Accidental Gods
267 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 73 ratingsAt this time of the Great Transition, we need new, fresh ideas, role models and narratives that show us how we can step forward into a future we'd be proud to leave to the generations that come after us.
What does it take for our great, great grand-kids to look back and say, 'It was hard, but they did it'? What changes are we already making that take us in the right direction? We talk to the people leading the way, offering interviews, conversations and radical new ideas from people who are living the change we need to see in the world.
We have the choice now, to transform - or to face the chaos of a failing system. Our Choice. Our Chance. Our Future.
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Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse with economist Gaya Herrington
July 05, 2023 07:42 - 1 hour - 175 MBWhat does it take to avoid global collapse? Is there still time? And if so, what are the societal, social, cultural and goal-oriented changes that we need to make to get there? This week's guest is one of the new generation of super-thinkers who have the capacity, individually and collectively, to bring into being that better future our hearts know is possible. Gaya Herrington received her first master’s degree in Econometrics from the Liberal University of Amsterdam and her s...
Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse with economist Gaya Hetherington
July 05, 2023 07:42 - 1 hour - 175 MBWhat does it take to avoid global collapse? Is there still time? And if so, what are the societal, social, cultural and goal-oriented changes that we need to make to get there? This week's guest is one of the new generation of super-thinkers who have the capacity, individually and collectively, to bring into being that better future our hearts know is possible. Gaya Herrington received her first master’s degree in Econometrics from the Liberal University of Amsterdam and her s...
Exploding the Myth of a Farm-Free Future (and fake meat!) with Chris Smaje
June 28, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 187 MBHow do we make the case for a fully ecological farming system, that can feed all of us, while restoring the bio-sphere and providing affordable, nutritious food. How can we become a good keystone species - and what does that mean. This second episode with Chris Smaje, explores his new book, 'Saying No to a Farm Free Future: The Case for an Ecological Food System and against Manufactured Foods.' Chris was last a guest on the podcast in the spring of this year (2023), in episode 16...
Psychedelics: the key to evolution or (yet more) big Pharma hype? With Dr Ros Watts of ACER Integration
June 21, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 178 MBWe are the Accidental Gods. We didn't plan to be the ones to hold the god-like power to destroy most of the life on this planet, but here we are, at a place where one single species - ours - has the capacity to do just this. The routes to Armageddon seem to be increasing all the time, but they all have one thing in common: they're predicated on our absolute disconnection from the web of life. It is a central tenet of this podcast that, for most of our evolutionary history, humanity...
Summer Solstice Meditation with Manda Scott
June 20, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes - 51.6 MBIt's the summer solstice, the longest day and the shortest night. What matters now in our world is that we reconnect with the rhythms of the living web. This meditation is designed to help you connect to the rising sun on this day of longest light. This version of the summer solstice meditation has periods of silence in which you can explore your own feelings and observe the focus of your awareness. As with all meditations, please find a safe, quiet place where you can be complete...
Summer Solstice Meditation - with Manda Scott (with birdsong behind)
June 20, 2023 05:00 - 22 minutes - 51.6 MBIt's the summer solstice, the longest day and the shortest night. What matters now in our world is that we reconnect with the rhythms of the living web. This meditation is designed to help you connect to the rising sun on this day of longest light. This version of meditation has birdsong overlaid so there is no silence. As with all meditations, please find a safe, quiet place where you can be completely undisturbed for the duration of the meditation - and a short while afterwards....
Manda - Summer Solstice Roundup, Reading and Listening
June 20, 2023 03:00 - 51 minutes - 118 MBAt the halfway point of the year, Manda looks back on what's been on the podcast, forward at (some of) what's to come, thoughts on where we're at as a world, and explores the books and podcasts that have stood out in the past six months. Non fiction A People’s Green New Deal by Max Ajl https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-people-s-green-new-deal-max-ajl/5731783?ean=9780745341750 Building Tomorrow by Paddy Le Fluffy https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Building-Tomorrow-by-...
The Sacred Depths of Nature: exploring the interface of science, spirituality and religion with Ursula Goodenough
June 14, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 203 MBSometimes the synchronicity of this podcast leaves me very happy. About six months ago, I was thinking that I wanted to talk to someone who really lived at the interface between science and spirituality, where I could begin to sand down some of the rough edges of my own thinking. And that afternoon, I discovered that the 2nd edition of Professor Ursula Goodenough's book 'The Sacred Depths of Nature' was due to be published in the first half of this year. So we set up a podcast and...
Reality Check: Less Quantity, More Quality in a Future that will Work, Part 4 of our series w Simon Michaux
June 11, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 175 MBThis is the fourth of our ongoing series with Dr Simon Michaux. As ever, we ranged far and wide, but this time within the remit of 'what does the world look like in 2050 if we make good choices now?' Specifically, how do we construct and power our civilisation beyond the emergence of the new system. And yes, that's impossible to predict exactly, but it's not overly hard to make some basic observations - that we'll have phased out fossil fuels; that we'll reduce our inputs and ou...
Lifeboats and Volcanoes: part 3 of our series with Simon Michaux
June 07, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 156 MBThis week's guest is fast becoming a friend of the Podcast. In the first part of what is now an ongoing series, Dr Simon Michaux outlined for us the nature of the materials crisis - the fact that there is simply not enough stuff, not enough copper or cobalt or lithium to continue to manufacture at the levels we have been - and there's not even enough to make the renewable (or, as Nate Hagens would call them, rebuildable) technology to replace the fossil fuel power we're going to hav...
Primary Strategy: Growing a new voting paradigm in the South Devon Primary
May 31, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 160 MBAs you'll know by now, one of our core motivators in creating this podcast was the realisation that the 'democratic' systems of the world are largely broken and are not a useful way to affect change. I used to be a political activist. I thought I'd given all that up, but today's conversation has definitely re-awakened my political instincts because today I'm talking with two of the people who set up South Devon Primary: a group committed to changing the political system in the UK. So the f...
No More Fairy Stories: Writing the way through, one tale at a time - with Denise Baden
May 24, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 175 MBIf you've listened to this podcast at all recently, you'll know that I'm in the editing phase of the new book - the phase where we 'carve it into tiny pieces, throw significant chunks of it in the recycling (because words are never wasted and text storage is basically free) and rebuild the rest into something shinier, sharper and generally more succinct.' And I'm telling you this because this week's guest is a fellow writer who knows what it's like to stare at a blank page until you...
Meeting the Ocean: Rekindling our deepest connections through art and science with Markus Reymann
May 17, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 181 MBHow do we really create systemic change? How do we shift narratives towards a generative future? How do we bring artists, scientists, policy makers, educators, conservationists, journalists, and all the different siloed tribes together in ways that let them genuinely communicate and listen to the web of life? This week's guest is someone who is actively working on so many levels to change all these things. As you'll hear, Markus Reymann is a Director of a European Arts foundation...
Proudly Mad: exploring mental health and the climate emergency with Charlie Hertzog Young
May 10, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 177 MBHow did one man make the shift from Not wanting to live in this world, to refusing to live in this world? If you've listened to this podcast for any length of time, you'll know that I did the Masters in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher college in 2016-17. It was a genuinely life changing experience not least because I met some of the most inspiring people I could imagine - young, motivated and incredibly bright. And of them all, Charlie was the brightest. Even before we met, h...
Building Tomorrow: Bonus addition: Painting 2050 if we get things right
May 04, 2023 05:00 - 11 minutes - 27.2 MBPaddy and I recorded a brief 15 minute bonus of how the world could look if we actually employed all the strategies in 'Building Tomorrow' - so sit back, soak it in - and then let's make it happen... BIO: Author, Paddy le Flufy read mathematics at Cambridge, then - as seems to have happened with quite a lot of our recent guests, he took a job in the city and qualified as an accountant with KPMG. And then, as also seems to happen with our guests, he didn't buy into the system, b...
Building Tomorrow: Practical steps to a new economic system with Paddy Le Flufy
May 03, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 203 MBAs you will know by now, this podcast searches long and hard for answers to the over-riding question of 'what do we need to do, to get us from where we are, to where we need to be to set the stage for that generative future our hearts know is possible?' So when I got a book that directly asked and then answered that question, I dived straight in. 'Building Tomorrow: Averting Environmental Crisis With a New Economic System' does exactly what it says on the cover. It's full of concret...
Building Bridges to the Future with Cat Tully of the School of International Futures
April 26, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 171 MBIf you've listened to the podcast at all over the past few years, you'll know that the search for routes to total systemic change has always been the driver of what we're doing and why we're doing it. Even so, it's not often I talk to someone who is singlemindedly exploring the routes to that systemic change and who has the tools to help everyone explore the potential for what might come next. And so this week, I am immensely happy to have had the chance to talk to Cat Tully, a re...
Bridging from the Necessary to the Possible with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs
April 19, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 169 MBIF the present system is broken - and is in fact the heart of the meta-crisis - how can we transform peacefully to something that will work to create the future we'd want to leave behind? That's the core question of this podcast and so it was with great joy, that I found Dark Matter Labs. DML says of itself, "We’re working to create institutions, instruments and infrastructures for a more equitable, caring and sustainable future. Around the planet, we’re feeling the consequences ...
Drawing Humanity out of the Cave with Dr Simon Michaux (Part 2 of a series)
April 12, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 211 MBThis week, we're returning to the second part of the ongoing series with Dr Simon Michaux. If you haven't listened to the first part, I'd recommend you do and I'll put the link in the show notes, but the edited highlight is that Simon is a mining engineer who is dedicated to crunching the numbers that nobody else bothers to crunch - of how much stuff there is: key stuff, like copper and lithium and cobalt and concrete - and where it comes from and how much power it takes to dig it u...
The Fine Art of Huddles: multiplying our potential by the power of our peers with Zahra Davidson of Huddlecraft
April 05, 2023 05:00 - 59 minutes - 135 MBHow can we begin to shift away from the old hierarchical dominance structures of our past 2,000 years, towards something where everyone brings the best of themselves and embraces and celebrates the best in other people? It was in hunting for answers to this, that I came across this week's guest: someone who is opening doors all round the world in the creation of a regenerative, emotionally literate future. Zahra Davidson was Co-founder of and is now the Chief Executive and Desig...
Bonus: Exploring the banking crash with Grace Rachmany - in which I ask all the questions I never asked before...
March 29, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutes - 106 MBFollowing our podcast with Grace Rachmany, we stayed online and talked about the banking crash. At the time of recording, we only knew about Silicon Valley Bank - Credit Suisse hadn't gone down yet - but we talked about the nature of finance, of cryptocurrencies, of the totally unsustainable nature of the economy. This is the kind of conversation that I often have with guests after the podcast is over. Usually it happens off-air and I wish we'd captured it. And this time, we did. ...
Meshworks of Being: Building Community on the DAO with Grace Rachmany of Priceless DAO
March 29, 2023 05:00 - 1 hour - 185 MBWe know that the future is based on Community. What we lack are practical routes to creating communities of community on a worldwide scale - ones that can form and will be resilient enough to survive. In this week's podcast, therefore, I'm genuinely thrilled to introduce you to one of the women who is breaking new ground in the creation of communities at scale and across wide geographic areas. In quite specific order, Grace Rachmany is a mother, a tech industry trouble shooter, ...
Dancing with the Muppets of Cutthroat Island: Transforming Industry to create a genuine Green Revolution with Dr Simon Michaux
March 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 172 MBHow much actual stuff do we have in the world compared to what we need to make the 'Green Revolution' happen? This week's guest is another of those recently elevated to my pantheon of people I Must Listen To whatever they say and however they say it and I am genuinely thrilled to welcome him onto the podcast. Dr Simon Michaux has been a physicist and geologist. His PhD is in mining engineering and he worked for years in the mining industries in Australia. In 2015, he moved to ...
Reasons to be Sheepful: from wedding shawls to burial shrouds with Yuli Somme of Bellacouche
March 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 179 MBOur crisis, our challenge, our opportunity is complex. More than ever, it matters now that we not get caught in separate silos where we focus just on atmospheric carbon, or just on plastic pollution, or just on our cultural addiction to fossil fuels. We need responses that cover all of these fields, new stories that let us move into a future we can barely imagine. So, that's what this podcast is for: to give a platform to people whose perspectives are new or different or challengi...
Technology for a future that works with Cory Feco of the DOI Foundation
March 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 176 MBThe one big question that this podcast exists to answer is - what does our future look like when it works? When we endeavour to answer this, there seems quite a clear divide between those us born in the twentieth century who grew up in a world before broadband, and those born in the nineties and later who never got to know the strange weeble of the dial up tone, but instead grew in a world where their every move was dissected by their peers on social media. We can look some other...
Be Kind, Be Useful, Create Giants in the Sky: transforming community with Alan Lane of Slung Low
March 01, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 152 MBThe Accidental Gods podcast exists to set the conditions for emergence into a new system: to bring a critical mass of us to a place where emergence into a new system is a rewarding reality. To get there, we bring to you some of the many astonishingly creative, compassionate, switched-on people who are working at the leading edge of change. Alan Lane is one of these people. He's the artistic director of the theatre company Slung Low, which in turn is one of the most innovative thea...
One Planet Living: Mapping Minds to create a new Consciousness, with Pooran Desai, OBE.
February 22, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 151 MBIt is our mission on this podcast - and the wider membership community from which it arose - to open doors and break down barriers, to bring forward the ideas and the actions of, and give voice to, the absolutely amazingly creative people who get that business is not usual, that the reality we have created for ourselves is misguided at best - and dangerously toxic at worst - and are doing their best to bring about change in a timescale that matters. This week, we spoke with Poora...
Saving Chocolate! and finding solutions to the meta crisis with Nicola Peel
February 15, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 170 MBAccidental Gods podcast exists to open doors and break down barriers, to bring forward the ideas and the actions of and give voice to the gloriously creative people who give their lives to the idea and realisation of a regenerative future. In this wide-ranging conversation with Solutionist and film-maker, Nicola Peel, we learned of the horrors of oil spills in the Amazon and the ways fungi could clear them if only the oil companies would let the work begin. We explored the nature ...
Living in a Post-Carbon, Post-Capital, Post Urban world - with Chris Smaje, author of A Small Farm Future
February 08, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 149 MBChris Smaje is a social scientist by training and a small-scale farmer by occupation. For the past 19 years, he has co-worked a small farm in Somerset, in southwest England. Previously, he was a university-based social scientist, working in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surry and the Dept of Anthropology at Goldsmith's College. HIs focus was aspects of social policy, social identities and the environment. Since switching focus to the practice and politics of agro...
Unlocking Curiosity: Regenerating Business from the packaging up with Jo Chidley of Re and Beauty Kitchen
February 01, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 138 MBJo Chidley is one of those forces of nature, unconstrained by the way things are usually done. As the co-founders of Beauty Kitchen, she and her partner refused venture capital, keeping their business free to become a B-Corp and to put people and planet ahead of profit. She's dedicated to producing the best outcome for the people who work for her as well as for the people who buy her products. And in the process of finding the best ways forward, she came across the horror of sing...
Stop eating Chicken! - The future of food with Rob Percival, author of The Meat Paradox
January 25, 2023 06:00 - 53 minutes - 123 MBRob Percival is a writer, campaigner and food policy expert with The Soil Association. His commentary on food and farming has featured in the national press and on prime time television, and his writing has been shortlisted for the Guardian’s International Development Journalism Prize and the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Food Sustainability Media Award. He works as Head of Food Policy for the Soil Association. The Meat Paradox is his first book, and goodness, it's been a world chan...
Cultures of Commoning: Quadratic voting, indigenous connectivity and pacifist chess with Ruth Catlow
January 18, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 163 MBThis week's conversation ranges over an astonishingly wide range of topics from ways to facilitate interspecies communication through play and ways to play 3-person pacifist chess (and thereby change the world), to the nature of democracy and how the use of quadratic voting on the blockchain to inspire artistic endeavours in north London might be expanded nationally and internationally on the scale of global governance to shift the cultural dominance away from capital hegemony to a ...
Being the Change: Journeys in Service to Life with Gail Bradbrook
January 11, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 145 MBThis week's guest is a friend of the podcast, Dr Gail Bradbrook. Best known for her role in co-founding Extinction Rebellion, Gail is one of our nation's (and our world's) deepest thinkers on radical change: what will it take to shift the juggernaut of predatory capitalism from the orgy of extraction, consumption and destruction that has brought us to the edge of crisis, and instead turn it towards a celebration of life in all its forms? Gail is also a leading beacon of practical ...
Plan. Pause. Reset: Real Steps to Radical Transformation with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick
January 04, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 171 MBEva is a climate activist, process designer and facilitator. She has co-convened the Transformative Conflict for Transition Network summit, supports sociocratic system development, decision-making and facilitation in many contexts including Extinction Rebellion Scotland. Justin is an anthropologist and activist from Edinburgh. He is a member of Extinction Rebellion Scotland. Since 2009, has worked with the Forest Peoples Programme, supporting communities to secure their community la...
Three years on: Manda's reflections on our third anniversary - and looking forward into 2023
December 30, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes - 91.3 MBAs we move from our third to our fourth year, it seemed like a good time to look back on the origins of the whole Accidental Gods project - why and how we started and what our original aims were - and then to look forward to the coming year and what we're focussing on both on the podcast and within the membership. So much has changed even in such a short time. We're all more aware than ever of the tipping points around us, but also more aware of what we can do, of the many, many r...
Food, Farming and Feeding the Soul: with Satish Kumar in conjunction with the Oxford Real Farming Conference
December 28, 2022 06:00 - 59 minutes - 136 MBSatish Kumar is one of the absolute titans of the Regenerative movement in the UK. In 1962, he and and one of his fellow Jain monks made an 8,000 mile mendicant peace pilgrimage around the world, stopping in the capitals of what the nuclear nations of the earth: Russia, USA, China, France and the UK. He settled in the latter and soon became known for his work in connecting people and ideas. He founded the Small School in Devon and went on to found Schumacher College, deeply rooted...
Traditional Solstice Celebration: Looking back and looking forward with Della Duncan and Nathalie Nahai
December 20, 2022 12:02 - 1 hour - 146 MBAs the year stills and tilts afresh, we bring you our annual moment of reflection with two podcast hosts we really admire. There's a meditation at the end, to bring you into your own space of stillness and reflection, but ahead of this, we delve into where we think the global human psyche is at this moment, how we feel when we look upstream, and what we see; and what makes our hearts sing, and what does it prompt us to do: core questions that open up a wealth of ideas, reflections...
Earthborne Rangers: Playing our way to a future that works with Andrew Navaro
December 14, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 195 MBThe average child in the western world attends 10,000 hours of school - and plays 20,000 hours of games. In the 'adult' world, many of us spend hours devoted to levelling up our characters and exploring imaginary worlds. If the Tech-bros get their way, we'll soon live entirely in the Metaverse and have minimal contact with the real world beyond the walls of our concrete hutches. But imagine a different world: where the people of earth have come together to solve the multi-polar...
Living Well within our Limits: Actions for systemic change with Prof Julia Steinberger
December 07, 2022 06:00 - 41 minutes - 95.6 MBProfessor Julia Steinberger researches and teaches in the interdisciplinary areas of Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology. She is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for her research project 'Living Well Within Limits' investigating how universal human well-being might be achieved within planetary boundaries. She is Lead Author for the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report with Working Group 3. She has held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Lausanne a...
Data is the New Plastic! Ethics, Accuracy and AI with Dr John Collins of Machine Intelligence Garage
November 30, 2022 06:00 - 59 minutes - 135 MBDr John Collins worked for the UK's Central Electricity Generating Board in the days when such things were nationalised industries. His PhD involved creating a real-time dosimeter for workers in nuclear plants so they didn't have to wait 2 weeks to learn the results of the film-based dosimeters that were in use. In doing so, he saved the CEGB considerable amounts of money - and, mere importantly, saved the lives and health of the men and women who worked there. Thus began a lifeti...
Telling the Truth and Moving Forward: Building the Moderate Flank with Rupert Read
November 23, 2022 06:00 - 57 minutes - 132 MBRupert Read is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, but he is also a Green party activist, and a prolific speaker, media spokesperson and author advocating for a wholehearted, whole-culture response to the Climate and Ecological Emergency. A long-term friend of the podcast, Rupert joins us today to talk about his new book: 'Do You Want to Know the Truth: The Surprising Rewards of Climate Honesty' and to announce the launch of a new movement, the Mode...
End of year round-up: Manda's favourite podcasts, fiction and non-fiction of 2022
November 16, 2022 06:00 - 56 minutes - 103 MBAs we do each year, we've curated a list of the Accidental Gods' favourite podcast and books of 2022. Enjoy! Podcasts Nate Hagens The Great Simplification - fourth of four (so far) with Daniel Schmachtenberger https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-great-simplification-with-nate-hagens/id1604218333?i=1000583952697 The Sustainable Food Trust episode with Dr Michael Antoniou https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sustainable-food-trust-podcast/id1511133906?i=1000559083233/...
Regenerative by Design: Creating Communities that work with Charlie Fisher of Transition by Design
November 09, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour - 133 MBIn a world that feels as if all the certainties are breaking down, how can we build the communities of place and of purpose that will give us the resilience to bridge from the old structures to the new? Exploring deeply practical ways to build community with Charlie Fisher. Charlie Fisher is a co-founder and director of the Co-operative Architecture Practice, Transition by Design. He's a researcher and urban-instigator working on regenerative land use approaches and more collabo...
Fractal Improv: finding generosity, connection and compassion amidst our fear with Belina Raffy
November 02, 2022 13:12 - 1 hour - 128 MBWe know our climate is in crisis and that time is running out. But we also know that screaming at people to wake up is not working. What if we gave ourselves permission to tell the truth - and the skills to do it with humour and compassion so that we didn't trigger the resistances of fear? This Episode, we explore stand-up and improv in sustainable communications with Belina Raffy. Belina Raffy, Empress and Improvisation guide, is the director of Maffick Ltd & Applied Improvisat...
Compass: Charting a Progressive Route through the Political Maelstrom with Neal Lawson
October 26, 2022 05:00 - 51 minutes - 95 MBIn a world where our 'democracy' is manifestly not fit for purpose, how can we turn the brief, bright fireworks of political sanity into floodlights of progressive values, of liquid democracy that leads to an equitable, regenerative culture? With Neal Lawson of the progressive campaign group, Compass. Neal Lawson was brought up in an activist household and joined the Labour party at sixteen. After university, he worked for the Transport and General Workers' Union and then was a ...
The Kindness of Strangers: Ocean Rowing, Solitude and Transformation with Dr Roz Savage MBE
October 19, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBWhat happens when we realise we're trying to be something we're not? For Roz Savage, this led to a transformation that took her from Management Consultant to the first woman to row solo across the world's 3 big oceans. Now she devotes her life to the healing of the planet. Dr Roz Savage MBE is an Ocean Rower, Author, Speaker, Lecturer, Sustainability Advocate. Her feats have been described by Sir Richard Branson as “Heroic, epic, inspiring, historic.” Best known as the first (and ...
Matereality and Corporate Mischief: reshaping Business as if the job were to create a world that works with B.Lorraine Smith
October 12, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 118 MBWhat if businesses existed not to price-gouge consumers and destroy the planet, but to be part of a pathway to a flourishing future? What if the end-of-year reports were not expensive exercises in greenwash, but were actually truthful - and useful. With B.Lorraine Smith, creator of Matereality. B. Lorraine Smith is a writer, speaker, corporate mischievist, and generally curious student of life. She changes minds (most often her own), casting a dubious eye on the line between work...
Flourish: Designing new paradigms and expanding our agency with Sarah Ichioka
October 05, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBWhat will it take to restore balance in our world? How can we repair our devastated environments, and secure future generations' survival? And what's they key to unlock the mindset shift to enable truly regenerative transformation? With Sarah Ichioka, co-author of 'Flourish: Design Paradigms for our Planetary Emergency'. Sarah Ichioka is co-author with Michael Pawlyn of 'Flourish' a rich, inspiring book that outlines key paradigm shifts for this time of planetary emergency. Look...
Planet, not Profit: Envisioning a genuinely sustainable future in a not-for-profit world with Jennifer Hinton
September 28, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBWe live in a world run by profiteers: the rush to make money destroys people and planet with equal disregard. But how would the world look if all businesses existed to promote wellbeing in all its forms? How could we make this work? Re-imagining our relationship to profit with Dr Jennifer Hinton of Lund University, Sweden. Dr. Jennifer Hinton is a systems researcher and activist in the field of sustainable economy. Her work focuses on how societies relate to profit and how this rel...
Re-Enchantment: Creating rituals to re-discover our embodied sovereignty with Isla McLeod
September 21, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 151 MBWhat do we do when we feel disempowered, disconnected, alone and afraid? We can throw ourselves more deeply into social media, drink, drugs and deeper disconnection…or we can build rituals with intention, creativity, gratitude and kindness that re-connect us with the web of life. With Isla McLeod, ritualist and shamanic healer. Isla McLeod is a creator of ceremonies, ritual designer, transformational healer and companion at the thresholds. She has dedicated her life to bridging ...