Art of Dynamic Competence: Creating Success in Changing Times

 In Episode 44, we're building on this background and talking about Deborah Nielsen's new book, Breaking Whole; Holding On, and Letting Go . We'll dive into the inspiration behind the title and what it means to us as we explore our own Dynamic Competence Most importantly, we'll talk about her concept of integrative bridging. It's a way to identify and acknowledge three uni...

 In Episode 43, we'll explore the power of the divine feminine, not in how she steps into the openings within the dominant culture, but rather what happens when these openings close. Listen for the ways Alison talks about how these dialogs mirrors our own personal work. At first, openings, and then the closings as our ego structures and our instinctual ways of being rise up and try to re-esta...

Episode 42 is the first part of our interview with Alison Hine on her new book, "A Journey of Inquiry through the Gospel of Mary Magdalene." We explore how Alison is able to enliven and intensify our understanding of Mary Magdalene in the first two dialogs of the Gospel. She provides an opening to   a new understanding of the archetype of the divine feminine, weaving cultural context and...

In Episode 40, we are joined by Dr. Kerri Welch who guides us through a conversation about the quantum mechanical concepts of fractals, wave function collapse, and entropy and how they relate to different qualities of time.  If you are not interested in exploring the podcast from a scientific perspectives, we would like to encourage you to sense into the stories that we're telling. See what a...

In Episode 41, we continue our conversations with Dr. Kerri Welch, we're utilizing these quantum mechanical concepts to explore our sense of the past, present, and future experiences and how they manifest within us. As we oscillate between satisfaction and desire, we also have the potential to feel different manifestations of time. And from this, we can begin to explore the differences betwee...

In Episode 39, we are exploring a really interesting book that Susan found, A Demon Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post WWII Germany. Written by Dr. Monica Black (Univ Tenn), the book explores the impacts and trauma of the German's WWII defeat on its people. In the podcast, we will explore ways that the trauma expressed itself and how ordinary Germans cop...

In Episode 38, we are joined by Steve Goyer and Dennis Whittle, a minister and an entrepreneur, who walk regularly, contemplating what is working and not working in today’s religious organizations. We wanted to talk with them about their walks and explore what has arisen from their conversations. As we interviewed them, it was clear that Steve and Dennis were giving us a peek at their own dynamic...

Welcome to the Art of Dynamic Competence. I’m Susan Clark. Join me and my        brother Thomas May for season four of our podcast as we apply what we have been exploring over the last three seasons.   We hope to dive deep into Dynamic Competence and allow it to expand into new ways of living our daily lives. This work is not always easy, but can be truly fulfilling, allowing us to better relate t...

In this podcast we are sharing an introduction to the new 3x3 matrix that he is calling "I'm Where?" We have been exploring how Tom has been merging our work in Dynamic Competence, with this wonderful, light way that Jean Gebser’s writings are exploring the worlds that we live in. This podcast came together as an amazing intro to why Tom created this matrix and the impact of Gerber’...

Welcome back to the next podcast in a series where we are asking the question, “I’m Where?” This week my cohost Tom May takes us on a deeper journey into the matrix that he created, linking metacognitive principles developed by Mary May (Instinctual, Intentional, and Integral). With three of Geber’s structures of consciousness., Magic, Mythic, and Mental. If you want a visional aid, go to our webs...

In Episode 34,  we’re doing something a little different. From the last sessions, Tom May has pulled together a matrix that he is now using in his work and life. We thought that we might share it with you and see how you might refine it with us.  Tom was inspired to combine the original metacognitive work by our mother Mary May with the new work that I have been doing with Jeremy Johnson on Jean G...

In this episode, we’re talking with Fred Sigman. Fred is an acclaimed photographer who also worked with Will Roger on his Handbook for a Burning Age and contributed several essays to the book. Fred currently resides in Cambodia teaching remotely, hosting tours, and writing a book on Angkor Wat the largest temple structure in the world. I recorded a long interview with Fred that ranged from Asian r...

In Part 2 of Will's Podcast. As I have alluded to, I am working a lot in understanding how deeper, latent knowledge that we have (magic and mythic) can help us function from a more integrated whole.  In a class that I am hosting, we are exploring how our magic and mythic perspectives/cultural structures dance with our mental conceptual world to create this integral understanding and being. Ma...

Will Roger Peterson is a co-founder of Burning Man and current is a Senior Advisor to the Fly Ranch Project. His life journey has been to understand this thing we call "integral; a way of being in the world that integrates multiple perspectives and frees us up to be, as Will says, "who we really are." We were introduced to some of the basic concepts that Will lives by in Episode 9....

We are joined today by Michael Hogan. Michael originally joined us way back in Episode 5 of our podcast. We asked Michael back for several reasons. With all the fires in the Western US, a lot of money is being invested in post-fire work and a lot of folks are needed to help with the clean up and restoration efforts. These folks often have varying degrees of understanding and ability to implement m...

In Episode 28, we are joined by two young architectural professionals who have been asked to participate in, as well as lead, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives within their firms. Jayla Huseyn and Chris Roberson come from diverse backgrounds. Jayla is Middle Eastern and Chris is an African American who originally hailed from Chicago. They both received their Bachelors of Architect...

In the second part of his podcast, we dive deeper into integral teaching  with Ryan Derby-Talbot. From Quest University in Canada to Fulbright University of Vietnam, we will explore Dr. Derby-Talbot's adventures in building structures that support faculty and students as they immerse themselves in profound learning environments. 

As we start Season 3, we are so happy to have Ryan Derby-Talbot join us on our podcast. Ryan received his Ph. D. at the University of Texas at Austin in Mathematics. He is a well-published and quite accomplished theoretical mathematician. We recently spent the weekend with Ryan and he graciously explained his research in low dimensional topology in a language that we could not only understand, but...

In Season 3, we explore some integral and integrating aspects of Dynamic Competence allowing us to better relate to the situations we find ourselves in and the hard work we all need to do.  Join Susan and Tom as they set up the context for Season 3. 

Deborah Jean Nielsen Honoring the Child 3/2/2222 Susan Clark: [00:00:00] Well, welcome, Deborah, to the Art of Dynamic Competence.   Deborah Nielsen: [00:00:03] Thank you, Susan. So glad to be here with you.   Susan Clark: [00:00:06] It's great having you. We chose as a topic today to really talk about Self. I'd like to start out by having you explore why it is that we're talking ab...

We finished last year with Steve Goyer’s story of how the traumatic loss of his wife helped him begin to experientially understand the difference between Beliefs that we hold onto and the development of a whole new Faith and Trust in God as well as the world we live in.  In Episode 25,  we start this year with Eileen Hamra’s story of how the tragedy of her husband’s untimely death just before Chri...

In Episode 24,  we are joined by Dr. Stephen Goyer, who is one of the more amazing Pastors that I have recently met. Steve received his Doctorate at the Union Theology Seminary in Virginia and was the Minister of a Church in Jacksonville Florida. Although he is officially retired as a Pastor, Steve continues to do incredible work as a spiritual and grief coach to individuals and families. After ou...

Today we are joined by Chip and Laynette Evans. After the 2016 election, Chip and Laynette, along with a handful of progressive activists, founded Indivisible Northern Nevada. From their website, Indivisible is a nonpartisan, volunteer organization focused on advancing humanitarian values through applying consistent, informed and ongoing pressure, primarily on our members of Congress. Under the um...

In Episode 22, we are talking with John Sagebiel. John received his Ph. D. at UC Davis in environmental chemistry and has spent a career really understanding the engineering behind clean environments and specifically how to create and maintain more sustainably built environments.  An important event in the development of his career was the design, and building, and ultimately living in a sustainab...