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Michele Storms: How to Future Plan [Instead of Trip]
How do we stay fully present, find joy in the moment and future plan, but not trip? Michele Storms, the Executive Director of ACLU WA, balances these coexisting necessities for progress with her tremendous leadership and wisdom. In this episode, Laura and Michele talk about how to keep colleagues hopeful and sustained through a commitment…
Categorized: Future Tripping Podcast
Welela Solomon: Balancing Two Cultures and Becoming One Self
For most teenagers, standing at the threshold of adulthood is both exciting and overwhelming – especially right now with so much uncertainty looming. In this episode, Laura talks with Welela, a high school senior and first-generation Ethiopian- American, about the fraught landscape of young adulthood. And how, with a number of strategies, she’s able to…
Categorized: Future Tripping Podcast
Dr. Vance Vredenburg: Frogs, Fear, and Finding Hope Amid Despair
Remaining optimistic in the face of our current climate crisis can seem like an impossibility. In this episode Laura talks with world-renowned scientist Dr. Vance Vredenburg about everything from the origins of his love of nature as a child in Mexico, to his fight to save a species, to becoming one of the first scientists…
Categorized: Future Tripping Podcast
Flynn David Resnick: Redefining What it Means to be a Survivor
Transitions are often overwhelming. In this episode, Laura and Flynn dive in, covering grief to growth, pandemic isolation to reconnection, and adolescence to young adulthood. Flynn, a college student in NYC, shares about being the only trans person in his high school, surviving sexual assault, losing his beloved mother, and moving across the country to…
Categorized: Future Tripping Podcast
Elizabeth, a Trauma ICU Nurse: How We Harm Our Healthcare Workers & What We Can All Do Differently
This week Laura talks to Elizabeth, a trauma ICU nurse about the extreme lack of support for healthcare workers who are exposed to trauma, grief and loss day after day – for years – as they care for patients. Elizabeth shares the challenges of working within this trauma while also navigating her daily life and…
Categorized: Future Tripping Podcast
Lily Cornell Silver: Loss, Life & The Choices We Make
This week’s conversation is with Lily Cornell Silver. Lily is a college student, musician and devoted mental health advocate. This episode brings you our first of many episodes with adolescents and young adults, the people who hold the future of our world in their hearts and hands. Lily is the host of the podcast Mind…
Categorized: Future Tripping Podcast
Ed Yong: Overwhelm and Trauma in Journalism and Society
Join Laura and Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong as they talk about bearing witness to complex societal issues and what he does to keep going.
Categorized: Future Tripping Podcast
Introducing Future Tripping
Join Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Rich Francey as they discuss what the Future Tripping podcast is all about.
Categorized: Future Tripping Podcast
What is going well? Laura at the Collective Trauma Summit
A preview of the talk Laura gave at the Collective Trauma Summit in 2021, “Trauma Mastery: Guidelines for Finding Balance”.
Categorized: WatchFeatured in The Atlantic About the Pandemic’s End
Laura was interviewed by Ed Yong in The Atlantic for a recent piece on the end of the pandemic. People have now lived through 14 months of pandemic life. Millions have endured a year of grief, anxiety, isolation, and rolling trauma. Some will recover uneventfully, but for others, the quiet moments after adrenaline fades and…
Categorized: Updates