Interviews

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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Interview: Stephen Jenkinson Speaks with Bodhi Be
Posted April 12, 2016 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Stephen Jenkinson interview with Bodhi Be’s Doorway into Light radio show about life and death as it explores the wonder in the fields of aging and dying and death and...
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Stephen Jenkinson Interview with Dr. Rachael Kohn on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Posted March 16, 2016 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Looking like Willie Nelson on a good day, Stephen Jenkinson is 'on the road again' telling our death-phobic culture that all the solutions for death that we come up with...
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A Good Goodbye
Posted February 23, 2016 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
What does it take to “Die Wise”? How can we start the conversation in our death-avoidant culture? Stephen Jenkinson, the author of Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul,...
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You Die in the Manner of Your Living
Posted January 18, 2016 - Orphan Wisdom Newsletter
Paul Dolman interviews Stephen Jenkinson about death and dying and the manner of how one dies. Stephen Jenkinson teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan...
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