In this second episode of Season 2 of The Fosgail Mindset, Myka Kennedy Stephens builds on Attendant Leadership by turning toward its relational core. Using a story from her early years as a seminary librarian tasked with “right‑sizing” a 200,000‑volume theological library, she explores how even seemingly technical projects are deeply relational—touching staff, students, alumni, institutional leaders, the collection itself, the environment, and her own sense of vocation.
Drawing on Margaret Wheatley’s insight that nothing exists in isolation and everything takes shape in and through relationship, Myka introduces two dimensions of relationality in Attendant Leadership: relational scope (from self to community) and relational depth (from humanity to the more‑than‑human world/cosmos). She shares how this simple two‑dimensional lens helped her notice where her attention was going—and where it wasn’t—when making hard decisions about deselection, environmental impact, and her own limits as a leader.
Listeners are invited to reflect on their own leadership contexts by asking: Where am I most strongly attending right now—self, community, humanity, or cosmos? And what might shift if I treated my next difficult decision as an opportunity to re‑locate myself within a larger web of relationships?
Read the companion blog article: https://www.fosgail.org/blog/2026/02/09/2026-02-09_attending-to-relationships/
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