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Turning Season Episode 18: News on Banning New Oil and Gas Drilling, Holding Actions Against Land Grabs, and a Moveable Forest
Welcome to news episode no. 2 of Turning Season Podcast, your regular dose of Active Hope in the Great Turning, bringing you news and deep conversations about our adventure toward a life-honoring, life-sustaining way of being human on Earth. This show is for every one of you who’s awake to our multiple crises, feels their love…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 17: Experiential Deep Ecology (with John Seed)
How do we live at a time like this? You are in for a treat in today’s episode, hearing John Seed’s answer to this question, and especially in hearing about how he’s come to his answer. If you don’t recognize his name, John Seed is a wise elder, activist and well-loved leader based in Australia,…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 16: News on Amazonian Women’s Healing Center, International Treaty on Plastics, and Reconnection Ecology at Wildlife Sanctuary
This is the first “news” episode of Turning Season Podcast. I had the idea to do short episodes like this while listening to a 5-minute NPR podcast a few months ago. It was a very quick, back-to-back series of stories with the sense: “Here’s what you should know.” It included something like, updates on war…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 15: The Non-GMO Project, Right Relationship, and How Powerful Each of Us Truly Is (with Megan Westgate)
Have you ever noticed that little butterfly on some packaged foods, labeled “Non-GMO Project VERIFIED?” Maybe you even look for the butterfly before you buy, and feel better about eating what’s inside because of it. That’s you exercising your power in one of the most intimate ways possible: how you take food into your own…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 14: The Body is Our Gateway (with Petra Bongartz)
How do we get from, “We know we have to change,” to “We’re actually changing”? As a society, or even as individuals? As you’ll hear my guest Petra Bongartz say at the beginning of this episode, we’ve known for a long time that we need to change – and yet, we haven’t changed. Why not?…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 13: Balancing All Seven Centers (with Morgan Starr-Riestis)
How are you dealing with the stress of these times? If you’re turning to (or curious about) talk therapy, yoga, other spiritual and energetic practices, or learning to regulate your own nervous system, you’ll be interested in my guest for this episode, Morgan Starr-Riestis, therapist at Mind Psy Guidance and creator of the Seven Centers…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 12: Courageous Intention on Behalf of Life (with Adrián Villaseñor Galarza)
Adrián is one of the many people I am just so glad to know is out there, enacting The Great Turning in the ways that he is uniquely moved to do. This conversation was especially nourishing to my heart and mind. Adrián is a longtime facilitator of the Work that Reconnects, in Spanish and English,…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 11: Herbal Medicine & Systems Thinking (with Judyth Shamosh)
“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.” – The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien That’s a favorite quote of my guest Judyth Shamosh, which she relates to seeing each person’s health as a whole system, and as part of even larger whole systems.…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 10: The Choice to Re-Wild (with Claire Dunn)
Click Play at turningseason.com/episode10 (or find Turning Season Podcast on any podcast platform) to hear my entire conversation with Claire Dunn, the founder of Nature’s Apprentice. I knew that in conversation with Claire – who lived alone in the bush for a year, spent almost a decade in grassroots environmental activism, has authored two books,…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 9: Resourcing in Pleasure (with Ann Nguyen)
What do desire and pleasure have to do with The Great Turning? Oh so deliciously much. I asked Ann Nguyen to join the Turning Season conversation not only because she facilitates trauma resolution – which is a huge piece of personal and global healing – but also because she facilitates a deepened connection to Love…
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