Healing the Roots, Transforming The Future
In this conversation, Kazu Haga—activist, trainer, and author of Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging Through Collapse—joins host Serena Bian to explore why healing is so essential to radically reimagining the worlds we wish to build in the midst of collapse.
Beyond Cancel Culture: On Healing, Conflict, and Community
Facilitator and writer Shilpa Jain deeply understands the nature of being human. She is well known in her East Bay community for hosting more than 250 “Yes Jams!” over the last decade, encouraging laughter and play as she facilitates groups through conflict. Working with change makers—activists, artists, healers, executives, and young people—she helps them navigate conflict from a place of freedom and joy.
The Art of Peacebuilding: Haiku, Accompaniment, and Courageous Love
A thousand dew dropsBubbling on clover leavesGlisten morning sun —John Paul Lederach Join Host Serena Bian and international peacebuilder John Paul Lederach in exploring questions about how—in a world filled with animosity—we can help things “glisten.” The conversation explores ways to accompany communities to bring forward their deepest sense of their nature and purpose, as […]
The Courage to Love: Building Community through the Work that Reconnects
Join host Serena Bian in conversation with Anne and Terry Symens-Bucher, founders of Canticle Farm, a land-based community in Oakland, California, inspired by Franciscan spirituality and Joanna Macy’s body of teachings known as the Work That Reconnects.
Listening to the Soul of Conflict
Join TNS Host Serena Bian in conversation with Norma Wong, Zen priest and teacher about the art of war and conflict, who recently served to help facilitate a mutual path through the conflict between native culture and western discovery science during the construction of a telescope on Mauna Kea.
What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding, Part 3
In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with three people who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.”
What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding, Part 2
In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with three people who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.”
What Does Love Have To Do With It? Bringing Mystery to Peacebuilding, Part 1
In this series, join Host Serena Bian in speaking with those who bear witness to the best and worst of humanity, holding a courageous moral imagination. Working and witnessing the front lines of injustice, war, climate change, these peacebuilders, mystics, and storytellers hold space for the miraculous to emerge, refusing to be bound by a perceived reality of “what is possible.”