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CIIS Public Programs
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This is a podcast for people who are curious about the world and themselves featuring talks and conversations presented by the Public Programs department of California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university in San Francisco. Listen here or on your favorite podcast app to a diverse array of visionaries, artists, and scholars sharing compelling experiences, offering new perspectives, and expanding creative horizons.
Episodes
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On Black Buddhism and Radical Thought with Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad
Through her work and writing, Dr. Rima Vesely-Flad centers and celebrates Black, queer, radical thought and invites us to embrace the ways our inner lives, creative fire, sensuality, and expressions of love can ignite and sustain revolutionary liberation. * Her latest book, The Fire Inside,...
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AI & Human Connection with Kaamna Bhojwani and Michelle Marzullo
In this episode sexologist Kaamna Bhojwani and Chair of the CIIS Human Sexuality department Michelle Marzullo explore how we can use AI in ways that expand human flourishing—in our relationships, in our learning, and in our work. * As AI becomes embedded in both our inner lives and our...
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Exploring America's Racial Consciousness with Cathy Park Hong
Award winning poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong’s work weaves together personal stories, historical context, and cultural criticism to ultimately create an emotional and impactful exploration of Asian American personhood. Her widely praised book of essays Minor Feelings explores her experiences…
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On Somatics and Creative Leadership with Alfonso Montuori and Nick Walker
What is creative leadership? It could mean leadership that’s distributed and collaborative, rather than top-down and authoritarian. It could mean leadership that’s flexible enough to continually reinvent its structures and approaches to meet emerging circumstances. It could mean leadership that...
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On Understanding Luminosity of Consciousness in the Tibetan Bön Tradition with Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Bön is among the oldest indigenous spiritual traditions in the world. It originated in Central Asia thousands of years ago in what is now Tibet and is still being practiced globally today. Rooted in ancient cosmology, visionary practices, and ritual technologies, the tradition of Tibetan Bön…
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Filipino Indigenous Wisdom for Personal and Shared Wellbeing with Carl Lorenz Cervantes
For centuries, Filipino lifeways were presented to outsiders through the distorted lens of colonization—and the oppression, exploitation, and denigration suffered by Filipino ancestors are well-documented. In his work, psychologist and author Carl Lorenz Cervantes draws from Filipino folklore,...
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Centering Connection and Creativity for Health and Wellbeing
Around the world, practitioners are rediscovering what artists, cultural workers, and community healers have long understood: that creativity and human connection are powerful forces for wellbeing. * In this episode CIIS faculty Dr. Christine Brooks and Dr. Elizabeth Markle discuss how arts-based...
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On the Intimate Animal with Dr. Justin Garcia
Why do we love who we love? Why do we stay in unfulfilling relationships, and stray from rewarding ones? Is it ever a good idea to open a relationship? And why do some long-time couples crash and burn while others stay madly in love? Evolutionary biologist, author, and Executive Director of the...
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On Sustaining Your Creative Life with Cindy Shearer:
With rejection and intense commitment being such integral parts of any artist’s life, many struggle to stay with the creative process. Author and CIIS Faculty in the Interdisciplinary Arts program, Cindy Shearer has spent decades helping artists stay with their craft. In her book, Stay with...
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Awakening Your Roots with the Medicine of Nature with Lorena Saavedra Smith
Many of us feel disconnected from our family stories and traditions, which can create a sense of loss of home and belonging. Pacha philosopher and ecopsychologist Lorena Saavedra Smith believes reconciling with our ancestors’ traditions and weaving ourselves back into our history is a therapeutic...
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Who We Are Becoming Matters with Norma Kawelokū Wong
In her book Who We Are Becoming Matters, Zen teacher and Indigenous Hawaiian leader Norma Kawelokū Wong asks “Who do we need to become to move forward in togetherness and mutual responsibility?” Norma invites us to reckon with 4 essential inner capacities—courage, compassion, aloha, and strategic...
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Richard Tarnas: On Psychedelic Initiation in Postmodern Culture
The 20th century’s discovery of LSD and subsequent use of various psychedelics in both therapeutic practice and popular culture has been a deeply transformational event in modern civilization. It has carried the power of a collective initiatory rite of passage, yet often without an adequately...
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Jonathan Mathias Lassiter: Notes from a Frustrated Black Psychologist
In his latest book, How I Know White People Are Crazy and Other Stories, psychologist Jonathan Lassiter pulls back the curtain on the mental health system and reveals the hurdles that Black psychologists and students are forced to endure in the field. * In this episode, Dr. Lassiter is joined by...
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Rowen White: On Indigenous Seedkeeping and Food Sovereignty
Seedkeeper, author, mentor, and founder of Sierra Seeds, Rowen White is a passionate activist for Indigenous seed and food sovereignty. With the increasing industrialization of our food and the erosion of biodiversity within cultural contexts, Rowen works to guide and mentor mindful eaters and...
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Elizabeth Gilbert: On Love, Loss, and Breaking Free
What if your most beautiful love story turned into your biggest nightmare? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening? * In her critically acclaimed novels and immensely popular works of nonfiction including Eat Pray Love and Big Magic, Elizabeth...
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Sundari Johansen & Anjali Rao: On Tantra, Yoga, and Embodied Resistance
Tantra and Yoga are practices rooted in Indic spiritual traditions that share long, intertwined and complex histories. Often, we encounter tantra and yoga as forms of exercise, self-care, sex, or as pathways to personal wellness. However, these powerful, multifaceted practices are much more than...
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Dr. Lucie Fielding: On A Pleasure-Centered Approach to Trans Sexualities
In her work, sex therapist and author Dr. Lucie Fielding seeks to move trans sexualities from the margins of gender-affirmative clinical practice to centering pleasure and sparking creativity and empathic attunement within the client-provider relationship. In the latest expanded second edition of...
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Alka Arora, Jeanine M. Canty, and Sara H. Salazar: Multicultural Women’s Voices on Ecological and Social Healing
This is the CIIS Public Programs Podcast, featuring talks and conversations recorded live by California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university located in San Francisco on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Land. * It is possible to heal ourselves and our planet if we are open to the power…
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Ann Tashi Slater: On Embracing Impermanence
Life is perpetually, endlessly filled with change: new jobs and new loves, unfamiliar places and faces. And entwined in that change is loss: loss of what was or is, or what could have been. Amid this shifting landscape, author Ann Tashi Slater has found power in embracing impermanence through the...
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Francis Weller: On Caring for Our Souls in Uncertain Times
In this episode, CIIS Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness professor Sean Kelly has a deep and fortifying conversation with psychotherapist and author Francis Weller. * Together they explore ways of moving together through the anxieties, difficulties, and sacred transitions of 21st-century...
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Dr. Britt Frank: On Personal Transformation With Parts Work
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. * Parts Work, also known as Internal Family Systems, developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, is a transformative tool that conceives of every human being as a…
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Dr. Rhaina Cohen: On the Power of Friendships
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 assume romantic relationships are more important than friendships? In this episode, clinical psychologist Margaret Boucher has an illuminating...
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Dr. Manvir Singh: Understanding Shamanism
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 is the CIIS Public Programs Podcast, featuring talks and conversations recorded live by California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit…
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John J. Prendergast: On Opening Your Deepest Ground
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 Dr. John J. Prendergast’s decades of experience as a psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, the area of the body that’s most difficult for people to…
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Kazu Haga: On Fierce Vulnerability
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 escalated response. Yet social movements often use tactics that tend to escalate an “us vs. them,” “right vs. wrong” worldview not conducive to...
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Carla Fernandez: On Renegade Grief
This is the CIIS Public Programs Podcast, featuring talks and conversations recorded live by California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university located in San Francisco on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Land. * Shaped by her own experience with the death of her father and her time...
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Jennifer N. Levin: On Generation Care
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. * More than 10 million millennials are caring for aging parents before they've been able to fully launch their careers and consider starting their own…
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Loretta J. Ross: How to Start Making Real Change With Those You’d Rather Cancel
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 Feminist, activist, professor, and author, Loretta J. Ross has spent five remarkable decades in activism. She’s deprogrammed white supremacists and...
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Jessica Lanyadoo: On Navigating Through the Astrology of These Times
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 challenging times, it can be important to access a multitude of healing pathways, and we can use astrology as a supportive tool to understand both the...
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Dean Spade: On Liberating Our Relationships for a Better World
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 activist and educator Dean Spade dares us to decide that our interpersonal actions are not separate from our politics of liberation and resistance....
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Aida Mariam Davis: On Kindred Creation and Black Futures
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 work, author, organizer, and designer Aida Mariam Davis explores the historical and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism, making explicit the ways...
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Nicole Russell-Wharton: On Breaking Generational Silence
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. * Generational silence is a term applied to families who have experienced suppressed thoughts or repressed emotions for at least two generations. Generational...
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Richard Tarnas: On Depth Psychology, Spirituality, and the Human Journey
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 special episode features CIIS Professor Emeritus and cultural historian Richard Tarnas sharing illuminating insights into the nature of human...
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Dr. Debashish Banerji and Dr. Sara Granovetter: A Jungian and Zen Approach to the Untamed Self in the Ten Oxherding Pictures
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 Oxherding Pictures is an image series that visualizes the Buddhist training path to enlightenment. The Ten Oxherding Pictures have served as a...
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Rōshi Norma Wong: An Indigenous & Zen Perspective on Living Into a World Beyond Crisis
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 this episode, 86th generation Zen master and Indigenous Hawaiian leader Rōshi Norma Wong is joined by CIIS Associate Professor Sonya Shah for an...
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Sasha Sagan: For Small Creatures Such As We
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. * As we approach the first season change of the year, we are finding ourselves inclined to revisit this conversation centered on time and ritual featuring…
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Michelle Tea: On Modern Magic
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. * Michelle Tea is best known for her book, Modern Tarot, which is now a cult classic. Her latest book, Modern Magic, explores her magical roots. Sharing how…
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Dr. Betty Martin: On the Wheel of Consent
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. * For over 40 years somatic sex educator Dr. Betty Martin has explored the nuances of consent. In her framework and book, The Wheel of Consent, Dr. Martin…
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Joanna Ebenstein: On Befriending Death
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 about death is often deemed morbid or taboo, but to fully embrace life, scientists, psychologists, and spiritual leaders all agree—contemplating…
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Lorraine Besser: On the Art of The Interesting
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 research in psychological and philosophical circles is showing us that there is more to the good life than past or current conversations suggest....
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Kari Grain: Critical Hope
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 person has a unique, ever-changing relationship to hope. Hope alone can be transformational—but in moments of despair, or when you’re up against…
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Emily Marinelli: On Our Love of Movie Sequels from the ‘80s and ‘90s
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 film touches us, makes us laugh, and has that feel-good spirit, we want more of it. We want a sequel! In this episode, psychotherapist and CIIS...
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Dr. Marie Thouin: On the Power of Positive Empathy in Consensual Non-Monogamy
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 the context of non-monogamy, compersion or the emotion of positive empathy is understood as sharing our partner’s joy regarding their other intimate...
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Camille Sapara Barton: On Tending Grief
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. * Majority cultural norms in the United States suppress our ability to truly feel our grief and each person’s experience with grief is as unique as the grief...
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Langston Kahn: On Shamanic Tools for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma
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 anticipation of our upcoming workshop exploring shamanic tools for liberating our true longing with author and shamanic healer Langston Kahn, we are...
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Tricia Rainwater: On Repairing Ties to Indigenous Ceremony and Culture Through Art
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 multimedia artist Tricia Rainwater’s wide-ranging work is rooted in themes of identity and grief. Her artistic practice offers a perspective through...
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Dr. Thema Bryant: On Trauma Recovery and Reclaiming Yourself
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. * Dr. Thema Bryant is a psychologist and leading mental health expert with more than two decades of experience in clinical psychology and trauma recovery. As a...
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Prentis Hemphill: On What it Takes to Heal
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. * As we continue to navigate years of collective upheaval, are there ways for us to face the complexities of our time with joy, authenticity, and connection?...
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Devon Price: Laziness Does Not Exist
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, we are diving into our archives in preparation for the northern hemisphere’s upcoming winter season which brings with it a call for all earthly...
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Dr. Roger Kuhn: On Two-Spirit Identity and the Body as a Portal to Freedom
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 does dominant culture play in how we experience the sensations, thoughts, feelings, and deeper existential mysteries of our bodies? Dr. Roger Kuhn…
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This is a podcast for people who are curious about the world and themselves featuring talks and conversations presented by the Public Programs department of California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university in San Francisco. Listen here or on your favorite podcast app to a diverse array of visionaries, artists, and scholars sharing compelling experiences, offering new perspectives, and expanding creative horizons.
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