Interviews

Stephen Jenkinson and Àlex Gómez Marin in conversation about Never Land and his event in May 2023 at The Pari Center, Tuscany. Never Land - May 12 - 15 - at The Pari Center, Tuscany. People half our age will someday soon confront us with two questions: when you were my age, did you know what was happening (or what could happen)? And so, what did you do? The most bearable answer: we had no idea. The state of the world would then seem more tolerable if failure by naive ignorance was actually the case. But was it? If it wasn’t, this...

Orphan Wisdom · 2021 October - The End of Tourism - Trauma Intelligence, The Stranger, and Radical Hospitality On this episode of The End of Tourism, our guest is Stephen Jenkinson, activist, teacher, author, and farmer. In the second part of our conversation, we explore the themes of tourism as the trauma of homeless people. Rights are discussed in contrast to responsibilities. Stephen takes us on a deep dive into how the idea of the stranger or foreigner came to be, principally through travel and trade and what this all might offer us in our time. Finally, we contend with...

A Gathering of Stories hosts Ian MacKenzie and Zamir Dhanji interview Stephen Jenkinson in their The Pandemic Is A Prism series. https://youtu.be/fgZyd4QE_yU

Orphan Wisdom · 2021 September - The End of Tourism - Immigration and Cultural Homelessness On this episode of The End of Tourism, our guest today is Stephen Jenkinson, activist, teacher, author, and farmer. In this conversation, we explore the themes of weekend warrior tourism, the so-called freedom to travel, and the abandonment of place that tourist towns endure. Tourism has a particular history, and we discuss the idea of modern tourism as a cultural grandchild of European immigration to the Americas. Stephen explains what it means to be indigenous, what tourism does to that capacity, and what we might...

I've submitted to a lot of interviews. Willingly. Like any serial experience in life, some are memorable in their particulars, and they linger long after they and their serviceability are done. Mattias Olsson has granted me a handful of memorable interviews. To serve the assembling of them into a file of their own I did something I seldom do. I listened to myself. Very quickly I remembered again why whenever he calls I sign up for an encounter. What most compels me is the quality, the articulateness, the sound of his listening. He is very prepared, but clearly he, in...

Peter Limberg from The Stoa interviews with Stephen Jenkinson, including the 3-part Philosopher in Residence Series: "1. Dying and death, 2. love and matrimony, 3. money and soul, aging and elderhood, all drawn through the eye of a pestilential needle. Finding the Elders w/ Stephen Jenkinson A Generation’s Worth Part 1: Die Wise w/ Stephen Jenkinson A Generation’s Worth Part 2: Matrimony w/ Stephen Jenkinson A Generation’s Worth Part 3: Money/Soul w/ Stephen Jenkinson

Orphan Wisdom · 2021 June - What does it mean to die wise? Dr. Jeremy Goldberg interviews Stephen Jenkinson Culture activist, teacher, author ~ Stephen Jenkinson teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded with Nathalie Roy in 2010, convening semi-annually in Deacon, Ontario, and in northern Europe. He has Master’s degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). Apprenticed to a master storyteller when a young man, he has worked extensively with dying people and their families, is a former program director in a major Canadian hospital, former...

Culture activist, worker, author ~ Stephen teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded the school with his wife Nathalie Roy in 2010, convening semi-annually in Deacon, Ontario, and in northern Europe. He has Master’s degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work). Apprenticed to a master storyteller when a young man, 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. He is also a sculptor, traditional canoe builder whose house won...

Spontaneous poet, culture activist, and shamanic bard Stephen Jenkinson joins Terry to explore the totally disarming ordeal of bearing witness to death up close — both our individual mortality and our collective mortality. They also drop into felt contact with Terry’s present, uncertain situation — recently on his 70th birthday, Terry was suddenly informed that there was probably metastatic cancer in his lungs and he spent five nights in the hospital undergoing a series of tests. Now, almost a month later, there is still no clarifying diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment plan, so he’s learning to be in radical not-knowing,...

Basak Kutlu Atay recently translated Stephen Jenkinson’s book DIE WISE into Turkish. The first of these two videos is a conversation between author and translator, the 2nd is a Q&A between both Stephen, Basak and a series of guests. DIE WISE: Translator's Interview with Stephen Jenkinson DIE WISE: Q&A with Basak Kutlu Atay and Stephen Jenkinson https://youtu.be/Zvub73XxaIk

Stephen returns for a deep talk around the pandemic, his musical tour, living and dying, the mystery of the muse, the grief of being, and a whole lot more. This man embodies so much wisdom and has a poetic elegance that truly touches the heart and soul. Stephen teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, founded in 2010. With Master’s degrees from Harvard University (Theology) and the University of Toronto (Social Work), he is revolutionizing grief and dying in North America. Stephen is redefining what it means to live, and die well. Apprenticed to...

Michael Brooke recently discovered the work of Stephen Jenkinson and reached out to him to ask if he’d like to be part of this podcast. He graciously accepted. Stephen has worked extensively with dying people and their families. He is also a sculptor and traditional canoe builder. He teamed up Gregory Hoskins in 2015, and created the Nights of Grief and Mystery. Two records - Dark Roads (recorded live in Los Angeles) and Rough Gods (studio recordings) were recently released and I highly recommend you give them a listen. Stephen is also the author of Come of Age: The...

Stephen Jenkinson is an activist, author and farmer who now prefers the term practitioner rather than teacher. In this, our third conversation, he explains why the distinction is important and why he quit being a teacher. We also talk about a question he posed to me a number of years ago when I attended his Orphan Wisdom school that has stuck with me ever since, and continues to provoke new insights into the mysterious ways that our unknown ancestors might be guiding us on our quest for meaning and purpose. In the second half of the episode we touch on the...

Join host Ned Buskirk & Scott Ferreter, in conversation with Stephen Jenkinson while they talk about death etiquette & the case for elderhood in a time of trouble. Orphan Wisdom · What the Hell Happened to Elderhood? Ned Buskirk and Scott Ferreter with Stephen Jenkinson

Stephen was interviewed in February 2021 by Patrick Farnsworth for his podcast 'Last Born in the Wilderness'. Orphan Wisdom · Stephen Jenkinson on Last Born in The Wilderness

This piece originally aired on BBC radio in December 2020. Produced by Phil Smith. Contributors (in order of appearance): Stephen Jenkinson, Kofi Mawuli Klu, Andreas Weber, Esther Stanford-Xosei and Anita Barrows Voice of the chorus: Niamh O’Brien. Cello improvisations: Lucy Railton Additional words and music: Phil Smith Produced by Phil Smith. A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 3. Orphan Wisdom · To Bear Witness - Stephen Jenkinson on BBC radio

What happens when a revolutionary activist meets a spiritual activist to speak about living in the time of the Anthropocene? In this captivating discussion we navigate the topics of truth, integrity, death, hope, and the action required to respond to the urgency of these times. How can we become ancestors worth claiming, and how can we support and mobilise our young people who are fighting for their futures on a dying planet? “Activism is saturated with the cult of hope… what happens over and over again is…burnout...rooted in this occultic attachment to hope in our culture. We are looking...