Turning 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, in North, Central and South America. I feel like I can hear in the way Adrián speaks that he is, as he calls it, a "practitioner of contemplative disciplines," who has a yearning for personal transformation and socio-ecological viability.

You also might hear the influence of the lineages "of beauty, wisdom, and compassion" that he honors, including teachings of the Native Americans, Central and South American Plant Shamanism and ritual, Tibetan Buddhism and Yoga, and Daoism.

Click Play at turningseason.com/episode12 (on Spotify, or Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen) to hear us reflect on:

• the Work that Reconnects as a kind of "truth-speaking work," that can liberate the energy that was busy keeping the truth suppressed
• uncertainty as something to love about life
• the balance between taking the lead and trusting in life, in parenting and in facilitating
• Adrián's experience bringing the Work that Reconnects to Mexico and to Central and South America
• working with ritual as a way of re-orienting ourselves more compassionately and mindfully to ourselves, our relations, and the mystery that underlies everything
• a simple, profound way to relate to the living world: the practice of gratitude
• and the possibility of de-centering human ingenuity and human thinking in addressing global crises, opening up to the creativity and wisdom of the more-than-human world.

I loved connecting with Adrián and I hope you find our conversation as supportive as I did.

Originally published at turningseason.com.