The Enneagram: Nine Gateways to Presence, by Tami Simon
follows is the syndicated transcript of a Sounds True interview between Tami Simon and Russ Hudson. You can listen to the audio version of the interview here. Tami Simon: You’re listening to Insights at the Edge. Today, my guest is Russ Hudson. Russ Hudson has established himself as one of the top teachers and developers of the Enneagram personality typology system. He has coauthored, with Don Riso, five bestselling books on the subject and with Sounds True, he’s created a new 11-CD audio learning series, an in-depth program called The Enneagram: Nine Gateways to Presence.  When it comes to a subject like the Enneagram, you can learn about it on a l... posted on Apr 7 2023 (6,468 reads)

Deborah Cohan: The Dancing Doctor, by Awakin Call Editors
follows is the transcript of an Awakin Call with Dr. Deborah Cohan, moderated by Cynthia Li and hosted by Kristin Von Kundra Cynthia Li: It is my pleasure to introduce to you Dr. Deborah Cohan, a Harvard-trained doctor, healer, public health advocate. She's a mother, a teacher, dancer, a doula of births as well as deaths. She serves the community as an obstetrician at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, and as a medical director of Hive, a nonprofit organization of the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation that promotes reproductive and sexual wellness and pregnancy support for those living with HIV. In 2013, she underwent a double mastectomy, and a video ... posted on Apr 21 2023 (3,940 reads)

Sacred Time, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Masque for the Four Seasons. Walter Crane, 1905-1909. Oil on canvas. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany. Wikimedia Commons. Source: Daderot Time speaks in many voices, many different images and sounds. For the Neolithic builders of Stonehenge, sacred time was marked by the Summer and Winter solstices, particularly the Winter solstice, when, at around 3:50 pm the midwinter sun would set in the southwest and its rays flood through the center of the monument, dropping down onto the altar stone. Thousands of years later, for the medieval farmer time was the changing seasons and the saint’s days, as well as the monastery bells ringing out over the fields, marking the monk&... posted on May 2 2023 (3,549 reads)

Letting Flowers Lead: The Way of Ikebana, by Awakin Call Editors
is the transcript of an Awakin Call with Mayuka Yamazaki, moderated by Pavi Mehta and hosted by Cynthia Li. Pavi Mehta: It is my pleasure now to introduce our guest. In many ways Mayuka Yamazaki's life is a study in contrast: Her credentials in the business world are impressive: She sits on the board of three public companies, has worked as a management consultant with McKinsey and Company, and is backed by a decade of experience working as an executive with Harvard Business School at their Japan Research Center. During her time with them, she co-authored 30 Harvard Business School case studies about Japanese companies, business leaders, and societal issues. Mayuka is also... posted on May 3 2023 (2,491 reads)

The Thread of My Life: Following the Heart's Wisdom, by Sandra Lensink
go and learning to follow my inner wisdom instead of an agenda. This is the common thread of my life. Until the age of 33, it was a bumpy road, full of painful  and deep potholes. I did not understand the meaning of all that was happening to me and felt lost. I fought tooth and nail for my right to exist in many ways. And ended up in burnout. There I lay at the bottom. In retrospect, the greatest gift of all in shuddering packaging. The chance for a new beginning. I had no choice but to move through the darkness. And asked myself for the first time in my life the questions: Who am I? Why am I here? Beyond al... posted on May 9 2023 (3,087 reads)

Staying Loyal to Who You Are and Your Dreams, by Tami Simon
follows is the syndicated transcript of a SoundsTrue Insights at the Edge interview between Tami Simon and Dr. Tererai Trent. You can listen to the audio of the full episode here. Tami Simon: You’re listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Dr. Tererai Trent. Dr. Tererai Trent grew up in a cattle herding family in rural Zimbabwe, and is now one of today’s most internationally recognized and respected voices for education and women’s empowerment. She was named Oprah Winfrey’s all-time favorite guest, and received a $1.5 million donation to rebuild her childhood elementary school. Tererai Trent is the author of the book, The Awakened Woman: ... posted on May 24 2023 (3,041 reads)

Six Ways to Help Kids Grow Their Creativity, by Elisse Gabriel
Brown, bestselling author, researcher, and University of Houston professor, was surrounded by creativity as a child. “I grew up in a pink stucco house in New Orleans where my mom was always a maker. All the curtains in our house were homemade, all the art in our house was from us kids. I had dresses that matched my mom’s that matched my dolls’.”  “I never thought about creativity as an act separate from self,” says Brown, who has spent the last two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. “To be human is to be creative.” Brown’s environment changed abruptly, however, when her family move... posted on May 29 2023 (3,223 reads)

Christopher Titmuss: Adventures of the Spirit, by Awakin Call Editors
must remember we are exhaustible. We need renewal. Silence, quietude, time alone, naturally gives that. Then we can come back in to serve others in small ways. That we do. Then we take time for renewal. Jesus, the Buddha, Mahatma Gandhi and all the great sages recognize the importance of connection with others to serve, then step back from that into quietness, then renewal, and then serve. This is the great rhythm of life." Christopher Titmuss, a former hippie turned Theravada Buddhist monk turned social critic, is Britain's senior Dharma teacher. Having once lived on 39 British pounds per year for ten years, he has sat beneath The Tree of Enlightenment in Bodhgaya, Indi... posted on Jun 6 2023 (2,443 reads)

Curiosity: A Sponge for Terror, by Darlene Cohen
an athletic, strong woman, my fearlessness was physically based. My body was utterly reliable, and I felt a young person’s invincibility. Back then I had no hesitation in tight situations: planting my 5’2″ frame firmly between a man on the street and the woman he had just slapped. No fear. When two teenaged girls came together to block my progress up the street as a racial challenge—whose neighborhood is this anyway?—I had decided to cross the street as the better part of valor, but my brash little body surprised me. “This is MY neighborhood, too!” I crashed through their locked-arm barricade, then ran like hell, momentary triumph over fear poundi... posted on Jun 15 2023 (3,606 reads)

Murmurations: Breaking is Part of Healing, by ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN
BY MICHAEL LUONG/YES! MEDIA I was in a conversation recently with a friend who had just returned from a meditation retreat. She said one of the ideas shared with her group was that “the teacup is already broken,” a meditation on how the death or ending or brokenness we fear is inevitable. We will die, everyone we love will die, the organization will end, the nation will come apart, the system will collapse. The teacup will break. The end has already happened in our minds, our imaginations, our predictions; it is implied by the very pattern of our existence, which we understand to be impermanent. I find that this idea brings me as much peace as does the idea of&... posted on Jul 12 2023 (5,226 reads)

The Radical Act of Savoring Pleasant Moments, by Ari Honorvar
her talk, Ari Honarvar introduces the mindful practice of savoring intervention. Through her background in providing workshops for refugees, she explains how to incorporate savoring pleasant moments in order to improve our wellbeing, even in the toughest environments. Ari Honarvar is a writer, activist, and artist dedicated to building bridges between the arts, social justice, and well-being. She is a Musical Ambassador of Peace and conducts Resilience through Joy workshops on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border and in Europe. Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Washington Post, New York Times, and elsewhere. She is the author of Rumi's Gift Oracle Cards and her critically ac... posted on Oct 8 2023 (3,916 reads)

Cooking Up Connection, by Shaylyn Romney Garrett
a Month-Long Challenge of Hosting Dinner Parties Taught Me About the Art and Importance of Social Gathering As of a month ago, I very rarely invited friends over to my house. It just felt like there was always a reason not to: I’m too busy. It’s too much work. I can’t afford to make a fancy meal. I’d have to find someone to watch my daughter. My house is a mess. But these “reasons” were actually just excuses—artificial barriers I’d constructed to keep my private life private, and to stave off the vulnerability of showing my friends what was behind the curtain of my less-than-perfect life. I was always game for meeting up for l... posted on Nov 8 2023 (3,119 reads)

Knowing Our Power in Tumultuous Times, by Lily Spencer
O’Shanassy, CEO of the Australian Conservation Foundation, spoke these words to me last year, during an interview for The reMAKERs podcast about climate change and what gives her hope. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had just issued their latest report, a Code Red for Humanity warning on the nature of things to come. I asked her how she’s able to get up and do this work every day, during a pandemic, knowing that the future for life on Earth is looking so grim.“The future is not a linear extension of the past,” she replied. I felt myself exhale.So who shapes the future?I’ve spent the better part of two decades working in activism an... posted on Apr 10 2024 (2,057 reads)

Dancing with the Enemy, by Rev. Charles "Chaz" Howard
good to see you all. It's an honor to be here on this holy ground with you holy people. ... Thank you for all that you're doing in the world. When I was a kid, I loved to dance. I danced freely without inhibition, not worried about who was looking. And, my parents, when we would have guests over after dinner, they would summon the entertainment, which was me. And I would come out and I would dance for our guests. I don't dance so much anymore. I think as I got older, I became a little more nervous about what people would think about me. My knees got bad. And I don't know, sometimes I fear I've lost the love - that I don't have it in me anymore.In 2005, a terrible hurricane, called Hur... posted on Apr 21 2024 (3,169 reads)

How Luck and Chance Shape Our Lives, by Bob McKinnon
the random road that led to you reading this article. At some point, someone introduced you to Greater Good magazine. Perhaps you received an email or saw a post on someone’s social media feed, or maybe Google did the job. At that precise moment of time, you had a few minutes to spare and decided to click on it. That, of course, was in your control. But before your click, someone—namely, me—had to write this article. An editor had to decide that I was a decent choice to write it. I had to accept—which I did mainly for one completely random reason: I had read the book in question and in fact had recently interviewed the author for my NPR podcast, Attribution.... posted on May 30 2024 (2,568 reads)

Sister Marilyn: To Come And See, by Sister Marilyn Lacey
many years ago, when I was 18 years old and first entered the convent, I had my heart set on being a teacher and being a mathematician and all of that. Our life was very structured from 5am to 10pm, every single day, except Sunday we had the afternoon off. Early on in that first year, one of the other novice nuns invited me to go to San Francisco with her to visit her uncle. I looked up from the book I was reading and said, "No, I don't really wanna do that." I didn't know her uncle and I barely knew her. So I went back to reading my book.  The next day, the novice director who was in charge of training and mentoring us called me into her office and recounted this incident.&nb... posted on Jun 24 2024 (3,013 reads)

The Solutionary Way: A Practical Way To Better The Future, by Zoe Weil
Role Will You Play in Bringing About a Better World? Some years ago, well before the pandemic and the escalating rates of youth anxiety and depression, I was invited to speak to 5th and 6th graders at a school in Connecticut. I asked them what they thought were the biggest problems in the world, and I wrote down what they said on a whiteboard until the board was full. Then, I asked them to raise their hands if they thought we could solve the problems they listed. Of the forty-five children, only five raised their hands. This was the most sobering moment in my then almost thirty-year career as a humane educator—someone who teaches about the interconnected issues of human rights, ... posted on Jun 27 2024 (2,338 reads)

The Whisper of Reverence, by Greta Matos
Found within the Quiet of the Herd The cold breath of dusk kissed my nose as I felt myself slowly emerging from my dream state. Through my cheek, which lay gently atop an extra fleece bundled into a makeshift pillow, I could feel the weight of the horses’ hooves landing on the soft soil. The herd was close; not only could I feel the slow, soft drumming of their hooves on the land, but the rhythmic sound of their chewing began to fill my ears. I sat up in my sleeping bag and scanned the dark valley before me. As my eyes adjusted, the shapes of seven dark figures emerged. The herd was grazing alongside me by the time I’d stuffed my bivy and sleeping bag back into my pa... posted on Jun 28 2024 (2,206 reads)

Not Your Grandfather's Retirement, by Editors
changing the world is for the young? Meet 10 people over 60 who are proving you wrong. Golfing, knitting, and rocking chairs? Not exactly.  The Purpose Prize honors people over 60 who combine their experience and passion for social good. This year's winners are standing up to coal companies, helping their neighbors fight foreclosure, and keeping polluting industries out of their communities.        Photo by Talking Eyes Media/Copyright Civic Ventures Inez Killingsworth Empowering and Strengthening Ohio’s People  Cleveland Inez Killingsworth’s neighbors didn’t answer knocks at the door. Phone numbers w... posted on Dec 5 2010 (6,115 reads)

How a Regular Guy Found Some Super Power, by Colin Beavan
a regular guy found some super power.   So many of us have good ideas for helping the world. But we tuck our ideas away. I did. I’d tell myself that if the idea were any good someone else would have already done it. That I’m not capable of making a difference. I’d sit on my ideas, get on with my “life,” and then feel angry at the world because the problems I cared about didn’t get solved. I had that fear of going first. Then I took my first hapless step into what I call accidental activism. In 2006, I started a project where I lived as environmentally as possible for a year—with my little family, on the ninth floor of an apart... posted on Sep 2 2011 (9,284 reads)