Podcast Episodes

Beyond Zero Sum: Rehumanising our Conflicts with Carm Aufderheide of NorthStar Training Solutions

Season 23 Episode 2

All flourishing is mutual, that's a given. And yet the schisms in our culture, the tribal divides and limbic hijack seem to grow deeper and more powerful by the day. 

It doesn't have to be like this. …

Published on 8 months ago

Red Pill/Blue Pill, Green Pill/True Pill – Creating a Media Commons with Debs Grayson of Opus Independents

Season 23 Episode 1

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 towa…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

How to Save the World - tipping points of social diffusion with Katie Patrick of Hello World Labs

Season 22 Episode 16

'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,…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Bonus: Thoughts from the Edge - If the current system is not fit for purpose, what's our core response?

Season 22 Episode 15

Suppose we accept that 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 mo…

Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago

Wellbeing: It’s about wholeness, not happiness - with Dr Mark Fabian, author of Beyond Happy

Season 22 Episode 15

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, "Well…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

A Longing for Belonging: Shifting the Cultural Paradigm with Looby Macnamara and Leona Johnson

Season 22 Episode 14

If we are in the midst of the Great Derangement (thank you Amitav Ghosh), what tools do we have to help us shape a system that is actually fit for purpose? Who are our elders and what can they teach …

Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago

Now Then! Building networks of citizen power with James Lock of Opus in Sheffield

Season 22 Episode 13

We all know the current system of predatory capitalism is not fit for purpose.  We don't (yet) all agree on how to fix it, but for sure, no problem is solved from the mindset that created it.  So how…

Published on 9 months ago

Be More Hawk! Being the courage to follow what's right with Rachel Musson of ThoughtBox Education

Season 22 Episode 12

The old systems are no longer fit for purpose. 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 w…

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

Miraculous Carbon: Celebrating the Book of Life, Death and Potential with author Paul Hawken

Season 22 Episode 11

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?

This week's guest…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

Authentically human: celebrating the magic of life with Mark McCartney of the 'What is a Good Life' podcast

Season 22 Episode 10

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 …

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago