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We’re exploring regenerative farming and regenerative politics, systems design and personal development, spiritual activism and neuroscience and the many, many deeply thoughtful, deeply soulful practices being explored around the world which throw light on our journey towards the evolution of consciousness.
The Intention Series
Intention part 2 – unpicking the component parts
Exploring the wrinkles we need to iron out and the potential banana skins we need to step round if we are to set a clear and effective intent.
Intention part 1– our most powerful resource
Why don’t we harness our astonishing capacity to create real impacts on the future? There are a host of reasons and each of us has different strategies for getting in our own way…
Episode & Extras posts
Cars of the future (NOT EVs!) – Transforming transport and business with Hugo Spowers of Riversimple Movement
We are so used to moving around. How will we manage our personal transport when our fossil fuel addiction ends? One company is addressing personal transportation AND creating a genuinely transformative model for a whole different way of doing Business.
Beyond the Brink is the Beginning with Richard Wain
Words have the power to change worlds. Powerful words, powerfully written can open doors to the future. Beautiful words, beautifully written, can give us hope . Richard Wain’s new collection of poetry is doing all of these, with panache, and heart and soul.
Building Lifeboats to the Emerging Futures with Sophia Parker of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
How do we best use the tools of our current system to create and support the emergent change we need? Sophie Parker is right at the edge of the emerging futures and in a position to exert leverage at some of the highest points of the scale at which change happens.
The Animate Earth Responds: Initiation in a time of Crisis with Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy
How do we move ourselves – individually and collectively – from the broken Trauma Culture of our times, to the Initiation Culture that will allow us to step forward, healed and whole?
Bringing Indigenous food back to the people: a conversation with Josiah Meldrum of Hodmedod’s
We know we need to eat real food, but how do we make this happen? Hodmedod’s is leading the way in linking farmers to people to make the best of the land.
Power to the People: Changing the way things work with Simon Oldridge
We all know the climate and ecological tipping points are terrifyingly close. What can we do – as individuals and collectively?
This week we talk to Simon Oldridge, who is working to find politically viable ways to address the climate and ecological emergency. I know that many of you listening are not in the UK but I hope that some of the ideas we explore, particularly the bigger ones of global power systems and routes to net zero and nature-based solutions, strike home far outside the boundaries of this island.
Becoming Intentional Gods: Claiming the Future with Indy Johar of the Dark Matter Labs
We are at a moment of decision: are we ready to claim our birthright as the Interstitial Generation between the old paradigm of extraction, consumption and pollution—and the new one that could arise where we accept the interbecoming of all things, where we as individual humans take our place in a community of care and experience that encompasses all of the world?
Courageous Conversations – talking about what matters with Rowan Ryrie of Parents for Future
How can we, as parents, grandparents and anyone who cares about the fate of future generations, live our lives in such a way that when our children ask us why we didn’t do more, we can say with honesty that we did all that we could? How do we help them to build resilience, to feel safe in a supportive community and in connection with the natural world so that as they grow, they can face the truth about the world they have inherited?
And how can we use our role as parents to create conversations that matter, not only with people with meet in our daily lives but also with those in positions of power.
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