Way Collective Podcast

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in the first week of our series of conversations entitled, Holding It Together: Practical Nonduality. We talked about how non duality invites us to see the interconnectedness of all things in people with whom we disagree, and how moving from compassion can help us to build bridges across lines of difference. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on Ash Wednesday, which includes a contemplative meditative practice called grief, gratitude, grit, and grace. Tim them gives a short reflection on our common humanity as an invitation to receive ashes. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in the final week of our series of conversations entitled, Coming Home: On Finding the Second Naïveté. We talked about how to find the inner child and recover a sense of childlikeness, wonder, and awe after suffering. 

This is the recording from our live event with author Brian McLaren at the Community Environmental Council HUB in Santa Barbara. In this episode, Brian delivers some insights from his new book, Life After Doom - Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart, and invites the audience to consider more hopeful and resilient scenarios related to climate catastrophe. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in week 5 of our series of conversations entitled, Coming Home: On Finding the Second Naïveté. We talked about how to practice self-welcome, grounding our sense of self in a divine presence within us, so we might discover the true self within us. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in week 4 of our series of conversations entitled, Coming Home: On Finding the Second Naïveté. We talked about how to deal contemplatively with our existential dread, the courage and compassion that is forged in us when we do, and moving through fear toward peace.

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on Wednesday, February 5th, 2025 led by Sage Maas. She talked about trans awareness, history, and allyship, sharing from her own personal experience and wisdom. For access to the slides from the night, go HERE . 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in week 3 of our series of conversations entitled, Coming Home: On Finding the Second Naïveté. We talked about how to deal contemplatively with our emotions, not judging them as good or bad, and how becoming a house of welcome for our emotions can lead us into the second naiveté. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in week 2 of our series of conversations entitled, Coming Home: On Finding the Second Naïveté. We talked about how to deal contemplatively with our thoughts, the work of Byron Katie, and how changing the way we think can lead us into the second naiveté. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering beginning a new series of conversations entitled, Coming Home: On Finding the Second Naïveté. We talked about the contrasts between first and second half of life spirituality, and spent time understanding the qualities of the first naiveté. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering focused on beginning the new year. We talked about resolutions, optimization vs. deep change, and how we often learn some of our greatest lessons through facing the challenges of suffering. 

This is the recording from our Christmas Eve candlelight gathering, focused on carrying the light of love forward. We talked about how what is true of the Christ at Christmas is also true of us -- namely, that we too are born in Love, and our life's journey is to return to love, so that we might become Love for the world. 

This is the recording from our second Advent Dinner & Dialogue gathering focused on the theme of Peace. We talked about the picture of Peace we actually get in the stories surrounding Jesus' birth, and how Peace is about equity, equality, and lifting each other up in a spirit of mutual aid. 

This is the recording from our first Advent Dinner & Dialogue gathering focused on the theme of Hope. We talked about how hopelessness can play a part in our hoping, and how the birth stories invite us to hold together aspects of our lives we'd rather separate out. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering focused on our November theme of eco-spirituality. We talked about how nature can forge a resilience within us in the midst of grief or struggle, and reflected on the connections between awe, wonder, and gratitude. 

This is the recording from our live event with author Michael Kearney at Way Collective. In this episode, Michael delivers some insights from his most recent book, Becoming Forest - A Story of Deep Belonging, and he leads us in a meditative practice entitled "breathing with leaf." 

This is the recording from our live event with author Brit Barron at Third Window Brewing Co. In this episode, Brit delivers some insights from her new book, Do You Still Talk to Grandma - When the Problematic People in Our Lives Are the Ones We Love, and she and Tim discuss some of the main themes as they relate to our current political climate.

This is the final recording from week 7 of our series -- Medicine for this Moment: Finding Compassion in Divisive Times. We focused on how seeing the "what" of our deep moral convictions differs from the "how" we get those convictions done in the world, and summarized our Fall series, remembering that we change the world by changing the way we interact with the world. 

This is the recording from week 6 of our series -- Medicine for this Moment: Finding Compassion in Divisive Times. We focused on how moral purity becomes ground for playing the victim and shaming others, and how we are invited to uphold our complexity as an invitation to deeper connection. 

This is the recording from week 5 of our series -- Medicine for this Moment: Finding Compassion in Divisive Times. We focused on how we can become aware of the three dynamics of any difficult conversation, and how attending to the facts, feelings, and identity level of these conversations changes us, and in turn, changes the relationship.

This is the recording from week 4 of our series -- Medicine for this Moment: Finding Compassion in Divisive Times. We focused on what it looks like to do power analysis in relationships, get a sense of our agency, and how setting healthy boundaries can actually help us to stay connected, rather than further fragmentation. 

This is the recording from week 3 of our series -- Medicine for this Moment: Finding Compassion in Divisive Times. We focused on how to choose relationship over rightness by "seeing no stranger," and, so far as it depends on us, how to choose the sweet labor of love in order to promote wholeness and connection in the world. 

This is the recording from week 2 of our series -- Medicine for this Moment: Finding Compassion in Divisive Times. We focused on the roots of our fear of conflict, our political disgust, and an invitation to ground in Love. 

This is the recording from our Fall kickoff, beginning our new series -- Medicine for this Moment: Finding Compassion in Divisive Times. We focused on grounding in compassion during times of punitiveness.

An introduction to Way Collective's communal practices and values.