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Episodes
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
In today's short episode of Powerful, Jeff Couillard talks about "locus of control", using examples from raising kids and the idea of having "buttons" or "triggers" that other people can push or pull to cause your emotional or behavioural response.
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
In today's episode of Powerful, Jeff Couillard connects with Liam Law, a former youth worker, shift-supervisor and outcomes & evaluation lead at Enviros Base Camp. They discuss the power of "feedback informed practice", and offer practical tools and suggestions for building a culture of feedback in your program, and how to use feedback to both prove and improve the quality of your services.
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
In today's episode of Powerful, Jeff Couillard and Scott Schmidt have a wide ranging conversation, centred around the role of media in speaking truth to power and holding government to account for their actions.
Scott is the layout editor at the Medicine Hat News, and his Saturday column "Laying It Out" has drawn a great deal of attention lately as he takes aim at government misinformation, propoganda and decisions that are being made in the interest of corporations over citizens.
Scott offers some advice on how and where to consume your news, and some hard-hitting questions about what we truly value, and whether or not our governments are actually delivering on improving the quality of life for the people they're supposed to be in power for.
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
In this episode of Powerful, Jeff Couillard continues the conversation about all things leadership with Stephen de Groot, author and human behaviour expert.
They explore the hardest task of leadership, closing the "intention - impact" gap, getting meaningful feedback and accurately assessing their own performance.
Steve introduces the listener to the "Leaderscore", a strengths-based development instrument designed after a decade of thought and research, and available now for leaders everywhere.
Thursday Mar 26, 2020
Thursday Mar 26, 2020
In today's short episode, Jeff introduces you to the other four of the "7 Essential Strategies" for better self-care. Don't forget to jump on the free webinar, where you get all the strategies in one place, complete with slides and watching Jeff talk through them.
Self-care isn't optional, particularly if you're a parent, helping professional or leader. We're at our greatest risk of accidentally and unintentionally misusing our power when we're burnt out, stressed out and generally not at our best.
In this episode, Jeff will continue to help you see beyond "yoga and green tea", to the deeper underlying priorities, strategies and foundations of excellent self-care.
Monday Mar 23, 2020
Monday Mar 23, 2020
In today's episode of Powerful, Jeff Couillard invites Stephen de Groot, a leadership and human behaviour expert to the show to discuss the epidemic of burnout in our helping service organizations, and what leaders can do about it!
Steve and Jeff talk about practical and proven strategies for increasing the "meaning" that employees find in the work, and how it's disconnection from that meaning that makes the work so much harder and leads to burnout.
Thursday Mar 19, 2020
Thursday Mar 19, 2020
In today's short episode, Jeff introduces you to the first three of his "7 Essential Strategies" for better self-care.
Self-care isn't optional, particularly if you're a parent, helping professional or leader. We're at our greatest risk of accidentally and unintentionally misusing our power when we're burnt out, stressed out and generally not at our best.
In this episode, Jeff will help you see beyond "yoga and green tea", to the deeper underlying priorities, strategies and foundations of excellent self-care.
Wednesday Mar 11, 2020
Wednesday Mar 11, 2020
In this episode of Powerful, Jeff Couillard invites his friend and highly respected colleague Lisa Arsenault to the show to discuss the power of values in a high functioning community. Lisa and Jeff worked at Enviros Base Camp for a dozen years alongside one another. The program lived and breathed it’s values primarily thanks to Lisa’s intentional character and gift for creating meaning within community.
Lisa and Jeff offer tips and examples for leaders hoping to operationalize their mission and vision and the duo discuss the importance of congruence and getting them into practice, not just with their clients, but also with the staff team. Enjoy this heartfelt conversation as Jeff continues to dissect the essential ingredients of what makes an intentional community function, and be sure to tune in for the third and final ingredient of building powerful communities, coming soon!
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
In today’s episode of Powerful, Jeff and his colleague & friend Jessica Mills tackle the first ingredient of building an intentional community, which is that there has to be a problem/challenge for the community to rally behind.
Jess is a social worker by trade and a lover of all things outdoors and fitness related. Throughout the show Jess and Jeff discuss the problem/challenge that Base Camp sought to solve and how it was clear that the problem the community was attempting to solve was much bigger than the addiction itself. Enjoy this episode as these two friends explore the need for connection on a human level and how the wilderness treatment centre Enviros Base Camp created a community for youth, families and staff alike to feel a shared sense of purpose and meaningful connection.
Thursday Feb 27, 2020
Thursday Feb 27, 2020
Like your favourite recipe, powerful communities require a list of distinct and special ingredients.
Over the next few episodes Jeff will unpack what the essential ingredients are in building high functioning and intentional communities. Enjoy this episode as he kicks off this journey of unpacking these ideas and uses his own experience of working and creating an intentional community at Enviros Base Camp, a wilderness addictions treatment centre. It wasn’t an accident that this community functioned the way it did, and in today’s short episode Jeff highlights the three essential ingredients this community possessed and other powerful communities alike.
Please check back in the coming weeks to follow the inspiring story of Base Camp as Jeff interviews past alumni from this community, digging into what makes powerful communities tick, and how you can build one too.