Precisely! Podcast

Welcome to Precisely! a podcast by the team at Courage of Care and The Arrow Journal;  in these times of increasing chaos and possibility, the arrow symbolizes the courage to define a clear direction for how we gather, practice, and get free. In season three of Precisely!, host Brooke Lavelle and special guest co-host, katie robinson, talk with our guests in our upcoming Like Water series—Cynthia...

Welcome to Precisely! a podcast by the team at Courage of Care and The Arrow Journal;  in these times of increasing chaos and possibility, the arrow symbolizes the courage to define a clear direction for how we gather, practice, and get free. In season three of Precisely!, host Brooke Lavelle and special guest co-host, katie robinson, talk with our guests in our upcoming Like Water series—Cynthia...

Welcome to Precisely! a podcast by the team at Courage of Care and The Arrow Journal;  in these times of increasing chaos and possibility, the arrow symbolizes the courage to define a clear direction for how we gather, practice, and get free. In season three of Precisely!, host Brooke Lavelle and special guest co-host, katie robinson, talk with our guests in our upcoming Like Water series—Cynthia...

Welcome to Precisely! a podcast by the team at Courage of Care and The Arrow Journal;  in these times of increasing chaos and possibility, the arrow symbolizes the courage to define a clear direction for how we gather, practice, and get free. In season three of Precisely!, host Brooke Lavelle and special guest co-host, katie robinson, talk with our guests in our upcoming Like Water series—Cynthia...

Welcome to Precisely! a podcast by the team at Courage of Care and The Arrow Journal;  in these times of increasing chaos and possibility, the arrow symbolizes the courage to define a clear direction for how we gather, practice, and get free. In season three of Precisely!, host Brooke Lavelle and special guest co-host, katie robinson, talk with our guests in our upcoming Like Water series—Cynthia...

In the fifth and final episode of our second season of the Precisely! podcast, host Brooke Lavelle talks with Maha El-Sheikh, Co-Director of The Arrow and Courage of Care, about how we build pluriversal capacity in our everyday lives and work. Together they point to ways in which we are already pluriversal and how we can lean into that knowing in order to build muscle for and commitment to meeting...

In the fourth episode of our latest season of the Precisely! podcast, host Brooke Lavelle talks with Katrine Bregengaard about the ontological shift necessary to grasp pluriversality (And yes, we break down ontology; or at least we try to!) Together, Katrine and Brooke explore why the “pluriverse” is not the opposite of the “one-world”. Instead, they consider the profoundly relational frame shift...

In season two of our Precisely! podcast, host Brooke Lavelle talks with the ever-brilliant Farah Mahesri about how we can soften the grip of the one world, as well as our habits of one-worlding. We talk COVID, collapse, grief-tending, and maintaining—and stepping through—portals of possibility. Listen in! Farah has partnered with Courage on several projects, and currently co-leads our Pluriversal...

In season two of our Precisely! podcast, host Brooke Lavelle talks with grassroots organizer and Director of the Inner Activist, Jorge Salazar , about the nature of “one-worlding”, and how we can catch it even in our movements for justice and liberation. Jorge moved to Canada as a refugee from Colombia in late 2000, and has used his own immigration journey, life experiences, training and education...

In season two of our Precisely! podcast, host Brooke Lavelle talks with writer, scholar, interdisciplinary artist, and Courage faculty, katie robinson. katie is devoted to the exploration of what is present and possible outside of the white supremacist colonial imagination, and helps makes the idea of the pluriverse accessible, inviting, and alluring. katie is currently a Ph. D. candidate at Pacif...

In our final episode of our inaugural podcast series, Precisely!, host Brooke D. Lavelle speaks with The Arrow’s Managing Editor, Dr. Ashley Wilson, about the pluriverse, and why it matters not only for justice but also for spiritual practice. Ashley Wilson earned her PhD in anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis in 2019. Her anthropological training, an aspirational practice in clea...

In our fourth episode, host Brooke D. Lavelle talks with artist and colleague Dr. Marlo De Lara about her engaging essay, “Embracing Our Kin through Deep Listening Practices: Intersections of Kapwa and Sonic Meditations.” This essay appears in our recent special issue, The Power of the Pluriverse . Read the full essay and access our full digital archives by subscribing to our substack. What’s the...

In our third episode, host Brooke D. Lavelle talks with beloved friend and colleague, Dr. Monika Son, about her moving personal essay, “The Middle Path of Zen: Reconciling Everyday Heartbreak and Rage with Possibility.” This essay appears in our recent special issue, The Power of the Pluriverse . Read the full essay and access our full digital archives by subscribing to our substack. From the essa...

In this episode, Brooke Lavelle is joined by Dr. Valeria McCarroll, psychedelic educator, speaker, and guide, for a discussion of her essay, “Transgressive Agents of Liberation: Psychedelics and Pluriversality,” which appears in The Arrow Journal’ s issue, The Power of the Pluriverse . From the essay: “What role do psychedelics play in the face of global cataclysm? Today, psychedelics are undergoi...

In our first episode of the Precisely! Podcast, host Brooke D. Lavelle sits down with Maha El-Sheikh and Katrine Bregengaard to discuss their collaborative essay, “One-World Worlding in Our Movements: A Call and Path for Pluriversal Practice,” which appears in the The Arrow Journal’s special issue, “ The Power of the Pluriverse .” Read the full essay, which includes suggestions for pluriveral prac...