Turning Season: Conversations with Changemakers in Our Adventure Toward a Life-S

I'm deeply happy to share this episode, a few years in the dreaming and making: an excerpt from the audiobook of Widening Circles, the memoir of Joanna Macy. In this chapter about her year in Sri Lanka, you'll hear from Joanna at 50 years old, in 1979, when she was participating in and studying the Sarvodaya Shramadana Sangamaya movement. Her memoir reads like a novel, and this chapter has so much of what I love about it: her adventurousness, her passion, the breadth and depth of her thinki

I'll be honest with you: the "great unraveling" is as real as the "great turning." They're happening at the same time, and have been for decades. The unraveling was already accelerating, and now (late 2024) to see a democratic election process choose a path of more, worse, faster harm to our planet and our fellow human and more-than-human beings? It's been... deeply discouraging. For many I know, it's been devastating. And at the same time - always at the same time - I feel so blessed to have h

A conversation between Leilani and Erin Geesaman Rabke about sustaining our tender hearts and our dedication to showing up for the web of life on Earth, through all the heartbreak, overwhelm, and discouragement that can happen when we care deeply about our world. We talk about taking beauty as ballast, turning to our grief as a guide, and attending to our bodies as sacred landscapes. We share the "five vows of the great turning," or the "five commitments of active hope," and how they help us o

"How is it that those individuals who are in the front line, in the first response, can bring that awareness, that connection to their own selves through their own nervous system, owning again a quality of spaciousness in their body?" My wonderful guest for this episode, Paula Ramírez, supports mental health in contexts of war and displacement. In this work, she has learned a lot about that process of reconnection and nervous system regulation, and about the spaciousness that can become accessi

My guest Ingrid Edstrom founded the "Accounting Alchemy Network," and in this episode, we talk accounting, and we talk alchemy. "Alchemy" as in transformation. Practical transformation, which of course is necessary in this great turning toward a life-sustaining society, along with transformation in the ways we think, and the ways we ask questions. These are necessary too. Listen in to hear us talk about how the accounting profession can change the world, Ingrid's journey with giving "rights

What a joy to introduce you to We Are the Great Turning, a new podcast series featuring kitchen-table conversations between Joanna Macy, in her 95th year of life, and her friend and student, activist Jess Serrante. Click Play to hear a brief visit between me and Jess about what's on her mind now that this extraordinary project has come out into the world, and then you'll hear the beautiful first episode of We Are the Great Turning, called Love and Loss. About We Are the Great Turning: We welc