Episodes

  • Episode 1: Creating Space In and for Ourselves in Practice: An Introduction

    Episode 1: Creating Space In and for Ourselves in Practice: An Introduction
    Jul 8 2024
    There is a movement of energy in, through and around each of us. Meditation can be an incredible tool to help us respond to these energies. People who enter into professions such as child welfare tend to be sensitive and empathetic, and are naturally more impacted by the energy of others. Finding ways to address these energies and messages can be profoundly helpful. This initial episode of The Practice Space offers an introduction to the meditation skills that can help us to build resistance and better sustain ourselves in practice.
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    30 mins
  • Episode 2: Removing Clutter: Clearing and Grounding through meditation practices

    Episode 2: Removing Clutter: Clearing and Grounding through meditation practices
    Jul 8 2024
    In this episode of The Practice Space, learn about ways to navigate the intense energies associated with trauma that you may be exposed to in your work. Gently clearing your own energy space helps to create spaciousness for others while allowing them to find their own resilience. This episode shows us how to redirect energy and to be compassionate in a more holistic way.
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    25 mins
  • Episode 3: Finding the Well: Replenishing Ourselves Through Practice

    Episode 3: Finding the Well: Replenishing Ourselves Through Practice
    Jul 8 2024
    In this episode of The Practice Space, learn about ways to retain your neutrality and openness as you navigate challenging energies and intense emotional situations. Hear about some simple daily habits that you can use to ground yourself to be present and encounter each unique situation as it is, not as you might imagine or prefer it to be.
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    28 mins
  • Episode 4: Rocks and Hard Places: Developing skills for sustaining ourselves in practice

    Episode 4: Rocks and Hard Places: Developing skills for sustaining ourselves in practice
    Jul 8 2024
    In this episode of The Practice Space, learn about the importance of developing skills to guide human interactions, especially in practice settings that may be uniquely challenging. Some professional arenas can include chronic stress for workers (such as with child welfare and palliative care), and we can also experience isolation and difficulty talking about our experiences with others. Caring for yourself includes cultivating human connections where you can talk about and deal with tough and complex issues, together.
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    32 mins
  • Episode 5: Building our Meditation Muscles

    Episode 5: Building our Meditation Muscles
    Jul 8 2024
    Energy exchange is happening all the time, all around us. Your own personal, emotional space that you carry with you wherever you go accumulates finished and unfinished interactions, and these can sit in your space and create discomfort. In this episode of The Practice Space, experience a guided meditation and clearing practice where you can dive deeper and learn ways to find more room for yourself and discern what belongs to you and what you need to let go.
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    40 mins
  • Episode 6: Encountering Grief and Navigating Activations

    Episode 6: Encountering Grief and Navigating Activations
    Jul 8 2024
    In this episode of The Practice Space, we discuss grief. Our own grief, plus that of others. We all carry unprocessed, unassimilated experiences that we hold within our own energetic space. These experiences can be triggered by others, and they can really rattle us and we don’t always know why. If something hasn’t been assimilated within us, it lights up! When things light up for us, it can be uncomfortable. But, it’s important to remember that it is not a failure, but an opportunity to process and build more space for yourself. The more you allow your grief, the more you are able to take part in joy and life.
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    39 mins
  • A Guide through ICWA & MIFPA Episode 6: Placement Preference

    A Guide through ICWA & MIFPA Episode 6: Placement Preference
    Dec 3 2023
    In this final episode of a Guide through ICWA & MIFPA, the hosts discuss placement preference and considerations that child welfare workers must make according to state law. The order of preference is discussed as follows: 1) A member of an Indian child's extended family 2) A foster home or license approved or specified by an Indian child's tribe 3) Indian Foster home licensed, approved by a authorized non-Indian license authority and 4) an institution for children approved by an Indian tribe, or operated by the Indian organization with a program suitable to meet the Indian child's needs. Hosts respond to FAQs and best practices as well. We hope you have enjoyed this podcast series! Please share widely!
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    16 mins
  • A Guide through ICWA & MIFPA Episode 5: Qualified Expert Witness (QEW)

    A Guide through ICWA & MIFPA Episode 5: Qualified Expert Witness (QEW)
    Nov 27 2023
    In this episode, you will learn the laws that qualified expert witness (QEW) covers in both ICWA and MIFPA. The episode also shares best practices, frequently asked questions and a story from an ICWA Compliance Consultant.
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    21 mins