On this episode of The Inner Game, host Gwen Garcelon reflects on conversations she has had on the show throughout 2022.

Evolutionary singer-songwriter, Peter Mayer, joins Gwen this month for a conversation about the unique spiritual expression and activism he brings to his music, and life. Peter’s song “Awake” is also the music you hear introducing The Inner Game each month.

This month on The Inner Game Gwen speaks with Gene Dunaway, an attorney and international personal development trainer. Gene participates with Gwen in an evolutionary community called The New Republic of the Heart, which supports its participants to catalyze radical whole system change in the world.

From the Archive:Carbondale resident Illène Pevec, PhD, author of “Growing a Life", initiated her first award-winning school gardening program in 1998 at an elementary school in Vancouver, Canada. Since then, she has gained national and international recognition for her work.

Gwen is in conversation this month with Anne White, Executive Director of Lead With Love, a local nonprofit whose mission is to shift culture from fear to love. They share insights from the new short film produced by Lead with Love, about the neuroscience of spirituality.

Educator and activist, Sonja Linman, will join Gwen on The Inner Game for a Part 2 from their conversation in May. Sonja will share her thoughts on shifting education from standardized to personalized to serve children more fully during this time of deep cultural change.

Sonja Linman joins Gwen on The Inner Game today. Sonja is a longtime beloved local educator, an addictions counselor and specialist, and former candidate for Garfield County Commissioner. More recently she has developed a beautiful piece of land outside of Glenwood Springs as a retreat center to serve the wellbeing of community servants like teachers, counselors and first responders.

Gwen talks with Laurie Herrick, author of Choose Abundance, about how to create a “culture of philanthropy” to transform and evolve nonprofit fundraising. The ideas in this book also have profound implications to how we approach climate change, or any of the complex challenges we face.

In this episode of The Inner Game, Gwen speaks with Finlay Hinde about a community of leaders called “A New Republic of the Heart.” The community is pioneering collective connection, communication and support strategies to be of greater benefit to the complex challenges we face as a human society.

In this episode of The Inner Game, Gwen interviews Diana Alcantara, a teacher at the Carbondale Community School who started their successful school garden and has grown the garden curriculum since 2014. Diana shares about how the garden continues to demonstrate how valuable it is to the development and healing of children, and how important that is in these challenging times.