Join the Inner Peace Revolution! Check out the new film from our friends at Uplift Connect. Excited to be able to share my perspective along with my friend David Nicol. Thanks Mark Heley for inviting me to be part of the project. Great job behind the cameras Mark Arellano and John Wolfstone!
How Do We Midwife a Dream Culture?
What’s it gonna take to create the world we want to live in? How do we midwife the rebirth of a dream culture? How does the secret history of dreaming become history? How does dream culture become culture? How does dream culture become cool’ture? Does it have be competitive or sexualized or violent to get our attention? Do we need …
The Story Medicine We Need
At this time of simultaneous awakening and destruction, we need a set of story forms or motifs that fully support and empower those who are awakening to “re-story” humanity and restore balance to the planet. My intention is to convene a conversation with other shift-shaping storytellers to explore the development of a story medicine taxonomy that life on the planet. The main elements of the …
My Green Dudes Radio Talk
I had the pleasure being interviewed by Meg of Green Divas/Green Dudes Radio about the launch of Pacha’s Pajamas and how the stories we tell can change the world.
The Origin of Bay Localize
Bright and early Saturday morning, my animator Allah and I made our way to Bay Localize’s ten year anniversary celebration. After several beautiful acapella songs by Desiree and a benediction by Rafael Jesus Gonzales backed by Gera Marin, Aaron Lehmer and I kicked off the program by sharing an abbreviated story of origin of Bay Localize. We had only 5 minutes. Below is a more …
The mystery of storytelling: Julian Friedmann at TEDxEaling Talks
I found this video particularly helpful for another way of thinking about storytelling. Julian suggests that the audience is the most important consideration for telling great stories. Storytellers need to focus on taking the audience on a sequence of emotions, which seem akin to an emotional rollercoaster. He speaks of Aristotle’s formula for telling stories that captivate the audience. The key is to evoke this sequence of emotions …
The Reunion of the Eagle and Condor is Unfolding
Early in my awakening journey, I was introduced to the story of how the Pachamama Alliance was formed after a meeting between indigenous elders in Ecuador and group of people from San Francisco. At the time, I did not realize that this was the beginning of the latest chapter of an ancient prophecy. The Achuar are an indigenous tribe deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon that …
Beyond the Hero’s Journey in the Catalyst
My post on the Awakening Journey was just published in The Shift Network‘s Catalyst newsletter. Here’s the opening. I used to think of myself as a change agent, but lately I’ve realized that I am more of a cultural re-engineer with an aptitude and deep interest in shift shaping. I am particularly excited in that latter context about the notion of “the …
Pacha Alive Debuts
I was doing my resistance exercises while watching the ninth episode of Mr. Robot, a pretty wild show about a delusional, morphine addicted hacker that is trying to take down none other than Evil Corporation. Super twist that just fried my brain. Was hard to pause it with 10 minutes left in the episode, but I’m wanting to wind down. …
Awakening to a Path Beyond the Hero’s Journey
That moment when the crowd you are facing is standing and enthusiastically exclaiming their appreciation with applause, yelps, and hoots… I’m back in Jenny Sauer-Klein’s Game Changers workshop at Impact Hub Oakland about a year ago. In the last exercise of the evening, we separate into teams of 8 people and take turns receiving a Standing O. I remember luxuriating in the appreciative energy, alternatively …