Episode 01 - Pico Iyer
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Main contributor is Pico Iyer, travel journalist and author.
Pico is a regular contributor to Granta, The Financial Times, and the New York Times amongst others, and has written many books on travel and the human soul, Video night In Kathmandu, The Art of Stillness, The Man Within My Head, and his biography of the Dalai Lama, The Open Road, to name but a few. His new book, The Half Known Life, once again offers a journey across the planet and into the depths of consciousness.
Giver of Ted talks and perennial outsider, he is most comfortable and at home in the cracks between other cultures.
Pico's book recommendation:
Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind: Beginner’s mind
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Main contributor is Pico Iyer, travel journalist and author.
Pico is a regular contributor to Granta, The Financial Times, and the New York Times amongst others, and has written many books on travel and the human soul, Video night In Kathmandu, The Art of Stillness, The Man Within My Head, and his biography of the Dalai Lama, The Open Road, to name but a few. His new book, The Half Known Life, once again offers a journey across the planet and into the depths of consciousness.
Giver of Ted talks and perennial outsider, he is most comfortable and at home in the cracks between other cultures.
Pico's book recommendation:
Shunryu Suzuki - Zen Mind: Beginner’s mind
Episode 02 - Lawrence Torcello
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Main contributor, Lawrence Torcello, holds the position of Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology where he specialises in social political philosophy and moral theory.
Described on Twitter as a moral and political philosopher, his current research interests focus on democratic theory, liberalism, and issues of climate justice. Recent work explores the moral implications of global warming denialism and other forms of disinformation.
Current projects investigate the practical consequences and ethical responsibilities implicit to democratic citizenship in morally diverse societies, particularly in the domains of medicine, education, animal welfare, the environment, and political discourse.
Lawrence is currently working on a book examining the moral and epistemic requirements of liberalism.
Lawrence’s book Recommendations:
Michael E Mann - the New Climate War
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
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Main contributor, Lawrence Torcello, holds the position of Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology where he specialises in social political philosophy and moral theory.
Described on Twitter as a moral and political philosopher, his current research interests focus on democratic theory, liberalism, and issues of climate justice. Recent work explores the moral implications of global warming denialism and other forms of disinformation.
Current projects investigate the practical consequences and ethical responsibilities implicit to democratic citizenship in morally diverse societies, particularly in the domains of medicine, education, animal welfare, the environment, and political discourse.
Lawrence is currently working on a book examining the moral and epistemic requirements of liberalism.
Lawrence’s book Recommendations:
Michael E Mann - the New Climate War
Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass
Episode 03 - Elisha Goldstein
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Main contributor, Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. A psychologist, author and speaker, Elisha has published extensively, and is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and blogs, including the bestselling books Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self-compassion, and The Now Effect: How This Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life, he has been featured in Time, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, amongst others.
Elisha is the co-founder of The Center for Mindful Living in West Los Angeles, and gives free weekly teachings online on his YouTube channel ‘Elisha Goldstein PhD’.
If people want to get in touch, they can look into the personal group mentorship program called Uncover the Power Within.
https://www.mindfullivingla.org/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ElishaGoldsteinPhD
https://elishagoldstein.com/uncover-the-power-within/
Elisha's book recommendations:
Thich Nhat Hanh - The miracle of Mindfulness
Steven Pressfield - The war of Art
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Main contributor, Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. A psychologist, author and speaker, Elisha has published extensively, and is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and blogs, including the bestselling books Uncovering Happiness: Overcoming Depression with Mindfulness and Self-compassion, and The Now Effect: How This Moment Can Change the Rest of Your Life, he has been featured in Time, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, amongst others.
Elisha is the co-founder of The Center for Mindful Living in West Los Angeles, and gives free weekly teachings online on his YouTube channel ‘Elisha Goldstein PhD’.
If people want to get in touch, they can look into the personal group mentorship program called Uncover the Power Within.
https://www.mindfullivingla.org/
https://www.youtube.com/c/ElishaGoldsteinPhD
https://elishagoldstein.com/uncover-the-power-within/
Elisha's book recommendations:
Thich Nhat Hanh - The miracle of Mindfulness
Steven Pressfield - The war of Art
Episode 04 - BJ Miller
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Main contributor is BJ Miller.
Co-founder of mettlehealth.com, and also well known for his time at Zen Hospice Project, BJ Miller, is an author, speaker, and a practicing hospice and palliative medicine physician.
Author of the book A Beginner’s Guide to the End, (Co-written with Shoshana Berger), BJ has featured on Oprah Winfrey’s Soul Sunday, as well as giving his own very well received TED talk, and he feature in the Netflix academy award winning short documentary, End Game.
BJ’s book recommendation:
John Dewey - Art As Experience
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Main contributor is BJ Miller.
Co-founder of mettlehealth.com, and also well known for his time at Zen Hospice Project, BJ Miller, is an author, speaker, and a practicing hospice and palliative medicine physician.
Author of the book A Beginner’s Guide to the End, (Co-written with Shoshana Berger), BJ has featured on Oprah Winfrey’s Soul Sunday, as well as giving his own very well received TED talk, and he feature in the Netflix academy award winning short documentary, End Game.
BJ’s book recommendation:
John Dewey - Art As Experience
Episode 05 - Parneet Pal
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Today's main contributor is Parneet Pal.
An educator, science communicator and wellbeing expert working at the intersection of business, lifestyle medicine (including nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management, mental and emotional health) and behaviour change.
A Harvard and Columbia trained physician, Parneet looks for the connections and interdependence within human and planetary systems that makes them resilient and regenerative.
Her work is focused on solutions for business leadership that architect the future of an equitable society: a wellbeing economy where health is the default.
https://www.parneetpal.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/parneetpal/
Parneet’s book recommendation:
David Egelman - Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives
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Today's main contributor is Parneet Pal.
An educator, science communicator and wellbeing expert working at the intersection of business, lifestyle medicine (including nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management, mental and emotional health) and behaviour change.
A Harvard and Columbia trained physician, Parneet looks for the connections and interdependence within human and planetary systems that makes them resilient and regenerative.
Her work is focused on solutions for business leadership that architect the future of an equitable society: a wellbeing economy where health is the default.
https://www.parneetpal.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/parneetpal/
Parneet’s book recommendation:
David Egelman - Sum: Forty Tales From The Afterlives
Episode 06 - LLyn De Danaan
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Main contributor, Dr. LLyn De Danaan, emerita, The Evergreen State College, is an author and cultural anthropologist.
LLyn was a speaker for Humanities Washington for four years and a faculty with Western Washington University’s Academy for Lifelong Learning. Her 2013 book, Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman’s Life on Oyster Bay, is called, “a masterpiece of creative interpretation…"
She appeared throughout the Washington State to encourage conversations on historical research and the history of critical encounters between EuroAmerican and Native Americans. For many years, she consulted with Washington Tribes on treaty matters and was an expert witness in key cases. She produced curricula with Indian educators and the State Superintendent of Public Education’s office and consulted on the Washington State Tribal Sovereignty Curriculum, now in all Washington schools. She received the State Historical Society’s Peace and Friendship Award for furthering understanding of cultural diversity in Washington. She conducted research in Asia, Romania (Fulbright Scholar), and Yakima Valley.
Her Mountain of Shell project focused on Japanese American labourers on Oyster Bay. She reviews for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries and has contributed to Kithfolk, No Depression, the Oly Mountain Boys’ White Horse album, and Voice of the Wild Olympics. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in a Timberland Regional Library Collection and in an anthology produced by Washington State’s Poet Laureate, WA129.
She was a founding member of the Mason County Historic Preservation Commission and was a member of Olympic Park Associates and Great Old Broads for Wilderness. She was also involved with Mason County March for Science and is a member of League of Women Voters.
She worked as a beach naturalist with Puget Sound Estuarium for two years. Her most recent project focused on the life of the first Native American woman pilot, Mary Riddle, a Quinault allotted woman whose ancestors were among the first oyster farmers on Willapa Bay.
Llyn’s book Recommendations:
Thich Nhat Hanh - Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
CS Lewis - Surprised by Joy / A Grief Observed
Francesca French and Mildred Cable - The Gobi Desert
Halldor Laxness - Independent People
Olga Tokarczuk - The Books of Jacob
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Main contributor, Dr. LLyn De Danaan, emerita, The Evergreen State College, is an author and cultural anthropologist.
LLyn was a speaker for Humanities Washington for four years and a faculty with Western Washington University’s Academy for Lifelong Learning. Her 2013 book, Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman’s Life on Oyster Bay, is called, “a masterpiece of creative interpretation…"
She appeared throughout the Washington State to encourage conversations on historical research and the history of critical encounters between EuroAmerican and Native Americans. For many years, she consulted with Washington Tribes on treaty matters and was an expert witness in key cases. She produced curricula with Indian educators and the State Superintendent of Public Education’s office and consulted on the Washington State Tribal Sovereignty Curriculum, now in all Washington schools. She received the State Historical Society’s Peace and Friendship Award for furthering understanding of cultural diversity in Washington. She conducted research in Asia, Romania (Fulbright Scholar), and Yakima Valley.
Her Mountain of Shell project focused on Japanese American labourers on Oyster Bay. She reviews for Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries and has contributed to Kithfolk, No Depression, the Oly Mountain Boys’ White Horse album, and Voice of the Wild Olympics. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in a Timberland Regional Library Collection and in an anthology produced by Washington State’s Poet Laureate, WA129.
She was a founding member of the Mason County Historic Preservation Commission and was a member of Olympic Park Associates and Great Old Broads for Wilderness. She was also involved with Mason County March for Science and is a member of League of Women Voters.
She worked as a beach naturalist with Puget Sound Estuarium for two years. Her most recent project focused on the life of the first Native American woman pilot, Mary Riddle, a Quinault allotted woman whose ancestors were among the first oyster farmers on Willapa Bay.
Llyn’s book Recommendations:
Thich Nhat Hanh - Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
CS Lewis - Surprised by Joy / A Grief Observed
Francesca French and Mildred Cable - The Gobi Desert
Halldor Laxness - Independent People
Olga Tokarczuk - The Books of Jacob
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