At the heart of Gratitude Blooming is art. All the art is an attempt to bring some kind of healing into the world.
This week we talk more about the power of art - both creating and interpreting it. Inspired by Oren Slozberg, the Executive Director of Commonweal, we explore Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) as a process of looking at art that leads to deeper understanding and interpretation.
Read MoreConversation with Angela Oh, Civil Rights Lawyer and Mediator. In this week episode, our guests invites us to imagine vulnerability as choosing the unknown, even if it’s scary. Being vulnerable means walking hand-in-hand with courage.
Read MoreWhy gratitude? One answer is self-care. The brain has a biological bias to focus on the negative and gratitude disrupts this bias.
Read MoreWe're cooking up some gratitude this week with this long-form interview with VC Tang on the theme of self care as it relates to community care. We hope this conversation inspires you to nourish yourself by cooking and eating with others!
Read MoreKeith is a strong leader who through humility and compassion gains access to the hearts of other leaders. His honesty and integrity creates opportunities for him to be a bridge builder.
Read MoreTeacher and thought partner Norma Wong (Norma Ryuko Kawelokū Wong Roshi) joins us to reflect on everything from ancestry to neuroscience to her own childhood influences.
Read MoreJoined by the intuitive and thoughtful strategic advisor and executive coach Stephanie Ervin, she reminds us that “We are more than our jobs that we show up to do.”
Read MoreCultural anthropologist and culture keeper Dr. Erika Powell shares when she learned to pray from a Lakota elder. In a meadow in South Dakota, the elder shared: everything is alive and everything is listening to you.
Read MoreBeing there for each other. That’s the code inspiration for bar owner and author Cedd Moses. He says, “It’s not worth growing unless we can be there for each other.” He is on the path to redefine the hospitality industry with his bars and company Pouring with Heart.
Read MoreThis week we invite you to alchemize your belly breath. To transform pixels to atoms. To go from digital to analog. With guest Dr. Paul Chengpo Wang (aka Sifu Paul), we invite you to retreat into your well-being and wholeness.
Read MoreThere is a myth about scarcity. When we connect to each other the separation and supremacy that rely on the idea of scarcity fall away.
Read MoreThis week we talk with community leader and environmentalist Effie Turnbull Sanders and explore the theme of Reverence inspired by the Gratitude Blooming sunflower.
Read MoreThis week are invited to listen to the wilderness, which can be translated as the voice that speaks.
Read MoreThis week we explore the theme of tenacity, represented by the dandelion, with artist and musician Radhika Vekaria.
Read MoreThis week’s podcast theme of discovery is expansive from the deeply personal to the full human experience.
Read MoreBlood memory can be described by your ancestral and genetic connection to language, songs, spirituality, and teachings. Your ancestors are in you all the time and everything they experienced is in you.
Read MoreWhen times are tough, how do we trust enough to remain unmoving until the water clears itself?
Mario Jefferson’s story inspires us to create new personal narratives around trusting ourselves, each other, and the systems we exist in.
Read MoreWith recovery advocate Aaron Marks, we explore the biological and emotional impact of substance use. This knowledge comes from his own 17 years in recovery. He asks a very simple question to make addiction clear: If you were very thirsty or hungry, what would you do to fix that?
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