On the 102nd episode of What is a Good Life? podcast, I am delighted to introduce our guest, Nadjeschda (Nadja) Taranczewski. Nadja has a Master of Psychology, is a Master Certified Coach and works as a coach, author, and keynote speaker. She supports leaders who want to reinvent their organisation as Conscious Tribe, i.e. as a thriving community where people invest in inner work, understand the big picture, invest in deep relationships and cultivate conscious rituals. Her company ConsciousU facilitates collective transformation and makes culture change scalable through their blended learning coaching programmes. She is the author of the book Conscious You: Become the Hero of Your Own Story and is currently working on her forthcoming book The Conscious Tribe Playbook.

In this illuminating conversation, Nadja shares with us her explorations of building thriving and conscious collectives. We discuss profoundly important components of healthy relating including developing spaces for aloneness in togetherness, creating rituals for sharing more context and our humanity, becoming aware of the transience of our emotions, and welcoming the uncertainty we are often fearing and avoiding.

This whole conversation is a wonderful invitation to become alive to what is within us, communicating and sharing our humanity, while Nadja shares so many wonderfully grounded anecdotes to bring alive the concepts we discuss. This conversation gave me further hope of what can be possible within our own communities.

For further content and information check out the following:
- Nadjeschda's Book: https://herobook.conscious-u.com/
- Conscious U website: https://www.conscious-u.com/
- Nadjeschda's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadjeschdataranczewski/

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00:00 Introduction

03:08 How do we build healthy collectives?

06:58 Aloneness in togetherness

11:33 Separating not meaning rejection

14:38 Not making it all about ourselves

20:23 Daily rituals for connection and context

25:08 Masking and resisting uncertainty

28:31 Trusting we can handle discomfort

30:57 Noticing the transience of our emotions

35:58 Regaining our emotional dexterity

39:58 Realising the stories we attach to events

44:43 The development of conscious communities

51:08 Paying attention to our humanity

59:08 What is a good life for Nadja?