guest appearances

This section gathers the conversations John Paul has had as a guest on different podcasts across the years. These are podcast formatted conversations where John Paul serves a moderator, guest, or where a conversation or lecture has been recorded and released as a podcast. These conversations touch into a variety of topics, the most prominent of which are conflict transformation, peacebuilding, and facing toxic polarization.

The Art of Peace
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The Art of Peace

A conversation with Krista Tippett exploring themes of the moral imagination, arts-inspired peacebuilding, and music and poetry in healing and reconciliation.

2010
The Art of Haiku and the Soul of Peacebuilding
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The Art of Haiku and the Soul of Peacebuilding

A dharma talk shared at Upaya Zen Center exploring the wisdom of haiku in relationship with peacebuilding.

2015
Living Now: Rehumanization in the 200 Year Present
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Living Now: Rehumanization in the 200 Year Present

A talk from the Upaya Zen Center sharing stories about experiences working with Indigenous communities around the world.

2016
The Ingredients of Social Courage
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The Ingredients of Social Courage

A conversation with Krista Tippett and America Ferrera at the inaugural On Being Gathering, exploring the ingredients of social courage and how change really happens in generational time.

2018
Justice and a Just War
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Justice and a Just War

An episode of On Being with Krista Tippett exploring three varied perspectives on how such questions are alive and evolving today, and how they might inform our approach to the conflict in Afghanistan and the peace we would like to achieve beyond it.

2001