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The following excerpt is from a longer talk recorded at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada. The topic of the evening was “Wisdom Working for Climate Change.” People of the world are unconsciously mourning the devastating impact we are having on our planet. Stephen Jenkinson answers the question “Is it too late to avoid catastrophe?” To learn more about Stephen Jenkinson and his teachings, visit orphanwisdom.com - Recorded and produced by Ian Mackenzie (ianmack.com)

2014 - Grief: Wisdom working for Climate Change by Stephen Jenkinson

Recorded on November 4th, 2014. Stephen Jenkinson has for a quarter century been guiding individuals, couples, families and communities through all the human sufferings, sorrows and confusions in life. He is also the subject of Griefwalker (2008), a National Film Board of Canada feature documentary film , a lyrical, poetic portrait of Stephen’s work with dying people.
http://orphanwisdom.com/ - Photo courtesty of ianmack.com

2015 - 'What Now?' Ken Rose interviews Stephen Jenkinson

Join us on "Going Shamanic" on Nov 24 at 7:30 pm PST when Jennifer Engracio interviews Stephen Jenkinson on the topic of grieving.  We have all had losses in life.  Learn what grieving well has to do with deep living on the show today.

Stephen Jenkinson is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, ceremonialist and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is a redemptive project that comes from where we come from. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, and working for a time we may not see.  (http://orphanwisdom.com)

2014 - Going Shamanic 'Walking with Grief', Jennifer Engracio interviews Stephen Jenkinson

Jesse Mendes interviews Stephen Jenkinson about the skill of dying in a death phobic culture in a four part series on there Being There on CIUT 89.5FM.

2014 - Skill Of Dying 'Death Phobic Culture' 3/4 Jesse Mendes interviews Stephen Jenkinson

2014 - Skill Of Dying 'Death Phobic Culture' 4/4 Jesse Mendes interviews Stephen Jenkinson

Stephen Jenkinson interviewed by Daniel Vitalis on Rewild Yourself.

Read more: http://www.danielvitalis.com/rewild-yourself-podcast/stephen-jenkinson-on-dying-wise-in-a-death-phobic-society
Photo: Ian Mackenzie -ianmack.com

2015 - Dying Wise In A Death Phobic Society, Daniel Vitalis interviews Stephen Jenkinson

People First Radio interviews Stephen Jenkinson about death, dying and grief and his new book Dying Wise

2015 April - People First Radio interviews Stephen Jenkinson

Stephen Jenkinson and Carolyn discuss grief, his new book Die Wise, and the deeper meaning of the word “catastrophe.” Stephen Jenkinson - 20150828 Lifeboat Interview With Carolyn Baker. Original podcast: http://prn.fm/lifeboat-hour-08-28-15/

2015 August - Lifeboat, Carolyn Baker interviews Stephen Jenkinson

Stephen Jenkinson — Spiritual Activist, Teacher, Author & Ceremonialist With Master’s degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work), Stephen Jenkinson is revolutionizing grief and dying in North America. Stephen is redefining what it means to live, and die well. Apprenticed to a master storyteller, he has worked extensively with dying people and their families, is former programme director in a major Canadian hospital, former assistant professor in a prominent Canadian medical school, consultant to palliative care and hospice organizations and educator and advocate in the helping professions. He is the author of Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul, Homecoming: The Haiku Sessions – a live recorded teaching, How it All Could Be: A work book for dying people and those who love them, Angel and Executioner: Grief and the Love of Life – a live recorded teaching , and Money and The Soul’s Desires: A Meditation, and contributing author to Palliative Care – Core Skills and Clinical Competencies. Stephen Jenkinson is also the subject of the feature length documentary film Griefwalker (National Film Board of Canada), a lyrical, poetic portrait of his work with dying people.

2016  - The Drew Marshall Show, Drew Marshall interviews Stephen Jenkinson

In Extraenvironmentalist #51 we speak with Stephen Jenkinson about our cultural difficulty with death. Stephen draws on lessons learned from decades of working with death to describe how we can frame our civilization’s trajectory. We ask how to find sanity in a time of alienation and if we can be a human in difficult circumstances. Stephen describes the distinct jobs given to us as our family members die. Also, John Michael Greer joins us briefly to talk about the death of Western culture.

2014 - Extraenvironmentalist 'Culture of Dying' Ep51, Justin Ritch interviews Stephen Jenkinson

In this episode, I speak with culture activist, teacher, author and ceremonialist Stephen Jenkinson. We discuss his most recent performative project Nights of Grief & Mystery, made in collaboration with “song and dance man” Gregory Hoskins—as documented in the recent short film Lost Nation Road, directed by Ian MacKenzie.

After watching Ian MacKenzie’s short documentary film Lost Nation Road, I finally began to understand more fully the real spirit and essence of Stephen Jenkinson and Gregory Hoskins’ exquisite and subversive project Nights of Grief & Mystery. By that, I mean the immersive and ritualized nature of this performative act. To describe this act merely as a storytelling/spoken word and musical performance is to reduce the unifying purpose to its individual components. Nights of Grief & Mystery subverts our notions of what performance is and could be in this time of deep trouble, and as Stephen elaborates in this interview, this act taps into something far older than that of theatrical performance—ritual. Ritual engages with the collective, requiring the participation of all involved, which stands in contrast with proper theatrical performance as we often conceive and experience it, which as Stephen expresses, is a disfigurement of ritual, creating an arbitrary division between the “audience” and the “performers.” In subverting our notions of performance, Stephen and Gregory conjure an experience that alludes to the question: In these times of deepening trouble, how do we conduct ourselves? “These are nights in which love letters to life are written and read aloud. There’s some boldness in them. They have that tone. These nights have the mark of our time upon them, and they’re timely, urgent, alert, steeped in mortal mystery. They’re quixotic. They have swagger. What would you call such a thing? We call them Nights of Grief & Mystery.”

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206 / Our Devotional Act / Stephen Jenkinson

Ken Rose interviews Stephen Jenkinson in a series of sessions about death and dying and Stephen's work at his Orphan Wisdom School. (http://orphanwisdom.com).