You have heard me speak of ceremony and sacred medicine. And it brings me joy to share this music with you. Metsa is a friend. He is masterful in this ancient healing art. And It is one of my life’s blessings to collaborate with him and his wife Kelly. Together we are part of a small cohort of spiritual teachers, medicine people and facilitators committing all of our skill and heart to finding a deeper way of being together.
Read MoreMy friends, Elizabeth Debold and Thomas Steininger are joining up with Zen Peacemakers International to host a 24-hour, nonstop, meditation vigil. on December 7-8 2019.
The vigil will be led by sacred activists and spiritual leaders from different faiths and lands and is free of charge The purpose is to deepen our sense of Belonging To Earth
The vigil is from December 7 to December 8.
You can join for one hour. Or up to the full 24.
Participation is free of any charge.
Read MoreWhen I was coming up as a young activist and organizer I had to live my way into the myriad conflicts within the movement. I remember noticing a deep misunderstanding of what it meant to diversify the space. An earlier generation of white progressives were making effort to bring people of color to the table they were setting. But it took time and often pain for them to understand that when you bring new people to the table you are going to have a different conversation.
This is the whole point of bringing new people to the table: To change the conversation.
Read MoreYou may remember my friend Cyndi Suarez from our very first podcast episode. I interviewed her just as The Power Manual came out. Classrooms and organizations are using the book as a guide to relinquish powerlessness and take charge of their work and lives. It’s a year later and I asked her back to tell us about the impact of the book and the evolution of her thinking. Power is a posture. It is a stance. It is a practice that we can enact.
Read MoreExtinction Rebellion calls itself the fastest-growing climate and ecology direct action movement in history. It emerged 18 months ago. When it consisted of just 10 people in Britain. It has swelled to millions of followers across 72 countries.
The movement relies solely on crowdfunding and donations. And it has been conceived as a self-organizing, non-hierarchical holacracy. There is no single leader or group steering its strategy, tactics and goals.
This is important. And it is very exciting. I have devoted the last fifteen years of my life to figuring out how to apply network theory to the work of social transformation. I don’t know of anything more important than dealing with the fact that we are in the midst of the sixth great extinction. And that we are the cause of it.
Read MoreA few weeks ago I drafted an intimate, vulnerable, update to the members of the Better Men Project. Then it got sent to my entire listserv.
It was a mistake that left me feeling exposed. But I was moved and encouraged by your response. I’m still looking for the words to talk about what I have learned on this often painful path from toxic masculinity towards conscious masculinity. But I commit to finding a way to share. There is something liberating about truth and our stories.
Read MoreMeet Damali Vidot. Chelsea's City Council President. A mother. An activist. A healer. And the coolest, funniest person that you will ever meet. In this series she speaks of her journey from being a self proclaimed "hood rat" to Chelsea's City Council President. She teaches us about the difficulties of working in the political trenches, and how spirit has been integral to her survival.
Read MoreMeet my friend Luana Morales. Your birth, death and healing doula. A contemporary medicine woman. And a beloved leader in our activist community.
Read MoreLaying in my tent. Camping in Cape Cod. A little bit ashamed about scrolling through my phone. I saw another headline about the burning Amazon. And how it will take hundreds of years for the rain forest to recover. My chest welled up. I wanted to cry. I said “not now” to myself. And I kept scrolling.
Read MoreThis is the launch of my video series. And I’m thrilled to be introducing you to my wife, Samantha Tan. She is an executive coach to women, a circle holder and all around wise woman. She is devoting her life to reclaim pleasure as medicine, compass and path.
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