Podcast Episodes

What are you learning?

Season 4 Episode 9

This week is half term for UK schools and we've taken time away from the 'day to day' work at ThoughtBox for a reading week - a week to really dive deep into some of the ideas that we're both current…

Published on 13 hours ago

Is it so bad to be naïve?

Season 4 Episode 8

This week on the podcast Rachel is off with the flu and so Holly is joined by guest inconvenient woman Sandy Glanfield, Immersive Experience Curator at Reboot the Future, to discuss the theme of naïv…

Published on 1 week ago

What does it mean to 'trust our gut'?

Season 4 Episode 7

Having a 'gut feeling' about something is perhaps a familiar sensation to many, but what does this actually mean? When we 'trust our gut' what is it that we're listening to? And how are intuition and…

Published on 2 weeks ago

How do we heal our broken world?

Season 4 Episode 6

A painful truth in our current cultures is how much we are all struggling with our mental and emotional wellbeing. This is especially true in young people who are facing an increasing amount of overw…

Published on 3 weeks ago

How do we heal our broken world? (introduction)

Season 4 Episode 5

This week, Holly and Rachel are 'on-tour' for the podcast, which was recorded live from underneath a fig tree in a beautiful quad at Exeter College in Oxford. The (slightly shorter this week) recordi…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Why are we more fixated on capturing life than living it?

Season 4 Episode 4

In many societies across the world, we find a dominant habit of record keeping as part of the daily focus. Paperwork, recording, data-capture, spreadsheets, documentation and report-writing have beco…

Published on 1 month ago

How do we navigate cognitive dissonance in this crazy-beautiful world?

Season 4 Episode 3

“There's laundry to do and a genocide to stop…”

This first line of a short poem by Vinay Krishan hits hard, not least because it captures so powerfully the complex and confusing state we are finding o…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Do we really want to go back to work?

Season 4 Episode 2

This time of year often beckons us to go "back to work". For some it's the beginning of a new academic year. For others it's a return to work after an extended holiday or summer break. For others it'…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Why are flags so controversial?

Season 4 Episode 1

What is national pride all about and where does it stem from? Following a recent surge in the flying of the Union flag and St George's flag in parts of England this episode dives deeply into the mean…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

ON NEW BEGINNINGS: Rachel shares a poem by John O'Donohue

A new season is upon many of us at this time of year. Summer shifting into Autumn, the beginning of a new school year, a new work cycle. Maybe just returning to work after a rest. In all of the excit…

Published on 2 months ago