awakening into connection
Thoughts following the US action in Iraq
We’re all on the journey towards connection and coherence, exploring at whatever rate seems right to us – and then we wake up and find that the world has descended into chaos.
At times like this, it’s easy to fall into tribal narratives – whatever our tribe may be, we know our side is right and the other side is wrong. Which is largely the old-paradigm thinking that got us to this in the first place. Instead, those of us who believe in a different future, need to find ways to be grounded and balanced – we need to be the balance for the world. Every bit of research shows that the more we can change our own energy, the more we can become heart coherent, the more we can shift out of crisis-ridden Beta brain patterns into alpha or even theta, the more the people around us come into balance. The ripple effects spreads out.
Finding stillness & connection in the midst of chaos
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Episodes in our Introductory Series
Now Then! Building networks of citizen power with James Lock of Opus in Sheffield
Modernity is collapsing around us. So how can we compost its remains, to grow something constructive, generative, connected communities that can act as a bridge from where we are towards that future we’d be proud to leave behind?
Be More Hawk! Being the courage to follow what’s right with Rachel Musson of ThoughtBox Education
What does an education system look like that’s fit for the twenty-first century? Where we put self care, people care, earth care at the heart of what we do?
Miraculous Carbon: Celebrating the Book of Life, Death and Potential with author Paul Hawken
How do we step past the magical thinking of the elites that says we can either use AI to ‘Solve for Climate’ – or just ignore the entire climate and ecological emergency completely?
Authentically human: celebrating the magic of life with Mark McCartney of the ‘What is a Good Life’ podcast
In these turbulent times, what values most strongly underpin our humanity and how can we nurture our relationships with all parts of ourselves, with ourselves and other people and with ourselves and the web of life?
Seeing the Bigger Picture: Psychedelics and sense-making with Alexander Beiner of Kainos
How do we shed the shackles of modernity and step into a new set of stories that could help us grow into the fullness of our potential?
Becoming Spiritual Warriors: exploring a politics of radical Compassion with Jamie Bristow
In a world of turmoil where the only certainty is uncertainty, what happens if we who yearn for a future we’d be proud to leave behind began really to speak the quiet part out loud? What happens if we acknowledge the meaning crisis of our culture and state clearly that we need a world based on Love: on the raw, wild, wonder of life itself? And what happens if we shape our politics around this, instead of defensive attempts to make the death cult of predatory capitalism feel less… deathly?
Kin-centric Rewilding 2 – Bonus – continuation of the conversation with Daniel Firth Griffith
This is the second part of our conversation with Daniel Firth Griffith
Kin-centric Rewilding – restoring relationship to the land and ourselves with Daniel Firth Griffith, author of StagTine
We know we need to move from a Trauma Culture to an Initiation Culture. But knowing these things is not the same as living them as a reality. To get here, we need waymakers, people of huge heart and raw courage to walk away from the limited, goal-based directions of our culture and step into the ways of being where we meet in open-hearted, full-hearted, strong-hearted relationship with the land and all that lives there.
Find the Others! Beyond the Death of Democracy lies Citizen Power – with Jon Alexander of the Citizen Collective
Democracy is breaking around us in real time and a small percentage of those in power would like us to become – at best – obedient subjects in a world dedicated to the destruction of ecosystems and the annihilation of compassion, empathy and all that makes use thrive. Clearly, we are better than this. So how can we harness the astonishing wonder of human co-creation in service to life and a world where humanity thrives as part of a flourishing web of life?
Of Schoolishness, Space and Emergence into vibrant systems: a joint podcast with Tim Logan of Future Learning Design
If what our culture most urgently needs is for a critical mass of us to grow into adults and then elders, how can we help our young people to step beyond the artificial boundaries of our old, rigid system into a world where they are fully connected to all parts of themselves, each other and the web of life. How, in effect, can we create an educational system that is fit for purpose in the emerging century?
Living through the Death of Democracy: Manda’s thoughts on love, liberty and the continued existence of complex life on earth
We are living through the death of democracy and the onset of Techno-Feudalism. But this is not a time when linear systems can hold and feudalism was nothing if not linear. So how can we be part of a transformative process that will let us lay the foundations for a future we’d be proud to leave behind?
HeartFood – Healing our communities with Food grown on Regenerative Farms with Erin Martin of FreshRxOK
What happens when people with chronic, unstable diabetes eat food grown in local, regenerative farms? Erin Martin shares the dramatic improvements in health her group FreshRxOK saw in Oklahoma when they instigated a ‘Food as Medicine’ programme, offering real food with good nutrient density to diabetic patients in some of the poorest communities.
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