In this solo episode Eric reflects on trauma and the need for social justice work to bring people together. He also reflects on the history of power elites deliberately dividing subjugated peoples into factions and… Read More
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Episode 68: Helping Men Reclaim Empathy and Vulnerability Using Nature-Centered Psychotherapy, with Christian Dymond
Christian Dymond is a marriage and family therapist and the founder of Nature centered Psychotherapy, a model which integrates multiple modalities of psychotherapy with an emphasis on nature, farm, and animal-based therapeutic experiences. In this episode,… Read More
Episode 67: Telepathic Gorillas, Black Panthers, and Confronting the Realities of Colonialism
This episode is dedicated to Daniel Quinn, an author who passed away on February 17, 2018. In this solo episode Eric talks about some of the themes he found most inspiring in Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael… Read More
Episode 66: Digging Deep Into Food Security, Food Justice, and Food Sovereignty, with Teresa Mares
Teresa Mares is a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Vermont. Her teaching and research focus on food systems, and she has written widely on the topics of food justice… Read More
Episode 65: Sexuality, Hunting, and Pursuing Empathy Over Conquest, with Leonore Tjia
Leonore Tjia is a coach, educator and writer whose work focuses on sexuality, power and wholeness. She is a sexual empowerment coach who helps people heal from sexual shame, embrace their desires and see sexuality… Read More
Episode 64: Oppression, Isolation, and Holistic Resistance, with Aaron Johnson
Aaron is an earth builder, an artist and an activist. He graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2007 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts. He leads a mentoring program called Turn It… Read More
Episode 63: Destigmatizing and Decriminalizing Immigrant Identities, with Lauren Markham
Lauren Markham is a writer and reporter based in Northern California and works with immigrant communities in the Bay Area, in California. Her book The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of… Read More
Episode 62: Plant Medicine and Place-Based Healing, with Katherine Elmer
Katherine Elmer is a clinical herbalist at the Burlington Herb Clinic, founder of Spoonful Herbals, and educates people on the value of plant-based healing. She teaches courses on herbal medicine at the University of Vermont,… Read More
Episode 61: Seeing Our Privilege and Prejudice, and Pushing Forwards in the Face of Criticism, with Brian Ricca
Dr. Brian Ricca is the superintendent of the Montpelier Public School System, in Montpelier, Vermont. He joins Eric to talk about Montpelier High School’s recent decision to fly a Black Lives Matter flag for the… Read More
Episode 60: Thoughts On Prejudice, Empathy, and the Power of Transformative Experiences
In this solo episode Eric talks about how the prejudices people harbor serve as the foundations of the discriminatory behavior that causes so much harm in our modern world. He explores how the atrophy of… Read More
Episode 59: Law, Power, and the Erosion of US Food Sovereignty, with Heather Retberg
Heather Retberg operates Quill’s End Farm with her husband in Penobscot, Maine. She advocates for local food sovereignty ordinances in her home state, and played a role in crafting the Maine Food Sovereignty Law that… Read More
Episode 58: Eating, Ethics, and Crafting Our Identity, with Charlotte Biltekoff
Charlotte Biltekoff is faculty at the University of California at Davis, where her research strives to build bridges between scientific and cultural approaches to questions about food and health. She is the author of the… Read More
Episode 57: Trust, Empathy, and the Future of Civil Disobedience, with Tim DeChristopher
Tim DeChristopher is best known for disrupting a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas auction in December of 2008 where he outbid oil companies for parcels around Arches and Canyonlands National Parks in Utah… Read More
Episode 56: Empathy, Indigeneity, and Facing the Costs of Empire, with Eleanor Hancock
Eleanor Hancock is the director of White Awake, a project that brings mindfulness and contemplative spiritual practice to white affinity work focused on racism, white supremacy, and collective liberation. She has trained directly with Joanna Macy… Read More
Episode 55: Ceremony, Connection, and Becoming A Man Among the Helpers, with Sal Gencarelle
Salvatore Gencarelle is the founder and director of the Helpers Mentoring Society. He was mentored for over a decade by Lakota healer Benjamin Godfrey Chipps, and now acts as a ceremonial guide, creator, singer and more… Read More
Episode 54: Maturing into Adulthood, Navigating Change, and Rites of Passage, with Darcy Ottey
Darcy Ottey helped to found Youth Passageways, a diverse network of folks helping to regenerate healthy rites of passages into adulthood. She spends her time teaching, organizing, mentoring, and consulting, and is nearing completion of… Read More
Episode 53: Intergenerational Trauma and Making Peace With European Heritage, with Lyla June
Lyla June is a Diné singer, writer, and activist. Her music and message centers around intergenerational and inter-ethnic healing, as well as Indigenous philosophy. She is a scholar of global cycles of violence that eventually… Read More
Episode 52: Stuff, Stories, and the Insatiable Realm of Hungry Ghosts
In this solo episode Eric talks about where the value of things comes from. He talks about the difference between the utility that an item offers and the value carried by that thing in the… Read More
Episode 51: Hunger, Complexity, and the Commodification of Food, with Frederick Kaufman
Dr. Frederick Kaufman is the author of Bet the Farm: When Food Stopped Being Food, as well as other books, and has also written for Harper’s Magazine and Slate. He’s a Professor at City University… Read More
Episode 50: Humor, Hurt, and Living Ultra Spiritually in a World Full of Shadows, with JP Sears
JP Sears is an emotional healing coach, video producer, teacher, speaker, and curious student of life. His work empowers people to live more meaningful lives. His book How to Be Ultra Spiritual: 12-1/2 Steps to… Read More
Episode 49: Accountability, Privilege, and Navigating the Minefields of Sexism, Racism, and Other -Isms
In this episode of A Worldview Apart, Eric talks about recent cases of entertainment and media icons who have stumbled due to allegations of racist behavior, sexual harassment, or sexual assault. He uses these examples… Read More
Episode 48: Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Cheapening of the World, with Raj Patel
Raj Patel is a writer, an activist, and an academic. He’s perhaps best known for his book Stuffed and Starved, but in this episode he and Eric talk about his most recent book, A History… Read More
Episode 47: Erasure, Tribal Recognition, and the Long Path of Decolonization, with Vera Longtoe Sheehan
Vera Longtoe Sheehan is a culture bearer, artist, educator and activist who is a member of the Elnu Abenaki Tribe in southern Vermont. In this episode she talks with Eric about the political importance of… Read More
Episode 46: Nature Connection, Scavenging, and the Quickening Pace of Change, with Thomas Elpel
Thomas Elpel is the founder of Green University, the Outdoor Wilderness Living School, and HOPS Press. He has authored several books, and has produced videos on topics ranging from wilderness survival and botany to stone… Read More
Episode 45: The Raw Paleo Diet, with Derek Nance
Derek Nance was featured in a 2013 Vice article titled This Guy’s Eaten Nothing But Raw Meat For Five Years, as well as a follow-up article a couple years later. His dietary practices were also… Read More