Fabric Podcast

Scraps: A Much-Needed Love Note

Christmas can be hard. We often make it harder on ourselves. Maybe you need to hear this message from Melissa Lock this Christmas. 

The Gift Exchange: Give Up Shiny, Receive...

You may not get around to cleaning your house and decorating for Christmas, but you gotta love those Currier & Ives snow scenes and driving the streets to look at the lights. Christmas should be shiny! So should our lives. At least on the outside. We shine up our resumės, Instagram posts, and our answer to ‘How are you doing?’ so they look as good as a shopping mall Christmas tree. What would happen if you gave up shiny?
In this episode, Chris Lillehei asks that question and helps us get curious about what might be waiting for us if we do. 
Find related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

The Gift Exchange: Give Up Your List, Receive…

What's on your list? It's everyone doing and being what suits you best. Sure, you don’t look at it that way. You just think people doing what you like is doing what’s right. Guess again. What if your list of what you want wasn’t getting what you want, but keeping you from getting it? Would you give it up then? And if you did, what do you think you’d get in return? In this episode, Greg Meyer asks us to consider (and try) that very thing.
Find related resources, including the outline for this message, on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

The Gift Exchange: Give Up Naming, Receive...

We spend a lot of attention, time and smarts naming things. Naming the disease and the antidote; naming the poisonous versus the edibles; the ski runs green to black diamond. It is natural, human and helpful! But can we get too good at naming? What happens when we figure it all out, know how it is, sum it all up or boil it all down? In this episode, Melissa Lock asks us what we might receive if we gave up that kind of naming.
Find related resources on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

Hearing Voices: Hear My Voice, Listen to My Story

What's the value of being known? For some it can be the difference between being valued or harmed. But for any of us? What happens when our stories are known; first by ourselves and then by others? What do we risk and what do we gain? What might others gain? Sharing who you are is powerful and changes lives - yours and others. In this episode we welcome several of our community and friends as they invite us to listen. 
Find related resources on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

Hearing Voices: Expanding Your Growth Zone

Every change starts with an idea, a change of heart, a shifted paradigm but unless it informs what we do it remains just an idea. Our focus on ‘Hearing Voices’ is not meant to make us more open-minded, but more open-lived. On Nov 17 we used our collective time, experience, energy and courage to each plan our own ‘What’s Next.’ Since that doesn't translate well to podcast, let this conversation between Greg, Melissa, and Chris fill that void as they dig in to some potential places to stretch your growth zone in this Hearing Voices conversation.

Hearing Voices: The Stories of Our Bodies

Diversity is our strength, not our weakness. But we’ve tried to tame and control it in ways that hurt some of us directly and limit us collectively. In this episode, Joanne Reeck, the Chief Diversity Officer of Augsburg University joins Greg Meyer to tackle the problem and possibility beneath what we can see.
Find related resources on our website. Also watch for our regular "scraps" podcasts where we talk through other ideas and parts of the message that ended up on the cutting room floor.
You can support Fabric as a community and help to bring messages and experiences like this to more people at https://www.fabricmpls.com/give. Thank you!

Hearing Voices: A Different Kind of Listening

In this scraps episode, Melissa, Greg, and Chris reflect on the kind of listening that the part of Fabric that gathered at Field Community School this past week experienced in unaccompanied group singing and in playing the game Story Stitch from Green Card Voices as part of the current conversation, Hearing Voices.