executive Leadership and expert in trauma-informed development, Amy Elizabeth Fox. Together they break down the illusory binary between the personal/professional, individual/collective and pain/joy. 

They also share—

• Three stages of working with pain and how to transmute pain into possibility
• How the privatization of healing has gotten us into trouble
• Why communal witnessing can shift everything

Tune in for an in-depth exploration of how to work with personal and collective pain so that you can access more joy, presence and liberation. 

Links & resources—

• Mobius Executive Leadership
• Connect with Amy Elizabeth Fox on LinkedIN
• Follow Jennifer on Instagram or LinkedIn and get her Substack here

Gratitude for this show’s theme song Inside the House, composed by the talented Yukon musician, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Jordy Walker. Artwork by the imaginative writer, filmmaker and artist Jon Marro.

When you’re confronted by overwhelm and crisis, do you turn away from reality to protect your heart? If so, you’re not alone. Jennifer offers a compassionate practice to  help you learn about the denial-acceptance polarity. 

Inspired by her conversation with Latinx educator and author, Vanessa Andreotti Jennifer guides you to track where you deny or accept challenging experiences and explore the upsides and downsides of both.  

If you try this practice and have an insight or experience you’d love to share, please reach out to jennifer@sparkcoaching.ca 

Links & resources—

• For more practices and inspiration from Jennifer get weekly inspiring emails to help you navigate the hard mess of leading and being human
• Follow Jennifer on Instagram or LinkedIn
• Talk with Jennifer! Share an insight or ask a question here jennifer@sparkcoaching.ca

Gratitude for this show’s theme song Inside the House, composed by the talented Yukon musician, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Jordy Walker. Artwork by the imaginative writer, filmmaker and artist Jon Marro.

In this episode, Jennifer England talks with celebrated Latinx educator and author, Vanessa Andreotti about how to bear the weight of modern crises. They share alternative ways of knowing and being as we begin to hospice modernity itself. 

They explore:

• The limits of traditional activism 
• What is quantum embodied wisdom and why we need it 
• The one essential skill we must develop in a post-truth world
• How relational maturity can help us get better at taking responsibility 

Tune in to listen to how we can be with the paradoxes and tensions of modernity, as we develop more emotional sobriety, discernment and intergenerational responsibility. 

Links & resources—

• Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures
• Learn more about Vanessa Andreotti 
• Read Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism
• Daniel Schmachtenberger and his podcast appearances
• Subscribe to Jennifer’s newsletter
• Follow Jennifer on Instagram or LinkedIn

Gratitude for this show’s theme song Inside the House, composed by the talented Yukon musician, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Jordy Walker. Artwork by the imaginative writer, filmmaker and artist Jon Marro.

Stifled by status quo scripts of masculinity and femininity? Longing to feel more free in how you express both? Jennifer offers a practice on how to appreciate and let go of old identity scripts that limit your aliveness. 

Inspired by her conversation with filmmaker and mythopoetic guide, Ian MacKenzie she encourages an experiment with Eros to expand and liberate old identity scripts.  

If you play with this practice and discover a new way of seeing or experiencing your ‘self’ we’d love to hear from you! 

Links & resources—

• For more practices and inspiration from Jennifer get weekly inspiring emails to help you navigate the hard mess of leading and being human
• Follow Jennifer on Instagram or LinkedIn
• Talk with Jennifer! Share an insight or ask a question here jennifer@sparkcoaching.ca

Gratitude for this show’s theme song Inside the House, composed by the talented Yukon musician, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Jordy Walker. Artwork by the imaginative writer, filmmaker and artist Jon Marro.

A renaissance is happening and it’s dissolving limited stereotypes defined by the “man box” and “toxic masculinity”. Jennifer talks with filmmaker, writer and visionary artist, Ian MacKenzie about his journey through art and village to discover what it means to cultivate a healthy and vibrant masculinity. 

Tune in to hear: 

• The influence of 80s pop culture on boyhood and fathering 
• Why the liberation of women is intertwined with the liberation of men
• The role of Eros and the Lover archetype in healing the gender wars
• Why reclaiming ritual and rites of passage for men can transform community

Come join us for a rich conversation on identity, power, shadow and the possibility of healing through the deep work of mythopoetic masculinity.

Links & resources—

• The Mythic Masculine
• Check out Ian MacKenzie’s website
• Watch The Village of Lovers film
• Read and subscribe to Jennifer’s Substack
• Follow Jennifer on Instagram or LinkedIn

Gratitude for this show’s theme song Inside the House, composed by the talented Yukon musician, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Jordy Walker. Artwork by the imaginative writer, filmmaker and artist Jon Marro.

Jennifer offers a practice to help you get unstuck, inspired by her conversation with filmmaker, writer and educator Nora Bateson.

In a culture that privileges the scientific, rational and objective, it’s hard to access other ways of knowing. Yet the intuitive, somatic, spiritual and poetic can give us perspective that might bring perspective and relief. 

Today, Jennifer encourages you to take an inventory of your preferred “ways of knowing” and how less familiar ones might ease (or heal) the places you feel most stuck. 

If you play with this practice and discover a new way of seeing or experiencing your ‘self’ we’d love to hear from you! 

Links & resources—

• For more practices and inspiration from Jennifer get  inspiring emails to help you navigate the hard mess of leading and being human
• Follow Jennifer on Instagram or LinkedIn
• Talk with Jennifer! Share an insight or ask a question here jennifer@sparkcoaching.ca

Gratitude for this show’s theme song Inside the House, composed by the talented Yukon musician, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Jordy Walker. Artwork by the imaginative writer, filmmaker and artist Jon Marro.

Are you caught in a double bind? One of those untenable life situations where you feel torn between two seemingly opposing identities or experiences? 

Jennifer talks with filmmaker, writer and educator Nora Bateson for an intimate look at double binds and how expanding our capacity to perceive what's missing, through warm data, can help us heal them. Starting with the legacy of system thinking giants (her father and grandfather),  Nora and Jennifer get personal and explore—

• Honoring legacy and breaking cultural paradigms
• Parenting and art making
• How life's challenges can transform limitation into possibility
• Healing as a movement towards greater vitality

Tune in for an intimate conversation on what it means to free ourselves from double binds by attuning and "combining" many different ways of knowing. 

Links and Resources:

• Get Nora Bateson’s book Combining
• Learn more about The Bateson Institute
• Subscribe to Jennifer’s newsletter Evolve for radical encouragement on the hard mess of being human

Gratitude for this show’s theme song Inside the House, composed by the talented Yukon musician, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Jordy Walker. Artwork by the imaginative writer, filmmaker and artist Jon Marro.

Jennifer offers a practice, inspired by her conversation with creative director and visionary artist Jon Marro.

How can you access more creative life force when you’re exhausted, too busy, or disheartened by world events? When we’re running at a feverishly high pace to be productive or save the world, it can feel impossible to slow down and “be creative”.

In this practice, Jennifer offers a “new doing” that can help you uncouple your time from being productive. From here, it’s easier to notice the wonder of ordinary life, which becomes a wellspring of creativity.

If you play with this practice and discover a new way of seeing or experiencing your ‘self’ we’d love to hear from you!

Links & resources—

• For more practices and inspiration from Jennifer get  inspiring emails to help you navigate the hard mess of leading and being human
• Follow Jennifer on Instagram or LinkedIn
• Talk with Jennifer! Share an insight or ask a question here jennifer@sparkcoaching.ca

Gratitude for this show’s theme song Inside the House, composed by the talented Yukon musician, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Jordy Walker. Artwork by the imaginative writer, filmmaker and artist Jon Marro.

How can we access more creativity and imagination- especially as old systems and structures collapse? Jennifer speaks with multi-disciplinary artist and visionary Jon Marro about courage and humility in the transformative world of creative activism. 

With reverence to the more-than-human and imaginal realms, they dive into: 

• Art as rupture, art as healing 
• The power and possibility of ‘constraint’ 
• Why creativity is a path to wholeness
• How to deepen your own creative practice 

Tune in for a giant permission to nurture your imagination by starting with the magic and mystical aliveness of ordinary life. 

Links & Resources:

• Watch Jon Marro’s “provocumentary” film, The Opening
• Learn more about Jon’s work and connect with him on Instagram
• Get  inspiring emails from Jennifer for radical encouragement on the hard mess of being human
• Connect with Jennifer on Instagram or LinkedIn

Gratitude for this show’s theme song Inside the House, composed by the talented Yukon musician, multi-instrumentalist and sound artist Jordy Walker. Artwork by the imaginative writer, filmmaker and artist Jon Marro.