Gwen talks with longtime Carbondale local, Elizabeth Cammack, about why she helped create the Demeter Community Garden, and its many benefits to personal and community resilience. Elizabeth shares some of the lessons she has learned about grassroots community efforts, and about how gardens can build community connection and collaboration to face the increasing pressures from climate impacts.

Gwen talks about the beauty of the world amd how following and creating beauty inspires us to follow our True North and work on what we care about most.

This month, Gwen speaks with Kate Eckman: an athlete, leadership coach, and meditation teacher. Eckman recently published a book, "The Full Spirit Workout: A Ten-Step System to Shed Your Self-Doubt, Strengthen Your Spiritual Core, and Create a Fun and Fulfilling Life."

This month on The Inner Game, hear from Barbe Chambliss, a psychotherapist and mediator who aims to wake up the conscious peacemaker in others. She wrote “Women Peacemakers,” directed the Center for Conflict Resolution in Aspen, and she facilitates Restorative Justice Circles in her community.

Gwen talks with Bill Plotkin, a wilderness guide and eco-depth psychologist. As the founder of Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute, he's guided thousands of people on the journey of “soul initiation.” Thus, his new book, The Journey of Soul Initiation – A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries and Revolutionaries.

This time on The Inner Game, Nikki Beinstein and April Crow-Spaulding join host Gwen Garcelon to explore how community members can respond to injustices in our communtiy in a way that allows for compassion, connection, understanding, and solutions.

Aspen native Reuben Sadowsky joins Gwen to talk about how he is bringing his conscious business experience to the new Beyul Retreat (previously the Diamond J). His values of honoring the land, personal and spiritual well-being, conscious community, and artful living are all expressed through the Beyul vision and mission.

Host Gwen Garcelon offers listeners a chance to let go of 2020 and embrace the possibilities in 2021, as well as face ongoing challenges with empowerment and purpose. She encourages practices like learning deep resiliency, practicing active hope, gathering around food, and cultivating The Force: yes, the Star Wars one.

Gwen welcomes Robyn McLean back to the show. McLean works on systems-level change through her business, Tapestry Evaluation and Strategy in Kamloops, British Columbia in Canada. She has a particular focus on food systems and agriculture as a key driver for transformative change in communities.

This month on The Inner Game, Gwen catches up with local performing artist Alya Howe who is a local dancer and storyteller, among other things. They talk about her spiritual background, ways she seeks peace, and the power of storytelling.