Welcome.
A monthly Saturday morning companion to all things On Being, with heads-up on new episodes, special offerings, event invitations, recommendations, and reflections from Krista all year round.
What Is The On Being Project?
On Being is a conversation that has been building for over two decades with wise and graceful lives — across spiritual inquiry and science, social healing and the arts. You likely know us through On Being with Krista Tippett, our Peabody award-winning show that began on public radio — now podcasting throughout the year. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world.
The people who gather around On Being are part of the generative narrative of our time. In all kinds of lives, in all kinds of places, they are healers and social creatives. At human pace, they are enlivening the world that they can see and touch. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture. If you are here, you are likely already part of this. And if you’d like to know more, start with our Foundations for Being Alive Now.
Our conversations — on-air and off — create openings. In a political and cultural space that rewards fear, ferments argument, and hastens closure, we nourish learning and growth, newness and evolution. In this spirit, our ecosystem of offerings – launching across 2024 – serve a far-flung global web of listeners/practitioners.
Studios: On Being and Poetry Unbound podcasts, The Pause and the Poetry Unbound Substack newsletter.
Gatherings: Convenings and “quiet conversations” to ignite and connect the generative landscape of our time.
Lab for the Art of Living: Tools and resources — in service of and informed by our content and convenings — towards embodied wisdom and a life-giving imprint on the world around, breath to breath, and hour to hour. Books, wisdom and pause practice, digital retreats and more in the making.
Our Grounding Virtues
We speak together differently in order to live together differently. These six “grounding virtues” guide the On Being way of conversation. They are inspiring and grounding initiatives — analog and digital, institutional and communal — around the world.
Libraries
Our Libraries are thematic collections of writings and episodes from the On Being archive dating back to 2003. Wander the rows and scan the shelves.
“Every surface of fracture in our world notwithstanding, all of life is being revealed in its insistence on wholeness: the interplay between our bodies, the natural world, the lives we make, the worlds we create. It is the calling of callings to make that vivid and practical and real, starting inside ourselves and with the lives we’ve been given.”
— Krista Tippett
