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Life is a Festival

Transformational gatherings, the communities they build, and the teachers who help us bring that open-hearted joy home.

Love All Your Parts
Leadership, Mental Wellness, Mentorship, Personal Growth, Psychedelics Eamon Armstrong Leadership, Mental Wellness, Mentorship, Personal Growth, Psychedelics Eamon Armstrong

Love All Your Parts

Life is a Festival #99: Richard Schwartz

Does your inner world sometimes feels like a squabbling family, always reacting to the outside experience and to itself? You’re not alone. In fact there’s an entire style of therapy that specifically seeks to bring harmony to our Internal Family Systems.

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Healing New Age Narcissism Part 2 (Clubhouse Show)
Burning Man, Community, Festivals, Critical Thinking, Leadership, Harm Reduction, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Psychedelics, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong Burning Man, Community, Festivals, Critical Thinking, Leadership, Harm Reduction, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Psychedelics, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong

Healing New Age Narcissism Part 2 (Clubhouse Show)

Life is a Festival #97: Alex Ebert

A robust history of the dark side of New Age thought and how we can refestivalize our spiritual culture.

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Healing New Age Narcissism Part 1 (Clubhouse Show)
Burning Man, Community, Festivals, Critical Thinking, Leadership, Harm Reduction, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Psychedelics, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong Burning Man, Community, Festivals, Critical Thinking, Leadership, Harm Reduction, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Psychedelics, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong

Healing New Age Narcissism Part 1 (Clubhouse Show)

Life is a Festival #96: Jamie Wheal

Recorded on Clubhouse, Jamie helps us understand the worrying prevalence of dark triad personality types in transformational communities.

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Musings On Mental Health
Leadership, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Community, Burning Man, Festivals, Harm Reduction, Mentorship, Psychedelics, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong Leadership, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth, Community, Burning Man, Festivals, Harm Reduction, Mentorship, Psychedelics, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong

Musings On Mental Health

Life is a Festival #84: Eamon Armstrong

A repod from my interview on Eric White’s show theEWpodcast where we discuss techniques for mental wellness and how to see depression as a teacher.

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Power & Privilege in Intentional Communities
Leadership, Mental Wellness, Critical Thinking, Personal Growth, Politics, Community Series, Community, Green, Race Eamon Armstrong Leadership, Mental Wellness, Critical Thinking, Personal Growth, Politics, Community Series, Community, Green, Race Eamon Armstrong

Power & Privilege in Intentional Communities

Life is a Festival #83: Ashoka Finley

We need to compost the old world, not simply run away from it. Ashoka is here to teach us how to build the infrastructure of care for the new world that we know is possible.

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Edgewalking Gender, Technology, and Community
Community, Leadership, Festivals, Business, Community Series, Gender, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth Eamon Armstrong Community, Leadership, Festivals, Business, Community Series, Gender, Mental Wellness, Personal Growth Eamon Armstrong

Edgewalking Gender, Technology, and Community

Life is a Festival #81 [In Community]: Andrew Murray Dunn (Siempo)

Through his exploration of gender and his dedication to humane technology, Andrew is walking the edge of culture and community.

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Eros and the Shepherdess: A Tale of Trans Emergence
Personal Growth, Community, Gender, Mental Wellness, LGBTQ, Leadership, Sexuality, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong Personal Growth, Community, Gender, Mental Wellness, LGBTQ, Leadership, Sexuality, Spirituality Eamon Armstrong

Eros and the Shepherdess: A Tale of Trans Emergence

Life is a Festival #72: Zhenevere Sophia Dao (The MogaDao Institute)

Zhenevere Sofia Dao returns to the show to share, for the first time, the story of her transgender emergence during sixteen months of silence in the Jemez Mountains.

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Skeptical Thinking for Spiritual People
Personal Growth, Leadership, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Spirituality, Critical Thinking Eamon Armstrong Personal Growth, Leadership, Mental Wellness, Psychedelics, Spirituality, Critical Thinking Eamon Armstrong

Skeptical Thinking for Spiritual People

Life is a Festival #67: Dr. Anna Zakrisson (Doctor Anna’s Imaginarium)

With an upswell in conspiracy theories and lack of good sensemaking on social media, Dr. Anna Zakrisson of the Swedish Skeptics Association is here to help us think about thinking in this confusing time.

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A North Star for Psychedelic Ethics
Leadership, Personal Growth, Community, Business, Harm Reduction, Mental Wellness, Mentorship, Psychedelics Eamon Armstrong Leadership, Personal Growth, Community, Business, Harm Reduction, Mental Wellness, Mentorship, Psychedelics Eamon Armstrong

A North Star for Psychedelic Ethics

Life is a Festival #65: Liana Sananda (Auryn Project)

The psychedelic movement is at a threshold point where it is vitally important to create an attractor coalition of value-driven leadership. However, in order to get this right we need to co-create and move at the speed of trust.

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