CIIS Public Programs
Episodes
Dr. Rhaina Cohen: On the Power of Friendships
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Why do we ...
Dr. Manvir Singh: Understanding Shamanism
06 Nov 2025
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John J. Prendergast: On Opening Your Deepest Ground
02 Oct 2025
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Kazu Haga: On Fierce Vulnerability
04 Sep 2025
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We are living in a world where the depths of division, violence, and destruction can no longer be ignored. Escalated forms of harm require an equally ...
Carla Fernandez: On Renegade Grief
07 Aug 2025
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Jennifer N. Levin: On Generation Care
03 Jul 2025
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Loretta J. Ross: How to Start Making Real Change With Those You’d Rather Cancel
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * A Black Fe...
Jessica Lanyadoo: On Navigating Through the Astrology of These Times
01 May 2025
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * In challen...
Dean Spade: On Liberating Our Relationships for a Better World
24 Apr 2025
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Lifelong a...
Aida Mariam Davis: On Kindred Creation and Black Futures
17 Apr 2025
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * In her wor...
Nicole Russell-Wharton: On Breaking Generational Silence
03 Apr 2025
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Generation...
Richard Tarnas: On Depth Psychology, Spirituality, and the Human Journey
02 Apr 2025
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * This speci...
Dr. Debashish Banerji and Dr. Sara Granovetter: A Jungian and Zen Approach to the Untamed Self in the Ten Oxherding Pictures
26 Mar 2025
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * The Ten Ox...
Rōshi Norma Wong: An Indigenous & Zen Perspective on Living Into a World Beyond Crisis
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Sasha Sagan: For Small Creatures Such As We
10 Mar 2025
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Michelle Tea: On Modern Magic
04 Mar 2025
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Dr. Betty Martin: On the Wheel of Consent
26 Feb 2025
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Joanna Ebenstein: On Befriending Death
20 Feb 2025
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Talking ab...
Lorraine Besser: On the Art of The Interesting
13 Feb 2025
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Emerging r...
Kari Grain: Critical Hope
06 Feb 2025
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Each perso...
Emily Marinelli: On Our Love of Movie Sequels from the ‘80s and ‘90s
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * When a fil...
Dr. Marie Thouin: On the Power of Positive Empathy in Consensual Non-Monogamy
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Camille Sapara Barton: On Tending Grief
16 Jan 2025
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Langston Kahn: On Shamanic Tools for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma
09 Jan 2025
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * In anticip...
Tricia Rainwater: On Repairing Ties to Indigenous Ceremony and Culture Through Art
02 Jan 2025
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Choctaw mu...
Dr. Thema Bryant: On Trauma Recovery and Reclaiming Yourself
19 Dec 2024
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Prentis Hemphill: On What it Takes to Heal
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Devon Price: Laziness Does Not Exist
05 Dec 2024
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * This week,...
Dr. Roger Kuhn: On Two-Spirit Identity and the Body as a Portal to Freedom
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * What role ...
Peter Levine: On an Autobiography of Trauma
21 Nov 2024
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Renowned d...
Bianca Laureano: Vital Voices From the Frontlines of Human Sexuality
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Historical...
Christopher Marmolejo: On Tarot and Divinatory Literacy for Liberation
07 Nov 2024
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Christophe...
Alice Wong and Mia Mingus: On Disability Intimacy
31 Oct 2024
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Alice Wong...
Judith Orloff: On the Genius Of Empathy
24 Oct 2024
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Empathy is...
Dr. Judy Ho: On the New Rules of Attachment
17 Oct 2024
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Did you kn...
Alexis Nikole Nelson: On Food Justice Through Foraging
10 Oct 2024
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Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Alexis Nik...
Layla K. Feghali: On the Land in Our Bones
03 Oct 2024
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Ijeoma Oluo: On Being a Revolution
26 Sep 2024
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Bayo Akomolafe: On Postactivism as a Pathway for Healing Ourselves and Our World
19 Sep 2024
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Abigail Rose Clarke: On Returning Home to Our Bodies
12 Sep 2024
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Thomas Hübl: On Embracing Interconnection for Healing Trauma
05 Sep 2024
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Jenée Johnson: On Reclaiming African-Centered Joy and Well-Being Through Mindfulness
29 Aug 2024
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Benebell Wen: On Practicing Divination With the I Ching
22 Aug 2024
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Jacqueline Suskin: On Seasonal Practices and Rituals to Awaken Creative Expression
15 Aug 2024
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Jason Butler and Genesee Herzberg with Gisele Fernandes: On Integral Psychedelic Therapy
08 Aug 2024
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Charlotte Saenz and Zara Zimbardo: On Community Building and the Zapatista Movement
01 Aug 2024
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Lyla June: On Personal, Collective, and Ecological Healing
25 Jul 2024
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Sonya Renee Taylor: On Radical Answers for Personal and Collective Liberation
18 Jul 2024
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L. Frank and Catalina Gomes: Voices From California Indigenous Languages and Cultural Revitalization
11 Jul 2024
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Kai Cheng Thom: On Falling Back in Love With Being Human
04 Jul 2024
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Larisa Garski and Justine Mastin: Caring for Yourself and Your Clients
27 Jun 2024
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James Canton: On Journeying Into the Landscapes of Our Ancestors
19 Jun 2024
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Minaa B.: On Moving Past Trauma and Adversity Together
13 Jun 2024
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Alka Arora and Danielle Drake: On Feminist Approaches to Integral Education
06 Jun 2024
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Rae Johnson: On Embodied Activism
30 May 2024
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Sharon Blackie: On Mythology, Land, and Life
23 May 2024
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Chenxing Han: Buddhist Perspectives on Grief and Renewal
16 May 2024
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Rae McDaniel: On Gender Magic
02 May 2024
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Stan Tatkin: On Being in Each Other's Care
18 Apr 2024
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Sara Elise: On the Ingredients for Everyday Abundance and Ease
04 Apr 2024
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Nedra Glover Tawwab: On Breaking Family Patterns to Move Forward
21 Mar 2024
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Richard Tarnas: On the Planets in 2024
07 Mar 2024
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Merlin Sheldrake: How Fungi Make our Worlds and Shape our Futures
22 Feb 2024
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Tanmeet Sethi: On Reclaiming Joy for Justice and Healing
08 Feb 2024
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Lisa Kentgen: On Building Vibrant Communities Of Belonging
25 Jan 2024
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Samira Mehta: On the Racism of People Who Love You
11 Jan 2024
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Deborah Egerton: On Social Justice and the Enneagram
28 Dec 2023
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Dahr Jamail: Indigenous Voices on our Changing Earth
14 Dec 2023
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Jessica Wilson: On Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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Dr. Pamela Ayo Yetunde: On Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In her latest book, Casting Indra’s Net: Fostering Spiritual Kinship and Community, activist, counselor, and Buddhist teacher Dr. Pamela Ayo Yetunde...
Thenmozhi Soundararajan: On Healing The Trauma of Caste
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Caste is one of the oldest systems of exclusion in the world. It negatively impacts 1.9 billion people worldwide, crippling their quality of life. B...
Resmaa Menakem: On Healing Racialized Trauma
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Resmaa Menakem is a healer, therapist, and a licensed clinical social worker renowned for his bestseller My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma a...
Elissa Bassist: On Unlocking a Woman's Voice
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Between 2016 and 2018, essayist and humor writer Elissa Bassist saw over 20 medical professionals for a variety of mysterious ailments. Elissa had wha...
Joan Sutherland: On Awakening with Zen Koans
21 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Koans are the record of provocative, and often paradoxical, exchanges between Zen masters and their students developed in medieval China. In her pract...
Cara Page and Erica Woodland: On Healing Justice Lineages
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Black Queer Feminists Cara Page and Erica Woodland’s work focuses on political and spiritual liberation grounded in Black, Indigenous, People of Col...
Brian Swimme: On the Cosmic Dimension of Human Stories
24 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the 10 most radical discoveries in human history is that of cosmogenesis, the narrative of how the expanding universe is evolving into stars, g...
Mark Nepo: On Surviving Storms
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a turbulent time with storms everywhere, of every size and shape. And like every generation before us, we must learn the art of surviving t...
Roger Kuhn and Landa Lakes: On Two Spirit Identity and Cultural Expression
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The term Two-Spirit is translated from a Northern Algonquin word and is used by some Native peoples of North America to signify variations of gender a...
Kathleen Webster O'Malley: On The Healing Wisdom of Dreams
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When we understand and engage with our dreams we can tap into a special, deeper kind of healing. The process of healing is not about putting the same ...
Dr. Jennifer Lisa Vest: On Being an Ethical Psychic
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For Afro-Indigenous intuitive healer and scholar Jennifer Vest, being an ethical psychic means being of service and learning how to navigate the thorn...
Tricia Hersey: On Rest as Resistance
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What would it be like to live in a well-rested world? For far too many of us, we have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed ...
Debashish Banerji and Robert McDermott: On Spirituality and Integral Education
01 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For over 50 years CIIS has been a leader in transformative integral education. Integral studies, in the founding of CIIS, encapsulated a contemporary ...
Yung Pueblo: On the Healing Journey
18 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Yung Pueblo’s (Diego Perez) path to deep healing began after years of drug use had taken a toll on his mind and body. Searching for a way forward, h...
Mimi Zhu: On Not Being Afraid of Love
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In their early twenties, author and artist Mimi Zhu was a survivor of intimate-partner abuse, which left them broken and in search of healing paths to...
Gregg Castro: On Native Sovereignty
20 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Native or tribal sovereignty refers to the right of American Indians and Alaska Natives to govern themselves. In some definitions native or tribal sov...
Chris Martin: On Poetry and Our Neurodiverse Future
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Some adults struggle to communicate with students who have autism and try to “fix them.” But what if we found a way to help these students use the...
Shefali Tsabary: On Radical Awakening
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As a New York Times bestselling author and renowned clinical psychologist, Dr. Shefali’s work teaches women how to transcend their fears and illus...
Brock Blomberg and Kathy Littles: On the Present and Future of Integral Education at CIIS and Beyond
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, our University’s President Brock Blomberg and Provost Kathy Littles have a unique conversation exploring the present and future of ...
Julia Serano: On Sexualization and Society
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Feminists have long challenged the ways in which men tend to sexualize women. But pioneering activist, biologist, and trans woman Julia Serano ...
Fariha Roisin: Who Is Wellness For?
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fariha Róisín is a multidisciplinary artist and author who was born in Ontario, Canada and raised in Sydney, Australia. She is now based in Los Ange...
Jenny Wang: On Reclaiming Mental Health for Asian Americans
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over 18 million people of Asian descent live in the United States today. Many in the Asian American community are experiencing a renewed connection to...
Judy Wilkins-Smith: On Breaking Emotional Patterns for Transformation
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Facilitator and transformational coach Judy Wilkins-Smith believes the key to transformation lies in decoding the patterns embedded in your life—unc...
Jeanine Canty: On Returning the Self to Nature
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In her work, CIIS professor Jeanine Canty uses the lens of ecopsychology to show that the pervasive and extreme forms of narcissism we find in many mo...
Tracy Dennis-Tiwary: On Why Anxiety Can Be Good For You
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We all experience anxiety. Regardless of how bad it can feel, anxiety is part of what makes us human and may not necessarily be a bad thing. According...
David Abram: On the More Than Human World
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Author, cultural ecologist, and geo philosopher David Abram has been an inspirational leading voice at the intersection of ecology and philosophy for ...
Christine Emba: On Rethinking Sex and Consent
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modern-day sexual ethics has held that “anything goes” when it comes to sex—if everyone says yes and does so enthusiastically. So why, even when...
Kari Grain: Critical Hope
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hope without action is, at best, naive. At its worst, it tricks you into giving up the power and agency you have to change systems that cause sufferin...
Susan Sands: On the Surprising Pleasures of Living in an Aging Body
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Do you fear that growing old means being trapped in a body filled with aches, pains, and losses? Many of us do—especially women. Though our youth-ob...
Four Arrows and Darcia Narvaez: On Indigenous Voices and Restoring the Kinship Worldview
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Author and Professor of Education, Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), and author and Professor Emerita of Psychology Darcia Narvaez have both written and le...
Octavia Raheem: On Navigating Change with Stillness and Presence
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NOTE: This episode features guided participatory rest practices that include moments of silence at the beginning and end of the conversation. Restor...