Impact!

May 16 2024
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Impact! is a podcast that creates change WITH our listeners, using the power of prayer and intention to bring about positive change in our world. Each week, we explore one aspect of what it means to pray, offer healing, or send intention out into the world, and by so doing, to actually have an impact. We welcome anyone who wants to play their part in creating peace, harmony and healing in the world.

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Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Lebanon

May 16 2024 21 mins  
In this edition of Impact!, Ellen and Clive delve into the complex and often overlooked issue of Lebanon's refugee crisis. They discuss potential focal points for healing through our intentions and prayers, including compassionate treatment of refugees, a swift international response, smart diplomacy, and peaceful resolutions to conflicts involving Hezbollah and Israel. The hosts a

The Power of the Priestesses (Part 2)–Earth Healing and Light Holding with Sabine Engelhardt

May 11 2024 37 mins  
In the second part of her conversation with Clive, Earth healer and retreat founder Sabine Engelhardt describes how going off grid involves getting away from romantic ideas about nature. While there's great value just being with nature, we need to get our hands dirty for our intuition to be fully reawakened. Sabine shares her fear that humanity is ill-prepared humanity for changes

A Deep Dive into the US Campus Protests Sparked by the Gaza Conflict

May 09 2024 28 mins  
In this insightful episode, we explore the recent wave of campus protests across the United States, ignited by the ongoing conflict in Gaza. We delve into student responses to the crisis, specifically looking at campuses of prestigious universities like Columbia University and Yale. We offer a neutral examination of both pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian sentiment rise on US campuses,

The Power of the Priestesses (Part 1)–Earth Healing and Light Holding with Sabine Engelhardt

May 04 2024 35 mins  
In the first of an absorbing two-part conversation, Clive chats to Sabine Engelhardt, whose remarkable calling prompted her to leave her career in architecture to discover a sacred cave on the Croatian island of Brač, and to found a unique retreat center that honours our connection with the Earth and our innate but often forgotten ability to sense and work with Her energies. An in

Vaccinating the World

May 02 2024 20 mins  
In this special episode, as we approach the end of World Immunisation Week, we take a special look at how the world is performing in terms of vaccinating its people. This month also marks the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), which was created by the World Health Assembly with the aim of vaccinating all children against diphth

How to be Mindful when Bad Things Happen–Brother Dave

Apr 26 2024 44 mins  
This week Ellen talks to Zen teacher Brother Dave Kenneally, aka the Marine Monk, whose practice and study as an ordinand in the tradition of the late Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s Order of Interbeing spans more than twenty years. Brother Dave and Ellen talk about how to respond to hearing bad news in a mindful way, the exhaustion of near constant exposure to news that many of us

Unraveling the Conflict Between Armenia and Azerbaijan

Apr 24 2024 19 mins  
Join hosts Ellen Benz and Clive Johnson as they delve into the roots of the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict, exploring the history, on-going tensions, and geopolitical intricacies of the long-standing conflict between the two former Soviet states. The countries’ principal dispute concerns the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, a mountainous and heavily forested area in the Karab

Earth Vessels with Judith Tripp

Apr 20 2024 33 mins  
In this episode, we are thrilled to welcome the gifted teacher, pilgrimage leader, psychotherapist, spiritual counsellor, and musician Judith Tripp, who talks to Ellen about her deep work with women to embrace the Divine Feminine, and in leading ministries focused on healing our Mother Earth. Judith talks about a calling that she has shared with other wise souls to imbue the Earth

Israeli-Iranian Relations: Historical Perspectives and Future Implications

Apr 18 2024 23 mins  
Join hosts Ellen and Clive as they navigate the convoluted history and current tensions between Iran and Israel in this special episode. We dive into the geopolitical, ideological, and historical factors that have shaped the Iranian-Israeli relationships, providing a comprehensive primer into the roots of the rivalry, analyzing the key periods that have affected this bond, and expl

Global Healing Response: Our Connection and Responsibility Towards Earth

Apr 11 2024 35 mins  
In this special episode, as Global Healing Response moves its attention from water to Earth and as Earth Day approaches, we take a look at our vital dependency on and responsibility for caring for the element called earth – the hard, solid constituent of our planet that includes rocks, the soil, sands, and the great, shifting tectonic plates that move imperceptibly below our feet