Heart Light Radio Hour

May 5, 2025 Edition

Heart Light Members Laura Gray M.Ed and Dr. Damita Brown discuss the meaning of Contemplative Social Action. The term refers to a way of addressing social injustices using seven specific skills.

May 18, 2025 Edition

This week we speak with Madison area educator and alternative schools advocate, Sean Andersen.

Dr. Richard Davidson video referenced.

June 8, 2025 Edition

Damita Brown and Board Member, Nandi Seboulisa discuss the Heart Light Card “Black is Beautiful.” The card is featured in the Heart Light Card deck which offers contemplation exercises and social activities for people working to end social injustice.

June 15, 2025 Edition

In this edition of Heart Light Radio we share a excerpt from a Spring of 2024 Tea With Dee Gathering. Each of us reflects on the question “Are you at peace with yourself?” We ask, how do our views about inner peace impact racial justice?

July #1 2025 Edition

Sikowis Nobiss (she/her) is Plains Cree/Saulteaux of the George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada and grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. At 19 she began her life's work of uplifting Indigenous rights and voices when she got her first job at the New Brunswick Aboriginal Peoples Council in Fredericton, Canada.

In this episode we discuss Sikowis Nobiss’s work and her reflections on the Heart Light card titled “Belonging.” This interview was recorded on July 8, 2025

July 7, 2025

This episode is a discussion with Twice As Good founder, journalist and digital producer Sandra Hannebohm. Hannebahm offers an insightful and inspiring take on the changes we are seeing in the field of journalism and what it means to put human experience first.

July 24, 2025

We are delighted to share this interview with Carolyn Gimian. She is a Dharma teacher, editor, and executive director of the Chogyam Trungpa Institute at Naropa University. Carolyn talks about the projects close to her heart and we discuss the Heart Light Action Card “Manifest Justice on the Spot.”