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Friends & Neighbors

The Response: Resist & Build with Emily Kawano, Matthew Slaats and Edget Betru

Emily Kawano -
“This is a critical moment in history. We face multiple crises: environmental, growing social, economic, and political divides, and a slide toward fascism, economic instability, and war. There is an urgency to both resist these trends, and to build...
Podcasts

Ross Gay: Pedagogy of Love, Precarity & Survival

Ross Gay -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. For this episode, Devin Bustin and Joey Taylor speak with Ross Gay about his books Inciting Joy, The Book...
Latest Thinking

What Thriving Communities Look Like With The Indigenous Environmental Network

Keenan Rhodes -
The perspectives of Indigenous people are rarely included in mainstream conversations about sustainability, climate change, or community health, Jennifer Falcon of the Indigenous Environmental Network (EIN) explains in this powerful interview with Keenan Rhodes in the Climate Justice Alliance's...
Conversations

Who Do We Choose To Be? Meg Wheatley and Peter Block

Meg Wheatley -
The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and structures of belonging.  This episode is the Abundant Community Conversation from August 2 where Amy Howton speaks with Meg Wheatley and Peter Block about the new edition of Meg’s...
Conversations

Ritual and Possibility

Casper ter Kuile -
    The Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. This episode is the Abundant Community Conversation between Casper ter Kuile and Peter Block, which happened on June 22nd....
Friends & Neighbors

We Hold Medicine for Each Other – A Conversation about Race

Quanita Roberson -
What does it mean to heal racial wounds? This complex topic continues to bewilder us as a collective and individually. As we search for tools and tactics for solving the ongoing challenges surrounding race and its history, are we...
Peter Block

Find Your Freedom

Peter Block -
In this episode of the Messy Middle podcast hosted by consultant and author Andrew Horsfield, Peter Block draws on his broad experience to discuss the benefits of choosing service over self-interest, embracing our freedom, shifting from problem solving to...
Podcasts

Do You Want to Experience True Liberation?

Maegan Scott -
In this week’s feature, the Meagan Scott and Courtney Ng speak on the Common Good podcast about facilitating necessary conditions for liberation, community, and magic, and how to connect with the desires of others in the creation of containers...
Latest Thinking

Does Independence Exist? Exploring Scarcity, Abundance and Interdependence

Quanita Roberson -
Modern culture has instilled in most of us an unchecked reverence for the idea of independence. It is a celebrated sign of maturity and accomplishment. A promised path to freedom, and a signal that we have arrived. Soulful teachers,...
Friends & Neighbors

Dr. Olivia Saunders: Sovereignty and Abundance

Dr. Olivia Saunders -
Where lies the passage out of an economic and social system rooted in the illusion scarcity and competition, and into a system of living grounded in the reality of abundance and cooperation? Economist Dr. Olivia Saunders invites us to...
Podcasts

How to Find Personal Gifts without Buying New during the Holidays

April Doner -
As the holidays unfurl, bringing hopes and promises of special flavors, cozy traditions and connection, an urgency also begins to brew within our minds and homes: to buy. At our best, we buy out of our desire to concretely demonstrate...
Friends & Neighbors

Reimagining the Table, Justice, and our Relationship to Place

Darryl Answer -
What does it mean to be a neighbor? In what ways might it heal us to live in authentic, interconnected relationship with others who live and work just beyond our doorstep? How is the path to racial justice interwoven...
Friends & Neighbors

A Call to a Deeper Democracy

Cormac Russell -
We have two options, most of the time: to interpret the "worsening" of conditions around us as a call to despair while disparaging and demanding more of "those in charge," or to look closer at the power that we...
Latest Thinking

Clark Arrington, Pioneer for Cooperatives and Black Economic Power

Clark Arrington -
This two-part edition of The Next System Podcast features Clark Arrington, a pioneer in the cooperative movement, an innovative legal practitioner, and a leader in the movement for Black economic empowerment. He now works as general counsel for The Working...
Friends & Neighbors

Attributes, Roles and Culture within Neighborhoods

John McKnight -
In a recent podcast by The Neighboring Movement, hosts Adam Barlow-Thompson and Matt Johnson were joined by John McKnight to discuss the six (possibly even seven) attributes of a culture of contribution, how these characteristics in a community could...
Podcasts

Are You Powered by Connections?

Peter Block -
Podcast with Peter Block Peter talks with Lewis Alloro of The Change Lab on many aspects exploring how creating wellbeing and change is all about connection. To listen, read key takeaways and sign up to get the supporting "Making It Work Cheatsheet,"...
Podcasts

Connect to Others and Connect to Yourself

Peter Block -
Podcast with Peter Block Peter shares insights on why having community is critical to all humanity, starting with yourself. Sponsored by One Idea Away. To listen and read key takeaways, go here. Listen
Conversations

The Church in Action: Faith and Church with No Bricks and Mortar

Rev. Dr. Joseph G. Kovitch -
Conversation with Father Joe Kovitch Download or listen to John and Peter's June 26, 2018 conversation with Father Joe Kovitch, pastor of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Westerville, Ohio. Father Joe had just been appointed to serve at St. Matthew's when the...
Conversations

Restorative Practices: A Toolbox for Turbulent Times

Thom Allena -
Conversation with Thom Allena About every six weeks for the last five years, John and Peter have hosted online / dial-up conversations with community-building pioneers as their guests. For their May 8, 2018 dialog they invited Thom Allena to talk...
Conversations

Organizing the Unorganizables

Ann Livingston -
Conversation with Ann Livingston About every six weeks for the last five years, John and Peter have hosted online / dial-up conversations with community-building pioneers as their guests. On March 27, 2018, they talked with Ann Livingston about her pioneering work...
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The Response: Resist & Build with Emily Kawano, Matthew Slaats and Edget Betru

“This is a critical moment in history. We face multiple crises: environmental, growing social, economic, and political divides, and...
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