"We have the need to be a part of a group. This is human. But it is different - belonging vs fitting it. We can belong, but if we fit in we cut off parts of ourselves. And this is all about the need to see what we do unconsciously to ourselves. That is the point of visuality exploration - to really see." Do we see "reality", or do we see only what we are exposed to, layered with our expectations of what we are going to see based on the conditioning of our past? Visual anticipation is very real, ...
Feb 18, 2025•47 min•Ep. 36
Yes, the Other-Than-Humans that we share the world with are always acting on us! In fact, it seems that our connection to our own lives arises out of how we are affected by our environment. "Affective participation is what connects us to the world...without affect there is no connection" says researcher Dr. Lena Gan, who shares her insights on how entangled we are with all of the elements in our environment, and how affected we are (or could be!) by the plants, animals, and things that we share ...
Jan 26, 2025•48 min•Ep. 35
Creativity is generally seen as something that humans do to the things in their environment. But what if creativity is really a process where every thing in the environment is an acting agent equal to, and entangled with, the human agent? In this episode Possibility Studies Network member, Professor Pamela Burnard of the University of Cambridge in the UK, shares her insights on how the environment and every thing in it is always acting on us to inform our every creative act. She begins with her ...
Dec 30, 2024•55 min•Ep. 34
Who doesn't love a happy accident!? Serendipity is the unexpected thing that happens in the space between you and the world, that you have the ability to notice and take action on. In a time of many great global challenges when collectively we need all the help we can get, is there a way for each of us to intentionally create more serendipitous opportunity from seeming mishaps? In this conversation, serendipity researcher Dr. Wendy Ross shares her thoughts on the roles of wisdom & skill, cul...
Dec 03, 2024•48 min•Ep. 33
"An encounter with wonder leaves us with something to wrestle with" In this conversation with David Mattson of Drexel University, he shares his insights on the phenomenon of wonder for shattering perceptions, opening doors to new possibilities, and helping us find our way to what really matters (turns out...it's each other). Check out David's wonderful wonder blog https://typeshare.co/wonderblog More on the Possibility Studies Network https://www.possibilitystudies.net/ More on Sarah https://www...
Nov 13, 2024•48 min•Ep. 32
"The world is not just the way that we think it is." Questioning assumptions can be anxiety provoking, but possibility lives in the realm of what we don't know yet. In this conversation Prof. Vlad Glăveanu, Founder of the Possibility Studies Network, shares his thoughts around the importance of embracing "not knowing" (and all of the discomfort that comes with that) for innovation, collective change, and finding the joy and power of wonder. More on the PSN https://www.possibilitystudies.net/ Mor...
Oct 22, 2024•47 min•Ep. 31
Paul Shorthouse of Circular Economy Leadership Canada gives the lowdown on how to reduce, eliminate, reuse or recover up to 50% of the carbon currently lost as waste in our cycles of production. Maybe the economy AND the environment can both win if we turn our linear mindsets, models and systems into circular ones? (PS...This is so much more than chucking the "right" thing in the recycling bin.) More on Paul & Circular Economy Leadership Canada: Home - Circular Economy Leadership Canada And ...
Oct 07, 2024•50 min•Ep. 30
How to put possibility at the center of an exploration into possibility? Simple...ask the archetypes! Working through the lens of an archetypal understanding of self, along with the powerful approach for personal inquiry that is Family Constellations, can bring great illumination into any issue. In this episode I share a family constellations approach for understanding how your dominant archetypes may be unwittingly playing against you as a part of the issues that present in your life. Includes:...
Sep 20, 2024•53 min•Ep. 29
Samhain on October 31st marks the Celtic New Year, and is a time where the veils between the worlds are said to be the thinnest. What does this mean for our outer experience and for our inner one? Here I take a look at the origins of Samhain, how the customs of modern day Halloween are rooted in many of the Samhain rituals of our ancestors, and how we can make use of this kind of liminal time, crossing the thresholds of our own consciousness in to the challenging but rewarding territory of facin...
Oct 22, 2023•51 min•Ep. 28
We are each immersed in personal, collective and universal energetic fields, but what are these fields anyway and how do people work with them for the purposes of healing? In this conversation with Akashic Records reader Megan Sirett, we share our own insights on "the field", how we approach it, and what we can all learn from leaning in to this layer of understanding about our true natures. More on Sarah at humhealing.com and Megan at megansirett.com.
Jun 20, 2023•47 min•Ep. 27
April 2022 marks the 100 year anniversary of the (re)introduction of Reiki by Mikao Usui into our conscious human experience. That this healing ray has gone from being shared through a spiritual empowerment experience of one Japanese man in 1922, to now being sacredly held and used by millions of people across the globe, is a testament to its power and also to the deep integrity of Mikao Usui and the first few generations of Reiki Masters. This episode was recorded as part of a virtual event on ...
Apr 08, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 26
More on Barry and his work at https://www.healingbodytherapeutics.com/ More on Sarah https://www.humhealing.com/
Dec 20, 2021•55 min•Ep. 25
More on Lisa https://www.lisasabatini.com/ and on the KIHC website https://kihc.ca/team/lisa-sabatini-shamanic-practitioner/ More on Sarah https://www.humhealing.com/
Aug 28, 2021•49 min•Ep. 24
More on the Land Conservancy for Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington http://www.landconservancykfla.org/ Find them on FB https://www.facebook.com/LandConservancyKFLA Ontario Land Trust Alliance https://olta.ca/ Nature Conservancy of Canada https://www.natureconservancy.ca/en/
May 11, 2021•41 min•Ep. 23
More on Mary Kate and Anwaatin: Anwaatin | Indigenous Climate Change Action More on Great Bear and Nature Bank: Great Bear Forest Carbon Project | NatureBank Some of Mary Kate's Book Suggestions to Sarah: Lee Maracle, My Conversations with Canadians; Arthur Manual, The Reconciliation Manifesto; Larry Sault (CEO, Anwaatin Inc.), The Lie that Binds.
Feb 18, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 22
More on Mona and the Janati Yoga School here: https://janatiyoga.com More on the Grief and Ayurveda workbook here: https://janatiyoga.com/the-grief-and-ayurveda-workbook/ Mona’s podcast Confessions of Inappropriate Yoga Teachers on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/ConfessionsCIYT
Jul 15, 2020•59 min•Ep. 21
For more about Susan and the Earthfire Institute visit https://earthfireinstitute.org/
May 20, 2020•59 min•Ep. 20
More on Belinda at http://www.hunahealing.com/
Apr 30, 2020•46 min•Ep. 19
More on Ayana, her podcast, and her work: https://forthewild.world/
Mar 21, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 18
Cloughjordan ecovillage: http://www.thevillage.ie/ For more information on the sustainability network in Ireland visit www.cultivate.ie/ EcoVillage Network In Europe: https://www.ecolise.eu/ Internationally: Foundation for Intentional Communities: https://www.ic.org/
Mar 08, 2020•51 min•Ep. 17
Host Sarah Knight reflects on her journey into a year of possibilities, and shares her insights on the significant role of healing work in supporting the forward progress of moving beyond our climate crisis and in to a better way of being and living.
Feb 02, 2020•11 min•Ep. 16
More on Karen on facebook (sheis.me) https://www.facebook.com/groups/nolimitsbusinesswoman/ and her website www.nolimitsbusinesswoman.com More on Sarah at https://www.humhealing.com/
Nov 29, 2019•44 min•Ep. 15
More on Meik at https://www.meikwiking.com/ More on The Art of Making Memories at https://www.penguin.co.uk/makingmemories More on Sarah at https://www.humhealing.com/
Oct 30, 2019•37 min•Ep. 14
To Speak for the Trees: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/575305/to-speak-for-the-trees-by-diana-beresford-kroeger/9780735275072/ Call of the Forest: http://calloftheforest.ca/ WildX Event, Oct 5, 2019: https://www.wildxevent.com/ Treesisters: https://treesisters.org/
Sep 24, 2019•55 min•Ep. 13
More on WildX Event: https://www.wildxevent.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/events/339724733649021/ ReWild Montreal on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/Rewildmontreal Albert Nerenberg: https://www.elevatorfilms.com/, www.albertnerenberg.com, www.laughercize.com/, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Nerenberg
Sep 20, 2019•41 min•Ep. 12
Host Sarah Knight discusses the role of connection and compassion in planning how we live and build, with Prof. Leela Viswanathan of the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. Leela shares her thoughts as to how many of our urban environments promote disconnection as well as environmental degradation. Her insights into how we can better work together to meet both the pressures of our changing climate, and those of our lonely hearts, can be applied not on...
Sep 04, 2019•38 min•Ep. 11
Host Sarah Knight provides a short update on the science of our climate crisis, following on from her participation at a major international earth science congress. She gives an overview of the some of the basics of climate change, plus some insights on the possible path that we are on, and what that might mean for humanity. As we are all being asked to engage in facing this crisis, now, more than ever, we need to be able to take in the facts, process what they mean for us, and turn our apathy a...
Aug 02, 2019•35 min•Ep. 10
More on Alayna and her work https://hopefulyouth2019.wixsite.com/earthlawstudents
Jul 02, 2019•30 min•Ep. 9
More on Jennifer Millar at jennifermillar.org
Jun 04, 2019•37 min•Ep. 8
Host Sarah Knight discusses how the stories that we hold inside keep us separate from each other, our environment, and even ourselves, with Shamanic Practitioner Michelle Girouard. Michelle shares how our outer reality is directly shaped by our inner world, and the importance of re-imagining our belonging in the world for everything from deepening personal relationships to transformative global change.
May 07, 2019•32 min•Ep. 7
