Human Ethos Project

Tamara McLellan suggests that we can feel our way to freedom by honouring our darkness, balancing our nervous system, seeing treasure in the trigger, being confessional instead of professional, and cultivating a practice that brings us home daily. By finding freedom within, we become quantum activists and begin to free the world.

Informed by traditional indigenous knowledge, Wade explores topics with us such as: ecological and social responsibility, the nature of ‘medicine’, healthy masculine embodiment, the role of music in healing, and more.

This conversation gently unravels the various layers that arise when committing oneself to the development of a more finely tuned feeling sense. Ruth also shares the beautiful depth of her experience integrating her own life’s teachings from personal grief after the unexpected death of her partner James.

Let's drop in and discuss what we are dismantling together and what may emerge from the process. Hopefully, we can illumine some of that which is needed from us to begin anew.

Blessed are we for people like Joe Brewer who have dedicated their lives to understanding and enacting that which is most honest and crucial during these challenging times. In this conversation, Joe introduces us to his conceptualization of how to design a pathway for humanity that will lead us toward true earth regeneration.

reVillager is a revolutionary app that is designed to support the building of real community connections. Jasper and Sante are two of the three co-founders that have taken it upon themselves to lead this monumental shift in social media, away from exploitation and attention mining, toward a more intimate human experience.

This conversation aims to constructively dismantle the outdated perspectives that allow for the divisive prejudice and structural violence which characterizes much of our modern civilization. Victoria Santos offers us a new way of perceiving through the intentional cultivation of consciousness. If we are to reimagine our communities in a way that is truly inclusive, then we need to purposefully and positively engage with all those aspects within ourselves and our communities that hold us as being separate from one another. Furthermore, we must know how to effectively empower our youth in such a manner that they need not retrain their precious heart-minds to be better aligned with the principal unity that is necessary for a resilient global community.

Tim held the position of director of the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research since its inception in 2004 until 2020. He is also a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Victoria and has published over 400 research papers, book chapters and monographs, plus several books on prevention and treatment issues.

David Abram is an American philosopher and ecologist who beautifully bridges the philosophical tradition of phenomenology with ecological and environmental concerns. Abram is the first contemporary philosopher to advocate a timely reappraisal of animism as a complexly nuanced and uniquely viable worldview — one which roots animal (including human) cognition in the sensitive and sentient dance of creation. The chapter that will be covered from this particular literary piece transmitted through Abram is titled, Reciprocity, and will be followed by a post-reading discussion.

This is an intimate conversation with a dear friend and mentor, who has offered himself up to the transformational fires of (Grand)fatherhood, and who can confidently be considered a man of wisdom.