The Inner Game: Recent Episodes
Gwen Garcelon
The Inner Game airs on KDNK Community Access Radio in Carbondale, Colorado and is about the relationship we have with our authentic self and our life’s purpose. The show features conversations with community and business leaders about how they grow personally to make a bigger difference in the world through the strength and health of their relationships and organizations.
This month on The Inner Game Gwen speaks with Adrian Howell, a photographer, storyteller, filmmaker and athlete. He is currently working with Tucker Farris on a documentary about the activism that has protected the Thompson Divide from oil and gas development.
This month on The Inner Game is Don Hall, author of “The Regeneration Handbook: Transform Yourself to Transform the World”. Don is also a leader in the international Transition Towns movement that began in the UK to help communities transition away from fossil fuel centric towns to resilient towns capable of withstanding the impacts of climate change and characterized by climate resilience, localized economies, mutual aid and robust local food systems.
This week on the Inner Game, Shayla Paradeis shares with Gwen about her long-distance hiking and the deep relationship to the Earth that has inspired her heart-centered activism. Hear about her upcoming journey to Hiroshima, Japan to participate in a world unity and peace celebration.
The Inner Game continues a new series of current conversations with past guests to hear what is growing and shifting in their spiritual lives. Tara Sheahan joins Gwen on Tuesday to talk about her land regeneration and re-wilding project involving bison, and the deepening supports of her spiritual path over the last 6 years.
The Inner Game starts a new series this month of current conversations with past guests to hear what is growing and shifting in their spiritual lives. Chris Beebe joins Gwen on this episode to revisit the gifts and challenges of the last 6 years.
This month on The Inner Game we are rebroadcasting a show that was recorded in 2021. Host Gwen Garcelon talks about the beauty of the world and how following and creating beauty inspires us to follow our True North and work on what we care about most.
Tanya Blacklight is Gwen’s guest on The Inner Game. Tanya is a minister and a multi-faceted healer working with sound, energy, reiki, and herbalism. She focuses on reclaiming feminine power in all people.
From the Archive: Illene Pevec, PhD created award winning school garden projects to bring the wisdom and healing of the Earth to children. She is the author of Growing a Life and is a specialist in educational reform centered on experiential garden-based learning. This is part 2 of her conversation with Gwen.
On this episode of The Inner Game, Barbe Chambliss returns for a conversation on how to practice peace in our daily lives. Barbe is author of “Women Peacemakers” as well as a mediator and restorative justice specialist.
Gwen shares the best of 2023 on The Inner Game. The highlights and insights from the past year’s conversations to bring into 2024 – to work with, to be inspired by and to help you bring all the contribution you can to the new year.
This month on The Inner Game, host Gwen Garcelon speaks with Patti Neuroth, better known as Patti Rockstar. Neuroth was the owner of The Rock Shop in Glenwood Springs for 15 years.
This month on The Inner Game, Gwen celebrates her “Life Day,” when 30 years ago on June 6, 1993, she had a near death experience. She shares about what happened in East Snowmass Creek that day, and the role it has played—and surprising insights—gained on her spiritual journey since the event.
On this episode of the Inner Game, Jess Jacobson joins Gwen Garcelon. Jess helped create the Carbondale Community Food Coop, Carbondale’s first natural food coop. She is also a healer, yogi, mother, and wise woman. Hear her observations and involvement over several decades of serving Carbondale.
This month’s guest on the Innner Game is Rebecca Wildbear, author of Wild Yoga: A Practice of Initiation, Veneration & Advocacy for the Earth. She is the creator of a yoga practice called Wild Yoga, which empowers individuals to connect to the earth, so they can serve more creatively at this time of great need. She has been leading Wild Yoga programs since 2007 and also guides nature and soul programs through Animas Valley Institute in southern Colorado.
This month on The Inner Game host Gwen Garcelon will speak with Julie DeVilbiss, local holistic nurse and wellness practitioner who works with energy and spirit to integrate the nervous system for long-term health and personal expansion.
On this episode of The Inner Game, host Gwen Garcelon reflects on conversations she has had on the show throughout 2022.
On this episode of The Inner Game, Gwen Garcelon has a conversation with one of her favorite evolutionaries, Peter Mayer. He also provides the music for this show! This took place in 2009.
This month on The Inner Game Gwen speaks with Gene Dunaway, an attorney and international personal development trainer. Gene participates with Gwen in an evolutionary community called The New Republic of the Heart, which supports its participants to catalyze radical whole system change in the world.
On this episode of The Inner Game, host Gwen Garcelon shares a talk she gave recently on our inherent connection with the natural world – and its essential role in catalyzing human evolution. The title of the talk was The Signature of All Things and took place September 18, 2022 at A Spiritual Center in Carbondale.
From the Archive:Carbondale resident Illène Pevec, PhD, author of “Growing a Life", initiated her first award-winning school gardening program in 1998 at an elementary school in Vancouver, Canada. Since then, she has gained national and international recognition for her work.
Gwen is in conversation this month with Anne White, Executive Director of Lead With Love, a local nonprofit whose mission is to shift culture from fear to love. They share insights from the new short film produced by Lead with Love, about the neuroscience of spirituality.
Educator and activist, Sonja Linman, will join Gwen on The Inner Game for a Part 2 from their conversation in May. Sonja will share her thoughts on shifting education from standardized to personalized to serve children more fully during this time of deep cultural change.
Sonja Linman joins Gwen on The Inner Game today. Sonja is a longtime beloved local educator, an addictions counselor and specialist, and former candidate for Garfield County Commissioner. More recently she has developed a beautiful piece of land outside of Glenwood Springs as a retreat center to serve the wellbeing of community servants like teachers, counselors and first responders.
Gwen talks with Laurie Herrick, author of Choose Abundance, about how to create a “culture of philanthropy” to transform and evolve nonprofit fundraising. The ideas in this book also have profound implications to how we approach climate change, or any of the complex challenges we face.
In this episode of The Inner Game, Gwen speaks with Finlay Hinde about a community of leaders called “A New Republic of the Heart.” The community is pioneering collective connection, communication and support strategies to be of greater benefit to the complex challenges we face as a human society.
In this episode of The Inner Game, Gwen interviews Diana Alcantara, a teacher at the Carbondale Community School who started their successful school garden and has grown the garden curriculum since 2014. Diana shares about how the garden continues to demonstrate how valuable it is to the development and healing of children, and how important that is in these challenging times.
We will hear a talk that Gwen gave at A Spiritual Center on Sunday November 21st on courage and self compassion.
Gwen revisits some of the best conversations she had in 2021, all the best points made throughout the year.
Gwen speaks with music educator Lisa Dancing-Light, who is also an environmental activist, gardener, composer, recording artist and recently author of the children’s environmental storybook, Magic Mountain – based on her relationship with Mt. Sopris. Lisa and Gwen share insights from their deep spiritual and civic journeys.
Gwen speaks with author and songwriter Larry Gottlieb about his newest book, “Hoodwinked - Uncovering our Fundamental Superstitions” which addresses how our consciousness is evolving and how our understanding of life itself is profoundly changing. It’s good news, and it might just blow your mind.
Gwen talks with longtime Carbondale local, Elizabeth Cammack, about why she helped create the Demeter Community Garden, and its many benefits to personal and community resilience. Elizabeth shares some of the lessons she has learned about grassroots community efforts, and about how gardens can build community connection and collaboration to face the increasing pressures from climate impacts.
Gwen talks about the beauty of the world amd how following and creating beauty inspires us to follow our True North and work on what we care about most.
This month, Gwen speaks with Kate Eckman: an athlete, leadership coach, and meditation teacher. Eckman recently published a book, "The Full Spirit Workout: A Ten-Step System to Shed Your Self-Doubt, Strengthen Your Spiritual Core, and Create a Fun and Fulfilling Life."
This month on The Inner Game, hear from Barbe Chambliss, a psychotherapist and mediator who aims to wake up the conscious peacemaker in others. She wrote “Women Peacemakers,” directed the Center for Conflict Resolution in Aspen, and she facilitates Restorative Justice Circles in her community.
Gwen talks with Bill Plotkin, a wilderness guide and eco-depth psychologist. As the founder of Colorado’s Animas Valley Institute, he's guided thousands of people on the journey of “soul initiation.” Thus, his new book, The Journey of Soul Initiation – A Field Guide for Visionaries, Evolutionaries and Revolutionaries.
This time on The Inner Game, Nikki Beinstein and April Crow-Spaulding join host Gwen Garcelon to explore how community members can respond to injustices in our communtiy in a way that allows for compassion, connection, understanding, and solutions.
Aspen native Reuben Sadowsky joins Gwen to talk about how he is bringing his conscious business experience to the new Beyul Retreat (previously the Diamond J). His values of honoring the land, personal and spiritual well-being, conscious community, and artful living are all expressed through the Beyul vision and mission.
Host Gwen Garcelon offers listeners a chance to let go of 2020 and embrace the possibilities in 2021, as well as face ongoing challenges with empowerment and purpose. She encourages practices like learning deep resiliency, practicing active hope, gathering around food, and cultivating The Force: yes, the Star Wars one.
Gwen welcomes Robyn McLean back to the show. McLean works on systems-level change through her business, Tapestry Evaluation and Strategy in Kamloops, British Columbia in Canada. She has a particular focus on food systems and agriculture as a key driver for transformative change in communities.
This month on The Inner Game, Gwen catches up with local performing artist Alya Howe who is a local dancer and storyteller, among other things. They talk about her spiritual background, ways she seeks peace, and the power of storytelling.
Roderick O’Connor shares about his 21 years in law enforcement. He is also an aikido master who got into policing to contribute to peoples' lives and to "touch their souls."
The Inner Game returns to the studio once again for a live solo episode. This month host Gwen Garcelon offers words of hope and inspiration in the face of ongoing crisis. She also shares a teaching story from author Charles Eisenstein called "A Gathering of the Tribe."