Islands of Sanity Archives with Carolyn Baker, Ph.D.
Transformational Leadership In Turbulent Times With Dr Monica Sharma
04-13-18 Transformational Leadership In Turbulent Times With Dr Monica Sharma Dr. Monica Sharma was trained as a physician and epidemiologist and worked for the United Nations for 22 years. She is the author of the book “Radical Transformational Leadership” which has...
Be The Change: Deep Resistance: What Sacred Activism Looks Like
01-12-18 Be The Change: Deep Resistance: What Sacred Activism Looks Like Paul Engler who the founding director of the Center for the Working Poor, based in Los Angeles. Paul is also one of the founders of the Momentum Training, which educates hundreds of activists...
The Endless Gifts of Grief
11-17-17 The Endless Gifts of Grief At this moment the world is absolutely marinated in grief, yet most humans fail to recognize that reality. Even worse, few people in this culture have safe places to express their grief or people who will support them in doing so....
Humanity’s Blind Spot Is Humanity’s Undoing; Grief As The Doorway To Acceptance And Even Joy In The Face Of Our Demise
08-18-17 Humanity’s Blind Spot Is Humanity’s Undoing; Grief As The Doorway To Acceptance And Even Joy In The Face Of Our Demise Carolyn and consciousness researcher and author, Peter Russell, discuss humanity's deadly trajectory of acceleration and singularity which...
Responding to Our Predicament with Acceptance and Action
08-04-17 Responding to Our Predicament with Acceptance and Action Reflecting on her last interview with a millennial guest, Carolyn and retired surgeon, Harvey Austin, author of Elders Rock, discuss our planetary predicament and how wise men and women of all ages...
Across The Generations Between Boomer And Millennial: Navigating Endings And Beginnings At All Ages
07-22-17 Across The Generations Between Boomer And Millennial: Navigating Endings And Beginnings At All Ages Carolyn the boomer and Tyler Hess the millennial discuss our terminal predicament from the perspective of both of their generations. The...
Grief, Love, Gratitude, and Joy
07-14-17 Grief, Love, Gratitude, and Joy Carolyn speaks on grief, love, gratitude, and joy
Living Resilience: Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe
06-23-17 LIVING RESILIENCE: Living Resiliently in the Dark Night of the Globe Carolyn, Andrew Harvey, and Dean Walker discuss the upcoming Resilience Bridge pilot courses and Andrew and Carolyn share their experience of creating and finalizing their forthcoming book....
Living Resilience: Dean Walker and Carolyn Baker Launch A New Body of Work
06-02-17 Living Resilience: Dean Walker and Carolyn Baker Launch A New Body of Work Dean Walker and Carolyn Baker share their new body of work which will provide a safe container and extensive tools for building community and skill sets for living resiliently in...
Animal Wisdom: Learning From And Helping Animals In The Age Of Extinction
05-12-17 Animal Wisdom: Learning From And Helping Animals In The Age Of Extinction Carolyn and Dr. Linda Bender, DVM, discuss what everyone can do locally and beyond to make life easier for all species. Animals are our teachers, and our work is to listen to and...
Reclaiming Your Roots and Restoring Earth Community
04-28-17 Reclaiming Your Roots and Restoring Earth Community Carolyn and Pegi Eyers discuss her work and her book, Ancient Spirit Rising. We are the generation that has to bring the truth of colonization out into the open, learn the truth about white supremacy,...
Energy Resources in a Time of Climate Change Denial
04-14-17 Energy Resources in a Time of Climate Change Denial Carolyn and energy activist and researcher, Nancy LaPlaca discuss management of precious natural resources in a time of climate change denial. What is fact? What is fiction in terms of clean energy, and...
When Your Therapist Totally Gets the Global Crisis
04-07-17 When Your Therapist Totally Gets the Global Crisis Carolyn and psychotherapist Jonathan Stein discuss the global and cultural stresses that compel some people to seek therapy. They notice many more therapists waking up to the global crisis and many more...
Redefining Hope in the Face of Climate Trauma and Climate Grief
03-31-17 Redefining Hope in the Face of Climate Trauma and Climate Grief Carolyn and author, climate activist, and ecopsychologist Zhiwa Woodbury discuss the formation of trauma and its manifestations in climate chaos as well as all of the emotions that are stirred...
The Global Crisis: Signing On To The Journey Of Transformational Resilience
03-17-17 The Global Crisis: Signing On To The Journey Of Transformational Resilience Carolyn & Myrn Inparis talk about what happens to us when we allow ourselves to fully wake up to the global crisis. Often the uncertainty pushes us to do deep inner work which...
The Only Games In Town: Deep Ecology, Deep Inner Work, And Rigorous Sacred Activism In The Age Of Extinction
03-10-17 The Only Games In Town: Deep Ecology, Deep Inner Work, And Rigorous Sacred Activism In The Age Of Extinction Carolyn and Val Silidker engage in an especially juicy conversation on collapse, the New Cosmology, the Universe Story, and why it is essential for...
The Collapse of the Oroville Dam
03-03-17 THE COLLAPSE OF THE OROVILLE DAM: METAPHOR AND MIRROR OF SOCIETAL COLLAPSE Carolyn and Ivey Cone, longtime friend of the New Lifeboat Hour and Northern California resident living near Oroville, cover the collapse of the dam in depth and the potential for a...
Happy Valentine’s Day Do You Have a Home?
02-24-17 HAPPY VALENTINES DAY. DO YOU HAVE A HOME? On this Valentine's Day, activist Mimi German and Carolyn discuss not romantic love, but love and compassion for homeless people in Portland and around the world. How does climate change affect their lives, and what...
Navigating A Tsunami of Political and Cultural Upheaval
02-17-17 Navigating A Tsunami of Political and Cultural Upheaval Will Wilkinson returns to the New Lifeboat Hour to discuss with Carolyn how we ground ourselves and stay grounded in the midst of the current cultural upheaval as well as in the larger picture of...
Kali Takes America: Are We With Her?
02-10-17 Kali Takes America: Are We With Her? Harvard educated scholar of Comparative Religion and Mythology, Vera de Chalambert and Carolyn discuss the mythology of the 2016 election and the planetary rite of passage that Kali, the fierce female force of the Hindu...