CIIS Public Programs

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * This is the CIIS Public Programs Podcast, featuring talks and conversations recorded live by California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university located in San Francisco on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Land. * Layla K. Feghali is a cultural worker an...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * In the #1 New York Times bestseller So You Want To Talk About Race, writer Ijeoma Oluo offered a vital guide for how to talk about important issues of race and racism in society. In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, she discusse...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Bayo Akomolafe is a posthumanist thinker, philosopher, poet, author and founder of the Emergence Network, a planet-wide initiative that seeks to convene communities in new ways in response to the critical, civilizational challenges we face as a spe...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Writer and somatic facilitator Abigail Rose Clarke reminds us that truly meaningful embodiment practices nurture our relationships among self, nature, and community. In her latest book, Returning Home to Our Bodies, Abigail offers guidance for harn...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Thomas Hübl is a renowned teacher, author, and international facilitator who works within the complexity of systems and cultural change. In his most recent book, Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma, Thomas examines how our world’...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * African-centered scholars often point to mindfulness and meditation as important practices for those of African ancestry to tend to their inner landscapes and heal from the harm of systemic and internalized oppression. For Jenée Johnson, the Founde...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * The I Ching, also known as The Book of Changes, is a 3000-year-old Chinese divination text. Many use the I Ching as a tool for life guidance, spiritual practice, and ancestral connection. It is a revelation of metaphysical philosophy, epistemology,...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * The seasons and cycles of nature have incredible power to affect everything in our lives—including our creativity. Author and poet Jacqueline Suskin’s latest book, A Year in Practice, is a seasonal guide for creative seekers offering holistic pract...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * In this episode, CIIS professor and clinical psychologist Jason Butler and clinical psychologist Genesee Herzberg are joined by psychotherapist and mentor in the CIIS Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research Gisele Fernandes-Osterhold for a co...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * The Zapatista movement emerging from Chiapas, Mexico over the past three decades has impacted people all over the world who struggle to liberate themselves from colonial capitalism and Cis-Heteropatiarchy. * Between 2012 and 2019, several delegatio...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Dr. Lyla June is a renowned Indigenous musician, songwriter, poet, hip-hop artist, human ecologist, and community organizer. Her music and message center around intergenerational and inter-ethnic healing and are poetic articulations of Indigenous p...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Sonya Renee Taylor is a world-renowned activist and thought leader on racial justice, body liberation, and transformational change. Her best-selling book, The Body Is Not an Apology, offers a radical framework for self-love and has helped many to i...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Across what we now call California, Indigenous communities are fighting to protect and preserve languages, cultural practices, and ways of being. * In this episode, Two-Spirit Tongva/Ajachmem artist and tribal activist L. Frank and Ramaytush descen...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Kai Cheng Thom grew up a Chinese Canadian transgender girl in a hostile world. As an activist, psychotherapist, conflict mediator, and spiritual healer, she's always pursued the same deeply personal mission: to embrace the revolutionary belief that...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * The planet is burning and flooding, divisions and conflicts between people are on the rise, and we’re are all processing the collective trauma of a global pandemic. Among therapists and healers, burnout is rampant; hopelessness and despair as well....

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * In his latest book, Grounded, James Canton recounts his journey into the places where our ancestors experienced profound emotion—otherwise known as numinous experiences—to help us better understand who we are. In this episode, scholar and CIIS facu...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Healing doesn’t happen in isolation, and one of the best ways to move past individual trauma is through connection and community—healing ourselves and one another. * In this episode, wellness coach and licensed therapist Minaa B. is joined by traum...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * What is the role of holistic and spiritual wisdom in social justice education? How do we address the disconnect between our social justice aspirations and institutions that are mired in bureaucratic processes? * In this episode, CIIS Dean of Facult...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * How do ordinary people with busy lives leverage our actions in support of liberation, justice, and authentic connection? How can activists and social change-makers avoid burning out? How does the body factor into what our social movements might mis...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Today we are excited to announce that we are returning to a weekly episode release schedule, so please make sure to subscribe and look for a new release from us each week starting with the next one featuring a conversation with Rae Johnson on embod...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * How do we grieve our losses? How can we care for our spirits? Immigrant daughter, novice chaplain, bereaved friend, and author Chenxing Han explores these searing questions in her latest book One Long Listening. One of American Buddhism’s most vita...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Non-binary therapist, certified sex therapist, and transgender diversity and inclusion educator Rae McDaniel has spent decades exploring gender. Their recent book, Gender Magic, is a first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving gender freedom wit...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * At the heart of every healthy, fulfilling relationship lies the unshakable knowledge that we can trust another person with the care of our whole well-being. Yet most of us arrive at our relationships with triggers, traumas, and old patterning that...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Author, creative, host, and self-proclaimed "pleasure doula" Sara Elise is on a quest to examine the ingredients of our lives—those essential components that make up our days—in support of systemic transformation and radical change. Sara’s work, an...

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * This is the CIIS Public Programs Podcast, featuring talks and conversations recorded live by the Public Programs department of California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university located in San Francisco on unceded Ramaytush Ohlone La...