#283  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?

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#282  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.

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#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.

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#281  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.’

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#280  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?

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#279  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?

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#278  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? 

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#277  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?

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#276 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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#275  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?

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#274  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?

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#BONUS:   Kin-centric Rewilding 2 – continuation of the conversation with Daniel Firth Griffith

This is the second part of our conversation with Daniel Firth Griffith

Daniel remains one of the few people I know who is originally of the Trauma Culture but is living absolutely integral to his land – and we couldn’t keep our conversation confined to 60 minutes. So we broke at an appropriate point and came back. This is the second part – please do listen to the first if you’ve only just found us – we literally paused the recording, took a breath and continued…

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#273  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.

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#272  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?

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#271  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?

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#Bonus:  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?

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