Stephen Jenkinson on Marriage, Death & The Meaning of Middle Age

Stephen Jenkinson doesn’t offer comfort. He offers presence, precision and poetry. In this wide-ranging and unsparing conversation, we explore what it means to live in a time of endings, and why grief isn’t something to get over, but something to serve. We speak about the crisis of meaning in modern life, the cost of a death-phobic culture, and how elderhood is a task, not a stage. Stephen challenges the spiritual bypasses of modern healing work, questions the ease with which people chase transcendence, and asks what it might take to stay loyal to a world that breaks your heart. Read more about Stephen’s work here: https://orphanwisdom.com/about/ ———————————————– Stephen Jenkinson is a teacher, author, storyteller and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School. With a background in theology and social work, he has spent decades working with dying people and their families, exploring grief, elderhood and cultural redemption. A former programme director in palliative care and master storyteller, Stephen is also known for his work in ritual, ancestral wisdom and land-based living. He tours internationally with the Nights of Grief and Mystery, a blend of music, ceremony and teachings on the human condition. ———————————————– As a special gift for you, our loyal listeners, we are offering $200 off our flagship course, the Certificate of Embodiment Coaching when you use code: CECPOD More info here: https://embodimentunlimited.com/cec #embodimentunlimited #embodiedfacilitator #embodiment #embodimentcoaching #embodiedfacilitatorcourse #embodiedtoolkit #embodimentonline #certificationofembodimentcoaching #cec #mrembodiment #stephenjenkinson #matrimony #marriage #death #dying #grief #middleage #youthculture #philosophy #embodiment #orphanwisdom #ritual #community #mortality #culture #love #relationships #spirituality #assisteddying #meaningoflife ----------------------------------------- ✅Who is Mark Walsh? “Mr. Embodiment” is the author of "Embodiment", "The Body in Coaching and Training", and "Embodied Meditation". He hosts "The Embodiment Podcast" (over 1 million downloads), and led "The Embodiment Conference" (1000 teachers, 500,000 delegates). Seeing a theme yet? He founded the "Embodied Facilitator Course", and has trained over 2000 embodiment coaches in over 40 other countries (some of which will even let him back in). Mark gained an honours in psychology (despite being an alcoholic at the time), and has taught widely in the corporate world where he pretended to be a grown up for years, including with blue-chip companies (e.g. Google, Unilever, Shell, Axa, L’Oreal) whom he charged wayyyy too much as they made him wear a suit. He has also upset… sorry, taught… many yogis, NGOs, police officers and several militaries. Mark has worked in war zones, and entertained over 50,000 children. He has headlined International Coach Federation events, taught at universities, lived with the circus in Ethiopia, founded the Sane Ukraine project, wowed celebrities and kissed a princess. Mark is an aikido black belt, and also has 25 years of experience of other martial arts, with yoga, bodywork, improv comedy, conscious dance and meditation. Embodiment is his obsession, life’s work, and frankly at this point he couldn’t get a job doing anything else. He dances like your dad at a wedding and offends pirates with his swearing. He is now tired of writing in the third person. Explore his work: 👉 Courses and events: https://embodimentunlimited.com 👉 "Embodiment: moving beyond mindfulness": https://www.theembodimentbook.com 👉 "The Embodiment Conference": https://theembodimentconference.org​ 👉 "Embodied Marketplace": https://members.embodimentunlimited.c... 👉 Corporate and business training: https://www.integrationtraining.co.uk​ ------