Shifting Gears: Recent Episodes
Will Evans
Shifting Gears features conversations with people making life-sustaining choices. Human hearing is tuned for options that enable healthy choices. The nourishing rhythm of the sun and soil steady those who listen and stories from those breaking trails into a sustainable future inspire us. Have you ever sensed change coming, before it hit? Over the years we learn to expect change, it is happening now - we live in a time of transition. When change occurs, if we shift gears and are alert, more options are available. Join Will Evans for Shifting Gears the first Monday of each month at 4:00 on KDNK.
In this Living World Conversation Deanna Jenne’ explains her work as listening to her soul and following her heart.In her words, “I help people listen to their heart and trust their heart knowing.The heart is the messenger of the soul trying to guide us and show us which direction to go in.It is important to me to help people come to a place of trusting themselves to listen to that voice.”
In this Living World Conversation Deanna Jenne explains when our soul awakens – we can find our purpose - it takes us into a place of more wholeness in our life as living people.
In a second conversation with Bob Atkinson - he explains our soul whichaccompanies us on our journey is our connection with the GreatMystery, the unknown, the Creator, to Source
On this episode of Shifting Gears, host Will Evans speaks with Bob Atkinson. Bob explains it can take a long time to be fully connected with our soul. As life unfolds, we become more aware of what our soul knows.
On this month's episode of Shifting Gears, host Dr. Will Evans speaks with Lynda Walters. Lynda attended Colorado Rocky Mountain School, received Nordic ski coaching, and was selected for the US Ski Team. Over the years, an accumulation of stressful events rendered her incapacitated without hope. This Living World Conversation details Lynda regaining her balance and becoming active.
In this Living World Story Travis McFlynn explains the confusion and purposeful disconnection he traversed on the journey of seeking his authentic healthy masculinity.
A Living World Conversation with Travis McFlynn who explains:The inner beauty seems to have been kind of fraternally hazed out of us - if you go down the rabbit hole of talking about beauty or emotion -often times as young men we tend to be ostracized or made fun of - growing up we later realize that nothing could be further from the truth. Strength comes from beauty. Not the other way around. Beauty really is the foundational core of whatever this realm is we are living in. Beauty is the common goodness.
From the Shifting Gears archives Fred Haberlein celebrates a Living World Story of the Yaqui people standing tall with beauty, goodness, righteousness, joy and freedom.
A Living World Conversation with Suzy Bean explaining, “Thank goodness by our design, we all have hearts, with their inherent propulsion towards something good.”
On this episode of Shifting Gears, join Dr. Will Evans in the second conversation with Mateo Sandate as he describes the path of his heart.
On this months episode of Shifting Gears, host Will Evans speaks with Alya Howe. Alya relates how a light of creativity has been illuminating a path to the January 6th Salon she will curate at the Launch Pad.
On this episode of Shifting Gears, host will Evans speaks with Mateo Sandate. Mateo explains what the first thing he did was – after completing the collegiate portion of his musical education.
This Living World Conversation from the 2018 archives with Hugh Kingery is about the American Dipper also known as Ouzel – a small aquatic song bird resident of clean source water.
In this Living World Conversation Marc Barasch expresses wonder at the extraordinary ability of natural systems to heal whether it is in the body or the environment itself. This is the metaphor of our time to shift from destroying to healing.
In this living world conversation, John Armstrong explains how the clarity of his respectful relationship with the Crystal River and leadership of CVEPA is rooted in years of drinking Source Water. “It is so much of my life force and source – it is what we are.”
In this Living World Conversation, host Dr. Will Evans speaks with Michael Johnson. Growing up in an Anglo and Hopi household, Michael experienced an internal conflict of cultures. As he learned to value and accept that contradiction, he learned a lot about his identity—where he fit in, and where he didn't.
In this Living World Conversation Lisa Dancing Light explains how her sacred relationship with our mountain grew into a children’s story and Song.
In this Living World Conversation, Katrina Blair explains how commitment to authentic community health is a dependable North Star, a navigational beacon of clarity, beneficial to all—to oneself, others and the entire Earth.
Host Dr. Will Evans brings you A Living World Story on this episode of Shifting Gears. Turtle is the oldest symbol for Mother Earth. Turtle is an exemplar of a wise slow way of being. Many people see turtle as an aware presence of longevity and wisdom.
On this episode of Shifting Gears we hear A Living World Conversation with Jake and Mollie Shipman of Dooley Creek Farm. They discuss their goals of growing healthy soil and thriving animals, and to nourish them with the nutrients to help all of us stay healthy.
Living World Conversation with Katrina Blair about thistle. Katrina explains when engaged with the wisdom of connection she is aligned with the forces of nature.
On this episode of Shifting Gears host Will Evans speaks with Casey Piscura of Seed Peace. He explains with peace comes clarity of understanding and a more mature response to plants.
On this episode of Shifting Gears host Will Evans talks with Casey Piscura about his early connection to farming. Growing up he had an awareness that the family garden was a place of awe and discovery. It was inspiring for him to watch something proceed from seed to table.
When the growing cycle is complete the desire to leave the human confusion of the past year behind is not new; rather it coincides with the original meaning and purpose of New Year.Over a year, mistakes and misdeeds confuse life, the web of life becomes worn and torn and the world needs to be renewed. The New Year is not a simple turning of a calendar page, but a symbolic return to the beginning of time in order to restore to life its original potentials.In this Archival conversation from 2011 Evan Pritchard explains what he observed in one indigenous culture when an elder recognized confusion had entered a community.
Evan explains it is good to say, I am “here and now”. It feels good. “Here and now” is where Being dwells and is the only safe place to be in this time. If you get off center, it can be hard to get back to the “here and now.” Make time to be with people at home in the present moment.
From the 2011 archives Mari Margil describes how communities, cities, and nations are expanding the box of allowable activism by extending the right to be to nature and as a result benefiting all life.
An updated living world Conversation with Michael Mead explaining “in mythology they say there is always abundance, if people are able to imagine it. We live under the rule of scarcity, it rules everything. And it really rules the cultural dialogue right now and scarcity becomes greater when people lose their imagination for how abundant life is.”
Art Goodtimes explains, When we have the opportunity to pay attention and listen, listen to our elders and our young people and hear what they are saying - we grow wiser and reach that critical mass of wisdom that helps a community grow, thrive and sustain themselves.
Art explains the challenge of living in a time of huge changes, the challenge of listening to people on all sides and coming to some sort of balance with ourselves, with those around us, and with our Watershed.
Fred Haberlein, inspires us with explaining the big event of the year for the Yacqui people - the New Year comes in the spring with the return of life and the triumph of good over evil. That is what happens in their ceremonies.
Art Goodtimes continues explaining his living world story and desire to go forward on as balanced a path and playful a path as he can.
Art Goodtimes is a Colorado poet, basketweaver, former Green Party elected San Miguel County Commissioner and Western Slope Poet Laureate. This is the first in a series of artful conversations with Art where he explains how much fun it can be when listening changes a relationship, if the listening is reciprocal.
There are places where nature and democracy meetCarbondale protected the Thompson divideTelluride kept the valley floor Forever WildAs kindred communities we remember ourcommitment to a living world story
On this episode of Shifting Gears, host Will Evans and Bill Kight revisit a conversation they had in 2015 about Arthur Carhartt.
The Terra Firma Rainwater Collective is weaving together the gathering and storing of rainwater for household use with the prevention of destructive erosion undercutting the foundation of people dwelling in two large cities along the Congo River. Distributing this healing story is a dance of local circles; people conversing in council on how to best benefit the community they live in.
A living world conversation with Raleigh Burleigh inviting us to turn our attention and respect toward the balance of our ecosystem nourishing the continuance of life right where we live!
As a young teenager, Katrina Blair, learned to listen to plants and live off of the land. Today she knows when she ingests wild plants, their resilience and brilliant ways of being help her adapt to change.
Jacob Liberman explains the relationship of seeing clearly, not just at optical level, but sensing life clearly during the most powerful paradigm shift in our lifetime.
Jacob Liberman explains when the intelligence of light catches our attention and we follow that guidance our path doesn’t result in unintended calamities.
On July 29, 2021 Richard Lamm, 38th Governor of Colorado died. We respectively pause at his passing to revisit a conversation from May, 2019 when Lamm reflected as an elder on human relationship with Mother Nature and the Law of Unanticipated Consequences.
Katrina Blair talks about her commitment to health and a living world. She explains how the Durango Turtle Lake Community aligns with these commitments through Talking Circles and cooperative action.
This month, host Will Evans speaks with Basalt-based architect Michael Thompson, who’s also a long-time friend of fruit trees. He explains when and how he shifted into a living world story.
We broadcast the Watershed Way Ceremony on our airwaves on May 23rd. Thank you to everyone who tuned in for the live broadcast. If you missed it live, that doesn't mean you can't partake in a ceremony. Find a source of water and play this audio file to find yourself fully immersed in celebrating SOURCE.
Will Evans speaks with Katrina Blair about how she celebrates the connection between personal health, wild lands, and source water.
Will Evans speaks with John Kimmey about Hopi corn, drought-resistant crops, and how intention and song benefits plants and people.
Brooke LeVan returns to the airwaves with host Will Evans to continue his New Year's report on the condition of Sustainable Settings and the state of the world.
Host Will Evans sits down with Brooke LeVan, director of Sustainable Settings, to talk about the state of the soil and other lessons of 2020. This conversation was originally recorded for airing in January.
This month on Shifting Gears, Will Evans in Arizona speaks with Moran Sol Broza in Israel. Broza is a chef, social impact entrepreneur, and climate ambassador. She has many years of experience in community and business development, focused on positive social and environmental impact.
Elizabeth Herald returns to Shifting Gears and recalls who attended her self-led, coming-of-age ceremony on Cortez Island: the wilderness and a wolf.
Elizabeth Herald explains how she grew from a childhood connection with nature to a new level of aliveness at age ten and eventually the opportunity to listen to a gray whale in a Baja California birthing lagoon.
This month on Shifting Gears, architect and local food advocate Michael Thompson explains how his daughter’s sensitivity alerted him to a change in the source water that they drink.
Local elder, retired medical doctor and host of Shifting Gears William Evans has released Circulating Source Water. This monograph incorporates science, history and spirit to inform our predicament and offer new stories for life and healing on Earth. The book is available online and at Mana Foods in Carbondale.
Dee Crouch retired from medicine and the Emergency Room and discovered hot blown glass. He learned his creative visions were made possible with new skills in balance, communication and teamwork.