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Friday, November 15, 2019

Guided talk about death tomorrow bit.ly/exploredeath

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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Sacred Inclusion Sampler: Volume One

Selected excerpts from some of the best interviews in the first three seasons of the Sacred Inclusion Network podcast.

> UK political activist and United Reformed Church Elder Mark Argent on the deeper meaning behind the rise of Donald Trump and Brexit.

> Former Black Panther party leader and spiritual activist Ericka Huggins on learning to meditate while in solitary confinement

> Rev. Yvette Flunder on the one quality that all people of color, LBGPQ+ and all marginalized people share.

> Sacred Design Lab’s Casper ter Kuile on how Millennials find meaning

> Buddhist poet Diana Goesche reads her poem, Black People Can’t Swim.

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Monday, November 11, 2019

Let's talk about death this Saturday... http://bit.ly/2NAZVTk

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Friday, October 18, 2019

Our Exploration about "Isms" is tomorrow

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

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"Isms": Yours and Mine

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Monday, October 14, 2019

"Isms": Yours and Mine

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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.

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Staci’s site
Her book
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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.

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Heart of Business
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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

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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.”

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