Way Collective Podcast

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/18/26, entitled Going Slow. In this episode, talk about the invitation from Bayo Akomolafe "In urgent times, we must slow down," and how, when we can bring a prolonged gaze of attention to our lives, others, and the needs of the world around us, it opens us up to a deepened presence. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 09/02/26, entitled Conscious Living. In this episode, we introduce our Fall conversation series, by talking about the movement from consciousness, to conscience, to consequence, to conscientiousness, inviting us to consider the ways that we are living un-consciously, and to move toward more conscientious living. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/26/26, entitled Returning to the Sacred. In this episode, we finish our Summer series by talking about how turning to the sacred is really about a way of returning -- returning to our bodies, to one another, and to the world -- with the practice of sacramentalizing things, as we learn to see anew. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/19/26, entitled Finding a Sacred Ground. In this episode, we talk about how finding a sacred ground isn't always about creating stability, but is about creating roots that nourish us and make us more available to life, rather than less affected by it. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/12/26, entitled The Grace of Self-Compassion, with Tracy Johansson. In this episode, Tracy explores how giving ourselves the grace of self-compassion helps us foster resilience from the inside-out, allows us to meet ourselves with greater acceptance, and can deepen our sense of connection and belonging. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 08/05/26, entitled Peeking Under the Curtain, with John Figoski. In this episode, John shares stories from a recent chapter in his ongoing "God Quest" -- a deeply personal journey that has taken unexpected turns and open new ways of seeing himself, faith, and the nature of reality. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/29/26, entitled The Sacredness of the Both/And. In this episode, we talk about the how there is something sacred about holding paradox, about not dismissing difference and difficulties, but in learning to become the kinds of people who, grounded in love, can embrace the whole of life. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/22/26, entitled The Sacred as a Language We Speak. In this episode, we talk about the nature of the human religious impulse, and how religion is a language that we speak and a set of practices that we keep that help us render the world as sacred to ourselves, and live in community like that is the case. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/15/26, entitled The Sacred as Love, Beauty, and Peace. In this episode, we talk about the movement in our lives from living in love, to creating beauty in the world, to the emergence of peace as trusting in the efficacy of beauty -- and how, the sacred emerges when we choose to pay attention and walk this path. Thanks for tuning in! 

This is the recording from our Dinner & Dialogue gathering on 07/08/26, entitled The Sacredness of Becoming. In this episode, we talk about how we innately know that life is sacred through our experience of flow -- of knowing the past, present, and future -- and, how peace arises not through us hitting the pause button on life, but by surrendering more fully to the cycle of creative transformation, whose name is Love. Thanks for tuning in!