Joseph always wanted to be a teacher. Being a leader and facilitator came naturally and impassioned him to pursue that dream. He officially began living the teaching dream in 1999 by teaching middle school in the California public school system. After a decade of teaching youth he was inspired to focus his teaching efforts on expanding the minds of his fellow educators by providing them with the skills to adapt their instruction to the needs of today’s classroom and ensure their students’ success. His passion and curiosity for how we as humans learn led him to California Institute of Integral Studies where he earned his M.A. in Somatic Psychology. This education gave him an understanding of how the interaction of our body structures with our thoughts, feelings, and actions affect how it is we learn. Today he is a teacher and counselor at an alternative public high school in San Francisco, a Somatic Therapist, and an Open Floor Movement teacher in the SF Bay area, as well as at Esalen Institute in Big Sur.

Jess Huon has been engaged in meditative and embodiment practices since the age of seventeen. She has trained in traditional Buddhist monastic settings, in inter-faith contexts of meditative inquiry, and also within long periods of solitary forest practice. This training has taken place in India, Australia, Spain, and the USA. In 2009 Jess was awarded a scholarship to study Buddhist texts at Spirit Rock, near San Francisco. She holds a bachelor of Creative Arts (VCA), and a post graduate degree in Therapeutic Arts practice (RMIT). Jess brings traditional teaching alive in a fresh, feminine, and transformative manner. A natural orator, her talks have been described as “street language for the soul.” Whilst deeply informed but not bound by tradition, her style is grounded in contemporary life.

Jess has taught with other teachers from the Australian Insight tradition, with Open Dharma and with Christopher Titmuss.  She co-facilitates annually on Yatras  (meditative walks in different Australian wilderness areas – see https://yatra.org.au) with Ronny Hickel.  She is a guest speaker at the Annual Emerging Women Live Festival in New York. She is a published author (The Dark Wet, Giramondo Publishing), and when based in Melbourne, writes and co-directs for rollercoaster, a theatre company comprising actors with intellectual disabilities. Jess is currently under the tutelage of Sofia O Diaz, a master in female embodiment, in the United States. She teaches regularly with the Melbourne Insight Meditation Group.

In this episode we talk all things...
 - Placemaking
 - Generating Aliveness through Place
 - Participatory Democracy
 - Enriching culture in cities
 - Empowered & Resilient Citizenship
 - Regenerative places 

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Gilbert Rochecouste's
Gilbert is recognised locally and Internationally as a leading voice in placemaking and the creation of vibrant, resilient and loved places. He is a sought after speaker and skilled facilitator for community and stakeholder engagement activities and has worked with over 1000 cities, towns, mainstreets and communities over the past 25 years. Gilbert co-founded the EPOCH Foundation promoting the adoption of business ethics. He has been on the boards of Ross House, Donkey Wheel House Trust and Hub Australia. Gilbert leads a multi-disciplinary team of placemakers, researchers and designers.

You can find out more about Gilbert's work at
https://www.villagewell.org/

In this episode we talk all things...
 - Leading from the Heart
 - Intercultural Awareness
 - Bringing your whole self to work

You can find the video version of the podcast at
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Nina's Bio
For over 25 years, Nina Merrens has designed, coached, and facilitated a range of
interventions for international organizations in the public, private and non-profit
sectors, including leadership development workshops, and organizational development
interventions. As an expert consultant, trainer and coach, her focus is on global
leadership training, organizational culture interventions, international team
development, intercultural competency coaching, and personal leadership.
In this capacity, she has supported numerous clients in Europe, United States, Middle
East, Africa and Asia, including Beiersdorf AG, SAP, Microsoft AG, W.L. Gore &
Associates, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Daimler, Audi, ABB and the World Bank.

Nina also works as a leadership coach on the High Performance Leadership and
Advanced High Performance leadership programme at the IMD business school in
Lausanne, Switzerland for the last 6 years. Since January 2012 Nina has been working
for the United Nations Secretariat Management Development Programme (MDP) as
lead facilitator and coach – She has led leadership sessions for the UN for example, in
Dakar, Senegal, Bangkok, Thailand, Geneva, Switzerland and Vienna, Austria.
In addition, she has been a guest lecturer since 2001 at the University of Passau,
Germany on Intercultural Competency and Authentic Leadership and taught the
month-long Integrative leadership program for graduate students at Esalen Institute,
California “Leading from the heart”

You can find out more about Nina's work at
http://www.njm-intercultural.de/about

Today we cover all things...

 - Rewilding the Urban Soul
 - Belonging to the Landscape
 - The language of Birds
 - Practices for ecological awakening
 - A year without matches
 - Deep nature connection
 - Sit spots

Claires Bio
Claire Dunn is a writer, speaker, transpersonal counsellor, and a passionate advocate for rewilding our inner and outer landscapes. She worked for many years as a campaigner for the Wilderness Society and now facilitates nature-based personal development and leadership through rewilding, deep nature connection and contemporary wilderness rites-of-passage. In 2010, Claire lived in the bush for a year as part of a wilderness survival program, an experience she wrote about in My Year Without Matches. She currently lives in Melbourne. www.naturesapprentice.com.au

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