Education Through Conversation
With priorities of connection and curiosity, we share conversations founded in the love of our craft, and the love that we experience when we share from our hearts.
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The Compass Conversations Podcast
SIX PEERS. ORGANIC CONVERSATIONS.
Presence is the foundation of all we share. Our conversations are opportunities for us to learn from and with one another, sharing wisdom from our hearts, in collaboration.
These conversations are shared from our sense of connection, camaraderie and love. This community of peers is curious to learn from and with one another, living, learning, leading by example. We’re exploring together, acknowledging the interspecies family on this planet, while lovingly including ourselves in the family of life, from the heart, for the heart.
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About Compass
Inspired by a shared experience
We are a community of collaborating professionals and peers teaching through conversation, relationship and intuition. We’re not telling you what to learn, we’re helping you nourish your passion for learning by sharing our own.
Our work and thirst for continuing education has expanded beyond our conventional fields. Self-awareness and presence have become foundational in our relationships with work, families, nature and each other.
The following 7 principles emerged as we let our words follow what we feel in our heart.
The Principles of Interspecies Collaboration
The presence and contribution of all species are with us in our hearts in every conversation. In this collaboration, we honor their contributions.
Non-human life freely contributes the purity of its existence to human life. We are the ones with the option to choose to act in harmony.
1. STAY TRUE TO YOUR NATURE
The community moves as one through a symphony of expression of individual diversities.
Know that your uniqueness is perhaps the greatest contribution, and that your peers’ uniquenesses naturally have a way of harmonizing, honoring and amplifying your talents.
2. EVERYBODY WINS
Individual, group, historical and future interests are of equal value, recognized and addressed in harmony with one another. Evolving from the paradigm of compromise, as in nature, collaboration recognizes that priorities will shift fluidly to best support a greater harmonic vision that touches the hearts of all concerned.
3. TRANSPARENT COMMUNICATION MOVES US AS ONE
Collaborative communication creates movement in a direction of shared value. Recognition of what’s working provides support, awareness and opportunity for creative expansion. Willingness to share ideas, offer connection and follow through inspires peers to contribute their creativity as well.
4. LET THE STRUCTURE SUPPORTS YOU
Measuring appropriate data and honoring structural rules provides support for collaborations to unfold with ease. Just as a forest relies on its root/mycelial foundation, tech/communication infrastructure offers both a foundation and space for expression so that all may flourish.
5. FLEXIBILITY SUPPORTS CONSISTENCY
When the heart of collaboration is a common value rather than a defined outcome, participants may need to be flexible as we move the whole community in a common direction.
6. LISTEN LIKE A HORSE
Listening without judgment, as nature listens, creates a generative space where clarity and grace may be the shared foundation. Even if judgment does exist within an interaction, there can simultaneously be space to listen without judgment.
7. WE ARE ALL STEWARDING EACH OTHER
We often consider ourselves stewards of nature and animals, but what if animals and nature are also stewarding us? Through intuitive connection, shared experiences and loving interactions, the non-human world selflessly offers limitless opportunities to feel accepted, seen and loved. In relationship with non-human life we have opportunities to experience ourselves without competition and with nothing to prove. We are able to find common ground with life that is very different than our own. What does it take to find this sense with other humans as well?
Our desire to care for others without greed or judgment, and with an open heart, is a reflection of the animals’ stewardship of humanity. The beauty of nature can inspire us to remember who we are – we seem to be unconditionally invited to re-include humanity in the family of life. When humans listen with a willingness to learn and connect through our heart, we are receiving and re-sharing the gifts of unconditional love shown to us by our extended family of animals, plants, insects, minerals, sky and water.