The Inner Life of Rebellion, by On Being
PALMER: It's an act of rebellion to show up as someone trying to be whole and I would add, as someone who believes that there is a hidden wholeness beneath the very evident brokenness of our world. [music: “Seven League Boots” by Zoe Keating] KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: The history of rebellion is rife with burnout. Burnout, which Parker Palmer has defined, as “violating my own nature in the name of nobility.” Then you have the irony of this moment we inhabit, where we are freer, psychologically and practically, to be rebels. But the forms and institutions we are dealing with don't need smashing. Most of them are imploding all on their own... posted on May 8 2015 (16,712 reads)

Running as Spiritual Practice, by On Being
FOR BILLY MILLS, CHRISTINA TORRES, ASHLEY HICKS, ET AL. — RUNNING AS SPIRITUAL PRACTICE syndicated from OnBeing.org KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: For the Summer Olympics, we’re breaking format to explore a topic our listeners have called out as a passionate force in all kinds of lives, and a connector across all kinds of boundaries in American culture: running. Not just as exercise, or as merely physical pursuit — running as a source of bonding between parents and children and friends. Running as an interplay between competition and contemplation. Running and body image and survival and healing. MS. CHRISTINA TORRES: People from high school now tell me,... posted on Aug 30 2016 (10,882 reads)

Joserra Gonzalez: A Re-Love-Ution Blooms in Spain, by Awakin Call Editors
still don't know how beautiful Nature is, there are a lot of things we don't understand totally. I feel our understanding will be higher when it's collective. When more and more people have this understanding, we will be able to see more gifts Nature has ready for us. -- Joserra Gonzalez Jose Ramon Gonzalez (“Joserra”) is a service-hearted generosity entrepreneur, meditator, and activist for the common good. He is also the founder of "ReLoveUtion" -- a renaissance of compassionate societies. What follows is an edited transcript of an Awakin Call interview with Joserra, moderated by Rina Patel. You can read the full transcript or listen to the ... posted on Jul 21 2017 (8,732 reads)

The Evolutionary Power of Mindful Communication, by Tami Simon
May 30, 2017 Your browser does not support the audio element, but you can play it here. Diane Musho Hamilton is a spiritual teacher, mediator, and group facilitator who has been studying mindfulness for more than 30 years. She is a featured presenter for A Year of Mindfulness, Sounds True's yearlong online meditation program. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon and Diane discuss how her experience with mindfulness has helped her to become an effective group mediator. Diane speaks on how mindfulness skills transfer to interpersonal communication and skillful relationship—especially when it comes to being able to take on someone else's perspecti... posted on Oct 29 2017 (15,374 reads)

5 Ways Small Actions Have Huge Power, by Sarah Lazarovic
those who take the bus or refuse plastic toothbrushes: Don’t listen to the cynics. Research shows the little things matter.   ... posted on Oct 31 2018 (11,574 reads)

Organizations Beyond Ego, by Tami Simon
Laloux is a business analyst and author whose book Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness is considered one of the most important management guides of the past decade. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Tami Simon talks to Frederic about what it takes to become a "next-level organization" that meets the challenges and opportunities of expanding human consciousness. Frederic explains that the next stage of human development will be to move beyond ego, elaborating on how this will look in the business world. Tami and Frederic discuss the difficult balance between fulfilling financial... posted on May 13 2019 (7,788 reads)

Healing Conflict: Listen, Validate, and Then Explore Options, by Tami Simon
November 5, 2019 Tami Simon: Welcome to Insights at the Edge, produced by Sounds True. My name’`s Tami Simon, I’`m the founder of Sounds True, and I’d love to take a moment to introduce you to the new Sounds True Foundation. The Sounds True Foundation is dedicated to creating a wiser and kinder world by making transformational education widely available. We want everyone to have access to transformational tools such as mindfulness, emotional awareness, and self-compassion, regardless of financial, social, or physical challenges. The Sounds True Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to providing these transformational tools to communities in need, includi... posted on Feb 9 2020 (6,425 reads)

Towards a Moral Revolution, by On Being
Tippett, host:The world keeps changing, and moral reckonings are being driven to the surface of our life together: who will we be to each other in our communities, our nations, our globalized world? What are politics for; what is an economy for — and education, and health care, and borders? Jacqueline Novogratz is a voice I respect on the inadequacy of the simplistic ways we take up such questions, if we take them up at all — the necessity of moral imagination and the cultivation of character alongside all of the so-called hard skills that are no longer serving us. This is at the heart of her book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution: Practices to Build ... posted on May 26 2020 (6,839 reads)

When the Source Ran Free: A Story for Our Times, by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65060962 Watching the sun rise over the wetlands, the mist fading, even here in the midst of nature there is the strange stillness of a world in lockdown — waiting, wondering, anxiety, and fear its companions. I am writing these words in the time of the great pandemic, when for a few brief months our world slowed down and almost stopped; when as the stillness grew around us there was a moment to hear another song, not one of cars and commerce, but belonging to the seed of a future our hearts need to hear. This song comes from a place where the angels are present, where light is born, where the fu... posted on Sep 20 2020 (7,147 reads)

The Brain's Way of Healing, by Berry Liberman
Liberman on Dr Norman Doidge Very few people have the depth and breadth of knowledge of Dr Norman Doidge. His is a mountainous mind, fiercely focussed on exploring the potential of the human brain. For years, Norman devoted his research into how the brain, when damaged, can repair itself with the more subtle, less invasive tools of neuroplastic intervention. His two books, The Brain’s Way of Healing and The Brain that Changes Itself have sold in the millions, topping bestseller lists across the US, Canada and Australia and causing a revolution in the medical world. Having studied the classics and philosophy as a young undergraduate in Toronto, Norman ... posted on Nov 10 2021 (11,993 reads)

Four Ways to Cool Down Your Defensiveness, by Daryl R. Van Tongeren
ago, when I had my first media interview about my research on humility, the interviewer was curious whether studying humility actually made me any humbler. She asked me to poll my wife, to see how humble she perceived me to be. When I solicited my ranking from one to 10, my wife gave me a four.  My embarrassment gave way to defensiveness. I was genuinely perplexed—why wasn’t I humble? I tried, counterproductively, to make a case for my humility by listing my humble attributes and actions (the irony is thick), but that initial defensiveness temporarily kept me from being able to use this feedback as a way to grow. I couldn’t see my own lack of humility. Even... posted on Sep 14 2022 (6,195 reads)

This Hunger for Holiness, by On Being
follows is the syndicated transcript of an On Being interview between Krista Tippett and Barbara Brown Taylor. You can listen to the audio version of the interview here. From Krista, about this week’s show: It’s fascinating to trace the arc of spiritual searching and religious belonging in my lifetime. The Episcopal priest and public theologian Barbara Brown Taylor was one of the people I started learning about when I left diplomacy to study theology in the early 1990s. At that time, she was leading a small church in Georgia. And she preached the most extraordinary sermons, and turned them into books read far and wide. Then in 2006, she wrote Leaving Church &... posted on Aug 26 2023 (4,350 reads)

Rebecca Solnit on How Disasters Can Move Us From a Sense of Self-Interest to a Sense of Community, by Mark Karlin
a post-literate age, Rebecca Solnit is a masterful essayist and author who writes with a style that is seductively brilliant. She can create a compelling commentary or book out of a wisp of an idea that others would summarily dismiss. Solnit, however, takes that sometimes contrarian thought and weaves together seemingly disparate evidence to make a persuasive, often lyrical, argument on its behalf. Except it is not really an argument - her writing is the opposite of shrill. Solnit is not a naïve optimist by any stretch of the imagination; she understands the dark side of the human species. But to be passive in the face of adversity is to hinder positive change. As Solnit wrote in ... posted on Jun 24 2013 (15,030 reads)

Growing Up the Internet, by On Being
follows is the audio and transcript of an interview between Krista Tippett and Tiffany Shlain, syndicated from www.onbeing.org MS. KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: Tiffany Shlain thinks of the internet when she thinks of her favorite quote of the naturalist John Muir, that “when you tug at a single thing in the universe, you find it’s attached to everything else.” She is an internet pioneer and a filmmaker committed to reframing technology as an expression of the best of what humanity is capable, with all the complexity that entails. She founded the Webby Awards — the “Oscars of the Internet” — which is celebrating its 20th anniversary thi... posted on Apr 11 2016 (10,380 reads)

James Doty: The Magic Shop of the Brain, by On Being
following is the audio and transcript of an onbeing.org interview between Krista Tippett and Dr. James Doty. DR. JAMES DOTY: Every time I’m in the position to open a person’s skull, it’s extraordinary in the sense that this is where we live. And what you see is these hills and valleys that are sort of pinkish, and you see blood vessels coursing over the surface. And there’s a membrane where fluid is, and it’s pulsating. And that pulsating is matching the rhythm of your heart. And to think that within that is who each of us is. MS. KRISTA TIPPETT, HOST: Stanford brain surgeon James Doty is also a leading convener of research on compassion and altr... posted on Apr 17 2016 (31,909 reads)

Belonging Creates and Undoes Us Both, by On Being
TIPPETT, HOST: “Belonging creates and undoes us both.” This is the wisdom of Pádraig Ó Tuama, an extraordinary healer in our world of fracture. He leads the Corrymeela community of Northern Ireland, a place that has offered literal refuge and seeds of new life in and since the violent fracture that defined that country until the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. But Pádraig and Corrymeela extend a quiet, generative force far beyond their northern coast. They’ve learned what they know the hard way, yet they carry it with an infectious, calming joy. “Over cups of tea, and over the experience of bringing people together,” as Padraig d... posted on May 6 2017 (10,033 reads)

Innovation Means Relying on Everyone's Creativity, by Margaret Wheatley
Means Relying on Everyone's Creativity Leader to Leader, Spring 2001 Innovation has always been a primary challenge of leadership. Today we live in an era of such rapid change and evolution that leaders must work constantly to develop the capacity for continuous change and frequent adaptation, while ensuring that identity and values remain constant. They must recognize people's innate capacity to adapt and create-to innovate. In my own work I am always constantly and happily surprised by how impossible it is to extinguish the human spirit. People who had been given up for dead in their organizations, once conditions change and they ... posted on Feb 26 2018 (12,273 reads)

How Trauma & Resilience Cross Generations, by On Being
Being Studios · Rachel Yehuda — How Trauma and Resilience Cross Generations What follows is the syndicated transcript of an On Being interview between Krista Tippett and Rachel Yehuda. Krista Tippett: Genetics describes DNA sequencing, but the new field of epigenetics sees that genes can be turned on and off and expressed differently, through changes in environment and behavior. And Rachel Yehuda is a pioneer in understanding how the effects of stress and trauma can transmit biologically, beyond cataclysmic events, to the next generation. She’s studied the children of Holocaust survivors and the children of pregnant women who survived the 9/11 attacks. But her s... posted on Jul 25 2020 (6,903 reads)

Claire Dunn: Nature's Apprentice, by Sarah Rowley
Dunn leads the way, barefoot, down a winding track behind her house to the banks of Birrurung, or the Yarra river. As we sit on the dry grass in the late afternoon of a 40-degree day, the cicadas chirp and there’s a sense of ease despite the intense heat. The only giveaway that we are in Australia’s second largest city is the distant hum of traffic. As I talk with Claire in this little patch of nature, I start to sense how, as humans, we can also find our way back to the wilder parts within ourselves. The chatter of my domesticated mind begins to fade to a distant hum. Claire is a guide to the wilds inside and out, and her passion is nature-based human development. Sinc... posted on Mar 1 2021 (4,698 reads)

Speaking River, Speaking Rain, by M Yuvan
languages then just a collection of words, syntax, and semantics? I'd like to sometimes see them as seeds and sometimes as fields -- alive as the minds, tongues, throats, bodies and air they pass through; germinating, growing roots, bearing fruit, evolving like beings. But also holding space, expanding out like a unique land of perception. A non-physical geography hosting human and non-human drama. A living medium, a speech-scape." In this evocative piece, writer and teacher M. Yuvan layers anecdotes that shine a small, bright light on India's linguistic diversity and weaves in similar stories from around the world. What does it mean for the future of the human sp... posted on Mar 7 2021 (5,853 reads)