Be the Change Radio

Wild Geese

Posted on 3 August 2011 | No responses

Amy Shoko Brown tells us the story of the Ugly Duckling and relates that tale to our own daily practice of belonging in our lives.

Here’s a poem by Mary Oliver from New & Selected Poems (Harcourt Brace).

Wild Geese

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild gees, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:21 — 22.6MB)

What BETTER Looks Like

Posted on 20 July 2011 | No responses

Liz & Rob Gannon-Graydon, co-founders of What BETTER Looks Like. What BETTER Looks Like fosters the development of beloved community by helping individuals imagine, articulate and create visions for a better world. The intentional infusion of love into our interactions has the power to create the radical changes necessary to make the world better.

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Structure & Spontaneity

Posted on 13 July 2011 | No responses

Amy Shoko Brown discusses the advantages of Structure and Spontaneity in developing practices to truly be the change that you want to see in the world. What is practice? It is regular, diligent, focused action. Practice can be yoga, prayer, taking a walk, washing the dishes or simply greeting your loved ones affectionately each morning.

Amy has been an avid student of Zen, qigong, and healing arts for over 20 years. She is a Senior Student and Daojin Novitiate at Zen Mountain Monastery. She serves as the Volunteer Coordinator for the monastery’s prison outreach program.

Amy offers private sessions in Trauma Transformation as well as Life Coaching: Helping Spiritual Seekers Make Meaningful Change.

She also co-hosts Be the Change: Voices of Action on 91.3 WVKR and teaches qigong (chi kung), meditation in motion.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:11 — 23.7MB)

Didn’t I Take Care of That?

Posted on 6 July 2011 | No responses

Leigh Fortson, author of Embrace, Release, Heal: An Empowering Guide to Talking About, Thinking About, and Treating Cancer returns to discuss principles of healing and her own ongoing journey following treatments for three distinct cancer diagnoses.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:32 — 22.9MB)

Responding to Shock

Posted on 29 June 2011 | No responses

Lynn Bourbeau is a trauma therapist, intuitive healer and interfaith minister. She discusses ways to get to know and work with your own body and nervous system so that you’re not as susceptible to being overwhelmed by upsetting news (like the earthquake in Japan or an event in your personal life). She also talks about integrating healing work with spirituality and training all types of helping professionals in using body-centered healing approaches.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:13 — 22.8MB)

Practicing One Thing

Posted on 22 June 2011 | No responses

Amy Shoko Brown discusses how to be the change that you want to see in the world by developing simple daily practices of wisdom and compassion. What is practice? It is regular, diligent, focused action. Practice can be yoga, prayer, taking a walk, washing the dishes or simply greeting your loved ones affectionately each morning

Amy has been an avid student of Zen, qigong, and healing arts for over 20 years. She is a Senior Student and Daojin Novitiate at Zen Mountain Monastery. She serves as the Volunteer Coordinator for the monastery’s prison outreach program.

Amy offers private sessions in Trauma Transformation and Life Coaching: Helping Spiritual Seekers Make Meaningful Change.

Amy also co-hosts Be the Change: Voices of Action on 91.3 WVKR and teaches qigong (chi kung), meditation in motion.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:45 — 23.9MB)

Catskill Animal Sanctuary

Posted on 15 June 2011 | No responses

Catskill Animal Sanctuary (CAS) Founder/Director Kathy Stevens describes her motivation for founding the CAS: Kindness, not only towards other humans, but towards all beings. CAS‘s 10^th Annual Shindig is this coming Saturday.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:31 — 22.8MB)

Changing the World One Orgasm at a Time

Posted on 8 June 2011 | No responses

Sheri Winston is a medical professional, sexuality educator, and author who is on a mission to transform our culture’s attitudes about sex. She developed her Wholistic Sexuality curriculum based on a perspective of sex that addresses the interplay of culture and biology, and incorporates the wisdom of ancient sex-positive cultures with little-known anatomical and scientific information. It is premised on this all-important notion: your sexuality is first and foremost about your relationship with yourself.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:20 — 23.7MB)

Changing the World One Story at a Time

Posted on 1 June 2011 | No responses

Too Much Information! is an evening of non-fiction monologues created by women who spent 10 weeks in workshop writing true stories that they had never before told anyone. A lively interview with the director, Eva Tenuto, and four cast members. Recognize the power of truth to make us cry, laugh, and become all the more human.

Watch a clip from last year’s show.

Don’t miss the show this Saturday June 4th at the Rosendale Theatre. Reservations are recommended.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 57:49 — 22.3MB)

Embrace, Release, Heal

Posted on 18 May 2011 | No responses

Leigh Fortson, author of Embrace, Release, Heal: An Empowering Guide to Talking About, Thinking About, and Treating Cancer. Leigh Fortson shares insights into the power of our mind-body connection, inspiring stories from people who survived cancer after being given a terminal diagnosis, and interviews with 20 experts on progressive cancer treatments – as well as her own story of overcoming cancer three times.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:59 — 22.5MB)

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