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World of Wisdom

221 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 21 hours ago - ★★★★ - 5 ratings

A curiosity driven podcast about wisdom, learning and the personal and systemic implications of the transition we are in. Hosted by Amit Paul and Nils von Heijne

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215. Jeff Su - Working with life as the model

March 28, 2024 08:53 - 58 minutes - 54.2 MB

Jeff Su from nrythm and I got to speak about working with life as a model. This is a wonderful, tangible primer for those not familiar with what the regenerative paradigm is all about. Actually its probably a wonderful primer for even practitioners to check themselves around. Clear, precise and tangible. For entrepreneurs and established companies take a look at the incubator (application closes 19th of April 2024), here is a link to the organisational health assessment and the regenerative ...

214. Leyla Acaroglu: circularity, regeneration, systems perspectives and design

March 22, 2024 17:27 - 1 hour - 68.2 MB

Thought leader, designer and energy powerhouse Leyla Acaroglu (web, LinkedIn) came and talked about circularity, systemic perspectives, design and indigenous communities. We also talk about shit, what it is to suck at regeneration, participation in systems and learning. What does it mean to really take fully into account the context, whether it is hot and dry climate or the most poisonous spiders in the world? That we consist of both stardust and chickens and much much more. This is a wonder...

213. Nora Bateson - Going deeper. Meeting not matching and the importance of getting lost

March 15, 2024 15:29 - 1 hour - 60.6 MB

Nora Bateson came by the podcast again to speak in-depth about the concept of meeting, not matching problems. This is a wonderful concrete (not abstract) conversations that dives deep into this concept. A concept that is crucial for the world we're in. One that invites a different perception of it alltogether. Here's the first conversation. The book Combining. The article Communication is sacred. Enjoy! Host: Amit Paul Extensive shownotes (Substack)

212. Alnoor Ladha & Lynn Murphy: Post capitalism, ontoshifting and the inner workings of the neoliberal culture

March 08, 2024 16:15 - 1 hour - 80.7 MB

Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy came by the podcast talking about their work with post capitalism (webpage). This is a deep and through provoking conversation from a place in contact with also outside of the neoliberal, capitalist, western worldview. We touch upon a many different aspects of what being ecultured in modernity entails: our addiction to comfort, the importance of understanding the time we are born into, the assumption of our entitlement to know, to be certain. Alnoor and Lynn also...

211. Elina Eriksson - Transforming education, the case against nudging and unsticking our imagination

March 01, 2024 11:15 - 1 hour - 58.9 MB

Elina Eriksson Associate Professor at KTH (profile) came on the podcast and we talked about the work she's been doing with her students at the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology around transformation and transition. We speak of nudging, counterfactional scenarios, university studies as learning not merely graduating, the paradigm shift, the new role of the teacher, voulnerability, how transformative questions can also come in the form of 'how are you?' We also speak about futures and what...

210. Karoline Bottheim: Multi-stakeholder processes, certainty, moving complex topics, feelings as guides and the Bible

February 26, 2024 09:27 - 1 hour - 72.8 MB

Karonline Bottheim (LinkedIn) founder of Länka Consulting visited the podcast and we had a wonderful weaving around leading complex processes, certainty, communication, moving in the groan zone, trusting your feelings as portals for deeper explorations, learning and much more. This is s deepdive for those curious about complexity facilitation and what it means to shift and manouver in multi-stakeholder processes. And then we talk about the bible. As two fellow curious that just made our way ...

209. Maria Haggo: Intuition, belonging, neuroscience as a way of meeting people where they are and curiosity

February 16, 2024 23:36 - 1 hour - 65.9 MB

Maria Haggo (LinkedIn) founder of Transform8, TEDx speaker and fellow curious came to the podcast. We had a conversation about different aspects of neuroscience and how getting savvy about it allows us to work and live better. This is a hands on conversation about relationships, emotions, triggers, ingroups and outgroups, who's fault it is, the utility of curiosity, what you can do when you fundamentally disagree and much more. This was a really useful conversation to me, simple not easy yet...

208. Ylva Björnberg and Alexander Crawford. Finding the space between worlds: the how, who and what of the anteroom.

February 06, 2024 08:36 - 1 hour - 62.6 MB

This is the third installment with Ylva and Alexander. This time we talk about the anteroom (mellanrum). This is the concept of the space between worlds where we can begin sensing and moving into what will come next. This is a powerful conversation about what it takes to go beyond the current paradigm. It is for those that are curious and interested about what is to come next. For those that have perhaps let go of some of what this world has to offer. For those that are doing this for someth...

207. Ralph Thurm. Redesign, resilience and regeneration. What it takes to regenerate

January 24, 2024 17:26 - 1 hour - 69.6 MB

Ralph Thurm (LinkedIn), Managing director of r3.0 joined me on the podcast. We spoke of the work r3.0 is doing and regenerative transformation. We spoke of the evolution of the field of sustainability, what it means to regeneratively redesign, as well as the flaws (and as what r3.0 has done to amend them) of the current discourse of sustainability. We also spoke of the topics of post-collapse readiness, the connection between micro and macro, bioregionalism, membranes, boundaries and measure...

206. Linda Jarnhamn - brains, efficiency, productivity and what it takes to take the first step

January 20, 2024 00:03 - 1 hour - 61.4 MB

Linda Jarnhamn (LinkedIn) founder of Flow2thrive came on the podcast and we spoke about productivity, brains and culture change. Linda's perspective on how we can leverage data to invite people to begin their journeys and how wearable's are wonderful tools to remember what it feels like to 'feel good'. We also speak about collective interoception and why most workplaces aren't productive - even though people are working very hard. Enjoy! Host: Amit Paul For more detailed shownotes (Substack)

205. Alex Carabi: Relationality, ways of relating, trappings of language and Martin Buber

January 11, 2024 16:49 - 1 hour - 60.5 MB

Alex Carabi coach, author and fellow curious on the discovery of a relational world. We speak about Alex's journey into coaching as well as his book On Relationality and Alex beautifully unfolds some of Martin Bubers thinking. We speak of relationality, of risk or perceived risk, including the other and utilizing the other, attending and different types of attention as well as intimacy. This is a beautiful, thought provoking, warm and wise conversation that I recommend deeply. Enjoy! Host: A...

204. Dovev Lavie: The cooperative economy and incentivising prosocial behavior

January 04, 2024 19:10 - 1 hour - 63.8 MB

Professor Dovev Lavie is an economics professor that began experimenting with new forms of economic exchange during the pandemic. A concept he developed and unfolded in his book. More info can be found here Cooperative Economy. This conversations take us through some of the symptoms of the current economy and we discuss underlying causes as well as possible solutions like looking at purchasing power adjusted pricing, promoting and incentivizing pro-social behavior and other similar concepts ...

203. Soloepisode: New years reflection on hospicing modernity as well as getting of the map and befriending the other

December 30, 2023 22:25 - 49 minutes - 46 MB

This is a solo episode with a reflection for the new year. My 111th episode as co-host of the World of Wisdom podcast. I touch upon 3 topics that are central in my current exploration: the idea of hospicing modernity, why the work I've been involved with around the masculine and the feminine seems to be about the other and getting off the map and into the territory and finally I propose what creation looks like in the realm of the masculine and feminine. If you want more of me either check o...

202. Nora Bateson - Worldviews, possibilities, communication, readying, the unseen and change

December 21, 2023 06:04 - 1 hour - 69.2 MB

Nora Bateson founder of Warm data labs and author of the book Combining came on the podcast for a warm, worldbending conversation. We speak of this world we live in and what it means to be involved in its unfolding through some of the concepts in Noras current book Combining. We speak of confusion, complexity, abouting, readying, shifting, communication, range, side by siding, the need for discontinuation, changing maps and how the territory always wins. This conversation has had me say "as ...

201. Mandy Martini - Indigenous wisdom, western culture, completing cycles and healing trauma

December 14, 2023 08:35 - 58 minutes - 54.4 MB

Mandy Martini Chihuailaf (webpage) came on the podcast. We spoke about indigenous wisdom, remembering, and why our western culture seems to be so stuck. Mandy works with indigenous approaches to moving through trauma and stress. Healing it by completing they cycle, just like any other wound. We also spoke of our current perdicament, remembering who you are and the different steps in teaching. The importance in her tradition to show and allow the one that is learning to then take their own st...

200. Darcia Narvaez - The evolved nest and the fact that how we care for eachother influences the world

December 13, 2023 10:23 - 1 hour - 71.4 MB

Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology at Notre Dame university (web, university) has lived many contexts and careers before she started her research on the Evolved nest and the kinship worldview. She has written a number of books on the topic of how we care for our children, or lack of care for them, has deep implications for the world we live in today. This conversation centers around that concept and how we can break the cycle (film) and re-imagine humanity (film) in ways that take us in...

199. Merlin Bola - Different worldviews: Quantum darwinism, vortexes and the way of water

November 30, 2023 16:14 - 1 hour - 78.4 MB

Merlin Bola (Grow in Flow, LinkedIn) is a fellow curious building regenerative bridges into the fog, into whatever is to come next. This conversation is a wide ranging exploration into the realms at the edges of science and what is to come. We deal with quantum darwinism, neurodiversity, other perspectives on our brains (and bodies) self healing capabilities and the energy generating capacity of water. This is a conversation that takes us through many possibilities of what may come next. Enj...

198. Olivia Lazard - Ecology, peace and security and how Europe is intensively dealing with its past and future

November 23, 2023 20:35 - 1 hour - 71.1 MB

Olivia Lazard (LinkedIn, writing) is an analyst, scientist and thinker looking at the intersection of peace, planetary security and ecology. This is a conversation that takes us into the current predicament through the lens of security and peace. Olivia has a unique view into the European project and we touch on some of the most potent tension at this particular juncture in time. It seems we europeans are dealing with our past and future very intensely and simultaneously. We speak of the tec...

197. Jonas Roupé: Waking up to the state of the world, taking the consequences and remembering joy and agency

November 17, 2023 12:47 - 1 hour - 63.1 MB

Jonas Roupé (LinkedIn, webpage) is a strategist and human being as well as a magician. This conversation touches upon the work he has been involved with from ecocide to making business more circular. But most of all we talk about the concept of resilience and agency in a time of crisis and collapse. Jonas outlines a pathway towards life that is perhaps counterintuitive in the current cultural narrative, an invitation to the local, the human the small. We speak of different roles and differen...

196. Karl-Erik Edris - hands on, personal approaches to change and decentering grand narratives

November 08, 2023 22:11 - 1 hour - 63.9 MB

Karl-Erik Edris is an author (books in Swedish), thinker and educator on the topic of leadership. We took a deep dive into the why grand narratives are probably not what we need right now, why life is probably about revealing your own stupidity to yourself and how the state of the world right now is probably not something we did wrong, rather just something we need to pay attention to so we can get it right. This is a wonderful conversation with one of the deepest thinkers and optimists I've...

195. Maria Zachs: The development sector, listening to those one is helping and being aligned with ones values

November 02, 2023 21:35 - 1 hour - 57.3 MB

Maria Zachs the passionate, values driven activist and founder of the Voices4Change foundation as well as the initiative Growth4change introducing hydrophonic growing techniques in one of Kenyas poorer communities. Maria speaks of her approach to local democracy, empowerment, being values driven as well as acting in full alignment with those values. We also speak about what it took to earn the trust as well as beginning to understand how to make change in some of the poorer and socially expo...

194. Jim Wallenberg: Management, engagement, communication and socioeconmic journeys

October 27, 2023 13:01 - 1 hour - 62.4 MB

Jim Wallenberg is a company advisor, speaker, change leader. We spoke about engagement, working in different capacities in a company, how it is possible that many people still seem to think that engagement in a company is some random magic or luck and not a result of hard work. We also spoke about how to not get hired as a manager and what it takes to get compliance. This is a fun, tangible conversation about some the topic of leadership, management and how we get things done together. Enjoy...

193. Mark Milton - Sports, listening, relational consiousness and learning without conclusion

October 12, 2023 21:22 - 1 hour - 59.4 MB

Mark Milton (LinkedIn) founder of Education 4 Peace and Spirit of Humanity Forum, former director of IFOTES and co-author of the book Master of Emotions joined the podcast speaking of his long passion for listening and where his own listening brought him. This conversation touches upon the possibility of sports in peace and consciousness development. We also speaks of different levels of listening, relational consciousness, sensing and trusting and letting that be the source of movement. We ...

192. Jon Smieja: The culture of convenience, the state of the circular economy and product blindness

September 28, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MB

Jon Smeija from the Green Biz Group came by. We talked about the state of the circular economy and the challenge we are facing in the next few decades. Jon is a chemist by training and has been in technical roles in corporations for most of his career until he stepped over to the green biz group where he runs their event on circular economy. We speak of the immense challenges we are facing in the coming years and address things like there is no such thing as away, consumers are in some way p...

191. Paul Weinfield: Every defeat is just an angel tugging your sleeve telling you that you don’t have keep banging your head against the wall.

September 21, 2023 19:32 - 58 minutes - 54.5 MB

Paul Weinfield (Spotify, webpage) musician, coach, teacher and more. Paul wrote a text about the heroes journey that grabbed Amit. This is a wonderful conversation about things like surrender, growth, truth, what it means to be human. But not in a high flying, abstract way, this is tangible, close and personal. Check the links if you're curious about Paul's work. Enjoy the conversation! Host: Amit Paul

190. Jude Currivan: The power of shifting to a story unity

September 07, 2023 07:27 - 1 hour - 62.8 MB

Best selling author, cosmologist and physicist Jude Currivan came on the podcast for a wonderful conversation hovering around the topic of Unity. We speak of the need for a new story, the laws of physics as relational algorithms, our 21st century technology and our 19th century world view, activism, acting local - feeling global - thinking cosmological and much more. This is an invitation to embrace the simple and not easy, assume belonging and common ground and accepting that love as the in...

189. Fredrik Forss - UNUM AI god or servant, symbols, and two questions to simultaniously keep exploring

August 29, 2023 07:38 - 1 hour - 79.3 MB

Fredrik Forss, long term serial entrepreneur and debut author come on the podcast and we talk about his debut novel UNUM - AI god or servant. Where the book came from and his process of writing it. We also touch upon symbols and stories how one can play with them to hack our current cultural moment. We speak of some very likely questions that we will face as parents to kids growing up in the age of AI. This is a deep and fascinating conversation about a topic that Fredrik's thought a lot abo...

188. Laura Storm: Regenerative leadership, surrender and accepting that there is no path back to what once was

August 18, 2023 07:47 - 1 hour - 60 MB

Laura Storm (webpage) author of Regenerative Leadership with Giles Hutchins, speaker, entrepreneur, community builder, mother, creator. The list is long. We got together for a wonderful conversation about the what regeneration is, the next steps and moves in the regenerative community, joy, a ceremonial attitude to life, grief and what it means to really stop and be forced to surrender to life. What does it mean to accept that there is no recovery, no going back? This covers some of what I b...

187. Glenda Eoyang: Paradigm shifts, differences and mid level tools for taking action

August 10, 2023 08:33 - 1 hour - 65 MB

Glenda Eoyang is the founder of the Humans Systems Dynamics Institute (hsdinstitute.org). They have been working on human systems development for several decades teaching courses and developing tools for agency and collective action in the liminal times we are in. This is a gem of a conversation. Glenda provides some valuable frames from the institutes work on how to manage and navigate in the current times and we speak about difference, paradigm shifts, questions that make a difference, ba...

186. Dakotah Apostolou: Reimagining home ownership and creating regenerative living communities

July 31, 2023 08:11 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB

Dakotah Apostolou is a co-founder of the Cohere network. Reinventing regenerative home ownership and collective living for our age. We speak about community, why arcitecths seem to have a knack for imagining what’s next, why maximum diversity around values not metrics is the way to go and why ownership is so important and yet something we need to fundamentally rethink. Dakotah and his team is looking at one of the fundamental needs of humans, shelter, and rethinking it in a way that makes it...

185. Solo episode 4: Modes of exchange, Different modes of thinking and the shift from exchange to use value

July 21, 2023 21:37 - 41 minutes - 38.5 MB

This is another solo reflection. This time I speak of the modes of exchange that have progressed through our paradigms, from: reciprocity, dominance and trade towards something new. Perhaps that new thing is play? And how that interacts with different ways of thinking: think mind, process mind, essence mind and source mind. Exploring how these two aspects in themselves seem to relate to the switch from exchange value to true cost and use value rather. And what happens in a world where anythi...

184. Ditte Lysgaard Vind: Circularity as a tool, careing for the triad of material, product and business model and otherh things regenerative

July 11, 2023 07:24 - 1 hour - 58.2 MB

Ditte Lysgaard Vind is a design practicioner, teacher and author deeply immersed in circular design. We speak of the a number of the importance of weaving together products, materials and business model. Circularity as a tool not an end in itself. Measurements of various parameters and why CO2 is a critical indicator right now. We speak of the shift form Exchange to Use value in our accounting and what that would entail and about the two fundamental principles that we need to practice: Stay ...

183. Johnn Andresson: Systems of transformation instead of innovaion, systems as epistemological not ontological and the state of our world

June 30, 2023 07:29 - 1 hour - 65.8 MB

Johnn Andersson is a systems scientists looking at socio-technico-ecological systems. We speak about systems in the widest sense and also in the details. Maps and territories make their way into this conversation as well. We speak of the ontological vs the epistemological aspects of systems and what it does to us when we mistake those. We also speak about the consequences of our decision to focus on systems of innovation in the 80's vs what could have happened if we would instead have talked...

182. Kajsa Balkfors and Ola Jubelin: Sensitivity, Play, Creativity. Reinventing swedish preschools and building community. Talking to practicioners.

June 22, 2023 06:24 - 1 hour - 96.3 MB

Kajsa Balkfors is the former (very successful) CEO of Cirkus Cirkör that has dedicated her life as a practicioner to practice the art of living in community, hosting and most recently she's worked with liberating kids in the Swedish preschools through Tillitsverket. Ola Jubelin is a friend and a skilled facilitator that you can find at facilitatingchange.se. This is a conversation between practitioners. We speak about change, what it is and how it differs from the new. The distinction betwee...

181. Viveca (Fallenius) Svensson: Legal design, law as liberating structures and GDPR as the bible,

June 15, 2023 08:29 - 1 hour - 59 MB

Viveca (Fallenius) Svensson is a passionate lawyer and practitioner of legal design. We spoke about the state of privacy and trust in our society. What legal design actually is and how we can approach law completely differently. What if we actually trust the law makers good intent and instead of pushing against law as something we want to avoid we'd use law to actually guide our actions? Finding out what the spirit of the law is and pushing off from that. We also speak about automatic contra...

180. Ariana Alexander-Sefre: Spoke.world, music as windows and channels of communication with subcultures, mental health, melancholy and much more.

June 08, 2023 11:59 - 1 hour - 60.3 MB

Ariana Alexander-Sefre co-founder and CEO of Spoke a mental wellness app focused on working with music as a path towards mental resilience. We address the topic of the parts of the demography that a coach, yoga teacher or wellness program will never reach, the power of music to shift, move and transport us. We also speak of the power of melancholy and how music can be an important part in gaining new perspectives. Spoke is working globally with their app and methodology and is committed to p...

179. Indy Johar - The boring revolution, computational bureaucracy, the accounting pathway from ownership to stewardship

May 26, 2023 12:54 - 1 hour - 56.1 MB

Indy Johar at Dark Matter Labs address some of our most pressing planetary needs and we talk about their work. This is a fascinating conversation where we touch upon objects, our relationships to them and how that is important to rethink bureaucracy to and allow it to harness our increased computational capacity. We also talk about ownership and for pathways towards custodianship, how we can orient towards letting life find a way, how work could be part of liberating us in the new paradigm, ...

178. Daniel Görtz: Metamodern AI, sensemaking and a new, closer look at the transformation we're in

May 20, 2023 20:47 - 1 hour - 80.9 MB

Daniel Görtz 50% of the team behind Hanzi Freinacht came on the podcast to talk about the times we're in, the material conditions for transformation, what we can do that are trying to make the transition into a new reality and we speak about AI (of course). Daniel brings in the different modes of interaction: play, competition, cooperation and trade with the suggestion that we love all of them. We also speak of the faustian societies and scratch the surface of the power over vs power with dy...

177. Lennart Hennig - Growth, sustain and decay cycle of life, boundaries and interaction and neurodiversity as adaptive

May 11, 2023 06:43 - 1 hour - 69.1 MB

Lennart Hennig (LinkedIn) founder of the Institute for collective development and co-founder of Alma de Solo visited the podcast. We talk about regeneration of the land. The cycle of life as growth, sustenance and decay and how our current moment is so enamoured with the growth part, to the detriment to everything around us. We speak of attention and how it is such an important variable, and how the current epidemic of mental health crisis could be more than just a crisis, perhaps there are ...

176. Stefan Engseth: Sharks, sharkonomics and what a few hundred million hears of evolution has to teach humans

April 29, 2023 14:33 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MB

Stefan Engeseth is the dyslectic that became a researcher and author. We talk about Stefan's concept Sharkonomics. What humans and corporations can learn from sharks in thinking about particularly business and business strategy. Our conversation is wide ranging and we explore several different concepts from Stefans books as well as what happens when we start considering time in longer cycles than just with a mere 'human' lens. Enjoy this conversation! To connect with Stefan check out either ...

175. Alexander Crawford and Ylva Björnberg: Conversation 1 and conversation 2 and some of the fundamentals for shifting ones world view (part 2)

April 13, 2023 07:42 - 1 hour - 77.6 MB

Alexander Crawford and Ylva Björnberg visit the podcast for a deep dive. Both Ylva and Alexander are deeply involved with the transformation of society and are recovering futurists. This conversation introduces a concept they have been developing and gives a first taste of what they call conversation 1 and conversation 2. Conversation 2 is what is needed by some for us as a society to start being able to shift out of the grid lock of the current global logic. This is part 2 of our conversati...

174. Ylva Björnberg and Alexander Crawford: Introducing conversation 1 and conversation 2 and some of the fundamentals for shifting ones world view (part 1)

April 06, 2023 07:20 - 58 minutes - 54 MB

Alexander Crawford and Ylva Björnberg visit the podcast for a deep dive. Both Ylva and Alexander are deeply involved with the transformation of society and are recovering futurists. This conversation introduces a concept they have been developing and gives a first taste of what they call conversation 1 and conversation 2. Conversation 2 is what is needed by some for us as a society to start being able to shift out of the grid lock of the current global logic. We cover a few of the fundamenta...

173. Cheryl Hsu & Sam Hinds: Exploring the edge of our collective knowing

March 23, 2023 08:16 - 1 hour - 83.4 MB

This is a special episode. It is an experiment into what is called collective presencing in some circles, emergent dialogue in others and probably goes by other names as well. This practice is something Amit has been involved with for some years now and invited two masters. Sam Hinds (twitter) and Cheryl Hsu (webpage). This is our first conversation together and we explore our field, it is a rich deep exploration that might require a measure of patience to get through but the reason I'm putt...

172. Solo Episode 3 (Amit): Generation, transcending the story of the hero, consequences, openness, nested timelines

March 16, 2023 13:49 - 44 minutes - 41.3 MB

This is my 3rd solo episode. Feeling called to think out loud. I do touch upon the masculine and the feminine principles and the work I've been doing with Eric Lichtman on the topic of 'dissolving the cage' (not making it dissapear mind). I touch upon the concepts of openness that could also be called faith and compassion and why that is so crucial. I speak about consequences. Nested timelines and the inherently hopeful prospect that simultaneously ongoing crisis might afford us. I speak of ...

171. Lene Rachel Andersen: Bildung and why its relevant to re-invent the concept in our day and age.

March 09, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 84.5 MB

Brilliant Lene Rachel Andersen came on the podcast and we spoke about Bildung. Lene is the author of The Nordic Secret and several other books and is deeply engaged in the topic of creating a future worth living in for all of us. This particular conversation circle around the topic of bildung, its necessary and sufficient conditions, what it actually was, what the history of it was and how it relates to the concept of 'adult development' as defined by the developmental psychologists and thei...

170. Helena Norberg-Hodge: An alternative story of progress, a critique of the economic worldview and the localisation movement

March 02, 2023 17:50 - 1 hour - 74.7 MB

Helena Norberg-Hodge is the linguist and one of the wisdom keepers and originators of the regenerative movement that through her experiences in Ladakh many decades ago discovered the cracks of the conventional story of industrialisation = progress.  We revisit that story, and we talk about those cracks. Helena gives her perspective on the current economic paradigm and why this logic is in many ways, most ways actually in opposition to the logic of life. Helena has developed the Economics of ...

169. Eugenio Molini: Organisational transformation, mans search for meaning, the dunbar sequence and its relationship to efficiency

February 23, 2023 09:52 - 1 hour - 65.2 MB

Eugenio Molini (webpage, LinkedIn) has worked with organisational transformation with 100s of organisation all over Europe for the last 30+ years. He shares his wisdom on do's and don'ts as well as some very clear rules of thumb. Like why minimal structures are the way to go, that there is no such thing as perfect - always strive for sufficient. Why focusing on peoples actions and a common target is an way to actually get culture and people to shift - without coersion. We also speak of the d...

168. Gita Rajan - Complexity, trauma and waking up to a some basic truths about what it is to be human

February 16, 2023 11:50 - 1 hour - 67.2 MB

Gita Rajan is the head of clinic and research and the founder of WONSA (World of No Sexual Abuse). I took her out of the comfort zone to some degree a little bit trying to talk about complexity. Then we explored the different aspects of the human condition and truma. We talk about control, stealing - taking what is not yours, what it means to be truly interdependent, part of the world (as opposed to separate from it). We also spoke of war, separation and transformation. The basic principle t...

167. Dada Shambushivananda: Neohumanism, education, the human potential and what we are missing out on by leaving spirit out of 'everyday life'

February 09, 2023 10:28 - 1 hour - 64.8 MB

Dada Shambushivananda (LinkedIn) is the Chancellor of the Global Neohumanist Education (Gurukul) and has dedidcated himself to the movement called Ananda Marga. Dada was born in India and graduated from Wharton school of Business before returning to monastic life and dedicating himself to inner and outer peace in the world. Dada is the author of several books like Thoughts for a new era and his latest book Towards a brighter future. This conversation circle around human potential and what be...

166 Revisiting the RCO: An organisational model for regenerative organisations

February 02, 2023 08:29 - 59 minutes - 55.5 MB

Amit and Nils take a look into the RCO as it stands right now. The RCO is an organisational model aiming to bring business into relationship with the rest of the world, an undertaking crucial to create the conditions for a regenerative paradigm. The RCO stands for the Regenerative Community Organism and the first one is just filing it's registration documents with the Swedish authorities. This entire episode is a little meta since Nils is interviewing Amit on the topic in an episode that wil...

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