What Could Possibly Go Right?
141 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago -In this interview series sponsored by Post Carbon Institute, Vicki Robin, activist and best-selling author on sustainable living, talks with provocative thought leaders about emerging possibilities and ways humanity might step onto a better, post-pandemic path.
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#106 Douglas Rushkoff: Tolerating Ambiguity and Choosing Communal Over Isolation
July 10, 2023 21:00 - 58 minutes - 40 MBDouglas Rushkoff makes another appearance on our podcast, sharing his latest thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right? Listen to his previous interviews in episodes 52, 84, and 97. Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, his twenty book...
#105 Laura Oldanie: Rich and Resilient Living
June 14, 2023 08:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBLaura Oldanie is a green living and money coach who blogs at Rich & Resilient Living, where she explores money and lifestyle choices for a regenerative future. Her goal is to help people achieve financial freedom and live their best lives in socially and environmentally conscious ways that equally value people, planet, and profit. She received her Permaculture Design Certificate in 2009 and has been exploring how to earn, spend, invest, and manage her money to bring about the change she wa...
#104 Susan Griffin: Creating Meaning Through Stories
June 05, 2023 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBFor over fifty years, through twenty books and one Pulitzer Prize finalist, Susan Griffin has been making unconventional connections between seemingly separate subjects. Whether pairing ecology and gender in her foundational work Woman and Nature, or the private life with the targeting of civilians in A Chorus of Stones, she has shed a new light on countless contemporary issues, including climate change, war, colonialism, the body, democracy, and terrorism. She answers the question of “What...
#103 Margaret Wheatley: Finding Our Right Work and Path of Contribution
May 29, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBMargaret Wheatley, Ed.D. began caring about the world’s peoples in 1966 as a Peace Corps volunteer in post-war Korea. As a consultant, senior-level advisor, teacher, speaker, and formal leader, she has worked on all continents (except Antarctica) with all levels, ages, and types of organizations, leaders, and activists. Her work now focuses on developing and supporting leaders globally as Warriors for the Human Spirit. Margaret has written ten books, including the classic Leadership and the ...
#102 Alisa Gravitz: Citizen Leadership and Individual Actions
May 21, 2023 22:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBFor over 35 years, Alisa Gravitz has led Green America, the national green economy organization that develops marketplace solutions to social and environmental problems with a key focus on climate, regenerative agriculture, labor justice and responsible finance. As part of Green America's Center for Sustainability Solutions, which focuses on transforming supply chains, Alisa Gravitz co-chairs innovation networks on carbon farming, regenerative agriculture, climate safe lending, solar and cl...
#101 Anne Stadler: Love is a Guiding Force, Pulling Us Forward
May 15, 2023 07:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBAnne Stadler is a pioneering elder and board member at Sourcing the Way. Her specialty is offering services that support self-organizing individual and collective leadership. She opens space for the emergence of spirited leadership and inspired forms for collective evolution. A founder and organizer of local, national, and international peace efforts, and an award-winning television producer at KING 5-TV in Seattle Washington, Anne has decades of experience in guiding the formation of emerge...
#100 Riane Eisler: Shifting from Domination to a Partnership System
May 04, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBRiane Eisler is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, futurist, and attorney whose research, writing, and speaking has transformed the lives of people worldwide. Her newest work, Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future, co-authored with anthropologist Douglas Fry, shows how to construct a more equitable, sustainable, and less violent world based on Partnership rather than Domination. Dr. Eisler is founder and president of the Cente...
#99 Fran Korten: Growing Awareness of Our Global Interconnectedness
May 01, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBFran Korten is former executive director, publisher and contributing editor for YES! Magazine, where she wrote about opportunities to advance a progressive agenda in politics, economics, and the environment. She lives in Bainbridge Island, Washington, with her husband, author David Korten. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: The encouraging increase in voter turnout, especially amongst younger people The learnings we can take from the “peop...
#98 Kristin Ohlson: Mutualistic Relationships of Nature
April 24, 2023 07:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MBKristin Ohlson is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. Her newest book is Sweet in Tooth and Claw: Stories of Generosity and Cooperation in the Natural World. Her last book was The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet, which the Los Angeles Times calls “a hopeful book and a necessary one…. a fast-paced and entertaining shot across the bow of mainstream thinking about land use.” She appears in the award-winning documentary film, Kiss t...
#97 Douglas Rushkoff: Adopting Alternative Narratives of Success through Mutuality
December 19, 2022 13:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBDouglas Rushkoff makes another appearance on our podcast, sharing his latest thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right? Listen to his previous interviews in episodes 28, 52, and 83. Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, his twenty book...
#96 Kritee Kanko: Fueling a Sense of Belonging for Collective Power
December 12, 2022 08:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBKritee Kanko is a climate scientist, Zen priest, Educator & founding spiritual teacher of Boundless in Motion. She is an ordained teacher in the Rinzai Zen lineage of Cold Mountain, a co-founder of Rocky Mountain Ecodharma Retreat Center and faculty for many organizations for courses at the intersection of Ecology and spirituality. She has served as a scientist in the Climate Smart Agriculture program at Environmental Defense Fund. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?...
#95 Geneen Marie Haugen: The Creative Power in our Imagination and Awareness
December 05, 2022 08:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBGeneen Marie Haugen, PhD, grew up as a free-range wildish kid with a run amok imagination. She is a guide to the experiential, intertwined mysteries of nature and psyche with the Animas Valley Institute, and is on the faculty of the Esalen Institute, Schumacher College, and the Fox Institute for Creation Spirituality. Her writing has appeared in many journals and books, including Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth; Thomas Berry: Dreamer of the Earth; Parabola Journal; Ecopsychology Jour...
#94 Gwendolyn Hallsmith: Moving Back to a Caring Economy
November 28, 2022 11:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBGwendolyn Hallsmith is the Executive Director of Global Community Initiatives, a non-profit organization she founded in 2002, and has just celebrated their 20th anniversary. She is the author of six books on sustainable community and economic development and has worked with communities all over the world to foster caring communities, vibrant local economies, good governance, efficient services, and healthy ecosystems. She founded Vermonters for a New Economy to work on economic solutions at ...
#93 Vicki Robin: Morphing the American Dream
November 21, 2022 08:00 - 20 minutes - 14.5 MBHear from our host Vicki Robin in another solo episode, as she shares a topical theme for “What Could Possibly Go Right?” including: Ideas for creative solutions and alternative arrangements to address America’s housing issues Recognizing the intersection of population pressures, the wealth gap, and the climate crisis Transforming the idea of the American dream, that “we can discover the freedom of belonging as we end isolation as a symbol of wealth and privilege.” Support the show Comp...
#92 Per Espen Stoknes: Addressing Inequality to Support the Earth for All
November 14, 2022 08:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBPer Espen Stoknes, a psychologist with PhD in economics, is a TED Global speaker, and serves as the director of Centre for Green Growth at the Norwegian Business School. An experienced foresight facilitator and academic, he’s also serial entrepreneur, including co-founding clean-tech company GasPlas. Author of several books, among them Learning from the Future (2004, in Norwegian), Money & Soul (2009) and the “Outstanding Academic Title of 2015” award winning book: What We Think About When W...
#91 Heather Cox Richardson (replay): Rewriting the Politics of the American Dream
November 07, 2022 14:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBWith the mid-term election underway in US this week, we feature a replay of our interview with Heather Cox Richardson, as heard on episode 8 in July 2020. Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. She is the author of six books on American politics and is a national commentator on American political history and the Republican Party. She is also a leading #Twitterstorian, explaining the historical background of...
#90 Sherri Mitchell: Finding Groundedness for New Stories to Emerge
October 28, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBSherri Mitchell is the Founding Director of the Land Peace Foundation, an organization dedicated to the global protection of Indigenous land and water rights and the preservation of the Indigenous way of life. Sherri is an author and cohost of the syndicated radio program Love (and revolution) Radio, which focuses on real-life stories of heart-based activism and revolutionary spiritual change. She was born and raised on the Penobscot Indian reservation (Penawahpskek). She speaks and teaches ...
#89 Joanna Macy: Treasuring Your Emotional Connection to the World
October 24, 2022 13:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBJoanna Macy, Ph.D, author & teacher, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking, and deep ecology. A respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with learnings from six decades of activism. Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and postmodern science. The many dimensions of this work are explored in her...
#88 Janine Benyus: Biomimicry to Inspire and Design Better Systems
October 17, 2022 14:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBJanine Benyus is the co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8 and Biomimicry Institute. She is a biologist, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Since the book’s 1997 release, Janine’s work as a global thought leader has evolved the practice of biomimicry from a meme to a movement, inspiring clients and innovators around the world to learn from the genius of nature. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thought...
#87 Phoebe Barnard: Our Most Profound Humanity
October 10, 2022 07:00 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MBPhoebe Barnard is an environmental and societal futures analyst and sustainability strategist, global change ecologist, biodiversity conservation biologist, climate risk and resilience specialist, policy wonk, and film co-producer. She is the chief executive officer at the Stable Planet Alliance and an affiliate professor at UW Bothell and UW Seattle. Phoebe works at the intersection of science, society, sustainability, policy, planning, and media storytelling. She addresses the question of...
#86: Kinari Webb: Radical Listening for Respect, Understanding, and Solutions
October 03, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBKinari Webb, MD, is the founder of Health In Harmony, an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential for the survival of humanity, and a co-founder of Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI). Dr. Webb graduated from Yale University School of Medicine with honors and currently splits her time between Indonesia, international site assessments, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Guardians of the Trees is her debut. She addresses the question of “W...
#85 Seth Godin: The Carbon Almanac
September 26, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBSeth Godin is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker. He has written 20 best-selling books, including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow, Tribes, and What To Do When It's Your Turn (And It's Always Your Turn). Most recently, he organized the all-volunteer community project, The Carbon Almanac. By focusing on everything from effective marketing and leadership, to the spread of ideas and changing everything, Seth has been able to motivate and inspire countless people around the world. ...
Announcement: Power Podcast with Richard Heinberg
September 22, 2022 07:00 - 3 minutes - 2.14 MBPlease check out our newest podcast, Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival featuring Richard Heinberg. How have humans become powerful enough to disrupt the world's climate, trigger the sixth mass extinction, and cause serious harm to the biosphere? And with all the abilities and technologies we've accrued, why do we so often oppress instead of uplift one another? Join us as we explore the hidden driver behind the converging crises of the 21st century. It all comes down to power - o...
Bonus: Hazel Henderson on Vicki's CoVida Conversations
June 27, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBBonus episode: With the recent passing of Hazel Henderson, Vicki Robin revisits her April 2020 interview with Hazel as part of her CoVida Conversation series. This earlier series inspired the What Could Possibly Go Right? podcast. Hazel Henderson (1933-2022), D.Sc. Hon., FRSA, went virtual (her own words) on May 22, 2022, at the age of 89. A prolific writer, Henderson authored nine books and hundreds of articles leading to what is now known as sustainability and growing the “green” economy...
#84 Douglas Rushkoff: Finding a Different Kind of Play
June 20, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 42 MBDouglas Rushkoff makes a third appearance in our series, sharing his latest thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right? Listen to his previous interviews in episodes 28 and 52. Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, his twenty books inclu...
#83 Margaret Klein Salamon: Embracing Our Emergency Mode for Climate Mobilization
June 13, 2022 07:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBMargaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is the Executive Director of Climate Emergency Fund. She is a clinical psychologist turned climate activist whose work helps people face the truth of the climate emergency and transform their despair into effective action. She founded and directed The Climate Mobilization from 2014-2020, advocating an all-hands-on-deck, whole society mobilization to protect humanity and the living world from climate catastrophe. She is the Founding Principal of Climate Awakening,...
#82 Betsy Taylor: Using Regenerative Agriculture to Give Our Land a Break
June 06, 2022 07:00 - 21 minutes - 14.5 MBBetsy Taylor is president of Breakthrough Strategies & Solutions LLC. For over thirty years, she has built a solid reputation as a philanthropic advisor, social change leader, motivational speaker, and problem solver. For the past four years, Betsy has worked to build the field of regenerative agriculture through grant-making, network development, global convenings, and general cheerleading about the potential of our lands to sequester carbon pollution while boosting food security and habita...
#81 Helaine Olen: Insist On Your Dignity
May 30, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBHelaine Olen is an award-winning opinion writer for the Washington Post Opinion section. An expert on money and society with a deep understanding of public policy, she writes, speaks and consults on issues including Social Security, retirement, healthcare, student loans and women’s financial issues. Helaine has appeared on The Daily Show, Frontline, C-Span, the BBC, MSNBC, All Things Considered, Marketplace and more to share her forward-thinking commentary on politics, economics and consumer...
#80 Britt Wray: Feeling and Healing Our Climate Anxiety
May 23, 2022 07:00 - 47 minutes - 32.6 MBDr. Britt Wray is a Human and Planetary Health Fellow at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research focuses on the mental health impacts of the ecological crisis. She is the creator of Gen Dread, the weekly newsletter about “staying sane in the climate crisis” and the author of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis (2022). She has hosted several podcasts, radio & TV programs with the BBC and CBC, and is a TED speaker. She...
#79 Stacy Mitchell: Fighting Outsized Corporate Power with an Anti-Monopoly Movement
May 16, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBStacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She directs its initiative to decentralize economic power and level the playing field for independent businesses. She has produced many influential reports and articles, designed local and federal policies, and collaborated to build effective coalitions and campaigns. She addresses the question...
#78 Sarah Crowell: Utilizing Joy and Uplifting Marginalized Voices
May 09, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBSarah Crowell is a dancer and choreographer who has taught dance, theater, mindfulness and violence prevention for over 35 years. She founded the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company, which was the subject of two documentary films, and won the National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award. Sarah has facilitated arts integration, violence prevention, cultural humility, and professional development sessions with artists and educators since 2000, both locally and nationally, and is the recip...
#77 Christina Baldwin: Storytelling for Understanding and Healing
May 02, 2022 07:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBChristina Baldwin is a writer, wanderer, and teacher on the trail of community and story; she is co-founder, with Ann Linnea, of PeerSpirit, Inc. and The Circle Way Process, bringing modern structure and application to the human heritage of circle. Christina is the author of 7 books, including (with Ann) The Circle Way, A Leader in Every Chair; Storycatcher; Life’s Companion; Calling the Circle; and The Seven Whispers, Spiritual Practice for Times Like These. She works cross-culturally and i...
#76 Stephanie Rearick: Mutual Aid Networks for Thriving Communities
April 25, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBStephanie Rearick is the Founder and former Co-Director of the Dane County TimeBank (DCTB) – a 2800-member time exchange, and Creative Director of Mutual Aid Networks, a new type of networked cooperative. In addition to her work in timebanking and growing grassroots-up economic and community regeneration, Rearick is co-owner of Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: That “mutual aid networks are found throughout all...
#75 Nate Hagens: Less Conspicuous Consumption, More Ethical Living
April 18, 2022 07:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBNate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF), which focuses on educating and preparing society for the coming cultural transition. Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians, and systems thinkers, ISEOF assembles road-maps and off-ramps for how human societies can adapt to lower throughput lifestyles. Nate holds a Master's Degree in Finance from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Ve...
#74 Kristi Nelson: Grounded in Appreciation
April 11, 2022 07:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBKristi Nelson, Executive Director of A Network for Grateful Living, is also the author of Wake Up Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted. Her life’s work in the non-profit sector has focused on leading, inspiring, and strengthening organizations committed to progressive social and spiritual change. Being a long-time stage IV cancer survivor moves her every day to support others in living and loving with great fullness of heart. She addresses the question of “Wha...
#73 Stephen Dinan: Harnessing the Spirit of Possibility
April 04, 2022 07:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MBStephen Dinan is an author, speaker, and the founder and CEO of The Shift Network, an organization that delivers virtual summits, courses, and trainings on spirituality, peace, holistic health, psychology, parenting, enlightened business, shamanism, indigenous wisdom, and sustainability. Stephen helped create and directed the Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory & Research, and is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council and Evolutionary Leaders. He is the author of Sacred Americ...
#72 Vicki Robin: Navigating the Unraveling with Empathy
March 28, 2022 07:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBHear from our host Vicki Robin in this solo episode, as she reflects on the themes emerging from “What Could Possibly Go Right?”, including: The challenges of cultural scouting and remaining open to seeing the whole picture within “growing social insanity” The limiting nature of polarized thinking, seeing things in binaries, and overgeneralization That navigating this unraveling together requires empathy and “leaning on the insights from all points of view” Local examples of what’s going...
#71 Akaya Windwood: Eldership and Leadership with Heart
March 21, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBAkaya Windwood facilitates transformation. She advises, trains, and consults on how change happens individually, organizationally, and societally. She is on faculty for the Just Economy Institute and is founder of the New Universal, which centers human wisdom in the wisdom of brown womxn. She was President of Rockwood Leadership Institute for many years and directs the Growing Roots Fund, which supports young womxn’s finance and philanthropic learning and leadership based in generosity and i...
#70 Peter Lipman: Taking Risks for Cultural Change
March 14, 2022 07:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBPeter Lipman is the former (founding) chair of Transition Network and Common Cause Foundation. He also chaired the UK government’s Department for Energy and Climate Change’s Community Energy Contact Group. He’s been a teacher, a co-operative worker, an intellectual property lawyer, and worked at UK charity Sustrans, latterly as external affairs director, before setting up Anthropocene Actions, a community interest company that promotes fair, loving, and ecologically regenerative societies. ...
#69 Helena Norberg-Hodge: Localization for Reconnection and Happiness
March 07, 2022 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MBHelena Norberg-Hodge is a linguist, author, filmmaker, the founder of the international non-profit organization, Local Futures, and the convenor of World Localization Day. A pioneer of the ‘new economy’ movement, she has been promoting an economics of personal, social, and ecological well-being for more than thirty years. In addition to authoring her latest book Local is Our Future, Helena produced and co-directed the award-winning documentary The Economics of Happiness, and is the author o...
#68 Sherri Mitchell: Reparations, Breaking Down Binaries, and Existing Beyond the Patriarchy
February 28, 2022 08:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBSherri Mitchell is the Founding Director of the Land Peace Foundation, an organization dedicated to the global protection of Indigenous land and water rights and the preservation of the Indigenous way of life. She was born and raised on the Penobscot Indian reservation (Penawahpskek) and teaches around the world on issues of Indigenous rights, environmental justice, and spiritual change. She is also a co-host of the syndicated radio program Love (and revolution) Radio, an author, and a Post ...
#67 Billy Wimsatt: Movements to Win Back Our Humanity
February 21, 2022 08:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBBilly Wimsatt is founder and Executive Director of the Movement Voter Project, an organization that works to strengthen progressive power at all levels of government by helping donors – big and small – to support the best and most promising LOCAL community-based organizations in key states – with a focus on youth and communities of color. Billy has 20 years of experience in journalism (published in Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, etc), social entrepreneurship (co-founded several organiz...
#66 Tami Simon: Transforming Institutions to Reflect Our Values
February 14, 2022 08:00 - 46 minutes - 32 MBTami Simon hosts the popular Sounds True podcast, Insights at the Edge, which has been downloaded more than 20 million times. With its guiding principle “to disseminate spiritual wisdom”, Sounds True has grown into a multimedia publisher that has produced over 6,000 titles, has been included twice in the Inc. 500 list of the fastest-growing companies, and is North America’s leading publisher of spoken-word spiritual teachings. She is also the founder of the Sounds True Foundation, which is d...
#65 Paul Hawken: Regeneration in the Climate Movement
February 07, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBPaul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, bestselling author, and a renowned lecturer who has keynoted conferences and led workshops on the impact of commerce upon the environment. Hawken has consulted with governments and corporations throughout the world and has appeared in numerous media including the Today Show, Bill Maher, Larry King, Talk of the Nation, and has been profiled or featured in hundreds of articles including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, Busine...
#64 Toyia Taylor: Speaking with Purpose
December 14, 2021 08:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBToyia T. Taylor is the Founder and Executive Director of We.APP and is a highly sought-after educator and motivational speaker, who has used her voice to inspire audiences nationally and internationally. Toyia has dedicated her life to community service, social justice and performing arts. Her awards have included the Wonder of Women (WOW) Award, the National Council of Negro Women Incorporated, Style and Substance Award, and the Education for Social Justice Award from Girls for Gender Equit...
#63 Pat McCabe: Changing Paradigms by Co-Witnessing and Retelling our Stories
December 07, 2021 08:00 - 44 minutes - 31 MBPat McCabe (Weyakpa Najin Win, Woman Stands Shining) is a Diné (Navajo) mother, grandmother, activist, artist, writer, ceremonial leader, and international speaker. She is a voice for global peace, and her paintings are created as tools for individual, earth, and global healing. She draws upon the Indigenous sciences of Thriving Life to reframe questions about sustainability and balance, and she is devoted to supporting the next generations, Women’s Nation and Men’s Nation, in being function...
#62 Susan Campbell: Relational Technologies to Bridge Our Polarity
November 30, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBSince 1967, Dr. Susan Campbell has been a couple’s therapist, relationship coach, speaker, workshop leader, trainer of professional coaches, college professor, certified Radical Honesty trainer, and founding teacher of the Getting Real work. The Getting Real work is a body of communication and awareness practices that foster personal healing and social evolution. She has written eleven books on relationships, including several best-sellers. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly...
#61 Miki Kashtan: Mutual Influencing, Collective Wisdom, and Nonviolent Communication
November 15, 2021 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBMiki Kashtan is a “practical visionary”, exploring the application of the principles and tools of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) to social transformation. She is an author, certified NVC trainer, and co-founder of Bay Area NVC (baynvc.org). Miki teaches and works with organizations, visionary leaders, activists, and others to support the transition to a world that works for all. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: That having big practical...
#60 Vicki Robin: Healing the Polarization in Ourselves
November 09, 2021 08:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBIn another solo episode, our host Vicki Robin shares her recent reflections on themes emerging from the “What Could Possibly Go Right?” inquiry, including: The lessons from studying polarization in ourselves and in wider society That “we need to soften the animosity and find cracks where the light comes in”, negotiating and learning so we can work together on the big problems we are facing That “we are a nation of neighborhoods”, adapting to change as best we can in our communities The f...
#59 Ann Randolph: Sharing Our Vulnerable Truths
November 02, 2021 07:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBAnn Randolph is an award-winning writer and performer. She has performed her solo shows in theaters across the U.S, garnering awards along the way including the Los Angeles Ovation Award for “Best Solo Show” and the San Francisco Bay Critic’s award for “Best Solo Performer.” Mel Brooks produced her first big hit, Squeeze Box, Off-Broadway. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including: That in these times, more people are feeling compelled to tell th...