Earth and Spirit Podcast
106 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago -The Earth and Spirit Podcast fosters engaging conversations with change-makers working at the intersection of meditative spiritual practice, social healing, and ecology. It is a production of the Passionist Earth & Spirit Center (www.earthandspiritcenter.org), a nonprofit, interfaith spirituality center located in Louisville, Kentucky. (Please donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/)
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The Art of Spiritual Companioning with Rev. Seifu Anil Singh-Molares
May 08, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 147 MBReverend Seifu Anil Singh-Molares is a priest in the Rinzai Zen Buddhist tradition and serves as the executive director of Spiritual Directors International, an interfaith non-profit that provides resources for spiritual guidance and counsel. This conversation explores what spiritual direction is and how important it is for discerning wisdom and divine presence in all aspects of our life. RESOURCES: Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/ Earth & ...
Join or Die: Rebecca and Pete Davis on Healthy Democracy and the Joy of Belonging
April 24, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 144 MBRebecca and Pete Davis are a sister-and-brother filmmaking team who have created “Join or Die,” a documentary film about the decline of civic life in America and the importance of joining clubs and other associations as a way to restore the health of our democracy. This episode explores how we are all made for belonging and how we can lean into the profoundly joyful work of becoming more deeply connected to our places and to each other. RESOURCES: Donate to support this podcast: https:/...
The Story is in Our Bones: Osprey Orielle Lake on New (and Ancient) Worldviews for Health in the Human-Earth Relationship
April 10, 2024 16:22 - 1 hour - 146 MBOsprey Orielle Lake is the founder executive director of WECAN, the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network, and the author of The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis. In this episode, we explore how embracing a different story about our belonging in a living, animate world can transform our self-understanding and can help to heal our relationship with ourselves, each other, and the rest of the living Earth. RESOURCES: Donate to suppor...
Big Love: Attorney Tom Williams on Contemplative Practice, Compassionate Justice, and the Lawyer as a Healer
March 27, 2024 11:30 - 1 hour - 143 MBTom Williams is a Louisville-based labor relations attorney with a deep commitment to the contemplative path, with the wild idea that a lawyer’s vocation may ultimately be to serve as a healer. In this conversation, Tom shares how he puts spiritual principles and insights into action as a tireless advocate for radical compassion, restorative justice, equity, and inclusion. RESOURCES: Donate to support the Earth & Spirit Center and this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate...
Sabbath Economics with Dr. Susan Taylor
March 13, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBDr. Susan Taylor is a PhD economist who has given her life to weaving together commitments of religious faith and commitments to a more just economy. In this episode, we reflect on the central and complicated role that money plays in human life. As an alternative to bare-knuckled capitalism, Susan offers the idea of Sabbath Economics – a radical vision of abundance and economic justice for people and our planet – a vision that each of us and all of us can start living toward right here and ...
Michael Hollifield M.D. on Bringing Mindfulness and Healing to Victims of War
February 28, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 144 MBDr. Michael Hollifield is a psychiatrist and general practitioner who serves as the Founder, President, and CEO of the War Survivors Institute, a nonprofit organization devoted to restoring health to civilians and soldiers who have been harmed by war, as well as mitigating the causes of violent conflicts. In this conversation, Michael reflects on the causes of war, its devasting effects, and how mindfulness and other spiritual practices and insights can bring peace in troubled hearts and tro...
Writing as Spiritual Practice: Denise Davis on Creating an “Isle of Peace”
February 14, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBDenise Davis taught writing for decades and is deeply committed to the spiritual journey and to journaling as a particular avenue of spiritual practice. In this conversation, Denise describes journaling as a chance to create what Howard Thurman called an Isle of Peace, where it’s safe to reflect on our experience, cultivate compassion for others, and seek the imprint of the divine in our lives. RESOURCES: Donate to support the Earth & Spirit Center and this podcast: https://www.earthand...
Everyone is Unshakably Good: Stephanie Barnett on Compassion, Belonging, and Belovedness
January 31, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBStephanie Barnett is a healthcare consultant, spiritual director, and nonprofit leader who understands her work as accompanying those on the margins, including young mothers who are in active recovery from substance abuse. In this conversation, Stephanie shares how compassion is the spiritual thread woven throughout all her work, knitting together communities of kinship and belonging, where all can know their own worth and belovedness. RESOURCES: Donate to support the Earth & Spirit Cen...
Matthew Fox on Creation Spirituality and Original Blessing – From the Archive
January 17, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 161 MBMatthew Fox is an author, theologian, and activist Episcopal priest whose radical interfaith work attempts to reawaken us to the sacredness of the created world. In this conversation, originally released in October 2022, Matthew reflects on how creation-centered spirituality, and the marriage of the divine feminine and sacred masculine, can help us respond with hope to the troubles of our apocalyptic times. RESOURCES: Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/ ...
Andy Loving on Spirituality, Money, and Socially Responsible Investing
January 03, 2024 12:00 - 53 minutes - 97.9 MBAndy Loving is the founder of Just Money Advisors, a financial advising firm that specializes in working with clients who have strong interests in socially responsible and ecologically sustainable investing. This conversation delves into the complicated role that money plays in our lives and how spiritual values can inspire us to use money and investing as tools for bringing about the more beautiful world that our hearts know is possible. RESOURCES AND LINKS: Donate to support the Earth &...
Dr. Patricia Gianotti on Spiritual Integration
December 20, 2023 12:30 - 56 minutes - 104 MBDr. Patricia Gianotti is the Academic Director of The Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy at Loyola University Chicago. As a clinician in private practice, she works with clients around issues related to trauma, shame, and narcissism. She’s also the founder of the Center for Spiritual Integration, an organization dedicated to the integration of spiritual and psychological aspects of the human psyche. This conversation explores what spiritual integration means in the context of human resilie...
Stepping Lightly, Keeping Focus, and Finding Gratitude, Part 2: Di Anne and Tom Kerrigan on Bringing Mindfulness to the Masses
December 04, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 72 MBAfter successful careers in business, Di Anne and Tom Kerrigan have become deeply involved in sharing mindfulness with those who need its practical benefits but may have barriers to access. This episode is the second half of a conversation with them about the democratization of mindfulness and the role mindfulness and compassion can play not only in improving the lives of individuals, but also in changing the systems that perpetuate inequity. RESOURCES: Please donate to help cover the ...
Stepping Lightly, Keeping Focus, and Finding Gratitude; Part 1: Di Anne and Tom Kerrigan on Bringing Mindfulness to the Masses
November 22, 2023 12:00 - 39 minutes - 72.7 MBDi Anne and Tom Kerrigan are an entrepreneurial couple who sold their successful business and then devoted their considerable energy and talents to sharing mindfulness with underserved community members, in collaboration with the Earth & Spirit Center. In this first of a two-part conversation, Di and Tom reflect on the difference mindfulness can make in the lives of people who face extraordinary challenges. RESOURCES: Please donate to help cover the costs of this podcast: https://www.e...
We Live in a Shared World: Scott Russell Sanders on Awe, Imagination, Compassion, Craft, and Community
November 08, 2023 15:26 - 1 hour - 144 MBScott Russell Sanders is a Cambridge-educated novelist, essayist, conservationist, and a distinguished professor of English, emeritus, at Indiana University. He wrote and taught for decades about nature and place, family and community, and the concerns of social justice and ecology, woven together with a spirituality that is rooted in awe and wonder. This conversation, from our archives, explores the joys and disciplines of spiritual imagination, writing, and a well-lived life, in communion ...
Jim Wayne on Kindness and Care in Politics, Mental Healthcare, and Leadership
October 25, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBJim Wayne is a psychotherapist, business owner, a novelist, and for almost three decades until 2019, an elected representative in the Kentucky House. He’s been a tireless advocate for tax reforms, concern for the poor, and mental health care concerns. He’s also a person for whom prayer, meditation, and religious belonging have played an important role in the person he is, the commitments he holds, and how he does his work. In this conversation, Jim reflects on how his faith and contemplati...
Discovering Fire: Kathleen Duffy on Teilhard de Chardin and the Evolutionary Energy of Love
October 11, 2023 11:30 - 56 minutes - 104 MBSister Kathleen Duffy is a member of a Catholic religious order, the Sisters of Saint Joseph, and she’s also had a decades-long academic career as a molecular physicist at Chestnut Hill College. In this weaving together of science and spirituality, she’s been guided by the paleontologist and mystic, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, also a person with deep commitments to both scientific inquiry and religious faith. In this conversation, Sr. Kathy reflects on Teilhard’s understanding of our Universe...
The Well-Gardened Mind, Part 2: Dr. Sue Stuart Smith on the Power of Gardens and Nature for Mental Health and Well-Being
September 27, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes - 61 MBDr. Sue Stuart-Smith is a UK-based psychiatrist and psychotherapist, an avid gardener, and the author of The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature. In this second installment of a two-part conversation, Sue reflects on the fundamental human need to connect with the rest of the living world and how we can overcome the modern world’s alienation from nature through equitable access to green spaces. She also offers insights as to how gardens can provide healing from trauma, help u...
The Well-Gardened Mind: Dr. Sue Stuart Smith on the Power of Gardens and Nature for Mental Health and Well-Being – Part 1
September 13, 2023 21:51 - 31 minutes - 56.8 MBDr. Sue Stuart-Smith is a UK-based psychiatrist and psychotherapist, an avid gardener, and the author of The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature. Over her long career in psychotherapy, Sue has seen the power of gardens and nature connection to heal trauma, cultivate mindfulness and spirituality, navigate anxiety, stress, and burnout, and help us become our full, embodied human selves. In this first of a two-part conversation, Sue and I talk about the co-evolution of gardens ...
Listening with the Heart: Dr. Kathleen Coyne on Contemplation, Compassion, and Community Development
September 02, 2023 02:05 - 1 hour - 110 MBDr. Kathleen Coyne grew up among the indigenous peoples of Northern Canada, which set her on a lifelong journey as a community development expert and an advocate for equity and justice, especially with those who are on the margins. She’s also deeply committed to the spiritual path of Christian meditation. In this beautiful, heart-opening conversation, Kathleen shares how the spiritual practice of contemplative, heart-centered compassion and listening provides a powerful and grounded way to ...
Martin Boroson Part 2 – Mindfulness in a Moment
August 15, 2023 21:44 - 1 hour - 151 MBMartin Boroson’s experience spans the study of Western and Eastern spiritual traditions, much of that work done at Yale University, but also the world of business and management. An ordained Zen priest, Marty also earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management. He is the founder of the One Moment Company, LLC, which provides meditation and mindset training to large healthcare institutions and Fortune 500 companies. He also provides consulting and coaching services for organizational leade...
Martin Boroson Part 1 – A Mystical Story of Creation
August 02, 2023 11:00 - 40 minutes - 93.1 MBMartin Boroson studied Western philosophy at Yale, followed by private study of Eastern philosophy and the work of Carl Jung. He also earned an MBA from the Yale School of Management. He is a leadership coach, founder of the One-Moment Company, and an ordained Zen priest in the Hollow Bones Rinzai Zen order. He’s the creator of One-Moment Meditation and the author of One-Moment Meditation: Stillness for People on the Go. With artist Chris Gilvan-Cartwright, he’s also created Becoming Me, his...
Turning the Tables: Host Kyle Kramer Becomes the Guest
July 19, 2023 11:00 - 56 minutes - 129 MBWe’re trying something a little different for this episode. As the host of the Earth & spirit Podcast, I always get to ask the questions. But this time, we’re turning the mics around. Dan Galvin, who’s part of the Earth & Spirit Center team, agreed to be the host and to put me in the hot seat this time, to talk about some of my background and the work of the Earth & Spirit Center, including our new Institute for Applied Mindfulness. I hope you enjoy this conversation about contemplative s...
Therapist Lois Luckett on Connecting To Self and Nature for Mental Health
July 05, 2023 13:53 - 1 hour - 141 MBLois Luckett is a licensed clinical social worker who has been in private counseling practice since 1980. In this podcast conversation, Lois shares how mindfulness, body awareness, and connection to the natural world can help us feel safe, learn to trust, and become more healthy and whole. RESOURCES: Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/ Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/ Hakomi Institute: https://hakomii...
Gail Worcelo on the Vision and Legacy of Thomas Berry (from the archive)
June 21, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 98.8 MBSr. Gail Worcelo co-founded the Green Mountain Monastery in 1999, encouraged and supported by her friend and mentor, the late Thomas Berry. Berry, a cultural historian and Passionist priest, was a ground-breaking thinker who contemplated the new story science has given us of 13.8 billion-year history of our evolving Universe. He considered the implications of this new story for our religion, education, economy, and government. In this conversation, first aired in 2020, Sr. Gail reflects on...
Jud Hendrix on Belonging and the Beloved Community
June 07, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 139 MBJud Hendrix is the executive director of Interfaith Paths to Peace, a nonprofit organization with a mission of building peace, justice, and compassion by uniting and organizing people of diverse faiths, races, and cultures. In this episode, Jud reflects on spirituality, social change, hope, and what it means to help build the beloved community. RESOURCES: Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/ Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandsp...
Dr. Hannah Bland on Mindfulness and Mental Health
May 24, 2023 15:07 - 59 minutes - 136 MBDr. Hannah Bland is a licensed counselor, an assistant professor of mental health counseling, and the director of the mental health counseling education program at Spalding University. She has worked extensively in prisons, the foster care system, and rape crisis centers, among other difficult circumstances. In this conversation, Hannah shares the important synergy between mindfulness and mental health care, especially with those who face extraordinary life challenges. RESOURCES: Donat...
Jimmy Springston on Mindful Organizations
May 10, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 152 MBJimmy Springston is a former Air Force officer and chief operating officer of a multi-million-dollar commercial construction company, who now coaches other leaders. In this podcast conversation, Jimmy reflects on how to create organizational cultures that are more mindful, emotionally intelligent, effective, and sustainable. RESOURCES: Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/ Connect with Jimmy Springston: https://jimmyspringston.com/ Earth & S...
Joe Grant and the Duty of Delight
April 26, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 63 MBJoe Grant is a Scotland-born modern-day mystic, spiritual guide, retreat leader at Holy Hills Hermitage in rural Kentucky, and the author of numerous books and articles about scripture, justice and spirituality. Joe has worked with indigenous peoples of the U.S. and in Latin America. In this conversation, originally released on February 27, 2020, Joe reflects on his spiritual journey, which has led him to live with indigenous peoples deep in the Amazon rainforest, as well as making a home am...
The Sacred Depths of Nature: Dr. Ursula Goodenough on Science and Spirituality
April 15, 2023 11:00 - 59 minutes - 137 MBDr. Ursula Goodenough is professor emerita of biology at Washington University, the president of the Religious Naturalist Association, and the author of The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Has Emerged and Evolved. This conversation explores the story of how science can inspire deep reverence and care for our shared, evolving world. RESOURCES: Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/ Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter....
Gretchen “Bunny” Nash on Stress, Trauma and Mindful Resilience
March 31, 2023 17:09 - 1 hour - 150 MBGretchen “Bunny” Nash has worked for decades with children and adults facing emotional and behavioral challenges as well as various forms of trauma. In this conversation, Bunny shares how mindfulness practices can rewire our brains to foster stress resilience, compassion, and greater well-being for individuals and communities.
We Don’t Have to Do It Alone: Toni Temporiti on Empowering Women Through Trust and Community
March 15, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBSr. Toni Temporiti, PhD is the founder of Microfinancing Partners in Africa, an organization that provides loans to empower women who struggle with poverty. In this episode, Sr. Toni reflects on the power of listening, community, and courage for creating a more beautiful and sustainable world – one person, one community, one small loan at a time. RESOURCES: Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/ Earth & Spirit Center: https://www.earthandspiritce...
Dr. Tony Zipple on Positive Psychology, Mindfulness, and Flourishing for Individuals and Organizations
February 28, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 147 MBDr. Tony Zipple is an expert in behavioral health and rehabilitation counseling, in both clinical and academic settings, with extensive background in executive leadership of large organizations. In this episode, we reflect on Tony’s experience with positive psychology, mindful self-awareness, and how individuals and organizations can flourish, especially amidst change. RESOURCES: Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/ Earth & Spirit Center homepa...
Phil Lloyd-Sidle on Mindfulness and the Marginalized
February 15, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 143 MBPhil Lloyd-Sidle is an Earth and Spirit Center instructor who sees the linkage between mindfulness and social justice, including issues of incarceration, race, gender identity and sexual orientation, and the patriarchy. In this episode, Phil shares how mindfulness can help those on the margins – and all people – to embrace their own worth and value, navigate suffering, and cultivate compassion for themselves and others in our deeply interdependent world. Note: The introduction and show not...
Day Schildkret on Ritual and Radical Amazement
February 03, 2023 21:33 - 1 hour - 161 MBDay Schildkret uses found natural materials in outdoor settings to create Earth-based art whose beauty is utterly impermanent. He’s also the author, most recently, of Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change. In this episode, Day and I reflect on how nature, creativity, and ritual help us navigate change, make meaning, and remember our true wholeness and belonging. RESOURCES: Please support this podcast at https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/ Ear...
Dr. Broderick Sawyer on Using Mindfulness to Overcome Duality and Division
January 15, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBDr. Broderick Sawyer is a clinical psychologist who integrates mindfulness and compassion practices into his work with organizations and individual clients. This episode explores how mindfulness can inform psychological wholeness, promote healing from racial stress and trauma, and help overcome mind-states that perpetuate division. NOTES AND RESOURCES: Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/ Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritc...
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim on Serendipitous Creativity, Religion, and Ecology
December 31, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBMary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim are a husband and wife team of Senior Lecturers and Research Scholars at Yale University in the School of the Environment, the Divinity School, and the Department of Religious Studies, with specializations in East Asian religions and Indigenous religions. They co-direct the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology and are the creators of the new Coursera series, Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community. In this 2021 episode from our podcast archives, Ma...
Deborah Eden Tull: Luminous Darkness as a Path of Spiritual Authenticity and Wholeness
December 19, 2022 17:04 - 1 hour - 170 MBDeborah Eden Tull is a Buddhist teacher, activist, author, and sustainability educator. In this conversation, we dive into her latest book, Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown. We reflect on how darkness is an invitation to open-hearted, full-spectrum living, fierce compassion, relational mindfulness, and hopeful, courageous dreaming in the service of life. RESOURCES: Please donate to support this podcast and the Earth & Spirit Center nonprofit org...
Jason Shulman on Wholeness, Conflict, and Being Saved by Love
December 01, 2022 14:49 - 1 hour - 160 MBJason Shulman is a spiritual teacher who straddles the worlds of Jewish Kabbalah mysticism and Zen Buddhism. In this episode, Jason shares his practical, deeply grounded, nondual vision of reality and how it plays out in conflict resolution, the integration of polarities and paradox, and above and beneath all, love. RESOURCES: Jason’s school, A Society of Souls: https://www.societyofsouls.com/, https://www.facebook.com/asocietyofsouls/ The Foundation for Nonduality: https://www.nondual...
Nina Simons on Nature, Culture, the Sacred, and Feminine Leadership
November 16, 2022 14:49 - 1 hour - 143 MBNina Simons is an activist, author, social entrepreneur, and the co-founder of Bioneers, a nonprofit organization committed to social and environmental justice work that honors the web of life, now and into the future. In this conversation, Nina reflects on how feminine and indigenous leadership are crucial paths for cultural and ecological regeneration. RESOURCES: Earth & Spirit Center: www.earthandspiritcenter.org Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/...
Matthew Fox on Creation Spirituality and Original Blessing
October 31, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 161 MBMatthew Fox is an author, theologian, and activist Episcopal priest whose radical interfaith work attempts to reawaken us to the sacredness of the created world. In this conversation, Matthew reflects on how creation-centered spirituality, and the marriage of the divine feminine and sacred masculine, can help us respond with hope to the troubles of our apocalyptic times. RESOURCES: Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/ Donate to support this podcast: htt...
Stephen Jenkinson on Grief and Belonging in Troubled Times
October 15, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 157 MBStephen Jenkinson is a Harvard-trained author, activist, farmer, sculptor, and canoe-builder who has worked in his native Canada as a palliative care provider for dying people and their families. In this challenging conversation, Stephen reflects on the deep roots of our troubled times and on how rich and full human belonging – in one’s life, one’s culture, one’s place – means letting go of our drive for autonomy to embrace the beauty of our limits. RESOURCES: Donate to support this po...
Resonance: Bethany Gonyea on the Personal and Collective Impact of Mass Meditation Events
September 30, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes - 132 MBBethany Gonyea is the founder of Numinous, a nonprofit that facilitates interfaith spiritual practices to reduce human suffering. In this conversation, Bethany shares about her work in creating mass meditation events aimed at reducing crime and violence in specific geographic areas (in statistically verifiable ways), as well as bringing benefits to the meditators themselves. RESOURCES: Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/ Numinous homepage: https://num...
Zen and the Art of Living and Dying Well: Justin Magnuson on Facing Death and Living Life with Courage and Clarity
September 15, 2022 11:00 - 56 minutes - 130 MBJustin Magnuson is a Zen Buddhist who works with the elderly and terminally ill. In this episode, Justin reflects on how approaching death and dying with intention can be an invitation to a fuller way of living. RESOURCES: Earth & Spirit Center: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/ University of Louisville Trager Institute and Republic Bank Foundation Optimal Aging Clinic: https://www.tragerinstitute.org/
We Come from Oneness: Musician Peter Mayer on Love, Creativity, and the Evolving Cosmos
August 31, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour - 146 MBPeter Mayer is a singer and songwriter whose music reflects a profound love of the world, as we’re coming to understand it through the new story science tells us about our place in the 14-billion-year-unfolding of our universe. This conversation reflects on science, spiritual practice, social justice, and environmental care, all animated by a sense of our belonging to deep history, to each other, and to the entire cosmos.
From the Archives - Like River Stones: Zen and the Art of Community, with Jeanette Prince-Cherry
August 15, 2022 11:00 - 58 minutes - 134 MBJeanette Prince-Cherry had careers in the Air Force and as an industrial engineer before dedicating her life to Zen Buddhism. A Zen priest and instructor, she divides her time between the Louisville Zen Center and the Rochester Zen Center in New York. In this episode, Jeanette explains the basics of Zen, how it is similar to and different from secular mindfulness, and how it provides tools and resources for mental health, resilience, and the strengthening of communities, especially in a pos...
Relationships of Respect and Reciprocity: Chris Isgrigg on Healing and Wholeness for Individuals and Culture
July 31, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes - 60.1 MBOnce a farmer in rural Kentucky, Chris Isgrigg is now a practicing psychotherapist in Louisville, KY. He’s thought deeply about the relationships that weave each of us to each other and to the more-than-human world and has integrated the natural world meaningfully into his therapeutic approach. This conversation explores how a deeper spiritual connection to our places can help heal and mature us as individuals and as a culture. RESOURCES: Earth and Spirit Center website: https://www.ear...
Grounded: Conversations on Nature and Climate Change
July 15, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 94.5 MBOver the past year, the Earth & Spirit Center, with funding from the Kalliopeia Foundation, has collaborated with Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest to create two documentary films featuring environmental activists working on climate change and watershed health. In this episode of the podcast, we’ve taken audio clips from some of the interviews we conducted and have woven them together to present the perspectives of several activists of various ages, races, and backgrounds, united by the...
Aging with Grace and Dignity: Phyllis SanAngelo on Claiming the Spiritual Gifts of Elderhood
June 30, 2022 18:11 - 1 hour - 62.1 MBPhyllis SanAngelo is a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother with decades of experience from a long career in spiritual formation and hospice work. She also facilitates a “Conscious Eldering” course at the Earth & Spirit Center. This conversation is a reflection on what it means to age with grace, dignity, and active intentionality, claiming the great spiritual gifts of elderhood. RESOURCES: Earth & Spirit Center website: www.earthandspiritcenter.org Phyllis’s course on Becomin...
Showing up Curious and Intentional: Deryl Sweeney on the Power of Mindful Questions
June 15, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 130 MBDeryl Sweeney is an entrepreneur, business coach, and the co-founder of Cure CF, a nonprofit that raises funds to support cystic fibrosis research. In this episode, Deryl and host Kyle Kramer reflect on how mindful curiosity and intentional commitment to core values can help all of us show up as leaders, deeply rooted in love and connection.
Everything is Conscious: Kathleen Deignan on Contemplation, Creativity, and Community
May 31, 2022 14:27 - 1 hour - 150 MBSr. Kathleen Deignan is a Sister of the Congregation of Notre-Dame and a professor emerita of religious studies at Iona College. She’s also an accomplished composer and singer. In this episode, which weaves in music that she wrote and performed, Kathleen shares the wisdom of the Shaker community, Thomas Merton, Thomas Berry, and other spiritual exemplars of courageous, contemplative creativity, who invite us into new ways of being together and embracing the beautiful dance of our evolving w...