The Freedom of Consciously Aging with Carol Orsborn, Ph.D.
Free Listening, Interviews
Orsborn shares the concept of embracing old age as a transformative process. She emphasizes the importance of accepting reality, embracing mortality, and recognizing one’s belovedness. Orsborn differentiates between hope and expectation, advocating for hope as a vision without attachment to outcomes. She highlights the spiritual journey as a practice of…
Eating Local Food As An Act Of Belonging with Vicki Robin
Food is among our most basic human needs. 200 years ago in the US, everyone ate local food, and farming was a primary profession. However, industrial agriculture has distanced us from the hands that grow and process our food. If you are over 60 you’ve seen, in your lifetime, your…
Warriors For The Human Spirit with Margaret J. Wheatley, Ph.D.
In this time of constant distractions and disappointments we become exhausted and heartsick as our good work is ignored. Wheatley speaks with fierce honesty as she gives us the map of where we are. She also gives us tools that enliven and reinvigorate us in our work and relationships. She…
The Public Purpose Of Art with Arlene Goldbard
We’re on the cusp of a paradigm shift, a radical change in worldview that will thrust art and culture onto center stage. What does that mean? How will the world be different? What is the rising spirit of the times and how is it being expressed in art? Arlene Goldbard…
Becoming Warriors For The Human Spirit with Margaret J Wheatley, Ph.D.
By studying the history of living systems and their natural life cycles, Wheatley has discovered that every living system goes through a life cycle: birth, creativity, flowering, harvesting, and then death. It was no surprise for her to realize that every civilization goes through this life cycle as well. She…
Moving From Despair To Hope In Threshold Times: Part 2 with Paul Rogat Loeb
Sometimes our activity for positive change in the world makes a visible leap and other times the impact of our work takes a seemingly long time to show any results. As Loeb points out, “You draw hope from the knowledge that whatever it is that you do, something unexpected is going…
The Bounty Of A Generous Heart with Andrew Bienkowski
Andrew Bienkowski grew up in Siberia, his family exiled by the Communist regime. In a life that began with nothing, living on soup made from discarded potato peelings, he learned that true wealth and happiness come from giving, and made his way observing the true value of gratitude, forgiveness, and…
The Great Turning Or The Great Unraveling: It’s Our Choice with Joanna Macy, Ph.D.
Joanna Macy describes the “Great Turning” as a vital, creative response and wholesale revision of our values and our perceptions toward this precious planet.
