# cultivating (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 6 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover cultivating. Page: Feed: --- ## [Thinking out loud this week...](https://jenniferjewell.substack.com/p/thinking-out-loud-this-week-6f4) _2026-08-20 · Cultivating Place · CP Thinking Out Loud This Week_ Jennifer’s conversation with Erika Rumbley and Renee Portanova ## [Are your garden pots & containers housebroken?](https://lorene2022.substack.com/p/are-your-garden-pots-and-containers) _2026-08-18 · Lorene Edwards Forkner · Cultivating Color_ Flower-packed seasonal pots and new puppies have a lot in common. Both require constant attention and maintenance and can be hard on floors. ## [Copper & Cedar Planter](https://lorene2022.substack.com/p/copper-and-cedar-planter) _2026-08-18 · Lorene Edwards Forkner · Cultivating Color_ The angular lines of a copper-clad cedar planter contrast with the loose planting style for a casual effect and a breezy beach vibe. ## [Making Sense of How Others Think](https://thesilentstruggle.substack.com/p/how-others-think-dissecting-a-reddit) _2026-08-17 · Elina · Leadership Capability_ The same set of facts, read five different ways. What that says about how we all make decisions and what makes us feel stuck. ## [Making Sense of Self Doubt: "What if I am wrong?"](https://thesilentstruggle.substack.com/p/making-sense-of-self-doubt-what-if) _2026-08-10 · Elina · Leadership Capability_ You don't need to be certain to speak up. You need to understand what you're actually waiting for. ## [You'll find love and loss in a garden](https://lorene2022.substack.com/p/youll-find-love-and-loss-in-a-garden) _2026-08-07 · Lorene Edwards Forkner · Cultivating Color_ Lessons from a growing season… ## [Cultivating relationships, responsibility, and raspberries](https://lorene2022.substack.com/p/cultivating-relationships-responsibility) _2026-08-05 · Lorene Edwards Forkner · Cultivating Color_ Our harvest celebration... ## [Thinking out loud...](https://jenniferjewell.substack.com/p/thinking-out-loud-ebb) _2026-08-04 · Cultivating Place · CP Thinking Out Loud This Week_ Hey, it’s Jennifer— ## [Diversity was never the issue. Complexity was.](https://thesilentstruggle.substack.com/p/we-tried-to-fix-diversity-it-was) _2026-08-04 · Elina · Leadership Capability_ Diversity talk went quiet in a lot of organisations, but the real-life complexity never did. Here's the capability we never built, and what it actually takes to lead through it well. ## [I think hope is a design decision](https://lorene2022.substack.com/p/i-think-hope-is-a-design-decision) _2026-07-31 · Lorene Edwards Forkner · Cultivating Color_ When the wind gets knocked from my sails and my confidence buckles, I go to my garden, pass time at the end of a hose, and clip flowers to bring indoors. ## [Licensed Dispensaries, Pay with Crypto (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/G6tqPM6UiaFf) _2026-07-31 · **Sponsored**_ Search verified licensed dispensaries and pay with Bitcoin, Lightning, or stablecoins. ## [Substack is my newsstand](https://lorene2022.substack.com/p/substack-is-my-newsstand) _2026-07-24 · Lorene Edwards Forkner · Cultivating Color_ Digging deep into the Cultivating Color archives to create a reading list for lazy summer days... ## [Love Apples](https://lorene2022.substack.com/p/love-apples-011) _2026-07-23 · Lorene Edwards Forkner · Cultivating Color_ and learning to let go... It was the summer of 2009 and we were getting ready to take our son off to college. ## [Garden features provide a comforting heart to the garden](https://lorene2022.substack.com/p/garden-features-provide-a-comforting) _2026-07-23 · Lorene Edwards Forkner · Cultivating Color_ a handmade garden — feature attractions, including both creature comforts and practical solutions that are as good looking as they are hard working. ## [On the Rocks](https://lorene2022.substack.com/p/on-the-rocks) _2026-07-23 · Lorene Edwards Forkner · Cultivating Color_ a handmade garden — from cocktail table to structural seating. Gabion baskets filled with rocks are used throughout the garden as seating, a column, and to retain soil. ## [My folly](https://lorene2022.substack.com/p/my-folly) _2026-07-23 · Lorene Edwards Forkner · Cultivating Color_ A garden folly may be a fanciful outbuilding that serves as a design feature or an impetuous impulse, reckless whim or wild hair. You decide ## [Cultivating Place New Moon News - JULY 2026](https://jenniferjewell.substack.com/p/cultivating-place-new-moon-news-july) _2026-07-15 · Cultivating Place · CP Thinking Out Loud This Week_ Happy New Moon of July 14, 2026–because the new moon is a perfect time to start fresh, to grow up, and to grow out. ## [Difficult People Aren't Always the Problem](https://thesilentstruggle.substack.com/p/difficult-people-arent-always-the) _2026-06-29 · Elina · Leadership Capability_ A two-part approach to working with people who pull a negative reaction out of you ## [Stop fighting the behaviour. Start seeing the story.](https://thesilentstruggle.substack.com/p/stop-fighting-the-behaviour-start) _2026-06-21 · Elina · Leadership Capability_ When nobody owns the problem, who’s fault is that? We argued both sides to find out. ## [CULTIVATING PLACE NEW MOON NEWSLETTER - JUNE 2026](https://jenniferjewell.substack.com/p/cultivating-place-new-moon-newsletter) _2026-06-16 · Cultivating Place · CP Thinking Out Loud This Week_ Happy New Moon of June 15, 2026 , because the new moon is a perfect time to start fresh, to grow up, and to grow out - and go outside to play. ## [Academic Books](https://nicernews.substack.com/p/academic-books) _2026-06-09 · Bob Bowie · NicerNews_ Dignity and Human Rights Education: ## [Dissecting Series A Rounds (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/QL46kuDmkPMd) _2026-06-09 · **Sponsored**_ Two real Series A cases: timelines, investor sequencing, and common founder mistakes. ## [Professional Resources](https://nicernews.substack.com/p/bookstore) _2026-06-09 · Bob Bowie · NicerNews_ Links to where you can buy some of our resources ## [How to Close the Gap Between Knowing and Doing: The Capability Practice Method.](https://thesilentstruggle.substack.com/p/the-lamp-post-method-what-managers) _2026-06-09 · Elina · Leadership Capability_ He was told he would never run. By 64 he had finished a hundred marathons. He got there the same way anyone builds a hard skill. Exactly how leadership capability is built too. ## [A Quantitative Exploration of Reported Curriculum Dialogues Between Secondary Teachers in Wales at a Time of Curriculum Reform](https://nicernews.substack.com/p/a-quantitative-exploration-of-reported) _2026-06-08 · Bob Bowie · NicerNews_ Journal Publication from the Project ## [Building Trust — Monthly Summary](https://thesilentstruggle.substack.com/p/building-trust-monthly-summary) _2026-06-04 · Elina · Leadership Capability_ Watch now | Trust is not a personality trait. It is a capability you earn through consistency, through care, through how you show up under pressure. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/200606600/b84d5987c0902d38d801aad4fa011045.mp3) ## [How to Become Someone People Trust (Building Trust Part 3)](https://thesilentstruggle.substack.com/p/how-to-become-someone-people-trust) _2026-05-20 · Elina · Leadership Capability_ Trust is the thing that moves careers and opens opportunities. It's also almost never named when it's missing. This article names what's actually happening and gives you a framework to work with. ## [Can you control trust at work? Curation of perspectives (Building Trust Part 2)](https://thesilentstruggle.substack.com/p/can-you-control-trust-at-work-curation) _2026-05-13 · Elina · Leadership Capability_ Two practitioners, two perspectives on one of the messiest topics in leadership — what trust at work actually means, and how much of it we can deliberately control. ## [The Leadership Supplies store is open](https://thesilentstruggle.substack.com/p/the-leadership-supplies-store-is) _2026-05-04 · Elina · Leadership Capability_ I built an imaginary store to find out what managers really need right now. Browse the shelves. Tell me what you would buy. ## [Academic journals articles related to the Faith in the Nexus Research](https://nicernews.substack.com/p/academic-journals-articles-related) _2026-03-16 · Bob Bowie · NicerNews_ Navigate to other related articles: ## [Articles linked to Sacred Text Classroom Hermeneutics](https://nicernews.substack.com/p/articles-linked-to-sacred-text-classroom) _2026-03-16 · Bob Bowie · NicerNews_ Gathered here are the key academic journal articles related to sacred text hermeneutics. ## [Journal Articles about the Science Religion Encounters Project](https://nicernews.substack.com/p/academic-output-and-publications) _2026-03-16 · Bob Bowie · NicerNews_ Revell, L., Bowie, B., Woolley, M. ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AexgAH7IsBcH) _2026-03-16 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when friends get the Graphite Business Card through your referral. ## [Behind the Scenes of Sixty Years of Online Dating Technology](https://stevedean.substack.com/p/history-of-online-dating) _2026-02-20 · Steve Dean · Steve Dean's Dating Library_ In less than the span of a single human lifetime, over 300 million people have turned to digital dating and mating networks. ## [Meithrin Deialog Ryngddisgyblaethol Ddyfnach](https://nicernews.substack.com/p/meithrin-deialog-ryngddisgyblaethol) _2026-02-12 · Bob Bowie · NicerNews_ Nod y prosiect Meithrin Deialog Ryngddisgyblaethol Ddyfnach yw datblygu fframwaith posibl ar gyfer dysgu proffesiynol athrawon yng Nghymru. ## [Cultivating Deeper Interdisciplinary Dialogue: Survey Report](https://nicernews.substack.com/p/cultivating-deeper-interdisciplinary-622) _2026-02-12 · Bob Bowie · NicerNews_ This report shares findings of a survey carried out in the first half of 2025. The key findings in this report are based on responses from 291 teachers in secondary schools across Wales. ## [Cultivating Climate Conversations: Our Experience in a Climate Escape Room](https://nicernews.substack.com/p/cultivating-climate-conversations) _2026-01-19 · Bob Bowie · NicerNews_ Four members of the Cultivating Deeper Interdisciplinary Dialogue research team stepped out of their usual academic roles and into a Climate Escape Room challenge. ## [Gan Dr Mary Woolley, Prif Ymchwilydd, Meithrin Deialog Rhyngddisgyblaethol Dyfnach](https://nicernews.substack.com/p/gan-dr-mary-woolley-prif-ymchwilydd) _2026-01-13 · Bob Bowie · NicerNews_ Ym mis Ionawr 2025 rydym yn lansio arolwg o athrawon uwchradd ledled Cymru fel rhan gyntaf ein prosiect a ariennir gan TWCF,Meithrin Deialog Rhyngddisgyblaethol Dyfnach. ## [Why You're Not Getting Matches on Dating Apps](https://stevedean.substack.com/p/reasons-for-low-dating-app-match-rate) _2025-11-04 · Steve Dean · Steve Dean's Dating Library_ It’s not always easy to find someone who fits our specific quirks, preferences, desires, and life trajectory…and likes us back. In fact, it’s among the hardest, yet most important things we may do in our lifetimes. ## [What Dating Apps Should Do Differently](https://stevedean.substack.com/p/what-dating-apps-should-do-differently) _2025-10-28 · Steve Dean · Steve Dean's Dating Library_ Humans today are beings of unparalleled agency, skill, and thirst for knowledge. We have grown accustomed to learning constantly, yet…Dating apps are not optimized to help us learn. In fact, the opposite is true. ## [Dating in the Age of AI](https://stevedean.substack.com/p/dating-in-the-age-of-ai) _2025-10-21 · Steve Dean · Steve Dean's Dating Library_ It’s too easy to spend an hour or more each day swiping into the void, sending messages to barebones profiles, getting mired in milquetoast back-and-forths, and feeling more dehumanized with each passing moment. ## [How to Practically Proffer Dates That Don't Suck (Part 3)](https://stevedean.substack.com/p/how-to-cultivate-meaningful-dates) _2025-06-27 · Steve Dean · Steve Dean's Dating Library_ Tangible action steps for cultivating creative dates together. ## [Stop Accidentally Suggesting Dates that Suck (Part 2)](https://stevedean.substack.com/p/stop-accidentally-suggesting-dates-that-suck) _2025-06-18 · Steve Dean · Steve Dean's Dating Library_ What kinds of dates are people designing today, and how could they do better? ## [How to Design Dates That Don't Suck (Part 1)](https://stevedean.substack.com/p/how-to-design-dates-that-dont-suck) _2025-06-12 · Steve Dean · Steve Dean's Dating Library_ First Date Anatomy and Examples ## [When Your Private Bits Become Public Bytes](https://stevedean.substack.com/p/dating-apps-data-security-digital-hygiene) _2025-04-10 · Steve Dean · Steve Dean's Dating Library_ How to protect yourself and your data in online dating and beyond ## [Dating App Profile Text — Everything You Need to Know](https://stevedean.substack.com/p/dating-app-profile-text-bio-writing) _2025-03-26 · Steve Dean · Steve Dean's Dating Library_ how to write effective dating bios that attract compatible people. plus dating profile ideas, examples, and tips! ## [Do This Before Your First Dating App Photoshoot](https://stevedean.substack.com/p/dating-app-professional-photoshoot-prep) _2025-03-21 · Steve Dean · Steve Dean's Dating Library_ cost comparisons, pre-shoot prep, and pragmatic tips for photos that spark compatibility and charm