Tidings podcast Archives - Hazel Kahan

Tidings podcast Archives - Hazel Kahan

Tidings podcast Archives - Hazel Kahan

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Ecotherapist and author Jeanne Malmgren asks: can we still love Nature?

Ecotherapist and author Jeanne Malmgren asks: can we still love Nature?

Nature-based psychotherapist and author Jeanne Malmgren whose Rx Nature Substack encompasses the idea of Nature as her “co-therapist”, speaks to us from storm-ravaged Sunset, South Carolina in the immediate aftermath of the December wildfires in California as she explores several complex and evolving answers to her question: “Can we still love Nature?”  (WPKN, February 12, […] The post Ecotherapist and author Jeanne Malmgren asks: can we still love Nature? appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Feb 11, • 29:29

Syrian-American musician-composer Malek Jandali on building peace through music

Syrian-American musician-composer Malek Jandali on building peace through music

We return to a Tidings interview recorded in 2017 with musician, composer and humanitarian activist Malek Jandali, speaking from New York about the important role music plays in peace while his homeland Syria was in the most profound grip of a decades-long brutal regime. We hear Malek Jandali again seven years later, in brief comments […] The post Syrian-American musician-composer Malek Jandali on building peace through music appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Jan 8, • 29:29

Adam Wilson: Farming and feeding in the gift economy

Adam Wilson: Farming and feeding in the gift economy

In the first days of the pandemic, farmer and writer Adam Wilson was offered $500k of inherited family money by a local community member to disentangle 113 acres of upstate New York grassland from the real estate market. This would be the first and last time the farm or anything grown on the farm would […] The post Adam Wilson: Farming and feeding in the gift economy appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Dec 10, 2024 • 29:30

Shane Burley reports on Jewish educational organizations purging their anti-Zionist professional employees

Shane Burley reports on Jewish educational organizations purging their anti-Zionist professional employees

Shane Burley, Oregon-based journalist, author and filmmaker, talks about Anti-Zionist Workers Are Being Purged From Jewish Institutions Across the US, his months-long investigation based on interviews with antiZionist Jewish professionals who, since October 7, have been purged and defunded by Jewish educational organizations across America for being even slightly critical of Israel’s genocide or supportive […] The post Shane Burley reports on Jewish educational organizations purging their

Nov 12, 2024 • 29:29

Rebekah Berndt on magical bookshops and their eccentric owners

Rebekah Berndt on magical bookshops and their eccentric owners

Rebekah Berndt, writer, spiritual director and psychic reader, talks to us from Charleston, South Carolina about her love of weird and magical bookshops, their often eccentric owners, how she cares for her books and connects to their past owners through their notes and markings in the books. More on Rebekah’s Substack The Unfolding. (WPKN,  September […] The post Rebekah Berndt on magical bookshops and their eccentric owners appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Sep 10, 2024 • 29:30

Steve Wick, author and journalist, on uncovering the truth and telling the whole story

Steve Wick, author and journalist, on uncovering the truth and telling the whole story

Steve Wick, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, journalist, formerly of Newsday and more recently editor of the Suffolk Times, talks about his earlier work, two new upcoming books, the importance of local journalism and emphasizes that, “if you want to get the present right, you have to get the past right” which means, he says, uncovering the […] The post Steve Wick, author and journalist, on uncovering the truth and telling the whole story appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Sep 4, 2024 • 29:28

Nick Duffell: how British boarding schools shape children, leaders and the country itself

Nick Duffell: how British boarding schools shape children, leaders and the country itself

Nick Duffell, noted psychotherapist and author calls us from London to speak about the psychological impact of elite British boarding schools on not only the young mostly boy boarders, but on adult ex-boarders, their families and, as ”wounded leaders” on the nation itself. (WPKN July 10, 2024) More about Nick and boarding school syndrome in psychotherapeutic […] The post Nick Duffell: how British boarding schools shape children, leaders and the country itself appeared first on H

Jul 10, 2024 • 29:30

Jeff Halper: Israel’s weaponization of humiliation

Jeff Halper: Israel’s weaponization of humiliation

Jeff Halper is an Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist  has lived in Israel since 1973. He is the Director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions and a co-founder of The One Democratic State Campaign. A Jewish Israeli, Jeff speak to us from Jerusalem about Israel’s entrenched use of humiliation to control the […] The post Jeff Halper: Israel’s weaponization of humiliation appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Jun 11, 2024 • 29:29

Dr. Yara Asi: How can we measure Gaza’s trauma?

Dr. Yara Asi: How can we measure Gaza’s trauma?

Dr. Yara Asi, author of How War Kills; The Overlooked Threats to our Health  (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024) and New York Times guest essay, is assistant professor at the University of Central Florida, where she studies physical and mental health in conflict-affected and fragile populations. A Palestinian born in the occupied West Bank town […] The post Dr. Yara Asi: How can we measure Gaza’s trauma? appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

May 13, 2024 • 29:29

John Christian Phifer: Natural Burial and Conservation

John Christian Phifer: Natural Burial and Conservation

John Christian Phifer  is executive director of Larkspur Conservation and president of the Conservation Burial Alliance. Speaking to us from Tennessee, he describes how, after 15 years in the funeral industry, he transformed his focus to natural burial practices and the protection and stewardship of land through conservation burial. (WPKN, April 10, 2024)     The post John Christian Phifer: Natural Burial and Conservation appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Apr 9, 2024 • 29:28

Kimberly Coburn: Crafts, fermentation and the end of the world as we know it

Kimberly Coburn: Crafts, fermentation and the end of the world as we know it

Kimberly Coburn, writer, maker, founder of The Homestead Atlanta and leader in a movement seeking to remedy today’s “skills amnesia” by reclaiming pre-industrialization crafts and skills–such as fermentation–to support life in what many believe is widespread systems collapse or unravelling of the world as we have known it. (First broadcast on WPKN, May 10, 2023) The post Kimberly Coburn: Crafts, fermentation and the end of the world as we know it appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Mar 9, 2024 • 29:30

Michelle Berry Lane on Separation and Conviviality

Michelle Berry Lane on Separation and Conviviality

Michelle Berry Lane, poet, writer and former science teacher, describes how human creatures in these times of late-stage capitalism and modernity have separated from and  forgotten their relationship to the earth and all its other creatures. Citing Ivan Illich among others, she shows us how conviviality and mutuality can help use  re-member ourselves to the […] The post Michelle Berry Lane on Separation and Conviviality appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Feb 13, 2024 • 29:30

Maya Lasker-Wallfisch on transgenerational trauma

Maya Lasker-Wallfisch on transgenerational trauma

Maya Lasker-Wallfisch Maya Lasker Wallfisch, London-based psychoanalytic psychologist and author talks to us in both personal and professional terms about the psychology of trans-generational transmission of trauma. The daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Maya bears the “wounds of history,” inheriting experiences she has not lived through herself. She touches briefly on epigenetics, (sometimes referred to as ‘the […] The post Maya Lasker-Wallfisch on transgenerational trauma appeared first on Haze

Dec 29, 2023 • 29:17

Dougald Hine: At Work in the Ruins

Dougald Hine: At Work in the Ruins

Social thinker, writer and speaker Dougald Hine talks about his new book At Work in the Ruins, Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies. Explaining why he believes the world as we know it is coming to an end, he proposes how we might live […] The post Dougald Hine: At Work in the Ruins appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Dec 13, 2023 • 29:30

Professor emeritus Michael Zweig on why he wrote “Class, Race and Gender”

Professor emeritus Michael Zweig on why he wrote “Class, Race and Gender”

Michael Zweig, Stonybrook professor emeritus, labor scholar and activist, talks about his new book Class, Race, and Gender: Challenging the Injuries and Divisions of Capitalism and why he wrote this book for young activists and leaders. Professor Zweig is founding director of the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the State University of […] The post Professor emeritus Michael Zweig on why he wrote “Class, Race and Gender” appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Oct 10, 2023 • 29:30

Robert Massoud: the story of Palestine through Zatoun’s olive oil

Robert Massoud: the story of Palestine through Zatoun’s olive oil

Robert Massoud, Palestinian founder of Zatoun, speaks to us from Toronto about the organization as his life’s work and how it has become his voice and the story of Palestine as it also speaks for Palestinians who often lack a direct voice of their own.(First broadcast on WPKN on September 13, 2023.) The post Robert Massoud: the story of Palestine through Zatoun’s olive oil appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Sep 12, 2023 • 29:30

Yumna Patel analyzes Israel’s 2023 assault on the Jenin refugee camp

Yumna Patel analyzes Israel’s 2023 assault on the Jenin refugee camp

Yumna Patel, Palestine News Director for Mondoweiss, reports from Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank about the significance for Palestinians of last week’s military assault on the Jenin refugee camp. In this reporting, she covers the effect on Palestinian youth of the Palestine Authority’s inability to protect them and what “Gazafication” means for the future […] The post Yumna Patel analyzes Israel’s 2023 assault on the Jenin refugee camp appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Jul 10, 2023 • 29:30

Adam Greenfield’s vision of Lifehouses for the Long Emergency of climate change collapse

Adam Greenfield’s vision of Lifehouses for the Long Emergency of climate change collapse

London-based American author and urbanist Adam Greenfield has spent the past quarter-century thinking and working at the intersection of technology, design and politics with everyday life. His books include the bestselling Against the Smart City and Radical Technologies. In this this Tidings interview, he describes his vision of Lifehouses, informed by his experiences with Superstorm Sandy […] The post Adam Greenfield’s vision of Lifehouses for the Long Emergency of climate change collapse appea

Jun 14, 2023 • 29:30

Steve Muth: NYC Medics brings rapid global disaster relief

Steve Muth: NYC Medics brings rapid global disaster relief

Co-founder and former paramedic Steve Muth, talks about NYC Medics , a small, nimble volunteer emergency medical team of paramedics and doctors based in New York City who are ready to be boots on the ground in global disaster areas within 48 hours. (WPKN March 8, 2023) The post Steve Muth: NYC Medics brings rapid global disaster relief appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Mar 7, 2023 • 29:27

Dougald Hine: At Work in the Ruins

Dougald Hine: At Work in the Ruins

Social thinker, writer and speaker Dougald Hine talks about his new book At Work in the Ruins, Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies. Explaining why he believes the world as we know it is coming to an end, he proposes how we might live […] The post Dougald Hine: At Work in the Ruins appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Feb 20, 2023 • 29:30

Dougald Hine: At Work in the Ruins

Dougald Hine: At Work in the Ruins

Social thinker, writer and speaker Dougald Hine talks about his new book At Work in the Ruins, Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies. Explaining why he believes the world as we know it is coming to an end, he proposes how we might live a meaningful life among what he calls “the ruins.” (Broadcast on  WPKN, February 8, 2023) The post Dougald Hine: At Work in the Ruins appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Feb 7, 2023 • 29:30

Moral injury and sharing responsibility for war’s consequences

Moral injury and sharing responsibility for war’s consequences

Chris Antal, Staff Chaplain and Dr. Peter Yeomans, Staff Psychologist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Philadelphia talk about understanding the suffering of moral injury among U.S. combat-deployed Veterans and their facilitation of a 12-week Moral Injury Group and Community Healing Ceremony in which Veterans’ burdens are shared by the community made more […] The post Moral injury and sharing responsibility for war’s consequences appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

Jan 11, 2023 • 29:30

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