We Interrupt - A Podcast
Join us as we explore the ins and outs of interruptions. Many people place interruptions in the category of “bad things”. Interrupting someone when they’re speaking is rude. Frequent task switching at work reduces productivity. A resume gap marks a major setback. A disrupted supply chain creates confusion and delay. But is this uniformly negative perception of interruptions really true? Are interruptions always disruptive, or can they sometimes be the catalyst for connection, creativity, and necessary changes? In this podcast, we talk about interruptions with people who study them and live them to better understand how neurobiology, cognition, language, culture, and organizational structures shape our perceptions and feelings when we experience a minor or major break in the action of our daily lives.
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Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
We generally think of interruptions in the context of human conversation. One voice, speaking words, interacting with another. Music is another form of conversation, with instruments (including voices) interacting and purposefully building upon one another, melodies to harmony to counterpoint and fugue. In this podcast, we talk with piano teacher and professional accompanist Doris Mattingly about her perspectives on interruption. We journey through the interruption of the COVID pandemic on teaching and how she has adjusted her listening in “virtual studio” lessons. We explore what interruption means during a lesson, and also listen to music – Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Beethoven, Bartók, Bach – to understand how musical interruptions may be the same and different as those in spoken conversation. Join us for an audio feast!
To learn more about We Interrupt this Podcast and to suggest people we should talk to and topics we should explore, please see our webpage at: https://www.weinterrupthis.com or contact us on twitter at @HaakYak. Information about Doris and her piano studio is at https://www.mattinglystudio.com/.
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Can interruptions be a positive force in transforming violence to peace? We can use specific breathing patterns to pause, bring our mind and bodies into the present moment, and “turn question marks into exclamation points”.
Join our conversation with Mandar Apte, a petroleum engineer whose career and purpose evolved into social innovation. We talk about how daily inner recalibration through breathing techniques can connect our emotions, feelings and actions and help us manage conflict by peaceful means.
Mandar’s current work on interrupting violence at Cities for Peace draws upon his time at Shell creating and managing their GameChanger program to foster clean energy startups – one of the early corporate social responsibility efforts. A recognized practice leader, Mandar brings nearly two decades of studying, practicing, and teaching meditation to thousands of leaders across four continents (including over 2000 colleagues while an engineer at Shell).
To learn more about We Interrupt this Podcast and to suggest people we should talk to and topics you think we should explore, please see our webpage at: https://www.weinterrupthis.com or contact us on twitter at @HaakYak. Learn more about Mandar and his work interrupting violence at Cities for Peace at https://cities4peace.org/.
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
We were curious about consciousness and interruption. How we can view interruption as a destructive distraction in some settings, but we can also benefit from interruptions when we are in intentionally crafted creative spaces. When we are paying attention, conscious of the thriving of the people we are with, interruption can be a positive motive force. Join us as we talk with Marti Spiegelman and explore disjointed career paths, coming to wisdom about consciousness, connection and fluidity, energy and purpose. When applying principles of awareness and negotiability we can achieve nothing less than an interruption in our worldview, in which we embrace change as a reconnection with the world around us and appreciate the constancy of human and ecological relationships.
Marti Spiegelman is a training professional, mentor, speaker, and founder of Awakening Value™: Technologies of Consciousness. Marti holds a BA in biochemistry from Harvard University, an MFA in graphic design from the Yale School of Art and Architecture, and has advanced training in neurophysiology, psychology, and anthropology. She was president of her own design firm for 20 years. She is also an initiated wisdomkeeper, with over four decades of specialized training in Indigenous technologies of consciousness and related scientific, economic, and sociological fields.
To learn more about We Interrupt this Podcast, read the show notes, and suggest people we should talk to and topics to explore, please see our webpage at: https://www.weinterrupthis.com or contact us on twitter at @HaakYak.
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
Wednesday Mar 01, 2023
We have deep-seated questions about “interruption” as a concept and social construct. In this podcast, we ask what is interruption and how might it be useful. Our goal is to start evocative conversations across a diverse set of perspectives — and thank Josie Gibson and The Catalyst Network for hosting our launch episode.
Please see www.weinterruptthis.com for show notes and content links.
Join us as we explore the ins and outs of interruptions.
Many people place interruptions in the category of “bad things”. Interrupting someone when they’re speaking is rude. Frequent task switching at work reduces productivity. A resume gap marks a major setback. A disrupted supply chain creates confusion and delay. But is this uniformly negative perception of interruptions really true? Are interruptions always disruptive, or can they sometimes be the catalyst for connection, creativity, and necessary changes?
In this podcast, we talk about interruptions with people who study them and live them to better understand how neurobiology, cognition, language, culture, and organizational structures shape our perceptions and feelings when we experience a minor or major break in the action of our daily lives.