Happy New Year Wondrous Ones!

Welcome to 2026. I hope the holiday season was a nourishing one, and that you’re doing what you need to stay grounded and purposeful as the world continues to take us on this wild ride.

In 2025, the Wonder Dome hosted 26 conversations with 30+ incredible guests. These folks came from a multitude of distinguished disciplines, including the arts, sciences, literature, poetry, philosophy, spirituality, futurism, visual design, placemaking, and activism.

Each one of them served to remind me of our shared humanity amidst the political upheavals, violent conflicts, economic disruptions, and ecological losses facing our singularly beautiful and precious planetary home.

As the Wonder Dome team transitions into 2026, we’re taking a pause to prepare a new wave of thought-provoking, heart-opening interviews to add to this labor of love that is the Dome. We’ll be back online in the Spring.

Until then, we’ve pulled together ten of the most stimulating conversations of 2025, listed below in chronological order. It wasn’t easy, because honestly, each and everyone of these 26 conversations is rich with depth, meaning, and insight.

Somewhere in all of these, I hope you find the one that you most need right now, so you can make your way into this new year with a bit more compassion, courage, and curiosity.

1. #156 A Hospitable Space (with Parker Palmer and Ariel Burger)

   Through music, poetry, and reflections on humanity’s current moment, Parker and Ariel speak to being “awake” to the realities of hardship and suffering experienced by others; to be a witness rather than a spectator; and how through creation of “hospitable spaces” we can engage across even the most cavernous of divides.

2. #157 EcoResponsive Environments (with Prachi Rampuria and Soham De)

   Housing is one of the greatest adaptive challenges we currently face as a species. It’s also a key solution to many other complexities around population growth, community, civic engagement, and the ecological crisis. Prachi and Soham share another vision for what place making can be — one that calls for the building of a new ship to address today’s challenges with tomorrow’s solutions.

3. #161 Dreamtime of the Gods (with Eleanor Robins)

   Eleanor writes in service of imagination. A steward of dreams and stories, Eleanor studies the phenomena of the imaginal realm and how it shapes us and our relationship with reality. This one goes particularly deep, so listen from somewhere spacious and quiet.

4. #163 Generative Cultural Renewal (with Sousan Abadian and Ariana Abadian-Heifetz)

   In this special inter-generational episode, Sousan and Ariana — mother and daughter — join together to discuss cultural relativism; reducing our “trauma footprint”; and humanity’s need to refresh our culture and consciousness as we evolve towards a healthier collective wellbeing.

5. #167 Everyday Mysticism (with Robin Alfred)

   What does it mean to live a mystical life? Not on a mountaintop or in a monastery, but in the midst of work deadlines, childcare chaos, and the messiness of everyday life? Robin shares how we might apply the wisdom and presence of the mystics to our families, communities, and ourselves.

6. #169 Soul Journeys (with Owen & Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin)

   What are we for? This timeless question becomes the ground on which brothers Owen and Mícheál walk in this conversation. As musicians, poets, and teachers, they inherit and carry forward a lineage of song and story that reveals how art is not separate from life but a mirror of it—a way of giving voice to the unspoken parts of ourselves.

7. #170 The Flow of Power (with Dr. Annice Fisher and O.B. Amaechi)

   What is power? Where does it come from? How does power flow through our lives, our communities, and our choices? Annice and O.B. speak to how power is misused, how it can be reclaimed, and how each of us can channel it toward healing and justice.

8. #172 The Oracle in your Dreams (with Martin Boroson)

   What if every night, while you sleep, a deeper part of you is trying to speak? Martin invites us to consider dreams as nightly messages from the larger intelligence that lives through us — not random noise, but a form of guidance. Listen and wander through questions of consciousness, creativity, and what might happen if we let our dreams shape how we act, lead, and love.

9. #174 Radical Listening (Robert Biswas-Diener and Christian van Nieuwerburgh)

   Robert and Christian provide a framework for cultivating the most vital (and often neglected) skill of radical listening. In an increasingly divisive, distracted, and digitized world, it’s never been more essential to harness beyond a means of simply hearing words, but to co-create meaning and connection.

10. #175 Sacred Activism (with Nina Simons and Deborah Eden Tull)

    Nina and Eden delve into how to respond to ecological breakdown, political polarization, and personal loss not with despair, but with love and relational awareness, inviting us to see community and inter-being as the grounding force that holds us through times of crisis and possibility.

11. #179 The Art of Team Coaching (with Alexander Caillet)

    Alexander traces the roots of his craft back to his own origin story: a childhood marked by constant relocation, othering, and longing for belonging. It was as a student at Columbia that he discovered his calling in group dynamics, and his experience of feeling like an outsider looking in became the foundation for a career in helping others learn to belong with each other.

BONUS: I also had the distinct honor to guest on the fantastic Coaches Rising podcast, hosted by leading-edge coach and evocative interviewer Joel Monk. It was a meaningful and rich expression of my passion and mission as a coach. We explored the path to coaching mastery, including archetypal encounters, integrating wildness into coaching, using embodiment as a tool, and becoming a vessel for forces greater than yourself.

Check out our conversation here: “Including the Mythopoetic” with Andy Cahill.

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Either way, know that every one of these conversations is a humble gift, and it wouldn’t be the same without you on the journey alongside us.

Go well & go bravely,

-Andy