Podcast Episodes

Democracy Rising: Making 2025 the year we recover from Peak Polarisation with Audrey Tang, Ambassador at Large for a safer, kinder world

Season 22 Episode 1

Is it possible that 2024 might have been the year of 'Peak polarisation' around the world and that from hereon in humanity might grow less divided, not more; that we might use technology and social m…

Published on 1 year ago

Heart of Oak: Talking Druidry, Spirituality and the nature of Magic in the MetaCrisis with Philip Carr-Gomm

Season 21 Episode 14

Druidry is the indigenous spirituality of the islands of Britain, but how does is live in the contemporary world? What are the values and practices that make it so suited to the inflexion point of th…

Published on 1 year ago

Seven Generations Perspective Meditation for December 2024

Season 21 Episode 13

Traditionally, we have offered a meditation for the solstice - and these are available in the links below.

This meditation aims to offer a long-wide-deep perspective on our place as conscious nodes i…

Published on 1 year ago

Solstice Cheer: Three Friends uphold a Podcasting Tradition with Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott

Season 21 Episode 13

This is the fifth year of our traditional Winter Solstice podcast gathering in which Nathalie Nahai of 'In Conversation with Nathalie Nahai, Della Duncan of The Upstream Podcast and I sit around our …

Published on 1 year ago

Must Read, Must Listen, Must View: Manda's favourite books, podcasts and videos this Winter Season

Season 21 Episode 12

It's that time of year - when all we really want is to curl up and reflect, go inside, become the potential that will arise in the unfolding spring.  If you want things to listen to or watch or read …

Published on 1 year ago

The Power of (good) Food with Nick Weir of the Open Food Network

Season 21 Episode 13

Clearly we're at an inflection point in the history of humanity.  Our experiment with a notional democracy is failing and either we find something that actually works, or we sink into autocracy. And …

Published on 1 year ago

Avoiding Burn Out, Fall Out, Drop Out (and Freak Out): Practical Routes to a whole, healed future with Dan McTiernan of Earthbound

Season 21 Episode 11

How do we become the change we need to see in the world?  What are the actual, practical steps to grounding, connecting and resonating with the world?

We're on the brink of cataclysmic change.  Knowi…

Published on 1 year ago

Adaptation is Here: Launching the TrAd (Transformative Adaptation) Book with Rupert Read and Morgan Philips

Season 21 Episode 10

We're teetering on the brink of ecosystem and cultural collapse.  How do we adapt and transform to the changing realities?

This week sees the launch of a new book: Transformative Adaptation: Another w…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Holding the Paradox: Navigating a changing world with Andrea Hiott of Making Ways

Season 21 Episode 9

We are not going back.  But how do we go forward now in a world where the old norms are under assault by people who move fast and break everything? How do we find a place of balance and compassion - …

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Being the Best Ancestors we can - with Dr John Izzo of the Elders Action Network

Season 21 Episode 8

How do we all respond to the seismic events of the US election?  Specifically, how do those of us over 50 respond? (and how would the younger generations like us to respond)?

This is the question of …

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago