The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope

09/20/2024

Season 5 is here! This round, we'll be exploring the transformative power of world-building and imagination. What future do we envision? How can we start living in that world today? How will we collaborate to create a more just, loving, and peaceful world? While it's simple to define the systems we are fighting against, we are intrigued by the systems and the world deserving of our time and attention.

Make sure you're subscribed to The Seed wherever you get your podcasts!

09/12/2024

In addition to recording a new Season, Dwight will be on campus at Pendle Hill leading a day-long workshop. We hope you can join us!

"The Clownful Quaker: Strengthening Our Imagination in Service of the Beloved Community" is a fun workshop coming up this November 16th on campus with Dwight Dunston!

In the face of uncertainty and despair, our faith calls us to spiritually fortify ourselves in the journey toward the Beloved Community. Join us for the day to engage your imagination and creativity in this collective work. Register online at https://pendlehill.org/events/the-clownful-quaker-strengthening-our-imagination-in-service-of-the-beloved-community/

09/10/2024

Smiling through Season 5!
Stay tuned for another season of conversations for radical hope, coming soon!

06/25/2024

If you loved Adria's episode from this past season, you can join her for this amazing workshop on campus at Pendle Hill in September!

Join Adria Gulizia this September for an on-campus workshop: Embracing Spiritual Gifts.

Only by understanding the nature of spiritual gifts can we appreciate that none of us can see God’s will in full. Only by coming together in our differences and creating spaces in which all gifts are welcome can our life together be a testimony to God’s wisdom, God’s righteousness, and–most of all–God’s love.
In our time together, we will explore the gifts and roles laid out in Ephesians 4: the gifts of the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist, the shepherd, and the teacher. We will reflect on the blessings and challenges of each and how they manifest among us today, focusing particularly on how we nurture these gifts into flourishing, suppress them into extinction, or twist them into toxicity by the spiritual environments we create in our meetings, churches and organizations. We will also make time to celebrate what the Spirit is doing in ourselves and in each other.

Learn more and register at https://pendlehill.org/events/embracing-spiritual-gifts-2/

And if you're curious about Adria and her experience on this topic, check out her First Monday Lecture on Embracing Spiritual Gifts at https://youtu.be/1Hk4K9NcUNA
You can also listen to her episode on Pendle Hill's podcast, The Seed: Conversations for Radical Hope: https://youtu.be/WgE21g82As0

06/24/2024

The amazing Seed host, Dwight, will be speaking at this event! Check it out!

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05/28/2024

The final episode of Season 4 with .brown.7946 is here! Listen to this uplifting conversation as Valerie perfectly caps off a moving, provocative, and heart-opening season. Listen at https://buff.ly/3yvdyxn or wherever you get your podcasts.

05/22/2024

Next week, we're excited to share the final episode of Season 4 with Valerie Brown!

Valerie is an author, Buddhist-Quaker Dharma teacher, facilitator, and executive coach specializing in leadership development and mindfulness practices with a focus on diversity, social equity, and inclusion. A former lawyer and lobbyist, Valerie transformed her high-pressure, twenty-year career into serving leaders and nonprofits to create trustworthy, authentic, compassionate, and connected workspaces.

An award-winning author, her latest book Hope Leans Forward: Braving Your Way toward Simplicity, Awakening, and Peace (Broadleaf, 2022) received the Nautilus Gold Award for Eastern Spirituality for 2023, and Healing Our Way Home: Black Buddhist Teachings on Ancestors, Joy, and Liberation (Parallax Press, 2024). Her books include The Road that Teaches: Lessons in Transformation through Travel, The Mindful School Leader: Practices to Transform Your Leadership and School (with Kirsten Olson, PhD), and Cultivating Happiness, Resilience, and Well-Being through Meditation, Mindfulness, and Movement: A Guide for Educators (contributor).

She is an ordained Buddhist Dharma teacher in the lineage of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and the Plum Village tradition and facilitates national and international gatherings and retreats for nonprofits and corporations and leads an annual pilgrimage to El Camino de Santiago, Spain to celebrate the power of sacred places. She is a certified Kundalini yoga teacher (500 hours), engaging leaders to embody somatic wisdom and creativity.

An accredited leadership coach, she is the Founder and Chief Mindfulness Officer of Lead Smart Coaching, LLC, supporting leaders to apply and integrate leadership and mindfulness for greater resilience, clarity, and compassion, and is a co-director of Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership.

Valerie’s unique and extensive training blends social justice, evidenced-based mindfulness practices, leadership development, and spiritual growth. She holds a Juris Doctor from Howard University School of Law, Master of Arts from Miami University (Ohio), and Bachelor of Arts from City University of New York.

Of Afro-Cuban descent, Valerie is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and lives and tends a lively perennial home garden in New Hope, PA.
You can learn more about Valerie and all her work at www.valeriebrown.us

Make sure to tune in to next week's episode to hear this incredible conversation as we close out the season together!

05/14/2024

New episode out this morning with Rabbi Mordechai Liebling on "Solidarity in Heartbreak."
Tune in to hear about his decades-long experience in interfaith and in*******al activism as he and Dwight explore the role of clergy in organizing and nonviolent direct action, the power of shared heartbreak across difference, and the current fight for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://pendlehillseed.buzzsprout.com/2032871/14792701-solidarity-in-heartbreak-with-rabbi-mordechai-liebling

05/08/2024

Next week, Episode 5 with Rabbi Mordechai Liebling will air on Tuesday the 14th!

Rabbi Mordechai Liebling is the Senior Advisor for POWER Interfaith, the largest faith-based community organizing group in Pennsylvania. Prior to that he founded and directed for ten years the Social Justice Organizing Program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College. Previously, he served as the executive vice president of Jewish Funds for Justice (now Bend the Arc); and was the executive director of the Jewish Reconstructionist Federation for 12 years. He leads workshops on Race, Antisemitism and Christian hegemony; and on the Work That Reconnects developed by Joanna Macy.

Tune in wherever you get your podcasts!

04/30/2024

Episode 4 with Felix Rosado is out now! Listen wherever you get your podcasts to this uplifting conversation about the power of imagination, the work Felix is doing to end human caging in all its forms, and what it's like to be free.
https://pendlehillseed.buzzsprout.com/2032871/14792699-imagining-justice-beyond-cages-with-felix-rosado

04/24/2024

A new episode is coming next week, featuring guest, Felix Rosado.

Felix escaped a death by incarceration sentence after 27 years via governor clemency in 2022. He is cofounder of Let’s Circle Up, a restorative justice (RJ) education project. He currently serves as Program Coordinator of Healing Futures, an RJ youth diversion program with the Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project (YASP) and adjunct professor of RJ at Chestnut Hill College. He also is a founding member of the Coalition to Abolish Death By Incarceration (CABDI) and committed to ending human caging in all its forms.

Tune in next week to hear this moving conversation, and make sure you're subscribed to The Seed wherever you get your podcasts.

04/16/2024

New episode out now with Adria Gulizia!
Tune in to this conversation on committing to fellowship in times of polarization and unrest in "Inviting Ourselves to Be Challenged."
Listen now wherever you get your podcasts, or at https://pendlehillseed.buzzsprout.com/2032871/14792649-inviting-ourselves-to-be-challenged-with-adria-gulizia

Adria Gulizia is an attorney, mediator, facilitator, and coach. Her concern for the spiritual formation of Friends of all ages has led her to serve in roles ranging from children’s religious education to Earlham School of Religion’s board of advisors. In collaboration with the School of the Spirit, she is currently exploring what it might look like to step into radical faithfulness across theological boundaries amid the twin temptations of anger and despair. Adria is a member of Chatham-Summit Meeting (NYYM) in Summit, N.J. To learn more about Adria's work, visit https://shadowofbabylon.com/

04/10/2024

A new episode is coming up next week with Adria Gulizia!
Adria is an attorney, mediator, facilitator, and coach. Her concern for the spiritual formation of Friends of all ages has led her to serve in roles ranging from children's religious education to Earlham School of Religion's board of advisors. In collaboration with the School of the Spirit, she is currently exploring what it might look like to step into radical faithfulness across theological boundaries amid the twin temptations of anger and despair. Adria is a member of Chatham-Summit Meeting (NYYM) in Summit, N.J.
Tune in next week to hear this conversation for radical hope, or subscribe to The Seed wherever you get your podcasts so you never miss an episode!

04/07/2024

An unexpected Season 1 reunion happened on campus the other day! Guests Ricardo Levins Morales and Reverend Rhetta Morgan shared stories, hugs, and laughter on Pendle Hill's campus as they joined to support the residential Spring Term community.

04/02/2024

The highly anticipated episode with Parker Palmer is here! Tune in to listen to Parker and Dwight discuss aging, community, and faithfulness in this episode "Embracing Paradox with Parker Palmer."

Listen to The Seed wherever you get your podcasts. This episode was a true joy to record and produce. We hope you enjoy!

03/27/2024

Our first guest of Season 4 will be with the one and only Parker Palmer! His episode will air next week on Tuesday the 2nd, and we're so excited for you to hear this conversation.

Parker came to Pendle Hill as a resident student in the fall of 1974, an experience that stretched into an eleven year tenure as the Dean of Studies. His time here catalyzed his relationship with Quakerism and shaped his work, thought, and writings on pedagogy and spiritual communities. This work, and his ongoing contributions to Pendle Hill, continue to have an incredible influence on the study, work and worship here on campus and beyond. Parker’s writings have been instrumental in my own relationship to Quaker Education, and his bulletin on “Meeting for Learning” has grounded and inspired our work on the podcast.

Make sure you're subscribed to The Seed wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss this episode!

03/19/2024

Welcome to Season 4! In this first episode with Pendle Hill executive director, Francisco Burgos, we discuss grief, gratitude, staying grounded amidst uncertainty and polarization, and the guiding queries and themes of the season.

Tune in to "Gratitude, Grief, and Navigating Uncertainty with Francisco Burgos" and other Seed episodes wherever you get your podcasts.

03/13/2024

Season 4 is here! Join us as we explore visions of the world that is growing up through the cracks in our broken systems.
Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, and follow along for exciting episodes:

3/19 - Intro Episode with Pendle Hill executive director, Francisco Burgos
4/2 - Episode 1 with Parker Palmer
4/16 - Episode 2 with Adria Gulizia
4/30 - Episode 3 with Felix Rosado
5/14 - Episode 4 with Rabbi Mordechai Liebling
5/28 - Episode 5 and Season Finale with Valerie Brown

03/02/2024

Join Dwight for an afternoon workshop on living Kingian nonviolence in "Active Peace: Breathing and Living the Peace Testimony in Times of Unrest," happening at Pendle Hill on Saturday April 13th.
This workshop will take place alongside Pendle Hill's Spring Term students and scholars, with the option to stay for dinner. Register for this event and reserve your place at the dinner table at https://pendlehill.org/events/active-peace-breathing-and-living-the-peace-testimony-in-times-of-unrest/

Participants of this workshop are also invited to extend their stay with a personal retreat! Connect deeper with Spring Term students and scholars with a few overnight stays and the chance to join in the daily rhythm of study, work, and worship in community. Book your stay at https://guestrez.megasyshms.com/7LF67/pendle-hill

02/15/2024

We can't wait for you to hear this episode with Felix Rosado of the Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project! Season 4 is going to be a whirlwind of powerful conversations.

Make sure you're subscribed to The Seed wherever you get your podcast so you don't miss a single episode!

02/13/2024

We were thrilled to speak with Adria Gulizia for her episode coming up in Season 4.
New content dropping in just a few short weeks!

02/09/2024

Another amazing guest for Season 4 🙏🙏
We can't wait for you to hear this conversation wit Rabbi Mordechai Liebling. Make sure you're subscribed to The Seed so you don't miss a second of Season 4, coming in just a few short weeks!

02/07/2024

Season 4 is getting closer every day. We had an incredible conversation with Valerie Brown that we can't wait for you to hear!

Make sure you're subscribed to The Seed wherever you get your podcasts so you don't miss an episode when the time comes!
https://pendlehill.org/learn/podcast/

01/02/2024

The crew is hard at work on Season 4, which will be coming in just a few short months!
To start off this election year, we'll be focusing in on living out our truths in a time of social and political turmoil. Stay tuned, and make sure you're subscribed to The Seed wherever you get your podcasts.

12/27/2023

Spotify was also good to us this year! We're thrilled to have gained new community members on this platform, and we're looking forward to giving you all new content soon!

12/26/2023

Taking a look back on the year, we're thrilled to have had so many meaningful conversations, made so many deep connections, and shared so many laughs.
Here's to spreading even more radical hope in 2024!

12/22/2023

Our dedicated producer, Anna Hill, is hard at work with Dwight on Season 4, and we want to hear from you! What do you want to hear in the next season? Make sure to fill out the listeners survey so we know how to make this podcast even better. https://forms.gle/hmQUW1Nk86WvDkUw6

12/20/2023

Dwight chatting with our special guest 👀👀👀

Stay tuned for an inspiring and invigorating episode with Parker Palmer, coming soon!

11/16/2023

The team is working to get captioned episodes up on our YouTube channel for improved accessibility. We're pleased to share that Season 3 episodes are now available on YouTube !
We'll be posting fulling captioned episodes from Seasons 1 and 2 as well, so if you prefer to read along, or just like to listen to podcasts on YouTube, you can find all Seed content in our playlist at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKQNjpG3I56zG95xNQZ2t3x7_hPXrhsoO

11/08/2023

"Belonging is the experience of being found by the people who know how to find you."
Autumn Brown, from her episode "Creating the Conditions for Belonging."
Listen to The Seed wherever you get your podcasts.