The Wonder Dome

Nina Simons is the co-founder of Bioneers , an organization focused on helping the human species reach a place of true racial and gender justice for all, while also rekindling our sacred relationship with the planet Earth - and in the process, supporting a just transition to a future that's regenerative, sustainable, and allows every living being on this planet to flourish. The mission of Bio...

This episode officially marks the end of 10 episodes celebrating 100 conversations in The Dome ! The opportunity to bring together past guests in new constellations has been a deeply meaningful gift. Hopefully, if you've been listening to these incredibly rich, deep, robust gatherings in The Dome, something has expanded or opened for you. Perhaps helping you see and feel in new ways, and, per...

My guests today for this continued celebration of 100 episodes of the Wonder Dome are Dr. Jeff Hull and Ben Preston. Jeff was on episode #55 of the Dome, "Meta Leadership," and Ben was on Episode #81, "The Space Where Worlds Meet." In this return conversation, we explore one of the key constraints of our dominant capitalist culture : we often only know each other through the ro...

I've been bringing back different constellations of past guests to celebrate 100 episodes of The Wonder Dome. For this one, I decided to do something a little different. My returning guest is the amazing human being, Rayshauna Gray . She's a historian, essayist, creator, teacher, and facilitator. She originally joined me for episode #21 "With Clear Eyes and a Full Heart." And i...

Continuing my celebration with past guests are Joel Monk (founder of Coaches Rising ) and Ishita Sharma (founder of Come to Center ). Coaches Rising is an amazing resource for practitioners who are working to evolve the field of coaching, exploring how to show up for our clients with deep questions, presence, openness. And Ishita is a faculty member for one of their more recent programs, The Power...

Both Lawrence Barriner and Yotam Schachter have built their careers and callings around helping others grow and evolve. A big part of that for both of them is facilitating experiences where men can work together to reckon with masculinity, violence, healing, and repair. In this conversation, we play at this intersection of what it is to be a man in relationship to the violence in our culture and i...

For episode 105, I am joined from across the pond by Lee Chambers and Robert Stephenson . Lee and Robert each bring a distinct essence to the question: what becomes possible when we discover that our singular point of view on reality is just a small part of a bigger, more complex, more diverse human story? Together, the three of us tap into the insight that we all need places to meet, nourish, and...

Returning to The Wonder Dome this week are long-time collaborators Parker Palme r and Carrie Newcomer. Parker is the author of many books and a celebrated teacher and educator. Carrie is the writer of many songs and creator of many albums and she too is a celebrated educator and teacher in her own right. Together they have produced a number of stage productions centered around collective healing a...

Today’s guests already know each other quite well. Chelsea Simpson and Michael Stern are co-founders of The Emerging Leaders Project . This beautiful offering to the world stands for the recognition that our societies are in transition. The systems that we've relied upon for centuries are breaking down. And they're doing so at an accelerating rate, which can be pretty damn scary. But Che...

For episode 102, I'm bringing together two past Wonder Dome guests who know each other quite well: Kim Loh and Gabe Wilson . They’ve worked together as facilitators, trainers, and coaches, and they co-authored Compassionate Conversations alongside master practitioner Diane Hamilton. As the three of us come together again in The Wonder Dome, we deepen into one of the core themes from our prior...

Back for our second episode of the Summer Celebration Series are Ken Liu , Tochi Onyebuchi , and Ray Nayler . All three of these writers add so much depth and richness to the tapestry of our lives. When you leave this conversation today, I encourage you to listen to my other interviews with them and to read their work. Their writing has the potential to change your relationship to what's poss...

Welcome to the 100th episode of The Wonder Dome! I've spent the past two years showing up as fully as I can for each one of these conversations. In the process, I've been repeatedly humbled and inspired by the amazing humans I've had the privilege to meet here in The Dome. Thank you for being here with me. In a sense, every person who listens to these recordings is in the room with...

Angella Okawa is a certified Integral coach and a licensed marriage and family therapist and the founder of Mindful Diversity . She brings together a wide range of modalities to help people navigate questions of identity, belonging, community, diversity, and equity. These questions permeate our social fabric, pushing us to explore who we are and who we might become. This is a deeply experiential e...

Cat Tweedie is the CEO and co-founder of Sleepawake Camp , a four-week residential intensive for 18 to 24-year-olds to explore how to live life with authenticity and awareness. Up through graduating high school, the average young person has spent 18,000 hours studying science, math, language, arts, and social studies. But there's a really good chance that those same students have spent zero h...

Rev. Dr. Nóirín Ní Riain is a theologian, philosopher, and teacher of music and music history. She is a Reverend minister, a master of ritual, and uses sound to help people mark the most important milestones in their lives: birth, marriage, death, and many others along the way. She also originated the concept of Theosony which is the sound of God or the sound of the Divine, a way of engaging with...

Monique Schubert is a dear friend who I've had the privilege of studying with, learning from, and teaching alongside. She is a beautiful soul who sees life as an extended project to make the world more beautiful, more kind, and more inclusive. She uses the tools of art, yoga, and music to educate, inspire, and connect. Monique is also a Kripalu certified teacher and helps design their teacher...

My conversation with Sessei Meg Levie works with the possibility that sitting in stillness, attending to what is without judging yourself or the world, and simply noticing, can open whole new doorways of possibility in your life and the lives of those around you. Sessei Meg Levie is the head priest of the Stone Creek Zen Center in Sonoma County, CA, and she has been practicing Soto Zen for 30+ yea...

Dominic Longo is the founder of Flourishing Gays , a coaching and consulting firm that works especially with gay, bi, queer, and trans men to support their leadership, personal development, growth, and flourishing. He is a remarkable scholar, teacher, coach, thinker, theologian, bringing together a number of different streams of understanding about how we humans are made, and who we can become if...

Cynthia Scott has carried a lifelong curiosity about how people thrive, regenerate, and transform. She's done extensive research on burnout prevention, personal and organizational resilience, and the development of true agility and adaptability. She asks how do we grow, evolve, and stay resilient, especially as the world around us becomes so much more uncertain and things we once took for gra...

One of the coolest things about hosting The Wonder Dome is that I get to dive deep into conversations with some of the most dynamic human beings on the planet. Aidan McCullen is one of those people. He is the author of Undisruptable: A Mindset of Permanent Reinvention for Individuals, Organisations, and Life. He also hosts the fantastic podcast, The Innovation Show , which served as an exemplar fo...

Nathan Blair is the founder and lead trainer at the Somatic School , a school for coaches and other practitioners who want to understand how our bodies serve as the vessel for deep connection and understanding between each other, with the entire planet, and with the universe. During his teens, Nathan was diagnosed with ADHD and took medication to manage his “symptoms.” But over time, through mindf...

Gayle Karen Young is a catalyst for human and organizational development. She is a mentor, a teacher, an empath, a systems thinker, and a healer. For many years, she worked as the chief culture and talent officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, the foundation responsible for Wikipedia and all of its sister projects devoted to free knowledge and free information. Now Gayle is in private practice, work...

Janet Allison's work asks and helps us answer the question, how do we raise boys to become good men? She is the founder of Boys Alive , an organization that provides coaching and education to parents of boys of all ages. She's also the host of the ON BOYS podcast , which is now four years running with hundreds of thousands of downloads, featuring experts in the worlds of child psychology...

Kyrah Altman is the Chill Executive Officer and co-founder of LEAD an organization devoted to cultivating mental health and wellbeing in organizations and communities around the world.  She is one of those rare, wholehearted leaders pushing back against the dominant narrative that constantly drives us to produce, to perform, to be perfect without ever revealing our full humanity. Kyrah co-founded...

Since he was a kid, Howard Prager has been living the question, “how can I make someone else’s day?”  Howard is the Founder and Executive Director of the Advanced Learning Group . He is a generous, kind-hearted human who is taking a stand for bringing “memorable, cherished moments” into leadership. His recent book, Make Someone's Day: Becoming a Memorable Leader in Work and Life , explores wh...