This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in the final week of our series of conversations entitled, Holding It Together: Practical Nonduality. We talked about how we can love people without the need for them to mirror ourselves back to us, and practiced holding space for the dignity of others with whom we disagree. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in the fourth week of our series of conversations entitled, Holding It Together: Practical Nonduality. Our friend Rev. Dr. David Moore joined us for a conversation on nonduality as it relates to race and justice work in our divisive times here in Santa Barbara and beyond. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in the third week of our series of conversations entitled, Holding It Together: Practical Nonduality. We talked about how to overcome the dualism of the sacred and the secular, accessing a place of inner peace and forgiveness that moves us beyond throwing stones at each other. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in the second week of our series of conversations entitled, Holding It Together: Practical Nonduality. We talked about the prayer of the heart, and how we can move beyond our dualistic thinking through transformative life experiences and contemplative practices. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in the first week of our series of conversations entitled, Holding It Together: Practical Nonduality. We talked about how non duality invites us to see the interconnectedness of all things in people with whom we disagree, and how moving from compassion can help us to build bridges across lines of difference. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on Ash Wednesday, which includes a contemplative meditative practice called grief, gratitude, grit, and grace. Tim them gives a short reflection on our common humanity as an invitation to receive ashes. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in the final week of our series of conversations entitled, Coming Home: On Finding the Second Naïveté. We talked about how to find the inner child and recover a sense of childlikeness, wonder, and awe after suffering. 

This is the recording from our live event with author Brian McLaren at the Community Environmental Council HUB in Santa Barbara. In this episode, Brian delivers some insights from his new book, Life After Doom - Wisdom and Courage for a World Falling Apart, and invites the audience to consider more hopeful and resilient scenarios related to climate catastrophe. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in week 5 of our series of conversations entitled, Coming Home: On Finding the Second Naïveté. We talked about how to practice self-welcome, grounding our sense of self in a divine presence within us, so we might discover the true self within us. 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering in week 4 of our series of conversations entitled, Coming Home: On Finding the Second Naïveté. We talked about how to deal contemplatively with our existential dread, the courage and compassion that is forged in us when we do, and moving through fear toward peace.