Spaces Between with Al Jeffery
Sitting around the philosophical fire, join Al as he explores integral perspectives and regenerative practices for restoring community in the 21st Century. What does it mean to 'queer the mind,' and live in congruence with the wholeness of who we are, to integrate our parts? In a deeply-connected-yet-fragmented world, Al invites ambitious thinking, deepens ways of feeling, and welcomes broadened epistemologies that may extend our cultural imagination to a more totalising and inclusive horizon. Through elucidating the mutli-dimensionality of the human condition through psychological know-how, philosophical insight, and artistic poetics, Al and the guests he invites attempt to weave a larger story in which to find ourselves and our way, together. How does our view on leadership and relating shift through an embodied developmental lens? How might we contribute to a life-regenerating future from the inside-out? Spaces Between is an open-inquiry into restoring connection in our lives, relations, and communities. Modelling generative dialogue, vulnerability, and courageous conversation, Al weaves not only a heard but felt journey back to connection with self and world 🌏
Episodes
38 episodes
#35 | Querying the Soul and Re-Romancing Our Many Parts Home — Asher Packman (The Fifth Direction)
In this episode, my first back for this year, Ash and I dive further into the waters we began wading into in our previous episode. Exploring the intersect...
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Episode 35
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56:21
#34 | Psychedelic Integration and Bedding Down New Knowings — Sean O’Carroll (Wild Mind Institute)
Sean is a man, a voice, and a guide I've been tracking for some time, for his work in the eco-psychotherapy and psychedelic-assisted therapy space. Within the frame of rewilding, or de-domesticating the mind, remembering and reclaiming what Mar...
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Episode 34
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1:31:40
Essay | Eros, Evolution and Moving from Psychology Toward Soul-Making — Al Jeffery
In this episode, I read my most recent essay on “
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38:56
#33 | Queerness, Identity and Inhabiting Self and Soul — Eamon Armstrong (Life is a Festival)
In today’s episode, I had the honour of connecting in with dear brother Eamon Armstrong, exploring ways of being that allow for greater degrees of integration, and soul to live through us. In a world that prizes some expressions, criticises and...
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Episode 33
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1:26:29
#32 | Attuning to the Spirit of Place & the Ecomythic — Dr. Geoff Berry (Nature Calling)
If we are to restore, or re-story, our world within larger narratives that acknowledge and honour the whole, how can we be with the natural world in a learning and listening capacity? Dr. Geoff Berry coined the term ‘ecomythic’ to s...
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Episode 32
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1:13:55
#31: Asher Packman — Story, Myth and Renewing a Mythopoetic Imagination
In our world of bits and bobs, parts and objects, them and us, what is it that binds us, reminding us of our inter-weaving, and our nature as relational, systemic, and intertwined beings? How can we tell a different Story of Me, of Us and of No...
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Episode 31
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1:09:51
#30: Mary Pender Greene — Reforming Racist and Oppressive Cultures from the Inside Out
Building cultures and places that celebrate our uniqueness, and our potentials is the work of each of us, whether we regard ourselves as business leaders, proud parents, loving friends, or contributing citizens. We find ourselves within systems...
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Episode 30
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53:52
#29: Brother Phap Hai — Engaged Buddhism and Living in Relationship with Immediacy
Contemplating system and cultural change, and our role within it can be daunting, and quite honestly, disempowering. Engaged Buddhism though, might have something to remind us. In today’s episode, we connect with Brother Phap Hai, a...
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Episode 29
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1:00:53
#28: Jenny Andersson — Thinking as Living Systems: Epistemologies for Regeneration
In today’s episode, I connect with, and we get to explore with, someone I’ve admired and learned much from in the past years. Jenny’s articulation of regenerative culture and leadership, bringing together the worlds of philosophy, ecology, myth...
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Episode 28
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1:25:45
#27: Henry Fowkes — Validation, Co-Regulation and Midwifing the Magic in Groups
Everyone is a facilitator, whether consciously or unconsciously. In our relationships at all levels - professionally and personally - we are woven into, affected by, and affecting a web of relations. In this episode, I sit down with my dear bro...
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Episode 27
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1:21:05
#26: Heather Plett — From Hijacking to Liberating: The Art of Holding Space
What does it really mean to ‘hold space?’ What is the opposite of ‘holding space?’ Is this something we can teach, and if so, how might we?Heather is a group facilitator, deep thinker-feeler, and space-holder I’ve admired for so...
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Episode 26
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1:12:08
The Pause, Sensing the Invitation & 1:1 Depth-Work
In today's episode, I dive a little into the process of taking pause and sensing invitations. More specifically, I share a little of my process in taking pause in the last 4 months, the invitation, and newfound commitment to the show tha...
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27:07
#25: Paul Austin — Micro-dosing, Restoring Relationship and Living in Paradox.
In this episode, Paul Austin and I explore the Third Wave of psychedelic use and its role in evolving consciousness, restoring relationship, and living in paradox. Paul is the founder of The Third Wave, co...
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Episode 25
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1:08:17
#24: Louka Parry — Unlearning, Relearning and Developing our Social, Emotional and Cognitive Capabilities
If we are to thrive - personally and collectively - in the 21st century, we are asked to unlearn and relearn ways of knowing and being that are more congruent with our ecologies and the natural systems we are a part of. We are also asked ...
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Episode 24
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55:29
#23: Satish Kumar — Tending to the Sacred in Soil, Soul and Society
Satish Kumar is a former Jain monk, Indian British activist and speaker, as well as the Founder of Schumacher College in Devon. We met 6 years ago at a private retreat of teachers, guides and stewards committed to restoring a regenerative futur...
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Episode 23
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57:40
#22: Nina Simons — Nature, Culture, the Sacred and Feminine-Inflected Leadership
What a delight! In this conversation, I connect and dance with Nina Simons, Co-Founder and Relationship Strategist at Bioneers. A movement, community and media platform I’ve admired and relished over the past years, committed to healing relatio...
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Episode 22
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56:36
#21: East Forest — Music and the Muse as Medicine for Our Becoming
In today’s episode, we have the honour of connecting with East Forest, hearing some of his heartfelt stories and practices for listening to the muse, and partnering with sound as a healing agent on his own path home. As someone who ...
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Episode 21
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1:05:53
#20: Practice Episode — An Architecture of Mindfulness & The Punctuating Pause
To ground some of our explorations in recent conversations, join me for a short and succinct look at how mindfulness practices help us contribute to not only our personal liberation but to broader social reform. I also share an “architecture of...
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Episode 20
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22:34
#19: Melissa Michaels — Bodying More of Ourselves & Attuning Together
Movement is a universal language that not only supports us in bodying ourselves, moving through trauma and cohering our body-minds, but also accessing ways to be in relationship with others and the more-than-human. Melissa has been a dear frien...
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Episode 19
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1:03:49
#18: Dan Doty — Reclaiming Our Emotions and Congruency as Gift
What does it truly mean to reclaim our emotions, to live in integrity with our inner and outer lives in congruence? Not only supporting men in their path of healing and renewal, what does this look like as we as a culture come into community co...
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Episode 18
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56:49
#17: Christine Owenell — Leader as Listener, Regeneration & Alchemising Chaos
Whether you’re leading an organisation, team, or not, we’re all leading in many ways - in our lives, our loves and our work. Maybe, it’s the claiming of our role as stewards and leaders that is in many ways our step into being of service with i...
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Episode 17
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1:08:25
#16: Joshua Ackman — Money, Meaning & Funding the Emerging Future
When money is remembered as energy, we begin to relate to it with reverence, with choice. Joshua Ackman is the former Head of Co-Investment at River Capital and is an “impact” investor I admire for his...
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Episode 16
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1:30:41
#15: Day Schildkret — Beauty, Impermanence & Queering Our Cultural Imagination
Another queer brother from abroad, Day is internationally known for his work using Morning Altars to inspire thousands around the world to renew their...
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Episode 15
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1:12:02
#14: Rich Bartlett — Micro-solidarity, Growing Up and Reconditioning Our Relational Inheritance
In a world where it can seem we have lost touch with what it means to be together, to live, work, and grow in community, practices to remember and recondition our relational patterns seem crucial. Rich is a Co-Founder of
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Episode 14
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1:14:48
#13: Spencer Honeyman — Rhythm, Music and Holding Space for the Invisible
There is much that happens in teams, relationships, and our lives that words simply cannot touch. There is much that we experience in our lives that without alternative tools to touch, we remain distant to and fragmented by. Join me in this ric...
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Episode 13
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1:02:02
