Reimagine with Brad Wolfe and Dara Kosberg
Life, Death & The Space Between with Dr. Amy Robbins
Dr. Amy Robbins
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Support Life, Death and the Space Between:
Reimagine Death and Celebrate Life with Brad Wolfe and Dara Kosberg
“Grief is like a Jackson Pollock painting.” – Brad Wolfe
“There is room for art, music and even comedy in that sacred transition we call death.”
Episode Summary:
Have you ever thought about YOUR death? Really thought about it?
In this episode, we literally talk about life, death and the space between with Brad Wolfe and Dara Kosberg from Reimagine.
Reimagine is a non-profit founded by Brad Wolfe that draws on arts, design, and spirituality to transform culturally tabu attitudes around death and grief, to enhance how we live and how we die.
Brad Wolfe has a Stanford MA in Sociology and a Berkley MBA, with a human design focus. Dara Kosberg has an MA in education from Stanford, and is director of programming at Reimagine.
Listen in to understand how to transform the experience of your own death -- or the death of a dear one -- and ultimately find more meaning in your life.
Topics We Discuss:
- Reimagine grew from the unlikely intersection between Death and The Arts – including Comedy!
- Comedy can crate openings to transform the experience of death, and diffuse the intensity of an end-of-life experience.
- Death shifts you into a new relationship with yourself.
- Especially during the isolation of COVID, people are looking for connection. For example, a widow hearing “yes, me, too” can create an intense, magical connection between people.
- Death being a hushed tabu is a modern reality! Ancient Greek cultures celebrated death.
- Ways to invoke Post Traumatic Growth.
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- Finding the benefits of a tough experience.
- Leaning into how to go deeper.
- Seeing a positive growth framework to flourish.
- Building a community that wants to flourish by facing these hard things together; let’s dance with them!
- Transform the way we interact with each other, as individuals, and as a culture.
- Democratizing underrepresented voices in this arena through Justice Equity Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI)
- Focus on what matters in life – by being conscious of death. Thinking, “What if today is my last day?” Or, “What if this is the last time I see this person?” Mindfulness.
Contact with Reimagine:
You can learn more about transforming any end-of-life experience Let's Reimaging website
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So I'm Dr. Amy Robbins and welcome to Life, Death, and the Space Between podcast. I'm a licensed |
| 0:09.3 | clinical psychologist and medium, and here we explore life, death, consciousness, and what it all |
| 0:15.7 | means. And today I have two guests on with me. It's my first threesome on the show. And we are going to be |
| 0:25.6 | talking about reimagined. So reimagined is a non-for-profit organization that draws on the arts, |
| 0:32.3 | design, medicine, and spirituality to transform taboo, cultural attitudes around death and grief and to address |
| 0:40.5 | the inequities surrounding how we live and how we die. I have Brad Wolf and Dara Klossberg |
| 0:48.3 | from Reimagined on the show. Brad is Reimagine's founder and executive director. |
| 0:56.4 | And before becoming a non-for-profit, Reimagine was initially inspired by Open IDEOs' End-of-Life Challenge. |
| 1:07.2 | We're going to get into that. |
| 1:08.7 | And was led by Brad as part of an open IDEO, I might be saying that wrong, project, exploring |
| 1:14.9 | art and end of life. |
| 1:16.9 | Open IDEO, is that? |
| 1:18.7 | Open IDEO, is how I would. |
| 1:19.7 | IDEO. |
| 1:20.7 | I'm sure that's how they refer to it, but it's a user-centered organization. |
| 1:24.8 | So if that's how you pronounce it, then maybe that's the best way to say it. Okay. Brad also founded the Sunbeam Foundation for Pediatric Cancer Research and |
| 1:33.4 | memory of his friend, Sarah. He has an Emmy in Sociology from Stanford and an MBA from UC Berkeley, |
| 1:40.3 | where he served as a lecture on topics of innovation and design. |
| 1:48.4 | Dara Kosberg is the director of programming at Reimagined. |
| 1:53.7 | She has 15 years of experience developing educational programs, cross-sector partnerships, and large-scale events for non-for-profit and for-profit organizations. |
| 1:58.9 | At Reimagined, she oversees their programming efforts, including festivals and online programming. |
| 2:05.4 | Dara is the founding team member of the Dinner Party, TDP, a nationwide community of mostly |
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