introducing intimate practice
Intimate Practice is a podcast about conflict, care, and change — and how we stay human while transforming systems of power. Hosted by conflict midwife and transition designer Shivani Mehta Bhatia, it’s a space for tending to rupture and repair, practicing intimacy and integrity, and building the relational architecture that can remake the world. Made for justice-rooted leaders, creatives, and change-makers who are ready to live conflict — not just manage it — and who know transformation begins in relationship. Begin your own practice of repair with How to Apologize: The Architecture of Repair — a free email course on apology, accountability, and change.
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Hi there. I’m Shivani.
I’m a conflict midwife and transition designer, which means I help people turn towards what’s hard, repair what’s been broken, and birth what comes next.
This is Intimate Practice, a podcast about conflict, care, and change. Here, we explore the slow, courageous work of becoming more human in unjust times.
We ask how tending to our relational selves might be the most radical systems change of all. How do we hold rupture and practice repair along the fault lines of our systems and ourselves? How do we build the relational infrastructure we need to stay soft but also safe? What happens to love — platonic, erotic, collective, political — when we stop avoiding conflict and start learning from it?
Sometimes you’ll hear me in conversation with friends, thinkers, artists, and makers. Sometimes it’s just me — a voice note from my studio, or the inside of a messy question I don’t know how to answer yet.
My hope is that these conversations feel like sitting down with a cup of tea at the end of a long day — an exhale, a soft landing, a pause before we begin again.
Intimacy isn’t about the absence of conflict. It’s about how we move through it with integrity.
Welcome to Intimate Practice. Let’s tend to what’s tender, together.