Gather At The Well: Holding Fast + Staying Steady When You Need it the Most - Lindsey Fuller

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How do we stay steady when we need it most?

In this episode of Gather At The Well, Lindsey explores what it means to hold fast — to your values, your purpose, and your inner knowing. Through grounding somatic practices, personal reflections, and the rhythms that keep her team at The Teaching Well aligned, she offers a framework for leading with clarity and care.

This episode is full of tools to help you slow down, tune inward, and lead from a place of steadiness. You’ll walk away with:

🧘‍♀️ Somatic practices you can use in real time
📅 Weekly, quarterly & annual rhythms for aligned leadership
🔁 The “Keep, Stop, Start” framework for intentional reflection
🫶 A reframe for what it really means to be resilient

Because holding fast isn’t about freezing — it’s about showing up, soft and steadfast, again and again. “You’re here in this moment. You’re holding fast.”✨

Episode Highlights:

• Tone-setting: Staying steady when you need it most (1:00)
• Somatic Practice: Grounding Exercise (4:00)
• What does it mean to “Hold Fast”? (7:00)
• Strategies for staying grounded (10:11)
• Weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual alignment strategies for you and your team (13:00)
• Somatic Practice: Anchor yourself in moments of unrest (15:00)
• Creating collective resilience (19:59)
• Somatic Practice: Gaze stabilization (26:00)
• Self-Care and community support (29:46)
• Advice for the busy leader + personal resilience strategies (36:00)
• Homework: Find 3 ways to tend to self - one somatic, one self care, and one social
• Critical Hope: Holding fast doesn’t mean freezing. It means showing up as the change leader that you are.

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Chapters

1. Gather At The Well: Holding Fast + Staying Steady When You Need it the Most - Lindsey Fuller (00:00:00)

2. Introduction to Gather at the Well (00:00:03)

3. Grounding Exercise for Uncertainty (00:00:33)

4. Defining What It Means to Hold Fast (00:04:30)

5. Bilateral Stimulation for Stability (00:07:53)

6. Creating Systems for Team Stability (00:15:03)

7. Gaze Stabilization Practice (00:21:57)

8. Accessing Your Inner Knowing (00:24:40)

9. Closing Thoughts on Critical Hope (00:28:13)