Awakin Calls

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Awakin Calls are weekly conversations that share insights and inspiration from various corners of the ServiceSpace ecosystem.

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September 12 · length unknown
Xavier Ginesta -- Transformational Philanthropy: From Conscious Capitalism to Festival of Consciousness
"This was the first thing I had done without an economic motive," says Xavier Ginesta, a successful Barcelona tech entrepreneur, recalling the not-for-profit festival of consciousness he launched in 2022. But it ended up costing five times more th...
August 29 · length unknown
Dr. Janice Sullivan -- Language of the Heart: Encounters with Illness, Dying, and Mystery
Janice Sullivan, Ph.D., is an educator, researcher, author, transformational coach, and founder of Yogabrella whose life and work explore what she calls The Language of the Heart, the profound ways we connect through presence, intuition, silence, and...
August 15 · length unknown
Randima Fernando -- Designing Humane Technology: Between Godlike Tools, Paleolithic Minds, and Misaligned Systems
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. -- E.O. Wilson Born in Sri Lanka to a father who taught him to program and a mother who taught him Buddhism, Randima Fernand...
July 25 · length unknown
Amardeep Singh -- Rediscovering Lost Sikh Heritage: Building Bridges Beyond Borders Through Stories & Songs
In 2014, Amardeep Singh, a Singapore-based financial executive, stood underneath a bridge in Muzaffarabad, a city cradled by the lower Himalayas in the disputed region of Kashmir, in the Indian subcontinent. His forefathers had lived there until a tr...
July 18 · length unknown
Cynthia Li -- Healing By Letting Go: The Medicine of Flow
The yoga class for new mothers had dissolved into full cacophony -- every baby crying at once, every mother off her mat, nursing, bouncing. Then: "All mamas, Tree Pose." Put the babies on the mat. Go still. How cold, she thought. How insensitive. B...
June 27 · length unknown
Lam Nguyen-Phuong -- The Inner Work of Philanthropy
"In my youth, I was a rebel who challenged the status quo and wrote three volumes of poetry dedicated to love and humanity. I have always been a seeker for meaning and purpose. Yet, somewhere between Saigon and Wall Street, the poet within me went in...
June 14 · length unknown
Bhante Buddharakkhita -- Dhamma Seeds In Unlikely Soil: The First Ugandan Buddhist Monk
When he was a boy in Kampala, his mother had a saying: "If you have nothing to say, keep quiet. If you have nothing to do, go to sleep." On the long, hot afternoons when she sent him to nap, the restless child could not sleep — so he lay awake ...
May 30 · length unknown
Lobsang Phuntsok -- Re-inviting the Uninvited Guests of the Universe
"Everyone is an invited guest of the universe," Lobsang Phuntsok tells the 125 children of his community in the Himalayas every day. He means it — because he spent most of his childhood being told the opposite. Born in secret in 1971 in Arunach...
May 9 · length unknown
Veena Howard -- When Renunciation Becomes Revolution: The Force Gandhi Called Ahimsa
“Gandhi showed that the law of nonviolence was for all times -- truth-force and soul-force are the most potent forces for change ever discovered,” says Dr. Veena Howard, a distinguished scholar, author, and speaker specializing in nonviol...
April 25 · length unknown
Margaretta Mcilvaine -- The Heart Already Knows: Healing Beyond Technique
Two decades ago, in her early days as a healer, Margaretta "Maggie" McIlvaine had supported patients through invasive surgeries, monitoring energy fields and chakra systems. But while standing beside a client's exposed heart at a hospital in Charlott...
April 10 · length unknown
Cortland Dahl -- From Himalayan Caves To Brain Labs: Lessons in Human Flourishing
As a teenager, Cortland Dahl once fainted on stage from the sheer force of his social anxiety. That debilitating phobia would become the unlikely doorway to a life spent in Himalayan retreat caves, neuroscience laboratories, and meditation halls on s...
March 28 · length unknown
Melinda Edwards -- Journey Back to Love: Turning Towards Pain
"Each of us is on a journey back to the Love that we already are — whether we recognize it or not. The gift and challenge of being human is that suffering, in all its forms, can become a doorway Home." – Melinda Edwards, MD Melinda Edwar...
March 14 · length unknown
Sushma Soma -- There Will Never Be Another You: On Love, Loss & Singing Through the Wreckage
"But in the end, the mountain has the last say." That was a phrase Shrinivas Sainis Dattatraya lived by — data analyst, mountaineer, dog rescuer, and the quiet, unwavering anchor in his wife Sushma Soma's life. On May 19, 2023, Shri summited Mo...
February 14 · length unknown
Rudy Karsan -- The Work Beneath the Work: From Fear to Joy
Rudy Karsan walks onto the stage looking the part of a successful entrepreneur: charcoal suit, wired microphone, confident stride. What catches your attention is the smile—wide, unguarded, unmistakably joyful. At this point in his life, he call...
February 1 · length unknown
Michael Nagler -- Beyond Fight or Flight: Gandhi's Relevance in a World on Edge
[Please note this call is on Sunday, unlike our usual Saturday slot. Also, it marks the launch of a deeper collective inquiry with the"Gandhi Today" Pod. Learn more & join here.] "I'm going to take you out of politics," the Indian spiritual...
January 24 · length unknown
Mark Moore -- Toward Nourishment for All: Feeding Body and Spirit
"Picture yourself sitting at a table," Mark Moore, founder of MANA Nutrition, says. "Take your phone and slide it right to the edge. Now if something bumps the table, your phone will fall and crack." For children born in South Sudan or the Democrati...
January 10 · length unknown
Rollin McCraty -- What If the Heart Knows Before the Mind?
[This is the 4th conversation of Awakin AI Series. Following this call, you are welcome to join 1-week peer-learning "Pod" for a deeper dive.] What happens when an engineer who built a multimillion-dollar company discovers the worl...
Dec 27, 2025 · length unknown
Shinzen Young -- Can AI Help Us Become More Human?
“I was, according to my mother, a difficult baby—miserable, impatient, unable to handle any kind of physical discomfort.” Born Steve Young in 1944 in Los Angeles, he failed algebra and geometry, disappointing his parents—until...
Dec 20, 2025 · length unknown
Danusha Lameris -- Where Grief and Joy Become Poetry and Presence
This call explores poetry not as performance or consolation, but as a lived practice of presence — a way of staying with what is tender, unfinished, and real. Together, we’ll listen for how language arises from the body, how loss and love...
Dec 13, 2025 · length unknown
Vanessa Andreotti -- Hospicing the House Of Modernity: What AI Reveals About Our (In)capacities for Kinship and Relationship with Life Itself
[This is the 2nd of a 3-part Awakin Call Series. Watch the first call here, and for more info, visit awakin.ai/murmur.] Born in Brazil to a mixed heritage family, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti arrived in this world with a colonial paradox: h...

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