Podcast appearances and mentions of meredith little

As our tiny Gaian Road Team tuned in and listened to instructions from Gaia, each impulse led us to make inexplicably coincidental meetings with the Edgeworkers, Social Alchemists, Riftwalkers, Bridge Builders, and Possibilitators who are inventing and inhabiting next culture - Archiarchy.  These remarkable beings commit to themselves as much as to the novel outcomes they are creating. They build-out new gameworlds and inhabit them. They trust discoveries from their own research and freely share everything they have learned for the benefit of all.  We are so happy to share these intimate conversations from around the world with you. Here you get to meet so many radiant next-culture Beings in our Gaian Road Team Interviews. We hope you become as inspired and hopeful as we are about what is possible. After watching this entire video, please register Matrix Code GAIAROAD.58 in your free account at StartOver.xyz. Thank you. Related websites: https://schooloflostborders.org/guide... https://lostborderspress.org/books/p/... (The Book of the Vision Quest) http://gaianroadteam.mystrikingly.com http://howtoplay.mystrikingly.com http://spaceport.mystrikingly.com http://adulthood.mystrikingly.com http://possibilitymanagement.org http://possibilitatortraining.mystrik... http://gaiangameworlds.mystrikingly.com http://sparks-english.mystrikingly.com http://distinctionary.mystrikingly.com http://nextcultureradio.mystrikingly.com http://archiarchy.mystrikingly.com http://initiations.mystrikingly.com http://startoverxyz.mystrikingly.com

In this episode, Adam and Miriam chat with Meredith Little to discuss rites of passage, the life and death cycle of an organization, new paradigm shifts, and much more. Meredith Little and her husband Steven Foster co-founded Rites of Passage Inc. in 1976 and The School of Lost Borders in 1981, pioneering new methods and dynamics of modern pan-cultural passage rites in the wilderness and creating innovative practices of “field eco-therapy.” She has dedicated her life to returning meaningful and culturally appropriate rites of passage ceremonies to all people in support of the natural cycles of living and dying necessary for healthy lives and a healthy world. Meredith is also dedicated to reconnecting people with the very roots of their own nature reflected in the wisdom of the land around them. She lives a passion for the diversity of life, for the nature of human, for the voice of ceremony, and for the healing qualities of community. Learn more: http://www.lostborderspress.org/ and http://www.schooloflostborders.org/ The Beyond Listening Podcast is brought to you by We are Open Circle, a social impact business that helps change-makers, organizations and community groups evolve and thrive with integrity. Our Beyond Listening Program was designed to transform the way organizations work with complexity, rapid change, and the wisdom of diversity, in a world that demands constant collective adaptation. Sign up for our newsletter for more Beyond Listening Podcasts, and view our upcoming trainings.

Plotkin encourages us to seek out a soul encounter in order to find our ecological niche and our place in the larger world. He encourages us to do the necessary work to become true “adults,” which has nothing to do with our chronological age. We must do this work in order to give our gifts back to the web of life and become embedded in life-enhancing activities.  Bill Plotkin, Ph.D, has been a psychotherapist, research psychologist, rock musician, river runner, professor of psychology, and mountain-bike racer. As a research psychologist, he studied dreams and nonordinary states of consciousness achieved through meditation, biofeedback, and hypnosis.Currently an ecotherapist, depth psychologist, and wilderness guide, he leads a variety of experiential, nature-based individuation programs. He is the author of Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche (New World Library 2003, Nature and the Human Soul: Creating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World (New World Library 2008) and The Journey of Soul Initiation: A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries, and Revolutionaries (New World Library 2021)Interview Date: 1/21/2021     Tags: Bill Plotkin, Steven Foster, Meredith Little, C.G.Jung, Journey of Soul, metaphor of caterpillar and butterfly, William McDonough, soul, Dreams, Personal Transformation, Spirituality

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How do we have more conscious partnerships? Transformative Loving co-founder and author of The Love Map, Jeannie Daly-Gunter is this week's #earthconversepodcast guest. She shares her journey with nature, her conscious relationship with her husband Mark and how nature is the ‘untapped secret of the relationship world'. (60 mins) We talk about: · Soul actualization, and seeking ‘what is my soul here to contribute?' · “Growing up in a normal dysfunctional family” · Her first experience of death · Finding herself in the outdoors, literally and figuratively · The 5 year plan..and falling apart.. · Turning to nature to heal and picking up the right book at the right time · Taking herself on a vision quest and changing her life's course · Entering into a conscious relationship. A wedding vow that ‘our relationship is a blessing to the world' · Transformative Loving – co-regulation, and nature as a co-regulator · Tapping into transpersonal resources –including relationship angels, ancestors and nature. · Her book: The Love Map – and invitation for singles, couples and those in relationship. · “There's a lot of middle ground…how can you ongoing cultivate your connection?” EPISODE EXTRAS: Go directly to these links to access Jeannie and Mark's work and to get in contact: Website: https://www.transformativeloving.com Subscribe to their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg1214WXPucEDzWyTROxrSg/videos?view_as=subscriber Their Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/couplesworkshops The Love Map: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Map-Reignite-Reconnect-Relationship/dp/1733905588/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+love+map+gunter&qid=1599086778&sr=8-1 Jeannie refers to Meredith Little and Steven Foster - founders of rites of passage organisation, The School of Lost Borders. Here is the link to their programmes and resources/books http://www.schooloflostborders.org NEW HERE? ABOUT EARTH CONVERSE AND I Hi, I am Penelope Mavor, podcast host and founder of Earth Converse a nature-based leadership collaborative helping leaders have the conversations they need to: with themselves, each other and the earth. Please get in touch for executive coaching and leadership development programmes. https://linktr.ee/EarthConverse Email: info@earthconverse.com And the wind, the trees...

Ready to flow like a river? My first guest conversation on the #earthconversepodcast is with the wise wonderful Emerald North (approx 1hr36min) “A woman of the earth, artist, poet, a guide and most of all, a human being that is deeply connected and living with, on and through the living earth around her day to day”. I was guided by Emerald on my first vision fast, had mirroring training with her, and assisted a vision fast in 2019, all through School of Lost Borders www.schooloflostborders.org (founded by Steven Foster and Meredith Little). Here is an opportunity to listen, and feel the experience of an elder, speak her truth. Flow with it like a river. There are so many gems (as you would expect from an Emerald) but our conversation includes: how the river spoke to her; the power of prayer, of really singing, and gardening; an invitation to go out and reclaim something of your innocence; rites of passage and the 4 shields wheel of wholeness; listening, mirroring and seeing our gifts; a reminder that we need to give things we love, time and power; and getting a feel for her art EPISODE EXTRAS: In addition to her work with School of Lost Borders, as you will hear, Emerald will also be running a 18 month Rites of Passage Ceremonial Immersion in Southwest US during 2022-2023. In her words “it will be community-based deep dive into what it means to be whole human beings: alive to our wildest fury, our erotic and blessing power, our grief, our tricksterliness, and our ineffable love. The land, as always, is our guide and teacher; and the heart of all our gatherings will come from sitting with Creosote, listening to the whisperings of soaring Hawk and the cadence of the Chama river, dancing with shadow under the midnight moons. Over the course of a year and a half together—in person on the land, in zoom gatherings, and through email councils— our community will create that rare kind of human container that both nourishes the ceremonial spirit in each of us and that feeds Ceremony itself”. The Rite of Passage Ceremonial Immersion is designed those who have previously completed at least one three or four day vision fast and are deeply inspired— enough to commit to five ceremonies and to the community that forms to enact them. For more information please contact her directly on emnorth@gmail.com Her website is https://earthtonesart.com/contact.html This podcast is also available on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19xV8YD403U&t=13s NEW HERE? ABOUT EARTH CONVERSE AND I Hi, I am Penelope Mavor, podcast host and founder of Earth Converse a nature-based leadership collaborative helping leaders have the conversations they need to: with themselves, each other and the earth. Please get in touch for executive coaching and leadership development programmes. https://linktr.ee/EarthConverse Email: info@earthconverse.com And the wind, the trees...

This is the first part of my conversation with Joyce, who has some wisdom to share about why connection--to all things--is important, and how the disconnection our Western civilization teaches us is harming so many things. Some mentions: Grandmother's Counsel the World, a book Joyce is reading. MK Nature Center, a branch of Idaho Fish & Game that teaches outdoor education and gives wildlife experiences only minutes from downtown Boise. Steven Foster and Meredith Little founded the School of Lost Borders, of which the medicine wheel is an important conceptual piece. Their book, The Four Shields, describes in more detail the directions I roughly sketched in this episode.

Pevny shares the three phases of coming into elderhood: severance, neutral zone, and reincorporation. We need to sever ourselves from old identities in healthy and honoring ways. Then we enter a neutral zone where the seeds of possibility are gestating. He encourages us to deepen our spirituality so that we can move into reincorporation.Ron Pevny is the founder and director of the Colorado-based Center for Conscious Eldering. He’s a certified Sag-ing® Leader with Sag-ing® International and conducts workshop and retreats across North America. He is the author of Conscious Living, Conscious Aging: Embrace & Savor Your Next Chapter (Atria Paperback 2014)Tags: Ron Pevny, aging, saging, elderhood, eldering, elders, Stephen Foster, Meredith Little, vulnerability, fear, rite of passage, isolation, inner journey, inner guidance, cohousing, elder wisdom circles, Saging International, R. Buckminster Fuller, Bucky Fuller, Joseph Campbell, Jack Williamson, Intergenerational Writing, Patricia Sun, gratitude, grace, rites of passage, Jan Richardson poem “The Map You Make Yourself”, vision board, creative expression, dreams, solitude, synchronicity, Personal Transformation, Health & Healing, Community

Pevny shares the three phases of coming into elderhood: severance, neutral zone, and reincorporation. We need to sever ourselves from old identities in healthy and honoring ways. Then we enter a neutral zone where the seeds of possibility are gestating. He encourages us to deepen our spirituality so that we can move into reincorporation.Ron Pevny is the founder and director of the Colorado-based Center for Conscious Eldering. He’s a certified Sag-ing® Leader with Sag-ing® International and conducts workshop and retreats across North America. He is the author of Conscious Living, Conscious Aging: Embrace & Savor Your Next Chapter (Atria Paperback 2014)Tags: Ron Pevny, aging, saging, elderhood, eldering, elders, Stephen Foster, Meredith Little, vulnerability, fear, rite of passage, isolation, inner journey, inner guidance, cohousing, elder wisdom circles, Saging International, R. Buckminster Fuller, Bucky Fuller, Joseph Campbell, Jack Williamson, Intergenerational Writing, Patricia Sun, gratitude, grace, rites of passage, Jan Richardson poem “The Map You Make Yourself”, vision board, creative expression, dreams, solitude, synchronicity, Personal Transformation, Health & Healing, Community

"How you live is how you die," Dr. Scott Eberle — a physician specializing in end-of-life care — tells us in today's interview. Having spent many years at the bedside of the dying, Scott has learned some important lessons from those participating in their final rite of passage, and he's here to impart a bit of that wisdom with us today, inspiring us to live and die more consciously. Dr. Scott Eberle is a medical director of Hospice of Petaluma in Petaluma, California, as well as an experienced teacher and author, and a wilderness guide.  Together with Meredith Little of the School of Lost Borders, he co-created “The Practice of Living and Dying,” an innovative wilderness curriculum exploring the human experience of being a mortal animal. In this interview, we explore the practice of living and dying and what it means to be a mortal animal. Consciously approaching life and death calls for us to "confront the difficult questions" and "have the difficult conversations" right now, and Scott shares how he has integrated these practices into his own life. We discuss Scott's experiences working in hospice, thoughts on death acceptance, the common regrets of the dying and much more. If you’re a mortal animal, you’ll want to hear this conversation! EPISODE BREAKDOWN: Show Introduction: Hunt + Gather updates: Transitioning to autumn, wild cherries & trout fishing Reflecting on the Moon Dance Q&A: Beard-scaping Introducing Dr. Scott Eberle What is hospice and how Scott came to work in this field What it’s like to interact with people in their dying time Denial of death Lessons learned from the bedside of the dying The top five regrets of the dying What led Scott back to the natural world Experiencing the AIDS epidemic The practice of living and dying Blending holistic wellness with our modern healthcare system Being a mortal animal Confronting the difficult questions and conversations now Thoughts on the soul and life’s purpose What Scott has come to hope for his own dying time Scott’s prognosis for the future of the human species

Join us for a journey into the wilderness as we explore Vision Quests with experienced guide David Wendl-Berry and your host, Angel Healing® Founder, Calista. Call in to talk to David and listen live as both he and Calista share their personal quest jounreys. David Wendl-Berry trained as a wilderness guide at the School of Lost Borders in California, under the guidance of Steven Foster and Meredith Little – pioneers who first brought the Vision Quest into Western culture. David is the preeminent Vision Quest guide in the UK and has been taking people through this sacred process for 20 years.Join us Septmeber 8th at 8pm UK time (12pm pst / 3pm est). Click 'follow' on the blogtalk page to receive a show reminders. To contact David or for more info on Vision Quests please visit http://ritesofpassageuk.com/

Join us for a journey into the wilderness as we explore Vision Quests with experienced guide David Wendl-Berry and your host, Angel Healing® Founder, Calista. Call in to talk to David and listen live as both he and Calista share their personal quest jounreys. David Wendl-Berry trained as a wilderness guide at the School of Lost Borders in California, under the guidance of Steven Foster and Meredith Little – pioneers who first brought the Vision Quest into Western culture. David is the preeminent Vision Quest guide in the UK and has been taking people through this sacred process for 20 years.Join us Septmeber 8th at 8pm UK time (12pm pst / 3pm est). Click 'follow' on the blogtalk page to receive a show reminders. To contact David or for more info on Vision Quests please visit http://ritesofpassageuk.com/

Scott Eberle, MD, and Rob Feraru The Final Crossing: Learning to Die in Order to Live Join Commonweal’s Susan Braun and Commonweal Cancer Help Program alumnus Rob Feraru in a conversation with Scott Eberle, MD—a physician specializing in end-of-life care, who helped School of Lost Borders Founder Steven Foster at the end of his life in 2003 and is the author of The Final Crossing. As he has written in the book: “So now I am a physician who specializes in supporting life transitions. I am a hospice doctor who sits with the dying in their homes, and I am a rite-of-passage guide who sits with ‘the dying’ out in the desert.” Scott Eberle, MD Scott serves as medical director for Hospice of Petaluma in his hometown of Petaluma, California. Having first learned the science of medicine at U.C. San Francisco medical school, he then learned the art of medicine from countless people living and dying with AIDS in the 1980s and 1990s. He survived this difficult time by regularly seeking sanctuary, either in monasteries or in the natural world, completing over 150 retreats during a 15-year period. He recently ended a 16-year career as an an AIDS specialist so he could focus his energies on hospice work and “The Practice of Living and Dying” work he does with Meredith Little, co-founder of the School of Lost Borders. Rob Feraru Rob is an 11-year survivor of metastatic kidney cancer. Before taking early retirement in 2004, he worked for 25 years for the State of California, (7 years for the State Senate and 18 for the California Public Utilities Commission). He attended the Commonweal Cancer Help Program (in 2005) and the Practice of Living and Dying at the School of Lost Borders (in 2008). He lives in Berkeley. Find out more about The New School at tns.commonweal.org.