Interviews

Laurie Brown’s Pondercast ‘Death’ Interview With Stephen Jenkinson
Posted January 12, 2018 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Is 2018 the year you will die? Laurie Brown starts the new year with Stephen Jenkinson, contemplating death. "Welcome to 2018! Your year of ____________. (fill in the blank). Ah...
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New Interview: Banyen Books & Sound with Stephen Jenkinson
Posted November 3, 2017 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Farah Nazarali from Banyen Books & Sound interviews Stephen Jenkinson in the lead up to Stephen's upcoming day long teaching in DIE WISE Making Meaning in Vancouver, BC at the...
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Interview: Sanity and Soul – A Conversation with Stephen Jenkinson Facilitated by Vera de Chalambert
Posted October 10, 2017 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Dying well is not a matter of enlightened self-interest or personal preference. Dying well must become an obligation that living people and dying people owe to each other and to...
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On Grief and Climate Change
Posted June 2, 2017 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
An audio excerpt 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...
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Interview: Transforming the Language of Death
Posted May 11, 2017 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Stephen Jenkinson has been at the deathbed of more than a thousand people. He says death can be a wondrous and empowering mystery but we need to start talking about...
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Stephen Jenkinson Interviewed by Jed Ward and Damian Able at Vajra Body Vajra Mind
Posted March 2, 2017 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Vajra Body Vajra Mind, is a provocative podcast that explores the outer limits of spiritual practice and human development. On their show, they talk with leaders in the Buddhist, entheogenic...
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Call and Response
Posted December 20, 2016 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
The Interview: It is a strange conceit. Someone is drawn to you because of something you said in another interview, and they want you to say it again, but this...
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Interview: Stephen Jenkinson Speaks with Hollyhock Talks Radio
Posted May 19, 2016 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
You die in the matter of your living. In poetic and soulful language, Stephen Jenkinson speaks of the moral imperative to contemplate and reconcile death as a way to inform...
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Interview: Stephen Jenkinson Speaks with New Dimensions Radio
Posted May 19, 2016 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
What constitutes dying well in a death-phobic culture? Stephen Jenkinson looks squarely in the eye of death. It is his experience from working with hundreds and hundreds of people who...
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