Soul Sanctuary is the story of Beit T'Shuvah a Jewish faith-based long term addiction treatment center.  From the safety of this place residence find dignity, honor, and respect through

Soul Sanctuary is the story of Beit T'Shuvah a Jewish faith-based long term addiction treatment center.  From the safety of this place residence find dignity, honor, and respect through t'shuvah a Jewish practice of accountability and right action.  Addiction is a mental, physical, and spiritual malady. This documentary is infused with joy and hope as it invites participants to realize that they could have a life without alcohol or drugs and that they would be ok without it.  Otherwise why would anyone want to be sober if life was going to be dreary.  This trailer features Harriet Rossetto, founder of this valuable and successful program.

This film is infused with joy as we watch people reconnect with their lives through therapy, spiritual counseling, dance, choir, and internships.

Stand Down is an invitation to get traumatized Veterans off the street and back into their lives. It is a three day event that includes medical, dental, legal services but most inportantly, it restores Vets with a sense of community. Int he words of its founder Dr. John Natchison it is a drug free Woodstock music festival combined with Maslow's hierarchy of needs and a family picnic. A thousand Vets show up and 2,000 grateful volunteers welcome them. There are now over 300 Stand Down events in the US. Of the percent of citizens who sign up for the military Veterans disproportionately experience trauma, PTSD, substance abuse disorders and homelessness. Community and connection is the means to Veterans to recover their purpose and passion.

Welcome to Recovery Cafe is a refuge of hope and healing where transformation and healing is always on the menu.  It's a place where people who have been ignored and not valued are given loving attention and valued. Good nutrition, connection, and community are the antidotes to isolation, loneliness, and recidivism.  Recovery Cafe is not a drop in center or a crisis clinic.  It is a membership organization where people are valued and come back to life!  After viewing the trailer visit their website.

Beit T'Suvah is an addiction rehabilitation Center in Los Angeles where people with addictions come back to a life of meaning and purpose through contact with a higher power. Each person there has

Beit T'Suvah is an addiction rehabilitation Center in Los Angeles where people with addictions come back to a life of meaning and purpose through contact with a higher power. Each person there has a spiritual counselor while in long term recovery. You don't have to be Jewish to get in just open minded and ready to acknowledge that God shaped hole in the your soul.

Rabbi Mark Borovitz and Harriet Rossetto of Beit T'Suvah are featured in this video short.

The Recovery Cafe Network (RCN) is committed to training and nurturing groups seeking to start recovery communities based on the Recovery Cafe Model. This video features the founder, Killian Noe.

The Recovery Cafe Network (RCN) is committed to training and nurturing groups seeking to start recovery communities based on the Recovery Cafe Model. This video features the founder, Killian Noe.
The Network creates the structure for us to learn from each other about what does and does not work. It also creates a platform to generate greater resources.
For more stories of the Recovery Cafes click here.

Climate disruption is harmful to your health. Dr. Linda Rudolph and Dr. Barbara Sattler are showing how our success or failure as a civilization may well hinge on how ingenious, nimble and

Climate disruption is harmful to your health. Dr. Linda Rudolph and Dr. Barbara Sattler are showing how our success or failure as a civilization may well hinge on how ingenious, nimble and socially just our public health systems can become in restoring the ecosystem health on which all health depends. And doing the right thing is good for our health.

This is an episode of the Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature series. Visit the radio and podcast homepage (https://bioneers.org/bioneers-radio/)  to learn more.

People over 60 were instrumental in creating social change in their youth, and their wisdom and energy are greatly needed today. Third Act is a place where those who’ve been around awhile

People over 60 were instrumental in creating social change in their youth, and their wisdom and energy are greatly needed today. Third Act is a place where those who’ve been around awhile can bring their life experience to the work of social change, while supporting the next generations in creating a world that is healthy, equitable, and whole. Longtime activist and renowned leadership educator Akaya Windwood explains the work of Third Act, co-founded by Bill McKibben, and how we can participate in this exciting new movement.

Akaya Windwood, founder of the New Universal Wisdom and Leadership Institute, on the faculty of the Just Economy Institute, “Lead Advisor” at the activist group Third Act, and former President of Rockwood Leadership Institute (for ten years), also directs the Thriving Roots Fund. A longtime “transformation facilitator,” Akaya has won slews of awards for her activism and visionary leadership and is the author of: Leading with Joy: Practices for Uncertain Times.

Learn more at http://www.bioneers.org

Samuel Myers, a leading figure in the study of the impacts on human health of the accelerating disruptions to Earth’s natural systems, shares the guiding principles and implications of this

Samuel Myers, a leading figure in the study of the impacts on human health of the accelerating disruptions to Earth’s natural systems, shares the guiding principles and implications of this newly emergent, rapidly growing field, recently dubbed “Planetary Health.” Every dimension of human health and wellbeing is under threat from our ongoing degradation of Earth’s life-support systems. Planetary Health research is providing rigorous evidence that urgently stabilizing our planet’s natural systems is essential if we are going to have any chance of safeguarding a livable future for humanity.

Dr. Myers explains the goals and work of the broad global coalitions around The Planetary Health Alliance (of which he is the founding director) coming together to drive home the inextricable links between human and environmental health and to develop policies and actions to protect our biosphere.

Learn more at http://www.bioneers.org

Kevin Patel, a 21-year old LA-based Climate Justice activist extraordinaire who passionately demands that youth be listened to right now, not marginalized as “leaders of tomorrow," recounts

Kevin Patel, a 21-year old LA-based Climate Justice activist extraordinaire who passionately demands that youth be listened to right now, not marginalized as “leaders of tomorrow," recounts his own health challenges growing up in heavily polluted South Central Los Angeles and insists that climate action and ending racial and class disparities have to be inseparably linked in our movements.

Visit http://www.bioneers.org to watch more talks and discussions from the 2022 conference.

Many of us have reached a point in our work at which we realize the food system is not working. Leaders keep on relying on band-aid solutions, autocratic jargon and political hypocrisy to tackle

Many of us have reached a point in our work at which we realize the food system is not working. Leaders keep on relying on band-aid solutions, autocratic jargon and political hypocrisy to tackle the problems of hunger and poverty. Yet our society’s way of feeding and treating people just isn’t sustainable, especially when the United Nations predicts that by 2050 we will have an additional 2 billion people on this planet, most ending up in urban areas.

The simple truth is that we can’t talk about a fair, just, and equitable food system without radical new thinking and putting in a lot work. What sort of work needs to be done and who will be the people to do it? Karen Washington, one of the most renowned and influential food activists of our era shares her wisdom and her analysis of why the food system doesn’t need to be fixed but has to be dramatically transformed.

Visit http://www.bioneers.org to watch more talks and discussions from the 2022 conference.