Systems Thinking & Technology Archives

What ought we be? Hope, despair and the resilience of life with Professor David Farrier

We live in an ever-changing world, but it is not always obvious what kinds of evolutionary change we are seeing in the broader web of life: in physiology, behaviour, language – and human responses to these. How plastic is the natural world? How resilient? How capable – or not – of adapting to the chaos of the climate emergency, the cascade of toxins in our air, soil and water, to the plastics, heavy metals and other detritus we throw out into the world as if the entire planet were one vast sewer for waste we forget about as soon as we’ve had the dopamine drip that acquiring it evoked?

Change is Coming! Solstice Reflections with Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott

At the end of a turbulent year that has seen the masks come off the death cult in ways that were probably predictable, but still shocking, we reconvene our December Solstice Traditional conversation. Manda is joined by Della Duncan of the Upstream Podcast and Nathalie Nahai of ‘Nathalie Nahai in Conversation’ to explore the things that have stood out for each of us in our explorations this year—and to look forward to the year about to begin for what will be our baselines.

Wild new stories: Weaving New Myths for a New Way of Being with Ally Kingston of Agency for Nature

How do we create the stories that will bring a whole new generation back to the web of life, that will help people find hope again, and lean into their heart’s yearning for connection, relationship, being and belonging?

Eco-Civilisation: the future we deserve and how we will get there with Jeremy Lent

What is an eco-civilisation? What are its values and what are the frames within which it works? Why do we need it in the first place and what will the Establishment do to maintain business as usual? Most importantly, what can each of us do to live an eco-civilisation into being?

The Magic in the Tales we Tell: Living new Stories in Service to Life with Paddy Loughman

How do the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves, each other and our place in the web of life shape our world?

How can we craft narratives that shift the way we see and experience the world? Is this even the best leverage point to start off with or is there a deeper/wider/more effective acupuncture point we could explore as we evolve to become…what?

Popshift: Changing the global Narrative on all our screens with Romain Vakilitabar of Pathos Labs

We are a storied species: Everything we do arises from the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves and each other and our relationship with the web of life. How do we create visions of a world that functions differently, one where every single human thrives as an integral part of a flourishing ecosphere?

Co-Evolving Humanity: Outgrowing Modernity with Vanessa and Giovanna Andreotti – and Tim Logan

How do we Outgrow the death cult of Modernity – opening the doors to a future we’d be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn?

Be like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny Douglas

Clean Water is part of our heritage and a basic Right of being alive. We should be able to drink from our river, swim in our seas. This week we explore the River Dôn Project which is working to create vibrant life in the whole catchment area.

Sit with the River, Breathe Sacred Smoke, Love with the World: Building a Bioregional world with Joe Brewer

How can Bioregionalism supplant the nation state as the natural unit of civilisation? Joe Brewer is living, breathing and teaching the ways we can work together with each other and the natural flows of water and life.

Brilliant Minds: BONUS podcast with Kate Raworth, Indy Johar & James Lock at the Festival of Debate

We are honoured to bring to Accidental Gods, a recording of three of our generation’s leading thinkers in conversation at the Festival of Debate in Sheffield, hosted by Opus.

This is an unflinching conversation, but it’s absolutely at the cutting edge of imagineering: this lays out where we’re at and what we need to do, but it also gives us roadmaps to get there: It’s genuinely Thrutopian, not only in the ideas as laid out, but the emotional literacy of the approach to the wicked problems of our time.

Now we have to make it happen.

Working from the Inside Out: Paths to Personal and Global Transformation with Renée Lertzman

‘Yell and Tell’ doesn’t work: not for the climate and ecological emergency, not for the collapse of democracy – not for any part of the growing polycrisis. So what can we do to help us all to make the shift towards a future we’d be proud to leave behind?

Red Pill/Blue Pill, Green Pill/True Pill – Creating a trustworthy Media Commons with Debs Grayson of Opus Independents

Our legacy – or status quo – media is owned and run by billionaires for billionaires and the stories they promote are the ones that will keep us all in line. How do we shift the global narrative towards a future of mutual flourishing?