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11/09/2026

The Real Work

An episode celebrating the life and work of Wendell Berry, the poet and farmer who died last week. Berry's poem 'The Real Work' invites us to recognise that when we no longer know what to do or which way to go, we may have arrived at our genuine calling. A conversation for all of us navigating confusion, loss, or disorientation, and wondering about how we might bring ourselves when we no longer know the way.

Episode 465 of Turning Towards Life from Thirdspace is available in all the podcast places, and as a video on the link below.

https://www.turningtowards.life/home/wendell-berry

30/08/2026

Breaking Open

A conversation about meeting one another inside 'falling apart', the cultural pressure to stay buttoned up, the fertile potential hidden inside our moments of undoing, and what it means to be a person who can welcome and hold space for another's becoming rather than trying to put the lid back on. How genuine care for another might involve staying faithful to the life inside them, which is something deeper than their current circumstances, their current identity, or the version of them we first fell in love with.

Episode 464 of Turning Towards Life from Thirdspace is available in all the podcast places, and as a video on the link below.

https://www.turningtowards.life/home/breaking-open

17/08/2026

The Prism of Self: A conversation about the welcome and unwelcome in us, bringing forward what’s been in the shadows, discernment, and how art and open conversation can make room in our lives for more of the vast complexity we each are.

Episode 462 of Turning Towards Life from Thirdspace is available in all the podcast places, and as a video on the link below.

https://www.turningtowards.life/home/the-prism-of-self

23/07/2026

On presence, embodiment, and choosing life-giving attention in the midst of our lives. How we might transform our experience into ‘drops of sunlight’ that help us stay in contact with life as we meet despair and the counterfeit comforts that promise relief but leave us diminished. An invitation to notice what brings freedom, within ourselves and in relationship with others.

Cast All Your Votes for Dancing, Episode 458 of Turning Towards Life
Our latest episode of Turning Towards Life from Thirdspace is available in all the podcast places, and as a video on the link below.

On presence, embodiment, and choosing life-giving attention in the midst of our lives. How we might transform our experience into ‘drops of sunlight’ that help us stay in contact with life as we meet despair and the counterfeit comforts that promise relief but leave us diminished. An invitation ...

08/07/2026

Our podcast reached 100,000 listens this week. Thank you to everyone who joins us week after week or just once in a while. Your listening and watching makes it all possible. Find out more by visiting us at turningtowards.life or searching for 'Turning Towards Life' on all the major podcast platforms.

08/07/2026

We can rely on the wisdom and expansiveness of our own hearts to hold and respond to the complexity of the world, though it's easy to ignore this as we pursue our strategies of trying to be right, or be in control, when it's hard to see a way through grief, or confusion, or anger, or self-righteousness. An invitation to do what leaves do - absorb the fierce energy that shines upon them and turn it into nourishment, beginning with wonderful words by our friend Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer.

A Different Holding Pattern, Episode 456 of Turning Towards Life
Our latest episode of Turning Towards Life from Thirdspace is available in all the podcast places, and as a video on the link below.

We can rely on the wisdom and expansiveness of our own hearts to hold and respond to the complexity of the world… though it's easy to ignore this as we pursue our strategies of trying to be right, or be in control, when it's hard to see a way through grief, or confusion, or anger, or self-righte

15/06/2026

How much of each us gets excluded when we constantly compare ourselves to one another, and to the expectations we're handed by our culture. And how much we exclude the gifts of others by the very same process.

Is there a way we could give up inappropriate comparison and in so doing learn to include so much more everyone's talents and gifts, and the supportive ground of life itself?

A conversation about different kinds of learning, mischief, the attitudes we take that portray us as 'better than' or 'worse than' others, and what it is to deeply and gladly welcome the many kinds of difference and intelligence that are available in the world.

The Sharpest Tool in the Shed, Remix, Episode 453 of Turning Towards Life
Our latest episode of Turning Towards Life from Thirdspace is available in all the podcast places, and as a video on the link below.

https://www.turningtowards.life/home/the-sharpest-tool-in-the-shed-remix

11/06/2026

The 'Real AI'. Some people have the patience to sit with the right problem instead of fixing the wrong one. They ask the question that actually needs asking, don’t accept our stories at face value, and get to the real thing waiting to be said. They see what we’re actually struggling with, not the account we offer. They are quiet, patient, kind, curious, and deep enough for us to speak about what matters. They know when to wait and when to act. This capacity lives between and within us. It can grow and be practiced. And the world needs it now.

The Real AI, Episode 452 of Turning Towards Life
Our latest episode of Turning Towards Life from Thirdspace is available in all the podcast places, and as a video on the link below.

Some people have the patience to sit with the right problem instead of fixing the wrong one. They ask the question that actually needs asking, don’t accept our stories at face value, and get to the real thing waiting to be said. They see what we’re actually struggling with, not the account we of...

31/05/2026

Inspired by William Martin’s poem ‘Journey’s End’, in this week's Turning Towards Life we wonder together about what it would be to each receive the one, precious, unique life that we are rather than trying all the time to be something or someone else.

What happens when we let ourselves soften into receiving everything that has, since the beginning, of time, led directly to each of us, seeing ourselves and one another as the sacred presences that we are? And what might the words of someone towards the end of their life offer us to help us do that?

The Still Point at the Journey’s End, Episode 451 of Turning Towards Life
Our latest episode of Turning Towards Life from Thirdspace is available in all the podcast places, and as a video on the link below.

Inspired by William Martin’s poem ‘Journey’s End’, we wonder together about what it would be to each receive the one, precious, unique life that we are rather than trying all the time to be something or someone else. What happens when we let ourselves soften into receiving everything that ha...

27/05/2026

So often our lives are ruled by 'clock time' - we're counting off how long there is to get something done, or we're aiming for a time-bound goal, or we're measuring time wasted or time used productively. But although this is the dominant way of understanding time for many of us, it is only one way of relating to the flow of things.

What if, instead of filling time with work or play, we turned things around and allowed time to flow into our activity? And what if instead of trying to secure ourselves against an unpredictable future, we took up a playfulness with the unfolding of time itself? A conversation about living into our lives as an infinite unfolding, rather than a finite game.

What is Time? Ep. 450 of Turning Towards Life, a Thirdspace Podcast
Our latest episode of Turning Towards Life from Thirdspace is available in all the podcast places, and as a video on the link below.

We're unable to record a new episode this week so we have remixed the sound and video on one of our favourites, from 2022, about a topic that we're thinking about a lot right now - time. So often our lives are ruled by 'clock time' - we're counting off how long there is to get something done, or w