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#345 Healthy People, Healthy Planet, Healthy Future with Dr Amanda d’Almeida of Medicine Explained
How do we create healthy people, intimately enmeshed in a healthy biosphere so that, together, we can co-create routes to a healthy future?
Health is such an astonishingly polarised and polarising field: everyone has their triggers and there’s not a whole lot of self-regulation when they’ve been activated. But there are some truly astonishing people out there who are fully on board with the concept that late stage capitalism is at the heart of our ills and that regeneration of our connections is the key to building health in all its senses.
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#BONUS: Podcasters Unite! Thinking about systemic change with Tim Logan, Nathalie Nahai, Amit Paul, and Manda Scott
How do we think about systemic change? Specifically, how do four podcasters who spend their entire lives thinking about this think about systemic change – what it is and how we get there?
Tim Logan of Future Learning Design podcast convened a conversation with Nathalie Nahai of her eponymous In Conversation podcast, Amit Paul of the World of Wisdom podcast.
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#344 Design for the Ineffable: Crafting a Flourishing world with Dr Jenna Mikus
If each of us were able to discover what’s ours to do, we’d be well on the way to the transformation we need to get us through the pinch points of the climate, cultural and technological apocalypses that are heading our way.
So today we’re talking with someone who crosses many disciplines in search of human flourishing…
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#343 The Art of the Sacred with Sylvie Barbier of Second Renaissance and Life Itself
Life as an art…
Our work is to create a space to be with all of it. To be with the joy, the darkness, the hope, the sadness, the unknown.
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#342 Mothering the Future we’d be proud to leave behind – with author and activist Zineb Mouhyi
“I have come to believe something that sounds simple and is anything but: if Mothering were the axis around which we revolved, we would liberate the world. By Mothering I do not mean the biological act of giving birth, or the domestic role that has been used to confine us. I mean the practice – available to all people, in all bodies – of tending to life with full presence: protecting it, nourishing it, teaching it to know itself, trusting it.”
These are the words of our guest this week, mother, writer, scholar and activist, Zineb Mouhyi
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#341 Grown Up Politics: A Chance for Change – Round Table with Neal Lawson of Compass and Rupert Read of the Climate Majority Project
We’re at a pivotal moment in world geopolitics. Increasingly the masks and the gloves are both off – but it’s not a binary choice any more between two sets of suits in slightly different coloured ties: now we have the right showing its true colours – and a chance for the progressive majority in this country to find its feet and lead us towards a genuinely thoughtful, emotionally literate, high-bandwidth politics that ditches the toxic tribalism and instead lays the ground for a future that could actually work.
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#340 Breaking open the Story of Bread: How stories of food can change the future with Abby Rose of Farmerama
We’re delighted to welcome Abby Rose from the Farmerama podcast to share how story about bread helped listeners to take action, big and small. This is Thrutopia in action and really gets to the heart of the power of story to change the future. Please do listen and enjoy!
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#339 Trust like the Web (of Life) trusts – Biomimicry for Social Innovation with Toby Herzlich
How can we bring the astonishing, creative insights of Biomimicry to the field of human inter-being? How can we shift our sense of self and other, our communities of place, purpose and passion, our businesses, our governance structures…everything that we are and do onto a different trajectory using the web of life as our template? Biomimicry for Social Innovation asks exactly these questions and in this episode, we’re talking to its founder, Toby Herzlich.
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#338 Thoughts from the Edge: Manda explores Thrutopian narratives, the building of intent and the paths to a future we’d be proud to leave behind
In this solo episode, Manda walks us through the middle way between the dystopia of now, towards the utopia of a future in which humanity flourishes as an integral part of a thriving plant. What could it and would it be like if each of us woke up every morning feeling safe, feeling confident in our ability to meet the challenges of the day in ways that would leave the world a better place? How would we feel if every moment of life was alive with a sense of meaning and purpose, of connection to all parts of ourselves, each other and the web of life?
We ask these questions regularly of our guests, but once in a while, it’s useful to unpick them in detail, to give ourselves the Motivation, Agency, Direction and Empowerment we need, so we can open doors for others in our communities of place, purpose and passion.
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#337 Playing the (New) Money Game – how to recreate sustainable money with Stef Kuypers of Happonomy
If the death cult of predatory capitalism is based on money as the commodification of suffering (which it is) – how do we create a monetary system that encourages people to help each other, to create communities of place, purpose and passion that are genuinely supportive and to invest where trust and hope lead, rather than simply the hoarding of ever-increasing amounts of value?
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#336 Brave Containers: Sharing stories, pushing boundaries & creating trust with the Generative Journalism Alliance
When we talk about building community, we often get stuck trying to bridge tribal divides, particularly in a media landscape designed to monetise division, amplify hatred, and draw us into cycles of righteous anger.
But what if there was a different approach? One that creates a sense of individual and collective agency, that centres the gifts and strengths of everyone in the room in a way that lets everyone feel heard and so sweeps beneath the tribal divisions to the heart of things, where we all care about a future that feels safe, and open, where we all feel confident and heard and seen, where we can bring our soul’s growth to the table and be taken seriously?
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#335 Collective Effervescence – ReDefining a Democracy that Works with Isabella Roberts of ANTIPARTY
Can we separate politics from democracy? Our political system is wholly corrupt and no longer fit for purpose – if it ever was. What if Citizens’ Assemblies could bring agency to the whole of our population, helping people to find empathy with each other, to engage in conversations in good faith and work together to solve the wicked problems of the polycrisis: social inequity, climate chaos, the death cult of predatory capitalism. These are so interlinked, we won’t fix one unless we fix them all.
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#334 Zen and the Age of Celtic Buddhism with Brother Phap Linh from Plum Village Monastery
Contemplatives down the centuries have expressed a sense of unity with the All That Is, the Heart Mind of the Universe, whatever we want to call it. The words may be different, but the sense of non duality, of immanence, awe and inter-being seem universal. Only in our western world do we resolutely decide that the world is made of atoms and nothing really matters.
Except clearly it does…
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#333 Wise. Just. Courageous. Temperate – Stoicism as a Living Path to Connection with Victoria Hurth
Imagine a world where every one of us finds meaning in living a good life – and where ‘good’ means conducive to the flourishing of all beings.
Imagine that this frames our every thought, sensing and action, allowing us to explore and question our triggered responses to the world we are enmeshed with in a way that is resilient and self-regulating, so that we can bring the best of ourselves to the table, with outcomes as information, ready to engage with what is, for what matters, and not to force how we think things ought to be…
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#332 Sculpting Invisible Materials: Expanding Empathy in the Hot Mess of Now with Dylan McGarry of Empatheatre
“I think empathy is a creative act. It’s imaginal, it’s an art-making practice, where even just listening is creating a picture and a lifeworld of the other inside yourself in order to get closer to each other.” – Dylan McGarry
For this week’s guest, empathy has three components: Imagination, attentiveness, and intuition. And just hearing this opens whole new ways of being for me, and I hope for you. This was such a heart-filling, generative conversation and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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#331 Towards the Symbiocene: Building an Eco-Civilisation with thought-leader, Jeremy Lent
Jeremy Lent is a long time friend of the podcast. His new book, Ecocivilization: Making a World That Works for All is coming out soon and so we got together to discuss what an Ecocivilisation is, why we so badly need to become one, and how we might get there.
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