Compass Conversations

01/14/2025

The real skill of it is to be self-aware and know where you want to be at that moment.

However, recovery is also a really important part of that ability to manage your energy. It's just that whole awareness and how it works and how you can maintain a full tank, so to speak, of mental, physical, emotional energy for the moment.

And then also manage it within the environment because there's a gazillion things coming at you and within you. And to me, the cultivation of the skill is knowing how you want to manage that and then how to do that.

-Barbra


Listen to the entire Episode 21: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/compass-conversations/

01/10/2025

When we live a rigid, combative life and maintain a mindset rooted in conflict, we lose our connection to nature and the divine—both of which embody a more fluid and harmonious state.

If we consider the biology of our internal fluid body, the structure of the water within us acts as a fractal antenna. However, when we exist in a competitive or combative state, this internal water becomes destructured, losing its natural geometric patterns. Scientifically, this causes our cells to lose their negative charge, which is essential for their optimal function.

Our fluid body is designed to expand outward, connecting us to all living things. But even our thoughts play a role in this connection. Negative, combative thought patterns—whether directed at ourselves or others—project outward into the world, disrupting the harmony of that connection.

-Shea
Equine Balance by Shea Stewart

Listen to the entire Episode 21: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/compass-conversations/

Tik Maynard
Daniel Dauphin
Jessica White Plume
Barbra Schulte

01/07/2025

Episode #21 is now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music!
Or, go to the Compass Website to learn more about this unique collaboration: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/compass-conversations/

E21: Competition without Combat

Consider, for a moment, what it might be like to be truly competitive, but without a combative edge or drive to dominate. Is it possible?

Competition can give us so many great things: community, physical and mental challenges, and goal posts by which to measure our progress - it can bring out our best and showcase our preparation, dedication, and talent. The darker side of competition is when we are motivated by comparison, rather than inspiration, causing us to turn against our fellow competitors, our horses, and even ourselves. How many of us can strive for high levels of excellence while maintaining a positive, emotionally balanced energetic space? And how many of us can do it with the eager, focused engagement of our equine partners as well?

When we have a clear sense of self, our values, and our purpose, we come to realize that competition is rarely about others; it’s about our personal journey, our commitment to growth, and remaining in integrity, regardless of external circumstances. Competition becomes a test of character - a pursuit of goals, not rivals.

Podcast Participants:

Equine Balance by Shea Stewart
Tik Maynard
Jessica White Plume


Generation Of Harmony

Music by Mark Rashid

12/27/2024

Sunday December 29th at 11am pacific

Join our Circles of Sharing - an online event that offers an open-hearted space where people share and listen from the heart and where self-awareness and honesty are celebrated.

Continue the conversation from Episode 20 of the Compass Conversations Podcast. RSVP through the form on the website:
https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/sharingcircles

The Welcome Circles will be a continuous resource for open-hearted listening and reflection prompted by a different reading each Circle. Please click through to read more, and if you have any questions, you can find us at:
[email protected].

Community conversations for intuitive education, camaraderie and heart-centered evolution.

12/26/2024

WHAT INSPIRES ME:

Horses inspire me. The honesty in their communication with each other, their willingness and generosity when trying to understand and do what we ask and their graciousness to live in a world where they have little choice and yet still offer us their heart seeking to connect.

WHERE IS MY CURIOSITY TAKING ME:

Curiosity is encouraging me to let go: of judgement and expectations, of effort and worry. Letting go has allowed experiences and opportunities I could not have imagined to arise so I’m curious to see what arrives next!

-Clare

Listen to the entire Episode 20: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/compass-conversations/

12/25/2024

🎄✨ Merry Christmas from the Compass Conversations Team! ✨🎄
Wishing you a day filled with joy, laughter, and the warm embrace of loved ones. 🌟

Behind every episode, there is a team of volunteers working hard to bring you the best content and make your listening experience truly special. 🙌

Thank you for being part of the Compass Conversations family this year. 🎙️ Your support fuels our passion, and we're incredibly grateful for the opportunity to share these moments with you.

May your day be merry and your podcast playlist full of festive vibes. 🎅🎁

-Compass Conversations Team

12/24/2024

We have a special invitation for you!

Each month we organize Circles of Sharing - an online event that offers an open-hearted space where self-awareness and honesty are celebrated.

Our priority is to generate a coherent space where people share and listen from the heart and together we receive each other in the absence of judgment.

Our next Circle is scheduled for December 29th at 11am PST.

you can RSVP via this link:
https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/sharingcircles

Each Welcome Circle offers a brief space of silence to open the event, followed by a short passage and seed question read by one of our facilitators.
Each member of the circle will be welcome to share their reflection - some will be prompted by the seed question, others will share from their heart in a different way.

Some participants may choose to pass and not speak at all. The value of these circles is presence, listening, hearing and learning, side-by-side.

The Welcome Circles will be a continuous resource for open-hearted listening and reflection prompted by a different reading each Circle.

RSVP here: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/sharingcircles

Community conversations for intuitive education, camaraderie and heart-centered evolution.

12/23/2024

WHAT INSPIRES ME:

Beauty of the natural world inspires me. I feel like my little corner of the earth has been one to preserve and wait for the right timing to share. There is something magical about how all the parts of nature work together to provide abundance.

WHERE IS MY CURIOSITY TAKING ME:

My curiosity is taking me to a place where I can step outside of my comfort zone ( what the western culture has conditioned me to accept as reality ) and stepping into what my life purpose for being here on earth requires of me. This includes my new relationship with honey bees & permaculture.

It also includes a new way of existing & caring for horses. There is also an existential connection that is happening between science & spirituality, where they have existed separately they are now converging and it is fascinating to see how the parts fit together like a cosmic puzzle.

-Kate

Listen to the entire Episode 20: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/compass-conversations/

12/20/2024

WHAT INSPIRES ME:

Life itself inspires me. I have had so many extraordinary things happening to me that I cannot see life for anything else than inspiration.

WHERE IS MY CURIOSITY TAKING ME:

My curiosity is steered almost exclusively toward the thought of ‘What else is possible?’.

What else is possible when I face my fears again and again, when I go through resistance again and again and when I let go of control and just let life itself take over.

-Majda

Listen to the entire Episode 20: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/compass-conversations/

12/18/2024

WHAT INSPIRES ME:

I am inspired by the courage of those that choose to take the road less traveled, genuineness, kindness, and curiosity.

WHERE IS MY CURIOSITY TAKING ME:

My curiosity is taking me to explore new ways to listen to myself that aren’t heavily weighted on the analytical side of my brain. And by listening in that way, my curiosity takes me to how life might flow with more ease and present new experiences that I could never imagine.

-Chloe

Listen to the entire Episode 20: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/compass-conversations/

12/15/2024

WHAT INSPIRES ME:

I’m inspired by connection - the profound connection I feel around horses, among the trees, under the stars, within an act of kindness, in the gift of reciprocity.

WHERE IS MY CURIOSITY TAKING ME:

My curiosity is taking me deeper into myself, where I can turn down the noise in my mind to hear my soul. I’m intensely interested in what happens when individuals, small groups, and communities begin leading with their hearts, living their purpose, and giving their innate gifts.

-Tina

Listen to the entire Episode 20: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/compass-conversations/

12/13/2024

Bigger than the sum of the parts

Do you wish to see more of the Golden Nuggets we started sharing recently? Or even better, do you feel inspired to participate in this collaborative community? You can join the calls in our dedicated Compass Conversations Online Community! Are you interested to know and feel what all of this is truly about?

We are inviting everyone who feels in their heart to support this collaboration. We have big things planned, and your contributions are part of what fuels the expansion. Some contribute money, others volunteer time or other resources.

Compass Conversations expenses include audio production, website hosting, bank fees and taxes. We currently have a volunteer team of about 6 very dedicated people, with about 6 others in the wings, working to coordinate all of the administrative details that it takes to bring you these beautiful episodes.

Support this collaboration: Listen to the entire Episode 20: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/compass-conversations/

All of the support you share with us serves the whole - when we create from the heart, beyond competition and for interspecies harmony, everyone wins. If you contribute money, time, talent or other resources, please know…we are hearing back that these episodes are touching people’s hearts and making an immeasurable ripple toward community throughout the equestrian world and beyond.

12/10/2024

WHAT INSPIRES ME:
I am inspired by what is currently brought into my awareness.

WHERE IS MY CURIOSITY TAKING ME:
Where doesn't it take me is my question now.

I'm curious about all of life and how we are all interconnected and the idea that I have been separated from the whole due to indoctrination, cultural standards, society, media and the list goes on, has left an opening that is being filled with divine gifts of humanity. I'm reborn!

-Holly

Listen to the entire Episode 20: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/compass-conversations/

12/08/2024

WHAT INSPIRES ME:
There is nothing that inspires me and gives me such a deep sense of purpose and belonging like when I look up at a beautiful, clear night sky with millions of stars and realise that I am a part of that majesty, or when I look out over a valley and think of the many many many beings going about their way down there or when I see how many tiny little connections there are in the natural world without any input from humans.

When I consciously observe that, when I take a moment to bask in that enormity I am alive, inspired!

WHERE IS MY CURIOSITY TAKING ME:
I want to learn how I can be the best care taker for my animal companions, the wild animals that visit us and the plant biodiversity that surrounds us. I am interested in energy, in synchronicity, in allowing ourselves to be guided by our hearts.

-Hestie

Listen to the entire Episode 20: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/compass-conversations/

12/05/2024

WHAT INSPIRES ME:
Especially while there is so much darkness becoming so visible in this world at this time, I feel boundlessly inspired by the shifts in awareness, by the increasing light as people recognize it doesn’t have to be that way!

We are coming together from our hearts, and the horses, the non-human world are always here to help us open our heart. I just feel so blessed to be here.

WHERE IS MY CURIOSITY TAKING ME:
I am SO curious to watch how social systems change when people refuse to ignore their own heart. From our family dynamics to politics (which is often kind of the same dance!), I will keep sharing and showing up to watch the transformation from judgement to grace.

-Kerri
Generation Of Harmony

Listen to the entire Episode 20: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/compass-conversations/

12/03/2024

Episode #20 is now available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music!
Or, go to the Compass Website to learn more about this unique collaboration: https://www.intuitivelearningfoundation.org/compass-conversations/

E20: Lessons on Stewardship

Episode 20 is a very special conversation among the volunteers who have been working behind the scenes for many months to coordinate the Compass Conversations podcast and who are now working to breathe life into the Intuitive Learning Foundation.

The volunteers considered the following paragraphs and seed question, and the rest, as is our custom, was organic:

We are all stewarding each other. We often consider ourselves stewards of nature and animals, but what if animals and nature are also stewarding us to steward each other? Through intuitive connection, shared experiences, and loving interactions, the non-human world selflessly offers unlimited opportunities to feel accepted, seen and loved.

In our relationships with all non-human life, we have the opportunity to experience ourselves without competition and with nothing to prove. We can experience the common ground of life with lives that are very different from our own. What does it take to experience this common ground with other humans, as well?

Our desire to care for others without greed or judgment, and with an open heart, is a reflection of nature’s stewardship of humanity. The beauty of nature can inspire us to remember who we really are - to be unconditionally invited, again and again, to “re-member” humanity in the vast body of life. When humans listen with a willingness to learn and connect through our heart, we are receiving and re-sharing the gifts of unconditional love that our extended family of animals, plants, insects, minerals, sky, and water are eager to show us.

With the above as a setting, the group spent most of the hour considering the following question: How do our experiences with non-human life guide us in stewarding one another as humans?

Podcast Participants
Kate Coldren
Holly Postlewaite
Hestie Kleinhans
Chloe Garrison
Tina Cormier
Charlene Couch
Majda Pazman
Clare Morris
Kerri Lake

Music by Mark Rashid

11/28/2024

Our intellect is at the service of our heart. We need the intellect to function because it serves. Language serves. Science serves.

Analysis serves, like all of us are pointing out. But that's my question, and where my heart is taking everything I create is, how do we weave and bring side by side with intellect the value of the way intuition functions?

Because it's almost like two different languages that complement each other like a harmony, like a duet, but they operate differently and they feel different.

-Kerri
Generation Of Harmony

Listen to the entire Episode 19: https://www.generateharmony.com/compass-temp-page

11/24/2024

Judgment and discernment both involve themes that focus on safety and accountability and integrity. They're actually quite vital in terms of a healthy society.

I find that the action of judging, even when it's internal judgment, is always connected to external projection.

Any kind of judgment, it's an interaction with what's external, outside of us. Whereas discernment activates our internal intuition.

For example, if I'm in a field with a horse and the horse kicks at me, my judgment is that that horse is dangerous. My discernment says, ‘what do I need to do to be safe around this being right now?’

What is my sense of my own being with this being that has this potential to hurt me? That's very different energetically, but that's also a very different frame that we're interacting with.

-Greta


Listen to the entire Episode 19: https://www.generateharmony.com/compass-temp-page