BEHAVE
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Team Dynamics Presents: BEHAVE Aligning your VALUES with your ACTIONS Rather than doubling down on social or political analysis, BEHAVE asks the question, “So, what are YOU going to DO about that?” Change making work should be challenging but it should also be fun. On Behave, Trina and Alfonso talk through how to intertwine the difficult and the fun to be effective and fulfilled. They won’t be quiet about what it takes to behave. Hosted by Team Dynamics co-founders Alfonso Wenker and Trina Olson, BEHAVE is a bi-weekly show that offers information, inspiration, and skill development meant to support folks who operate as change agents inside their own communities and organizations. Using their combined experiences in leadership with non-profits and in campaign organizing, Trina and Alfonso spend each episode digging into what it takes to be a movement builder, an effective leader, someone who works across-perspectives, is action-focused, and knows how to operate in their own integrity.
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United States
Description:
Team Dynamics Presents: BEHAVE Aligning your VALUES with your ACTIONS Rather than doubling down on social or political analysis, BEHAVE asks the question, “So, what are YOU going to DO about that?” Change making work should be challenging but it should also be fun. On Behave, Trina and Alfonso talk through how to intertwine the difficult and the fun to be effective and fulfilled. They won’t be quiet about what it takes to behave. Hosted by Team Dynamics co-founders Alfonso Wenker and Trina Olson, BEHAVE is a bi-weekly show that offers information, inspiration, and skill development meant to support folks who operate as change agents inside their own communities and organizations. Using their combined experiences in leadership with non-profits and in campaign organizing, Trina and Alfonso spend each episode digging into what it takes to be a movement builder, an effective leader, someone who works across-perspectives, is action-focused, and knows how to operate in their own integrity.
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@TeamDynamicsLLC
Language:
English
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Email:
team@teamdynamicsmn.com
Episodes
2218 Responsible to What
8/16/2022
“If I’m not well, I don’t listen well, I can’t be curious well.”
The enormity of injustice can keep the best of us from taking action if we don't slow down + notice what's needed right in front of us. Alfonso + Trina take 15 minutes to talk about how they come back to focusing on their own responsibilities + actions in organizing, activism, + work. They talk about not succumbing to helplessness + staying well enough to be effective.
Duration:00:15:53
2217 Committees at Work
8/2/2022
“I like being a part of groups that know why they’re together and know how long they’re going to be together.”
Our goal-focused hosts take an episode to talk about patterns around groups + committees in workplaces. When do folks form a group? Do they know their goals, how long they need to exist, who should be a part of the group? Alfonso + Trina share some examples of short + long-term committees inside Team Dynamics, plus they advise a few risks to watch out for.
Duration:00:27:17
Rerun 2102 Insurrection + Truth + Action
6/28/2022
“It’s important to acknowledge that this wild stuff is happening. We cannot make it small. And we also don’t need to decide that the way we feel is how everyone else feels.”
Alfonso + Trina talk about how they felt watching a white, militant insurrection at the United States Capitol. They share suggestions on how to hold space for processing national events + domestic terrorism for their workers. And they talk about the importance of telling the truth at work.
Truth/Space/Action
Duration:00:15:56
2216 Pride Month Primer
6/21/2022
“It’s not important that we know all the words. What’s important is that when someone tells us what words they use we thank them and use those words for them, too.”
It's Pride Month!
Trina + Alfonso parse out Sexuality, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, + Biological Sex. They also speak into the inextricable linkage between race, gender, + sexuality.
If your workplace is working to support your queer and BIPOC folks, we’re offering this BEHAVE Podcast LGBTQ+ Playlist as a refresher and primer for anyone who is curious about how to show up!
Duration:00:14:01
2215 Fixation on Education
6/8/2022
“What we’re trying to trouble is the idea that there’s a singular way to get ready to do any particular job.”
Trina + Alfonso talk about their own education + work backgrounds + then get into the actual impact had by having degree requirements included in job postings.
Duration:00:16:19
2214 Where work happens
5/24/2022
“A bunch of the workplace norms we practice now in the US were developed in a time when we did very different work.”
Our hosts dig into the current conversation around where people need to be in order to do their work. Mental health, care giving, access to consistent technology, + so many more things to consider when planning schedules. Why don’t we change behavior when we have data that tells us the way we’re doing things isn’t effective? Here are some questions to navigate that.
Duration:00:18:41
2213 Ethnicity, Race, USA
5/17/2022
"There are times when a focus on ethnicity keeps us from understanding the unearned advantages that come with whiteness."
Alfonso + Trina dive into how exploring ethnicity can bring tremendous advantages + disadvantages when doing intercultural capacity building work. They name how race + ethnicity mean different things in different countries while reminding us that race is tremendously impactful in the United States.
Duration:00:21:32
2212 Roe, Abortion, + Work
5/10/2022
“What this would mean is that more people with uteruses are going to die because they don’t have access to safe abortions.”
Trina + Alfonso respond to the leaked news suggesting that Roe v. Wade could be overturned by the US Supreme Court. They talk about navigating things that have been politicized without telling employees how to vote. Listen to our hosts talk about the vast impact of attempts to control the bodies + behaviors of people.
Duration:00:14:10
Ep 2211 with Kelly Fluharty
4/27/2022
“How are we going to thread and embed equity principles?” Trina flys solo but welcomes in Kelly Fluharty to organizational change, equity, + Healthcare. Kelly brings her perspective as a white, middle-class woman working in healthcare in rural Minnesota to talk about how her organization fosters a belief in the possibility of change + how they do work that is org wide.
Duration:00:31:16
2210 Meet Jovan Sage
4/19/2022
Trina + Alfonso welcome Jovan Sage onto the show. Jovan is a guide, healing facilitator, doula, alchemist, plant tender, medicine maker, and has deep experience organizing community. Sage talks about being Black, queer, & using ancestral growing practices in Savannah, GA. This episode features ideas about how folks can grow their own food, deepen their own self awareness, & learn past ways. Visit SagesCircle
Duration:00:26:55
Ep 2209 Real Goal Setting
4/5/2022
“Quite often, we experience folks really believing that their workplace culture and habits and patterns are happening to them.”
The difference between what we want to do + what we're trying to change is where goals come alive so Alfonso + Trina give some goal setting frameworks. What future do we want to realize together? Is it a change in the mix? Is it a systemic outcome change? Is it a change for individuals around their feeling welcome or that they matter?
Embodied Identity House worksheet
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Duration:00:14:37
2208 Listen Question_Leaving Well
3/15/2022
"Culture change requires community organizing."
Trina + Alfonso respond to an anonymous listener question. A white, straight, man who helped move some internal equity work forward at an organization has changed organizations but still feels connected to the work + isn't sure if he should stay directly involved or not. Our hosts offers ways to talk about shared leadership when doing workplace equity work + share some key questions to ask oneself about the role you can + should play at work.
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Duration:00:23:32
2207 Forever Work
3/8/2022
“When I make that shift in behavior + thinking, what’s next? Not, now I’m done.”
Trina + Alfonso share a zippy, lightening round episode focused on continuing to build + learn in equity work rather than wanting to reach a finish line.
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Duration:00:08:10
Ep 2206 Unsafe vs Uncomfortable
3/1/2022
“Doing new stuff is uncomfortable… until it’s a pattern.”
One of the challenges of discomfort is that it can remind us of other kinds of pain, other kinds of trauma, other kinds of fear, and sometimes it can remind us of times we have felt unsafe. Alfonso + Trina share some ways of noticing when we are experiencing discomfort as a lack of safety and reminders of the choices + opportunities those experiences offer.
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Duration:00:28:06
Ep 2205 Race is always present
2/15/2022
“Of course, any time smart women of color put out brilliant content, there is a critique from all angles.”
Our cohosts dig into an oft-occurring pattern where conversations centering race are met with a desire to focus solely on economic solutions.
Duration:00:21:05
Ep 2204 Q + A Time!
2/8/2022
“We are not subscribing to a false binary where you should be hiring people you dislike.”
Alfonso + Trina take questions from listeners + share answers, suggestions, + stories.
Check out our Tools page HERE
Duration:00:26:05
2203 Rigorous Discomfort
1/25/2022
"It almost feels like folks with do anything to not talk about race and gender."
Can you use your skill at studying the past or picturing the future and notice what’s happening in the present?
Trina + Alfonso do a zippy episode looking at the ways we get excited to dig into our own marginalized identities but often avoid paying attention to parts of us that aren't marginalized.
Duration:00:04:23
2202 Antiracist is not Anti white
1/18/2022
“When we’re defending something there is likely something worth defending. But likely not at the scale or with the volume or with the intensity that we want to defend.”
Trina + Alfonso dive into the ways some folks equate antiracist with a loss of something they value. They talk about the ways the term 'antiracist' is being used and who is using it. And they discuss how part of anti-racism work is about decreasing our obsession with control of other people and of resources.
Plus, Alfonso talks about the interaction of non-violence and anti-racism
Ibram Kendi article - The Mantra of White Supremacy
Duration:00:22:38
Ep 2201 Season 4 Kick Off
1/4/2022
To start the 4th Season of BEHAVE, Trina + Alfonso each share three areas or issues they are giving some attention as we shift into the new year.
Duration:00:13:53
Ep 2129 Dress Code Nonsense
12/21/2021
Alfonso + Trina hop into a snappy episode focused on getting clear on goals when considering how worker's bodies are policed. They focus on an overemphasis on cleavage + dreadlocks in workplace policy.
Duration:00:17:27