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The Lev Natan PodcastMutualityAfter attending the Schumacher Lecture with Samantha Power and Tyler Wakefield, Lev reflects on mutuality, courage, and showing up fully in a time of planetary crisis. Speaking candidly on his drive home, he explores how connection, purpose, and the force of life itself guide us to take meaningful action even amid uncertainty.______Your Invited to Deep Roots 2026 - Regenerative Leadership for Changemakers in the Northeast Bioregion: www.allianceforaviablefuture.org/deep-rootsRooted in ancient wisdom, we are growing a partnership culture for our regenerative future.www.avf.earth
2025-11-2427 minThe Lev Natan PodcastThe Personal is ProfessionalIn this episode, Lev Natan explores the idea that the personal and professional are inseparable, especially in a time of global turbulence and deep transformation. Drawing on visionary thinkers like Barbara Marx Hubbard, Thomas Berry, and Joanna Macy, he reflects on why authentic emotion, spiritual insight, and inner purpose must be brought into our work if we hope to meet the challenges of the polycrisis with resilience and creativity. Speaking from the trail along the Housatonic River, Lev invites listeners to reclaim their full humanity in service of meaningful leadership and a regenerative future.______Your Invited...
2025-11-1432 minThe Lev Natan PodcastThe Deep Roots of Partnership SocietiesWalking along the Housatonic River, Lev Natan reflects on the ancient roots of partnership culture and how reconnecting with our ancestral wisdom can guide us through today’s ecological and social crises. Drawing from Jewish mysticism, Riane Eisler's work, and personal inquiry, he invites listeners to rediscover cooperation, empathy, and regeneration as pathways toward a more viable future.______Your Invited to Deep Roots 2026 - Regenerative Leadership for Changemakers in the Northeast Bioregion: www.allianceforaviablefuture.org/deep-rootsRooted in ancient wisdom, we are growing a partnership culture for our regenerative future.www.avf.ea...
2025-11-0733 minThe Lev Natan PodcastTribute to Hawksbrother: Teachings on Council & Roots of Network-BuildingIn this episode, Lev Natan honors his late teacher and mentor, Hawksbrother, whose wisdom and guidance continue to shape his work in regenerative leadership. Walking along the Housatonic River, Lev reflects on the teachings of interconnectedness, gratitude, and council—the ancient practice of sitting in circle to listen, dream, and heal together.Through vivid storytelling and visionary imagery, he revisits a powerful meditation on peace and the rebirth of the earth, sharing how those early experiences inspired the creation of the Alliance for a Viable Future. This episode invites listeners to reconnect with ancestral wisdom and the living ne...
2025-10-2929 minThe Lev Natan PodcastBe. Do. Have.Lev Natan reflects on the practice of “Be, Do, Have,” a framework inspired by environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill. Walking along the Housatonic River, Lev explores how grounding ourselves in being—in presence, purpose, and connection to the earth—naturally informs what we do and ultimately what we have. Weaving personal stories, ecological wisdom, and a vision for regenerative leadership, this inaugural episode invites listeners to reconnect with their deeper sense of purpose and with the living world around them.______Your Invited to Deep Roots 2026 - Regenerative Leadership for Changemakers in the Northeast Bioregion: www.allianceforaviablefuture.org/deep...
2025-10-2429 min
Leading Visionaries PodcastAwakening the Heart of the Earth with Lev Natan - 83In a world teetering between ecological collapse and conscious awakening, few voices speak with the grounded clarity and spiritual depth. In this episode of Leading Visionaries, host Anjel B. Hartwell interviews Lev Natan. Lev shares a breathtaking origin story; his awakening during a shamanic journey in 2006 that revealed a future of global healing, forest regeneration, and communal leadership rooted in indigenous wisdom. Raised in the Jewish mystical tradition and deeply immersed in ceremony, Lev’s story unfolds like a sacred map, one that guides listeners from early inner questioning to the birth of his movement-based organization, Alliance for a Vi...
2025-05-2727 min
The Israel ConnectionThe Israel Connection: Elkana CohenSend us a textEsti Zenati is joined by guest, Elkana Cohen, author of the book OCT 7: The War Against Hamas Through the Eyes of an Israeli Commando Officer, which is based on Elkana's diary entries during the war in Gaza. Esti and Elkana talk about his personal experience of what it's like serving in the IDF since October 7, 2023 and being on the battlefield in Northern Gaza for over a year, experiencing major losses of close friends and becoming a father for the first time. Elkana's book mentioned above is available f...
2025-03-2036 min
93.9 The RiverThe Alliance for a Viable FutureMonte talks with Lev Natan from the Alliance for a Viable Future about and ambitious plan and an incredible concert.
2022-08-0110 minThe Lev Natan Podcast58. Wellbeing Economy Alliance: Partnerships for Systems Change w/Scotland Director Jimmy PaulThe Wellbeing Economy Alliance believes that humanity should determine economics, not the other way around. In this episode, Jimmy Paul, Director at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance in Scotland - speaks of their work with partners to drive change by co-creating, testing & lobbying for alternative policies, practices & models, and will look to identify the cross-sectoral opportunities for fundamental systems change. Jimmy has worked in a range of leadership roles across health & social care for nearly ten years. He is particularly passionate about a ‘nothing about us without us’ approach to participation and the creative, meaningful involvement of communities who would benefit most...
2022-06-0346 minThe Lev Natan Podcast57. Climate Leadership: How We Can Create a Viable FutureDo you feel an urgency to step up and face the climate crisis? At no other time in human history has our human species needed to wake up to the harrowing fact that our planet’s natural systems may not be able to support human life— within the coming generation—by 2050. Climate Leadership is a pathway forward that integrates personal & professional development work, for emerging and established leaders who feel compelled to face the reality and take a stand for the future of all life on our planet.______Your Invited to Deep Roots 2026 - Regenerative Leadership for Ch...
2022-04-141h 08The Lev Natan Podcast56. Be Prepared: Homesteading Skills, Storing Supplies, Homescale Gardening & More - Jon Lee Rucker“It’s better to have it and not need it, then to need it and not have it,'' says Jon Lee Rucker, founder of Wild Beauty Farm (wildbeautyfarm.com), PermaJam (permajam.com), and a dear friend of mine. This empowering conversation will bring awareness to the uneasy feeling about the instability all around us - conflict in the Ukraine, market and supply chain issues, and the environmental turbulence. We discuss our personal experience of how taking action generates a sense of confidence and courage. By facing it, you can turn the anxiety into positive action, instead of ignoring it. It’s...
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Light of InfiniteSpiritualize Reality (leviticus: vayikra)This week’s I wrote about my fam from Ethiopia & Yemen, and the Korbanot (sacrifices), see how it all ties into the Parashah! - 𝕊𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕦𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕫𝕖 ℝ𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪 - We read: “When one among you offers a sacrifice to G-d…”. Immediately, we ask, what sort of sacrifice? Why? and how? King David, whose son built the first Temple, writes in Psalms, “For You [G-d] do not desire sacrifices; else I would give it: You do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifice of God is a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.”Animal sacrifices were a way for ancient Jews to elevate themselves s...
2022-03-1106 minThe Lev Natan Podcast55. Climate Resilience: The Secret of Healing Trauma in an Era of Crisis - Dr. Stephanie MinesIt is clear that the climate crisis is not going to go away. How can individuals and families best prepare themselves to meet the health challenges that are inevitable? One of the keys is that “we need to harness the power of focus,” says Dr. Stephanie Mines, the author of five books that reflect over three decades of research as a neuroscientist. She has investigated shock and trauma as a survivor, a professional, a clinicalresearcher, and healthcare provider. Her nonprofit The TARA Approach is instrumental in thesystemic change she promotes as a Sustainable Health paradigm. Dr. Mine...
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2022-01-231h 00The Lev Natan Podcast54. Honoring Our Native Relatives on Thanksgiving - Lev NatanWhat do you say at your Thanksgiving dinner table to honor our Native American relatives? In this episode, host and Executive Director of Alliance for a Viable Future, Lev Natan, shares stories of the Haudenasaunee Confederacy, The PeaceMaker, the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohicans, and The Seven Generations teaching. Lev’s wish is that his words spark your ideas for what to say around the dinner table. Also, Lev gives an update about the Climate Leadership Initiative that AVF is launching in 2022. Happy Thanksgiving to each and every one of you!______Your Invited to Deep Roots 2026...
2021-11-2432 minThe Lev Natan Podcast53. Listening Deeply: INDIGENOUS VOICES PANEL DISCUSSIONWhat’s the purpose of Indigenous People’s Day? Where did it come from? Why does it matter?The purpose of this panel, “Listening Deeply: Indigenous Voices Panel Discussion,” was to educate our community in preparation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It happened on Friday, October 1st from 6:00-8:00pm at the Unitarian Universalist Meeting of South Berkshire in Housatonic. Our panelists were Shawn Stevens, Jake Singer, Bonney Hartley, from the Mohican Cultural Affairs Office, and Carol Dana, a Penobscot Language MastWe also heard deep reflections from Lev Natan, founding director of Alliance for a Viable Future, and special ho...
2021-11-022h 00The Lev Natan Podcast52. Changing the World From the Inside Out - Rabbi David JaffeHow can you integrate spiritual wisdom, social justice, reconciliation and deep personal growth? Rabbi David Jaffe’s teaching, organizing, writing and consulting explore the intersection of moral-spiritual development and ethical action in the world. In our interview, he draws from his book, Changing the World from the Inside Out, where he speaks to the needs of change makers and spiritual leaders throughout the country.______Your Invited to Deep Roots 2026 - Regenerative Leadership for Changemakers in the Northeast Bioregion: www.allianceforaviablefuture.org/deep-rootsRooted in ancient wisdom, we are growing a partnership culture for our re...
2021-07-2341 minThe Lev Natan Podcast51. From Native Roots, Sprout New Melodies - Janel Munoa“Indian girl use all your heart, or they’ll eat it raw, while singing la la la la”” Janel Munoa is a Native American Musician, who grew up on her Luiseño tribe’s reservation in Southern California. She moved to the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts, where she has cultivated her professional musical career, while becoming active in in community organizing efforts for social and environmental issues. In our interview, she speaks eloquently about striking the balance between “leading and following” in both group dynamics, creative expression, racial justice, solidarity and land reparations for native communities. You can learn more about her work...
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Tending Fire Men's Groups14. Levi Gerkshowitz: Case Study - Organizational Leadership & Men's Coaching
2021-06-2834 min2021-06-2809 min2021-06-2807 min2021-06-2816 minThe Lev Natan Podcast50. Women’s Leadership that Sustains Life - Catherine AyotteWomen are designed to sustain life. When supported to grow from healing into leadership, they naturally bring forth life-sustaining values such as love, compassion, joy and gratitude. In this interview, Catherine Ayotte shares her intimate experience of shifting from the ''victim'' to the ''leader'', using integrity, community and dignity as anchors in the process. She shares about her initiatory journey of stepping into women’s facilitation work. To learn more about her work, visit: www.thesacredpathofthepriestess.com.______Your Invited to Deep Roots 2026 - Regenerative Leadership for Changemakers in the Northeast Bioregion: www.allianceforaviablefuture.org/deep-roots
2021-06-2439 minThe Lev Natan Podcast49. Trees, Water & People: Climate Resilience in Rural Communities - Sebastian Africano“We had to ask ourselves, if people are cutting down trees to cook their meals, then how can we help them reduce the amount of wood needed every time they cook.” These words from the co-founders point to their mission: to address the underlying causes of deforestation. For over twenty years, Trees, Water & People has been a leader in not only reforestation, but also in the design and distribution of clean cookstoves and other clean energy products which greatly reduce the use of natural resources for energy creation. The team is guided by two core beliefs: that natural resources are best...
2021-06-091h 01The Lev Natan Podcast48. Indigenous People’s Day: Taking a Stand in SolidarityIndigenous People's Day is a new holiday that is being observed instead of Columbus Day around the United States and the World, as part of the movement to take down statues of confederate leaders and to tell a more accurate history. Here in the Berkshires, the non-profit organization, Alliance for a Viable Future is organizing an Indigenous People's Day Walk in Great Barrington, on October 11th, as well as organize a Climate Resilience Workshop Series with a coalition of organizations who are dedicated to the deep connection between indigenous rights and climate resilience. To learn more visit www.allianceforaviablefuture.org...
2021-05-2658 minThe Lev Natan Podcast47. Mother’s Day Episode: The Rites of Passage Project - Pooja PremaIn our modern culture, there's virtually no acknowledgment of personal rites of passage for women or any human being. The Rites of Passage Project features a diverse collective of sixty-five women of color from around the country. The purpose is to reclaim and expand the concept of a “rite of passage” to recognize that every significant experience in a woman's life from birth to death - the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and profane - can be a liberatory initiation. Through live performance-installations, an online platform, and forthcoming large-format photo book of photos and essays, we hope to re-frame, educ...
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The Lev Natan Podcast46. Plant Medicine as a Rite of Passage into Ecological Leadership - Shayna Gladstone & Lev NatanPlant medicines have the power to be a rite of passage into a deeper commitment to social & ecological healing. This episode is a panel discussion, with Earth-rooted Leadership Coach, Shayna Gladstone and I, as part of the Mt. Tam Psychedelic Integration Online Conference. We explore the connection between the deeply personal experience of participating in a medicine ceremony and the practical work of stepping up as a climate leader in the movement for planetary healing for the sake of our children and the generations to come. Visit www.levnatan.com to learn more about finding support to walk your path...
2021-04-261h 062021-04-2115 min2021-04-2102 min2021-04-2104 min2021-04-2103 minThe Lev Natan Podcast45. Listen to Youth Speak Up for Climate Justice - JYCMYoung voices should not only be heard but recognized as having the power to make change. Jewish Youth Climate Movement (JYCM) is dedicated to empowering teens to mobilize intelligent responses to climate change. In this episode, we are joined by Yonah Sadeh, Alex Tananbaum and Eli Anderson, members of JYCM’s Executive Board about their motivation to create a more equitable and sustainable world for all. Their greater purpose is to be a resource for people of all ages and religions, spreading a multi-generational message to take a stand in the name of climate justice. You can see more of th...
2021-04-1149 minThe Lev Natan Podcast44. Healing Trauma with Creativity & Resilience - Julia MayerAuthor Julia Mayer’s new book, Painting Resilience is a very personal exploration of the role Fred Terna’s art played in surviving four concentration camps, and living a creative life as a successful artist. In our interview, we spoke about what Fred’s capacity to be creative and resilient has to teach us about facing the convergent crises of our times. Fred himself says that living through it was luck but living with it takes skill. Julia wanted to discover and share what those skills are and how Fred came to acquire them. You can order her book at www.ju...
2021-03-2745 minTending Fire Men's Groups5. What Men Can’t IgnoreDesire. Energy. Time & Task Management, Long-Term Visioning & Planning. Wisdom & Courage. Leadership in Action. These six “themes of the month” are essential tools for the development of mastery. Mastery is what we need, in order to face the challenges-at-hand and be effective.
2021-03-1126 minTending Fire Men's Groups4. Key Elements of Facilitating a Men’s CircleCentering. Gratitude. Vision. Action. Inspiration. These elements bring focus, energy and results to small group men’s work. They breathe life into the core principles - consistency, accountability and support.
2021-03-1129 minTending Fire Men's Groups3. Core Principles of Men’s WorkConsistency. Accountability. Support. These are the core principles of Tending Fire Men’s Groups. It’s why they work. It’s what men need, as a baseline, for anything else that is good, to grow in their life.
2021-03-1104 minTending Fire Men's Groups2. Rites of PassageIn four words - states, stages, cycles and spirals. This episode is about the distinction between “states of consciousness” and “stages of development”; it’s about the difference between “cycles” and “spirals”; it’s about the journey of growth, and offers a map of the terrain that will keep you from getting lost.
2021-03-1112 minTending Fire Men's Groups1. Why Men Need ThisYes. It’s time for men to claim a new, life-affirming, expression of masculine identity. The question is - how are we going to do it? Actually, the question is more like - where are we going to do it? We need a place to be real, so we can get clear about what we stand for, and where we stand. This kickoff, “welcome” episode gives you the “who, what, where, when, why and how” - of the growing Tending Fire Men’s Group Community. If you identify as a man, it will remind you why this work is essential for your sou...
2021-03-0913 minThe Lev Natan Podcast43. Making Connections: Men’s Health, Racism & Creative Expression - Edson SeanEdson Sean is the kind of guy, you want to get to know. And, once you know him, you want to learn more. He is one of those unique artists who inspires us to be better human beings; he is a musician, emcee and producer, who gets real. In our conversation, we went deep and made significant connections: what it’s like to be a man in today’s world - a black man, and a white man - the importance of Love, and how art & music opens the healing journey. He has a heart of gold that welcomes you to r...
2021-02-2652 minThe Lev Natan Podcast42. Sing Truth to Power - Arin MayaArin Maya opens new dimensions of possibility - a singer/songwriter on the rise, bringing political consciousness deeply rooted in soul lineage. She is, quite simply, a breath of fresh air. In our interview, we riff on her amazing new music video, Dancing a Red Line (watch here: https://youtu.be/-ALv3nBgKfQ), which inspires new vision for the more beautiful world that we all know is possible. She brings the Love, while catalyzing social awareness, racial justice and conscious activism.______Your Invited to Deep Roots 2026 - Regenerative Leadership for Changemakers in the Northeast Bioregion: www...
2021-01-2852 minThe Lev Natan Podcast41. Remembering Our History with a Native American Veteran - Jake SingerThe riot on the Capitol last week, led by far-right, white supremacists, has revealed the depths of this deeply vulnerable moment in our nation. Let’s focus on a unifying message from Jake Singer - a Sundance Chief, traditional Navajo Medicine Man, decorated Vietnam Veteran, and founder of the organization Walk with the Warriors, with the mission of honoring Native American Veterans for their service to the United States military. In our interview, he spoke to the federal government, saying “a promise is a promise,” which feels so relevant right now. For years, he has worked to establish a Native Americ...
2021-01-1126 minThe Lev Natan Podcast40. Community Councils: Healing the Divide in 2021While the election is over, it has revealed a stark fracture in our communities. In 2021, how might we stay grounded in a vision that addresses the most poignant issues of our time - racial justice, climate change, and equity, while charting a sensible path that diffuses the brittle conflicts that have boiled over? As cultural healers, changemakers, and leaders committed to a viable future, how can we hold the spectrum of polarity in a way that fosters healing and understanding? Community Councils is a social technology that has gained traction throughout parts of Europe and the States - and looks...
2020-12-2847 minThe Lev Natan Podcast39. How Sound Will Connect You to an Inspiring Vision for 2021 - Lev NatanSound healing is a mysterious portal into the sacred space of vision. Research shows that humming and toning boosts the immune system, enhances mental clarity, reduces stress, and increases "the trust hormone." In this powerful time of the winter solstice, we have an opportunity to utilize sound as a doorway into our deeper reservoirs of energy, vitality and vision.As we approach the winter solstice, it is a powerful time to slow down, rest, dream, gather your thoughts, prayers and intentions for the year to come, and plant them into the depths of this fertile darkness. What do you...
2020-12-1514 minThe Lev Natan Podcast38. Lineage, Initiation and Commitment - Lev NatanWhat gives you the courage to keep going? What do you do to remember the source of your care? How do you renew your commitment when you feel run down? When I reconnect to my lineage, and remember the long-line of mentors and teachers who inspire me, I find my center, once again. When I remember the initiations that I’ve endured, I find my commitment, once again. In this episode, I present the three stories of lineage, initiation & commitment: “Mogli” in the disney film, a book called CommonFire, an “Gather,” a documentary featuring Native American community leaders, who are reviving t...
2020-11-3033 minThe Lev Natan Podcast37. Post-Election Reflections: How to Stay Grounded and Focused - Lev Natan“What is a good man but a bad man’s teacher? What is a bad man but a good man’s job?” These provocative, yet clarifying questions from the courageous wisdom of Lao Tzu and his masterpiece, the Tao Te Ching, a classic work of leadership, has much to offer in the wake of the intensity of the election. Yes, this dark moment in American is shifting. And, yet, we must still address the very real fact that 70,000 million people chose to vote for a man who is openly racist, womanizing, etc.. There is work to be done. And, NOW is the t...
2020-11-1135 minThe Lev Natan Podcast36. Grandmother Wisdom: Indigenous Elder Speaks on Climate & Nature’s Intelligence - Carol DanaWhen I asked her how she wanted to be introduced, Carol Dana told me she is a mother and a grandmother - “that’s what really matters, not the credentials.” Carol is from the Penobscot tribe in Northern Maine. “The Wabanaki Confederacy (Wabenaki, translated to "People of the Dawn") are a First Nations confederation of four principal Eastern Algonquian tribes: the Miꞌkmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot.” In our conversation, she shares what her grandfather told her when she was young, about the coming of climate change, and what she has come to see, in her own life. She also shares the l...
2020-10-2030 minThe Lev Natan Podcast35. WALK for a Viable Future | Northeast Virtual GatheringWhile indigenous people make up less than 5% of the world’s population, they steward 80% of the Earth’s biodiversity. The connection between indigenous rights and climate justice is clear. Yet, generations of colonialism, conquest and exploitation leave our collective psyche scarred by shame and guilt for the unthinkable abuses of our ancestors and current policies that still attack native communities. This week’s episode opens a pathway of solidarity, healing and positive action in the face of all odds. We hear from Jake Singer, of a Navajo medicine man and spiritual leader, Lilah Akin, a Penobscot woman active at Nibezun Wabana...
2020-10-091h 18The Lev Natan Podcast34. How to Contend with Doubt: Realize that this is for real. It’s not a fire drill.It says in the I-Ching, “In a very real sense the progress of the world depends upon your thoughts as an individual now.” In moments when doubt enters your mind, and your body feels the lethargy of hopelessness, we need you to catch yourself. In these most turbulent of times, we need all hands on deck, which means that we need your unique contribution, your daily efforts and heartfelt strivings towards a viable future. Together, we are unity in motion. And yet, doubt about your capacity, impacts our capacity, collectively, to do what needs to be done for the children, and...
2020-09-2533 minThe Lev Natan Podcast33. What will you say when they ask you? How will you respond? - Lev NatanWith the fires blazing on the West Coast of the United States and the political climate as polarized as ever, the world is looking more and more like biblical descriptions of apocalyptic times. And yet, life remains simple. The question always remains: how will you respond? Who will you be in the midst of the collapse and breakdown of our conventional human systems. As your children grow up and become more and more aware of the unthinkably insane world that they are inheriting, they will examine your life. What were you doing to make a way for them? What will...
2020-09-1834 minThe Lev Natan Podcast32. Pursue Desire or Be Content...that is the question? - Lev NatanYou are someone who is called to lead a life of commitment in a complex world. To make a difference takes courage, wisdom and an ever evolving state of conscious awareness. This state exists in the sweet spot between pursuing desire and being content. In this episode, you will reconnect with the power of gratitude as a fundamental, and ancient, leadership principle for excellence, precision and mastery. It is our human tendency to pursue our desires, on the one hand, while telling ourselves it's best to learn how to be content with what is, on the other hand. Gratitude is...
2020-09-1034 minThe Lev Natan Podcast31. Remembering: Taking Time for Work Retreats - Lev NatanOnce upon a time there were three brickmasons. When asked what they were doing, the first said, “I’m laying brick,” the second replied, “I’m building a wall,” and the third declared, “I’m building a cathedral.” Which one are you? What are you doing when you go to work? When you take time to remember the deeper purpose of the work that you do, you connect to your guiding principles, commitments and values. You remember why you give it your all - why you play all out. It is from this deeper connection that you find the unending wellspring of cour...
2020-09-0437 minThe Lev Natan Podcast30. Warm Data, Emergence and Living Systems - Lev NatanOur world’s problems are complex. They can’t be “solved” with simple 1+1 kind of equations. Warm data, developed by Nora Bateston, founder of the International Bateson Institute, is a way to gather contextual information that studies the interdependent relationships, interactions, and interconnections between diverse sectors of our society. In other words, it allows us to affirm our intuitive understanding that whole-systems awareness is deeply valuable in responding intelligently to the convergent crises that we are facing. This inspiring approach brings together inspirational energy and practical, strategic thinking, to tune your thinking, seeing and sensing to your highest potential....
2020-08-2725 minThe Lev Natan Podcast29. Touching the Roots of Our Collective Crisis & Choosing to Stand for the Dignity of Life - Lev NatanIn this episode, we explore the connections between genocide, systemic racism and ecosystem destruction, and imagine a future where we each take more responsibility to uphold the protection, regeneration and the dignity of Life in our world. We reference the stories of three documentary films: (1) Watchers of the Sky, the story of Raphael Lemkin’s dedication to making genocide a crime in the international courts, (2) I Am Not Your Negro, about James Baldwin eloquent telling of Dr. MLK, Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers’ contributions to civil rights, and (3) Call of the Forest, featuring the author of The Global Forest, Diana Bere...
2020-08-2025 minThe Lev Natan Podcast28. Initiation & Stages of Leadership - Lev NatanWhat is the connection between initiation and our capacity to step up as the leaders we need to be in these critical times? In this episode, Lev shares his personal experience participating in the Sundance ceremony as a means to his own growth as an organizational leader and his capacity to stand in his commitment to a viable future for the generations to come. He relates his journey to the five stages of leadership - ego, socialized, visionary, integral and unitive - as outlined in book Mastering Leadership. Finally, he asks, what is your leadership edge - and what initiatory...
2020-08-1333 minThe Lev Natan Podcast27. How to Electrify Your Work Culture with Vital Energy - Lev NatanThe research shows that when we bring prayer, meditation and conscious intention in our organizations and movements for change, we increase capacity, amplify impact and establish greater efficacy. Learn the why, what and how, in this episode.______Your Invited to Deep Roots 2026 - Regenerative Leadership for Changemakers in the Northeast Bioregion: www.allianceforaviablefuture.org/deep-rootsRooted in ancient wisdom, we are growing a partnership culture for our regenerative future.www.avf.earth
2020-08-0531 minThe Lev Natan Podcast26. Getting Your Priorities Straight - Lev NatanWhat is most important to you? Do your actions reflect that? In this part-two episode focused on the Walk for a Viable Future, we explore this unique opportunity for you to "walk your talk" and align your thoughts, words and actions; your values with your choices, at home and in the office. The time is NOW for us to get our priorities straight, and gather the courage to make the necessary changes to follow through on what we know must be done. Recorded July 2020______Your Invited to Deep Roots 2026 - Regenerative Leadership for Changemakers...
2020-07-3029 minThe Lev Natan Podcast25. Why WALK for a Viable Future? - Lev NatanCeremony is transformative. Courage is needed. Now is an opportune historical moment to galvanize the momentum for change. The Black Lives Matter movement is establishing connections with awareness of Indigenous rights, as colonial statues are being called into question and taken down. Movements are ripe to collaborate. The WALK is an opportunity for all people to take a stand and declare their wholehearted solidarity with all Black Indigenous People of Color. We are walking to build a multiracial movement for systems-level paradigm shift, which begins with establishing rights and reparations for all Black and Indigenous People.______...
2020-07-2227 minThe Lev Natan Podcast24. The Green Amendment: Securing Our Right to a Healthy Environment - Maya K. van Rossum“For decades, activists have relied on federal and state legislation to fight for a cleaner environment. And for decades, they’ve been fighting a losing battle. The sad truth is, our laws are designed to accommodate pollution rather than prevent it. It’s no wonder people feel powerless when it comes to preserving the quality of their water, air, public parks, and special natural spaces. But there is a solution, argues veteran environmentalist Maya K. van Rossum: bypass the laws and turn to the ultimate authority — our state and federal constitutions...The Green Amendment...will finally empower people, level the playing...
2020-07-1757 minThe Lev Natan Podcast23. How to Steady Your Focus Amidst Chaos: Climate Leadership & Whole Systems Paradigm Shift - Lev NatanWhat might we do to withstand the turbulence of social discord, climate change, and the breakdown of our degenerative systems? When hurricanes sweep through forests, trees stay standing because their roots are connected. They hold onto each other. We can do the same. And, when we do, our nervous systems shift from fight, flight or freeze to connect, bond and collaborate. In this episode, Lev reflects on the core practices of climate leadership: self mastery, team resonance and alliance cultivation. Following these proper principles, we find guidance towards harmony, unity and capacity to establish a viable future in the face...
2020-07-0833 minThe Lev Natan Podcast22. Rights of Nature (Part Two): Giving Ecosystems a Voice in Court - Mari Margil“Mari Margil serves as the Executive Director of Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (www.centerforenvironmentalrights.org) and program manager for CDER’s International Center for the Rights of Nature. In 2008, she served as a consultant to Ecuador’s national Constituent Assembly, helping to draft the world’s first Rights of Nature constitutional provisions. Margil is widely viewed as one of the leading global voices for the recognition of legally enforceable rights of ecosystems and nature.” In this interview, she speaks to how the Rights of Nature movement is bringing together unlikely partners in business, government and civil society to collaborat...
2020-07-0348 minThe Lev Natan Podcast21. Principles of Living Systems Catalyze Paradigm Shift - Marshall LeffertsMarshall Lefferts brings a perspective that inspires hope and intelligent action, in dark times, this interview weaves connections between physics, mathematics and music that underlie key principles in how to cultivate the conditions for living systems to thrive. "Throughout nature we can see patterns, structures, processes and systems that reflect an underlying order of energy dynamics that literally in-forms the observable universe across all scales" www.cosmemetry.com (Recorded December 2019)______Your Invited to Deep Roots 2026 - Regenerative Leadership for Changemakers in the Northeast Bioregion: www.allianceforaviablefuture.org/deep-rootsRooted in ancient...
2020-06-241h 02The Lev Natan Podcast20. Legal Rights for Nature: A Global Movement Whose Time Has Come - Thomas LinzeyThomas Linzey has worked with the first places in the world to establish legal rights of nature - from a small town in Pennsylvania to the national constitution of Ecuador. His organization, Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (www.centerforenvironmentalrights.org) works with grassroots, tribal, and NGO partners and governments across the globe to develop, implement, and enforce Rights of Nature laws. Following in the footsteps of the civil rights and women’s rights movements, it is time for our international legal system to recognize the Rights of Nature. This is paradigm shifting work. Listen, learn and be moved to ac...
2020-06-171h 00The Lev Natan Podcast19. How Healing Happens in Groups: MatrixWorks for Circle Facilitation - Mukara Meredith"MatrixWorks is a revolutionary group process that utilizes principles of New Science, Whole Systems Thinking, Hakomi Psychotherapy, Spirituality, and Contemporary Psychology. It fosters leadership that supports the growth and development of healthy functioning teams and groups. It supports the transformative emergence of ‘Group Genius’ where relationships become collaborative, and mutuality and cooperation become new norms that promote wellbeing.” (From matrixworkslivingsystems.com | Interview recorded August 2019).______Your Invited to Deep Roots 2026 - Regenerative Leadership for Changemakers in the Northeast Bioregion: www.allianceforaviablefuture.org/deep-rootsRooted in ancient wisdom, we are growing a partnership culture for our regenerati...
2020-06-1049 minThe Lev Natan Podcast18. Black Lives Matter: Truth, Solidarity & Reparations - Lev NatanIn the wake of the unspeakable actions of the threatened who hunted down and murdered Breonna Taylor, Nina Pop, Sean Reed, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd, Alliance for a Viable Future stands in solidarity with all Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC). We stand for racial justice and reparations for all people of color. Racial Justice and Climate Justice are deeply connected. In fact, they are one in the same. We will have a viable future only when we have both. In this podcast, we reference a number of published works, which can be found in our blog article...
2020-06-0331 minThe Lev Natan Podcast17. How to Generate a Ripple Effect of Engagement and Participation - Lev NatanHow might we inspire our organizations to go beyond their bottom-line, and even beyond their social impact mission, and join a larger movement for change and ingenuity? How might we inspire a coordinated response to our collective dilemmas? In this episode, Lev reflects on his conversation with Dave Ford, CEO of Ocean Plastics Leadership Network (episode #16), and highlights the key principles that are essential for building impactful coalitions, networks and alliances that are able to transform our business-as-usual work culture en-route to the whole-systems paradigm shift that we need, in this post-COVID 19 era. (Recorded January 2020)______Your...
2020-05-2623 minThe Lev Natan Podcast16. Ocean Plastics Leadership Network - Dave Ford, CEO(Recorded January 2020)How do you get companies like Pepsi and Dow Chemicals to sit with Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund? Ask Dave Ford, founder of the Ocean Plastics Leadership Network - a membership community that runs experiential summits in ocean plastics hotspots around the globe that drive accelerated, collaborative action. This network is an inspiring example of what the Collective Impact Framework (episode #11) looks like, when it’s put into practice. More than ever before, we need to learn to connect around shared commitments with people who think differently. We are still one human family living here on...
2020-05-1946 minThe Lev Natan Podcast15. How Deep Listening & Silence Lead to Breakthrough - Al Bhatt"There is a space between cause and effect, between stimulus and habitual response. It is in this space that a full human life is possible.” Al Bhatt, breakthrough organizational consultant and professor of Organizational Leadership, has committed his life to the idea that silence is like the pot that a plant needs to grow. In a world of busyness, we need mentors who hold an empowering space for deep listening. This principle has allowed him to guide corporate executives, social impact entrepreneurs, activists, and young people to learn the art & science of breakthrough in their leadership. His words will fan th...
2020-05-1246 min
Don Diablo Presents Hexagon RadioDon Diablo Hexagon Radio Episode 275On this week’s show Don plays new music from Rompasso, EX Twins, HIDDN, Conro, MorganJ and many more.
1. Rompasso - Take 2. Dave Crusher & Jackmar - Somebody To Love Ft. LEV3. FUBU & Tobtok - Freak Like Me4. Clouds - Close Your Eyes5. EC Twins - Instagram DJ6. MorganJ - We Can Ft. Christopher Blake7. Danny Olson X Henry Hartley - Halcyon (Mo Falk Remix)8. Don Diablo - Inside My Head (Voices)9. Oxymoron & Allen Oh - Disco Nap 2020 (Toastercookie Remix)10. DemoDay: Donkong - Hey, That's Fun11. Marty Guilfoyle - 1,2 St...
2020-05-0659 minThe Lev Natan Podcast14. Kogi Elders on Qualities of LeadershipThe Sierra Nevada mountains on the northern tip of the Andes in Colombia are home to four separate but related peoples: the Arhuaco (or Ika), Wiwa, Kogi, and Kankuamo. Together they number more than 30,000. In 1990, they emerged as a global indigenous voice with a BBC documentary in which they warned of the need to change course. In 2012, they made another film called Aluna, which you can find online. They refer to themselves as elder brothers and express concern that non-indigenous outsiders, the younger brothers, are plundering and dismembering the Earth. Last summer, 2019, they visited the Berkshires, where I live, to...
2020-05-0533 min