Reframing Resilience with Dr. Poppy Gibson
and some community building to come!
We continue reframing resilience with Dr. Poppy Gibson, a lecturer in education whose key interests involve children’s psychological development, mental health, and wellbeing in education. Nat met Poppy when writing for Fusion, a journal she edits, and it turned out the two of them had some really significant similarities beyond their educational backgrounds — like how they are both sepsis survivors who almost died! Poppy’s taken that part of her story and gone on to write a children’s book on how to talk with kids about death. All kinds of trauma are navigated in this podcast conversation, but somehow we ended up laughing a lot — and briefly crying!
Links:
When They Died by Poppy Gibson & Alfred Russo
For more from Poppy, follow her on Instagram and Twitter
We loved this episode with sommelier Beverly Crandon whose love language is making food/wine pairings accessible to all regardless of background or expertise. Pulling this episode out from the archive because we love it AND we love the kinds of conversations that happen over a drink with friends (alcoholic or non-alcoholic). We love those conversations so much that we’re planning an upcoming Reframeables event to do exactly that. Stay tuned for details! 🍷
This comic was shared in our mother/daughter group chat. Truth bomb courtesy of our brilliant mother. You’re welcome.
And speaking of truth:
We weren’t psyched to make the long drive to London, Ontario a couple of weeks ago. We could get so much done at home in what would end up being 5 hours of commute time! But in-person meetings are relationship builders and Ceres Productions is committed to deeply human storytelling. So, armed with protein-heavy snacks and coffee, we hunkered down and drove in relative silence as the rain made the 401 even more hellish than usual.
Our first meeting was with author Emma Donoghue. We were scheduled to meet her for coffee to discuss our short film script inspired by one of her short stories. At the last minute Emma changed the plan and invited us to her home for lunch. Over homemade French onion soup and Irish soda bread, what started as a work meeting became something more.
Our second meeting was an ideation session with sagecomm, a marketing and communications company. We have done a number of similar sessions with other companies, so felt a little jaded heading in. But put us in a room with smart women who ask great questions — and then serve us each a nicely chilled glass of wine as we chat — we are in our element! Again, what started as a work meeting became something more.
Cheers to the in-person meeting 🍷 And always bring snacks! The humanizing effects of sharing food and drink are real.
Stay tuned for more in our Reframing Resilience series. Upcoming conversations with
and Paralympian medal winner Allison Lang are coming soon.Xo Nat and Bec