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Wednesday, October 16, 2019
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Thursday, October 10, 2019
Spirituality and Earth-based Feminism
Walking the conventional path was only briefly in the cards for Staci Bodin, who these days proudly calls herself a “mama-bear, life-guide energy teacher.”
While in law school 25 years ago, it didn’t take long for Bodin to realize that she was less interested in legalism, then following in the footsteps of people like Starhawk, a pioneer of the goddess movement and earth-based feminism.
So she dropped out of law school and enrolled in the California Institute of Integral Studies’ master’s degree program in women’s spirituality. She later became a certified Doula, studied non-ordinary states consciousness training through the Center for Sacred Studies, and established a counseling and facilitation career focused on helping people integrate the spiritual with the practical.
In this podcast, Bodin talks about earth-based spirituality, the contrast between talk therapy and energy work, and the role of ceremony in transformation and healing.
Bodin is the author of Turning Dead Ends into Doorways: How to Grow through Whatever Life Throws Your Way.
Links:
- Staci’s site
- Her book
- Diversity and Spirituality Network's site
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Finding Spirituality in Business
Clients of business trainer and consultant Mark Silver seek to achieve business success by integrating spiritual principles in their pursuit of profit. They want to change the paradigm of business so that it doesn’t incorporate the negative aspects of extreme capitalism, such as the disregarding of social consequences, income inequality, and exploitation of labor.
As he explains in this podcast, the mission of Silver’s Heart of Business (HOB) company is to support spiritually grounded marketing and business people who want to run a small business in a way that isn’t slimy or insincere.
Although he’s a fourth generation entrepreneur, it wasn’t until he began his studies in Islamic Sufism two decades ago that he truly understood that business isn’t something that needs to be separate from spirituality. Prior to that, he’d been attempting to apply New Age principles to his business, but that approach really wasn’t working for him.
About that time, he encountered Dr. Ibrahim Jaffee, the renown physician, Sufi, and pioneer of Medical Spiritual Healing “Yes, we can use this (work) for physical healing,” Jaffee explained, “but we can also use it for relationships, for groups and …for business.” What he learned from Jaffee, other Sufi teachers, and his lived experience formed the basis of Silver’s Heart of Business.
In this podcast, Silver explains what he’s learned in the eighteen years since he founded his company, HOB’s evolution from a primarily fixed-fee enterprise to a “pay from the heart” practice, and Silver thoughts on the destiny of Islam.
Links:
- Heart of Business
- Dr. Ibrham Jaffee’s site
- Diversity and Spirituality Network's site
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Friday, September 20, 2019
This Saturday, explore the connection between art and spirituality...
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Quick Reminder: Explore Spirituality and Art Saturday: bit.ly/spiritart
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019
This Saturday, explore the connection between spirituality and creativity: http://bit.ly/33u9Fos
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Monday, September 16, 2019
Monday, September 09, 2019
The Wounded Leader
Ten years ago, Laura Tucker participated in the now infamous Spiritual Warrior retreat in which three people died. These deaths lead to the conviction of the retreat’s leader, James Allen Ray, of three counts of negligent homicide, and became a case study of the excesses of charismatic leadership. The story of that infamous event is chronicled in the CNN documentary, “Enlighten Us: The Rise and Fall of James Arthur Ray.”
A leadership coach, Tucker here talks about what she learned from the incident, how to recognize authentic forms of leadership, and the forces that might cause well-intentioned charismatic individuals to veer to the dark side.
Although it’s easy to ghettoize the Ray’s behavior as specific to New Age or self-help communities, Tucker reminds us that inappropriate leadership exists everywhere, and is endemic in political, religious and corporate life. “We all have the capacity to slide down the continuum from authentic leadership to the egotistic, hubristic kind,” she says.
In addition to sharing her beliefs about leadership, Tucker here talks about how her practice of self-care helped ease her passage back to post-retreat life, how encouraging others to practice self-care is central to her coaching practice, and her newest project, “The Summer of Self Care.”
Links:
- Laura’s site
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Friday, August 16, 2019
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Sunday, August 11, 2019
At the Charles Wang Center for the Applied Improvisation Network Conference
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Selfie !! At Charles Wang center for the Applied Improvisation Network conference
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Friday, August 09, 2019
The inimitable Thiagi (www.thiagi.com). Proud to declare him to be one of my mentors. True genius.
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Tuesday, July 02, 2019
Healer, playwright and activist
Peruvian Miguel Angel Pimentel is a theater director, a playwright and human writes activist, who is also a traditional Andean healer, or “paco.” In this podcast, he shares the thread that unites these pursuits, explains how he views play and creativity as part of his spiritual path and expands on the importance of theater as a means of creating community. Pimentel’s current project is the creation of a forum to bring these threads together in his native city of Cuzco, Peru. The community forum he envisions will include both indigenous and non-indigenous people.
Links:
- Email: miguelpipa@gmail.com
- Diversity and Spirituality Network's site
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Monday, July 01, 2019
My conversation with Jess Lederman, author and former atheist
My conversation with Jess Lederman, author and former atheist
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Thursday, June 13, 2019
An Atheist's Conversion
When he was young, Jess Lederman was an atheist and thought people who believed in God were fools. But one day, his wife heard a radio interview with Francis Collins, the eminent geneticist and devout Christian who like the Ledermans spent the earlier part of his life as a nonbeliever.
Lederman in some respects followed the same path that Collins walked by reading C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity. He delved deeper by reading and the works of George MacDonald, the 19th century Scottish author, who was one of Lewis’ mentors. MacDonald’s writings had the same effect on Lederman as they had on Lewis. They formed the groundwork for his conversion to Christianity.
In this podcast, Lederman traces his religious journey and the factors that led him to write his new book, Hearts Set Free. The characters in the book wrestle with many of the issues that he’s wrestled with: the reconciliation of science and religion, the journey from doubt to faith, and the practical implications of living life as Christians.
Links:
- Jess Lederman’s site
- The works of George MacDonald
- Diversity and Spirituality Network's site
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Tuesday, June 04, 2019
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