Introducing: Wider Roots

In order to navigate the breakdowns we’re in, we need coaches and leaders who can help us bring out the best qualities of humanity and tap into our deepest longings for the future.

This podcast is my attempt to do “research in public” and explore the questions that have been in my heart for over a decade:

• How can coaching skills and practices support changemakers and social movements working for systemic change?
• How can social, political, and ecological realities inform the foundation of HOW we coach? (Rather than being de-politicized and individualistic.)
• What does it look like to place our commitment to the well-being of the whole at the center of a coaching conversation/relationship?

This podcast is my quest to understand more about these questions. I hope you walk away with ideas, inspiration, and resources to coach in a way that makes a difference for the world we want to live into.

I invite you to join the newsletter where we'll be sharing additional resources, links, training opportunities and more: https://widerroots.com/

Episode Transcript

Jeremy Blanchard (00:01):
Welcome to the Wider Roots podcast.
A show about how we can use thepower of coaching and personal
transformation to help create theworld we most want to live in.
Here we'll be exploring approachesto coaching and personal growth that
focus more on the wellbeing of thecollective instead of just the individual.
And we'll look at how our movement spacescan actively create more opportunities

(00:22):
for deep internal transformationwhile we work for external change.
I'm your host, Jeremy Blanchard.
I'm a coach for changemakers and movementleaders who are reshaping our world.
I've been wrestling with questionsabout how to bridge personal and
systemic transformation since Istarted this work over a decade ago.
And now I want to invite you to joinme as I talk with wisdom teachers,

(00:44):
coaches, and movement leaders who arethinking deeply about these ideas.

Jess Serrante (00:49):
We have to be living demonstrations of that just
life-sustaining, life-affirming waywith every interaction that we have.

Mazin Jamal (00:57):
How can we create such rich belonging, that there's room to challenge
each other without fearing that we'regoing to be kicked out of the group?

Noelle Janka (01:05):
And she was like, the river is filled, drop by drop.
Do not underestimate the powerof doing individual work.

Jeremy Blanchard (01:12):
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