Welcome!
On this page you’ll find the full collection of audio and resource archives from Year 14 of our monthly Gathering calls. Speaker bios, call summaries, audios and recommended resources for each month’s call will continue to be added to this page soon after the call.
Our theme for this fourteenth year of Gathering together is “Tending the Possible: Sacred Practice for Liminal Times.” Along with our Year 14 offerings, please take some time to explore the past 13 years of program archives. This is a treasure trove of information, insights, strategies and practices to support you as an agent of purposeful change!
Year 1 Program Archive – “Mastering the Inner Game”
Year 2 Program Archive – “Align Your Outer Game with the Inner”
Year 3 and 4 Program Archive – “Integrating the Inner and Outer Collectives: The Dance of ME and WE”
Year 5 Program Archive – “Co-Creating the Global Collective”
Year 6 Program Archive – “Radical Relationship; Embracing the Gifts of Polarity”
Year 7 Program Archive – “Creating Agile And Sustainable Change That Matters”
Year 8 Program Archive – “Love in Action: Connecting for Impact”
Year 9 Program Archive – “Agents of Love; Weaving the Tangled Threads of Irreconcilable Differences”
Year 10 Program Archive – “Dancing in the Space Between; Creating Resilience and Possibility in the Now”
Year 11 Program archive – “Paradigms and Possibilities: Embracing Humanity’s Divine Potential”
Year 12 Program archive – “The Art of Agility: Navigating the Natural Rhythms of Change”
Year 13 Program archive – “The Art of Agility: Navigating the Natural Rhythms of Change” – Part 2
Study Materials:
- Download your copy of Tim Kelley’s article that was the foundation for the Gathering’s first year here: Internal Requirements for Change Agents
- Download your copy of Tim Kelley’s additional article Types of Change Agents
- Download your copy of Audrey Seymour’s article that is the foundation for the Gathering’s second year here: 12 Requirements for Embodied Action
Browse the Year 14 archives:
3/4/26: “Circle as a Sacred Practice”
2/4/26: “Tending the Possible: Sacred Practice for Liminal Times”
Join us on April 1 for our next Gathering as we continue exploring “Tending the Possible: Sacred Practice for Liminal Times” with coach, farmer, and former state senator Mee Moua
3/4/26: “Circle as a Sacred Practice”
“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
— Lewis Carroll
What if tending the possible isn’t about certainty—but about the practice of showing up anyway?
That’s the question that animated our March Gathering, as we opened our 2026 journey into “Tending the Possible: Sacred Practice for Liminal Times” by finding our footing together in Circle.
Circle is one of humanity’s most enduring forms of gathering. Across millennia and cultures, people have drawn together in circles to share stories, make decisions, and witness one another’s truth. No one sits at the head. Hierarchy dissolves. Every voice belongs. We return to this format regularly because our community has made clear: this is medicine.
Socrates himself lit our virtual fire—reminding us that a circle isn’t just a shape. “The unexamined circle,” he warned with characteristic mischief, “is merely people sitting in a shape.” And so we came ready to examine.
Guided by five circle agreements—presence, truth-telling, confidentiality, embodied trust, and openness to discomfort—we gathered in small groups of four and moved through these four invitations:
- What is something you tend in your life—and what has tending it taught you?
- Where in your life do you sense possibility stirring, especially in places of uncertainty or transition?
- What do you need to believe about yourself for something to feel possible?
- What would it mean to let yourself be tended—fully, without tending back?
The conversations were rich, personal, and at times quietly breaking things open. Here are some of the threads that surfaced when we came back together:
- Tending teaches us what we’ve been avoiding. Compost piles, plants, puppies, aging parents—what we tend reveals something about our relationship between care and control. How close those two actually are.
- Possibility stirs where we stop overthinking. Several of us noticed a growing pull toward forward movement, risk, and putting ourselves out there—and a recognition that our own analysis can be the very thing holding us back.
- To feel possible, we need to feel wanted. Not just capable—wanted. The invitation matters as much as the readiness.
- Being tended is the hardest practice of all. The fourth prompt broke something open for many of us. To be held—fully, without giving back—bumped up against pride, exhaustion, and a lifetime of being the holder. And yet, in the vulnerability of naming that, something shifted.
- We are always being tended. Perhaps the deepest thread of the whole gathering: the forces that animate us, the spirit that moves through this circle, the unconditional love that is always present—these are forms of tending we didn’t choose and can’t control. The tending is not all up to us.
We walked away feeling sorted, seen, and—as one participant put it—yummy. That quality comes from real connection.
Note: To honor our agreement of confidentiality, the Circles themselves are not recorded.
2/4/26: “Exploring “Tending the Possible: Sacred Practice for Liminal Times”
“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity.
The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.”
—Winston Churchill
As your Gathering co-hosts, we spent a good deal of time since our December meeting, to review the current state of world events, surface relevant and resonant change agent/participant topics, check in with our trusted sources of guidance and consider potential opportunities and challenges for purposeful change makers in 2026. Our aim, of course, was to identify an invaluable and irresistible theme for this Gathering group to explore in 2026.
Here’s where we landed…
Our new theme for 2026 is:
“Tending the Possible: Sacred Practice for Liminal Times”
In our first Gathering for 2026, we introduced and explored our new theme for the year and generated ideas for speakers and topics. In small and large group spaces, we shared thoughts, feelings and sensations of the fast-paced, far reaching and tumultuous changes around, and in us – along with our senses of meaning and possibility when it comes to our new theme. We also shared ideas about topics and potential speakers for our monthly calls.
What a gift it was to share with each other in ways that felt so authentic… and so deeply moving energetically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
How often do you have the opportunity to share
a welcoming and non-judgmental space with people who
Listen – and graciously receive and expand upon your words and feelings?
How would it serve you
and those you serve – if you
create time and space
to Gather here, with us…
Our first Gathering for 2026 was highly engaged and insightful. In a circle format that included small and large group conversations, we introduced and explored our new theme for the year and reflected on the following questions to deepen and expand our ideas and intuitions about what our new theme means to us – and each other.
- When you hear the word sacred, what comes to you? What does it point to in your experience?
- What in your life right now feels sacred to you—and how do you know?
- Where are you – in a liminal space right now—a place that’s no longer what was, but not yet what’s next?
From this place, we generated ideas for speakers and topics during the year.
Your Gathering Hosts
About Beth Scanzani
Beth Scanzani is a highly respected and multi-faceted transformational coach, teacher and speaker. A lifelong student and curious soul, she has enjoyed exploring and integrating a wealth of knowledge, resources, and strategies that draw upon a wide range of psychological, scientific, and spiritual teachings. Prior to her transition into teaching and coaching in support of evolving consciousness, Beth enjoyed a successful career as a human resources executive in the high tech and healthcare industries.
True to her nature, Beth’s studies encompass a purposeful blend of psychological, scientific, and spiritual perspectives. She has attained numerous coaching certifications including True Purpose Coach™, Belief Closet™ Practitioner, Master Career Coach, Dream Coach™, iPEC Empowerment Coach™, Energy Leadership Coach™ and Theoretical Foundations of Coaching with David Rock. In addition, she is a trained facilitator and teacher of the Voice Dialogue™ process.
Beth is deeply passionate about sharing knowledge and strategies that create meaningful and sustainable transformation in service to co-creating a world that works for everyone. Beth has co-developed and/or co-taught many tele-seminars for the True Purpose Institute ™, the Shift Network and others including Voice Dialogue Mastery, Inner Harmony Practitioner Training, Evolving Beyond Your Wounds, Shadow Quest, Purposeful Coach Training, Blessing Yourself, Divine Guidance on Purpose and Purposeful Marketing. Beth also serves as a valued guide for those who wish to explore deeper meaning, insight and guidance through their sleeping dreams and waking life stories. She co-developed and teaches Stories from the Night Shift, a NASW CEU eligible seminar for therapists, coaches and other practitioners who want to increase their competence and confidence in accessing the treasures buried in sleeping dreams.
People who work with Beth value her insightful, strategic, fun and results-oriented coaching which helps them to achieve breakthrough results on short-term goals while simultaneously creating fundamental shifts that build a strong foundation for ongoing success and fulfillment, personally and professionally. Her eclectic approach and natural agility enable her to customize her coaching style, strategies and processes to help clients create a clear vision, navigate their way out of uncertainty and restrained momentum, and successfully achieve their desired outcomes.
Through her work as a teacher and coach, Beth demonstrates her dedication to providing transformative courses, workshops and coaching in service to those who are ready to reclaim their inner wisdom, embrace their life purpose and true nature, and wholly offer their unique gifts to others…and to the world we all share.
About Andy Swindler
Andy Swindler’s brings hearts together. He envisions a world that embraces healthy tensions to nurture dignity and agency for every person. Andy’s Chicago-based practice, Lead From Love, empowers conscious leaders and inclusive organizations to shift the dominant narrative from fear to love through an embodied expression of purpose and values.
He began his entrepreneurial journey at age 24, which led to owning a boutique digital marketing & software development company for 14 years until exiting at the end of 2016. Andy’s journey of studying human interaction and shepherding human flourishing now culminates in FeelReal, which he has incubated and evolved since 2007.
Andy is a Certified True Purpose® Coach & Consultant, Barrett Values Centre® Practitioner, Collaborative Operating System Consultant and Voice Dialogue™ Practitioner. He co-hosts The Gathering For Change Agents each month and is the Strategic Partnerships Chair for Conscious Capitalism Chicago Chapter. Andy speaks and writes on issues of equity and inclusion. He developed The Metamodel framework to visualize the alignment between more than 100 different conscious leadership, business and dialogue frameworks.
About Susan Alexander
Susan Alexander, PCC, is an executive and life coach with an extensive business background. She created her company Rosebud Coaching and Consulting to specialize in helping individuals to create new possibilities for their personal & professional life to fulfill their most important goals and aspirations. Her work focuses on individuals connecting with confidence and clarity to what’s most important to them (their purpose) and removing barriers of beliefs and assumptions that stand in the way of their full and authentic expression. Susan helps individuals be extraordinary leaders in all aspects of their lives. She coaches executives, managers and individuals with a special emphasis on the power of self-perception and communications and their impact on job performance.
She is a certified True Purpose Individual and Organizational Consultant. She is also certified in numerous instruments including Enneagram, Myers Briggs, Gallup Strengthsfinder, Conversational Intelligence, EQi, Positive Intelligence.
About Todd Hoskins
Todd Hoskins helps people and organizations work better together and reimagine what’s possible by learning from the patterns and rhythms that emerge in living systems. Through his practice, Canopy Gap, he combines insights from ecology, network science, and human behavior to support teams and organizations as they navigate complexity and change.
As both a practitioner & guide, Todd works in three interconnected ways:
- Designing organizational systems that enable more natural collaboration and adaptation
- Facilitating ecosystem partnerships that create value across organizational boundaries
- Coaching individuals and teams to discover new ways of seeing, being, and moving through the world
Todd brings a unique perspective shaped by his graduate work in psychology, training in somatic awareness, and deep study of natural systems. He has helped launch and transform organizations across sectors – from technology startups to public media, from educational institutions to environmental initiatives.
In addition to his work with Canopy Gap, Todd co-hosts the podcast and leadership program Leading from Being. He serves as Senior Fellow for Architectures of Collaboration at the People-Centered Internet, and his board work spans digital equity, youth mental wellbeing, and building bridges through meaningful dialogue.
Todd splits his time between the tropical dry forests of Costa Rica and the wilderness of Northern Michigan. Together with his partner Pia, he teaches Argentine Tango – an embodied practice that mirrors his work with organizations, blending structure with spontaneity, and technical skill with creative emergence.
