The Passing Through Podcast

This week Geoff Lawton is passing through! Geoff is a world-renowned permaculture designer, consultant and educator who’s taught tens of thousands of students all across the globe. Since the 1980’s he’s been involved in regenerative agriculture and ecological design, designing sustainable systems for soil, water, plants animals energy and housing in over 50 countries. Geoff has done pioneering wor...

This week I'm passing through the spaces in between with a special ASMR episode. Join me for a sleepy chat on silence, dreams, a recap of our Community Building workshop, and a quick musing on the important purpose of profaning.

This week I'm still passing through Wrocław, Poland! Join me for a quick processing of some of the thoughts on my mind. I'm thinking about Palestine and Gaza, Palestinian protestors in the United States, my country's seeming descent into authoritarianism and how to sit with all of this as the Trump administration flirts with fascism. I'm thinking of Mahmoud Khalil, Kilmar Abrego Ga...

This week I'm passing through Wrocław, Poland! Join me in the wine-barrel for a quick 52-minute ramble on animacy, story, and how we might deal with the madness. "A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle, that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us." —  John Steinbeck, &quo...

This week Zamir Dhanji is passing through! Zamir is a mystic, a yogi, a storyteller, change-maker, community-builder, educator and a whole lot more; a guest well-suited for this podcast! It was an absolute honor and pleasure to speak with him. We talk about mysticism, community, his work with Gabor Maté, life's interconnectedness, reciprocity, and in Zamir's words, "about how life isn...

This week, Sean Cusick is passing through! Sean's an artist, writer, musician and photographer with a unique articulation and passion. He's also an old and beloved friend. Over the years he's been like a crazy uncle to me, and it's always humorous and illuminating to speak with him. He talks a mile a minute and he's got stories to tell. Join us for some music history where he s...

This week Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé is passing through! Báyo is an author, educator, thinker, philosopher, poet, father, and all-around incredibly kind, soulful, and inspiring human being. It was an honor to speak with him and I think you're going to enjoy this episode. We speak about the disgusting and the monstrous, Báyo's first encounter with psychedelics, the soul, disability, human porosity,...

This week, Leah Song is passing through! This week’s guest is the Lovely, the Enchanting, the Amazing, the Humble, the magnetic Slow Music Movement Muse herself: Leah Song. Leah is co-founder and front-woman of Rising Appalachia , she’s an activist, a music-maker, poet and song-catcher, she’s a community-builder, a pioneer and a perfect guest for this podcast. In this conversation we build imagina...

This week I'm passing through with a special announcement on Valentine's Day . My partner and I are founding a non-profit organization here in Poland. I've been busy building the website with my bare hands, generating content and charging this initiative with love and care and kind intentions. Join me for a quick episode on what the organization is about and what we're trying to do...

This week Brynna Campbell is passing through! Brynna is a naturalist, a musician, a songwriter, a community builder and an animator. She’s been someone I’ve been itching to speak with for some time now, so I’m glad to finally get the chance to sit down and speak with her. Join us for a wide-ranging discussion on topics from the LA fires to music and trauma, mutual aid and solidarity, and planting...

This week my friend Iris is passing through! Iris is a facilitator-in-training in Scott Peck’s Community Building method. She’s an IFS therapist and a longtime-lover of nature. She lives off the grid in the wild-west deserts outside Barcelona where she harnesses the energy of the wind and the sun to power her earthen home. She’s one of those rare people who put her beliefs and values into practice...

This week I'm passing through into the new year with a quick recap from southern Portugal. Join me for a brief reflection, a strong book recommendation, and an overall meandering ramble on nature, appreciation and reciprocity. Happy new year!

This week I'm passing through Granda, Spain. Tune in for a special Christmas episode about the solstice, paganism and polytheism, Greek mystery cults and Christian cannibalism. Happy holidays!

This week I'm passing through a string of countries starting from Northern Italy and arriving in Spain! Join me for a quick update on our near-death experience, a lengthy ramble about a majestic mountain-range which was once a coral reef, as well as a few other scattered musings on croissants.

This week I'm passing through Rivignano, Italy...probably for the last time this year! Join me for a ramble on the 2025 gathering I alluded to in a previous episode. I'm trying to weave together an ecology of practice which includes Community Building, Internal Family Systems, Vipassana and Permaculture. Listen for more on this. In the second half of the episode I talk a bit about Community Buildi...

This week's episode is a special edition Thanksgiving episode! Join me for a 34-minute ramble about pumpkin pie, togetherness, community, and how New York City shaped my somatic body, making me suspicious of one of our most vital senses.

This week I am (or have been) passing through the in-between spaces from Bratislava to Italy. Join me for a quick ramble about M Scott Peck's Community Building, what it means to me, and why I think it might be one of the things which can help save the world. If you're curious and want to learn more on ⁠Community Building⁠ , I encourage you to go back to episode 32 with Edward Groody.

This week I'm passing through Rivignano, Italy! Join me for a brief update on where I'm at and where I've been, a quick few words on the US election, and an experience I had during a recent Community Building workshop in Budapest, and a little eco-tip about bidets.

This week Ashira Darwish is passing through, with a special guest!  Ashira is a Jerusalem-born award-winning Palestinian Journalist; activist; trauma survivor and founder of Catharsis Holistic Healing. She's been a TV and broadcast journalist for the past 15 years in Palestine working with The BBC, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. Last year she produced and starred in the incredible...

This week I'm passing through Terény, Hungary...again! Except this time from an old Hungarian home. Join me for a sick solo ramble. Not sick like cool , or awesome, but like sinus and respiratory infection. Fear not, I've edited out the coughs and sniffles and sanitized it for your consumption. Also note that this podcast was recorded at night. Under a full moon. I should warn you though, this epi...

This week I'm still passing through Hungary! Join me for an educational solo ramble where I argue that a Hungarian engineer named József Galamb, with the help of Henry Ford, inadvertently set into motion the climate collapse we're seeing one hundred years later, in 2024. Also, here's that article on AI I mention at the end.

This week A'ida al Shibli is passing through! A'ida is a Palestinian Bedouin peace activist born under Israeli occupation. She’s a feminist, an educator, and, as a long-term member of one of the world’s most pioneering intentional communities at Tamera , she’s proof that we can live differently; that we can organize ourselves in configurations which better serve life and champion our own humanity,...

This week Kris De Decker is passing through! Kris is creator and author of Low-tech Magazine . Low-tech Magazine (founded in 2007) runs on solar power and sheer force of will. From the website, " Low-tech Magazine underscores the potential of past and often forgotten technologies and how they can inform sustainable energy practices ." Kris doesn't have a smartphone, doesn't drive a car, doesn't tr...

This week I'm passing through Terény, Hungary. This is a quick one. You can listen to the sound of some lovely deer! I had to scrap most of the episode because I ate too much deer jerky and my mouth became a sticky sound making machine. This episode is brought to you by Stink-Be-Gone !

This week Rachel Donald is passing through! Rachel is the host of the Planet: Critical podcast. She's a climate corruption journalist exploring why the world is in crisis, and she's an all around amazing human. I was totally thrilled to have the opportunity to speak with her. Join us for a chat about violence, the genocide in Gaza, ecodelics, death, love, poetry, and our deep, embodied con...