Art of Dynamic Competence: Creating Success in Changing Times

 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-establish the homeostasis of cultural n...

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 her own musing with the translatio...

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 arises for you as you're li...

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 between life as a separation from things ...

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 cope with this trauma. 

 What we found ...

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 competence as they wrestled with th...

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 to the situations we find ourselves in...

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’s writing on this life and work. Fo...

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 website at dynamiccompetence.com and lo...

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 Gebser’s book, Ever Present Origin. 

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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 religious history, core understandin...

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. Many philosophers, religions, and pra...

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. In Part 1 of this current podcast, ...

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 methods that can have a positive imp...

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 Architecture at University of Houston and ar...

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 could see the elegance of his work....