It's the final episode of our liminal space (lockdown) mini-series with Berry and Dr Arne Rubinstein, exploring the elements of a rite of passage as they relate to this profound moment in time.In this chat, they continue to explore the re-integration phase of a rite of passage, particularly how we can hold ourselves and one another accountable for the growth, lessons learned and gifts revealed during the transformation process.We've so enjoyed producing this series for you, and would love to kno...
May 22, 2020•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast There was everything from beaming smiles to wet cheeks in the Zoom room this week with the glorious and exuberant Ronni Kahn. Ronni is the founder and CEO of OzHarvest, Australia's leading food rescue organisation. They've been at the forefront during this time feeding thousands of vulnerable people a week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
May 20, 2020•32 min•Transcript available on Metacast He's one of the great visionaries of our time and we got a juicy hour with him in our weekly lunchtime wisdom hour. It's Damon Gameau, the extraordinary filmmaker behind 2040. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 13, 2020•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast We've separated, we've transformed, now how do we go back into the world as our changed selves? In this episode, Berry and Arne explore the final stage of a rite of passage: re-integration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 08, 2020•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week we chatted with Dr Arne Rubinstein about the DF mini-series he’s been making with Berry on the opportunity of this moment for transformation. Arne unpacks some of the elements and stages of a rite of passage and why they are so valuable to us right now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 06, 2020•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Berry and Arne continue unpacking the process of a healthy transformation, this week looking at two more essential elements: the creation of a vision for the future, and the honouring of one's unique gifts and talents for the world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 01, 2020•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Welcome back to the Zoom Room for our Dumbo Feather Conversation with Claire Dunn! Claire is a re-wilding facilitator, mentor, writer and much-loved Dumbo Feather contributor. In 2010, she spent a year living in the bush without matches, which profoundly shaped the course of her life and her relationship with the more than human world. We chatted with Claire about her re-wilding practices and how they are supporting her at this time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 29, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Transcript available on Metacast It’s episode 2 of our Dumbo Feather mini-series “Transformation Through Rites of Passage,” featuring Berry in conversation with friend and the founder of the Rites of Passage Institute, Dr Arne Rubinstein. After chatting about separation as the first major path of a rite of passage, Berry and Arne go deep on the next stage - transformation - exploring the critical role that both the sharing of stories and challenges or ordeals play within that. With lightness, depth and humour, Berry and Arne mo...
Apr 24, 2020•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast A new podcast from our friends at Small Giants. What shadows in our collective consciousness have created our flawed economic system? What could a new system that operates within the ecological boundaries of this planet look like? How can we dream into a more regenerative system for all? Impact Investor, Berry Liberman, publisher of Dumbo Feather and co-founder of Small Giants, is joined by three Jungian analysts, Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart and Lisa Marchiano to analyse capitalism through a Jun...
Apr 24, 2020•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nearly 200 folks around the world gathered in the Zoom Room for our Monday lunchtime chat with legendary Dharma teacher, Catherine Ingram. In the 1970s, Catherine co-founded the most prestigious Buddhist Centre in the west - the Insight Meditation Society - and since then has written seminal works, led retreats, run a weekly Dharma Dialogue series, and been a voice of nourishment and solace to thousands. This is an edited version of her chat with Dumbo Feather's Berry Liberman and Nathan Scolaro...
Apr 22, 2020•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this special mini-series of the Dumbo Feather podcast, our publisher and editor-in-chief Berry Liberman examines this moment in history as a rite of passage with good friend and founder of the Rites of Passage Institute, Dr Arne Rubinstein.Over the next few episodes, Berry and Arne will unpack the elements and stages of a rite of passage and look at how they relate to our individual and collective lives. They will ask, "How can this period be experienced as a rite of passage?" and "What does ...
Apr 17, 2020•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week in our lunchtime Conversation Series, we chatted with singer-songwriter, storyteller and cover star of Issue 60, Lydia Fairhall about who's really in the driver's seat: body or spirit? This is an edited version of her chat with Dumbo Feather's Berry Liberman and Nathan Scolaro. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 15, 2020•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Every Monday at 12:30pm, we're inviting Dumbo Feather guests to share their wisdom for this time with members of our community over Zoom. This week we heard from social researcher and community champion Hugh Mackay. This is an edited version of his chat with Berry Liberman and Nathan Scolaro from Dumbo Feather. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 08, 2020•46 min•Transcript available on Metacast Every Monday at 12:30pm, we're inviting Dumbo Feather guests to share their wisdom for this time with members of our community over Zoom. This week we heard from Dumbo Feather publisher and Small Giants co-founder Berry Liberman about leaning into new economic systems and re-imagining a future where all life can flourish. This is an edited version of her chat with Dumbo Feather editor Nathan Scolaro. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Apr 01, 2020•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast In this podcast, five poets share a piece on extinction and their feelings associated with our changing planet. We hear from Bruce Pascoe, Danusha Lameris, Mark Tredennick, Peter Brown and Fleassy Malay. If you want to hear more, check out the incredible Extinction Elegies project, put on by Red Room Company.Thanks to Cheshire Audio and YAGA for editing this episode of the Dumbo Feather podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 17, 2020•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our first episode for 2020 is about empathy, and it’s a panel discussion recorded live at the M Pavillion in Melbourne late last year. The event was to celebrate A Mile In My Shoes, an interactive art project that invited participants to quite literally put someone else’s shoes on and hear a recording of their story. Dumbo Feather editor Nathan Scolaro was joined by Dharma teacher Catherine Ingram and psychotherapist Sarah Pant to explore their experiences of the project, and also their thoughts...
Jan 17, 2020•37 min•Transcript available on Metacast Warren Roberts is a proud Thunghutti and Bundjalung man who founded YARN Australia, a social enterprise focussed on creating relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. In this chat with his friend and filmmaker Anton Rivette, he shares the work YARN has been doing since 2007, and the potential for healing social wounds by coming together in facilitated storytelling circles. Show notesThis podcast was edited by Lizzie Marton - the music is by Dennis Liu. Learn more about YAR...
Dec 17, 2019•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast For our 40th podcast we’re sharing a catch-up between two old friends, Clare Bowditch and Dumbo Feather publisher Berry Liberman. As part of her national tour to promote her debut book, your own kind of girl, Clare visited Byron Bay and made space for this talk.Only two friends catching up could pack this much love, honesty, tears and laughter into half an hour. In the process of writing her book, Clare has confronted the pain and suffering of her 20s, burdened by a deep sense that she didn’t de...
Nov 27, 2019•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast This month on the podcast we're sharing a conversation that happened at Dumbo Feather HQ, between journalist and author, David Leser, and interviewer, Michaela Kalowski.In this intriguing interview David speaks about the backlash he received to writing Women, Men and the Whole Damn Thing, his account of the #MeToo movement. He discusses the historical roots of misogyny and the evolution of patriarchy, a system that he believes does so much harm to both women and men. And reflects on his own upbr...
Oct 28, 2019•34 min•Transcript available on Metacast This month on the podcast we had the pleasure of sitting down with farmer and winemaker Matt Purbrick. You may already know Matt from Grown and Gathered, where he and his wife Lentil celebrate the joys of seasonal planting and bringing people around a table to enjoy the harvest. As a fifth-generation winemaker, viticulture is in his blood and he’s been busy making, bottling and drinking delicious, organic, sustainable wines with Lentil and his dad Alister. We loved listening to Matt talking abou...
Sep 26, 2019•29 min•Transcript available on Metacast Nathan talks to actor-turned-award winning documentary maker Damon Gameau at the Byron Writers Festival. Actor-turned-award winning documentary maker, Damon is the man behind the 2014 expose That Sugar Film, and more recently has released 2040. 2040 is an extraordinary piece of storytelling that shows us what the future might look like if humanity embraced the environmental solutions that are currently available to us. Things like regenerative farming, electric cars, new economic models, and emp...
Aug 20, 2019•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Former palliative care specialist and now writer and farmer, Stephen Jenksinson, has a lot to say about grief, death and belonging. In this lecture, Stephen shares with us his ideas on ageing and elderhood in today's world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jun 20, 2019•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast This month our editor Nathan Scolaro, speaks with someone he feels very fortunate to speak with: Irish theologian, poet and mediator, Pádraig Ó Tuama on the topics of courage, storytelling, language, religion and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
May 22, 2019•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast David Holmgren speaks with permaculture design expert and Dumbo Feather friend, Dan Palmer Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Apr 18, 2019•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast This month on the podcast we’re hearing from TV presenter Osher Günsberg. Most well-known for telling other people’s stories—through his hosting gigs on The Bachelor and Australian Idol—Osher is now sharing his own life experiences, detailing what it’s like to live with mental illness in his raw and real book, Back After the Break. In this episode, recorded live for an event with our friends from The School of Life, Osher chats with Sian Prior on the theme of vulnerability—exploring social anxie...
Mar 21, 2019•35 min•Transcript available on Metacast Our conversation this month is with someone who has been hugely influential to us — Parker Palmer, a writer who works at the intersection of activism, social change and spirituality. Three decades ago, Parker helped establish the Centre for Courage and Renewal, which runs programs for people to come together in community and learn to lead from within. Here, Parker and Dumbo Feather editor Nathan talk about everything from eldership in the modern age to the importance of showing up in the world a...
Feb 26, 2019•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast For over thirty years, childbirth educator, birth attendant and counsellor Rhea Dempsey has been helping women to feel more empowered and better prepared when navigating childbirth. This month on the podcast, she chats with Dumbo Feather friend and host of the All Being Well podcast, Kayla Robertson about everything from why our attitudes towards birth have changed so dramatically since the ‘80s to how we can help create better birthing options for mothers and babies. We hope you find their conv...
Jan 22, 2019•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast This month on the podcast we’re a sharing a piece of spoken word storytelling by New Zealand-born writer and occupational therapist, Kirsten Taylor. Throughout this episode, Kirsten explores the changing relationship she’s had with her body from a young person to now. Our editor Nathan Scolaro first heard this story told live at The Weekly Service, a secular gathering in Melbourne where people share stories, contemplate ideas and engage in conversation—he was captivated by Kirsten’s story from t...
Dec 19, 2018•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast In front of a live audience, for an event by our friends at The School of Life, Nigella Lawson and Hugh Mackay chat about everything from why cooking for others is one of the most significant ways we can show people we take them seriously, to the role of food and self-care, to why the first thing Nigella bought when she moved into her new home was a table. It’s a beautiful ode to the role of food in our lives—how it can bring us all closer together, and ultimately help us to find belonging.Show ...
Nov 15, 2018•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast This month we’re bringing you a special episode of the Dumbo Feather Podcast, inspired by Issue 56 of Dumbo Feather—Embracing the Wild. We teamed up with New York based sound recordist, Matthew Mikkelsen, to take you inside one of the world’s last remaining natural amphitheatres—Olympic National Park in Washington State. We recommend you find a quiet place to listen to this one, to fully immerse yourself in the magic that Matthew has recorded. Show notes: Big thank you to Matthew Mikkelsen for h...
Oct 18, 2018•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast 
