Podcast

Lois Luckett is a licensed clinical social worker who has been in private counseling practice since 1980. In this podcast conversation, Lois shares how mindfulness, body awareness, and connection to the natural world can help us feel safe, learn to trust, and become more healthy and whole.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Hakomi Institute: https://hakomiinstitute.com/

Lois Luckett on Psychology Today site: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/lois-s-luckett-louisville-ky/835522

Previous Earth and Spirit Podcast Episode with Lois Luckett: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/the-wisdom-of-trees-lois-luckett-on-learning-from-our-sylvan-kin/

Sr. Gail Worcelo co-founded the Green Mountain Monastery in 1999, encouraged and supported by her friend and mentor, the late Thomas Berry. Berry, a cultural historian and Passionist priest, was a ground-breaking thinker who contemplated the new story science has given us of 13.8 billion-year history of our evolving Universe. He considered the implications of this new story for our religion, education, economy, and government. In this conversation, first aired in 2020, Sr. Gail reflects on how Thomas Berry’s vision has guided the Green Mountain Monastery community and offers wisdom for all of us, here at the choice point between an ecozoic or a technozoic future.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Green Mountain Monastery: http://www.greenmountainmonastery.org/

Thomas Berry Resources: http://thomasberry.org/

The Journey of the Universe: https://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org/

Dr. Hannah Bland is a licensed counselor, an assistant professor of mental health counseling, and the director of the mental health counseling education program at Spalding University. She has worked extensively in prisons, the foster care system, and rape crisis centers, among other difficult circumstances. In this conversation, Hannah shares the important synergy between mindfulness and mental health care, especially with those who face extraordinary life challenges.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Institute for Applied Mindfulness: http://www.instituteforappliedmindfulness.org/

Dr. Bland’s Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program: https://spalding.edu/master-of-arts-in-clinical-mental-health-counseling/

Jimmy Springston is a former Air Force officer and chief operating officer of a multi-million-dollar commercial construction company, who now coaches other leaders. In this podcast conversation, Jimmy reflects on how to create organizational cultures that are more mindful, emotionally intelligent, effective, and sustainable.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Connect with Jimmy Springston: https://jimmyspringston.com/

Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

The Center for Nonviolent Communication: https://www.cnvc.org/

More on Entrepreneurial Operating System: https://www.eosworldwide.com/

Joe Grant is a Scotland-born modern-day mystic, spiritual guide, retreat leader at Holy Hills Hermitage in rural Kentucky. He is the author of numerous books and articles about scripture, justice and spirituality. Joe has worked with indigenous peoples of the U.S. and in Latin America. In this conversation, originally released on February 27, 2020, Joe reflects on his spiritual journey, which has led him to live with indigenous peoples deep in the Amazon rainforest, as well as making a home amid the pain and violence of inner-city Louisville. In all of this, Joe follows a vocation of heart-wide-open engagement with our beautiful, wounded world.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center website: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Joe’s latest book, Wandering and Welcome: Meditations for Finding Peace, published by Franciscan Media.

Joe’s retreat center in rural Marion County, Kentucky, Holy Hills Hermitage: https://holyhillshermitage.org/

Dr. Ursula Goodenough is professor emerita of biology at Washington University, the president of the Religious Naturalist Association, and the author of The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Has Emerged and Evolved. This conversation explores the story of how science can inspire deep reverence and care for our shared, evolving world.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Info about Ursula’s latest book, The Sacred Depths of Nature: How Life Has Emerged and Evolved: www.sacreddepthsofnature.com

Religious Naturalist Association: https://religious-naturalist-association.org/

Gretchen “Bunny” Nash has worked for decades with children and adults facing emotional and behavioral challenges as well as various forms of trauma. In this conversation, Bunny shares how mindfulness practices can rewire our brains to foster stress resilience, compassion, and greater well-being for individuals and communities.

RESOURCES:

Bunny’s “Practicing the Daily Pause” course at the Earth & Spirit Center, beginning April 4, 2023: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/class/continuing-meditation-practicing-the-daily-pause/

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Learn more about the Earth & Spirit Center: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Elaine Miller-Karas and the Community Resilience Model: https://www.traumaresourceinstitute.com/tri-staff

Amelia and Emily Nagoski, authors of Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Jill Bolte Taylor, author of Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey: https://www.drjilltaylor.com/

Sr. Toni Temporiti, PhD is the founder of Microfinancing Partners in Africa, an organization that provides loans to empower women who struggle with poverty. In this episode, Sr. Toni reflects on the power of listening, community, and courage for creating a more beautiful and sustainable world – one person, one community, one small loan at a time.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Microfinancing Partners in Africa: https://microfinancingafrica.org/

Dr. Tony Zipple is an expert in behavioral health and rehabilitation counseling, in both clinical and academic settings, with extensive background in executive leadership of large organizations. In this episode, we reflect on Tony’s experience with positive psychology, mindful self-awareness, and how individuals and organizations can flourish, especially amidst change.

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Tony Zipple’s website: https://tonyzipple.com/

Incite Consulting Solutions: https://inciteconsultingsolutions.com/

Phil Lloyd-Sidle is an Earth and Spirit Center instructor who sees the linkage between mindfulness and social justice, including issues of incarceration, race, gender identity and sexual orientation, and the patriarchy.  In this episode, Phil shares how mindfulness can help those on the margins – and all people – to embrace their own worth and value, navigate suffering, and cultivate compassion for themselves and others in our deeply interdependent world. 

RESOURCES:

Donate to support this podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/

Earth and Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/

Louisville Vipassana Community: http://www.louisville-vipassana-community.org/

Dharma Seed: https://dharmaseed.org/

Insight Meditation Society: https://www.dharma.org/

Plum Village: https://plumvillage.org/