A conversation with Victoria and podcast producer Stephen Henning, exploring the vision for the show and the wild spirituality movement itself. Why is it so important to remember how to talk to trees and hummingbirds at this time of collapse and unraveling?

An intimate conversation with Four Arrows, Don Trent Jacobs, who has studied and written about the need to learn from and transition to a worldview embedded in most Indigenous cultures that is nearly opposite to the dominant capitalistic way of seeing the world as opportunity for profit:  Equality rather than hierarchy, sacred relationship with Nature rather than utlitarian objectification.  His book, Restoring the Kinship Worldview, offers wisdom from Indigenous voices for rebalancing life on Earth.

Justine Huxley is director of the Kincentric Leadership Institute, which is focused on how we need to re-weave our species back into the wider web of life in order to meet the many levels of crises we face.  It will take a new paradigm of leadership.

At the threshold of a collective and pervasive sense of ecological and cultural doom, Brian McLaren, public theologian and author of many books including his latest timely work, Life After Doom, offers a pathway through to a new story of deeper kindness and interconnection.

Gary is a Franciscan, farmer, advocate for the oppressed, and prolific author.  In this friendly conversation, Gary shares several unexpected and loving practices for deepening into relationship with your place, as a sacred companion.  

Sisters Valerie and Victoria wrote the Field Guide to Church of the Wild as a way for people to gather with others in their community and restore sacred conversation with their place...as church.  Director of the Wild Church Network, Valerie shares her experience with hundreds of wild church leaders and the emerging practices of the growing wild church movement.

Master gardener at Ireland's largest national park, Séan is a Hedge Druid and keeper of Celtic wisdom, dedicated to rewilding his indigenous homeland.  A fun and fascinating conversation drawing us all to reconnect with ancestral kindred relationship with the forests and lands of our people.

Listen in on a conversation with Victoria and two of the Seminary of the Wild Earth Guides, long time ecoSpiritual Directors Deb Metzger and Elizabeth Rechter, former director of Stillpoint, as they discuss what they're learning through guiding the first two years of the EcoSpiritual Direction training program.  At a time of great ecological and cultural collapse, how can companionship with others on their spiritual journeys in collaboration with the holy wild help people build resilience and deepen love?

Five years ago, Joanna Macy spoke to the participants of Seminary of the Wild as one of our most beloved Wild Luminaries.  I'm releasing her recorded webinar as a tribute to remember one of the most important voices and visionaries in this movement to reconnect with one another and Earth with love.  Rest is peace, Joanna, you remain in our hearts and continue to provide direction for us all.

Dr. Craig Chalquist, author, scholar, mythologist now serving as program director of Consciousness, Psychology and Transformation at National University, integrates depth psychology, ecopsychology, mythology, wisdom studies, terrapsychology and philosophy because he dwells at the intersection of psyche, story, nature, and reenchantment.  He talks with Victoria about how visions of how things could be are rooted in deep belonging and conversation with a land that is alive and responsive. 

Dr Kling is director of Process and Faith, an organization focused on the spirituality of process theology of John Cobb and Alfred North Whitehead.  Integrated with Jungian psychology Sheri's stories invite us to trust the flow of becoming, where even separation is part of the holy dance that leads us back into connection with Earth, Spirit, and one another.

Dr Forrest Inslee is director of Circlewood, a 40 acre learning center for people to broaden their faith to include the beloved community of the natural world.  A robust conversation about the shifts happening within the church toward a worldview of kinship and a way of faith that reconnects Place with people.

Minister, meditation leaders, mystic, Rev Ellick's search for a better way to live the path of Jesus led him to a seven year practice under Tibetan Buddhist teacher where he could begin to reimagine a spirituality of direct experience.  Naming the pitfalls of abstraction in religion, Micheal and invites a return to embodied relationship with the more-than-human world.

(postponed till Fall due to Monica's schedule) What do you think the 2% of old growth forests have to say to us about our current global unraveling?  Biologist Monica Gagliano, author of Victoria's new favorite book, Thus Spoke the Plant, shares about her scientific research about plant communitcation:  how plants speak to one another with sound and how she has -- and we all can can -- enter into intimate conversation with plants and trees.