04/23/2025, Shosan Victoria Austin, dharma talk at City Center. Shosan Victoria Austin uses Keizan Zenji’s teachings to explore the questions: What is intentional service? And, how does this help very different people build an environment of wholeness and trust?

Keizan's Pure Land Right Here

06/15/2025, Gyokuden Stephanie Blank, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Gyokuden Steph Blank shares her experience of grief and gratitude arising through the intimate process of accompanying her father during his recent transition from the miracle of life into the miracle of death.

Grief and Gratitude on Father's Day

07/26/2025, Henzan Roger Hillyard, dharma talk at City Center. Roger Hillyard offers a look into the origins of Lay Entrustment and how it has manifested in American Zen.

Lay Entrustment and Dharma Gates

07/20/2025, Jiryu Rutschman-Byler, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Abbot Jiryu Rutschman-Byler reflects on recent departures from Green Gulch of the elder teachers of the founding generation, and how at the same time as that loss, a new flower of teaching blossoms as "Becoming Yourself," the new book of Suzuki Roshi's talks, is released.

Goodbye and Hello

07/23/2025, Yogetsu Akasaka, dharma talk at City Center. Yogetsu Akasaka, a priest from the Sōtō Zen School in Japan, asks What if cleaning a bathroom could be one of your most profound spiritual practices?

Finding Awareness in the Everyday

07/27/2025, Zenshin Greg Fain, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenshin Greg Fain talks about gratitude and grief in the context of Thusness. Gratitude and grief can both be dharma gates to bring us closer to a felt sense of connection with each other, and all of existence.

Gratitude and Grief

08/03/ 2025, Sessei Meg Levie, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Sessei Meg Levie offers the teaching of the Four Elements and how seeing Dharma in nature can help us open our hearts to all beings.

Hello, My Other Self

08/06/2025, Sozan Michael McCord, dharma talk at City Center. Sozan Michael McCord discusses working with and growing in our awareness of how the three poisons—greed, hatred and delusion—manifest in our lives, on this 80th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

The Three Poisons: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki

08/09/2025, Shundo David Haye, dharma talk at City Center. Shundo David Haye reflects on the way we hold stories about ourselves and others, and how our practice of dwelling in silence can help us change our relationship with them.

Stories and Silence

08/10/2025, Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho, dharma talk at Green Gulch Farm. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel Osho discusses the reality that a human body will turn to dust and yet it is the body in which we carry the dharma and come to know it. As Dogen Zenji, founder of Soto Zen, taught, "To expound the dharma with this body is foremost."

To Expound the Dharma with This Body

There is a movement happening around the world toward a remote workforce. While this is a blessing in many ways, people also crave connection with others. In this interview, Patrick Roche discusses the power of co-working and people's deep urges, a tribal mentality of sorts, to interact with other human beings.   Patrick explains here how, through the blend of modern technology and a return to community connection, co-working will be the salvation of our economy. 

Patrick Roche is the President and Owner of Think Tank Coworking, based in Portland Maine with locations in nearby Yarmouth & Biddeford.  Think Tank has grown to become Northern New England’s largest network of coworking facilities, providing nearly 300 members with access to professional, creative and collaborative workspace.  
Members have 24 hour coded access to the space, replete with lounge areas, phone booths, conference rooms, kitchen and internet.  Think Tank’s also host to networking events, documentary screenings and arts programming. 

Patrick sits on a number of non-profit and business advisory boards.  He is the recipient of the 2014 Entreverge Award hosted by PROPEL and Successful Innovative Small Business award by SCORE.  In addition to running Think Tank, Patrick has a background in building construction, film production and journalism.  In his copious free time, he continues to write and pursue his passion for the literary arts.  

He lives in Portland, Maine.  ​​

Learn more about Patrick and Think Tank at: www.thinktankcoworking.com

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Interview with Patrick Roche: Revolutionizing the Modern Workforce

I am a seeker of truth, intuitive counselor, hypnotherapist, and homeschooling mother. I created this podcast to share with you guided meditations to help us quiet our minds and find the courage to access our true, inner selves for our expanded consciousness and collective healing. I also share some past interviews I've done with inspiring and brave people. I'm also the founder of Soulful Work Intuitive Consulting. I recently published a guidebook, called Tools for the Awakening Soul. Music is by my talented husband Chris Kemp White (https://chriskempwhite.com/). You can learn more about me at www.soulfulworkconsulting.com, for free handouts, meditations and the guidebook Tools for the Awakening Soul, to help you to release, expand and just feel better. I hope you enjoy.

Interview with Patrick Roche: Revolutionizing the Modern Workforce

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