Art of Dynamic Competence: Creating Success in Changing Times

In Episode 21, we are talking to Dr. Albert Lee, a tenor who was born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, attended University of Connecticut, Juilliard School, and received his Doctor of Music at the Florida State University. He has taught at Troy University and University of Nevada at Reno. Most recently, Albert was hired by the Yale School of Music as the Director of a new Program in equity, b...

Deborah Nielsen LMFT, ATF, joins us in Episode 20. Deb has an amazing 20 year plus psychotherapy practice that specializes in complex and family trauma.   In her practice, Deb utilizes art therapy and mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy.   She's also certified in EMDR, which stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. She is also a EMDRIA consultant. EMDR is a fascinating...

In this episode, we are visiting with Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, founders of the non-profit Land Art Generator Initiative, also known by LAGi. LAGi was started in 2008 and has rapidly grown to become an international player in the conversations and solutions around our current transition to post-carbon economies.   The Land Art Generator’s goal is to accelerate the transition of energy la...

Beginning as a fourth generation Nevadan, Jill Derby, Ph. D. has built a long and distinguished career, allowing her to work and visit amazing places all around the world. In this podcast, Jill will focus on issues regarding the sustainability of Higher Education to continue evolving as the beacon of our American Marketplace of Ideas.  After completing her undergraduate degree at Berkeley and UCSF...

In preparation for the second season of Art of Dynamic Competence , Tom and Susan explore how we can build a middle ground in these contentious times. Using the metaphor of a swinging pendulum, they ask not only what drives the swinging of the pendulum, but how can we slow it down. In this episode, they explore the role of Instinctual, reactive, Level 1 thinking in creating all this excess swirlin...

This episode is a reflection of Susan's latest trip to Florida to visit her mother, Mary May, as she was released from a recent hospital stay.  Based on their readings and dialog, Mary and Susan wandered deeply into the concept of attachment; attachment to what serves us well as well as what no longer serves us at all.  They also explored how to shift our attachment from Level 1, instinctual...

In this podcast, we’re continuing with the second part of our summary of the first 13 podcasts. In our last episode, we focused on preparing to engage with Dynamic Competence. Now Tom and Susan are going to talk about what goes into identifying problems and executing solutions. They’ll also review what prior podcast speakers had to say about this. As they mentioned before, the goal for these summa...

As we mentioned in our very first introductory podcast, we've let a wide range of folks share their experiences in, and thoughts about, Dynamic Competence.  So far, we’ve produced 13 podcasts, including the introduction and collected a lot of interesting information. Based on feedback from our listeners, Thomas May and I decided to create a summary of what we have heard and lay out some defin...

In Podcast 13, we’re going to explore how to better understand the situations we find ourselves in, both within us and around us. This awareness is truly foundational to practicing the Art of Dynamic Competence. We are joined today by Bethany Crawley, who is doing some extraordinary work in somatic mindfulness and having great success with complex relational trauma including PTSD. In addition to h...

In this podcast, we’re taking a look at the ways that organizational dynamics often react to change and how change can be optimized. We’re joined by Ted Powell, Managing Partner/Co-Owner of Stop At Nothing, Inc., a leadership consulting firm, who believes that self-awareness and personal responsibility (or lack thereof) contribute more to success or failure than any other leadership skill.  Outsid...

In this podcast, we’re going to dive down deeper into the management of complex teams. In this case, we’re exploring how to build and support effective teams in ecological restoration with a strong focus on the people. We are joined by Carla Scheidlinger who has 30 years of experience in resource management and restoration from the perspectives of a volunteer advocate, environmentalist, and contra...

This podcast looks at how we unconsciously respond to social information.  Lucas Molleman, Ph. D., who is currently at the University of Amsterdam, and his team at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development published a paper in 2020 on what happens when we are presented with information that is inconsistent or even contradictory to our expectations.  In their paper, Lucas and his team set up a...

Will Roger. Who We Think We Are. February 24, 2021. This podcast focuses on the distinction between “Who we think we are” versus “Who we really are”. We are joined by Will Roger; artist, author, teacher, innovator and environmentalist. As one of the Founders of Burning Man, Will was instrumental in developing the infrastructure that allows a city of over 70k people to rise up from the desert playa...

This podcast focuses on a mix of climate change and ecological art, and how they both relate to Dynamic Competence. We’re focusing on the experiential ecological and landscape art of Helen and Newton Harrison. Helen and Newton were part of only a handful of globally acclaimed artists known as ecopioneers in the 1960’s and 70’s. In these early days, Helen and Newton committed to only producing art...

This episode explores how we absorb new information and the different ways that we can respond to that information. We will discuss three basic cognitive levels, Instinctual, Intentional, and Integral and how the perspectives that arise in each of these levels can affect what we see and think about new information. Both Thomas May and I wanted to interview our mother, Mary May as she has been a ma...

This episode focuses on mental fitness at the intersection of mental toughness, emotional intelligence, and mental health. I was interested in talking with Anthony Taylor not only because his shift in careers provides a nice model of how someone can reconstruct their future, his approach to mental fitness highlights some of the critical elements to practicing the Art of Dynamic Competence. Anthony...

This episode explores dynamic competence through ecological restoration. Scientists have clearly documented how the environment is always changing, eroding, reshaping and reforming itself. When humans show up, this rate of change is often accelerated, sometimes faster than living organisms can adapt. This is the core challenge of the climate change that we are currently facing. How we cope with th...

In this second part of her interview, we will dive deeper into a discussion of cognitive fitness with Dr. Fiona Beddoes Jones. We will explore characteristics of authentic leadership and discuss the possibilities of prosocial leadership in our lives. We’ll also talk with Fiona about the benefits and challenges of neurodiversity in the workplace and how her approach to Thinking Styles can help us d...

This episode focuses on Cognitive Fitness with Fiona Beddoes-Jones, Ph. D. Fiona has over 35 years of experience in the field of Cognitive Fitness, exploring how to support leaders to think more effectively; what she calls thinking in the right ways at the right time. Fiona has worked with a wide range of leaders and consultants in the UK with a variety of cognitive tools she has developed includi...

This episode explores applications of Dynamic Competence in construction focused companies. Traditionally, the construction industry has struggled to adapt to data-driven operations and more diverse workforces. Because of these challenges, exploration of any successful evolution in these companies tells us a lot about the value of an approach that emphasizes Dynamic Competence. As we will see, thi...

Welcome to our first episode! Join our host, Susan Clark, Ph. D. as we explore the Art of Dynamic Competence from a wide range of disciplines and tools, creating success in changing times.