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Matt Walker: Sleeping Enough to Be Truly Awake

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"Human beings are the only species that deprives themselves of sleep. No other species that we see will do this... ...

Frank Ostaseski: Lessons to the Living From the Dying

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Frank Ostaseski is a teacher, international lecturer and a leading voice in contemplative end-of-life care. He is ...

The Man Who Planted Trees: a Conversation with David Milarch

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Twenty some years ago David Milarch hovered above the bed, looking down at his motionless body. Years of alcoholism ...

Kay Pranis: the Art of Holding Circle

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Kay Pranis, a facilitator of peacemaking circles, believes that each of us is inherently good, wise, and powerful. ...

Thomas Ponce: on Behalf of All Living Beings

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Thomas Ponce is a 16-year-old animal rights advocate and a citizen lobbyist from Casselberry, Florida. He is the ...

Thom Bond: Changing the Conversation with Nvc

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In 2002 Thom Bond was a successful environmental engineer, passionate about designing smart buildings that used ...

For the Sake of One We Love and Are Losing: a Meditative Poem

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The origin story of "For the Sake of One We Love and Are Losing" lies in a dream that writer Phyllis Cole-Dai had ...

Liz Mitten Ryan: One with the Herd

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In 1999 Liz Mitten Ryan, award-winning artist, mother of six and founder of a successful fine art publishing company ...

Breathing Miracles Into Being: the Linda Scotson Technique

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Soon after he was born, Linda Scotson's son, Doran, was diagnosed with severe athetoid cerebral palsy. Doctors said ...

Addressing Social Injustice with Compassion

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Professor Rhonda Magee is a faculty member at the University of San Francisco law school, an expert in contemplative ...

Jeannie Kahwajy: Catch Everything as Help

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"I want to catch what people are offering, catch everything as help; like Aikido. Aikido is a martial art where it ...

Ken Cloke: There Is No Them. There Is Just Us.

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"If chickens are playing on a playground and they're fighting, the very first thing that we tend to do is separate ...

You Are What You See: Inspiring Kindness Through Images

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We live in a world where news stories are riddled with negativity; wars, crashes, political and social strife fill ...

Elisabet Sahtouris on Ecosophy

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In this interview Elizabet Sahtouris shares how society must unite to work toward the common goal of creating a ...

A Conversation with Ashton Applewhite

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In this interview ageism expert Ashton Applewhite discusses what she has learned over the course of her work. ...

Luc and the Lovingtons: Music as a Force of Love

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At 6-years-old Luc Reynaud announced to his teacher that he was going to paint the moon. "And what about the Earth, ...

Thu Nguyen: the Creative Act of Healing

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Thu Nguyen's life trajectory has far from predictable. Her father left before she was born. As a child she relocated ...

Ann Medlock: Sticking Her Neck Out for Our Common Humanity

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"There is a fundamentalist mindset that is manifesting all over the world, and the fundamental mind says, "There are ...

Water Is Life: an Interview with Cheryl Angel

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Cheryl Angel is an indigenous leader, wise (Sioux) Lakota elder woman, mother of five children, and lifelong devoted ...

Food Not Bombs: an Interview with Keith Mchenry

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Keith McHenry, co-founder of Food Not Bombs, has a vision: food not bombs changes people, service brings people ...

Robert Bengston: Inspiration Campaign

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In 2012 artist Robert Bengston started a new participatory, people-powered project, Inspiration Campaign, that ...

Healing Children One Community and One Breath at a Time

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When he was just 6 years old, J.G. Larochette felt a deep calling to bring love and awareness to communities ...

Edmund Benson: Constructive Aging, Positivity Cards and More

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In this Awakin Call interview, Edmund Benson discusses his life from his difficult childhood through retirement when ...

Anthony Chavez: Continuing His Grandfather's Legacy of Inspiration

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When Cesar Chavez died, 30,000 people showed up to march in his honor. He was the visionary force behind the United ...

Arlene Samen: Saving Lives of Mothers & Infants Around the World

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Arlene Samen has been a Nurse Practitioner in Maternal Fetal Medicine for over 33 years. In 1997, Arlene met the ...

Myron Eshowky: a Deeper Listening

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"When I was 6 years old, I began to go for an hour every day, before school had started, to work with a speech ...

Miti Desai: Where Dance, Design & Inner Transformation Meet

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At the end of her first day at her first job at a prestigious design firm in Mumbai, 20-year-old Miti Desai came ...

Say Wow: a Conversation with Poet Chelan Harkin

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At the age of 21, on a pilgrimage to Israel, Chelan Harkin found herself sitting alone in the same cell that some ...

Fabiana Fondevila: the Many Flavors of Wonder

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Fabiana Fondevila is an Argentinian writer, speaker, teacher, and all-around wonder activist. She began her career ...

Love and Philosophy Between Prison Walls and Ivory Towers

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In 1987, while teaching a class at MIT [the Massachusetts Institute of Technology] on nonviolence, philosophy ...

Joserra Gonzalez: a Re-Love-Ution Blooms in Spain

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"We are at the verge of many changes, and if we stay together in this journey, we can really face this big current ...

The Dancing Doctor

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On a chilly morning in November, 2013, Deborah Cohan, MD, a clinical professor and program director at the ...

Jolanda Van Den Berg: We Are Each Other. No Victims, No Heroes:

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By some definitions, Jolanda van den Berg might be dubbed a philanthropist, a social entrepreneur, a life coach, or ...

Scilla Elworthy: a Business Plan for Peace

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A distinguished activist for peace for over 30 years, Dr. Scilla Elworthy has met with scientists and nuclear ...

Diana Beresford-Kroeger: the Call of the Trees

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Diana Beresford-Kroeger is a world-recognized botanist, medical biochemist and author (and now filmmaker). She is ...

Kindness as an Avenue to Awe

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While many schools are emphasizing the importance of test scores and textbooks, Puget Sound Community School is ...

Yoav Peck: Encountering Others in Their Full Humanity

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Two countries in an endless war with each other. Generations of enemies born into hating the opposition. And with no ...

Designing Companies That Are Loved

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"When Scott Elias lost 80% of his hearing in kindergarten, his emotional and intuitive connection to the world went ...

Lissa Rankin: Sacred Medicine & the Mysteries of Healing

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"I write a lot in Sacred Medicine about the paradoxes of healing and one of them is to be clear in your intention to ...

Matthew Fox: Bowing to the Heart Over Authority

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"And so creativity should be at the heart of all ritual; not a frozen form, but a flexible form. Dance is at the ...

Rajni Bakshi: a Teller of Stories of Modern Day Gandhians

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Rajni Bakshi is a Mumbai-based freelance journalist and storyteller who writes about social and political movements ...

Learning to Move From Strength Instead of Strain

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As a young man he trained for a decade in the classical dance form of bharatanatyam. As an adult he studied yoga, ...

Charles Halpern: Cultivating Wisdom for Justice

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Charles Halpern exemplifies cultivating inner resources for working in justice and social transformation. His ...

The Frightfully Wondrous Experience of Being Here

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Ra Avis didn't call herself a writer till she was accused of the crime that would eventually result in 437 days of ...

What Does It Mean to Live Wisely and Well?

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What does it mean to live wisely and well and what does it take? How can we cultivate qualities such as love, ...

Giang Dang: a Happy Soul Serves Happily

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"Who is Giang Dang? She is a grassroots change-maker in Vietnam, who serves the underprivileged communities with ...

Othering & Belonging

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john a. powell is one of the foremost public intellectuals in the areas of civil rights, racism, ethnicity, housing ...

Losing His Voice Led Him to Helping Others Strengthen Theirs

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"There are lots of ways to lose your voice in this world." These words were spoken by Kevin Hancock, an ...

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