Dr. 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 homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/ Tony Zipple’s website: https://tonyzipple.com/ Incite Consulting Solutions: https://inciteconsultingsolutions.com/

Phil 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 notes to this episode have been revised to correct information in the guest's bio. RESOURCES: Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/ Earth and Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/ Louisville Vipassana Community: http://www.louisville-vipassana-community.org/ Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/ Insight Meditation Society: https://www.dharma.org/ Plum Village: https://plumvillage.org/

Day 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/ Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/ Day’s new book, Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration, and Change: https://www.dayschildkret.com/books Day’s websites: https://www.dayschildkret.com/ https://www.morningaltars.com/ Day in Instagram: http://instagram.com/morningaltars Day on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/morningaltars

Dr. 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.earthandspiritcenter.org/ Broderick Sawyer’s website: https://www.brodericksawyer.com/

Mary 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, Mary Evelyn and John discuss their decades of work at the intersection of ecology and the world’s religions, as informed by their mentor Thomas Berry and with the hopeful, deep-time perspective of our evolving universe. RESOURCES: Please donate to support this podcast and the Earth & Spirit Center nonprofit organization: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/category/podcast/ Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/ Coursera courses by Mary Evelyn and John: Religions and Ecology: Restoring the Earth Community https://www.coursera.org/specializations/religion-ecology Journey of the Universe: A Story for Our Times https://www.coursera.org/specializations/journey-of-the-universe Yale Forum on Ecology and Religion: https://fore.yale.edu/ Journey of the Universe film/book/podcasts: https://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org/ Thomas Berry Website: https://thomasberry.org/ United Nations Environment Programme Faith for Earth Initiative: https://www.unep.org/about-un-environment/faith-earth-initiative Greenfaith: https://greenfaith.org/ Ecology and Religion, by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker. Washington DC: Island Press, 2014. The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times, by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams. New York: Celadon Books, 2021

Deborah 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 organization: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/category/podcast/ Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/ Eden’s website: https://www.deborahedentull.com/ Eden’s new book, Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown: https://www.deborahedentull.com/luminous-darkness Eden’s nonprofit, Mindful Living Revolution: https://www.deborahedentull.com/non-profit

Jason 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.nonduality.us.com/, https://www.instagram.com/foundationfornonduality/, https://www.facebook.com/FoundationForNonduality, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ml_7AMW7UL15uD_CI9mQQ Earth & Spirit Center: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/ Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Nina 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/donate/ Nina’s website: https://www.ninasimons.com/ Nina’s new book, Nature, Culture & The Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, 2nd edition: https://www.ninasimons.com/writing Bioneers website: https://bioneers.org/

Matthew 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: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/ Websites related to Matthew’s work: http://www.matthewfox.org http://www.thecosmicmass.com http://www.orderofthesacredearth.org http://www.dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org

Stephen 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 podcast at https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/ Stephen’s website: https://orphanwisdom.com/ Stephen’s latest book (with Kimberly Ann Johnson), Reckoning: https://orphanwisdom.com/reckoning/ Stephen’s Nights of Grief and Mystery 2022 Tour: https://orphanwisdom.com/nights-of-grief-and-mystery/