TSL:SFN – Shelter and Storm w/ Tamara Dean

TSL:SFN – Shelter and Storm w/ Tamara Dean

Tamara Dean is an award-winning essayist whose work explores the intersection of nature, community, and resilience. In Shelter and Storm: At Home in the Driftless (University of Minnesota Press, April 22, 2025), she reflects on her move to a Wisconsin farm and the lessons learned through living close to the land. Through twelve vivid essays, Dean blends science, history, and […]

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #17: Meaningful Connection

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #17: Meaningful Connection

For exercise 17 of Leadership Step By Step, I had to have 10 conversations using a script designed to encourage meaningful connection with others. In short, the conversation goes as follows: I found the formula to be simple and yet very effective! Asking someone about what they enjoy doing is great, but often the conversation just ends there with a […]

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #15: The Method

Leadership Step By Step – Exercise #15: The Method

This week’s exercise from Leadership Step By Step was to build on the previous exercise (“The Model”) and to try to influence your own environment, beliefs, and emotions in order to elicit a rewarding feeling from something that you’d like to improve at, but haven’t been able to. For this exercise, Josh asked us to form groups to brainstorm new […]

Subscribe to Verdant Growth to get notified when posts go live!

* indicates required