Since 1973 New Dimensions Radio/Media, a not-for-profit membership organization, has been producing and distributing the “New Dimensions” radio series heard worldwide. Each week, this life-long learning program series presents leading-edge thinkers, scientists, artists, healers, ecologists, spiritual leaders, and social architects in award winning, deep dialogues. It is the longest running, most successful independently produced radio interview program on public radio. On this website, the New Dimensions’ program archive contains hundreds of programs now available for downloading in digital format.
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April 23, 2024 Arts & Culture
Relationship: Creating True Closeness with Others with Terry Real
According to Real, humans are a social species, born to be relational. Relational connections are our birthright and it’s how we function best as a species. He believes our relationships are our biospheres and discusses the various aspects of relationships and the importance of living relationally.
ListenApril 16, 2024 Arts & Culture
Exploring the Superpower of Empathy with Judith Orloff, M.D.
Empathy – Are we born with it or is it learned? Can empathy effect our health positively? Or, can it have a negative effect? Dr. Orloff discusses the various aspects of empathy and why we must have empathy for our survival personally, and our happiness, and our intimacy, and our connections to others, and also for the earth and the world.
ListenApril 9, 2024 Arts & Culture
Political Activism: Beyond Shouting And More than Silence with Sam Daley-Harris
Daley-Harris has been working tirelessly to provide trainings for ordinary citizens to empower effective political action and to help citizens be most effective in reshaping the issues they most care about. In these times of intense political polarization, civic despair is rampant. He discusses how this affects our democracy and how we can counteract any resulting apathy.
Read MoreApril 2, 2024 Arts & Culture
Gratefulness: Taking Nothing for Granted with Kristi Nelson
Kristi Nelson believes that living with gratefulness is more than just another task to perform, it’s an orientation to life. She suggests that the practice of gratefulness is a direct pathway to the qualities of mind and heart that lend themselves to our well-being as it spills over into an experience of true abundance.
Read MoreMarch 26, 2024 Arts & Culture
Dialoging with Our Inner Personalities with Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Dr. Schwartz has created a therapeutic model known as Internal Family Systems (IFS). In this discussion we explore what the IFS model encompasses and how healing our own inner world can create ripples of compassion that extend from ourselves to our communities. The goal of IFS is to help the internal parts of the self to transform from their extreme states into who they’re designed to be.
Read MoreMarch 19, 2024 Arts & Culture
Small Actions Lead to Big Results: Micro Activism with Omkari L. Williams
Williams addresses the question: How do we keep ourselves “in the game” when we become overwhelmed, dispirited, and downhearted by the enormity of needs in today’s challenging times? Williams gives us some powerful suggestions for a sustainable form of activism that she describes as micro activism. Williams believes that the size of the action isn’t the point.
Read MoreMarch 12, 2024 Arts & Culture
The Dignity Movement, Robots, And The Importance Of Asking Good Questions with Robert Fuller, Ph.D.
People need to feel they’re contributing and that their dignity is healthy and intact. Dr. Fuller shares some provocative thoughts on the inevitability of robots and artificial intelligence becoming a more dominant species than homo sapiens. In the future will robots develop more complexity than the human brain? Will they develop intuition? Will they experience transcendence and spirituality?
Read MoreMarch 5, 2024 Arts & Culture
Effective Leadership Skills: A Lifelong Practice with Marguerite Moore Callaway
Skillful leadership is needed in all aspects of our everyday lives and is not exclusive to a business environment. Being skilled at leadership includes self-discipline, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence. Callaway encourages us to cultivate self-awareness and emotional intelligence so that we can express the kind of excellence that society is needing now.
Read MoreFebruary 27, 2024 Arts & Culture
Reimaging Aging with Purpose and Engagement with Richard Leider and David Shapiro
With each passing moment, we’re further from birth, and closer to death, and there’s nothing we can do about that. But the good news is that aging doesn’t have to be passive; it can be an active process. The earlier we begin to reimagine old age, the better. Join Leider and Shapiro as they guide us in aging into the fullness of life.
Read MoreFebruary 20, 2024 Arts & Culture
Creating a Better World from the Inside Out with Oren Jay Sofer
With practical wisdom, Oren Jay Sofer provides the strength and clarity in how to increase our resilience and engage more effectively with the immense problems of our times. He advises us to let our deep joy meet the world’s deep hunger and deep need.
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