Zen Under Fire: Interview with Marianne Elliott
Big Vision Podcast12 Juni 2013

Zen Under Fire: Interview with Marianne Elliott

Marianne Elliott is the author of Zen Under of Fire: How I Found Peace in the Midst of War. Marianne is a writer, human rights advocate, and international yoga instructor. Trained as a lawyer, Marianne helped develop human rights strategies for the governments of New Zealand and Timor-Leste, has worked as a Policy Advisor for Oxfam, and spent two years working in human rights in the Gaza Strip prior to her time in Afghanistan, where she served in the United Nations mission (2005-2007). Her memoir Zen Under Fire, tells the story of her work and life in Afghanistan. Marianne writes and teaches on creating, developing and sustaining real change in personal life, work and the world. She lives in a converted church above the zoo in Wellington, New Zealand, where she writes to the sound of roaring lions and singing monkeys.

You can learn more about Marianne on her website, marianne-elliott.com, follow her on Twitter at @zenpeacekeeper, and see if her book tour is coming to a town near you at marianne-elliott.com/book/events.

Listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast on iTunes.

Connect with me:

Music: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group.

Det här avsnittet är hämtat från ett öppet RSS-flöde och publiceras inte av Podme. Det kan innehålla reklam.

Avsnitt(78)

An Interview with Melinda Kramer of Women's Global Green Action Network

An Interview with Melinda Kramer of Women's Global Green Action Network

Melinda Kramer is the co-founder of Women's Global Green Action Network(WGGAN).  WGGAN cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication too...

13 Dec 200627min

An Interview with Ingrid Severson of Bay Localize

An Interview with Ingrid Severson of Bay Localize

Ingrid Severson is the Lead Organizer of the Rooftop Resources Project, a project of Bay Localize. The Rooftop Resources project is researching the applicability and benefits of green roofs, rainwater...

30 Nov 200621min

An Interview with Jessica Jackley Flannery of Kiva

An Interview with Jessica Jackley Flannery of Kiva

Jessica Jackley Flannery is the co-founder and a board member of Kiva, a nonprofit that is using the Internet to connect people through loans to alleviate global poverty.  Jessica has worked in rural ...

30 Okt 200621min

An Interview with Jonah Sachs of Free Range Studios

An Interview with Jonah Sachs of Free Range Studios

Jonah Sachs is the Principal of Free Range Studios, an advertising and marketing firm with offices in Washington DC and Berkeley, CA that specializes in nonprofits and socially responsible businesses....

13 Sep 200620min

An Interview with Lisa Russ of the Movement Strategy Center*

An Interview with Lisa Russ of the Movement Strategy Center*

Lisa Russ is the Associate Director of the Movement Strategy Center.   The Movement Strategy Center is a nonprofit organization that is committed to advancing the next generation of leaders f...

12 Sep 200622min

An Interview with Nola Brantley of the George P. Scotlan Youth Program

An Interview with Nola Brantley of the George P. Scotlan Youth Program

Nola Brantley is the Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth  Program at the George P. Scotlan Youth Program in West Oaklan...

9 Sep 200624min

An Interview with Anna Lappe of Grub & the Small Planet Institute

An Interview with Anna Lappe of Grub & the Small Planet Institute

If you've been listening to the last seven shows, they were all recorded between February and June 2006 and originally hosted on Gcast.  Now I'm done with the transfer of old interviews and we're on t...

8 Aug 200620min

An Interview with Steve Williams of POWER

An Interview with Steve Williams of POWER

Steve Williams is the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Steve also happens to be engaged to Mei-ying Ho (:You can read a...

8 Aug 200622min

Populärt inom Samhälle & Kultur

podme-dokumentar
en-mork-historia
p3-dokumentar
gynning-berg
svenska-fall
aftonbladet-krim
skaringer-nessvold
hor-har
creepypodden-med-jack-werner
killradet
kod-katastrof
aftonbladet-daily
flashback-forever
p3-historia
rss-nemo-moter-en-van
vad-blir-det-for-mord
dialogiskt
historiska-brott
rss-sanning-konsekvens
mardromsgasten