Podcast Episodes

a calm presence - uplift

Season 6

uplift

here are some uplifting words for the new year drawn from 9 episodes of conscient podcast et 3 extraits du balado conscient

This posting of a calm presence was designed as an audio listening exp…

Published on 13 hours ago

a calm presence - 4%

Season 6

(note: to read the original a calm presence Substack posting click here)

It’s Thursday November 27th, 2025, at about 10pm. 

I’m sitting by a fireplace at our cottage in Duhamel Québec and I want to tel…

Published on 1 month ago

e243 francisco rodriguez – amazon awareness

Season 6 Episode 243

Take care of the earth. We have grandsons and great-great-grandsons, and we have to, we, our generation, has to teach the young people what we lived, the beauty of the world that we lived, not the di…

Published on 1 month ago

e242 roundtable - dissolving boundaries

Season 6 Episode 242

In an era where pressures on climate and environments grow even stronger, we should not underestimate the transformative power of art. (Ambassador of the European Union to Canada Geneviève Tuts)When …

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

a calm presence - erasure

Season 6

erasure

emulating sand mandalas

(note: you can read the original posting here)

It's November 1st, 2025 and as you can hear, I'm not at home. We've been traveling for the last couple of weeks in Ecuador.…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

a calm presence - my arcanum

Season 6

This is my narration of ‘my arcanum’ a calm presence Substack.

You’ll hear that I’ve added some keyboard music here and there generated on a Yamaha e353 keyboard which I bought to help me learn my ten…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

a calm presence - hunkering down

Season 6

This is a narrated version of my 'hunkering down' essay on a a calm presence.

This essay is inspired by interviews with and writings by David Suzuki, Seth Klein, Joanna Macy and Thich Nhat Hanh. 

The e…

Published on 4 months ago

e241 roundtable – everyday habits for transforming systems

Season 6 Episode 241

The question the book asks is obviously transforming the system is not an individual task, it's a collective activity. But it still begs the question, if we're trying to contribute to that, what do w…

Published on 5 months ago

e240 claudia salguero – community, beauty, nature

Season 6 Episode 240

To me, there's three key things and it's community, beauty and nature. I think if we connect with nature and if we produce beauty, that is something that we as humans I think is our biggest gift. And…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

e239 roundtable – imagining in public e2 - artist perspectives on social impact

Season 6 Episode 239

I love policy because it allows for surrealism, it allows for creativity, it allows for dancing, it allows for all the skills and disciplines and interests and tools that as artists we have gravitate…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago