Falling in Love With the Earth, by Kristi Nelson
natural world is one of the most resplendent and consistent sources of generosity in our lives — whether we experience it directly moment-to-moment or not. When we allow ourselves to tune in and pay attention, our Earth is perpetually nourishing and providing for us, sustaining life and offering its abundant gifts with a breathtaking and consistent flourish. We are fed, literally and figuratively, by the Earth’s offerings every day. All manner of things born of the Earth can awaken us to perspective. All manner of moments in Nature can offer us gratitude for life’s preciousness and remind us of our fragile and powerful bonds of connection. Amidst oceans, fields, rain, t... posted on Nov 25 2019 (6,696 reads)

Finding Beauty in a Broken World, by Terry Tempest Williams
Simon: So you are here at Sounds True, Terry, recording an original audio abridgment of Finding Beauty in a Broken World, and I am curious just to begin, when you approached the book, how did you consider how to abridge it? Your recording here is 1/3 of the book, something like that? Terry Tempest Williams: Right. I love editing. And I also love reworking material, so it has been a great gift and privilege to be able to take these three sections of Finding Beauty in a Broken World--the mosaic section, the prairie dog section, and the Rwanda section—and condense each section into an hour. So in many ways it has forced me to be much clearer, to be sharper on the co... posted on Apr 12 2020 (7,649 reads)

Climate in the Boardroom, by Rebecca Henderson
Online September 22, 2020 How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution almost certainly requires a profoundly moral response, but talk of morality in the boardroom is often regarded with profound suspicion. Reconciling these tensions has forced me to navigate between worlds in an ongoing attempt to persuade businesspeople that solving climate change is both an economic and a moral necessity, and that the purpose of business is not only to make money but also to su... posted on Oct 27 2020 (5,491 reads)

Tara Brach: True Refuge, by Tami Simon
Simon: You’re listening to “Insights at the Edge.” Today I speak with Tara Brach. Tara is an author, clinical psychologist, and the founder and senior teacher of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington. She’s the author of the Sounds True audio learning programs Radical Self-Acceptance: A Buddhist Guide to Freeing Yourself from Shame and Meditations for Emotional Healing: Finding Freedom in the Face of Difficulty. On this episode of “Insights at the Edge,” Tara and I spoke about why it’s hard to be compassionate toward ourselves, and what Tara calls the Trance of Unworthiness. We also spoke about how to find a true ... posted on Jan 5 2021 (6,107 reads)

Health & Justice: The Path of Liberation Through Medicine, by Rupa Marya
is the transcript of the 2018 keynote speech at Bioneers, where I was introduced by my friend and conspirator, Black liberationist Cat Brooks, director of Anti Police-Terror Project. May this talk help people understand this uprising for justice so they can join the movement for health and wellness for all people. We cannot reform structures built on racism and violence. We must uproot them, compost them, heal the wounds and build anew. I want to first acknowledge the Coastal Miwok and the beings on whose land we are meeting today. To acknowledge all the indigenous people who have trusted me, shared deep conversation with me and influenced my understanding of what it mean... posted on Oct 11 2021 (3,850 reads)

Trauma, the Body and 2021, by On Being
follows is the syndicated transcript of an OnBeing interview between Krista Tippett and Bessel van der Kolk. You can listen to the full interview here. Krista Tippett: When I interviewed the psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk for the first time, his book The Body Keeps the Score was about to be published. And I described him as “an innovator in treating the effects of overwhelming experiences on people and society” — what we call trauma, when we encounter it in life and in the news. So I have needed to catch up with him in a time unlike any other in my life, in which we are living through one vast, overwhelming experience after the other, and The Body K... posted on Feb 10 2022 (7,493 reads)

You Are Not Alone Across Time, by https://onbeing.org/programs/bryan-doerries-you-are-not-alone-across-time/
follows is the syndicated transcript of an On Being interview between Krista Tippett and Bryan Doerries. You can listen to the audio of the interview here. Krista Tippett, host: “Remember,” Bryan Doerries likes to say, in both physical and virtual gatherings, “you are not alone in this room, and you are not alone across time.” He is activating an old alchemy for our young century. Ancient stories, and texts that have stood the test of time, can be portals to honest and dignified grappling with present wounds and longings, and callings that we aren’t able to muster in our official places now. Performances of his public health project, Theater of War,... posted on Feb 27 2022 (3,204 reads)

Healing Wealth In The Time Of Collapse, by Alnoor Ladha, Lynn Murphy
following is excerpted from Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse, by Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy. Co-publisher: Transition Resource Circle.  “In the dark theopoetics of the cloud, might the very fold between our non-knowing and our non-separability begin to appear [as] possibility itself, posse ipsum?” -- Catherine Keller Post capitalist philanthropy is a paradox in terms. A paradox is the appropriate starting place for the complex, entangled, messy context we find ourselves in as a species. Those of us who are embedded in the muddled sub-sect of humans working in the sector known as philanthropy find ourselves pushed even furt... posted on Sep 20 2022 (4,785 reads)

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, by Michael F. Shaughnessy, Cynthia Kleyn-Kennedy, Betty Edwards
10, 2016 Interview conducted by Michael F. Shaughnessy, Eastern New Mexico University, and Cynthia Kleyn-Kennedy, Texas Tech University, Lubbock Betty Edwards is Professor Emeritus in Art, California State University, Long Beach.   She has been profiled by the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Times, Time Magazine, New York Magazine, Intuition Magazine and has been a guest speaker at art school, universities, and major corporations, including IBM, General Electric, Roche Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer, Disney Corporation, UCLA Graduate Dental School, Steelcase, and McKinsey & Company. She holds a doctorate in Art from California State University in Long Beac... posted on Jul 9 2023 (2,697 reads)

Lissa Rankin: Sacred Medicine & The Mysteries of Healing, by Awakin Call Editors
follows is the edited transcript of Lissa Rankin's Awakin Call, hosted by Kristin Von Kundra and moderated by Cynthia Li. Cynthia Li: It is my pleasure to introduce to you, Dr. Lissa Rankin, who is an inspiration and a friend to me. Lissa is a doctor, speaker, educator, and author of multiple books, including the New York Times bestseller, Mind Over Medicine and her new book, Sacred Medicine: A Doctor's Quest to Unravel the Mysteries of Healing. She's the founder of the Whole Health Medicine Institute, which supports doctors and healthcare professionals to bring forth more holistic care of their patients and also themselves. She also fo... posted on Aug 28 2023 (3,699 reads)

ChatGPT: A Partner in Unknowing, by Dana Karout
Karout is a leadership trainer and researcher working at Harvard and across the US and the Middle East, who teaches and coaches based on the principles and practices of adaptive leadership. Her work aims to build the capacity of individuals and communities to hold conflict and navigate complexity across various levels of authority. She holds a Bachelors of Engineering from the American University of Beirut, a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and is an incoming PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, where she will research the pedagogical and theoretical implications of generative AI. Vartika Sharma is a collage artist and illustrator based in New Delhi, India. Inspire... posted on May 15 2024 (3,246 reads)

Six Ways to Boost Your Helping Habits, by Stephen G. Post
to live a longer, healthier life? Stephen G. Post explains how to reap the benefits of practicing altruism.   In 2008, I lost my job of 20 years and uprooted my family to pursue a new position. The move strained my marriage, my relationship with my son, my sense of well-being. Like many Americans in their 50s who thought they were more or less past any financial worries, I found myself anxious for the first time in years.  I know my story is not unusual. These are hard times. Much of our nation, and our planet, is confronted with environmental and economic upheaval. It can be difficult to believe that things are going to get any better anytime soon. mangostock ... posted on Sep 26 2011 (12,640 reads)

7 Spiritual Perspectives on Personal Leadership, by Swami Chidananda and Prasad Kaipa
is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; The way you play it is free will. – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, 1st Prime Minister of India (1889-1964)   How do you deal with change? How comfortable are you with what is on your plate? Are you creating or are you resisting? The quality of your leadership depends on how you deal with the cards that you draw and how you succeed using what you got! In this brief article, we present an approach to increase your personal mastery and leadership effectiveness drawing from ancient spiritual wisdom from around the world.   Integrity: Integrity, at its best, is alignment between thou... posted on Dec 15 2011 (65,233 reads)

Seeing in the Dark, by Timothy Ferris
way that can be named is not the eternal way. " -Lao Tzu, first century B.C.   The awe-inspiring sight of a sky full of stars can render us speechless—and understandably so. Two very different entities are involved, and they're both rather mysterious.   At one extreme stands the individual observer, peering through a telescope or simply staring up at the stars. To ask who is doing the observing is to raise one of the oldest questions of philosophy. "Know yourself," said Socrates, although he made the mistake of assuming that one had to accomplish this before trying to learn about the rest of the universe. (Rejecting a scien... posted on Apr 2 2012 (7,452 reads)

Contemporary Leaders of Courage and Compassion: Competencies and Inner Capacities, by Monica Sharma
short of a new level of worldwide leadership and commitment for sustainable and  equitable change will suffice to create a better world today and for future generations. For the first time technologies and resources exist to transform   our   situation and generate lasting results. The choice is ours.   Hundreds  of transformational leaders are producing results in 60 countries on every continent. I currently focus on 40 of these courageous leaders around the world. My journey over 20 years has been profound, walking alongside many courageous and compassionate leaders -— leaders walking different, yet similar, paths! Their profile: women... posted on Jul 20 2012 (17,671 reads)

Why Creative Thinking is Inclusive Thinking, by Michael Michalko
Einstein was once asked what the difference was between him and the average person. He said that if you asked the average person to find a needle in the haystack, the person would stop when he or she found a needle. He, on the other hand, would tear through the entire haystack looking for all the possible needles. With creative thinking, one generates as many alternative approaches as one can. Creative thinking is inclusive thinking. You consider the least obvious as well as the most likely approaches, and you look for different ways to look at the problem. It is the willingness to explore all approaches that is important, even after one has found a promising one. Mos... posted on Aug 3 2012 (102,368 reads)

What Death Taught Me About Life, by Thao Phi
part of my summer internship with ServiceSpace.org involved initiating conversations with people I didn't know, and one question I'd ask them is what do they know for sure in life? Something they know with certainty. When I was initially asked this question, the immediate answer that came to mind is death. Death is everywhere. And I don't mean death is everywhere in some cynical or morbid sense, but death is an inevitable part of life. Rather than seeing death as something good or bad, it is just something that happens. When I was 12, I attended a boarding school that was also a temple. My parents came to pick me up to for winter break. My mom wa... posted on Aug 30 2012 (40,001 reads)

Transformation by Design, by Melissa Hoffman
don't have to understand chaos theory to appreciate the new species of corporate organization that Dee Hock has unleashed on the planet, an organizational paradigm that could very well represent the next step in the collective evolution of the human family. You don't even have to know anything about corporate structure, nor do you have to nurse a secret passion for institutional reform. All you have to do is take a long look at a snowflake, reflect on a forest, ponder the neurons in your brain—or use your Visa card—and you will begin to appreciate the intricate, manifold hive of pulsing impulses and multidimensional parleys of information that give rise to everything ... posted on May 30 2013 (35,035 reads)

Orchestra of the Wild, by Bernie Krauss
a Sand County Almanac essay called The Great Gavilan, Aldo Leopold wrote: There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university. A professor may pluck the strings of his own instrument, but never that of another, and if he listens for music he must never admit it to his fellows or to his students. For all are restrained by an ironbound taboo whi... posted on Jul 26 2013 (21,701 reads)

Using Emergence to Scale Social Innovation, by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze
spite of current ads and slogans, the world doesn't change one person at a time.  It changes as networks of relationships form among people who discover they share a common cause and vision of what's possible.  This is good news for those of us intent on changing the world and creating a positive future.  Rather than worry about critical mass, our work is to foster critical connections.  We don't need to convince large numbers of people to change; instead, we need to connect with kindred spirits.  Through these relationships, we will develop the new knowledge, practices, courage, and commitment that lead to broad-based change.  But networks are... posted on Sep 2 2013 (35,363 reads)