Conversations with artists, thought leaders, activists, farmers, educators, creatives, and other polymaths where we tell our stories, expand our histories, and hold space for new ways of being.

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Most recent episode:

 

YUSEF SEEVERS
Pleasure, Grief, and Intimacy of the Human Experience

Yusef Seevers is back for a second time on the Collaborative Alchemy Podcast! Yusef is an actor, musician, dancer, choreographer, and creative entrepreneur. Our first conversation in December of 2020 was about radical self-love, Black joy, and the healing power of meditation. In this episode, we talk about the importance of foregrounding pleasure as a means of befriending our more difficult emotions. We talk about the why and how of creative process as a way to develop a personal vocabulary our experience of grief. Yusef also asks some big questions about how to normalize emotional intelligence training and somatic practice for kids. Join us for this enlivening conversation as we discuss grief, parental loss, and what happens when our sense of balance is rocked.

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Past Episodes:

 

LEGACY, LANGUAGE, AND LAUGHTER

WORKING WITHOUT A NET

YOUR ANCESTORS ARE CALLING FOR YOU

SUPERHEROES, SCI-FI, AND SELF-EXPRESSION

CREATIVE PROCESS AND THE ART OF INQUIRY

WOUNDED, WORTHY, AND DEDICATED TO JOY

CREATIVITY, IDENTITY, BELONGING, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE

THE POWER OF A WELL-TOLD STORY

COLLECTIVE HEALING AND THE WELL RESTED ARTIST

CLIMATE JUSTICE, ECO GRIEF, AND THE ROLE OF STORYTELLERS

MATRILINEAL KNOWLEDGE AND THE MAGIC OF LIMINAL SPACE

NATURE IS YOUR CREATIVE PARTNER

CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS OUTSIDE OF ACADEMIA AND INSTITUTIONS

THE BIRTHRIGHT OF BREATH, BODY, AND JOY

DEEP NOTICING, CREATIVE POLLINATION, AND BEEKEEPING

CATALYTIC LEADERSHIP AND ROOTING INTO OUR “WHY”

 

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Sarah Greenman (she/they) is the creator and host of the Collaborative Alchemy Podcast. She is a creative alchemist, artist, cultural worker, community organizer, story-teller, and archeologist of the soul. Sarah is an intuitive contractor, tapping on the walls of our lived experience to find weight-bearing beams of truth on which we may build our own work. She is a process junkie, a practical optimist, an eco-spiritualist, and a creative midwife. Situated in the vast and rural, unincorporated wilderness of Eastern Oregon, Sarah is an ear to the ground, listening for the low rumbling of Earth’s call. Her tools are simple yet potent: stories, art, and nature.

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