CIIS Public Programs

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This is a podcast for people who are curious about the world and themselves featuring talks and conversations presented by the Public Programs department of California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university in San Francisco. Listen here or on your favorite podcast app to a diverse array of visionaries, artists, and scholars sharing compelling experiences, offering new perspectives, and expanding creative horizons.

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Rae McDaniel: On Gender Magic

May 01 2024 65 mins

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Non-binary therapist, certified sex therapist, and transgender diversity and inclusion educator Rae McDaniel has spent decades exploring gender. Their recent book, Gender Magic, is a first-of-its-kind practical guide to achieving ge

Stan Tatkin: On Being in Each Other's Care

Apr 17 2024 66 mins

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * At the heart of every healthy, fulfilling relationship lies the unshakable knowledge that we can trust another person with the care of our whole well-being. Yet most of us arrive at our relationships with triggers, traumas, and old

Sara Elise: On the Ingredients for Everyday Abundance and Ease

Apr 03 2024 63 mins

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Author, creative, host, and self-proclaimed "pleasure doula" Sara Elise is on a quest to examine the ingredients of our lives—those essential components that make up our days—in support of systemic transformation and radical c

Nedra Glover Tawwab: On Breaking Family Patterns to Move Forward

Mar 20 2024 62 mins

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * This is the CIIS Public Programs Podcast, featuring talks and conversations recorded live by the Public Programs department of California Institute of Integral Studies, a non-profit university located in San Francisco on unceded Ram

Richard Tarnas: On the Planets in 2024

Mar 06 2024 78 mins

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Archetypal astrology is an approach influenced by Jungian and transpersonal psychology that studies the connection between the changing positions of the planets in the solar system and archetypal patterns in human experience and his

Merlin Sheldrake: How Fungi Make our Worlds and Shape our Futures

Feb 21 2024 60 mins

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * A massively diverse group of organisms, fungi support and sustain nearly all living systems. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality, and even intelligence, into question. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help

Tanmeet Sethi: On Reclaiming Joy for Justice and Healing

Feb 08 2024 63 mins

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Integrative physician, author, and activist Tanmeet Sethi’s work focuses on shifting our nervous system and biochemistry into a form of joy at the cellular level. Dr. Sethi has worked globally and locally on the frontlines with th

Lisa Kentgen: On Building Vibrant Communities Of Belonging

Jan 24 2024 58 mins

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * How can we cultivate the traits of a vibrant community in our own lives and what would it look like to prioritize caring and acceptance in our interactions with others? How can we, collectively, create a climate of true inclusivity,

Samira Mehta: On the Racism of People Who Love You

Jan 10 2024 67 mins

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * Popular belief assumes that mixedness gives you the ability to feel at home in more than one culture, but the flipside reveals you can feel just as alienated in those spaces. * Born to a white American and a South Asian immigrant, s

Deborah Egerton: On Social Justice and the Enneagram

Dec 27 2023 66 mins

Some podcast apps may not display links from our show notes (see below) properly, so we have included a list of links at the end of this description. * For over two decades, Deborah Egerton has been teaching the Enneagram—a popular personality typing tool—as a valuable device for social justice and anti-racism. In this episode Dr. Egerton is joined by Micky ScottBey Jones, Enne