In episode seventeen, Tim and Tuesday talk about the difference between being clear and having a feeling of clarity—even through confusion. How can we train ourselves to stay open and keep moving forward in rooms electric with uncertainty? What can we do to ensure our energy as leaders is a renewable resource?

When multiple organizations come together with good intentions of sharing change, how do we open up and co-own new ways of working, sharing, and learning? In this video from the Malmö experience, Tim explores the state of being—and the leap of faith—essential to cross-sector, cross-organizational change.

Interview with Joel Veborg and Rodolpho Zuniga of Save The Children, and Sabina Tethorey of City of Malmö. Forward Malmö is a movement that brings together a number of organizations with shared and overlapping mandates to multi-sector, multi-stakeholder change. How can we best convene to change the conditions that impact shared problems?

At a working session on systems change last fall, Tim and Tuesday's opening remarks focused on how to show up. If we’re going to approach difference differently—in the interest of different (better!) results—how should we fend-off the shut-down of our automatic turf protection mode?

In episode fifteen, Tim and Tuesday share insights on their many rapid-pace leaps and lessons over the last year. The Outside’s team, delivery, story, and facilitation is a constant iteration—a balance of incredible field work, personal growth, and big building. This week, they explore how to do justice to the work—and work to justice.

Happy birthday to us Outsiders—from launch day in March 2018 to now, we’re into our second year of existence. Tim and I got together to reflect on such a big, challenging, and exciting year—one rich with expansion and travel, new movements and longtime colleagues.

Facilitators aren’t naturally better at levelling-up the possibility in a room. They practice it. In episode fourteen of FIND THE OUTSIDE: THE PODCAST, master facilitator Gibrán Rivera joins Tim and Tuesday for a conversation about how to co-create the space to tackle insurmountable problems.

As Tuesday describes the unique exhaustion and stimulation of our work: It’s human beings and more human beings and more human beings with all their human-beingness. We laugh about that, but boy—humanbeingness is a heck of a domain to try and nudge one way or another. Today, after yet another epic trip, we imagine the advice we’d share with our selves of five or ten years ago, when we were just starting out in our practice of leading change.

To understand today’s reality, we need to examine yesterday’s actions and our connection to them. In episode thirteen of FIND THE OUTSIDE: THE PODCAST, Tim and Tuesday continue the conversation around history, impact, and our world.

One thing we’re all well-served to remember: no matter where you came from or how you came up, our ancestry is complicated. And we are all still feeling the reverberations of it. Tim’s episode was last week, and mine is next week. When you listen, try to hold the complexity of both realities without dismissing either.

To understand today, we examine our connection to yesterday’s actions. In episode twelve of FIND THE OUTSIDE: THE PODCAST, Tim and Tuesday honour and interpret their ancestors’ roles and impacts — think reverberations of colonialism and class — to grasp the underpinnings of our current world.

“How you’re capturing these conversations here is the way that my people have been capturing their history for thousands of years,” explained the elder. “Don’t ever think of it as a gimmick. You’re doing something important and sacred.” Stand up now, fellow bards. And keep standing.

To sustain momentum, we need to be able to recognize and opt out of limiting beliefs. In episode six of FIND THE OUTSIDE: THE PODCAST, Tim and Tuesday explore the role played by limiting beliefs in their work on systems change, equity and leadership—and the practice of letting them go.

What would we say to a group of collaborators tasked with a new mandate and about to set out into that new territory? What’s most important to remember, especially given the certainty of facing difficult realities and doing things counter to ‘the way things have always been done’? For a primer and refresher in-one, watch the whole 20x20 presentation. Let’s keep stretching!

How can we combat cynicism and despair in leading change? In episode ten of FIND THE OUTSIDE: THE PODCAST, Tim and Tuesday talk to author and collaborator Kate Inglis on the parallels of being light-keepers despite impossible loss as human beings, and impossible odds as change leaders.

In 2019, how might you reassess your effect? What edges need softening? What needs sharpening? When it feels shaky this year, try continuing to say YES. Stay the course. A big idea, ambition, or change isn’t supposed to be smooth, graceful, or easy. All of it requires rootlessness. Humility. Fluidity. And a heck of a shake.

How to build bridges for action and capacity? Hint: it’s all in the listening. In episode nine of FIND THE OUTSIDE: THE PODCAST, Tim and Tuesday dig into the reflex to act without pausing to consider the schisms at-play — and illuminate how and why we retreat from difficulty (and from each other).

Here’s more on why depth is such a primary actor on the stage of change, whether we’re embracing it or hiding from it: good change requires good vulnerability. If we embrace it, we all step forward. If we hide, our capacity dulls.

Progress requires facilitators to stage the room for healing. In episode eight of FIND THE OUTSIDE: THE PODCAST, Tim and Tuesday empathize with facilitators and collaborators separated by organizational difference or mandates — and explore how to go deep and draw out the greatest value.

Change is scary. It’s uncertain territory. Even when we think of ourselves as pretty open to change—even actively seeking it—we’re more skittish and territorial animals than we like to think. The good news: forging a way through stuckness is a skill and a self-awareness we can practice.