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
Creditism: Building the Ledger of Life with Remzi Bajrami of the Common Planet Foundation
How do we make a peaceful transition to a wholly new system when the old one is sustained by those who profit most from the self-terminating zombie of predatory capitalism? Our guest this week has spent the past decade devising an answer to this most central of our questions. Remzi Bajrami is co-founder of Common Planet Foundation and creator of Creditism, which is his answer to our dilemma.
We Need a Victory Story: Mobilising the Silent Majority with Liam Kavanagh of the Climate Majority Project
But what if you knew you were not alone in caring about the crises our planet faces? What if you knew that almost everyone in our culture cares about this, they just don’t know what to do about it? They don’t have what this week’s guest, Dr Liam Kavanagh, calls the ‘Victory Stories’ to show how we made it through.
We Need to Talk about Tech: Exploring AI, fresh Hope…and the power of Song with Nathalie Nahai
How do we shift the dial on the future when so many of those whose fortunes are sunk into Tech, and AI in particular, seem to be steeped in the Dark Triad of psychopathy, sadism and narcissism? Is there any sign of hope amidst all the chaos and the frozen despair that narratives of inevitability foster in us?
Grown Up Politics 2: How can Andy Burnham deliver a future that works? With Rupert Read and Clive Lewis MP
How can we bring power to those with wisdom and wisdom to those with power? Specifically, how can our new Prime Minister deliver a future that repairs the ruptures within our national and international culture in a time frame that works while in the face of biophysical collapse and the onward march of the political wing of predatory capital?
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, 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.
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?
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.
The Art of the Sacred with Sylvie Barbier of Second Renaissance and Life Itself
“We are a collective of artists making art to bring forth the second renaissance.
We are alchemists. We create a new world through our work.
We are the bridge between the dying past and the future unborn.
Art is an expression of our consciousness and humanity, this is our path of transformation.
Life as an art.”
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.”
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.
Breaking open the Story of Bread 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!
Trust like the Web (of Life) trusts – Biomimicry for Social Innovation with Toby Herzlich
How can we bring the 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?
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