Channel: ConverZations that Matter

Juliet Ellis teleseminar on "Embodying Multi-Racial Consciousness: Movement and Community-Building in the 21st Century"

Juliet Ellis | 04.23.08 |

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Juliet Ellis is truly a citizen of an emerging multi-cultural reality in which many of the old categories used to define and describe our identities in the world are no longer a comfortable fit.

Mary Evelyn Tucker teleseminar on "Honoring the Spirit: Befriending the Earth"

Mary Evelyn Tucker | 04.18.07 |

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Host Belvie Rooks and guest Mary Evelyn Tucker had an engaging discussion on "Honoring the Spirit: Befriending the Earth."

Mary Evelyn Tucker is a co-founder and co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. With John Grim, she organized a series of ten conferences on World Religions and Ecology at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. They are series editors for the ten volumes from the conferences distributed by Harvard University Press.

John Powell teleseminar on "Spirituality and Social Justice"

John Powell | 05.30.07 |

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In this interview with host Belvie Rooks, John Powell explores how to engage the specificity that comes with race, religion, or culture while also finding the universal common ground. He explores seeing suffering as a great teacher, and diversity is something that operates on both inner and outer levels. Throughout he calls us to a place of greater wisdom, depth, and respect.

Jim Conlon teleseminar on "Engaged Wisdom for a Brokenhearted World"

Jim Conlon | 07.11.07 |

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Jim Conlon is Director of the Sophia Center, a wisdom school celebrating earth, art and spirit, at Holy Names University in Oakland, California. He has been engaged in community organization and development, depth psychology, journalism, popular education and graduate programs in theology and spirituality in Canada and the United States for many years.

Faith Adiele teleseminar on "Reflections on the Inward Journey"

Faith Adiele | 08.22.07 |

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Join Converzations That Matter guest-host Ruth King and her guest Faith Adiele, who is the author of Meeting Faith: An Inward Odyssey (W.W. Norton), which received the PEN Beyond Margins Award for memoir. Faith, who was raised as a Unitarian, chronicles in her memoir the twists and turns in her spiritual journey that led her to becoming Thailand's first Black Buddhist nun.

R. Dafina Kuficha teleseminar on "The Transformative Gift of Silence"

R. Dafina Kuficha | 09.26.07 |

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Guest host Ruth King discusses the power and importance of silence with her guest Dafina Kuficha, who is the founder of the Center for Global Silence. This thoughtful discussion explores the many ways in which silence can be beneficial and utilized as a daily practice to get in touch with Divine guidance.

Dr. Michael Lerner teleseminar on "Personal and Planetary Healing"

Dr. Michael Lerner | 10.17.07 |

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Dr. Michael Lerner is interviewed by Carl Anthony in this important, thoughtful and wide-ranging conversation between two important thought-leaders in the movement for a more inclusive and sustainable future.

Dedan Gills teleseminar on "In Search of Other Ways of Knowing: Our African Journey"

Dedan Gills | 11.21.07 |

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Dedan Gills is a Los Angeles writer and poet, as well as a State Certified Addiction Specialist. He is also an Anger Management and Conflict Resolution Facilitator who works with at-risk youth, the homeless and people in various stages of recovery from drug and alcohol addiction and abuse.

Coumba Toure teleseminar on "Continuing the African Journey: Hope, Innovation and Inspiration"

Coumba Toure | 01.23.08 |

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Coumba Toure reminds us that consciousness shift is a global phenomena. Coumba is a young 33-year-old visionary, social innovator and African social entrepreneur finding solutions to some of the most critical issues and challenges confronting the world and Africa.

Jeanine Canty teleseminar on "Ecological Healing: Shifting to a Regenerative Paradigm"

Jeanine Canty | 02.27.08 |

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Jeanine Canty is passionate about both environmental and cultural issues, focusing on the role culture plays in developing a sustainable worldview and the process individuals go through to reach heightened awareness.

Steve Siler teleseminar on "Ritual and Ceremony - Ancient ways of Honoring and Healing"

Steve Siler | 03.26.08 |

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A licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Steve Siler has worked in private practice in Mendocino, California for many years.

Ruth King teleseminar on "Healing Rage: Making Inner Peace Possible"

Ruth King | 02.28.07 |

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Ruth King MA, is a respected voice on women and rage.

Belvie Rooks teleseminar on "Spirituality and Social Justice"

Belvie Rooks | 01.10.07 |

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Join the host of Converzations that Matter, Belvie Rooks, as she dialogues with SIA founder Stephen Dinan about the interface between spirituality and social justice.

Steve Ryals teleseminar on Drunk with Wonder

Steve Ryals | 11.15.06 |

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Join host Belvie Rooks and guest Steve Ryals as they discuss Steve's new book Drunk with Wonder.

Drew Dellinger teleseminar on Framing Our Cultural Story

Drew Dellinger | 09.23.05 |

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Join spoken word artist and educator Drew Dellinger in this heartfelt and edgy dialogue on the role of cultural stories in shaping our worldview. Along with host Belvie Rooks, Dellinger explores the necessity to face the shadowy worlds of racism, sexism, and other –isms as we sculpt a new and positive cosmology founded on sustainability and justice.

Barbara Holmes teleseminar on Race and Cosmos

Barbara Holmes | 11.08.05 |

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Join author and professor Barbara Holmes and Belvie Rooks to explore the frontiers of race and consciousness in a discussion entitled "Race and the Cosmos: An Invitation to View the World Differently." Dr. Holmes is the author of a book of the same name and is the Vice President of Academic Affairs/Dean at Memphis Theological Seminary.

Carl Anthony teleseminar on Unveiling the White Elephant

Carl Anthony | 12.12.05 |

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(4 ratings)

Deepening the Dialogue: Unveiling the White Elephant with Carl Anthony, recently appointed Acting Director of the Community and Resource Development Unit at the Ford Foundation.

Carl and host Belvie Rooks discuss, among other things, ecopsychology, the pursuit of purity, sustainable development for cities, and issues of race during and post-Katrina. They provide a big picture vision for incorporating issues of social and racial justice into the fabric of our cultural evolution.

Matthew Fox on the Feminine Face of the Divine: In Search of the Black Madonna

Matthew Fox | 02.01.06 |

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Matthew and Belvie range over a broad sweep of Western history, looking at how our relation to the Black Madonna reflects our relationship with the feminine, the earth, and our sense of awe in the face of the mysteries.

Frans Johansson teleseminar on the Medici Effect

Frans Johansson | 03.15.06 |

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(4 ratings)

In this teleseminar, Johansson shares stories and ideas from the book about how an open mind and a willingness to explore ideas outside your field of expertise can help break down barriers that inhibit new discoveries.

Noliwe Rooks teleseminar on Watching Race

Noliwe Rooks | 04.26.06 |

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Join Noliwe Rooks in dialogue with ConverZations That Matter channel host Belvie Rooks on "Watching Race: Movies, Media and Popular Culture: A Conversation About Gone With The Wind, Roots, and Crash." Prof. Rooks is Associate Director of African American Studies at Princeton University.

Walter Link teleseminar on Difference and Diversity in the Emergent Wisdom Civilization

Walter Link | 06.08.06 |

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Together, Walter and Belvie explore how we can relate from our spiritual essence and common humanness while also enjoying the richness of diversity and difference. Such a stance is at the heart of moving beyond polarized identities and into the creation of a truly wise global civilization.

Riane Eisler teleseminar on Spiritual Courage: Putting Love into Action

Riane Eisler | 07.20.06 |

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Join Riane Eisler in dialogue with ConverZations That Matter channel host Belvie Rooks on "Spiritual Courage: Putting Love into Action." Riane Eisler is best known for her international bestseller The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future, and is president of the Center for Partnership Studies, a nonprofit organization founded to apply her findings to all spheres of life through research and education.

Edgar Mitchell teleseminar, a 35th Anniversary Celebration

Edgar Mitchell | 09.05.06 |

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Free for non-members! Download this 5-minute audioclip from Edgar's teleseminar. To download the complete teleseminar, join Shift in Action today!

Vincent Harding teleseminar on Reclaiming the Vision, Living the Dream

Vincent Harding | 10.04.06 |

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Join Vincent Harding in dialogue with Belvie Rooks on "Reclaiming the Vision, Living the Dream".

Dr. Harding was very involved with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a friend and colleague, and is is currently a professor Religion and Social Transformation.

Brian Swimme teleseminar on Race, Cosmology, and Consciousness

Brian Swimme | 08.11.05 |

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Join mathematical cosmologist Dr. Brian Swimme and host Belvie Rooks in a heartfelt discussion of evolution and its potential to produce deep shifts in consciousness, as well as in our understandings of race and identity. Their discussion ranges from the role of catastrophe in evolution to the shift beyond objective science to a more participatory viewpoint.