Talks & Interviews

Humanity Rising Writing to Right the World Summit

Writing to Right the World Summit Day One

Monday December 9, 2024

MARIA SIROIS, Psy.D.

How Attention to Beauty, Goodness and Excellence can Change Us—and our World—for the Better

Writing to Right the World Summit Day Two

Tuesday December 10, 2024

NINA SIMONS

Sacred Activism and Women’s Leadership—Bioneers Leads the Way

Writing to Right the World Summit Day Three

Wednesday December 11, 2024

MANDA SCOTT

Thrutopian Fiction as a Blueprint for a Better World

Writing to Right the World Summit Day Four

Thursday December 12, 2024

CYNTHIA JURS

Engaged Buddhism in Service to Gaia: Finding Our Way to Healing

Writing to Right the World Summit Day Five

Friday December 13, 2024

OSPREY ORIELLE LAKE

The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews Can Remake a World in Crisis

A conversation with Beth Barany about how and why to write positive visions of the future we want to see!

A window into my work as the publisher of Green Fire Press, co-host of Birth Your Truest Story, and leader of writing workshops at home and abroad. October, 2023. 

 

 

The importance of community in the life of solo creatives, and a window into how I run my purposeful memoir workshops. December, 2022. 

November 28, 2021, virtual book launch with slide show.

Short (13 min) presentation on purposeful memoir and some of my favorite Worldwright-memoirists, at the ASLE virtual conference, “Humanities on the Brink,” July 2020.

Link to Hyacinth Podcast

A thought-provoking podcast episode produced by Carmen Mikol, on the work of memory in literature. Fall 2019.

Interview with spiritual hiphop artist Adrienne Lloren about why purposeful memoir is a spiritual practice. Summer 2019.

Interview with creative coach Alexis Cohen about how the practice of purposeful memoir can awaken our core creativity. Spring 2019.

Interview with environmentalist Judy Eddy about how “aligning the personal, political and planetary through purposeful memoir” is essential inner work for activists.