The Tension of Emergence: Thriving in a world that remakes, not breaks
by Jennifer England
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What should I do? A Practice for Looking Beyond the Obvious
Mar 27, 2026
7m 45s
Breaking the Trance of Pragmatism with Bayo Akomolafe
Mar 5, 2026
55m 30s
Listening is Your Superpower: Reduce Defensiveness, Increase Connection with Jennifer England
Nov 21, 2025
7m 21s
Defensive to Anti-Fragile: The Path of Waking Up and Growing Up with Diane Musho Hamilton and Gabriel Kaigen Wilson
Nov 18, 2025
57m 32s
Consent to Being Undone: A Simple Practice for When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned with Jennifer England
Aug 18, 2025
8m 22s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 3/27/26 |  What should I do? A Practice for Looking Beyond the Obvious✨ | pragmatismproblem-solving+3 | Bayo Akomolafe | — | — | pragmatismproblem-solving+3 | — | 7m 45s | |
| 3/5/26 |  Breaking the Trance of Pragmatism with Bayo Akomolafe | How do we respond to harm and injustice without reinforcing the very systems we want to tear down? What if our most pragmatic responses—fixing, solving, demanding—are part of a trance that keeps us under the thumb of power? In this episode, Jennifer speaks with philosopher, writer, and teacher Bayo Akomolafe, whose work invites a sideways glance at activism, politics, and the idea that we can simply repair the world if we try hard enough. Together, they explore: How activism can sometim... | 55m 30s | ||||||
| 11/21/25 |  Listening is Your Superpower: Reduce Defensiveness, Increase Connection with Jennifer England | In this short guided practice, Jennifer builds on her conversation with Zen teacher Diane Musho Hamilton and facilitator & executive coach Gabe Kaigen Wilson to explore one underrated superpower in our “growing up” toolkit: listening well. We’ve all been in those harder conversations—at work, with a partner, a teen, or a family member—where we’re either talking over each other or shutting down. In this episode, Jennifer offers a simple, relational practice to slow things down and listen i... | 7m 21s | ||||||
| 11/18/25 |  Defensive to Anti-Fragile: The Path of Waking Up and Growing Up with Diane Musho Hamilton and Gabriel Kaigen Wilson | Jennifer speaks with Zen teacher Diane Musho Hamilton and facilitator Gabriel Kaigen Wilson about walking a spiritual path: not just waking up to our inherent belonging, but growing up into emotional maturity, flexibility, and courage. At the heart of the conversation is the tension many of us live inside—between enlightenment and the ego, urgency and presence, identity and oneness. Diane and Gabe offer practical, compassionate tools for navigating modern complexity without abandoning ourselv... | 57m 32s | ||||||
| 8/18/25 |  Consent to Being Undone: A Simple Practice for When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned with Jennifer England | In this practice episode, Jennifer England invites you into the courageous act of consenting to be undone. Drawing on her recent conversation with cultural worker and author Stephen Jenkinson (Matrimony: Ritual, Culture and the Heart’s Work), Jennifer reflects on how, in a world filled with urgency, grief, and collapsing certainties, true participation requires both patrimony (our inheritance of grief, beauty, and obligation) and matrimony (a ritualized consent with the unseen). From this lar... | 8m 22s | ||||||
| 7/15/25 |  On Matrimony, Mothering Culture and the Undoing of Self with Stephen Jenkinson | In this festive wedding season, what if matrimony wasn’t here to affirm the intensity of love between two people but a courageous submission to the unknown? Jennifer speaks with Stephen Jenkinson—cultural activist, author, ceremonialist—about the necessary burdens of love through the ritual of matrimony. With characteristic poetic edge, Stephen challenges the Western obsession with autonomy, authenticity and safety and gestures toward a redemptive cultural project: one of radical hospi... | 1h 17m 59s | ||||||
| 7/2/25 |  Feed What You Love (A Practice) with Jennifer England | What if feeding what you love—even in the face of despair—could be your most vital climate practice? In this episode, Jennifer offers a guided practice inspired by a recent conversation with climate educator and author Sarah Jaquette Ray, who invites us to face the monstrous scale of climate change not with more fixing, but with more loving. Together, they explored the emotional toll of activism, the trap of numbness, and the surprising resilience we access when we stay rooted in what brings ... | 8m 39s | ||||||
| 6/27/25 |  When Grief Brings Us Back to Love: The Quiet Courage of Climate Activism with Sarah Jaquette Ray | When it comes to climate anxiety, most of us swing between utter despair or self-protective numbness. In our doom-scrolling attention economy, these are natural, but not always helpful, responses. In this episode, Jennifer speaks with climate scholar, educator, and author of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety Sarah Jaquette Ray to explore how we might move through the heaviest of climate emotions—without turning away, burning out, or losing touch with what we love. They explore: The toll of bur... | 1h 02m 37s | ||||||
| 6/17/25 |  Meeting You Again: A Practice of Seeing Beyond Labels with Jennifer England | In this companion to my conversation with Joshin Byrnes on The Vowing Mind, here's a short practice of seeing those you love—and those you judge—with fresh eyes. We all carry fixed ideas of who others are: the reliable one, the difficult one, the person we think we've got dialed. In this guided meditation, you’ll be encouraged to loosen those ideas, and to meet others anew, with curiosity and compassion. This practice will help you recognize the complexity and unfolding nature of those around... | 7m 51s | ||||||
| 6/10/25 |  The Vowing Mind: Returning to Relational Intimacy in Times of Trouble with Joshin Byrnes | How can you stay present to a world that breaks your heart open—without hardening or turning away? What is right action when there is no right answer? In this episode, Jennifer talks with Joshin Byrnes—Zen teacher, former AIDS activist, and founder of Bread Loaf Mountain Zen Community—for a deeply honest conversation on his evolving expressions of activism and spirituality as he wrestles with and practices ethical action in a time of trouble. Together, they explore: Growing out of enem... | 1h 06m 21s | ||||||
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| 6/2/25 |  Let Your Body Lead – A Movement Practice for Feeling with Jennifer England | Ever find yourself caught in a loop of analyzing what you're feeling—trying to think your way through the ache, the confusion, the rage, the numbness? Or find that it feels easier to let your mind fix or solve the hard things rather than sense in or move with them? In this short practice episode, Jennifer England invites you into a somatic experience of feeling—beyond story, solving and fixing. Inspired by her recent conversation with therapist and writer Lisa Olivera, you’re invited to... | 7m 51s | ||||||
| 5/27/25 |  Fluency in Feeling with Lisa Olivera | What if pain isn’t something to fix or escape—but a wise, living presence asking for our attention? In this episode, Jennifer sits down with writer and therapist Lisa Olivera for a heartfelt conversation about relating to pain as a wise teacher, rather than an adversary. Drawing from Lisa’s personal journey—shaped by early experiences with a culture that teaches us to avoid pain—they explore: The social narratives that keep us from feeling fullyThe role of somatic practice in understanding ou... | 57m 08s | ||||||
| 5/23/25 |  Mispronunciation with Jennifer England (A Practice) | Ever feel awkward in trying to express, connect or attune to another? Ever interpret your awkwardness as a failure? In this short practice episode, Jennifer England invites us to explore mispronunciation not just as a linguistic slip, but as a relational metaphor. Inspired by recent conversations with X'unei Lance Twitchell, you’re invited to notice the moments you "miss the mark" in connection—and to consider what might be fertile, even beautiful, in the in-between. You’ll be guided th... | 7m 32s | ||||||
| 5/20/25 |  Untangling Our Minds through Language, Land and Laughter – with X’unei Lance Twitchell | How might a willingness to cross thresholds of understanding help us access wilder and more intimate ways of knowing? In this episode Jennifer talks with X’unei Lance Twitchell—Indigenous language teacher, poet and scholar—who shares his deeply personal journey of reclaiming the Tlingit language. From an early longing to connect with his grandfather to challenging the violence of cultural erasure, X’unei invites us into the healing and transformative role language plays in decolonizatio... | 1h 04m 12s | ||||||
| 5/13/25 | Welcome to Season 4 with Jennifer England! | What does it mean to be engaged in a world that feels like it’s breaking? In this preview of Season 4 of Tension of Emergence, Jennifer England shares the heart of the new season’s inquiry—a living koan that has been shaping her own writing and leadership: how do we act with love and integrity in a time of rupture and collapse, without rushing to fix or save a world that may not need our saving? With a magical cadre of guests, Jennifer explores tensions we’re told to resolve... | 7m 02s | ||||||
| 7/5/24 |  Amplify Joy (A Practice) with Jennifer England | Does joy sometimes feel hard to access? Ever find yourself focusing more on where you’re suffering or experiencing pain? Or perhaps you find it easy in this season of your life but want to experience joy even more? In the last micro-episode of Season 3, Jennifer guides you to amplify joy on three different levels: the gross, subtle and causal. She encourages you to enhance the experience of joy, even amidst pain and includes a suggestion to explore the Buddhist practice of Tonglen if yo... | 8m 58s | ||||||
| 7/2/24 |  Embracing Pain, Remembering Joy with Amy Elizabeth Fox | We’ve been talking about “feeling more” so we can access more wisdom in our leadership, but what if we’re really good at avoiding pain? In the final week of season three of the Tension of Emergence, Jennifer delves into the question of how to work with personal and collective pain with the co-founder of Mobius Executive Leadership and expert in trauma-informed development, Amy Elizabeth Fox. Together they break down the illusory binary between the personal/professional, individual/coll... | 1h 03m 36s | ||||||
| 6/28/24 |  Overcome a Challenge with a Different Kind of Power (A Practice) with Jennifer England | Jennifer offers a practice, inspired by her conversation with modern-day mystic and teacher Cynthia Bourgeault. Instead of virtues being a static object we have, they can be thought of as active agents of change. Jennifer offers a two-part practice to help you leverage your unique personal virtues (and power) to transform a current challenge. In this episode, Jennifer shares a personal example and emphasizes the importance of practice as a dynamic process of learning from your dir... | 6m 58s | ||||||
| 6/25/24 |  "More than a Body": The Subtle Art of Cosmic Reciprocity with Cynthia Bourgeault | Jennifer talks with modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, author and teacher, Cynthia Bourgeault about how our global breakdown might be a breakthrough. Weaving together science, philosophy and spiritual traditions they talk about the evolution of human consciousness and how to nourish and feed the collective. In this episode they share- Our shift to an integral structure of consciousness How reciprocity works between the seen and unseen worldsWhat is three-centered awareness... | 1h 03m 11s | ||||||
| 6/21/24 |  Feel Unmotivated or Flat? Activate Flexibility in Your Nervous System (A Practice) with Jennifer England | Jennifer offers a practice to dispel the myth that a regulated nervous system equates to calmness and neutrality. Drawing on insights from somatic experiencing practitioner Kimberly Ann Johnson, she emphasizes the importance of practicing flexibility in your nervous system to manage life's challenges. Jennifer introduces a playful practice of friendly wrestling to help you activate latent energy, track sensation, support an energetic re-set and make way for necessary expression, m... | 7m 08s | ||||||
| 6/18/24 |  Somatic Rites of Passage and Radical Responsibility with Kimberly Ann Johnson | Transformational growth can be aided by mindset shifts but deeper change is initiated and sustained through the body. Jennifer talks with Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner, educator and author Kimberly Ann Johnson about how to develop receptivity and activation so you can practice radical responsibility. Together they explore: Why embracing your animalistic nature supports a healthy nervous systemHow to listen to and trust your body's signals Why activating your nervous syst... | 1h 06m 50s | ||||||
| 6/14/24 |  Feeling Edgy? Embrace It (A Practice) with Jennifer England | Feeling overwhelmed, brokenhearted, anxious or "can't even" these days? Amidst it all, we often want to "take the edge off" to feel better. But what if our "edges" have wisdom we need to hear. Jennifer offers a practice, inspired by her conversation with Madeline Shaw, to help you lean into your 'edginess' and discover what you need most. If you play with this practice and have a story or insight you'd like to share, we’d love to hear from you! Links & resources— For m... | 6m 50s | ||||||
| 6/11/24 |  Don't Take the Edge Off: The Gift of Sobriety with Madeleine Shaw | To survive hustle culture, family and career pressures and world affairs we often decompress with social media, our phones or alcohol. In this episode Jennifer talks with social entrepreneur, author and cyclical wisdom devotee Madeleine Shaw about the gift of sobriety in a culture that just wants to take the edge off. In this intimate and honest conversation, they explore- The rise of hustle culture and #GirlBoss How drinking is a socially accepted prescription for exhaustio... | 58m 53s | ||||||
| 6/7/24 |  Befriending Shame (A Practice) with Jennifer England | Jennifer offers a practice, inspired by her conversation with Amber McZeal. How might befriending the experience of shame support our collective liberation? Jennifer guides you to explore the unique sensations associated with shame and to get curious about the wisdom it offers. Shame can help you clarify your values and social commitments, especially if you bring a compassionate stance. If you play with this and discover a new way of seeing or experiencing your ‘self’ we’d ... | 7m 02s | ||||||
| 6/4/24 |  Beyond Traditional Activism: The Medicine of Our Ancestors with Amber McZeal | Are you feeling the limits of activism- specifically in the way we seem to become more polarized and exhausted? In this episode Jennifer talks with sacred scholar, vocalist and activist Amber McZeal to unpack how to move into deeper psychic layers that can yield healing and interconnection. Talking about spiritual activism and ancestral healing they also share— Why DEI policies can’t heal the illusion of separationThe medicine offered by ancestral lineage healingWhy the performativity o... | 1h 05m 07s | ||||||
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