The Great Turning
The Wood Element in You: Vision, Anger, Passion for Justice, Flexibility and Compassion (a few minutes of Healing Season)
I love hosting Healing Season. One of my favorite parts is sharing the poetic science of the Five Elements, as applied to the body, mind, and emotions in Chinese Medicine. Here you can see a few minutes of the course video about the Wood Element. If you’re curious about Healing Season, a 12-week small group…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 21: Water Wisdom for Deserts, Forests, and Cities (with Charles Upton)
How much power do you think you have to affect rainfall, or to influence how vulnerable a landscape is to wildfire? Do we have any agency in our situation of “running out of water”? Until recently, I didn’t think those things were in our hands at all. I’ve been excited to learn from water experts…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 20: News on 1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People, Moratorium on Oil and Mining in Ecuador, Protect Thacker Pass
Welcome to your dose of Active Hope in today’s news episode of Turning Season Podcast, here to bring 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 your love for life…
Read MoreTurning Season Episode 19: Creative Changemaking in Art & Architecture (with Sinéad Cullen)
I know Sinéad Cullen is not alone in once feeling inadequate for not being a fists-in-the-air, protest-in-the-streets kind of activist; for not taking a stand in that dimension of The Great Turning we call “Holding Actions.” I also know she’s not alone – and many of you listening will relate – in being deeply inspired…
Read MoreTurning 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 MoreThe thing about the future
https://leilaninavar.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Thing-About-The-Future.mp4 The thing about the future is that it might not be that bad – or, it might be so bad that nothing we do will make much difference. But what about the present? How are we living, right now? Is it loving and life-affirming? This seems like a more helpful question for my mind…
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