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
The Others Within Us: Meeting our Spirit Guides and other entities with Bob Falconer
Our world is more magical than we know – more than we can know. Increasing numbers of us are realising that the ‘citadel theory of mind’ where we see ourselves as isolated units within the boundaries of our own skulls is not how the world works. But if it isn’t, then how do we engage with the web of life and all that’s around it in ways that are respect, reciprocal and generative?
Radical Change: Building a Parallel Economy with Peter Kemp of Citizen Coin
Predatory Capitalism is killing us – this is obvious. So how do we create ways to exchange, store and account for value that are just and equitable and will take us towards the future we’d be proud to leave behind?
Beyond Zero Sum: Rehumanising our Conflicts with Carm Aufderheide of NorthStar Training Solutions
How do we shift our conversations – and our mindsets – to heal the gaping wounds in our culture?
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?
How to Save the World – tipping points of social diffusion with Katie Patrick of Hello World Labs
‘If you’re not changing the numbers, you’re not changing the world.’ So says this week’s guest, Katie Patrick. Katie Patrick is a Silicon Valley based environmental engineer, climate action designer, and author of How to Save the World: How to Make Changing the World the Greatest Game We’ve Ever Played, now taught in Harvard University’s graduate program and top recommended reading material by UNEP
Bonus: Thoughts from the Edge – If the current system is not fit for purpose, what’s our core response?
The current system is not broken – it is doing what it was always designed to do – which is to shovel wealth and power from the many to the few at a human scale and from the more-than-human world to the industrial/technical maw of predatory capitalism at an ecological scale.
Wellbeing: It’s about wholeness, not happiness – with Dr Mark Fabian, author of Beyond Happy
We grow up thinking we want to be happy (or at least, not-sad). But happiness isn’t enough. What we need is wellbeing, and as Dr Mark Fabian quotes in the dedication to his book, Beyond Happy, “Wellbeing is about wholeness, not happiness, and wholeness is so much more demanding than happiness.’
A Longing for Belonging: Shifting the Cultural Paradigm with Looby Macnamara and Leona Johnson
We are in the midst of the Great Derangement (thank you Amitav Ghosh) – so what tools will help us shape a system that is actually fit for purpose? Who are our elders and what can they teach us? How do we learn to listen to our heart’s (and hearts’) desire and shape the communities of place, passion and purpose that will allow us to emerge into a different culture?
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?
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