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Way Collective Podcast

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Way Collective is a contemplative community in Santa Barbara, CA, promoting a more connected and compassionate world. We offer teachings that inspire conversation around meaningful topics that encourage us to ground our lives in Love for the work of Love in the world.

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  1. Conscious Living in the Age of Tech - Dinner & Dialogue - 10/15/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 10/15/26, entitled Conscious Living in the Age of Tech. In this episode, we talk about how our society is more digitally connected than ever -- but also experiencing more loneliness than ever, and how we are invited to be conscious and...

  2. Making Space: A Reflection on Letting Go with Tracy Johansson - Dinner & Dialogue - 10/07/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 10/07/26, entitled Making Space: A Reflection on Letting Go. In this episode, Tracy leads us in a conversation about noticing where our attention is being drawn and getting curious about what we may be ready to let go of, and how the...

  3. Conscious Living in Late Capitalism - Dinner & Dialogue - 09/30/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/30/26, entitled Conscious Living in Late Capitalism. In this episode, we talk about what it means to be conscious of the economic relations that surround us, and how we can get to know the dynamics of a death economy vs. a life...

  4. Responsive and Responsible Living - Dinner & Dialogue - 09/23/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/18/26, entitled Responsive and Responsible Living. In this episode, we talk about how, although we cannot control everything that comes to us, we can participate in a loving response, transforming what we give back to the world....

  5. Going Slow - Dinner & Dialogue - 09/18/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/18/26, entitled Going Slow. In this episode, talk about the invitation from Bayo Akomolafe "In urgent times, we must slow down," and how, when we can bring a prolonged gaze of attention to our lives, others, and the needs of the…

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  6. Conscious Living - Dinner & Dialogue - 09/02/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/02/26, entitled Conscious Living. In this episode, we introduce our Fall conversation series, by talking about the movement from consciousness, to conscience, to consequence, to conscientiousness, inviting us to consider the ways…

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  7. Returning to the Sacred - Dinner & Dialogue - 08/26/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/26/26, entitled Returning to the Sacred. In this episode, we finish our Summer series by talking about how turning to the sacred is really about a way of returning -- returning to our bodies, to one another, and to the world -- with...

  8. Finding a Sacred Ground - Dinner & Dialogue - 08/19/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/19/26, entitled Finding a Sacred Ground. In this episode, we talk about how finding a sacred ground isn't always about creating stability, but is about creating roots that nourish us and make us more available to life, rather than...

  9. The Grace of Self-Compassion with Tracy Johansson - Dinner & Dialogue - 08/12/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/12/26, entitled The Grace of Self-Compassion, with Tracy Johansson. In this episode, Tracy explores how giving ourselves the grace of self-compassion helps us foster resilience from the inside-out, allows us to meet ourselves with...

  10. Peeking Under the Curtain with John Figoski - Dinner & Dialogue - 08/05/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/05/26, entitled Peeking Under the Curtain, with John Figoski. In this episode, John shares stories from a recent chapter in his ongoing "God Quest" -- a deeply personal journey that has taken unexpected turns and open new ways of...

  11. The Sacredness of the Both/And - Dinner & Dialogue - 07/29/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/29/26, entitled The Sacredness of the Both/And. In this episode, we talk about the how there is something sacred about holding paradox, about not dismissing difference and difficulties, but in learning to become the kinds of people...

  12. The Sacred as a Language We Speak - Dinner & Dialogue - 07/22/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/22/26, entitled The Sacred as a Language We Speak. In this episode, we talk about the nature of the human religious impulse, and how religion is a language that we speak and a set of practices that we keep that help us render the...

  13. The Sacred as Love, Beauty, and Peace - Dinner & Dialogue - 07/15/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/15/26, entitled The Sacred as Love, Beauty, and Peace. In this episode, we talk about the movement in our lives from living in love, to creating beauty in the world, to the emergence of peace as trusting in the efficacy of beauty --...

  14. The Sacredness of Becoming - Dinner & Dialogue - 07/08/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/08/26, entitled The Sacredness of Becoming. In this episode, we talk about how we innately know that life is sacred through our experience of flow -- of knowing the past, present, and future -- and, how peace arises not through us...

  15. Sacred Stories That Shape Us with Barbra Valentine - Dinner & Dialogue - 07/01/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/01/26 with Barbra Valentine, entitled Sacred Stories That Shape Us. In this episode, Barbra guided us in an evening of reflection on the stories that have shaped our spiritual lives, and invited us into a shared exploration of the...

  16. Seeing Through the Eyes of the Sacred - Dinner & Dialogue - 06/24/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/24/26, entitled Seeing Through the Eyes of the Sacred. In this episode, we talk how to encounter the sacred in ourselves and others through learning to see ourselves as God sees us, and how, when we borrow God's eyes, we begin to…

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  17. The Sacredness of Community - Dinner & Dialogue - 06/18/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/17/26, entitled The Sacredness of Community. In this episode, we talk about how community life is one way we experience the sacred, and how, when there is room for deep trust and belonging, we find something rare in our fragmented...

  18. Why You Don't Need a Calling with Author Damon Garcia - 06/16/26

    This is a special episode in conversation with a member of our community, author and public theologian Damon Garcia on 06/16/26, entitled Why You Don't Need a Calling. In this episode, Damon and Tim chat about the scope of Damon's work, and what led him to write his forthcoming book: You Don't…

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  19. Turning to the Sacred - Dinner & Dialogue - 06/10/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 06/10/26, entitled Turning to the Sacred. In this episode, we begin our Summer series of conversations by asking "what" the sacred means, and, through the metaphor of landscape, we look at the invitation to attune to the sacred as...

  20. Mystery and the Path of Unknowing - Dinner & Dialogue - 05/27/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 05/20/26, entitled Mystery and the Path of Unknowing. In this episode, we wrap up our series on mystery by talking about how mystery is a way of seeing the world, and how the path of unknowing is always available to us, inviting us…

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  21. The Mystery of the Present Moment - Dinner & Dialogue - 05/20/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 05/20/26, entitled The Mystery of the Present Moment. In this episode, we talk about the mystery of the present moment as an invitation to recognize that there is something precious going on in every moment of our experience, and to…

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  22. Finding Mystery in Ourselves and Others - Dinner & Dialogue - 05/13/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 05/13/26, entitled Finding Mystery in Ourselves and Others. In this episode, we talk about what it looks like to encounter the mystery of a person beyond our experiences of them, and how upholding that we are always more than our past...

  23. Relating From Mystery - Dinner & Dialogue - 04/29/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 04/29/26, entitled Relating From Mystery. In this episode, we talk about what it looks like to relate to the world from this sense of mystery and curiosity -- to disrupt our future storytelling and worrying with a sense of unknowing…

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  24. The Big Mystery - Dinner & Dialogue - 04/22/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 04/22/26, entitled The Big Mystery. In this episode, we talk about the big, cosmic mystery within which all of our human dramas are taking place, gaining inspiration from the recent DESI 3D map of the cosmos, we remember that something...

  25. Circling the Mystery - Dinner & Dialogue - 04/16/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 04/16/26, entitled Circling the Mystery. In this episode, we introduce this series on mystery by reflecting on how mystery is an orienting device, rather than a navigating one, and how there are areas in our lives where we need…

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  26. What is Progressive Christianity? with Jim Burklo - Dinner & Dialogue - 04/08/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 04/08/26, entitled What is Progressive Christianity? with Jim Burklo. In this episode, we welcome pastor and author Jim Burklo, who shared thoughts from his recent book, Water in the Desert, on the core convictions of a progressive...

  27. A Radiant Theosis: Catching a Flash of the True Self on Resurrection Sunday - Easter Meditation - 04/04/26

    This is a special episode that is an our 2026 Easter Meditation, entitled, A Radiant Theosis: Catching a Flash of the True Self on Resurrection Sunday. In this episode, we talk about the Easter story from Matthew 28, and read it as a metaphor for catching a glimpse of the True Self, connecting…

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  28. Good Friday Meditation - 04/03/26

    This is a special episode that is a Good Friday Meditation. You can listen to this while walking the stations of the cross, or strolling your neighborhood or the coast, or while sitting down wherever you are comfortable. Happy Holy Week, and thanks for tuning in!

  29. Giving Up, For Good - Dinner & Dialogue - 04/01/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 04/01/26, entitled Giving Up, For Good. In this episode, we bring this series Giving Up and Waking Up to a close by reflecting on how this practice of letting go can extend far beyond Lent, and how when we have eyes to see things in…

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  30. Unveilings of Our Unravelling Egos - Dinner & Dialogue - 03/25/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 03/25/26, entitled Unveilings of Our Unravelling Egos. In this episode, we reflect on the insights that came from our honest sharing about the ways our egos show up in the world, and how beneath our performance and protection, there is…

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  31. Come As Your Ego - Dinner & Dialogue - 03/19/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 03/18/26, entitled Come As Your Ego. In this episode, our community came dressed as our egos, and we offered as a reflection exercise for conversation about how our egos offer us a way to move through the world, and also invite us into...

  32. A Presence Beyond the Ego - Dinner & Dialogue - 03/11/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 03/11/26, entitled A Presence Beyond the Ego. In this episode, we talk about how the big picture of giving things up during Lent has to do with starting to separate from the ego's control over our identity, and how, when we start to...

  33. Pilgrimage as a Practice - Dinner & Dialogue - 03/04/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 03/04/26, entitled Pilgrimage as a Practice. In this episode, Pat and Sheryl Kelly share about their journey through the Camino de Santiago de Compostela, how they experienced their post-retirement pilgrimage in Spain, and invited our...

  34. On Giving Up and Waking Up - Dinner & Dialogue - 02/25/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 02/25/26, entitled On Giving Up and Waking Up. In this episode, we talk about the Lenten theme of connecting practices of letting go with building loving presence, and how, when we are able to learn the prayerful practice of...

  35. Ash Wednesday Thoughts - Dinner & Dialogue - 02/18/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 02/18/26, entitled Ash Wednesday Thoughts. In this episode, we talk about the ashes of our world, and how taking time to contemplate mortality actually invites us to integrate death into our perspective and come into a more present and...

  36. Reading the Bible Like Jesus - Dinner & Dialogue - 02/11/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 02/11/26, entitled Reading the Bible Like Jesus. In this episode, we talk about how everyone picks and chooses certain parts of their sacred texts to emphasize, and how Jesus read and used his own sacred text, as a call for us each to...

  37. Protecting Our Neighbors' Belonging - Dinner & Dialogue - 02/05/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 02/04/26, entitled Protecting Our Neighbors' Belonging. In this episode, Dr. Karen Rice shares about how we can find belonging within activism by using our unique gifts to contribute to the better good, and help protect our neighbors'...

  38. On Beginning Again - Dinner & Dialogue - 01/28/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 01/28/26, entitled On Beginning Again. In this episode, we talk about how we are each learning to treat ourselves and others with patience by getting comfortable with the rhythm of beginning again - and how, in urgent times, slowing…

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  39. Peaceful and Present, Together - Dinner & Dialogue - 01/21/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 01/21/26, entitled Peaceful and Present, Together. In this episode, we honor our new partnership between Way Collective and First Congregational Church Santa Barbara, called Kin Commons, by looking at the value of practicing peaceful...

  40. To Be Loved is to Be Changed - Dinner & Dialogue - 01/14/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 01/14/26, entitled To Be Loved is To Be Changed. In this episode, we explore how faithfulness to our tradition is to let it flow, and how change isn't so much about new year optimization as it is about allowing ourselves to be refined…

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  41. How Life Transitions Shape Us with Tracy Johansson - Dinner & Dialogue - 01/07/26

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 01/07/26, entitled How Life Transitions Shape Us, with Tracy Johansson. In this episode, Tracy shares from her own personal narrative and experience how the transitions in life are actually invitations to deepen presence and...

  42. Carrying the Light of Love - Christmas Eve - 12/24/25

    This is the recording from our Christmas Eve Candlelight gathering on 12/24/25, entitled Carrying the Light of Love. In this episode, we explored how what is true of Jesus in the Christmas story is also true of all of us -- that we are each born of Love, and invited to carry love into a complex...

  43. Joy as Things Set Right (Advent III) - Dinner & Dialogue - 12/17/25

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 12/17/25, entitled Joy as Things Set Right (Advent III). In this episode, we explored how Advent joy invites us into a new imagination where our world it set right, and how joy is what catalyzes our work for justice, bringing or inner...

  44. Peace in Our Longings (Advent II) - Dinner & Dialogue - 12/10/25

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 12/10/25, entitled Peace in Our Longings (Advent II). In this episode, we explored how the season of Advent is a season of learning to make peace with our longings, and how a making a contemplative spaciousness for our longings for a...

  45. A Beautiful Conversation with Author Diana Butler Bass - 12/1/25

    This is a special episode where Tim got to sit down at the beginning of Advent with author, theologian, and historian Diana Butler Bass, entitled A Beautiful Conversation. In this wide ranging episode, Tim and Diana discuss the liturgical calendar and the cycle of sacred stories that compose a...

  46. God is Beauty - Dinner & Dialogue - 11/19/25

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 11/19/25, entitled God is Beauty. In this episode, we explored how the metaphysical and the metaphorical registers of our God-talk dissolve into Beauty, and how perhaps it is the most apropos language to use to talk about God on our...

  47. When God Disappears as an Object - Dinner & Dialogue - 11/12/25

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 11/12/25, entitled When God Disappears as an Object. In this episode, we explored how, in contemplative prayer, God disappears as an other, and reappears as the sacred subjectivity of our very lives, leading us toward a more non-dual…

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  48. A Life's Adventure Into Kriya Yoga with Lucy O'Brien - Dinner & Dialogue - 11/05/25

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 11/05/25, entitled A Life's Adventure Into Kriya Yoga with Lucy O'Brien. In this episode, Lucy O'Brien tells her story of life adventures that helped her break down cultural barriers, and how she found her way to the ancient practice…

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  49. Silence is the Voice of God - Dinner & Dialogue - 10/22/25

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 10/22/25, entitled Silence is the Voice of God. In this episode, we explored how process metaphysics encourages a certain contemplative posture of us -- one that invites us to tune in to the silent voice of God, and the graceful flow…

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  50. Ancient Wisdom & Science: Consciousness, Connection, & Compassion with Tracy Johansson - Dinner & Dialogue - 10/15/25

    This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 10/15/25, entitled Ancient Wisdom & Science: Consciousness, Connection, & Compassion. In this episode, we explored how the felt sense of awareness is something that flows through all of life, and how neuroscience is expanding our...

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Way Collective is a contemplative community in Santa Barbara, CA, promoting a more connected and compassionate world. We offer teachings that inspire conversation around meaningful topics that encourage us to ground our lives in Love for the work of Love in the world.

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