Category: Podcast

  • On Change, pt. 3

    Surprise! Change comes! Expect it!  This includes expecting forgetfulness and inertia from self and others. We have limitations and tendencies as humans, and networks of humans. Without support, we can lose perspective, our anchoring in ourselves, or our agility. Acknowledging this, we can then create systems to help us meet the changing world well.  Whether…

  • E-Book Audio: Section 8 + Reflections Transcript

    I went a little off-script recording. So here’s a transcript! All recordings are now up at https://soundcloud.com/sde_dispatches/sets/self-directed-education-and-the-agile-learning-approach-an-introduction Hey, welcome to Holding Unfolding, a podcast exploring facilitation that for the past seven episodes has been exploring chapters of an e-book that I put together on some of the, like, context and history and ideas that are…

  • E-Book: audio read-through

    When working with students or friends to polish something they’ve written, one of my favorite exercises is reading the piece aloud to them. It helps them hear where they lose the thread of their thoughts, in a way that silently re-reading the piece over and over to themselves might not make obvious. I like that…

  • Holding Unfolding – Episode 8 with Zed and David [transcript]

    AbbyHi, welcome to episode eight of Holding Unfolding, a podcast about facilitation. I’m Abby Oulton. I use she/her pronouns. I’m located on Lenape lands in New York City, and this week I have a conversation with Zed and David O’Connor from the Agile Learning Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And the conversation is a little bit…

  • Holding Unfolding, episode 7 with Jean Finlay

    AbbyHi, welcome to Holding Unfolding, a podcast about facilitation. I’m Abby Oulton. I use she/her pronouns, and am based on unceded occupied Lenape lands, in New York City. I’m thinking about the politics of transcription and audio editing a lot these days, which is fun. And I have an interview for you this week, with…

  • Holding Unfolding, episode 6: NYC facilitation story (transcript)

    Cover illustration by http://www.instagram.com/pharaohartwork/Music by http://www.bandlab.com/notdummroll Hi, welcome to Holding Unfolding, a podcast about facilitation. I’m Abby Oulton and I use she/her pronouns and I’m located on occupied, unceded Lenape lands, in East Harlem, New York City. And I haven’t put out an interview for a while because I was really attached to this, like,…

  • Holding Unfolding – episode 5 with Amber Sawyer (transcript)

    Hi, welcome to Holding Unfolding, a podcast about facilitation. I’m Abby Oulton. I use she/her pronouns and am based in New York City on unceded Lenape lands. And I’m kind of having feelings about this being the fifth episode. Because that isn’t a whole lot in terms of Internet expectations for productivity, but, um, since…

  • Holding Unfolding – episode 4 with Julia Cordero (transcript)

    Hi, welcome to episode four of Holding Unfolding, a podcast about facilitation. Shout out to Sterl a.k.a. DummrollPlease a.k.a. NotDummrollPlease a.k.a. PixellatedSkies for the new music. And always to Pharaoh for our cover art. I’m Abby Oulton. I use she/her pronouns. I’m based in East Harlem, on unceded and occupied Lenape land. And, uh, it’s…

  • Holding Unfolding – episode 2, Ryan Shollenberger

    [00:00:00.150]Hi, it’s Abby Oulton, welcome to the second episode of Holding Unfolding, a podcast about facilitation. I’m not going to take too much time before we jump into the interview, but there are a couple of notes that I just wanted to give you before we jump in. So, there’s a point in the interview…

  • Holding Unfolding podcast – episode 1 with Mel Compo (transcript)

    [00:00:01.140] – Abby We’re recording. Amazing. And do you want to start by introducing yourself, your name, where you’re at, your pronouns, anything around you that’s delightful? [00:00:17.140] – Mel Yeah, I would love to start there. So I’m Mel Compo. I use they/them pronouns. I’m currently in Brooklyn, New York, on stolen Lenape lands.…

  • Holding Unfolding podcast – Intro (transcript)

    [00:00:01.140] Hi, welcome to the Prelude episode for Holding Unfolding, a podcast about facilitation. [00:00:09.880] My name is Abby Oulton and I she/her pronouns. And I’m based in East Harlem, New York City, in unceded, ancestral Lenape territory, and I’m based here for both my residence and for my work. And I work at an…