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Orienting Ourselves to Natural Time with Brian Tourville: PYP 354

Is time linear, or cyclical?

According to analog watches, time goes around in circles.

According to calendars and planners and most of Western culture, time moves ever forward.

And few of us take seriously the cycles of nature when we contemplate time and how we move through it.

Brian Tourville has been thinking about time, and how our disconnection from the rhythms and cycles of the natural world contribute to our alienation from it.

Brian and I met in 2012, at a Permaculture Design Course in Western Massachusetts. We were on the same “team” tasked with creating a sustainability plan for a farm property, and we kicked ass thanks to his impressive mapping, photoshopping, and designing skills.

We sort of lost touch, until I found an email address and reached out to him last year. Only to discover that he now lives about a mile and half away from me. So we've reconnected over our love of gardening, nature, and nature-based philosophy.

Brian joined me in Sun Studio (the Plant Yourself Podcast shed) to talk about his notions of “nature time,” and how we can reconnect with our own nature by orienting ourselves to the natural cycles all around us.

He also shared a calendar that he's designed, called “The Space of a Year,” which is now for sale online at http://thespaceofayear.artspan.com.

If your holiday gift giving includes nature lovers and those with a cosmological bent, check it out. The Artspan site offers a lot of options, but this is what I recommend:

  • Choose the 35″ x 23″ or the 24″ x 23″ size
  • Choose the “Prints” tab (not “Original”)
  • Paper prints – no glass, no frame, no mat, choose Premium Archival Matte paper

Since we spend some time referring to the calendar, I recommend checking out the YouTube version of this podcast, which you can watch below.

YouTube player

Also, here's a PDF showing the full calendar and details, along with links to purchase and join the conversation on social media.

Brian's fairly shy of the limelight (as you'll notice if you click the “About the artist” link on ArtSpan and find “Just some guy”), so I'm delighted that he agreed to visit Sun Studio and do the video thing with me!

Enjoy, add your voice to the conversation via the comment box below, and please share – that's how we spread our message and spread our roots.

Links

A Space of a Year Calendar

PDF of the calendar with detailed images

A Space of a Year on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter

Dr Howie Jacobson

This podcast is a labor of love and a way to give back to the world that has given me so much. That's why there aren't any sponsors (except me :).

My day job is helping leaders and their teams master their mindsets to remove all obstacles to heart-centered high performance.

Here are three gigs that I do:

1. Executive and Senior Leadership Mentoring and Facilitation

I work with high performing executive teams in organizations — and executive teams that need to become high  performing. My focus is mindset mastery, because it’s our mindsets that either support high performance or get in the way.

At this level, everyone’s got the skills and experience to excel and contribute at the highest level. What holds people back is mindset stuff: specifically the triggers that get them out of creative engagement and into fight-or-flight defensiveness.

My practice is all about teaching people to respond differently to those triggers by updating old maps — essentially removing the glitches that the triggers grab onto.

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I work with individual executives and leaders, one on one. The program is called Quick Wins for High Performance, and what we do is, we work strategically on one or two areas that are holding you back and keeping you from performing at your best.

We reverse engineer the presenting problems — too much work and not enough time, underperforming employees and teams, maddening organizational inefficiencies, etc — and identify and rewire the suboptimal mindsets that are behind those problems.

The work is all about updating your mental maps so your actions and responses are always appropriate, proportionate, and strategic.

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I help small business teams have high stakes conversations with skill, humor, and grace. When people feel safe, they can do their best, most creative, most collaborative work.

So that's what I do. If you'd like any of those results, drop me a line and tell me about yourself.

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Well, that's what Peter Bregman and I claim in our provocative book of that title.

What we really mean is, you can bring out the best in the people around you. If you think you're powerless to help people change, it's because you've been going about it the wrong way.

Discover our straightforward, replicable process here: You Can Change Other People.

 

Music

The Plant Yourself Podcast theme music, “Dance of Peace (Sabali Don),” is generously provided by Will Ridenour, a kora player from North Carolina who has trained with top Senegalese musicians.

It can be found on his first CD, titled Will Ridenour.

You can learn about Will, listen to more tracks, and buy music on his website, WillRidenour.com.

Gratitudes

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1 comment on “Orienting Ourselves to Natural Time with Brian Tourville: PYP 354

  1. Brian says:

    Thanks for having me on! It was a great time! Keep up the good work 🙂

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