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Michael Lerner: Whispers of a Wounded Healer

Meet Michael Lerner, one of the founding members of Commonweal -- an organization founded on the principle of ...

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When Animals Are Our Teachers

"...to have a relationship with a wild creature, first you have to have a relationship with yourself." For thousands ...

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Duane Elgin on Voluntary Simplicity

Duane Elgin is an unusual social visionary, one with an MBA from Wharton and a master's degree in economic history. ...

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The Winter Pilgrim: an Interview with Ann Sieben

In October 2007, Ann Sieben, a native of Denver, Colorado and a nuclear engineer by profession, was waiting for a ...

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Learning to Not Know

For centuries, our ancestors have gathered around the proverbial fire, so to speak--holding space for unity and ...

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Fleet Maull: Waking up in Prison

Fleet Maull founded Prison Dharma Network in 1989 while serving a 14.5 year mandatory-minimum sentence for drug ...

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It's About Your Stance Not Circumstance

"Jacques Verduin can speak with deep understanding about being worthy of our suffering. In 1997, he founded the ...

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Emily Baxter: We Are All Criminals

Emily Baxter is a public defender, turned policy maker, turned storyteller with an unusual cause. As founder of the ...

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Barbara Crooker: Poetry as a Form of Love

"I believe the way we most fully integrate ourselves with the world, is through our senses. When I teach creative ...

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The Pollination Project: an Interview with Ari Nessel

The Pollination Project has a unique approach to philanthropy. It grants small donations of up to $1000 each day, to ...

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Grateful Living as a Practice for Every Moment

In this Awakin Call, Kristi Nelson, Executive Director of A Network for Grateful Living, (check out their popular ...

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Anne-Marie Bauer Pandya: an Ethic of Care

Growing up in the US and Finland as one of six children, and big sister to three younger brothers, Anne-Marie donned ...

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Walking the World at Three Miles an Hour

Polly Letofsky is the only woman to have walked across the world. She started in 1999 and took over five years. She ...

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Gitanjali Babbar: Transforming Delhi's Brothels

It is said "[t]he road itself has power ... that suffering itself can have an inner door ... that there is a ...

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Leadership Lessons From Specially Abled Children: an Interview with V.R. Ferose

"I was of course at that time focusing on autism specifically. I kind of had a personal understanding of the ...

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Piya Sorcar: Breaking Taboos Through Teach Aids

Piya Sorcar is ​the founder and CEO of TeachAIDS, a social venture spun out of Stanford University that has been ...

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It Takes a Hood to Save the Hood

Rudy Corpuz, an anti-violence activist was born and raised in San Francisco in the 1970s and 80s in a neighborhood ...

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Something Profound

They say that a creative adult is the child who survived. From an early age, Slobodan Dan Paich had a powerful ...

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