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World of Wisdom

225 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★ - 6 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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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...

165. Thomas Herrmann: Open space technology and five to fold. Structures for bring co-creation to the center

January 26, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 69.6 MB

Thomas Herrmann (LinkedIn) is a facilitator for more than 25 years in various co-creative methodologies in particular Open Space Technology and lately also bringing the decision methodology five to fold to the world. He's worked across contexts from public organisations like hospitals to companies and associations. With spaces as small as 5 people and as large as 700. This is an excellent, hands-on primer for the curious to start understanding the possibilities of these topics. In a larger p...

164. Leif Edvinsson: Intellectual, spiritual and intangible forms of capital. Forward looking accounting, longitutde and navigation.

January 19, 2023 08:30 - 1 hour - 63.7 MB

Leif Edvinsson is a Swedish organizational theorist, Professor at the University of Lund in Sweden and consultant, known for his work on intangible forms of capital, specifically intellectual capital and knowledge management. This conversation with Leif is a trip into a different way of engaging with the world. Leif says early on in the podcast that he learned to think at Berkley, CA and that the invitation was often to turn everything upside down. That's what we are doing here. We enter the...

163. Joel Tickner - Chemicals, chemicals legislation and what you can do with regards to them?

January 13, 2023 07:39 - 1 hour - 71.1 MB

Joel Tickner is a professor Umass Lowell and founder of the Green Chemistry and Commerce Council (GC3). This conversation revolve around Chemicals in the products we use in our everyday life. Why chemicals are so ever present? To what extent and how should we worry about them and what can we do as consumers to take care? We speak about why chemicals-free is probably not a possible vision. What the difference is between synthetic and natural and what it means with regards to safety. We speak ...

162. Pella Thiel - On why Ecocide legislation has such deep implications for the shift we are in the middle of.

January 05, 2023 11:06 - 1 hour - 56.9 MB

Pella Thiel (LinkedIn, webpage) is the institutional activist and farmer that is focused on getting ecocide legislation into the ICC at the Hague. Support their work at Stop Ecocide. We talked about ecocide law and why it is potentially so elegant and powerful. We also talked about what direction ecocide law points us in with regards to our state as a human species or as a part of the whole earth's ecosystem. We spoke about the importance of loving what is already here and the power of the i...

161. Maria 'Decida' Wahlberg. What pop culture can teach us about subculture, culture, coming home and creation

December 29, 2022 09:52 - 1 hour - 68.3 MB

Maria 'Decida' Wahlberg is the co-founder of Transponder where she works with transformation of culture in companies and society at large. She is a creative, dancer and choreographer turned systems thinker. To find out more about her check out her webpage. In this conversation we look at what it is to come home, what pop music has to teach us about culture change and transformation. What it means to be deracinated and put into a different culture, what it means to find a new home in a subcul...

160. Daniel Christian Wahl - Regenerative design, the water cycle, science as intersubjective consensus, salutogenic and ecozoic principles of reorganising our society

December 22, 2022 08:29 - 1 hour - 71.5 MB

Daniel Christian Wahl is one of the motors and originators of the regenerative design trend that is really picking up speed now. We speak about a number of topics like: of coming home, what regenerative actually is, what would be a better topic than carbon dioxide to work on (water cycle). why it is important to leave the antroposcene behind as it might further be deepening our pathology of separation. How it is that we can integrate indigenous perspectives and world views in a more construc...

159. Alexander Whitley - Choreography, the language of dancing, healing through dance and dealing with high levels of uncertainty

December 15, 2022 07:34 - 1 hour - 65.3 MB

Alexander Whitley is a British renowned choreographer trained in classical ballet that has formed his own company and is working and exploring the topics of our current moment, consciousness and our interaction with technology. We speak of the potential for us to process complexity through other languages than the spoke word. What happens, what shifts and what becomes possible through the implicit? That which contains lots of room for interpretation? We also speak of what is the nature of th...

158. Joshua Haynes - Money, Power and new ways of funding in a transforming society

December 08, 2022 07:30 - 1 hour - 63.8 MB

Joshua Haynes (twitter) a nurture capitalist (not venture capitalist) and director of the investment fund Masawa where they have reimagined capital and investing, building an ecosystem and looking out for people that build ventures to address our mental health challenges. This was an exciting conversation and some of the questions that Joshua poses like: power for what and what does an ideal system look like when belonging is universal? We also speak of the world of aid as part of Joshuas ba...

157. Marco Valente - Epistemic humility, loops of learning, theories of change, navigating complexity, risk, wicked problems and evidence based decision making

December 01, 2022 08:13 - 1 hour - 62.1 MB

Marco Valente (LinkedIn, Twitter) is a sustainability practicioner and a facilitator. He's way of speaking into and navigating complexity are wonderfully rich. Marco shares some of his thinking on a wide range of topics. We speak about epistemic humility: how do we get to see the world through which lens? Loops of learning and Marcos decision diary. Wicked learning environments and how to navigate them. What do we do in the face of radical uncertainty? What does it mean to set a minimum set ...

156. Maria Selting: 5 mental shifts to thrive in the future of work

November 24, 2022 08:25 - 1 hour - 66.3 MB

Maria Selting from the Unbox your world podcast came on. She is a futurist and a technologist having spent time in a couple of hyper growth start-ups. She is now a speaker and podcaster focusing on what's next in the world. Discussing her article titled 5 mental shifts to thrive in the future of work. This is a fun exploration around the times we are standing in and a meeting of paradigms. The conversation cover the 5 shifts and it was a privilege to weed out and untangle similarities and di...

155. Ria Baeck: Collective presencing, knots, flow, life, when individuals get stuck, when groups get stuck and why attention really matters.

November 17, 2022 06:03 - 1 hour - 62.3 MB

Ria Baeck is a psychologist and a member of the Art of Hosting community. She has worked with organisations as large as the EU as well as many companies in "untying the knots" that are keeping people from fulfilling their full potential. Ria has been experimenting with collective presence (or wisdom) for a long time. In fact she wrote the book on collective presencing (excellent resource). Her experiments with the "magic in the middle" has taken her into a journey of remembering and explorat...

154. Hans Hassle: Companies, companisations, the value change in business and wondering if money has a soul?

November 10, 2022 08:30 - 1 hour - 66.1 MB

Hans Hassle who describes himself as half buddist monk, half business man. He has spent much of his life in business trying to change business. The fundamental values of business particularly. We speak about the companisation that is the invention he made to put the limited company back into relationship with the rest of the world. We also dug deeper and spoke about value, responsibility and ended exploring how it is that we are willing to give up almost anything for money. Is it so that mon...

153. Klaus Schenck: Everything agile (Kanban, Scrum, DevOps) summed up, doughnut economics, optimisation, navigating complexity and half-assed relationships

November 02, 2022 22:55 - 1 hour - 67.4 MB

Klaus Schenck is a coach and organisational consultant that has dived deep into the world of agile. This conversation uses Agile as a point of departure to go into our current perdicament in the world. We touch upon Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, standardisation, measurement as well as the basic pilars of flow of value and respect for people and what they mean. We talk quite about the relationship between parts and the whole and optimisation. Theory of constraints, complexity navigation, trial and e...

152. Anders Varger: Life on the pragmatic edge. Changing how we build and commune and weaving the young and old into the fabric of our society

October 27, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 63.1 MB

Anders Varger is the school teacher and entrepreneur that realised that it's possible to change societies. Even if you are just an individual. We speak about his project to build regenerative neighbourhoods through his organisation Hubville and his work to bring in youth and elderly into the discussions around how we build our society through Framtidens röster. We also speak about not knowing as a leader. What it means to be on the pragmatic edge. Scaling down and deep, figuring out what you...

151. Nate Hagens: Energy blindness, the perdicament our world is in and the importance of creating a deeper understanding of it.

October 20, 2022 08:50 - 1 hour - 68.1 MB

Nate Hagens is the host of the podcast the great simplification that has blown up as a dire and well researched lense to our current predicament as a species. The podcast is a must listen for anyone trying to make sense of our wold that takes a trans-disciplinary lens on our challenges. From economy to biology, chemistry and physics. If you are new to the topic take a look at the animated shorts that will give you a nice overview of this frame. Or dive into the youtube channel right away. T...

150. Alexander Bard. Why we live in addicted, childish times and what we need to understand and relate to in order to move forward

October 13, 2022 17:19 - 1 hour - 75.6 MB

Alexander Bard is philosopher, artist and politician. We invited him to talk about the trinity priest/schaman, matriarch and chieftain/king and the times we live in. This is a challenging, thought provoking perspective that draws upon a specific narrative around our current moment. It deals with the feminine, masculine and shamanoid. The invitation is clear: what does it take for our society to grow up and start taking responsibility? What does it take for you to do that? Hosts: Amit Paul an...

149. Joey Weber - Why mindfulness is not enough and the science of equanimity

September 30, 2022 08:41 - 1 hour - 60.8 MB

Dr Joey Weber is the author of Why mindfulness is not enough. He worked out a definition of equanimity and also a protocol for being able to measure and cultivate equanimity during his PhD. Joey is now giving 6 week courses in mindfulness (next one starting october 2nd 2022, and then restarting every 6 weeks). This conversation about equanimity, feeling, how to put mindfulness to use. Joey is liberatingly opinionated and passionate about the subject. To find out more check out Joeys Webpage,...

148. Amit Paul Solo episode: Knowing, Maps, The Power principle, Owning our shadow, Not knowing as a driver for the exploration

September 22, 2022 11:43 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MB

Amit Paul talks into a couple of things he's been considering lately weaving previous episodes, learnings and perspectives. He covers knowing, the importance of it and its relationship with arrogance, maps as an important part of navigating and what they are - also invoking some care in our relating to them both in terms of the map makers intended and unintended purposes. The power principle and our current moments relationship to power and how it is an innate part of our biology - to be pul...

147. Christopher Cassillas - regnenerative work, community, will - being - function, finding the right timescales, vitality - viability - evoluationary potential and much, much more

September 15, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 78.7 MB

Chis Cassillias is a fellow curious who is currently working with the non-profit Regenerating Sonora. (if you're interested to contribute they are also here on Giveth.io). This is a rich conversation and we cover a number of topics. Everything circling around the topic of regeneration. Chris shares his framework of will, being and fucntion. We speak of the importance of culture before strategy, the risk of over formalising, finding the right time scales, the framework of assessing work on vi...

146. Tomas Björkman. Instrumentality, development and how leaning into a 5 min past 12 mentality can help us going forward

September 08, 2022 10:12 - 1 hour - 77.1 MB

Tomas Björkman is a former banker and philantrophist. Tomas has been involved and funded a number of projects with the purpose of taking us through the current societal transformation. Examples are 29k, the Inner Development Goals, Perspectiva and Emerge. Tomas has also release his book The World We Create as a Youtube series. This conversation stems from a deep care and circles the topic of instrumentality. It is a deep curiosity around movement building and concern for the current directio...

EP 145. Mark Leonard: Social mindfullness, activism, generative societal change and the importance of sharing and caring.

September 02, 2022 11:24 - 1 hour - 61.4 MB

Mark Leonard the director of Mindfulness Connected - one of the first clinically proven social mindfulness protocols in Europe. It's a wonderful conversation that touches upon activism, the importance of and the consequences of the surrender, how simple it really is - share and care. What happens when we are in opposition even in order to achieve that which is good. The forgotten part of the heroes journey - the return home. Resources to get in touch: Mindfulness Connected, Social Mindfulnes...

145. Mark Leonard: Social mindfullness, activism, generative societal change and the importance of sharing and caring.

September 02, 2022 11:24 - 1 hour - 61.4 MB

Mark Leonard the director of Mindfulness Connected - one of the first clinically proven social mindfulness protocols in Europe. It's a wonderful conversation that touches upon activism, the importance of and the consequences of the surrender, how simple it really is - share and care. What happens when we are in opposition even in order to achieve that which is good. The forgotten part of the heroes journey - the return home. Resources to get in touch: Mindfulness Connected, Social Mindfulnes...

144. Thomas Bruhn - Facilitation, ego, fear and being an individual experience of a collective story

August 25, 2022 10:44 - 1 hour - 63.8 MB

Thomas Bruhn is working at the IASS at the Potsdam Institute a physicist and facilitator with interests around consciousness, sustainability and how we can transform our world into a more regenerative direction. In this conversation we speak about ego, being in service and the balance between channeling ones power and taking that responsibility versus to shirk away from it and how that influence our possibility to be effective in the world. If you are curious about what Thomas is up to you c...

143. Raz Kennedy and Teresa Kali Stark - The voice, healing, teachers, mastery, knowing, trust and surrender

August 18, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 72 MB

This is a special episode. I get to bring on Raz Kennedy a vocal coach I worked with some 20 years ago when I was in the music business that showed me what letting go really was. Raz Kennedy (website link) has been in the music business for his entire life, initially through his mom but then for most of his professional life. Teresa Kali Stark (fb page) is a singer and vocal coach who's worked with some of the most acclaimed Swedish jazz artists among a number of others. We speak about the h...

142. Amit Paul - Solo episode. Reflections from the past year: Life centrism, interdependence, hyperobjects, the masuline and the feminine, sustainability and trauma

August 11, 2022 08:00 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MB

This episode is a (first) solo episode by Amit. Reflecting on the themes and topics that have been present in the podcast and perhaps exploring or highlighting some particular curiosities of his going forward. Part reflection, summation, part direction, curiosity. The episode touches upon the topics of the life centric approach - to move in the world in a way that affords more life. How this relates to the concept of centres and fields and interdependence - where is the edge of a lake, or a ...

141. Joe Brewer. Autopoesis, Earth generation, conditions conducive to life, another type of urgency and why humans deserve to stay around

August 04, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 64.5 MB

Joe Brewer a man who barely needs introduction by now visited the podcast. If you have not heard of him check out Earth Regenerators or the book Joe co-authored with the community. This conversation is so valuable. We speak about urgency and earth regeneration - not in the normal way, as if our house is on fire but rather the desire that regeneration creates in us. We speak of why humans should stay around, of knowing, of arrogance and of sovereignty. This is a beautiful connecting of dots b...

140. Andrew Whitley. Bread, health, weeds and how first principle thinking can get you deep into it

July 28, 2022 07:30 - 1 hour - 86 MB

Andre Whitley has spent a bigger part of his life advocating for healthier food and food systems. Particularly focusing on sour dough bread. He is running two projects: Bread Matters and Scotland the Bread currently. Andrew takes on a journey from bread through Russian literature studies right through the heart of our sustainability crisis, a profound critique of our current relationship to technology as it stands and some clear sighted insights about deconstructive science and the illusion ...

139. Ann-Sofie Forsmark: Personal purpose, purpose in business and the topic of well-being in the workplace

July 21, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 63 MB

Ann-Sofie Forsmark (LinkedIn and her wepage) entrepreneur, coach and ultra marathon runner came on the podcast to talk about the current state of work. What is the point of keeping track of your personal purpose? What is the place for purpose in business? What is this idea that not all of us are interested in our well-being? We also look at the topic of work life balance and the workplace as a hyperobject. As well as the idea of all work having the potential of being meaningful - without us ...

138. Lawrence Kampf: Arts, negative space, transformative work in transformative times

July 14, 2022 08:03 - 1 hour - 68.8 MB

This conversation with Lawrence Kampf (more on Lawrence check out his webpage) was a rich, slow exploration. Rich in content and exploration. We talk about what the theatre and showmanship has to show us in our lives, creative containers and their potential for transformation, the negative space as in the unseen as well as that which is hidden. We also touch upon quite a few different ways of discovering attention as superpower of orientation. Lawrence has had a career as a theatre consultan...

137. Raven Connolly: Sustainability, regenerative economy, patterns of extraction and the dark feminine

July 07, 2022 08:05 - 1 hour - 78.4 MB

Philosopher Raven Connolly is the guest on the podcast. Raven has explored the dark feminine and psychological diagnosis and their connection to the moment we are currently in. This conversation is exploring the pattern of extraction we are in through the lens of the dark feminine and masculine forces. We play between the systemic and the deeply personal as well as the internpersonal but fundamentally we are talking about all of this world we are living in. There are many layers to this expl...

136. Cadell Last: The negative principle, libidinal economy and the physiology of perspectives

June 30, 2022 11:55 - 1 hour - 69.3 MB

Cadell Last is a philosopher exploring the curiosities of humanity. You can find out more about him at his webpage, his youtube channel. If you're listening to this in summer of 2022 he's also launching an online course on Thus spoke Zarathustra (Philosophy portal). This conversation is a walk though of the negative principle where we explore what it and our blindness to it has to tell us about what we see in the world today. We also slip into the topic of the libidinal economy - that our se...

135. Thomas Hann - Introducing the regenerative coop: Moving from profit to value added

June 23, 2022 07:30 - 1 hour - 61.3 MB

Thomas Hahn is an economist, activist and transformer of systems. He is running several projects that revolves around his invention the Regenerative Coop. To find out more or join the movement, check out his webpage and or find him on LinkedIn This conversation revolves around creating a regenerative economy, leveraging the system we have built and putting the earth on the balance sheet. We speak about what interacting with dead things like technology and money vs interacting with things tha...

134. Pamela von Sabljar - An experiment: Dialogue from Eros - letting life force show the way

June 16, 2022 08:15 - 1 hour - 74 MB

Pamela von Sabljar is a different breed of facilitator and a fellow explorer of this shift we're in. Her most recent masterclass is actually called "Facilitating the shift". She works as a radical facilitator and coach, contexts where you might have come across her most recently is at Rebel Wisdom, the STOA, Emerge, Nordic Womens Gathering. For more background take a listen to EP 104 for an exploration on the masculine and feminine principles. Or visit her webpage (I can personally vouch for...

133. Stefan Ekwall - How liminal are our times, really?

June 09, 2022 08:10 - 1 hour - 70.4 MB

In this episode Amit and Stefan explore the question of liminality and their experience of it. The guiding question is how liminal are our times, really? Stefan was on the podcast with Nils back in Episode 60 and if you want to find out more about him visit his webpage Human stories. This exploration flies high at times but it's also grounded. We speak of liminality in form of the gardener and the contextual aspects of gardening, how it's not necessarily a peaceful activity. We speak of pare...

132. Ronen Hirsch - Discovering the generative sequence for creating meaningful work part 1.

June 02, 2022 09:04 - 1 hour - 79.8 MB

Ronen Hirsch is a polymath who's spent the last couple of decades in retreat and deep practice. Check out his webpage to find out more about him. This conversation is a first in an intent to do more on the topic with Ronen. We come together to explore how we can actually meaningfully create regenerative conditions here on earth. We take a look at the work that Ronen has been doing in discovering a generative sequence for 'crewing'. We dig into Christopher Alexanders work and we circle the to...

131. Pam Pence - Talking about over-population: All hands on deck and the dire times we are in.

May 26, 2022 08:23 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB

In this episode I speak to Pam Pence. Pam works with the challenging topic of educating on population and over population. This is a topic that I've (Amit) personally has been struggling with as it tends to lead me astray but this is a beautiful practice in staying in that which hurts. It is an initiation (not an easy one) for those that tend to shy away from the topic of the ongoing ecosystem and system collaps. We speak about empowerment, of the choice to procreate, deriving meaning from o...

130. Diego Galafassi - Art, sustainability, knowing from the inside, a new type of vision, friction and diversity and different ways of knowing

May 19, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 61 MB

Diego Galafassi is an artist and scientist that has spent is career weaving in and out of different contexts. You can find more of his work on his webpage or reach out to him on twitter. Diego has also worked with so called emerging technologies like VR and AR - you can find out more about the project Breathe here - it is study in our interconnectedness with each other and the atmosphere. Or the project Arts for Transformations. This conversation really moved me. It is a study of the world f...

129 Jascha Rohr: Co-creation and how we can design empowering, co-creative processes

May 12, 2022 14:22 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

Jascha Rohr is a philosopher and chair of the Co-creation foundation based in Germany. This episods dives deep into the ins and outs of co-creation. We talk about the design principles and perspective of co-creation. Touching on Jaschas perspective and more than 25 years of experience in this field. How his craft as an instrument makers and the experience in permaculture design has influenced him in the work. His passion for tool making and shifting focus to generative sequences. And of cour...

128. Elin Bergman - Circular economy, where we are in this moment. A hopeful outlook.

May 05, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MB

Elin Bergman was called the circularity queen of Sweden in a podcast a title that stuck. Elin and I get to lean in to the challenging questions of how we become Circular. This is a conversation of different perspectives and starting points and Elins view and optimism is inspiring. We speak of plastics as a tool in our toolbox, the Ellen MacArthur foundation work on technical and organic cycles in circularity and how we can think about solutions in different spheres, we speak of course about ...

127 Marilyn Mehlmann: Empowerment, co-creation and the being in service as long as it does not hurt anyone else

April 28, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 60.7 MB

This week I connect with Legacy17 founder Marilyn Mehlmann. Marilyn is a lifelong activist with a dedication towards empowerment. She has spent her life in service of social and environmental challenges. As always the conversation is wide ranging and covering a number of topics. Co-creation, activism and curiosity, empowerment, the state of the world and the transformation we standing in front of. And we explore the principle of abilie: giving people what they need as long as it doesn't hurt...

126. Jeremy D Johnson: Gebser, Development, Liminality, Relationality and Why it's Crucial to Decenter Progress

April 21, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 69.1 MB

Jeremy D Johnson is a writer, scholar and podcast host. He is an integral scholar on Gebser and hosts the excellent podcast Mutations. You can find Jeremy's writing on mutations.blog. Or get in touch on Twitter or Patreon. This conversation is a deep dive into 'development', progress and liminality. We situate our current moment and then jump off the deep end. It was rich! We speak of progress, what the integral/developmental theorists (Gebser in particular) predicted through their work. We ...

125 Robert Gilman - How we can use an understanding of our psychodynamics to become more efficient change makers

April 14, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 62.6 MB

Robert Gilman is the physicist turned philosopher who dedicated his life to the intersection of inner and outer development. He is the founder of Bright Future Now and Bright future network (to find out more). Robert was the resident philosopher at the STOA in the end of 2021 and is a frequent voice in sensemaking circles. The conversation ranged from understanding our current moment, to trauma and to how we can use an understanding of (our own) psychodynamics to become more efficient change...

124. Elizabeth Debold and Thomas Steininger: Emergent Dialogue and its potential for the meaning crisis

April 07, 2022 06:16 - 54 minutes - 50.3 MB

Elizabeth is a developmental psychologist and Thomas is a philosopher who have been engaged in and developed the Bohmian dialogue and developed the practice of Emergent Dialogue over the past 25+ years. The practice is one of speaking when spoken through, it aspires to let us connect to the inter subjective field or that which is bigger than us. I have personally been in their courses and can attest to the power and felt meaningfulness of this practise. The conversation hovers around the top...

123. Fanny Norlin - The potential of working with the masculine and the feminine in transformation and business

March 31, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MB

Fanny Norlin supports leaders, teams and business to unleash the creative potential in the dance between the masculine and the feminine. We explore her framework for thinking about these energies. This is an unconventional but useful and very practical conversation on the topic. We touch upon the basic definitions, how to understand them, what we're leaving on the table when we are not engaging with these energies. The potential is there regardless of if it is within business or in systems t...

122. Dr Tania Singer - Neuroscience, Caring Economics and the fundamental plasticity of human beings.

March 24, 2022 14:10 - 1 hour - 67.4 MB

Dr Tania Singer is the guest of the podcast. Tania is a renowned social neuroscientist and psychologist especially focused on empathy and compassion. She is bridge builder between different scientific fields as well as from East to West. She has applied her frameworks in a wide range of fields such as caring economics, regenerative business, following individuals in Berlin during the course of the pandemic. This discussion ranges far and wide and touches on questions like why it is crucial t...

121. Hans von Essen: Transforming the food system

March 17, 2022 08:30 - 59 minutes - 55.5 MB

Hans von Essen the director of BERAS International. He has several decades of experience in transforming food systems on a individual, farm by farm and regional level towards more regenerative practices. He is deeply involved in the budding bio regional movement globally. BERAS has designed a course for individuals passionate about transforming the food systems called "Diet for a green planet" - follow the link to find out more and apply before may 2022. The conversation circulated the topic...

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