The Quotidian Podcast

Dr. Brian Tierney - Where Somatic Psychology Meets Creative Expression Dive into the fascinating world of Dr. Brian Tierney, a maverick in Somatic Psychology who bridges rigorous clinical practice with embodied creative arts. With over a decade training clinicians internationally, Brian reveals how the nervous system's physiology can be skillfully engaged to release trauma and build resilience. Hi...

Arupa Tesolin learned from an early age how her creative and intuitive powers deeply affected the way she was able to be in the world. With powerful experiences of integrated somatic and intuitive presence as her guide, she has written books and even created software to help afford others the experience of these innate creative gifts, which she believes (as do all of us here at the quotidian) are...

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This week I'm speaking with the theater performer, director and teacher Ethan Kobayashi-Hsieh. Ethan is the creator of TIAMAT, which stands for The Integrative Approach and Methodology of Active Transformation. Put succinctly, Ethan's work uses theater as the means for practitioners to create an embodied, multi-perspectival awareness of themselves as applies to a robust search for meaning and purp...

My guest today is the executive coach, Mike Hanas. Before his career in leadership coaching, Mike was the head of school at the Carolina Friends School in Durham, NC, the San Franscisco Friends School, and has thrived in education since 1985. He received his masters in Administration, planning and social policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and most recently earned his certificati...

Over the last 20 years, Nicholas Janni has gained an international reputation for his transformational coaching and leadership development seminars. His clients include FedEx, Rolls Royce, Intel, Motorola, Microsoft, eBay and Lafarge, the UK Permanent Secretaries, and several cabinet ministers. He bridges the worlds of creative, personal, spiritual and professional development in a uniquely powerf...

Dr Mary Antonia Wood is a scholar of archetypal depth psychology and the author of the new book, The Archetypal Artist: Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create. Her work and focus are among the principal resources I claim as inspiring this show and the topics I curate here, namely a reinvigoration of meaning through the creative process. Dr Wood is the chair of the Depth Psychology and Creat...

This week inaugurates the series: Love and Work, focusing on the interplay of relationships and creativity. I met Grace in the Fall of 2020 as we both began work in our graduate studies at the Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her then-fiancee, now husband! Elliott joined another cohort at the same school, diving into the world of archetypal depth psychology–the psychology of the unconscious–to add to...

I'm pleased to bring to the show the deep thinking of an artist I admire whose work continues to intrigue and challenge me. Daniel Domig's work infiltrates the unconscious with alarming precision and emotional intensity. He contends with the insta-image and digital marketplace of immediatism that floods modern consciousness. His is a process-based art form exploring human connection, among other t...

Welcome back to the Quotidian Podcast. I'm Bradley Denis In the world of astrology, the name Richard Tarnas is well known. His book Cosmos & Psyche broke ground in establishing a hybrid of Jungian archetypal psychology and a contemporary version of astrology that includes rather than repudiates modernity. Perhaps less well known, but certainly formidable in her range and scope of knowledge is...

This episode is a special one for me, and longer than usual. I'm speaking with the multidisciplinary writer, Adam Sobsey , author of Bull City Summer , a collaborative documentary project about minor-league baseball, which evolved out Sobsey's nearly five years covering the Durham Bulls for the Independent Weekly, as well as a biography of rock music legend Chrissy Hynde , which Pop Matters called...

WORLD PREMIER SNEAK PEAK! Acapella hip-hop guru, a baritone with a conscience, and enough funk for anyone's trunk, Kid Beyond represents a unique foray into popular music's over-saturated landscape. A deeply thoughtful artist who is equal parts nutty professor and lyrical magician, Kid uses his immense talent and gracious spirit in service to individuals and communities whose voices need amplifica...

My guest this week, Dr. Peter Rojcewicz has intrigued me since I first encountered his expansive views on creativity and the the poetic voice during a lecture I attended at the Pacifica Graduate Institute . I had the occasion to visit the beautiful campus outside Santa Barbara and we sat down to talk further about those topics, and how depth psychology holds key ingredients for a transformative ch...

Nor Hall is a legend in the depth and archetypal psychology world. She's a writer and researcher whose books include, The Moon and the virgin; Images of the Archtypal feminine; These Women, and Irons in the Fire. She was a psychotherapist in private practice and is a theatre-collaborator. who has worked with Pantheatre's Myth & Theatre Festivals in (Paris), and with Archipelago Theatre (Chapel...

Dr. Brian Brander is the head of school of the Hill Center for Learning in Durham, North Carolina, which focuses on developing and nurturing children with diverse learning needs. I have been particularly inspired and impressed with results I've seen firsthand, both in students I have taught who have attended Hill Center, as well as members of my own family who have thrived as a result of Hill's un...

Today I present my conversation with author and playwrite Scotto Moore. His new science fantasy novel BATTLE OF THE LINGUIST MAGES , a is available now, with a second novel due in next year. For fourteen years, he was an active playwright in Seattle, with major productions nearly every year during that time, and 45 short plays produced as well. He wrote book, lyrics, and music for the acappella sc...

On paper, Greg Hohn is a communications professor at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. But he is much more than that. Greg has been the director of Transactors Improv Company in Chapel Hill, NC since 1996, and has worked in professional theater for nearly forty years. He has taught at Duke University's theater studies department and has led aplied-improv programs for corporations, organizatio...

Darek Mazzone is a well known and loved centerpiece of Seattle culture, as a DJ at the famed KEXP studios where he has curated music from around the world for thirty years. Originally from Gdansk, Poland, Darek embodies the essence of immigrant power, determination, and originality, providing a host of creative services, giving voice to peoples and cultures from around the globe. We spoke the day...

On this final episode of the Winter season, Bradley talks about where to start when looking for a way into creative innovations, or to get unstuck after some blockages. It's all about attention and presence. We'll be taking a short break after this episode to focus on end of term matters for grad school. Join us for season two as Spring makes its way back to the Northern hemisphere. Until then, ke...

MICHAEL MEADE, is a renowned storyteller, author, and scholar of mythology, anthropology, and psychology. He combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths with a deep knowledge of cross-cultural rituals. He has an unusual ability to distill and synthesize these disciplines, tapping into ancestral sources of wisdom and connecting them...

To say Stanley Hauerwas is a theologian dismisses a great deal of the substance that makes him one of the most sought after religious thinkers in the West. He describes himself as conservative, however this might only be applied in a religious context. His politics lean much more left of center than his Texas blue collar past and gravelly twang might imply. Stanley has written or co-authored dozen...

Siolo Thompson is a writer/illustrator living in the Pacific Northwest whose work reflects her love of nature, travel, magic, books, and food. She is actively published by Llewellyn Worldwide and has also worked for McSweeny's as the Angry Doodler, Victoria’s Secret, Facebook, Astrology.com , and many others. We talk about how seeing the world invigorates soul and creative work, and affords multip...

This week, I recap the last year, give an overview of where we've been, and look ahead to what's to come. I give special significance toward offering a road map of purpose for this show, and invite the community that is beginning to gather to help stoke the fires. There is also a Seth Godin impression. Lots of music this episode. Enjoy. To support the work we do here at the Quotidian and Carolina...

Performer, Emcee, and theater scholar Dave Crellin might be better known by his vaudvillian nom de guerre Armitage Shanks : the one time RingMaster of Seattle's Circus Contraption , and the front man for musical act Phinneas Gage. We get into some really engaging territory regarding the role of performance in modern times, and the differences between hierarchical and rhizomatic structures within i...

My conversation with Jeff Barney continues as we discuss alternative educations, the multiple ontologies of reality, and looking at life creatively. We continue examining epistemics, and he breaks down the perennial query, "What is the question that's not being asked?" <br> We've started a Patreon page to assist the recording of the podcast. By joining at one of the four levels, you'll recei...