Possibility Hours

Visit PossibilityHours.com for notes and links from this episode. In this episode, Daniel Stillman inspired me with his definition of leadership. He defines leadership as “creating the conditions for transformative conversations”. We talk about the nine elements of his Conversation OS and how you can use them in your life and work. In his book, Good Talk: How to Design Conversations that Matter ,...

In this episode with Dot Lung, we learn to be comfortable with discomfort. Dot teaches us from her childhood experiences, that it is simply a choice to be social and say hello to everyone. As simple as this may sound, to have an actual conversation or to build a relationship requires you to be authentic, curious, and find common ground. After all, we are all human, we all have emotions, and we are...

In this episode, we talk about showing up, over and over again. How expectations and the basic social dynamics change when you show up just as a person versus when you’re invited because of your professional role. It's only when you keep showing up that you begin to get to the root of the problem. Why? We have our guard up, we can be defensive. Especially when we're strangers and power and privile...

We discuss their project, Metro Test Zones, that prototyped future imaginaries for the city’s green urban commons with the help of a multidisciplinary group of scientists, public servants, designers, and actors. The Extrapolation Factory is a design-based research studio for participatory futures studies, founded by Chris Woebken and Elliott P. Montgomery. The studio develops experimental methods...

What is the social form you’re in right now? Social forms are interactions, “the social can only exist in the space between two people,” Nancy tells us in this episode with Nancy Nowacek and John Sharp. Social Form is a concept created by sociologist Georg Simmel to understand the grammar of human interactions, the kind of roles and spaces we’re occupying in relationship to one another. Why do we...

I learn from Indi how to connect. To recognize - when talking to a stranger - that I’m having a thought AND a feeling. Sometimes the two are connected and I won’t notice it. But sometimes they might react differently or even seem disconnected from each other whether because of safety, or some micro expression, or good or bad energy. Indi tells me she sees Possibility Hours as giving us this space...

In this episode, I meet with Shelli from Triple Aught Design, an apparel company in Dogpatch. We’re both members of the Dogpatch Business Association. That’s how we met. We had our chat on a park bench as buses and other amusements pass by. She shares her insights on how to talk to strangers - about dogs, t-shirts or the weather - and how working in retail is the best practice for talking to stran...

Neetal Parekh is the Founder of Innov8social .  She is a social impact ecosystem builder and licensed attorney, with expertise in digital strategy, storytelling, and communications. Neetal is the author of book 51 Questions on Social Entrepreneurship, host of The Impact Podcast by Innov8social, convener of Impactathon®, and a frequent speaker, facilitator, and moderator on topics including so...

Anthony started his career in business as the founder of several technology companies before a move to urban revitalization and community development.  Nearly 20 years later his work has been featured in the New York Times, Fast Company, Washington Post, Forbes, and The Hill among numerous other media outlets.  He has served in numerous public sector positions including most recently as...

Julian Bleecker (PhD) is a researcher, product designer-engineer. He founded the Near Future Laboratory as a way to explore imminent futures in an experimental and playful way outside of the confines of more traditional research and development practices. He has been a professor at the University of Southern California, and a designer-engineer at Nokia’s Advanced Design Studio. He is also founder...

Chris Grunder is an artist, curator, and educator living in San Francisco. Born in Hawaii and raised in Alaska, he's always been an outsider on the inside; observing the world and all it's vagaries with curiosity more than concern. He now runs a small gallery called Bass & Reiner in the Minnesota Street Project with an eye for emerging and underrepresented artists...just don't try to send...

Nancy Nowacek is an interdisciplinary working with the body at the intersection of digital technologies and the built environment, the regulation of the natural environment, and the forms of choreography embedded within. She creates participatory platforms, images, and objects that engender a sense of agency in an increasingly uncertain world and forge new imaginaries of power. She has been suppor...

http://www.hunterfranks.com/shop/threehundredandsixtyfivelists-book Hunter Franks creates ways for people to share introspections, hear other people’s stories, and reimagine social norms. His practice encompasses community-based public art, visual work, writing, and installation. He shares cultural commentary and conducts actions that display that we are all far more similar than we are different....

http://www.maceopaisley.com/about \may-cee-oh\  n. multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and cultural producer who explores themes in society and identity through movement, language, and imagery. -     -     -     -     -    -   after serving the in the u.s. army and climbing the ladders of corporate America, maceo "paisley" keeling I...

http://www.iftf.org/ilanalipsett/ Senior Program Manager, Equitable Futures Lab Ilana Lipsett is a community design strategist, and works at the intersection of policy, community engagement, and development. Ilana works with cities, real estate developers, international aid organizations, and creative communities around the globe to harness our collective capacity to address the world's biggest ch...

Note: This episode was recorded while Maceo was on his book tour for Tao of Maceo and there were moments where the audio quality dipped.  http://www.maceopaisley.com/about \may-cee-oh\  n. multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and cultural producer who explores themes in society and identity through movement, language, and imagery. -     -     -     - &n...

Maceo Paisley \may-cee-oh\  n. multi-disciplinary artist, designer, and cultural producer who explores themes in society and identity through movement, language, and imagery. -     -     -     -     -    -   after serving the in the u.s. army and climbing the ladders of corporate America, maceo "paisley" keeling III made his way into...