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Marcia Hyatt is a leadership and life coach who provides a weekly feature on WTIP's North Shore Weekend titled "The Best of Ourselves," which explores how we can be resilient and creative in these turbulent times.

CHANGING THE WORLD THREE FEET AT A TIME

How do we focus our attention to positively impact the three feet around us?

WHAT ARE YOU REFERRING TO?

One key to a construction conversation, is to be genuinely curious about the other person’s experience. Otherwise, we are just debating conclusions and never learning how we came to such different conclusions.

MOVING FROM JUDGING TO ENCOURAGING

It is so easy to spend time judging ourselves or others. Often it is a waste of energy. How do we convert our tendency to judge to create a tendency to encourage?

LISTENING BETWEEN WORDS

If we are going to have productive conversations and build community, we need to grow our capacity to listen. And we need to reduce our capacity to get defensive or need to be right.

CENTERING VERSUS REACTING

Choosing our response versus reacting. What practices invite you to be fully present and grounded?

LOVING OUR COMMUNITY

How do we strengthened our ability to love our neighbors? A few inspiring stories and lesson.

New exhibit at the Minnesota History Center highlights Minnesota author Sinclair Lewis

A new exhibit has opened at the Minnesota History Center about Minnesota author Sinclair Lewis—the first American to win the Nobel prize in literature, and whose work is still very relevant today. Patrick Coleman, the Minnesota History Center’s acquisitions librarian, chatted with Brian about the exhibit and more.

WTIP’s The Roadhouse is supported in part by funding from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

“Astro Bob” talks upcoming partial eclipse and multiple ways to view it safely

There’s going to be a sunrise solar eclipse on Thursday, June 10, and viewers in Grand Marais will see an excellent partial eclipse. Bob King, author of the AstroBob blog, joined Dave to tell us more.

WTIP’s The Roadhouse is supported in part by funding from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

New research details the many benefits of clean water

We all want our local waters to be clean for drinking, recreation, and so on, but in the past, it was often thought that the costs to protect that water exceeded the benefits. Now a new study shows that by considering global benefits, especially of slowing climate change, protecting local waters saves a LOT of money. Brian spoke with University of Minnesota Sea Grant Director John Downing, lead author of the recent paper on this topic, to learn more.

WTIP’s The Roadhouse is supported in part by funding from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

The Levi Schwartzberg Quartet Improvises with a Bop Sensibility

The Levi Schwartzberg Quartet reflects detailed study of the Bebop masters of more than 50 years ago, and plays with a refreshing sensibility. In a conversation with Phil Nusbaum, Levi had his vibes available and demonstrated a few ways of improvising that the Levi Schwartzberg Quartet employs.

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