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Relationship MattersEp.6.20 Pre-Framing: How Story Shapes Our ExperienceIn this episode, Katie Churchman talks with CRR Global faculty member Stephen Burke about the importance of pre-framing. Pre-framing involves considering the lens through which we look before stepping into a conversation, meeting, or project. In this conversation, we explore how pre-framing can help systems workers and their clients navigate conflict, change, and uncertainty. Whether we are delivering difficult news or providing feedback, how might the way we frame the conversation help us to positively influence the emotional field.What you’ll gain from this episode:Awareness around the power and importance of pre-framing in coachingStrategies fo...2025-07-0937 minRelationship MattersEp.6.16 The Reflective Practitioner Part 3: Reimagining Systems Through the Power of Reflective PracticeWhat you’ll gain from this episode:An understanding of how to use reflective practice to update and reimagine the stories we tell ourselvesAn awareness of reflective practice as a powerful ally for crossing edges.Insight into how reflective practice can create space within our internal landscape.Using reflective practice as a tool for understanding the themes and patterns of our lives.Vulnerable examples from Alfred about how reflective practice has helped him to build relationship with different parts of himself.Alfred De Pew is a cultural worker, writer, painter and process fac...2025-05-0732 minRelationship MattersEp.6.15 The Reflective Practitioner Part 2: Exploring Deep Listening Through Reflective PracticeWhat you’ll gain from this episode:The significance of unfolding in the process of reflective practice.An understanding of the importance of slowing down and feeling into the body in reflective practice.Ways to enlist the help of the observer, as opposed to blocking them through interpretation and judgement.Techniques for deepening signals that show up in reflective practice so that we can amplify and understand them more deeply. Examples from Alfred and Katie that demonstrate how inner work can impact our outer world.Alfred De Pew is a cultural worker, wri...2025-04-2333 minRelationship MattersEp.6.14 The Reflective Practitioner Part 1: The Foundations of Reflective PracticeWhat you’ll gain from this episode:An insight into the power of reflective practice as a tool for understanding ourselves better in relationship to the world.Awareness of how to build reflective practice into your life through journalling, free-writing and drawing.Ways to allow our authentic voice to emerge in reflective practice, without editing it out or blocking.Techniques that will help you to sit in the process rather than focus on the output or destination.Colourful examples from Alfred about the influential impact of journaling in his life as a teacher, coach and mentor....2025-04-0939 minRelationship MattersEp.6.13 What Story is Your Team Telling?Is the story you're telling expansive or limiting? In this episode of the Relationship Matters podcast, Kiki Kesseler and host Katie Churchman discuss the importance of the narrative in coaching. Kiki, a CRR Global faculty member with 20 years of experiences, emphasizes how stories shape our reality and agency. She shares recollections that highlight the need for conscious and intentional storytelling.What you’ll gain from this episode:1. Greater awareness of the power of storytelling in everyday life2. An understanding of stories as lenses we look through that shape our lives3. ...2025-03-2639 minRelationship MattersEp.6.11 Breaking Free: Overcoming Toxic Patterns in RelationshipIn this episode, Katie Churchman talks with CRR Global faculty member and UK partner Nairy McMahon about toxic communication and overcoming unhealthy patterns in our relationships. Across this conversation, they discuss and explore how to break free from unskill communication patterns by raising awareness, creating space, and owning what we want in a relationship. What you’ll gain from this episode:Insight into different types of toxic communication patterns in relationships.An understanding of how toxic communication patterns can become normalized and unconscious in our relationships.Ways to become more aware of these signals or...2025-02-2642 minRelationship MattersEp.6.10 Learning from the Third Entity: Unlocking the Power of Shared GrowthIn the second of this two-part mini-series on the Third Entity, CRR Global faculty members Yuri Morikawa and Fuyuo Sato dive deeper into the concept of the Third Entity, exploring how to lead with it and learn from it. This episode focuses on unlocking the power of shared growth, demonstrating how the Third Entity becomes a teacher and a guide in co-coaching and co-facilitating relationships. Yuri and Fuyuo share stories and strategies for navigating challenges, fostering collaboration, and embracing the unexpected lessons that emerge from the relationship itself. Through practical examples and thought-provoking insights, they illustrate how...2025-02-1235 minRelationship MattersEp.6.9 Building the Third Entity: Laying the Foundation for Strong RelationshipsWhat is the Third Entity, and how can we get even more deliberate in working with it? It's a key idea in systems inspired coaching, since we work directly with the unique and dynamic "personality" that is created when two people come together in relationship. In this first episode of a two-part series, CRR Global faculty members Yuri Morikawa and Fuyuo Sato explore how they foster trust, alignment, and creativity by intentionally cultivating their Third Entity.Through personal insights and professional experiences, Yuri and Fuyuo share foundational principles for building strong relationships and provide actionable...2025-01-2939 minRelationship MattersEp.6.7 The Body as a DoorwayIn this reflective episode of Relationship Matters, host Katie Churchman and CRR Global co-founder Faith Fuller invite listeners to explore the body as a profound doorway to personal and relational transformation. Drawing from her own experiences, Faith shares how her evolving relationship with her changing body has become a channel for development and awe-inspiring insight.Through moments of stillness and awareness, Faith reveals how embracing the body’s finite nature can be a gateway to wisdom and profound presence. She discusses the challenges of navigating physical changes and how they have offered her transformative lessons—inviting listeners to s...2025-01-0152 min