Open Questions
By Irina Almgren
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Podcast Description
Open Questions, a podcast hosted by Irina Almgren, comes out every second week and brings you encounters with engaged members of local and international communities, activists, authors, artists and visionaries in the fields of Spirituality, Relationships, Business, Creativity and Engaged Activism.
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OQ21: Reason with others, reason better! | In this episode of Open Questions my guest is Hugo Mercier, a cognitive scientist at Université de Neuchâtel, interested in the way people reason. Together with Dan Sperber, Hugo has developed an argumentative theory of reasoning according to which our. | 6/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ20: Open voice, open heart, open mind with Ellen Bakker | In this episode I speak with Ellen Bakker, a singer and vocal coach from the Netherlands, who sees it as her mission to contribute to healthy, effective and 'happy' vocal habits, for singers and speakers (f.i. teachers) alike. | 3/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ19: Leif Lindh and his moose park | In this episode I speak with Leif Lindh, the founder of Gårdsjö Elkpark, a place where everyone is guaranteed a chance to come close to a moose. We discuss the charm of these magnificent animals, how Leif first came up with the idea of starting an anim. | 2/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ18: Lonely with Emily White | I speak with Emily White about her memoir Lonely: Learning to Live With Solitude, in which Emily recounts her struggle to comprehend and overcome her chronic loneliness. Emily discusses some of the roots of loneliness and how the existing in the Weste... | 2/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ17: A life of dreams with Dr Dave, Part Three | Part One: I continue my conversation with psychologist and podcaster Dr David Van Nuys on dreams and how they can inform our waking life. In this episod Dr Dave and I discuss pre-cognitive and psychic dreams, | 1/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ16: A life of dreams with Dr Dave, Part Two | Psychologist and podcaster Dr David Van Nuys talks about the benefits of keeping a dream journal and of being part of a dream group. Dr Dave shares some of his experience of working through real life examples of nightmares and how we can use nightmares... | 1/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ15: A life of dreams with Dr Dave, Part One | In this conversation psychologist and host of the Shrink Rap Radio Psychology Podcast Dr David Van Nuys, or "Dr Dave", talks about Freud's and Jung's understanding of the unconscious and the functions of dreams and the methods the two big minds used to... | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ14: Healing through art (EN) | In Part 1 Irina speaks with Gözde Sütçü about the transformative power of art, how painting without concern for the outcome increased her self-understanding and helped her release the pain she had been carrying for years. | 12/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ13: Buddhism: what’s in it for me? | Interview with Buddhist teacher, management consultant and executive director of the non-profit organization Unfettered mind Ken McLeod and a track by Uppsala-based, Brazilian-born Rafael Oliveira. | 11/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ12: Making art, making meaning (EN) | What makes you be in love with life? How do you translate your values into the everyday choices? What makes this life meaningful to you? Interview with Eric Maisel on the art of living a meaning-making life, | 10/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ11: Marian in 2011 (EN) | International hospitality communities like CouchSurfing and Warm Showers make it possible to travel cheaper and to meet people from other cultures in their homes, something that Irina’s friend Marian Voigt particularly appreciates. | 10/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ10: Sensing reality in the organization (EN) | What is your organization's unique role in bringing something creative into the world? What do you want its path to be? How can you get your own stuff out of the way? How can you achieve more voice and yet more speed and efficiency in the meetings? | 8/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ09: Being with fear | Do you know why zebras don’t get ulcers? Why is the assumption that we are supposed to achieve a 50-50 balance between our life and our work is not only unrealistic but also prevents us from being content with our lives? | 8/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ08: Life eternal, Part 2 (EN) | In the second part of the two-part conversation, Susanne Wiigh-Mäsak shares the ideas she had in mind when designing the technology of promession. She hopes that the method, that allows the dead body to become part of life again, | 6/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ7: Life eternal, Part 1 (EN) | In one of his gathas, or mindfulness poems, called Gardening, Thich Nhat Hanh writes about the cycle of life, "Earth brings us to life and nourishes us. Earth takes us back again. We are born and we die with every breath. | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ6: Living well with a chronic illness, Part 2 (EN) | Do you choose to survive or thrive in the face of hard circumstances? In this second part of the two-part conversation, Andy McLellan and Erica Hamilton share some of the techniques they found useful in coping with the physical and emotional pain on th... | 5/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ5: Living well with a chronic illness, Part 1 (EN) | This week Irina is joined with cherished friends Andy McLellan, PhD (via Skype from Canterbury, UK) and Erica Hamilton, PhD, currently living in Uppsala, Sweden. In this conversation Andy and Erica generously share about the most challenging aspects of... | 5/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ4: Andas! Du lever. (SW) | Denna vecka besöker Irina tvåbarnsmamman, dramapedagogen och andningspedagogen Christina (Kicki) Boström i hennes mottagning i Hågaby, Uppsala. Kicki hjälper sina klienter att lösa upp spänningar och frigöra andningen genom att använda sig av oli | 4/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ03: I love you! And you! And you! (EN) | In this episode Irina is joined over Skype by polyamory activist Franklin Veaux. Where does the idea that we can only love (romantically) one person at a time come from? Why do many of us believe that we can only commit to one partner/relationship at a... | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ2: Var inte rädd för mörkret! (SW) | Episode description: - This episode is recorded in swedish. - I detta avsnitt besöker Irina den danskfödde konstnären och musikern Kirsten Holm i hennes ateljé i Håga by, utanför Uppsala. Kirsten väljer inte att provocera så mycket med sina bilde | 3/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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OQ1: Introducing the podcast | Episode description: - In this very first episode of the show Irina introduces the podcast and talks about how open questions can be used when we are stuck in one mode of thinking. She closes by sharing a simple yet powerful self-reflection technique. | 3/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 21 Episodes |
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