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Since 2006, Future Primitive has been hosting intimate conversations with authors, visionaries and innovators who speak about our connection and partnership with the Living Earth.
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Latest Episodes
Learning to Die Wise
In this week's episode Stephen Jenkinson speaks with Joanna about: reconfiguring our culture with dying as a teacher, not an opponent; "more time, more dying" dying in a tech-med, death-phobic culture; self-absorption and dying badly; village mindedness an the gift of...
A Cree Healer Speaks
In this week's episode Russell Willier speaks with Joanna about: government and religious pressure on Cree culture, native ways driven underground; the difficulty of living in between traditions; persecution of traditional healers; the global culture of traditional...
Better Stories To Live By
In this week's episode Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Barbara Mainguy speak with Joanna about: the indigenous way of transmitting knowledge and wisdom through stories; making better stories to live by; true healing comes when we are heard; coyote healing, a metaphor for...
A Heart Out of Mind
In this week's episode Lauren Silver speaks with Joanna about: a mind experiencing layers beyond the physical world; the challenges, sorrows and even joys that come when dementia enters a family's world; elders are respected and loved in a traditional culture; plants,...
Just Behind the Surface
In this week's episode, Cidny Bullens performs heartfelt songs and speaks with Joanna about: telling the story of being human; a man in a woman's body; the truth of embodying one's own story; the process of learning how to live with grief; being part of the mysterious...
Something is Afoot
In this week's episode Priscilla Stuckey speaks with Joanna about: intimacy with the land; aligning our lives to what we live in Nature; authoritarian roots of Western culture and the cooperative model of Nature; the feminist commitment to people's own sovereignty;...