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#181 Patterns in the Chaos (with Rayner Jae Liu)
Dec 23, 2025
1h 27m 26s
#180 Through Our Neighbor's Eyes (with Christopher Spicer)
Dec 15, 2025
1h 19m 23s
#179 The Art of Team Coaching (with Alexander Caillet)
Dec 5, 2025
1h 26m 10s
#178 The Servant and the Shadow (with Max Klau)
Nov 21, 2025
1h 15m 13s
#177 Wholehearted Parenting (with Ariane de Bonvoisin)
Nov 14, 2025
1h 12m 13s
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| 12/23/25 |  #181 Patterns in the Chaos (with Rayner Jae Liu)✨ | chaosmythology+4 | Rayner Jae Liu | Fire | GreeceTaoism | chaosmythology+5 | — | 1h 27m 26s | |
| 12/15/25 |  #180 Through Our Neighbor's Eyes (with Christopher Spicer) | “Convictions are beliefs strongly held. It’s responsibilities that have rebuilt societies.”-Christopher SpicerThis week, Andy is joined by friend and neighbor Christopher Spicer — a writer, father, longtime human rights advocate, and recent candidate for Somerville City Councilor At-Large. He has served as Chair of the Somerville Human Rights Commission, participated in nonviolent protest and civil disobedience, and is deeply shaped by the Catholic Worker tradition. His work centers on community listening, local democracy, and what he calls a “responsibility ethic” rooted in relationship rather than ideology.This conversation unfolds at the intersection of local politics and spiritual practice as Andy and Christopher explore what it means to practice democracy not just at the ballot box, but in the everyday acts of neighboring, listening, and showing up for one another in times of fear, instability, and profound social change. Christopher reflects on his decision to run for office amid rising authoritarianism, ICE detentions impacting families in his community, and a housing crisis reshaping the fabric of Somerville. Drawing from his work on the Somerville Human Rights Commission, his Catholic Worker roots, and years spent interviewing his neighbors block by block, Chris offers a grounded vision of civic life shaped less by ideological purity and more by responsibility, relationship, and care.from "The People, Yes" by Carl Sandburg Lincoln? He was a mystery in smoke and flags Saying yes to the smoke, yes to the flags, Yes to the paradoxes of democracy, Yes to the hopes of government Of the people by the people for the people, No to debauchery of the public mind, No to personal malice nursed and fed, Yes to the Constitution when a help, No to the Constitution when a hindrance Yes to man as a struggler amid illusions, Each man fated to answer for himself: Which of the faiths and illusions of mankind Must I choose for my own sustaining light To bring me beyond the present wilderness? Lincoln? Was he a poet? And did he write verses? “I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man’s bosom.” I shall do nothing through malice: what I deal with is too vast for malice.” Death was in the air. So was birth.Show Notes:* “Bringing ‘perspective of human rights’ to council named as aspiration for at-large candidate Spicer” by Sydney Wise (Cambridge Day)* City of Somerville, MA Human Rights Commission* Catholic Worker MovementConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 19m 23s | ||||||
| 12/5/25 |  #179 The Art of Team Coaching (with Alexander Caillet) | “When you drop a team in the realm of process […] they’re one step closer to getting to the human dimension.”-Alexander Caillet Alexander Caillet is an internationally recognized organizational psychologist, consultant, and coach dedicated to helping organizations achieve high performance through powerful teaming. As the CEO of Corentus, Inc., Alexander has worked across more than 30 countries on five continents, bringing deep expertise in both leadership coaching and large-scale organizational transformation. Alexander makes visible the invisible dynamics and patterns that shape a team’s behavior, helping them see themselves and their operational styles with renewed clarity through blends of individual coaching with whole-team development. In this episode, 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 studying organizational psychology 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. This is essential listening for coaches, leaders, team members, and anyone who’s ever wondered why group work often feels so hard — and how it could be so much better. "To be of use" by Marge Piercy The people I love the best jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight. They seem to become natives of that element, the black sleek heads of seals bouncing like half-submerged balls. I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart, who pull like water buffalo, with massive patience, who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again. I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident. Greek amphoras for wine or oil, Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.Show Notes: * https://corentus.com* The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High Performance Organization by Jon R. Katzenbach and Douglas K. SmithConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 26m 10s | ||||||
| 11/21/25 |  #178 The Servant and the Shadow (with Max Klau) | “Service to others is my spiritual home.”-Max KlauThis week Andy welcomes longtime friend, colleague, and returning Wonder Dome guest Dr. Max Klau. He’s an author, coach, developmental psychologist, and founder of the Center for Courageous Wholeness, who’s work sits at the intersection of inner development and systems change. His new book, Developing Servant Leadership at Scale: How to Do It and Why It Matters is part-memoir, part how-to guidebook that offers candid reflections on the challenges leaders face and the importance of engaging large numbers of people, both at scale and at a distance. Max’s work explores how individuals and societies can confront both their “light” and their “shadow,” especially in an era of political toxicity, rising authoritarianism, and declining trust in institutions. Together with Andy, they grapple with what true servant-leadership requires of us, both individually and collectively; how leaders can stay anchored in values when stepping into a political arena rife with ego and fear; and a vision for an American civic life grounded in courageous wholeness. "For Citizenship" by John O'Donohue In these times when anger Is turned into anxiety And someone has stolen The horizons and the mountains, Our small emperors on parade Never expect our indifference To disturb their nakedness They keep their heads down And their eyes gleam with reflection From Aluminum economic ground, The media wraps everything In a cellophane of sound, And the ghost surface of the virtual Overlays the breathing earth. The industry of distraction Makes us forget That we live in a universe We have become converts To the religion of stress And its deity of progress That we may have courage To turn aside from it all And come to kneel down before the poor, To discover what we must do, How to turn anxiety Back into anger, How to find our way home.Show Notes:* https://www.maxklau.com* https://www.centerforcourageouswholeness.org* #33 The Inner Flame (with Max Klau)* Developing Servant Leaders at Scale: How to Do It and Why It Matters by Max Klau* Servant Leadership: A Journey into the Nature of Legitimate Power and Greatness by Robert K. GreenleafConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 15m 13s | ||||||
| 11/14/25 |  #177 Wholehearted Parenting (with Ariane de Bonvoisin) | “In what way am I an example? In what way am I a warning?”-Ariane de BonvoisinAriane de Bonvoisin is a best-selling author, international speaker, entrepreneur, and change optimist. She is a renowned expert in leadership, change, and personal transformation with a global audience, speaking and coaching at major companies such as Google, Twitter, Morgan Stanley and more, bringing practical tools for resilience, energy management, and leading through transition.In this conversation, Ariane and Andy delve into the world of parenting; the significance of imbuing our approach to raising children with compassion, non-judgment, and an empathetic normalization of what makes us human. Through exploration of both the inner and outer worlds of ourselves and our children, and a willingness to allow our children to see themselves through us rather than looking at us for pre-prescribed expectations of how to be, we may better uplift them in their lifelong journeys of self-discovery. “Throwing Children” by Ross Gay It is really something when a kid who has a hard time becomes a kid who’s having a good time in no small part thanks to you throwing that kid in the air again and again on a mile long walk home from the Indian joint as her mom looks sideways at you like you don’t need to keep doing this because you’re pouring with sweat and breathing a little bit now you’re getting a good workout but because the kid laughs like a horse up there laughs like a kangaroo beating her wings against the light because she laughs like a happy little kid and when coming down and grabbing your forearm to brace herself for the time when you will drop her which you don’t and slides her hand into yours as she says for the fortieth time the fiftieth time inexhaustible her delight again again again and again and you say give me til the redbud tree or give me til the persimmon tree because she knows the trees and so quiet you almost can’t hear through her giggles she says ok til the next tree when she explodes howling yanking your arm from the socket again again all the wolves and mourning doves flying from her tiny throat and you throw her so high she lives up there in the tree for a minute she notices the ants organizing on the bark and a bumblebee carousing the little unripe persimmon in its beret she laughs and laughs as she hovers up there like a bumblebee like a hummingbird up there giggling in the light like a giddy little girl up there the world knows how to love. Show Notes:* https://www.arianedebonvoisin.com* TED Talk: The Skills We Need to Teach Our Kids by Ariane de Bonvoisin* KidQuest* Interview: The Three Levels of Trust in Parenting* Interview: How to Raise Children Who Embrace Change* “5 Things We Most Project Onto Our Kids” by Ariane de Bonvoisin for Psychology Today* “Learning to Trust Your Child and Yourself” by Ariane de Bonvoisin for Psychology Today* “Ariane de Bonvoisin: The Executive Coach Leaders Call to Help Navigate Change and Uncertainty” by Lindsay Jeffords for NY WeeklyConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 12m 13s | ||||||
| 11/7/25 |  #176 The Initiatory Path (with Josh Schrei) | “We’ve worshipped a hungry monster. And the more you feed and worship a hungry monster, the hungrier it gets.”-Josh SchreiThis week we welcome Josh Schrei — storyteller, mythologist, and creator of The Mythic Body. As host of The Emerald podcast, Josh shepherds listeners through explorations of our modern world through a vibrant lens of mythos, music and mindfulness. His work is a salve for modern wounds, using song and story to help us de-center the “hungry monster” of consumerism and bring us back to the sacred, animate center of the living world. Josh and Andy trace a path back to the core truths we’ve forgotten in our contemporary times — that humanity’s innate desire for transcendence can be found not in the hungry maw of capitalism that encourages our relentless consumption, but in a return to ritual, presence, and belonging. "Remember" by Joy Harjo Remember the sky that you were born under, know each of the star’s stories. Remember the moon, know who she is. Remember the sun’s birth at dawn, that is the strongest point of time. Remember sundown and the giving away to night. Remember your birth, how your mother struggled to give you form and breath. You are evidence of her life, and her mother’s, and hers. Remember your father. He is your life, also. Remember the earth whose skin you are: red earth, black earth, yellow earth, white earth brown earth, we are earth. Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their tribes, their families, their histories, too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems. Remember the wind. Remember her voice. She knows the origin of this universe. Remember you are all people and all people are you. Remember you are this universe and this universe is you. Remember all is in motion, is growing, is you. Remember language comes from this. Remember the dance language is, that life is. Remember.Show Notes:* The Mythic Body* The Emerald Podcast with Josh Schrei* Let Us Sing of the Syncretic Gods of Outcasts and Wanderers* For the Intuitives (Part One)Connect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 22m 39s | ||||||
| 11/2/25 |  #175 Sacred Activism (with Nina Simons and Deborah Eden Tull) | “What if we served from what we love rather than what we’re against?”-Nina SimonsWelcoming back two brilliant past guests of the Wonder Dome this week with Nina Simons (co-founder of Bioneers and author of Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership) and Deborah Eden Tull (founder of Mindful Living Revolution and author of Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown.) “Sacred activism,” Eden says, “is a fusion with the mystic’s passion for God with the activist’s passion for justice — creating a third fire, the burning sacred heart that longs to help preserve and nurture every living thing.” A practice that integrates the connective tissue of inner transformation with outer engagement. With Andy, 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 interbeing as the grounding force that holds us through times of crisis and possibility. Together, Nina and Eden are launching a live online course called Sacred Activism: Meeting Our Challenges as Gateways for Embodying Connection beginning on November 13, 2025. To learn more and join this cohort exploring sacred activism as “a living practice that draws from your own lived experience, challenges, and discoveries,” visit this link. "Lost" by David Wagoner Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you. Show Notes:* https://www.ninasimons.com* https://www.deborahedentull.com* #111 Nature, Culture, and the Sacred (with Nina Simons)* #142 Luminous Darkness (with Deborah Eden Tull)* https://www.bioneers.org* Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership by Nina Simons* Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown by Deborah Eden Tull* Sacred Activism: Meeting Our Challenges as Gateways for Embodying Connection with Nina Simons and Deborah Eden Tull* Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Thich Nhat Hanh* The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism by Andrew Harvey* Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in Without Going Crazy by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone* The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems by Fritjof CapraConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 15m 42s | ||||||
| 10/24/25 |  #174 Radical Listening (with Robert Biswas-Diener and Christian van Nieuwerburgh) | “Radical listening gives us agency — it’s something we can still do even when everything feels uncertain.”- Christian van NieuwerburghRobert Biswas-Diener and Christian van Nieuwerburgh, two distinguished voices in coaching, positive psychology, and leadership, join Andy to explore the radical and joyful art of listening.As co-authors of Radical Listening: The Art of True Connection, Robert and Christian provide a framework for cultivating this most vital (and often neglected) skill. In an increasingly divisive, distracted, and digitized world, it’s never been more essential to harness the power of listening beyond a means of simply hearing words, but to co-create meaning and connection.In this episode, you’ll learn why “active listening” as we know it may not be enough; the traps of certainty and comparison; and how curiosity, humility, and a sense of play can deepen our connections and help us listen with intention."Generous Listening" by Marilyn Nelson A conversation can be a contest, or a game of catch with invisible balloons. They bounce between us, growing and shrinking, sometimes floating like cloud medicine balls, and sometimes bowling at us like round anvils. You toss a phrase and understanding blooms like an anemone of colored lights. My mind fireworks with unasked questions. Who is this miracle speaking to me? And who is this miracle listening? What amazingness are we creating? Out of gray matter a star spark of thought leaps between synapses into the air, and pours through gray matter, into my heart: how can I not listen generously?Show Notes:* https://robertdiener.com/* https://coachonamotorcycle.com/* Radical Listening: The Art of True Connection by Christian van Nieuwerburgh and Robert Biswas-Diener* #162 Positive Provocation (with Robert Biswas-Diener)Connect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 11m 48s | ||||||
| 10/17/25 |  #173 Getting More Right Than Wrong (with Saul Humphrey) | “We need an abundance of the things we need — safe homes, good jobs, healthcare — not an abundance of consumption.”- Saul HumphreySaul Humphrey is a UK-based leader and sustainability advocate, a professor of sustainable construction at Anglia Ruskin University, and Vice President of the Chartered Institute of Building. He’s also the founder of an eponymously named consultancy practice that integrates sustainable design with practical innovation. The arc of his career bends towards reducing carbon impact and creating long-term resilience in the built environment.With both realism and hope, Saul and Andy explore the tension between growth and sustainability; what “abundance” means in an ever-warming world; how our built environment shapes our collective destiny; and how we can reimagine construction as an act of care for future generations."Design" by A.R. Ammons The drop seeps whole from boulder-lichen or ledge moss and drops, joining, to trickle, run, fall, dash, sprawl in held deeps, to rush shallows, spill thin through heights, but then, edging, to eddy aside, nothing of all but nothing’s curl of motion spent.Show Notes:* https://www.sauldhumphrey.com* https://www.ciob.org* https://www.humannature-places.com* Values: Building a Better World for All by Mark Carney* Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamonds and Steven Kotler* Kuni: A Japanese Vision and Practice for Urban-Rural Reconnection by Tsuyoshi Sekihara, Richard McCarthy, and Kathleen Finlay* #148 It Makes a Village (with Jonathan Smales)* #157 Eco-Responsive Envrionments (with Soham De & Prachi Rampuria)* #158 The Neutral Project (with Nate Helbach)Connect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 08m 41s | ||||||
| 10/10/25 |  #172 The Oracle in Your Dreams (with Martin Boroson) | “Your dream is a film written and directed by the real you.”-Martin BorosonWhat if every night, while you sleep, a deeper part of you is trying to speak?In this conversation, executive coach, psychotherapist, and Zen priest Martin Boroson joins Andy to explore the art of listening to that voice — the dreaming mind.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. He describes the unconscious as “a vast storehouse of wisdom”, a living field of knowing we can access through the body, imagination, and attention. Together, he and Andy wander through questions of consciousness, creativity, and leadership in a polarized world — asking what might happen if we let our dreams shape how we act, lead, and love.What emerges is a portrait of the psyche as both profoundly personal and beautifully collective. The unconscious, Marty suggests, is not just in us — it’s between us, whispering the next small, luminous step toward wholeness.Ready to take your leadership to the next level? Unlock the transformational power of your dreams in coaching with Marty’s upcoming workshop, Waking UP to Dreams. Cohorts start November 2025, February 2026, and September 2026 with weekly classes held on Zoom. "The Dream Keeper" by Langston Hughes Bring me all of your dreams, You dreamers, Bring me all of your Heart melodies That I may wrap them In a blue cloud-cloth Away from the too-rough fingers Of the world.Show Notes: * www.martinboroson.com* www.onemomentcompany.com* Waking UP to Dreams - a masterclass for coaches* One Moment Meditation: Stillness for People on the Go by Martin Boroson* Jung on the Transcendent Function* www.nextpracticeinstitute.comConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 17m 59s | ||||||
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| 10/2/25 |  #171 Those Who Carry Us (with Todd Marston, Francis Briers, and Jamie Hunt) | “Even when we feel alone, there’s this ancestral truth that all of these people…have carried us here.”-Jamie HuntWhat does it mean to be carried—by ancestors, by friends, by music, by silence?This week, Andy gathers with three fellow travelers on the path of inquiry, growth, service and commitment: Jamie Hunt, Todd Marston, and Francis Briers. Together they’ve spent the past five years tending a peer-led men’s circle, a space where vulnerability and creativity meet, where fatherhood is both question and verb, and where the wisdom of ancestry intertwines with the urgencies of our present moment. It’s a brotherhood where 30 or more men from across continents join in dialogues around what it means to be a man, a brother, a father, a partner; what it means to become a man if you’re born into a different body; what our culture recognizes as masculine; and what it means to walk a path of service in this moment in our collective history. You’ll hear Todd’s original composition Those Who Carried Us Here, Jamie’s moving poem Exhale, and Francis’ prayerful reflection If I Am to Learn. Their words and music trace pathways through grief, kinship, service, and the sacred ordinariness of male friendship.Whether you identify as a man, love men, or are simply a human in search of community, this episode offers a glimpse of how brotherhood can become a living practice—one that nourishes, challenges, and carries us forward together."Exhale" by Jamie Hunt Overcome by gravity, raindrops on an oak branch relax their grasp and fall, unlike the tears I fear. Is that why I feel homesick while still at home, alternating between comfort and pain, hope and disappointment, in this almost frozen silence? I inhale charred white oak. The exhale comes like a December rain. Yesterday, I noticed a ring of moss-covered stones among the oaks. A pocket knife revealed them to be a tree stump felled centuries ago, yet kept green, kept alive by its great grandchildren. Life support along fungal lines for an elder, or perhaps an exchange, wisdom for nutrients. What about those steel blue eyes and his continuity of attention? What about joy over results long after I canceled a dinner reservation as he needed to fly to San Francisco for yet another surgery? Is he still with us? What about the child? A surgeon’s blade, a beloved belly, born still and now disintegrating, like a darkened ember in a brown bag removed from last night’s firelight. Yet this winter, before the nine months, the potential for a spirit grew within me as the leaves danced a movement meditation in the dwindling light. And now my exhale is her inhale, overcome by gravity. "If I Am to Learn" by Francis Briers If I am to learn, let me learn to answer my soul’s callings. Let me learn to listen to kindness and let it land when it is spoken. Let me learn to embrace love and eschew certainty. Let me learn to seek truth, but do so with an appreciation for the vast spaces beyond what is known. Let me learn to follow the twisting pathways of imagination. Let me learn to breathe deeply and savor each breath. Let me learn to make mischief with friends and play joyfully. Let me learn to meet others fiercely and tenderly. Let me learn to stand up for what I believe in, but not to fight fruitless battles. Let me learn to be a friend and ally to myself as well as to others. If I am to learn, let me learn to answer, listen, embrace, seek, follow, breathe, make, meet, stand and be.Show Notes: * #01 May the Creative Force Be With You (with Todd Marston)* #10 Coming Home to Ourselves (with Francis Briers)* #50 When Four Paths Converse (with Cyrus Shahrad, Lee Chambers, and Francis Briers)* #100 One Hundred Ways to Imagine (with Todd Marston)* https://toddmarston.bandcamp.com/* https://instagram.com/integermusic* https://francisbriers.com* The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries From a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben* On Dialogue by David Bohm* A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 20m 49s | ||||||
| 9/19/25 |  #170 The Flow of Power (with Dr. Annice Fisher & O.B. Amaechi) | “I know that I was brought on this world to create a multi-sector, multi-generational, intersectional global movement for healing, freedom, and justice.”— Dr. Annice FisherWhat is power? Where does it come from? How does power flow through our lives, our communities, and our choices?This week, Dr. Annice Fisher, (leadership coach, founder of Developing Capacity Coaching and author of The Power Within Me) and O.B. Amaechi, (multimodal educator, fashion entrepreneur, and founder of Wake Up The Soul) return to the Wonder Dome to explore how power is misused, how it can be reclaimed, and how each of us can channel it toward healing and justice.Annice and O.B. draw from their work in leadership, education, and social innovation, sharing stories from classrooms, correctional facilities, and creative spaces where power is embraced not as a tool for domination or destruction, but connection. Through reflective meditations on influence as a flow of energy, the legacy we leave across generations, and the small choices we make that become catalysts for transformation, Annice and O.B. call on us to step into our individual power and wield it with collective care. "Sorrow Is Not My Name" by Ross Gay No matter the pull toward brink. No matter the florid, deep sleep awaits. There is a time for everything. Look, just this morning a vulture nodded his red, grizzled head at me, and I looked at him, admiring the sickle of his beak. Then the wind kicked up, and, after arranging that good suit of feathers he up and took off. Just like that. And to boot, there are, on this planet alone, something like two million naturally occurring sweet things, some with names so generous as to kick the steel from my knees: agave, persimmon, stick ball, the purple okra I bought for two bucks at the market. Think of that. The long night, the skeleton in the mirror, the man behind me on the bus taking notes, yeah, yeah. But look; my niece is running through a field calling my name. My neighbor sings like an angel and at the end of my block is a basketball court. I remember. My color's green. I'm spring. Show Notes:* #04 Healing the World Through Conscious Leadership (with Dr. Annice Fisher) * #124 Purpose Soaked in Beauty (with O.B. Amaechi) * developcapacity.com* wakeupthesoul.com* socialchangemap.com* thepowerwithinmecollective.com* The Power Within Me: The Road Back to the Real You by Annice E FisherConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 08m 12s | ||||||
| 9/4/25 |  #169 Soul Journeys (with Owen & Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin) | “All of this art is a metaphor for yourself. You are the song. You are the poem. You are the painting.”-Mícheál Moley Ó SúilleabháinWhat are we for? This timeless question becomes the ground on which brothers Owen and Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin 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.Along with their mother, Nóirín Ní Riain (also a previous guest of The Wonder Dome) they’re the leaders of Turas d’Anam, which provides both online and in person experiences offering unique and personal expressions of their rich musical and cultural heritage. This episode is a meditation on soul and purpose, on tradition and innovation, and on the way beauty sustains us in difficult times. Along the way, we travel from Irish monasteries and chants echoing across the globe, to the words of Seamus Heaney, Rumi, and James Joyce, to the everyday practice of committing poems and songs to memory, allowing them to take root in the body and shape the life of the spirit."Turas d’Anam (Journey Of Your Soul)" by Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin Often times the step backward lets the soul catch up. So that all our happy hindsight’s harmonise and wisdom builds. Share your luck. Be miserly only with misfortune. In each seismic shudder we learn to trust the ground again, humble again, knowingly broken, unrepentantly wounded, proud to bare pain. Laying claim to the joy factory of your body. No more tariffs, or sanctions. Wage cuts and glass ceilings. Conventions, expenses paid, nor lanyards or company position. Often times, this way you can live in ways others simply will not, develop sides of you others simply would not. So feel the rhythm beyond the beat. Begin with a break, and let your soul catch up. Show Notes:* YouTube: “Turas d'Anam (a poem by Mícheál Moley Ó Súilleabháin)”* Turas d’Anam | Celtic Wisdom, Creative Practice, and Tours of Ireland* "For Ireland I’ll Not Speak Her Name” Digital Album* Owen and Moley on AppleMusic* Invitas with David Whyte* #86 The Deep Heart's Core (with Owen Ó Súilleabháin)* #97 What the Heart Hears (with Rev. Dr. Nóirín Ní Riain)Connect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 52m 14s | ||||||
| 8/21/25 |  #168 Making the World Through Walking (with Rita Powell) | “Walking together is one of the most ancient human practices. It’s how we’ve always learned to be in relationship—with each other, with the land, and with God.”-Reverend Rita PowellReverend Rita Powell is the Episcopal chaplain at Harvard, formerly a priest at Trinity Church in Boston, and a longtime spiritual innovator whose journey has included living in the monastic community of Taizé in France and working closely with Native communities in South Dakota. A Yale Divinity School graduate and recipient of the William Muehle Preaching Prize, Rita is a gifted storyteller and deeply spiritual human being. Beyond her formal roles, she embodies the practice of walking as prayer, offering, sacrament, and pilgrimage—a living expression of how movement can open us to healing, connection, and the sacred.This conversation with Andy and Rita was recorded while walking. If you can, you’re invited to listen while walking too. And if walking is not available, you might feel called to listen in any way that helps you feel more connected to your body and the world around you. "Walking" by Rainer Maria Rilke My eyes already touch the sunny hill, going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance— and changes us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces.Show Notes:* Watch: March 30, 2025 Sermon with The Rev. Rita PowellConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 2h 35m 46s | ||||||
| 8/6/25 |  #167 Everyday Mysticism (with Robin Alfred) | “Mysticism is about meeting life as it is. It’s about leaning into discomfort, leaning into obstacles, leaning into challenges and saying, there’s a reason why they’re here.”-Robin AlfredWhat 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? Once again we welcome back Robin Alfred, a dear friend, coach and mentor who shares how we might apply the wisdom and presence of the mystics in to our families, communities, and ourselves. Robin Alfred is a leadership coach, facilitator, and teacher of contemporary embodied mysticism. Drawing on decades of work with leaders, teams, and communities worldwide, he helps people integrate deep spiritual insight with grounded, practical action. In this conversation, Robin offers practical, soul-centered guidance on what “applied mysticism” means and how to practice it in daily life; accepting friction, challenge and discomfort as invitations to deeper presence; and finding the courage to leap and trust that the bridge will appear. "The Guest House" by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.Show Notes:* Emergent Leadership: A Training in Applied Mysticism — September 2, 2025 to April 9, 2026* Open Circle ConsultingConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 07m 27s | ||||||
| 7/16/25 |  #166 The Power of Ritual (with Casper ter Kuile) | “Ritual makes the invisible visible.” — Casper ter KuileCasper ter Kuile shares insight and inspiration on the future of community, ritual, and spirituality. His work explores how we’ll make meaning, deepen our relationships, and experience beauty in the 21st century. He’s the author of The Power of Ritual and co-founder of The Nearness, a digital community of people exploring life’s big questions through deep conversations. Casper joins Andy under the Dome to explore how modern life has left many of us with an "ambient absence" — a yearning for depth, connection, and meaning in our fast-paced, disjointed world. Together, they discuss how rituals — both ancient and newly created — can help us reconnect with ourselves, each other, and the living world around us.From seasonal gatherings like Solstice in the Park to grassroots singing groups, Casper shares how simple acts of gathering can build resilient communities and meaningful culture. The conversation dives into the crucial distinction between tradition and convention, the evolving nature of spiritual life, and the importance of co-creating culture through shared song, storytelling, and collective care.This episode is a powerful reminder that ritual is not just about the past — it’s about creating the future we long to inhabit."Mindful" by Mary Oliver Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of light. It was what I was born for - to look, to listen, to lose myself inside this soft world - to instruct myself over and over in joy, and acclamation. Nor am I talking about the exceptional, the fearful, the dreadful, the very extravagant - but of the ordinary, the common, the very drab, the daily presentations. Oh, good scholar, I say to myself, how can you help but grow wise with such teachings as these - the untrimmable light of the world, the ocean's shine, the prayers that are made out of grass?Show Notes: * https://www.caspertk.com/* https://substack.com/@caspertk* The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile* Solstice in the Park: A Ritual of Mutual Belonging and Transformation by Casper ter Kuile* Joyful Belonging by Casper ter Kuile* Solstice in the Park* Nearness* Sacred Design LabConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 04m 24s | ||||||
| 6/25/25 |  #165 Queer Superpowers (with Dominic Longo) | “We need our most weird parts to be our most wonderful selves. And as we become more wonderful, we become more weird! And that’s kind of what flourishing looks like in the universe.”— Dominic LongoThis Pride Month we are thrilled to welcome back Dominic Longo, founder of Flourishing Gays and author of Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults. Dominic’s work is devoted to catalyzing and cultivating the transformational journeys of other LGBTQ+ leaders, helping them leverage their unique experiences as queer individuals into strengths that foster courageously authentic and highly-effective leadership. Queer Flourishing is a field guide for those who want to flourish in every aspect of their lives; a pioneering work that fills in the gaps in the self-help landscape where queer identities are often overlooked. Dominic sits down with Andy to discuss “queer superpowers,” 10 adaptive patterns and capabilities developed in response to the unique adversities queer individuals face, and shares how tending to the woundedness of the most powerful parts of ourselves with a trauma-informed approach can help us live our best lives as flourishing, queer adults. "Self-Portrait as So Much Potential" by Chen Chen Dreaming of one day being as fearless as a mango. As friendly as a tomato. Merciless to chin & shirtfront. Realizing I hate the word “sip.” But that’s all I do. I drink. So slowly. & say I’m tasting it. When I’m just bad at taking in liquid. I’m no mango or tomato. I’m a rusty yawn in a rumored year. I’m an arctic attic. Come amble & ampersand in the slippery polar clutter. I am not the heterosexual neat freak my mother raised me to be. I am a gay sipper, & my mother has placed what’s left of her hope on my brothers. She wants them to gulp up the world, spit out solid degrees, responsible grandchildren ready to gobble. They will be better than mangoes, my brothers. Though I have trouble imagining what that could be. Flying mangoes, perhaps. Flying mango-tomato hybrids. Beautiful sons.Show Notes:* Queer Flourishing: A Guide to Personal Growth and Greater Aliveness for LGBTQ+ Adults by F. Dominic Longo, Ph.D. * Flourishing Gays* #94 Queer Flourishing (with Dominic Longo)Connect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 24m 55s | ||||||
| 6/11/25 |  #164 Your Body is Speaking (with Ketriellah Goldfeder) | As a Certified Hakomi Practitioner and coach, much of Ketriellah Goldfeder’s ethos is rooted in transforming the self-help paradigm of “working on yourself” to “working with yourself.” While many of us feel that we are fundamentally broken and that one day, when we work hard enough, we will be fixed, Ketriellah helps her clients embrace the beautiful messiness that is synonymous with being human. Through embodied presence, loving acceptance, and connection with our own intrinsic wisdom, Ketriellah helps others uncover habitual patterns of thinking and metamorphose them into new, more realistic and rewarding mindsets.Andy and Ketriellah share their experiences as coaches finding unity and presence with their clients; the meaning of mastery and the value of “doing a little less than your best.” If you’re a person who wants to live more fully in reality, this conversation with is for you."Enough" by David Whyte Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to life we have refused again and again until now. Until now.Show Notes:* New Moon Coaching* Embodywise* Hakomi InstituteConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 10m 46s | ||||||
| 5/28/25 |  #163 Generative Cultural Renewal (with Sousan Abadian and Ariana Abadian-Heifetz) | In this special, inter-generational episode we welcome Dr. Sousan Abadian and her daughter, Ariana Abadian-Heifetz. Ariana is an experiential educator with expertise in social-emotional learning and gender-based violence. Sousan has an independent practice, teaching, speaking, and consulting internationally on leadership, innovation, and culture change. Currently, she serves as the Executive Director of the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan Washington. She’s the author of Generative Cultural Renewal, a pioneering work that examines the limits to cultural relativism, using female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) as a case study and providing a framework for positive cultural change. Generative Cultural Renewal serves as a cornerstone of this conversation, where mother and daughter share the miraculous ways that answers to important questions Ariana grew to have about women, culture, and identity could be found in some of the preliminary notes that would later become Sousan’s groundbreaking work; reducing our “trauma footprint”; and humanity’s need to refresh our culture and consciousness as we evolve towards a healthier collective wellbeing. Please note that this conversation touches on sensitive and potentially disturbing or upsetting cultural practices relating to physical & psychological harm to young women. It also explores the leadership work involved in addressing, reducing, and eliminating those harms while maintaining an understanding and respect for the overall histories & culture in which the practices emerged."First Fall" by Maggie Smith I’m your guide here. In the evening-dark morning streets, I point and name. Look, the sycamores, their mottled, paint-by-number bark. Look, the leaves rusting and crisping at the edges. I walk through Schiller Park with you on my chest. Stars smolder well into daylight. Look, the pond, the ducks, the dogs paddling after their prized sticks. Fall is when the only things you know because I’ve named them begin to end. Soon I’ll have another season to offer you: frost soft on the window and a porthole sighed there, ice sleeving the bare gray branches. The first time you see something die, you won’t know it might come back. I’m desperate for you to love the world because I brought you here.Show Notes:* www.sousanabadian.com* Generative Cultural Renewal: An Effective Resource in Ending Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting & Other Harmful Practices by Sousan Abadian, PhD* A Special Interview with IFC’s New Executive Director, Dr. Sousan Abadian* www.konu.org/ariana-abadianheifetz* Spreading Your Wings: A Health Infocomic for Girls of All Ages by Ariana Abadian-HeifetzConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 19m 40s | ||||||
| 5/16/25 |  #162 Positive Provocation (with Robert Biswas-Diener) | Robert Biswas-Diener is a researcher, author, and well-known executive coach. His work has taken him all over the globe, studying culture as it relates to well-being. In addition to happiness, he’s researched subjects such as strengths, hospitality, friendship, and leadership. In 2024, Thinkers50 recognized Robert as one of the 50 most influential executive coaches in the world. A prolific author, Robert has penned many best-selling books including Positive Provocation, The Upside of Your Dark Side, and Happiness. Robert describes Positive Provocation as a love letter to coaching. It includes 25 provocative questions that challenges readers to examine the foundational architecture of coaching. In this episode, he and Andy talk about the importance of learning through reflection, challenging long-held beliefs, and getting curious about asking novel questions that interrogate the world around us and stimulate growth. "Some Questions You Might Ask" by Mary Oliver Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, like the wings of a moth in the beak of the owl? Who has it, and who doesn’t? I keep looking around me. The face of the moose is as sad as the face of Jesus. The swan opens her white wings slowly. In the fall, the black bear carries leaves into the darkness. One question leads to another. Does it have a shape? Like an iceberg? Like the eye of a hummingbird? Does it have one lung, like the snake and the scallop? Why should I have it, and not the anteater who loves her children? Why should I have it, and not the camel? Come to think of it, what about the maple trees? What about the blue iris? What about all the little stones, sitting alone in the moonlight? What about roses, and lemons, and their shining leaves? What about the grass?Show Notes:* Positive Provocation: 25 Questions to Elevate Your Coaching Practice by Robert Biswas-Diener* www.robertdiener.comConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 08m 59s | ||||||
| 4/30/25 |  #161 Dreamtime of the Gods (with Eleanor Robins) | Eleanor Robins writes in service of imagination. Her work has been featured in publications such as the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post, and the LA Times. Her Substack, How to Go Home, is a newsletter devoted to essays, reflections, and conversations about imagination and the imaginal realm. A steward of dreams and stories, Eleanor studies the phenomena of the imaginal realm and how it shapes us and our relationship with reality. Following in the tradition of thinkers and mystics such as Henry Corbin and Cynthia Bourgeault, Eleanor and Andy’s conversation explores the imaginal realm as a real place apart from the physical, one with its own mode of perception separate from our ordinary waking consciousness; the space between the spiritual and the material; the dreamtime of the gods. "I Am Like a Leaf" by Yone Noguchi The silence is broken: into the nature My soul sails out, Carrying the song of life on his brow, To meet the flowers and birds. When my heart returns in the solitude, She is very sad, Looking back on the dead passions Lying on Love’s ruin. I am like a leaf Hanging over hope and despair, Which trembles and joins The world’s imagination and ghost. Show Notes:* How to Go Home - Eleanor Robins on Substack* https://www.eleanorrobins.com* Eye of the Heart: A Spiritual Journey into the Imaginal Realm by Cynthia BourgeaultConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 17m 51s | ||||||
| 4/16/25 |  #160 Future Fluent (with Cecily Sommers) | Cecily Sommers is a futurist, business consultant, and author of Think Like a Futurist. Cecily defines her practice as a futurist in terms of someone who studies the principles and mechanisms of change by looking at history, biology, and the universe in order to understand how societies transform over time. As a business futurist, Cecily’s zone of genius is as a consultant to some of the world’s biggest brands in the disciplines of strategy, innovation, and leadership development, helping organizations recognize and strategize around the forces of change impacting business and society. This week on The Wonder Dome, Cecily shares the significance of developing what she calls change literacy; an ability to cultivate an inner stability in tandem with an understanding of how the cycles of change function so that we can readily meet the future as it approaches. In an ever-changing geopolitical landscape, Cecily’s work is a balm that soothes uncertainty by helping us develop, “the other AI: an Anticipatory Intelligence that tells us not just what to follow, but how to leverage change for growth.”"The Future" by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by A. Poulin The future: time's excuse to frighten us; too vast a project, too large a morsel for the heart's mouth. Future, who won't wait for you? Everyone is going there. It suffices you to deepen the absence that we are.Show Notes:* www.cecilysommers.com* Cecily Sommers on LinkedIn* Think Like a Futurist by Cecily SommersConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 18m 01s | ||||||
| 3/26/25 |  #159 Poet Assassin (with Mieke Jacobs) | Mieke Jacobs (poet, coach, thought leader and systemic teacher) returns to the Dome to share from her book Poet Assassin; a fittingly-titled collection of “dense and ethereal” poems that excavate the collective psyche. It’s a fitting title for a body of work that flows through the mind and heart and yet is also sharp like an edge that cuts through the noise and speaks truth in a way that can be deeply felt in the body. With profound insight and honesty, Mieke reads from Poet Assassin and shares about her inspirations, processes, and meditations on the exploratory question behind the artistry of this book: “What is this strange, beautiful, glorious, and at the same time excruciating life about?"Grace" by Mieke Jacobs If it be Your will I will stumble and fall Flat on the ground in full surrender I will pray and wait Wait Wait Until the larger movement of life is taking me Once again If it be Your will I will walk towards the River And give myself to it Feeling the river feeling me A graceful witness to my toil When I try to push the river Once again If it be Your will I will walk forever I will walk barefoot I will ride bareback I am willing to stand naked In front of the Truth Once again If it be Your will I will stay I will come into form I will live this life This glorious and excruciating living of life I will come I will be Once again If it be Your will Show Notes:* Poet Assassin by Mieke Jacobs* #44 Systemic Elegance (with Mieke Jacobs and Paul Zonneveld)* La Garçon - Truus Druyts Connect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: https://instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 05m 53s | ||||||
| 3/14/25 |  #158 The Neutral Project (with Nate Helbach) | Nate Helbach is the founder and CEO of Neutral, a regenerative development company that crafts economically viable and ecologically sustainable built environments. Neutral creates beautiful housing developments that enhance existing neighborhoods, encourage the fostering of human connectivity, and generate profits all while mitigating the harmful effects traditional development tends to inflict on the natural world. With several projects underway such as a luxury multifamily apartment complex in Madison, Wisconsin and another in Fayetville, Arkansas with numerous communal amenities like a rooftop garden, Neutral is a pioneer of sustainability and design, enriching the lives of residents and promoting a healthier planet for all. 329 S Duncan Ave | Fayetville, AR Bakers Place | Madison, WIShow Notes: * Neutral.us* #157 EcoResponsive Environments with Soham De and Prachi Rampuria* EcoResponsive Environments: A Framework for Settlement Design by Ian Bentley, Soham De, Sue McGlynn and Prachi Rampuria* Missing Middle Housing: Thinking Big and Building Small to Respond to Today’s Housing Crisis by by Daniel G. Parolek* Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life by David Sim* “How the Auto Industry Carjacked the American Dream” Climate Town on YouTube * Phius Passive Building* Thesis Driven with Brad Hargreaves on SubstackConnect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: instagram.com/wonderdomepodcast Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 05m 41s | ||||||
| 2/19/25 |  #157 EcoResponsive Environments (with Soham De & Prachi Rampuria) | 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, community, civic engagement, and the ecological crisis. Navigating our current global political landscape often feels like patching up a sinking ship, where the tools we use to mend it often reproduce the status quo that created the holes in the first place. In terms of housing, this looks like the expansion of repetitive, car-centric suburban developments that damage the earth and force us to spend more time in our cars commuting than in community.Prachi Rampuria and Soham De 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. They are co-founders of EcoResponsive Environments, an award-winning urban design and architectural practice based in London. Their work envisions the development of ecologically stable buildings, neighborhoods and settlements that are responsive to human needs for safe and just spaces to thrive, while also supporting our planet in the long-term.In this conversation, Andy, Prachi, and Soham imagine a world where through EcoResponsive design, we have the potential to create more sustainable, equitable, and vibrant communities for all."Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years From Now" by Matthew Olzmann Most likely, you think we hated the elephant, the golden toad, the thylacine and all variations of whale harpooned or hacked into extinction. It must seem like we sought to leave you nothing but benzene, mercury, the stomachs of seagulls rippled with jet fuel and plastic. You probably doubt that we were capable of joy, but I assure you we were. We still had the night sky back then, and like our ancestors, we admired its illuminated doodles of scorpion outlines and upside-down ladles. Absolutely, there were some forests left! Absolutely, we still had some lakes! I’m saying, it wasn’t all lead paint and sulfur dioxide. There were bees back then, and they pollinated a euphoria of flowers so we might contemplate the great mysteries and finally ask, “Hey guys, what’s transcendence?” And then all the bees were dead.Show Notes:* https://www.ecoresponsiveenvironments.com/* “Ecoresponsive Environments: A Framework for Settlement Design” by Ian Bentley, Sue McGlynn, Soham De & Prachi Rampuria* #148 It Makes a Village (with Jonathan Smales)Connect with Andy:* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjcahill/* Instagram: instagram.com/wonderdomepodcastWhat is your fiercest hope for humanity? Get full access to Wonder Dome at wonderdome.substack.com/subscribe | 1h 18m 02s | ||||||
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