talks & podcasts
Who We Are Becoming Matters with Norma Wong
The sisters are THRILLED to welcome poet, Zen master and Indigenous Hawaiian leader Roshi Norma Wong back to the show! Her new book is part story-poem-instruction manual. It's called Who We Are Becoming Matters and is now available wherever books are sold! CLICK HERE TO SUPPORT AN INDIE BOOKSELLER.
In this conversation they discuss Minneapolis, Norma's cool hand clasp model to show how our minds and feelings can sync up or not, dealing with trauma and grief, especially with all the chaos around us, what discipline entails and the true meaning of Aloha.
Norma Wong and Sharon Salzberg: Opening to Joy
In this conversation, Norma and Sharon speak about how Norma became an activist; taking the long multi-generational view; how to face discord by seeing the whole; collective versus individual work; opening to joy and goodness; methods to interrupt habits; the rebuild of the Lahaina fires on Maui and more.
Keynote at the National Immigrant Inclusion Conference (NIIC) 2024
A project of the National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), the National Immigrant Inclusion Conference (NIIC) is the nation’s largest gathering of the entire sector working on behalf of our country’s immigrants and refugees and the annual gathering of NPNA’s network. Listen to Norma’s keynote speech from December 2024.
Spiritually-Based Activism
This powerful conversation with movement leaders Valarie Kaur, john a. powell, and Norma Wong Roshi, moderated by PICO California's Executive Director Joseph Tomas McKellar, explored how spirit-centered activism can guide us in grounding political work in connection, belonging, and wisdom traditions.
California Institute of Integral Studies Professor Sonya Shah and Norma Wong
Norma joins CIIS Associate Professor Sonya Shah to explore spiritual activism and how to envision co-creating new worlds from one in crisis.
Norma Wong on 94.1 KPFA
Norma Wong talks to KPFA of Berkeley, CA, the first community sponsored radio station in the U.S., about When No Thing Works and our current moment. Interview starts at 6:00 in the recording.
When No Thing Works with Norma Wong
adrienne and Autumn sit down with great teacher, Norma Wong, whose new book, When No Thing Works: A Zen and Indigenous Perspective on Resilience, Shared Purpose, and Leadership in the Timeplace of Collapse, was released the day after the election. Wong brings her years of organizing, electoral work, and spiritual practice to bear on this moment of collapse, with wisdom, wit, and deep care for all life.
Norma Wong with Esty Dinur
Norma Wong joins Esty Dinur to discuss her new book, When No Thing Works. She challenges the idea that “nothing works,” instead urging us to practice “collective acceleration” to counteract societal breakdowns. Wong reflects on Hawaiʻi’s COVID response as an example of community care, contrasting it with the American notion of individual liberty, and explores how we can create circles of mutuality, draw from Indigenous knowledge, and envision new forms of governance.
Eco Dharma Exploration with Norma Wong
Norma Wong speaks with Kristin Barker of One Earth Sangha. This conversation is a collaboration between One Earth Sangha, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and Braided Wisdom.
What constitutes “human beingness” during ecological crisis?
In a time of “polycrisis” and systemic collapse, it is easy to feel unmoored by the intensity of the slipstream, the cascades of crises in which we are caught. In this episode, Autumn Brown sits down with Zen Master and Native Hawaiian teacher Norma Wong to explore a different way of being. Together, they discuss the move from individual leadership to collective accompaniment, the importance of reconnecting to our “source ways,” and how imagining a future is not a theoretical exercise but the necessary work of the present moment.