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Conflict Decoded PodcastBreaking Free from the Victim Triangle with Heather PlettHeather Plett—facilitator, trainer, and author known globally for her work in holding space—and Katherine explore how activists often get sucked into the victim - rescuer - perpetrator vortex and how to break free.
This model supported Katherine, Heather, and many others to shift from white saviorism to a posture of more true solidarity.
Bio:
Heather Plett, is the author of the award-winning book The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership and the recently released book, Where Tenderness Lives: On Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space for Oneself.
She is the co-founder of the Centre for...2025-07-0839 min
Friends Missing Friends78. Grief Note: feeling stuck in a liminal spaceIn today’s Grief Note episode I share my thoughts about liminal space – a term I read about in the book “The Art of Holding Space” by Heather Plett. In the book, Heather Plett describes liminal space as: “a period in which something—social hierarchy, culture, belief, tradition, identity, etc.—has been dissolved and the new thing has not yet emerged to take its place.” It’s “strange, vast, and sometimes uncomfortable, a space full of complex and often overlapping emotions.” When I read all that I thought, welp. Crap. That’s definitely what I’m in t...2025-07-0811 min
Intentional Leaders Podcast with Cyndi WentlandHow to Hold Space as a Grounded Leader with Heather PlettHeather Plett, co-director of the Center for Holding Space, shares her powerful insights on the transformative practice of "holding space" and introduces the concept of being a "grounded guide" in today's leadership landscape.• The practice of holding space involves walking alongside others in their experiences without trying to control, direct, or judge them• Holding space begins with self-awareness and presence before extending to others• Nature connection and stillness practices help ground leaders in presence• Seeing and honoring people's innate potential requires overcoming cultural biases about productivity• The "grounded guide" approach helps leaders navigate liminal sp...2025-06-1748 min
Transformed & Transformational165: On Tour at Christmastime - A Calling Story (with Danny Plett)From playing music with his family to his calling into missions work to touring through Germany, musician Danny Plett traces the story of God’s provision and faithfulness in his life. Danny pulls back the curtain on dark seasons of his life and gives a behind-the-scenes look at his Christmas tour in Germany. Learn more about Danny Plett here! “My prayer had always been: ‘I want to be able to provide for my family, I want my ministry to affect people for Jesus Christ, and I want to be able to not burn my family out.’” “God’s economy is jus...2024-12-2053 min
Systemische Ontmoetingen (Vidarte)E12 Systemisch Goudwerk S2E4, Heather PlettThema bij blok 2: Hoe maak je een bedding voor verandering en ‘heling’?In deze vierde aflevering van Systemisch Goudwerk 2025, de tweede jaargang, ontmoeten wij, Yvonne Stams en Peter Dalmeijer, Heather Plett.
Het gaat in dit blok niet over de systemische interventies. Waar het wel om gaat is de vraag vanuit welke plek je handelt als je een vraag krijgt om te helpen, coachen of adviseren. Welke plek wordt jou impliciet of expliciet aangereikt? Welke plek ben je (vanuit jouw achtergrond) zo gewend om in te nemen? En welke plek is dienend?
2024-11-1945 min
PWE & ME Podcast088: The Power of Holding Space: Leading Through Liminal Space and Workplace Change with Heather PlettIn this episode of Evolve: A New Era of Leadership, I’m joined by Heather Plett, author of the award-winning book The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership. Heather shares her deep insights on the powerful practice of holding space, its transformative impact on leadership, and the evolving needs of leaders in today’s world. Heather discusses how holding space is a key leadership competency that fosters personal and organizational transformation. From her extensive experience as a facilitator and co-founder of the Centre for Holding Space, Heather explains how leaders can integrate this practice into thei...2024-10-0852 min
Evolve: A New Era of Leadership088: The Power of Holding Space: Leading Through Liminal Space and Workplace Change with Heather PlettIn this episode of Evolve: A New Era of Leadership, I’m joined by Heather Plett, author of the award-winning book The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership. Heather shares her deep insights on the powerful practice of holding space, its transformative impact on leadership, and the evolving needs of leaders in today’s world. Heather discusses how holding space is a key leadership competency that fosters personal and organizational transformation. From her extensive experience as a facilitator and co-founder of the Centre for Holding Space, Heather explains how leaders can integrate this...2024-10-0852 min
Moments with MarianneThe Art of Holding Space with Heather PlettWould you like to be present for yourself and others in a way that empowers all? Tune in for a discussion with Heather Plett on her book The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership.Moments with Marianne airs in the Southern California area on KMET1490AM & 98.1 FM, an ABC Talk News Radio affiliate! Heather Plett is an award-winning author and co-founder of the Centre for Holding Space. She is an international speaker, facilitator, and writer, and her work has been translated into a dozen languages and...2024-06-2934 min
The Divorce Survival Guide PodcastEpisode 269: Where Tenderness Lives with Heather PlettWe’re talking about tenderness and holding space with Heather Plett, author of the award-winning book The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership and the recently released book Where Tenderness Lives: On Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space for Oneself. Heather opens up about her experience of dealing with divorce, co-founding the Center for Holding Space, and authoring books that dive into these concepts. Our conversation reveals how embracing tenderness towards oneself can disrupt patriarchal and capitalist structures and highlights the importance of self-care, setting boundaries, and the deep dive required for personal growth. ...2024-05-3047 min
Overcoming Child Sexual Abuse ~ With Kathy AndersenWhere Tenderness Lives: Healing, Liberation, and Holding SpaceToday, we’re joined by acclaimed author, facilitator and teacher, Heather Plett, who first joined us in Season Three when we spoke about Heather’s book, The Art of Holding Space. In this podcast, we talk about Heather’s recently released book, Where Tenderness Lives: On Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space for Oneself, which is described as “A journey of self-exploration, forgiveness, and individual and collective healing.”Where Tenderness Lives is an exploration of what it means to unravel what we’ve learned from our families, societies, religions, and cultures so we can heal and create purposeful a...2024-05-081h 06
Immerse Yourself in Stories Through Sound With Full AudiobookWhere Tenderness Lives: On Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space for Oneself Audiobook by Heather PlettListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://hotaudiobook.com/freeID: 735651
Title: Where Tenderness Lives: On Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space for Oneself
Author: Heather Plett
Narrator: Heather Plett
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:09:51
Language: English
Release date: 04-30-24
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Genres: Self Development, Health & Wellness
Summary:
A journey of self-exploration, forgiveness, and individual and collective healing.
Where Tenderness Lives is a loving exploration of what it means to unravel what weve learned from our families, societies, religions, and cultures in order to heal and create a purposeful and joyful life. In this illuminating book, acclaimed author Heather Plett...2024-04-307h 09
A Tender Space with Heather & KristaS1E0 Where Tenderness Lives with Heather and KristaIn this special episode that marked the birth of A Tender Space, our new social space for intimate conversations and community building, Centre for Holding Space co-founders, Heather Plett and Krista dela Rosa share their hearts around why we are where we are today, the continuation of a tender journey from friendship, work-wives, holding a shared business and an international team, then a new book!
A Tender Space Podcast is our new horizon of exploring tenderness and holding space across perspectives and voices. Join us in these intimate conversations!
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From Crisis to Connection - with Geoff & Jody SteurerHolding Space - with Heather Plett - Episode 218“Holding Space” is a term that is becoming more popular, but can be difficult to define and conceptualize in language. In this episode, we are fortunate to hear from Heather Plett, co-founder of the International Centre for Holding Space. Heather shares her expertise as she expounds on the idea of lessening our reactive responses and supporting what others need in the moment without our personal input and projections.
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From Crisis to Connection - with Geoff & Jody SteurerHolding Space - with Heather Plett - Episode 218“Holding Space” is a term that is becoming more popular, but can be difficult to define and conceptualize in language. In this episode, we are fortunate to hear from Heather Plett, co-founder of the International Centre for Holding Space. Heather shares her expertise as she expounds on the idea of lessening our reactive responses and supporting what others need in the moment without our personal input and projections.
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The Spiral Path BlogRemembering how to pray I Heather PlettI wake up among the treetops. I peek out the window near my head and I see the shadowy lake below, surrounded by the shadowy trees. Across the lake, I hear the train that was probably the reason for my waking. I close my eyes and a smile creeps across my face. I love the melancholy sound of a train passing through wild spaces. I don’t care for it much in the city, but out here, away from civilization, the clicking and clacking and screeching of metal on metal, especially in the middle of the night, sounds to me...2023-10-3106 min
How Yoga Changed My Life39. Hot Tears and PratyaharaThis week, Mia and Adrienne sit down with Amanda. An SATX native, Amanda shares her experiences with yoga after losing her father to cancer and her work with teaching yoga to kids, teens and adults inside mental health facilities. From hot tears and deep work, to teaching those impacted with trauma, addiction and mental health, Amanda serves as a strong, confident yogi to those that need it the most. Links below!Pratyahara Yoga JournalYoga Sutras of PatanjaliThe Art of Holding Space by Heather PlettSan Antonio Rape C...2023-10-301h 31
The Spiral Path BlogTending the fire: On relationships and nurturing trust I Heather PlettSometimes, when it has rained all day and everything is damp, it’s nearly impossible to start a fire, even if the wood was under a tarp. Last night was one of those nights. The challenge was compounded by the fact that the only paper I had on hand were the pages of my journal and I was reluctant to tear out too many.
Read more...2023-10-2706 minThe Spiral Path BlogA love letter to the woman at the lake I Heather PlettI came here, to the lake, feeling discouraged and a little burnt out from putting so much free content into the world. This is the time of year I have to be the most active on social media because we are marketing our Fall programs, both online and in-person. I always find myself getting knocked off my equilibrium in times like these. I start seeing social media as a monster with insatiable hunger and I am one of many who are chained to the beast and must never stop feeding it lest it turn toward us to make a...2023-10-2506 minThe Spiral Path BlogThe vulnerability of being a parent, especially when our children fall apart I Heather PlettI can’t fix it. I want SO BADLY to fix it. My daughter is in distress, she’s far away, and all I can do is be here, listening, at the other end of a FaceTime call. I feel so helpless. My words feel empty and void of purpose. My emotions swell into desperation as my nervous system sends my brain scrambling to find at least one small thing that is fixable by me, her mom. There is nothing.
This is the hard stuff of parenting young adult children from a distance. I feel so frequently helpl...2023-10-1911 minThe Spiral Path BlogDo you still have hope? On climate change, despair, and holding space I Heather PlettI wonder sometimes if I still have hope. Every time I read the news (and those times are becoming fewer and fewer) there are more reasons for despair. We hear dire warnings of what will happen if our global climate increases by yet another degree. All around us, there are more and more massive climate-related catastrophes flooding cities, heating the oceans, and burning up big swaths of forests (and all the homes in those forests). All the while, there seems to be so little political and collective will to make the kinds of real changes that are necessary. Our...2023-10-1610 minThe Spiral Path BlogWhen I remember who I am: On freedom, embodiment, and holding space for oneself I Heather PlettI’ve come to the woods to remember who I am. As I write this, I’m off-the-grid, offline and unplugged, tucked into a tiny cabin by a lake, with just enough solar power to occasionally charge my laptop so that I can write. I cook over a propane stove and haul water in a bucket to wash my few dishes. The only bathroom facility is a compost toilet in a little outhouse just a little further up the hill. I brush my teeth with a cup of water and then spit into the woods. I haven’t showered or loo...2023-10-1206 minThe Spiral Path BlogCrying in the church basement: On parenting children who don’t fit the box I Heather PlettI was crying in the church basement while my toddler ran circles around the room. I was certain I must be doing something wrong as a parent. My brother’s two sons were upstairs, sitting in cherubic silence on the hard wooden pew, while all the grownups around them listened to their grandpa (my dad) deliver a sermon. But not my child – my child would never sit still in church, no matter how I bribed her with candy or colouring books, no matter how much I pleaded.
Read more...2023-10-1015 minThe Spiral Path BlogGuides for the liminal spaces: On queerness, neurodivergence, and the boxes that don’t fit us anymore I Heather PlettThere’s a place I love to walk. I discovered it at the beginning of the summer, when my daughters and I rented a little house in a different neighbourhood of the city than where we’d lived before. It’s a low-lying area along the Red River, ending where it meets the Seine River. It’s an area that’s frequently flooded in Spring when the rivers swell their banks. You can see the marks of past floods on the trunks of the trees that are rooted there.
I love this place because it feels liminal – a space betw...2023-10-0514 min
Think on PurposeBig FeelingsSend us a textWe have all experienced big feelings, but most of us have no idea what to do when it happens. Even worse - what if you get big feelings at work?! Or, what if you are around someone who has big feelings - it can be so uncomfortable and awkward when you don't know how to help the person solve the problem. The good news is - there are only 2 things you actually need to do:1. regulate yourself and your emotions2. hold spaceLearn exactly what this means in today's episode.2023-10-0315 min
The Spiral Path BlogLean in: On trauma, embodied trust and holding space I Heather PlettI was lying on a table and the practitioner holding my arm with both hands was saying “relax your muscles and let me move your arm for you”. With all of my will, I tried. I wanted to do what she asked, if only to make my inner people-pleaser happy. I wanted to be completely relaxed, trusting her to manoeuvre my arm the way she was trying to do it. But I couldn’t. I just COULD NOT. Every time she tried to move my arm, my muscles would involuntarily tighten, anticipate the movement she was trying to manage, and th...2023-09-2110 min
Greenhouse WellnessEp. 4 - Holding Space for Ourselves & OthersToday in the Greenhouse...Heather Plett, acclaimed author of "The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation and Leadership and co-founder of the "Centre for Holding Space" walks listeners through the practices and ideas around holding space for ourselves and others, a valuable tool in our wellness toolbox. Connect with Heather on IG @heatherplett @centreholdingspace2023-09-0646 minThe Spiral Path BlogLet Go, Dear Parent (Tips for when your child moves away) I Heather PlettMy social media feed is filling up with images of grinning college students settling into dorm rooms. Sometimes the parents who are posting those images are in the photos and grinning too, but beneath the grins and cheery captions… well, there’s a lifetime of stories and a whole host of other stuff. I can see it in their eyes. (Let’s face it, when your child moves away, it’s hard to keep it from showing up in your eyes.)
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The Spiral Path BlogFrom the Path to the Living Room: Celebrating friendships of all kinds I Heather PlettThere’s an older man I often encounter on the path when I go for my morning walks. We’ve become path-friends, always stopping for a brief interaction when we happen upon each other. Once, he showed me how the inside of his hat was falling apart, but “I just can’t bear to throw it away,” he said, tucking the broken bits in as he pulled the hat back onto his head. Another time he was laughing about the people he’d watched fishing unsuccessfully on the shore. “Just metres away,” he said, “the fish were leaping out of the water as if...2023-08-0112 min
BETTER with Mark BrandHeather Plett: Holding SpaceThis week, Mark's guest is Heather Plett, an international speaker, facilitator, writer, and life-long learner. She's the author of the book The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation, and Leadership and the soon-to-be-released book, Where Tenderness Lives: On Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space for Oneself. She is also the co-founder of the Centre for Holding Space. Mark and Heather talk about their respective journeys through grief and the tools that we can all use to hold space for ourselves and those around us. Before launching her work in holding space, Heather worked in leadership and...2023-07-3144 minThe Spiral Path BlogMeet me at the dinner table (a post about the end of the world) I Heather PlettIn the movie Don’t Look Up, two scientists (played by Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio) try to convince the public that an astroid is about to hit and, unless some action is taken to mitigate the threat, the earth is about to be destroyed. They have little success in their urgent mission and, at the end of the movie (spoiler alert) there’s nothing more they can do so, as the astroid hurtles toward them, they sit down together with their friends and family to enjoy a final meal.
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The Spiral Path BlogTranscendence: Lessons learned from a moment at the folk festival I Heather PlettTranscendent (adjective) [tran(t)-ˈsen-dənt]: exceeding usual limits; extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience; being beyond comprehension; a spiritual or religious state, or a condition of moving beyond physical needs and realities
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Every year at the Winnipeg Folk Festival, it happens at least once – I have a transcendent experience. It usually happens at one of the smaller stages, tucked away under the trees, while I’m listening to an intimate concert with a singer-songwriter. It’s a combination of things that align to bring together this exquisite moment – the cotton-ball clouds in the...2023-07-1407 minThe Spiral Path BlogWhy Krista Should Rest (and you should too) I Heather PlettKrista is taking the month of July for some much-needed rest, but because Krista is a high-functioning person who is very good at GETTING STUFF DONE (she has, in the past, had seven part-time jobs at once, while raising children and running a church) and not very good at slowing down and letting other people get stuff done without her, she is resisting (and sometimes sending me belligerent texts as a result). I love her dearly, so I’m doing whatever I can to take things off her plate and guard the boundaries so that she can rest (just as...2023-07-1107 min
The Spiral Path BlogThe Woman by the River: on holding space for those in despair I Heather PlettI had good intensions of writing something light-hearted this week, in celebration of the beginning of summer and the launch of my new program, A Full-Bodied Life. The first lesson in that program is about embracing joy, so it seemed fitting to write something joyful. But then something hard happened, and those plans were set aside because it felt more important to write about this. Sometimes, that’s just the way life is. Sometimes the hard gets mixed in with the happy (which is all part of what I teach in A Full-Bodied Life). Maybe next week I’ll be bac...2023-07-0610 minThe Spiral Path BlogTell the Truth to yourself I Heather Plett“Tell the truth to yourself,” sing the Avett Brothers, “and the rest will fall in place.”2023-06-2913 min
The Spiral Path BlogGo Into the Woods I Heather PlettOn my semi-regular walk this morning, I found myself in the woods and suddenly realized I wasn’t really IN the woods. I’d headed down a familiar path, and yes, I was surrounded by trees, but I wasn’t really present. My body could have been anywhere while my mind was on its own separate journey. My mind was busy bopping around, thinking about all of the things involved in launching my new program today, and ruminating over some challenging conversations I’ve had recently. Truth be told, I hadn’t noticed a single tree and, even though I didn’t hav...2023-06-2905 min
The Spiral Path BlogRethinking Liminality: evolving my understanding of “the space in between” I Heather Plett“Liminal space is an inner state and sometimes an outer situation where we can begin to think and act in new ways. It is where we are betwixt and between, having left one room or stage of life but not yet entered the next. We usually enter liminal space when our former way of being is challenged or changed—perhaps when we lose a job or a loved one, during illness, at the birth of a child, or a major relocation. It is a graced time, but often does not feel ‘graced’ in any way. In such space, we are not...2023-06-2107 min
Systemische Ontmoetingen (Vidarte)C06 Op het pad van je ziel, afl. 6: Annelies MeijersOp het pad van je ziel, aflevering 6: Annelies Meijers “Het leven als pad van magische taak naar holding space”Annelies Meijers is geboren als Zeeuws meisje uit een ondernemersgezin. De roots van haar familie ligt al generaties lang in Zeeland. Haar magische taak bestond als jong kind al uit ‘zorgen dat het goed gaat met mama’. Ze heeft al jong geleerd hoe ze moest omgaan met familiegeheimen. In haar professionele leven werkt ze, als systemisch coach, vooral met familiebedrijven. De dynamiek tussen de familie en de onderneming kent ze als geen ander. De ontmoeting met Heather Plett en diens...2023-06-2148 min
The Spiral Path BlogSome thoughts on loneliness, solitude and connection I Heather PlettFor the last eight months, I’ve been a solo traveler, wandering around Europe and Central America while working as a digital nomad. Sometimes friends joined me for short periods, sometimes I stayed with friends in their homes, and sometimes I was facilitating workshops where I was surrounded by people. Mostly, though, I traveled alone.
“How do you deal with the loneliness?” That’s the question I heard most frequently when people learned I was traveling alone. Some of those people wanted to try solo travel but were afraid they’d be too lonely, some couldn’t imagine ever...2023-05-1810 min
The Spiral Path BlogThe birds I carry with me (lessons on living and dying well) I Heather PlettIn my luggage, I carry two birds – a grey stuffed owl and a yellow clay bird whistle. Most of what I carry with me from place to place, as I travel across Central America, is functional, but these two things are purely sentimental. Read more...
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This Is Woman's Work with Nicole Kalil127 / Trauma with Jessi BeyerThis is a tough one because I’m so fully aware of how IMPORTANT, how
complex, and how necessary this topic is. And I truly hope I treat it with the care and respect it is due.
On this episode of TIWW we’re going to talk about Mental Health and Trauma. If this topic feels triggering or not supportive to you right now, then hit pause and join us next week.
I’ve asked Jessi Beyer, an international speaker and the #1 best-selling author of How To Heal:
A Practical Guide To Nin...2023-03-0145 min
The Spiral Path BlogJoy in the Liminal Season I Heather Plett“Can the liminal space also be joyful?” Someone asked me that recently, at the end of a talk I gave to facilitators of Deep Democracy in Belgium.
“Yes, definitely!” I said. “I’m in such a liminal space right now!”
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Overcoming Child Sexual Abuse ~ With Kathy AndersenThe Art of Holding SpaceToday, I’m thrilled to be joined by Heather Plett. Heather is known internationally as an expert in the art of holding space. What does it mean to become an expert in “holding space?” Well, as Heather reflects, “ In my case, it took a lot of grief and trauma and many years of fumbling…” and she says, “I think it’s true that many of us end up teaching what we most need to learn.”I first met Heather through her online workshop, The Art of Holding Space, named after her book. Through her book and her workshops, Heather...2022-10-131h 08The Spiral Path BlogRejected. Barriers for entry and how they’re used to uphold systems I Heather PlettI was in Chartres, France, a few days ago. Everyone who’s been there says that, if I’m visiting the Cathedral, I should do my best to see the crypt. So I did my best.
The website said the crypt was open between 2 and 2:45 p.m. It didn’t say a ticket was needed, and I hadn’t seen any signage when I was in the cathedral the day before that a ticket was needed, so I showed up at 1:45 and waited for the crypt to open.
Read more...2022-10-1110 minThe Spiral Path BlogWhat do I mean when I talk about Liberation and Tenderness? I Heather PlettI’m on my Liberation and Tenderness Tour. After selling my house and putting my personal things in storage, I set off on what is likely to be a 5-6 month adventure, starting in Europe. (You can follow along on social media – #liberationandtendernesstour.)
Perhaps you want to know what I mean when I talk about Liberation and Tenderness? I’ve been thinking about these themes for a long time, but I don’t always articulate what I mean by them. While sitting on the train yesterday, somewhere between France and Belgium, I started writing a list of what eac...2022-10-1105 minThe Spiral Path BlogThe Path to Liberation and Tenderness Starts with Holding Space I Heather PlettBack when I first committed myself to diving deeper into this work of holding space, after I’d wrestled through the initial resistance and overwhelm that came when my blog post went viral and my inbox was suddenly flooded with requests for me to teach about a concept I wasn’t sure I fully understood myself, I started building the first version of what is now the Holding Space Foundation Program. I didn’t yet know what it would be, I didn’t know that I’d eventually publish a book about it or open a Centre for Holding Space, but I kne...2022-09-2910 min
The Spiral Path BlogOn Cultivating a Lifestyle of Joy I Heather Plett“We create most of our suffering, so it should be logical that we also have the ability to create more joy. It simply depends on the attitudes, the perspectives, and the reactions we bring to situations and to our relationships with other people. When it comes to personal happiness there is a lot that we as individuals can do.” ― Dalai Lama XIV, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World In The Book of Joy, which consists of a week-long conversation between the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmund Tutu, the two spiritual teachers talk about how they...2022-09-2816 min
The Spiral Path BlogThe lessons I’m learning about holding space and letting go in the middle of a big life change I Heather PlettI’m at the airport, ready to fly from the west coast of Canada to the east coast (where I’ll spend time with some dear friends), and then, next week, I’m heading to Europe for a few months, followed by some time in Costa Rica. I drove to the west coast from my home in the middle of Canada to move my youngest daughter back to university, and then I left my car with my middle daughter. All that I will wear and use for the next six months is packed into carry-on luggage. If you’ve...2022-09-0823 min
Divine Leaders of Change with Maree EddingsThe Art of Holding Space with Heather PlettIs holding space is buzz term or does it actually have meaning, purpose and tangibility? If you are in the world of coaching, leadership and change I know that this is a term that you have heard, used and may even say practice. I know I do. On today's episode I chat with the author of The Art of Holding Space: A Practice of Love, Liberation and Leadership, Heather Plett. Heather's work has been translated into a dozen langauges and hs been quoted in notable publications as Harvard Business Review and she has t...2022-08-1536 minThe Spiral Path BlogPrepare for the lurch (on launching and letting go) I Heather PlettOn summer mornings, I like to cycle to the park and then sit with my journal on a bench overlooking the boat launch (a practice I wrote about on my personal blog). Sometimes it’s a quiet place and sometimes (especially on weekends) there are multiple boats being launched. Either way, I enjoy the view.
It takes a certain amount of skill to launch a boat well. You have to back in at just the right angle and into just the right depth of water, close enough to the dock so that you can launch without stepping int...2022-08-0404 min
The Spiral Path BlogI am leaping into liminal space I Heather PlettI am leaping into liminal space. I have sold my house and this month I’ll be selling my furniture, packing my personal belongings into storage and heading off to Europe for a few months. After that, I plan to spend some time in Costa Rica, and then… I don’t know. I haven’t yet decided how long I will live a nomadic lifestyle and how (or where) I will eventually come to define “home”.
When people ask about my future plans, some are incredulous, some are baffled, and some express their longing to do something similar. It’s h...2022-08-0410 min
Practicing ConnectionHeather Plett: On Holding Space and Mutual Liberation (S.3, Ep.5)Subscribe on Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Google Podcasts, or Stitcher. Join us in the “Practicing Connection” community. When you sign up you’ll receive a monthly email focused on practicing connection. The email will help us… Continue Reading Heather Plett: On Holding Space and Mutual Liberation (S.3, Ep.5)"Military Families and Food Security: A Call to Action" will focus on expanding food security for our military family population by mobilizing family service professionals at federal, state, and local levels to work together on this issue. This series will consist of 2 live events and 1 self-paced course. In addition, OneOp programming will offer live a...2022-06-2938 minThe Spiral Path BlogWhat’s the value of a home? What’s the value of a body? I Heather PlettIt all starts when a real estate agent sees me naked. It’s 8:30 a.m. and I am emerging from my bathroom, where I’d been blow-drying my hair, into my bedroom where I am about to get dressed. He is standing there, in my hallway, looking completely flummoxed.
My real estate agent (not the one standing in my hallway), had told me that the first viewing by a potential buyer was happening at 9 a.m., and I’d planned to be dressed and gone from the premises before then. Due to some mixup, this agent had booked...2022-06-2819 min
The Spiral Path BlogWhat are we talking about when we talk about systems? (A primer on systems theory) I Heather PlettRecently, I created a short video about worthiness and posted it on social media. It was about how it’s hard to develop a sense of self-worth, no matter how many self-help books we read or therapy sessions we attend, if we don’t understand that we are all embedded in systems of worthiness and have been taught, since infancy, how to measure our worth in those systems. I was talking about systems like patriarchy, white supremacy, and colonization. I created that video partly because I was trying to increase the reach for the Centre’s work on social med...2022-04-2814 min
No Need to Explain with the Mental Health MamasThe Art of Holding Space: An Interview with Heather PlettIn this week’s episode, the Mental Health Mamas are joined by Heather Plett, author, facilitator, speaker and founder of The Centre for Holding Space. In 2015 she wrote a blog post about How to Hold Space which has now been viewed by over 10 million people and which launched “holding space” from the seed of an idea to a frequently discussed practice. If you’ve ever used the term “holding space”, practiced holding space for someone else, longed for someone to hold space for you or have no idea what it means to hol...2022-04-2622 min