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Latest Episodes

Deep Listening
December 10, 2025

When we’re in a disagreement, it’s sometimes hard simply to listen to the other person. The emotional temperature may be high and we can shut down in a defensive posture. But skillful listening is a core practice of conflict resolution and, po

Holistic Nurses
December 04, 2025

We hear from a variety of nurses about the stresses they face in today’s fast-paced medical settingand how they struggle to find the time needed to treat the whole person.To see additional resources and our other programs, please visithumanmedia.

Haley House – Kathy McKenna
November 27, 2025

Haley House was established in 1966 to shelter and serve unhoused people in Boston. Co-founder Kathy McKenna reflects on the line between helping people in need and becoming an “enabler” of people who don’t want to improve.To see additi

Helen Keller – An Optimist in Spite of All, Pt1
November 20, 2025

Helen Kellersubject of this audio biographysurmounted both deafness and blindness by learning to communicate with great eloquence, and became an unlikely world superstar.To see additional resources and our other programs, please visithumanmedia.org.

Compassionate Friends
November 13, 2025

Aiming to “transform the pain of grief into the elixir of hope,” a group called The Compassionate Friends, with more than 600 U.S. chapters, brings together parents who’ve suffered the loss of a child, to help them sort through complicat

Sobriety High School
November 06, 2025

In this episode we visit William J Ostiguy High School. It is a learning facility designed to help kids with a history of substance abusewho support each other in their quest to remain clean and sober.To see additional resources and our other programs,

The Relaxation Response
October 30, 2025

Harvard Medical School Professor Herbert Benson, MD pioneering work on the Relaxation Response has helped millions of people learn a simple meditative technique to reduce the harmful effects of stress

Faith and Social Justice, Pt2
October 27, 2025

We profile Raphael Warnock, US senator from Georgia and also the pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta the congregation once led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. What sustains your faith in shaky times?To see additional resources and our other p

Faith and Social Justice, Pt1
October 23, 2025

Progressive voices of conscience have long arisen in faith communities. This Humankind documentary explores the spiritual impulse for social change.To see additional resources and our other programs, please visithumanmedia.org. Humankind specials are

Power of Concentration with George Mumford
October 16, 2025

George Mumford teaches top athletes the “superpowers” of mindfulness, concentration, insight, right effort and trust as techniques to strengthen performance and avoid the trap of spiritual demise.To see additional resources and our other prog