20 Practice: Sharing Resonance with Mark Fairfield

Published March 22, 2018

In this practice, you’ll learn an exercise called “Sharing Resonance” from psychotherapist Mark Fairfield. It is a framework for building relational culture and dismantling individualism in our relationships and groups. This episode is more of a training and intro to how to share resonance, so you can listen on the go and learn the practice wherever you are… and then take it into relationship and practice it with one or more others. We especially recommend starting with groups of 3-5. Follow along with a useful handout about it.

Note: This episode was published under Irresistible’s previous name, Healing Justice Podcast.

About our guest

Mark Fairfield was the Founder and Executive Director of The Relational Center, a nonprofit community organization that exists to rescue and preserve the important social ties humans depend on for health and well being. He is a leadership coach, consultant, and psychotherapist. His experience in ACT UP helped him understand how movements with strong emphasis on collaborative action and wider-thinking, can catalyze vitality and wellbeing by supplying a social infrastructure that encourages people to look after one another. More about Mark, learn about The Relational Center in LA, & learn more about Relational Uprising training for organizers.

Conversation: “Relational Culture & Undoing Individualism”

Check out the corresponding conversation with Mark Fairfield (episode 20) to learn more about the central role of connection in our lives. We learn about relational culture, factors for resilience, his work supporting caregivers during the AIDS crisis, how bullying is a euphemism, and failure.

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