026: Preventing and Mending the Fissures with Dr. Jessica Plancich Shinners
Preventing and Mending the Fissures with Dr. Jessica Plancich Shinners
Inside Community Podcast — Ep. 026
We’re closing out our second season with an examination of how to navigate inevitable interpersonal conflict and move towards restored connection. Social architecture can be what makes or breaks a community, business, or organization. How we process our own pain and trauma and interact with the trauma of others offers rich opportunities for growth and learning. In this conversation with Dr. Jessica Plancich Shinners we cover emotional hygiene, strategies for reconnection, the importance of humility and validation, when to ask for help, and when to call it quits.
In this episode
Maintaining connections in intentional communities. (0:01)
Community building, leadership, and interpersonal relationships. (5:23)
Community building and potential pitfalls. (13:36)
Emotional hygiene for personal growth and community connection. (18:47)
Personal growth and community building. (26:23)
Avoiding tough conversations in communities. (38:42)
Emotional pain and relationships. (44:26)
Active listening and empathy in difficult conversations. (52:44)
Embracing humility and feedback in personal growth. (1:00:20)
Emotional maturity and social technology in the workplace. (1:07:15)
Embracing emotions in leadership and creativity. (1:15:15)
Creating a harmonious community with defined roles and evaluation criteria. (1:22:06)
Personal growth and relationships. (1:30:35)
About Dr. Jessica Plancich Shinners
Dr. Jessica Plancich Shinners, MA, MFT, Ed.D. is a social architect, community builder, and leadership expert who teaches leaders and organizations how to operate at their highest potential and resiliency by truly serving people, planet, purpose, and profit.
With a Master’s in clinical psychology, a doctorate in Organizational Leadership (Ed.D. Pepperdine University), and 20-year psychotherapy practice, she applies a whole human approach to consulting that nurtures body, mind, and spirit so the wisdom of the heart can be awakened. After years of witnessing the limitations of Western psychology, Jessica sought training in Eastern approaches to healing and wellness. With certifications as a yoga and qi gong instructor and massage therapist, she utilizes a holistic and somatic approach to her work.
Her penchant for social entrepreneurialism has led Jessica to consult for nonprofits, grassroots movements, start-ups, major corporations, and their leaders, helping align them with their core values and serve the greater good. The co-founder of an eco-village in San Diego, CA (theemeraldvillage.com), she is steeped in collaborative thinking and decision making, incorporating what she has lived, learned, and tested herself. The reclamation of our communities at the local level, she believes, is the solution to the panoply of problems we find ourselves in – ecologically, economically, and socio-politically.
Jessica has had the honor of learning from countless teachers- whether clients, mentors, professors, or guides. She humbly recognizes that so many of the healing traditions she has studied were gifts given from native people with an unencumbered connection to creation. Jessica strives to deeply embody and pay homage to their wisdom by passing it on to her clients.
https://fiercegraceconsulting.com/
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Show Notes
SUMMER FUN!
Full Bloom at the Emerald Village in San Diego, CA
Twin Oaks Community Conference in Virginia
Books and Resources Mentioned:
The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization by Peter Senge
Super Awesome Inside Community Jingle by FIC board member Dave Booda davebooda.com
ICP theme by Rebecca Mesritz
Thanks from Rebecca, your podcast host
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Inside Community Podcast host Rebecca Mesritz is a community builder living in Williams, Oregon. In 2011, Rebecca co-founded the Emerald Village (EVO) in North County San Diego, California. During her ten years with EVO, she supported and led numerous programs and initiatives including implementation and training of the community in Sociocracy, establishment of the Animal Husbandry program, leadership of the Land Circle, hosting numerous internal and external community events, and participation in the Human Relations Circle which holds the relational, spiritual and emotional container for their work.
In June of 2021, with the blessing of EVO, Rebecca and 3 other co-founders relocated to begin a new, mission- driven community and learning center housed on 160 acres of forest and farmland. Rebecca is passionate about communal living and sees intentional community as a tool for both personal and cultural transformation. In addition to her work in this field, she also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from San Diego State University and creates functional, public, and interactive art in metal, wood, and pretty much any other material she can get her hands on. She is a mother, a wife, an educator, a nurturer of gardens, an epicurean lover of sustainable wholesome food, and a cultivator of compassion and beauty.
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