Exploring America's Racial Consciousness with Cathy Park Hong
Award winning poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong’s work weaves together personal stories, historical context, and cultural criticism to ultim...
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A podcast for people who are curious about the world and themselves. Hosted by the Director of Public Programs, Britta Conroy-Randall, and featuring conversations and lectures presented by C...
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On Somatics and Creative Leadership with Alfonso Montuori and Nick Walker
What is creative leadership? It could mean leadership that’s distributed and collaborative, rather than top-down and authoritarian. It could...
On Understanding Luminosity of Consciousness in the Tibetan Bön Tradition with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Bön is among the oldest indigenous spiritual traditions in the world. It originated in Central Asia thousands of years ago in what is now Ti...
Filipino Indigenous Wisdom for Personal and Shared Wellbeing with Carl Lorenz Cervantes
For centuries, Filipino lifeways were presented to outsiders through the distorted lens of colonization—and the oppression, exploitation, an...
Centering Connection and Creativity for Health and Wellbeing
Around the world, practitioners are rediscovering what artists, cultural workers, and community healers have long understood: that creativit...
Dr. Justin Garcia: On the Intimate Animal
Why do we love who we love? Why do we stay in unfulfilling relationships, and stray from rewarding ones? Is it ever a good idea to open a re...
Cindy Shearer: On Sustaining Your Creative Life
With rejection and intense commitment being such integral parts of any artist’s life, many struggle to stay with the creative process. Autho...
Lorena Saavedra Smith: Awakening Your Roots with the Medicine of Nature
Many of us feel disconnected from our family stories and traditions, which can create a sense of loss of home and belonging. Pacha philosoph...
Norma Kawelokū Wong: Who We Are Becoming Matters
In her book Who We Are Becoming Matters, Zen teacher and Indigenous Hawaiian leader Norma Kawelokū Wong asks “Who do we need to become to mo...
Richard Tarnas: On Psychedelic Initiation in Postmodern Culture
The 20th century’s discovery of LSD and subsequent use of various psychedelics in both therapeutic practice and popular culture has been a d...
Jonathan Mathias Lassiter: Notes from a Frustrated Black Psychologist
In his latest book, How I Know White People Are Crazy and Other Stories, psychologist Jonathan Lassiter pulls back the curtain on the mental...
Rowen White: On Indigenous Seedkeeping and Food Sovereignty
Seedkeeper, author, mentor, and founder of Sierra Seeds, Rowen White is a passionate activist for Indigenous seed and food sovereignty. With...
Elizabeth Gilbert: On Love, Loss, and Breaking Free
What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to...
Sundari Johansen & Anjali Rao: On Tantra, Yoga, and Embodied Resistance
Tantra and Yoga are practices rooted in Indic spiritual traditions that share long, intertwined and complex histories. Often, we encounter t...
Dr. Lucie Fielding: On A Pleasure-Centered Approach to Trans Sexualities
In her work, sex therapist and author Dr. Lucie Fielding seeks to move trans sexualities from the margins of gender-affirmative clinical pra...
Alka Arora, Jeanine M. Canty, and Sara H. Salazar: Multicultural Women’s Voices on Ecological and Social Healing
This is the CIIS Public Programs Podcast, featuring talks and conversations recorded live by California Institute of Integral Studies, a non...
Ann Tashi Slater: On Embracing Impermanence
Life is perpetually, endlessly filled with change: new jobs and new loves, unfamiliar places and faces. And entwined in that change is loss:...
Francis Weller: On Caring for Our Souls in Uncertain Times
In this episode, CIIS Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness professor Sean Kelly has a deep and fortifying conversation with psychotherap...
Dr. Britt Frank: On Personal Transformation With Parts Work
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Dr. Rhaina Cohen: On the Power of Friendships
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