The Ignite Institute : CHANGE HAPPENS NOW!
Change Happens Now is a podcast dedicated to conversations and practices exploring wisdom based leadership. Wisdom-based Leadership is an approach that seeks to cultivate transformation at the intersections of spirituality, justice, and social innovation. In each episode, we feature guests from across industries who will share stories, insights, practices, and tools that will prepare and empower aspiring and emerging leaders to enact social change in their personal lives, communities, and in the organizations they serve. SUBSCRIBE : ignite.psr.edu
Episodes
69 episodes
The Future of Mentorship for Emerging Leaders of Color
In this inspiring episode, we continue our exploration of Kwaray’s development by welcoming a dynamic and deeply knowledgeable voice: Tiffany Bluhm, Executive Director o...
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Season 7
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Episode 9
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Wisdom-Based Leadership: Cultivating a Garden of Growth
In this episode, we sat down with Jonathon Murillo, our Director of Content and Strategy at Ignite Institute at PSR. Jonathon introduces the concept of a VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) world and the need for a new way to lea...
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Season 7
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Episode 8
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Community-Based Learning: The Evolution of Education and Formation
In this episode, we dive into an inspiring conversation with Cindy Liu, a visionary strategist dedicated to redefining the future of education through Kwaray, a groundbreaking community-based learning platform. Cindy takes us on her journey, sh...
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Season 77
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Episode 7
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35:09
Breaking Barriers: How Kwaray is Reimagining the Future of Theological Education
Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy, President of Pacific School of Religion, discusses the origin story of Kwaray, a new community-based lear...
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Season 7
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Episode 6
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Blueprints for Change: Redefining Architecture through Justice, Equity, and Community
As the first female principals at Bora Architecture, Amy Donohoe and Jeanie Lai champion justice-oriented design, making educational spaces innov...
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Pursuing Reconciliation Through Bravery and Action
In this inspiring episode, we welcome Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, a pastor, dynamic speaker, award-winning author, professor, and thought leader. Dr. Salter McNeil is recognized internationally as ...
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Season 7
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Episode 4
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46:27
Black Space: Cultivating Identity and Community in Education
In this conversation, we sat down with Lauren Snelling and Dori King to discuss their experiences as parents and educators and ...
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Season 7
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Episode 3
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55:56
Navigating Christian Ethics in a Complex World
Join us in this enlightening episode as our host, Mo King, delves into the intricate landscape of Christian ethics with esteemed scholars Dr. Traci West and
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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53:46
Faith, Trust, and Meaning Making in Community
On our Season premiere, host Mo King sits down with spiritual leaders Rev. Adriene Thorne, Senior Minister of the historic Riverside Church in NYC, and
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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48:15
Learning New Ways of Advocacy
In a global culture that has perpetuated sexual violence, and a recent shift to more people talking about it than ever before, how can we as leaders truly be in community with survivors of this kind of abuse? In our Season Finale, we sat down w...
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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42:15
Summoning Radical Imagination
Co-designing is an ancient practice, and the world is experiencing a paradigm shift from designing for people to designing with people. We sat down with Dave Dawkins, communication design lead at IDEO.org, to talk about this change and the impo...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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46:37
Being an Advocate for What is Possible
With everything happening in the world today in politics, cancel culture, and extreme barriers of division, Leland Melvin is helping to transform these ills by using his life story as an ath...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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48:47
Stewarding Spaces Through Profound Change
How do we support the writers, artists, and thinkers in our communities in times of profound change? Andrew Proctor, Executive Director of Lit...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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53:45
Letting Spirit Guide Us
How can Christian teachings, sacred text, and prophetic witness be brought to the issues calling for Love and Justice in our world today? Master educator, Rev. Tana Roseboro Marsh, Program...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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47:14
Embracing Our Past for a Better Future
How can we "sit on the porch" to help others slowly unfold what's on their hearts and minds? How can we be findable for intergenerational conversations? On this episode, Mo sits down with Phyllis Drennon King Hildreth, VP of Strategy and Chief ...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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48:13
Bringing Hope to Global Culture Through Shared Heroes and Stories
What we consume, whether it's the movies that we watch, the books we read, or the short social media videos we scroll through, it all feeds our minds and souls and informs our sense of reality at a very subliminal level. To Payhuan Shiao, Found...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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48:51
Staying in Beta as a Human Being
Former 76ers athletic trainer and author of the Red Rubber Ball series of books, Kevin Carroll, has turned his childhood passion for playing ball into a bestselling franchise. Since leaving Nike to create his own company,
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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50:48
Creating a Way Out of No Way
On this episode, Mo King is joined by Dr. Jennifer Madden, the Dean of the School of Business at Linfield University in McMinnville, Oregon and the Author of
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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42:58
Changing the World in Quiet Ways
On our Season 6 Premiere, new Host, Mo King, talks with award-winning writer, editor, and heart centered nonprofit/social enterprise professional, Dorcas Cheng-Tozun. Dorcas is the editorial director a...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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43:22
Finding A Sense of Belonging
Belonging is a need essential to the human experience, and with the ongoing complex issues we're all navigating, the question of what “belonging” means in society is extending into our work as it never has before. Grace So is Visiting Ass...
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Season 5
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Episode 10
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37:18
Spiritual Vitality in Leadership
On this episode we sat down with Leonard McMahon, doctoral candidate in theology at the Graduate Theological Union at UC Berkeley and Assistant Professor of Pastoral Care at the Pacific Scho...
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Season 5
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Episode 9
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40:15
Community-First Leadership
"How much would the world change if our leaders focused on community care first?" That's what Stephenie Wheeler-Smith's focus is in her social enterprise, We Deliver Care, that seeks to reimagi...
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46:49
Healing Your Inner Voice
Lisa Asedillo is the co-founder of New Day Church in the Bronx, New York, a vibrant, queer, anti-racist and boundary-crossing faith community. As an ethicist, liturgist, and the Assistant Profes...
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Season 5
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Episode 7
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