Accidental Gods

Accidental Gods

Accidental Gods

Another World Is Possible. The old paradigm is breaking apart. The new one is still not fully shaped. We have the power of gods to destroy our home. But we also have the chance to become something we cannot yet imagine, and by doing so, to transform the nature of ourselves – and all humanity. Accidental Gods is a podcast and membership program devoted to exploring the ways we can create a future that we would be proud to leave to the generations yet to come. If we're going to emerge into a just, equitable - and above all regenerative - fu...

Becoming Spiritual Warriors: exploring a politics of raw, wild, radical Love with Jamie Bristow

Becoming Spiritual Warriors: exploring a politics of raw, wild, radical Love 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?This

Feb 19, • 1:38:01

Kin-centric Rewilding 2 - Bonus - continuation of the conversation with Daniel Firth Griffith

Kin-centric Rewilding 2 - Bonus - continuation of the 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…As ever, if you're interested in Daniel's work visit his website. And if you have the means, do buy his b

Feb 12, • 54:04

Kin-centric Rewilding - restoring relationship to the land and ourselves with Daniel Firth Griffith, author of StagTine

Kin-centric Rewilding - restoring relationship to the land and ourselves with Daniel Firth Griffith, author of StagTine

By now we know that we need to connect to the More than Human world. We know we need to grow into adulthood and elder hood. 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 rel

Feb 12, • 1:42:15

Find the Others! Beyond the Death of Democracy lies Citizen Power - with Jon Alexander of the Citizen Collective

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 us 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? This week's guest, Jon Alexand

Feb 5, • 1:17:01

Of Schoolishness, Space and Emergence into vibrant systems: a joint podcast with Tim Logan of Future Learning Design

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?In this podcast, I joined with Tim Logan, host of the Future Learning Design podcast, educa

Jan 29, • 1:23:53

Living through the Death of Democracy: Manda's thoughts on love, liberty and the continued existence of complex life on earth

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?Usually, on Accidental Gods, we talk to guests who seem to exemplify some aspect of the generative edge of interbecoming change that will take us towards the emergent future we need if we

Jan 25, • 40:23

HeartFood - Healing our communities with Food grown on Regenerative Farms with Erin Martin of FreshRxOK

HeartFood - Healing our communities with Food grown on Regenerative Farms with Erin Martin of FreshRxOK

What happens when people with chronic, unstable diabetes eat food grown in local, regenerative farms? Erin Martin talks to the Accidental Gods podcast about the dramatic and spectacular improvements in health her group FreshRxOK saw in Oklahoma when they instigated a 'Food as Medicine' programme, offering real food with good nutrient density to diabetic patients in some of the poorest communities.An Oklahoman on track to be a lawyer, Erin’s first job in a retirement community inspired her to pur

Jan 22, • 1:12:03

Radical Creativity: creating a Global Council of Women with Jenny Grettve of EIT Culture and Creativity

Radical Creativity: creating a Global Council of Women with Jenny Grettve of EIT Culture and Creativity

How can we bring wisdom to those with power and power to those with wisdom?  If we were to step into elder hood and bring the best of ourselves to the table, could we create governance structures that would help to heal our cultural divides, create equity and guide is wisely through the coming crisis? Jenny Grettve believes we can and has set up a global council to make this happen.  Jenny is a good friend of the podcast. She joined us in episode #228 to talk about designing and building a schoo

Jan 15, • 1:16:56

The Phoenix Always Rises: Evolving into the Future Human with Prof Chris Bache, Author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe

The Phoenix Always Rises: Evolving into the Future Human with Prof Chris Bache, Author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe

This podcast is predicated on the belief that if we all work together, we can still lay the foundations for a future we'd be proud to leave as our legacy.  And it's becoming increasingly obvious that this is now urgent; that we need to let go of the assumptions we'd made about career paths or future constructs and give ourselves wholeheartedly to the process of making it through. Five years ago when we began, it was possible to imagine that the world might stabilise with a vestige of th

Jan 8, • 1:24:31

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

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

Is it possible that 2024 might be 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 media wisely to bring the best of ourselves to the table, becoming the best we can be in service to life?  Audrey Tang certainly thinks so and in this wide-deep, mind-expanding conversation, we explore everything from the dual nature of AGI to the potential for liberational  education that gives young people

Jan 1, • 1:43:09

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

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

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 the moment? Why - and how - does it mesh so well with other, more spiritual traditions? And how does the practice of Will, the honing of intent, create the magic we need to see in our world? This week's guest, Philip Carr-Gomm, has spent his life studying, and writing about all of these things. Philip

Dec 25, 2024 • 1:31:59

Seven Generations Perspective Meditation for December 2024

Seven Generations Perspective Meditation for December 2024

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 in the web of life - the journey that brought us here and the places humanity may go.  Please give yourself plenty of time both to experience the journey and to reflect afterwards. If it helps to write down your feelings, images, ideas or sensations afterwards, please do. Winter Solstice Meditation  h

Dec 18, 2024 • 25:46

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

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

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 virtual dark-nights fire to reflect on the podcasting year just gone and explore what has changed for us since the last time we three met in one place.  By any measure, this year has been pretty turbulent and our capacity to predict anything at all for 2025 is fairly ragged, but that doesn't

Dec 18, 2024 • 1:28:58

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

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

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 as you head into the long-nights, then these are (some of) the things that have caught my attention this year. Enjoy!Books: Non-FictionHospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machada de Oliviera https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hospicing-modernity-parting-with-harmful-ways-of-living-vanessa-machado-de

Dec 14, 2024 • 28:32

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

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

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 given that the current global flavour of autocracy is in deep denial of the climate and ecological catastrophe that's currently underway, then that's a pretty fast road to extinction: you can't deny your way out of biophysical reality. So what can we do, we who care deeply about passing an inhabitabl

Dec 11, 2024 • 1:18:33

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

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

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.  Knowing this, we have choices: we can either fold into despair, terror, rage…whatever rises up in us as we watch the whole biosphere hurtle towards irrevocable tipping points. Or we can become the change we need to see in the world: each of us.  This is a cliché by now, but that doesn't stop it being true

Dec 4, 2024 • 1:16:35

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

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

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 world is still just possible. The main editors and contributors are friend of the podcast, author, activist and co-founder of the Climate Majority Project, Rupert Read and -  new to the podcast - Morgan Philips who is an educator, currently working for Global Action Plan, an environmental cha

Nov 27, 2024 • 1:06:23

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

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

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 - for ourselves, each other and the More than Human world - so that we can move forward in a way that isn’t just a replaying of the old binaries? Our world changed irrevocably with the results of the US election on the 5th of November.  On this podcast, we talk a lot about total systemic change and now

Nov 20, 2024 • 1:08:22

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

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

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 now. It would be hard to discuss anything else, but my guest this week is uniquely placed to address these questions.  As you'll hear, John Izzo was once an ordained Minister in a Presbyterian Church. Now, he's a bestselling author, speaker, and thought leader focused on social responsibility.  He's

Nov 13, 2024 • 1:20:53

Responding to the turning of the world: Thoughts on  how the US election marks the inflection point of our times

Responding to the turning of the world: Thoughts on how the US election marks the inflection point of our times

It occurs to me that we are now at an inflection point in the WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and - notionally - Democratic) culture that has been so successful in destroying the ecosphere. a significant number of us now see what has been obvious to a minority for some time: that the system is not broken - it is doing what it was always designed to do: which is to maintain power in the hands of a few white men. what we know now, is that the system is not fit for purpose - IF

Nov 8, 2024 • 11:38

Turning waste into wellbeing, wildlife, food and forests: Bringing permaculture to schools with Elliot Riley

Turning waste into wellbeing, wildlife, food and forests: Bringing permaculture to schools with Elliot Riley

If you're over 40, the world you grew up believing in no longer exists.  The younger generation approaches the polycrisis with open eyes, striving to find and nurture resilience, to listen to the whispers of synchronicity and let it lead them - and us - to a world that works for all life. Today, we're talking to Elliot Riley. Elliot is an educator, permaculture designer and practitioner working to bring wellbeing, reforestation and perennial food production into schools. Elliot graduated during

Nov 6, 2024 • 1:05:07

Having your C.A.K.E. (Compassion, Awareness, Knowledge, Empathy) and sharing what you learn - with Andrew Hale of Dog Centered Care

Having your C.A.K.E. (Compassion, Awareness, Knowledge, Empathy) and sharing what you learn - with Andrew Hale of Dog Centered Care

How does an understanding of what makes dogs tick, help us to understand ourselves and our place in the world? What does it take to feel safe - as a human, or as a dog (or cat, or horse, or... anything)? And how can we help ourselves and each other find regulation in a VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous)?Andrew Hale is a Certified Animal Behaviourist who specialises in working complex behaviour cases, especially those involving 'Reactivity and Aggression.'  Look around you at

Oct 30, 2024 • 1:31:55

Rethink, Repair, Rebuild – with Natalie Bennett, former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales

Rethink, Repair, Rebuild – with Natalie Bennett, former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales

How can we achieve total systemic change? And are there politicians anywhere who are ready to make it happen (in a way that supports the continuation of complex life on this planet, not the scorched-earth destruction of the right)?The short answer is that yes, there are people deeply embedded in politics who know how dire things are and that we need urgent change. One of these is Natale Bennett, former Green Party leader and now Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, one of two Green Party m

Oct 23, 2024 • 1:04:59

The Lama, the Oath and the Web of Treasure Vases - with Cynthia Jurs, author of 'Summoned by the Earth'

The Lama, the Oath and the Web of Treasure Vases - with Cynthia Jurs, author of 'Summoned by the Earth'

We know we need to shift from our Trauma Culture to a resilient, connected Initiation Culture where we can open our heart-minds to the Web of Life, ask 'What do you Want of Me?' and respond to the answers in realtime, with flexibility, authenticity and a grounded awareness of our place in the huge complex system of the More than Human World. Knowing this, and being able to do it are two different things.  But it's possible, and our guest this week is someone who walks this path with eno

Oct 16, 2024 • 1:16:55

Living Big in a Tiny House with Rachel Butler and Maddy Longhurst of Bristol Tiny House Community

Living Big in a Tiny House with Rachel Butler and Maddy Longhurst of Bristol Tiny House Community

Our two guests this week are deeply embedded in the creation of Tiny Homes as a way for us meet the needs of all within the bounds of the living planet. Both are living absolutely at that sharp, bright edge of inter-becoming from which our more flourishing future will emerge.  Rachel Butler is the founder of Tiny House Community Bristol, Chair of Bristol Community Land Trust and is a member of Bristol’s One City Homes & Communities board. Her root mission is within systems change/paradigm shift:

Oct 9, 2024 • 1:11:26

Of Reindeer, Donkeys and the verb that is Water. Stories of climate-healing with Judith Schwartz, author of The Reindeer Chronicles

Of Reindeer, Donkeys and the verb that is Water. Stories of climate-healing with Judith Schwartz, author of The Reindeer Chronicles

How do we move beyond our myopic focus on carbon/CO2 as the index of our harms to the world?  What can we do to heal the whole biosphere?  And what role is played by water-as-verb, forest-as-verb, ocean-as-verb? This week's guest is an environmental journalist and author who has answers to all of these questions - and more.  Judith Schwartz is an author who tells stories to explore and illuminate scientific concepts and cultural nuance. She takes a clear-eyed look at global environmental, econom

Oct 2, 2024 • 1:12:30

Building an Economics of Happiness: How - and why -  our Future must be Local with Helena Norberg Hodge of Local Futures

Building an Economics of Happiness: How - and why - our Future must be Local with Helena Norberg Hodge of Local Futures

How do we build the local futures we all know we need?  What does it actually take to become a good enough ancestor? Or even the best ancestor we can be?  Our guest this week, Helena Norberg-Hodge, has given her life to exploring the answers, and helping birth them into being. Helena Norberg-Hodge is one of the Elders of our culture. She's a linguist, author and filmmaker, and the founder and director of the international non-profit group Local Futures, in which role, she has initiated localizat

Sep 25, 2024 • 1:25:58

Autumn Equinox meditation 2024

Autumn Equinox meditation 2024

Here is an Autumn Equinox Meditation to help set you up for the shift from the long days to the long nights. For those in the Southern Hemisphere, there's a Spring Equinox Meditation here.

Sep 20, 2024 • 16:50

Thoughts at the Autumn Equinox 2024 - how, what, when, where and why

Thoughts at the Autumn Equinox 2024 - how, what, when, where and why

This is our regular September bonus episode - a brief look at where we're at - how I (Manda) see things just now as we head deeper into the moment of transformation.

Sep 20, 2024 • 21:51

Forking the Future: building routes to viable change with Tim Frenneaux of Pivot

Forking the Future: building routes to viable change with Tim Frenneaux of Pivot

My first guest after the summer break is Tim Frenneaux, whom I first met in his role as Source for the Piʌot project which is a thoroughly engaging and inspiring new concept, that he describes as a people-powered movement for regenerative transformation.  As you'll hear, Tim really understands what it is to live - to dance  - at the inter-becoming edge of emergence.  He's a multi-talented, multi-hatted entrepreneur, who once established England’s only carbon negative Local Industrial Strategy wh

Sep 18, 2024 • 1:09:06

Stop killing the planet!  Shaping international law so it's on the side of Life – with JoJo Mehta of Stop Ecocide International

Stop killing the planet! Shaping international law so it's on the side of Life – with JoJo Mehta of Stop Ecocide International

Can our national and international legal systems be harnessed in service of life, to put the brakes on the worst excesses of capitalism and slow the annihilation of our eco-sphere?  Stop Ecocide International exists explicitly to make this happen and this week, we talk to Jojo Mehta, co-founder and Executive Director of the movement. If we're going to stop capitalism's harms to the planet, we have to build road blocks into the current system that will be recognised by those who make the harms ha

Sep 11, 2024 • 1:22:47

The Manic Fire Monkeys Do It Again (and Again): Exploring the wonder of human evolution with Dr Shane Simonsen

The Manic Fire Monkeys Do It Again (and Again): Exploring the wonder of human evolution with Dr Shane Simonsen

The climate emergency is impacting our entire eco-sphere.  Plants are at the core of every food chain but we have no idea how fast they can adapt to changes that are taking place in decades where once they took Millenia.  Which is where human ingenuity and intervention could be game-changing.  If we put our minds to it, could we help plants to evolve in ways that serve the entire web of life? In this regard, Dr Shane Simonsen is someone who has oriented his entire life to making sure that we hav

Sep 4, 2024 • 1:43:07

Finding the Courage to Care - Ways to build a Mothering Economy with author Jenny Grettve

Finding the Courage to Care - Ways to build a Mothering Economy with author Jenny Grettve

'Are we [in our WEIRD culture] intelligent enough to be more generous than we have ever been throughout history?'  So writes Jenny Grettve, in her new book, 'Mothering Economy'.  Jenny is an author, philospher, systems thinker and designer who joined us in Episode #228, talking about the principles and practice of her generative, systems-led design agency, 'When!When!'At the time, she said she was writing a new book that would be out in the late summer, and here we are - in late summer, and Jenn

Aug 28, 2024 • 1:26:10

When is a Tree not a Tree? The 'Net Zero' Wood Burning Scam - with Dr Mary Booth of Partnership for Policy Integrity

When is a Tree not a Tree? The 'Net Zero' Wood Burning Scam - with Dr Mary Booth of Partnership for Policy Integrity

We live in a burning world. As we record, there are record wildfires across the Americas, record temperatures around the world, falling oxygen levels in the oceans and however much supposedly renewable energy we produce, Jevons' Paradox means we keep on burning fossil fuels.  This is not a great combination, but even the so called renewables have more under the hood than appears on the surface.  Burning wood - or grasses - for 'Green' Energy is both a massive accounting scam and one of the ways

Aug 21, 2024 • 1:05:12

A trillion willing helpers: Exploring the microbiome of people and animals with Joe Flanagan of Ingenious Probiotics

A trillion willing helpers: Exploring the microbiome of people and animals with Joe Flanagan of Ingenious Probiotics

We know that being kind to our gut biome is crucial to our health, but what about the trillion happy helpers (or not) on our skin, in our lungs, our ears, our mouths… the things we slaughter daily with the ‘cleaning products’ we splash around our homes.  What if there was a better way to keep things clean that wasn’t toxic to us and the tiny lives on whom our health depends?  Joe Flanagan works at the cutting edge of change, helping us shape the world for a flourishing future. Human health and t

Aug 14, 2024 • 1:40:09

Governable Spaces: Solve for democracy on the internet and our outer politics becomes a lot more sane - with Nathan Schneider

Governable Spaces: Solve for democracy on the internet and our outer politics becomes a lot more sane - with Nathan Schneider

The Western world is in a crisis of democracy - but we learn a lot of our principles from the ways we interact online and the internet is essentially a feudal space that gives absolute power to a few and robs the many of agency.  Nathan Schneidersuggests that if we were able to shape a more liquid democracy online, our experience of generative interactions would spill over into the outer world. Has to be worth a try, right?  So how do we do it? As we spend increasing amounts of our time, energy

Aug 7, 2024 • 1:05:55

Net Zero Cities: Crafting a Generative Urban Future with Georgia Cameron of Dark Matter Labs

Net Zero Cities: Crafting a Generative Urban Future with Georgia Cameron of Dark Matter Labs

Cities: most of us live in them and most of them are geared around the old values of the last century.  But what if our core question was: what does it take to have pride in the place I live?  How can we completely rethink the way cities act and are shaped to put a flourishing future at the heart of all they do?  Georgia Cameron of Dark Matter Labs lays out the visions of Net Zero Cities that goes way beyond just the carbon. Of the 8 billion (ish) people on the planet, over half now live in citi

Jul 31, 2024 • 1:41:43

Earth and Soul: Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos with Leah Rampy

Earth and Soul: Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos with Leah Rampy

Clearly we need urgently to shift the democratic dial towards something that might actually serve the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. But how do we get there? How do we open the doors to possibility so that we can shift from the disconnection of our culture to a path of real heart-mind connection to the web of life? Our guest this week is Leah Rampy, author of the book Earth and Soul, Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos, a beautiful, many-layered weaving that is a memorial to the w

Jul 24, 2024 • 1:10:50

Creating Quantum Theatre: radical story-becoming to change the world with Jenifer Toksvig

Creating Quantum Theatre: radical story-becoming to change the world with Jenifer Toksvig

Humanity is a storied species - everything we do from forming partnerships, to buying stuff, to moving house, to getting a new job… arises from the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves and each other. If we’re going to shift to a new way of being, the route will be led by the stories we can build of how it will look and feel, how we’ll be more alive, more connected, have a deeper sense of being, belonging, becoming… So - how do we tell stories of transformation in ways that e

Jul 17, 2024 • 1:27:47

The Tools we Need: Raising the Collaborative Commons with Resilience Strategist Michael Haupt

The Tools we Need: Raising the Collaborative Commons with Resilience Strategist Michael Haupt

We know by now that the old system is crumbling, that the old paradigms are no longer fit for purpose and we need to take part in the birth of something new: this is what this podcast is for. But what are the tools and how can we begin actually to build something relevant and useful within the strictures of a system that is still trying to cling onto legitimacy and power? Michael Haupt was a key figure in the widespread introduction of mobile telephones to South Africa ahead of the first all-rac

Jul 10, 2024 • 1:24:50

How the System is Slaying Us - and What to Do About It: Getting Healthy in Toxic Times with Dr Jenny Goodman

How the System is Slaying Us - and What to Do About It: Getting Healthy in Toxic Times with Dr Jenny Goodman

How does our increasing destruction of the earth's biosphere also impact our health?  What diseases are we seeing in almost pandemic proportions and how much younger are the people in whom we're seeing them?  Above all, what can we do to step away from the system that's extracting everything from us - our health, our futures and our potential to be good ancestors?Our guest this week is Jenny Goodman who is a doctor - and also an author. Her first book, Staying Alive in Toxic TimesL A seasonal gu

Jul 3, 2024 • 1:48:05

Election Special 4: What is Governance for and how can we shape genuine democracy - with Glen Weyl of the Plurality Institute

Election Special 4: What is Governance for and how can we shape genuine democracy - with Glen Weyl of the Plurality Institute

If the current electoral/governance system is not fit for purpose (and who could possibly imagine it was?) how can we lay the foundations for new ways of organising democracy, new ways of voting, new ideas of what governance is for and how it could work in the twenty-first century.  How, in short, do we create space for future generations to be able to decide their own futures in ways that are not constrained by material or political strictures they've inherited from us? In this ground-breaking

Jun 28, 2024 • 1:03:15

Beautiful Trouble - crafting a political Alternative - and an independent Scotland - with Indra Adnan and Pat Kane

Beautiful Trouble - crafting a political Alternative - and an independent Scotland - with Indra Adnan and Pat Kane

The question of how we reshape democracy, walking the fine line between stagnation and populist rage - is the defining problem of our time - with a coherent strategy, we can shape anything. In its absence, we’re going to end up spinning in pointless circles, arguing about trivia while the world burns. We set this podcast up months ago, thinking we’d talk about the example Scotland sets for the UK and the rest of the world as a way *maybe) to shape democracy.  And then Nicola Sturgeon stepped dow

Jun 26, 2024 • 1:25:01

Election Special 3 - Labour party Manifesto - anything worthwhile? with Jeremy Gilbert

Election Special 3 - Labour party Manifesto - anything worthwhile? with Jeremy Gilbert

What are we being offered by the incoming Labour Government? What's good in their Manifesto (spoiler alert, not very much)? What's not good? What could be improved upon and how do we go about pushing them to a place where they actually do something useful that isn't simply a repeat of the same-old, same-old we've had for the past decade and a half?  Our third Election Special Guest is Dr Jeremy Gilbert, professor of culture and political theory at the University of East London. He's the author o

Jun 23, 2024 • 1:05:59

Taking back the Power: Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels and onto the good stuff with Howard Johns of OneZero

Taking back the Power: Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels and onto the good stuff with Howard Johns of OneZero

Today we're blowing open a route towards energy security, reduced carbon footprint and saving money - all in the way we make, distribute and use power.  If each of us could minimise our own power use, we'd be a step on the way to reducing our overall carbon footprint: more, we'd be changing the ways we think of ourselves as separate from the web of life. This week's guest is long time friend of the podcast Howard Johns. Howard is an activist, author, and serial entrepreneur in the field of energ

Jun 19, 2024 • 1:06:11

The Jay, The Beech and The Limpetshell with author Richard Smyth

The Jay, The Beech and The Limpetshell with author Richard Smyth

Our guest this week is Richard Smyth, author, crossword designer, cartoonist - and father of two young children Richard writes features, reviews and comment pieces for publications including The Guardian, The Times LiterarySupplement, The New Statesman, and New Scientist. His crosswords – both cryptic and quiz – appear regularly in New Scientist, History Today, and BBC Wildlife. He's part of the team that sets questions for BBC Mastermind, and he's a cartoonist: Private Eye, New Humanist and Cla

Jun 12, 2024 • 58:31

Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Politics - Election Special 2 with Baroness Natalie Bennett of the Green Party

Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Politics - Election Special 2 with Baroness Natalie Bennett of the Green Party

in this second election special, we talk to Natalie Bennett (or Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle if we're going to be forma - but she said we didn't need to be) - one of two Green Party members in the House of Lords.  Natalie is author of the Book 'Change Everything: How we can rethink, repair and rebuild society' - one of the essential books of our time that outlines in detail how we can create the total systemic change we need. Natalie will be back in the autumn to discuss this in more detail,

Jun 10, 2024 • 38:00

Answers to the Questions of life: Biomimicry, Complexity and Peacebuilding with Dr Deborah Benham

Answers to the Questions of life: Biomimicry, Complexity and Peacebuilding with Dr Deborah Benham

Our guest this week is Dr Deborah Benham, Biomimicry Educator, Transition Town Co-Lead Link and Deep Nature Connection facilitator - which puts her in a place to really unpick what it will take for us to depart the crumbling remains of late-stage capitalism and build a world based on connection, coherence and community. From her early days as a Marine Biologist, through her PhD on sea otters (I am not remotely envious of someone who gets to study sea otters for 3 years!), to her time in a commun

Jun 5, 2024 • 1:23:36

Breaking the Doom-Loop of UK Politics with Neal Lawson of Compass

Breaking the Doom-Loop of UK Politics with Neal Lawson of Compass

Our first Election Special with friend of the podcast, Neal Lawson.Neal is Director of the progressive campaign group, Compass and co-host of the Compass podcast ,called It's Bloody Complicated. Neal is a long-time progressive campaigner and a tireless advocate for Proportional Representation as a vehicle for radical progressive change in the way we do politics.  In this swift half hour, we look at the circumstances of this utterly unexpected election and Neal explains the practical steps we can

Jun 4, 2024 • 36:34

Wild shamanic theatre and becoming embodied: with Jessica Buckler of the ALEF Trust

Wild shamanic theatre and becoming embodied: with Jessica Buckler of the ALEF Trust

This week's guest, Jessica Bockler is one of those people who sparks every fire in my being - and i hope in yours, too.  Jessica is an applied theatre practitioner and transpersonal psychologist who co-founded the Alef Trust a globally-conscious non-profit organisation offering online graduate education programmes, and open learning courses for people who want really to step into what Indy Johar so beautifully calls the emergent edge of Inter-Becoming. Jessica is integral to the Nurturing the Fi

May 29, 2024 • 1:06:46

The Story is in our Bones: Rewilding Ourselves with author and activist Osprey Orielle Lake

The Story is in our Bones: Rewilding Ourselves with author and activist Osprey Orielle Lake

Once in a while, a book comes along that changes how we see the world, that re-sets something fundamental in who we are and our capacity to engage with the Web of Life.  Braided Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer was one of these: at once poetically beautiful, spiritually inspiring and deeply thought-provoking. And now Osprey Orielle Lake has written 'The Story is in our Bones: How Worldview and Climate Justice can Remake a World in Crisis'.  This is a genuinely beautiful book on every level: ful

May 22, 2024 • 1:04:49

Any Human Power - Manda Scott talks about her new Thrutopian Mytho-Political thriller

Any Human Power - Manda Scott talks about her new Thrutopian Mytho-Political thriller

This week the tables are turned and Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture Magazine interviews Manda about her new 'seismic' Mytho-Political thriller, Any Human Power, which will be available from 30th May. "From a bestselling storyteller who brings together myths and speculative futures with a radical compassion, comes the story of a family at the heart of a political crisis and the ensuing uprising of a disenfranchised generation. A family that harnesses the skills and stories needed for real c

May 15, 2024 • 1:30:56

No such thing as Waste, No such place as 'Away'! - Composting our way out of the meta-crisis with Nicky Grady Scott

No such thing as Waste, No such place as 'Away'! - Composting our way out of the meta-crisis with Nicky Grady Scott

This week's guest is one of those at the forefront of regenerative change, both on the ground and as an educator. Nicky Grady Scott is a Master Composter, author of several books on composting, a YouTuber with some fascinating videos on composting, host of composting masterclasses in person and online around the world - and he's set up community organisations to make Proper Jobs out of work that is so often done by volunteers who verge ever on the brink of burn-out. In short, he knows a serious

May 8, 2024 • 1:12:12

Writing the Deluge: Dark nights, Apocalypse and Hope with author Stephen Markley

Writing the Deluge: Dark nights, Apocalypse and Hope with author Stephen Markley

Author Stephen Markley opens the doors to The Deluge, his ground-breaking, world-changing Climate/MetaCrisis thriller- 900 pages that absolutely squarely rips into the current system in all its deficiencies - and offers a route through to a future that might work. This week's guest is someone who has mapped out a possible future in a depth and detail that leaves me awestruck. Stephen Markley's first published novel Ohio, was described as a wild, angry, and devastating masterpiece of a book. Step

May 1, 2024 • 49:17

Eco-Spirituality - Exploring Deep in the Woods of the Divine with Woodford Roberts and Rupert Read

Eco-Spirituality - Exploring Deep in the Woods of the Divine with Woodford Roberts and Rupert Read

In this deep, thoughtful conversation, two of the men at the heart of the Climate Majority Project discuss their own journeys into eco-spirituality - what they believe it to be and why it's a core, foundational bedrock of their lives. If you follow anything else that Faith and I do together, you'll know that we believe heart-felt connection to the All That Is forms the bedrock of human existence and is the pathway to human flourishing, to our being good ancestors, to laying that foundation on wh

Apr 24, 2024 • 1:19:47

What do we really think about Food? Revolutionising what we eat with  Sue Pritchard of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission

What do we really think about Food? Revolutionising what we eat with Sue Pritchard of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission

If you've listened to previous episodes of this podcast, you'll know that total systemic change is one of our foundational beliefs: it's coming whether we like it or not and we'd like to manage a just transition rather than waiting to see what arises from the ashes if we keep pushing business as usual until our entire bus dives over the edge of the biophysical cliff. And so we are always on the lookout for people who not only think systemically, but who get it; who aren't just talking the talk,

Apr 17, 2024 • 1:16:05

How do we live, when under the surface of everything is an ocean of tears? With Douglas Rushkoff of Team Human

How do we live, when under the surface of everything is an ocean of tears? With Douglas Rushkoff of Team Human

Our guest this week is Douglas Rushkoff, a man whose insights and intellect have earned him a place among the world's ten most influential intellectuals by MIT. As the host of the acclaimed Team Human podcast and author of numerous groundbreaking books, including "Survival of the Richest," Rushkoff's work delves into the intricate dance between technology, narrative, money, power, and human connection.Douglas shares with us the palpable "ocean of tears" lurking beneath the surface of our collect

Apr 10, 2024 • 1:11:02

Evolving Education: Building a Doughnut School with Jenny Grettve of When!When!

Evolving Education: Building a Doughnut School with Jenny Grettve of When!When!

This week's guest is one of those people whose breadth and depth is an inspiration.  As you are about to hear, Jenny Grettve is an author, a philosopher, a systems thinker who takes her ideas and brings them alive in the world. She's the founder and director of When! When!, a design studio that tests and actively implements ideas and projects on systemic transformation with the goal of slowing down our speeding meta crisis. When!When! regards simplicity as a tool for innovation and create a beau

Apr 3, 2024 • 1:06:25

Building Trust - One Conversation at at Time: Cooperation Hull with Gully Bujak

Building Trust - One Conversation at at Time: Cooperation Hull with Gully Bujak

Today we venture into the heart of Hull, where the seeds of change are being sown by the hands of ordinary people. Gully Bujak, our guest this week, is a force of nature who, since her awakening to the climate crisis in 2018, has channeled her energy into the creation of Cooperation Hull, a beacon of participatory democracy and local empowerment.Drawing inspiration from the groundbreaking work of Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi, Gully and her team have set their sights on the city of Hull, a

Mar 27, 2024 • 1:03:40

Vulture Capitalism - Exposing the toxic system and how to outgrow it with Grace Blakeley

Vulture Capitalism - Exposing the toxic system and how to outgrow it with Grace Blakeley

This week's guest is one of those who understands the nuts and bolts - the iniquities - of the current system - and has ideas of how we can shape something better from the hot mess of corruption and greed in which we're mired. Grace Blakeley is a staff writer at Tribune Magazine and author of several books, including 'Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts and the Death of Freedom' in which she  peels back the layers of our economic system, exposing the stark realities hidden be

Mar 20, 2024 • 1:08:16

Accidental Gods Spring Equinox Meditation 2024

Accidental Gods Spring Equinox Meditation 2024

"Consciousness creates MatterLanguage creates RealityRitual creates Relationship" - Oscar Mira-Quesada quoted by Nina Simons in podcast #218Part of our moving towards a healed and healthy culture for humanity is rewilding our relationships with ourselves, each other and the earth. A key part of this is building rituals that have meaning for us in the context of these relationships. Connecting to the cycles of the earth is a straightforward ritual that acknowledges, honours and respects the world

Mar 19, 2024 • 27:02

Seeds of Hope: Cultivating a Future of Flavour and Resilience with Sinead Fortune and Kate Hastings of the Gaia Foundation

Seeds of Hope: Cultivating a Future of Flavour and Resilience with Sinead Fortune and Kate Hastings of the Gaia Foundation

In this nourishing episode of Accidental Gods, we delve into the fertile world of seed sovereignty with Katie Hastings and Sinead Fortune of the Gaia Foundation's Seed Sovereignty Programme. Katie, hailing from the lush landscapes of Wales, and Sinead, rooted in the rugged beauty of rural Aberdeenshire, share their passion for reviving ancient grains and fostering communities of growth.Embark on a journey through the tales of black oats, a crop once on the brink of oblivion, now experiencing a r

Mar 13, 2024 • 1:07:47

Finding a Cure for Civilisation: Delving Deep into the Roots of Being with visionary and shaman, Drea Burbank of Savimbo.

Finding a Cure for Civilisation: Delving Deep into the Roots of Being with visionary and shaman, Drea Burbank of Savimbo.

“Respect is earned. Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.”— Oscar Auliq Ice - quoted on Savimbo websiteIn this pivotal episode, we journey with Drea Burbank from the depths of a fundamentalist Mormon cult to the rainforests of the Colombian Amazon. Drea's life story, chronicled in her book "Shaman Gurl" (linked in the show notes), is a testament to human resilience and the quest for truth. From her escape over the mountains, through the fiery trials of being a firefighter

Mar 6, 2024 • 1:05:13

River Charters, Net Zero Cities and BioRegional Banks: Creating a Life-Ennobling Economic System with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs

River Charters, Net Zero Cities and BioRegional Banks: Creating a Life-Ennobling Economic System with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs

In this week's episode of Accidental Gods, we dive into the visionary world of economic transformation with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs. Emily, a chartered accountant with an MA in regenerative economics, is not your average number cruncher. She's at the forefront of reimagining our financial systems, exploring the intersection of technology, governance, and the natural world. Join us as Emily unveils the bold concept of life-enabling economics (LEE) and the radical aspiration of establishi

Feb 28, 2024 • 1:24:45

Dung Beetles, People and helping the Keystone Species with Claire Whittle, the Regenerative Vet

Dung Beetles, People and helping the Keystone Species with Claire Whittle, the Regenerative Vet

Our guest this week is Claire Whittle, the Regenerative Vet. As you'll hear, Claire went into veterinary medicine intending to work with small animals - which is to say dogs, cats, and other household pets... but working on a dairy farm as part of the requirements for her degree led her to fall in love with cattle and when she qualified, she became a farm vet. In the conversation you're about to hear, she talks movingly and with deep authenticity about her journey from traditional large animal p

Feb 21, 2024 • 1:16:39

End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken and How we Fix it, with James Plunkett

End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken and How we Fix it, with James Plunkett

This week, I spoke with James Plunkett, a man who has spent his career at the intersection of policy and social change. From the halls of Number Ten to the charity sector's front lines, James's unique perspective has birthed a book that critically examines what's wrong with our society and offers tangible fixes. Together, we dissect our societal challenges, from outdated institutions to the technology of gods, and discuss structured ways to mend a fractured system.James has spent his entire care

Feb 14, 2024 • 1:11:59

Growing a Public Chorus for Change: reshaping democracy with Alex Lockwood of the Humanity Project

Growing a Public Chorus for Change: reshaping democracy with Alex Lockwood of the Humanity Project

We don't have a democracy, we have a kleptocracy that elevates to positions of power those amongst us who are most comfortable with leaning into their inner Dark Triad of Psychopathy, Narcissism and basic low cunning.  Then, when they get there, we're surprised that they go on to wreak havoc with all that we believe to be good and right and beautiful. Doing the same thing time after time is the very definition of insanity - clearly we need a new way of connecting, of communicating, of articulati

Feb 7, 2024 • 46:03

Dancing with the god within: Finding the Sovereign Feminine with thought-leader Maggie Ostara

Dancing with the god within: Finding the Sovereign Feminine with thought-leader Maggie Ostara

How does each of us find our sovereignty, our sense of what it is to have agency and be alive in the world, and align this with the part in all of us that is anchored in compassion, connection and empathy?  How, in short, do we encounter and encourage our own sovereign feminine?Dr Maggie Ostara is a long-time friend of the podcast - she was with us in episode 116 when we talked about finding our purpose in the world: What's mine to do, what's yours to do and what's ours to do together?  I've put

Jan 31, 2024 • 1:16:33

On Nature, Culture and The Sacred with Elder and Visionary, Nina Simons

On Nature, Culture and The Sacred with Elder and Visionary, Nina Simons

"Consciousness creates matter,Language Creates Reality,Ritual creates relationship' - Oscar Miro-Quesada  quoted by Nina Simons in her book ’Nature, Culture and the Sacred’ One of the extraordinary privileges of hosting a podcast like this is that I get to talk to some of my heroes, to ask questions, to have a conversation about the things that really matter.  This week's guest is one of these.  Nina Simons is an author, a leader - and we'll hear how that word was imposed on her and then she lea

Jan 24, 2024 • 1:05:46

Gathering the Memes of Production: Building Co-ordi-Nations with Josh Davila of Blockchain Socialist podcast

Gathering the Memes of Production: Building Co-ordi-Nations with Josh Davila of Blockchain Socialist podcast

Those of you who've followed the podcast for any length of time know that I feel our capacity to connect across long distances, to share ideas in real time, is one of the things that has shifted our culture from being complex to super-complex, or hyper-complex, or whatever adjective we want to create that intimates a massive increase in the complexity of our communications and our actions. One key part of this is the evolution of blockchain, particularly in its Ethereum incarnation. Most of us k

Jan 17, 2024 • 1:17:38

Let's get rid of Money and start afresh!å Dismantling the Super-Organism with Dianna Finch

Let's get rid of Money and start afresh!å Dismantling the Super-Organism with Dianna Finch

Happy New Year.  It feels to me as if this year, the journey is going to be one of continual change and of challenge - that 2024 will be the year when it is impossible for anyone to pretend that the life we knew, the life we grew up believing would go on indefinitely - is going to continue. The old order is dying, but if we're to absolute collapse on a global scale (because clearly it's happening locally all over the world, usually pushed by the governments of people who are statistically most l

Jan 10, 2024 • 1:49:22

Promethean Project - Part 2: Crafting the future with Dr Simon Michaux

Promethean Project - Part 2: Crafting the future with Dr Simon Michaux

Welcome to the second part of our conversation - if you haven't listened to the first part, please do so - it's here [LINK]and Simon has very kindly agreed to come back to join our Cutting Edge gathering on Sunday 19th March at 7pm UK time. He'll be with us for an hour during which you'll have a chance to ask him the questions that matter to you - all the things I don't think to ask - and then we'll have another hour together to explore ways each of us can ground what we're learning in our own l

Jan 3, 2024 • 1:14:24

The Promethian Project: Building a Radical Tomorrow with Dr Simon Michaux

The Promethian Project: Building a Radical Tomorrow with Dr Simon Michaux

Happy New Year.  My guest this week is a long term friend of the podcast. Dr Simon Michaux has been a physicist and geologist and then became an expert in the reality of the circular economy. He now works in the Geological Survey of Finland and is a regular advisor to the Finnish parliament. The day after we recorded this podcast, he was talking to the British consulate in Helsinki and in the last year, he's explained the reality of where we're at over 200 times, and one third of those talks was

Jan 3, 2024 • 1:12:01

Plant Spirit Teachers: learning from the Elder Plants with Dr Simon Ruffell

Plant Spirit Teachers: learning from the Elder Plants with Dr Simon Ruffell

For this time around the dark nights of the winter solstice - at least in the northern hemisphere - we've been exploring more of an inner landscape - being reflexive with Nathalie and Della, and before that, exploring the living myths of our land and how we can ground them in our current reality with Angharad Wynne. And this week, we're heading inward and outward, travelling to Peru with Dr Simon Ruffell, psychiatrist, ayahuasca researcher and student of Shipobo curanderismo. Since 2016

Dec 27, 2023 • 1:16:51

Meditation for the Winter solstice of 2023

Meditation for the Winter solstice of 2023

Here is our winter solstice meditation - please create a space for yourself where you won't be disturbed and where you can feel your way into the dark, regenerative space of the longest night.  If you want to draw the curtains, switch off all the power and light a candle, this may help you to connect with the place of rest and renewal. This version is the shortest and comes with music in the background. If you'd prefer longer versions with or without music, you can find them belowand if

Dec 20, 2023 • 17:29

Solstice Dreaming: 3 podcasters gather round the Dark-Nights fire: Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott

Solstice Dreaming: 3 podcasters gather round the Dark-Nights fire: Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott

This is the fourth year of our now-traditional Winter Solstice podcast get-together in which Nathalie Nahai, Della Duncan and I sit around our virtual dark-nights fire to reflect on the podcasting year just gone and explore what has changed for us since the last time the seeds of new beginnings were grounded in the heart of what has passed.  This is becoming one of the highlights of my podcasting year  - a chance to range far and wide and deep in the company of two women whose podcasts

Dec 20, 2023 • 1:26:06

Bright Fires, Dark Nights: Connecting deeply and building tribe as we head to the Solstice with Angharad Wynne

Bright Fires, Dark Nights: Connecting deeply and building tribe as we head to the Solstice with Angharad Wynne

This week, as we head down towards what, in the northern hemisphere at least, is the long nights, the dark nights, I wanted to explore our heritage, the way we celebrate the solstice in this land, the land of Britain. I'm aware that quite a lot of you listening are from the southern hemisphere where you're heading up to your long sun and your fires burn differently. I recorded a summer solstice meditation at our long days in June and when we get to the meditation - after the podcast with Della D

Dec 13, 2023 • 1:00:51

Braced for Impact: Cutting through the Greenwash and Lies with Rachel Donald of Planet: Critical podcast

Braced for Impact: Cutting through the Greenwash and Lies with Rachel Donald of Planet: Critical podcast

Our guest this week is host of one of my must-listen podcasts - one I've been following since the spring, when Dr Simon Michaux mailed me and said, you need to listen to Rachel - and he was right. Rachel Donald is host of Planet: Critical one of the world's top-rated podcasts on the poly-crisis and systems change.  She interviews some really big players on the world stage with integrity and panache - her conversation with Alastair Campbell where she never lets him off the hook is an abs

Dec 6, 2023 • 1:28:16

Cars of the future (NOT EVs!) - Transforming transport and business with Hugo Spowers of Riversimple Movement

Cars of the future (NOT EVs!) - Transforming transport and business with Hugo Spowers of Riversimple Movement

Our guest this week is Hugo Spowers, Company Architect of Riversimple, whose purpose is 'To pursue, systematically, the elimination of the environmental impact of personal transport.' Modernity demands that we have personal transport and the thought of giving it up is one of the many sticking points when people try to imagine a way through to a regenerative future: nobody wants to be limited to their immediate vicinity for work, leisure or social connection. At the same time, we're becoming incr

Nov 29, 2023 • 1:30:23

Beyond the Brink is the Beginning with Richard Wain - Launching 27th November 2023

Beyond the Brink is the Beginning with Richard Wain - Launching 27th November 2023

Words have the power to change worlds.  Powerful words, powerfully written can open doors to the future.  Beautiful words, beautifully written, can give us hope . Richard Wain's new collection of poetry is doing all of these, with panache, and heart and soul.We all know by now that we need total systemic change - and a central thesis of this podcast is that we'll get there best by creating narratives that build this - both highlighting the need for it and exploring possible paths throug

Nov 25, 2023 • 1:07:18

Building Lifeboats to the Emerging Futures with Sophia Parker of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Building Lifeboats to the Emerging Futures with Sophia Parker of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

My guest this week is someone who is both right at the edge of the emerging futures and in a position to exert leverage at some of the highest points of the scale at which change happens. Sophia Parker is the Emerging Futures Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a philanthropic organisation with a long history of progressive work, aiming for social and cultural equity.  It is still committed to the research that sheds new light onto the nature and scale of poverty and injustice i

Nov 22, 2023 • 1:24:47

The Animate Earth Responds: Initiation in a time of Crisis with Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy

The Animate Earth Responds: Initiation in a time of Crisis with Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy

How do we move ourselves – individually and collectively – from the broken Trauma Culture of our times, to the Initiation Culture that will allow us to step forward, healed and whole?Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy have co-authored a book: Post-Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse.Vandana Shiva says of it, “Ladha and Murphy walk us through the deep logics of neoliberalism, the foundations of globalisation and the ideology of corporate free trade … the authors dis

Nov 15, 2023 • 1:30:54

Power to the People: Changing the way things work with Simon Oldridge

Power to the People: Changing the way things work with Simon Oldridge

We all know the climate and ecological tipping points are terrifyingly close. What can we do - as individuals and collectively? Simon Oldridge has ideas that answer both of these.  Simon first joined us back in episode #182 when he joined his colleague Anthea Simmons and they spoke eloquently about the strategies of the South Devon Primary group which are aimed at raising one progressive candidate in borderline constituencies in the UK, so that the hard right doesn't swan through the mi

Nov 1, 2023 • 1:21:51

Becoming Intentional Gods:  Claiming the future with Indy Johar of the Dark Matter Labs

Becoming Intentional Gods: Claiming the future with Indy Johar of the Dark Matter Labs

If we're at the moment of choice between flourishing and destruction, what would you choose? We are at a moment of decision: We either step forward into our own Great Destruction, which could theoretically see us wipe out all of humanity and most of the More than Human World…Or we could step into what Indy Johar calls 'The Great Peace', claiming our birthright as the Interstitial Generation between the old paradigm of extraction, consumption and pollution—and the new one that could aris

Oct 25, 2023 • 1:10:41

Bringing Indigenous foods back to the people: a conversation with Josiah Meldrum of Hodmedod's

Bringing Indigenous foods back to the people: a conversation with Josiah Meldrum of Hodmedod's

This is an Accidental Gods bonus Episode recorded at the Marches Real Food and Farming Conference held at Linley Estate in Shropshire a few weeks back. For those who don't live within easy reach, the Marches are the borderlands between England and Wales, specifically Shropshire and Herefordshire on the English side and Powys on the Welsh side - and they're called the Marches because for several hundred years when England was endeavouring to colonise Wales, the border lords would March up and dow

Oct 21, 2023 • 1:13:05

Courageous Conversations - talking about what matters with Rowan Ryrie of Parents for Future

Courageous Conversations - talking about what matters with Rowan Ryrie of Parents for Future

How can we, as parents, grandparents and anyone who cares about the fate of future generations, live our lives in such a way that when our children ask us why we didn't do more,  we can say with honesty that we did all that we could? How do we help them to build resilience, to feel safe in a supportive community and in connection with the natural world so that as they grow, they can face the truth about the world they have inherited?And how can we use our role as parents to create conve

Oct 18, 2023 • 1:11:52

The Web of Life & New Tech Webs – A Beautiful Connection? with Monty Merlin of ReFi DAO

The Web of Life & New Tech Webs – A Beautiful Connection? with Monty Merlin of ReFi DAO

How much do you know about AI, blockchain and Web 3.0? If you're like us, the answer is probably very little. But these techs are going to change our world out of all recognition and while there is the potential for catastrophe, in the right hands, the same technology has the potential to help us shape the future we'd all be proud to leave behind and this is what this podcast is about. Monty is one of the founders of ReFi DAO.  Monty is working deeply and effectively at the cutting edge

Oct 11, 2023 • 1:24:08

What your Food Ate - Or why you should never eat industrially farmed food ever again- With Anne Bicklé and David Montgomery

What your Food Ate - Or why you should never eat industrially farmed food ever again- With Anne Bicklé and David Montgomery

How does soil health intimately and profoundly impact human health? What's the link between the soil microbiome and the human gut microbiome? How can we begin to restore our health, and the health of the living earth in concert with each other?  These are the questions posed by the outstanding book 'What your Food Ate: How to heal our land and reclaim our health' and the co-authors, Anne Biklé and David Montgomery are this week's guests as we delve deeply into the nature of soil, the fu

Oct 4, 2023 • 1:16:40

Transforming Narrative Waters with Ruth Taylor of the Common Cause Foundation

Transforming Narrative Waters with Ruth Taylor of the Common Cause Foundation

Here at Accidental Gods, we are increasingly of the opinion that our most urgent need as we face the polycrisis is to find a sense of being a belonging that changes our life's purpose. We all know we're not here just to pay bills and die, but knowing what we're not here for is not enough: we need to feel at the deepest level what we are here for, to rebuild the deep heart connections to the web of life such that we can take our place in the web with integrity and authenticity and a true

Sep 27, 2023 • 1:19:35

Equinox Meditation: Finding the balance point in ourselves and the world: Essence

Equinox Meditation: Finding the balance point in ourselves and the world: Essence

Manda's Equinox meditation focuses on finding our sense of balance as the tilt of the world balances between summer and winter, light and dark, day and night.  And from that, finding a stable place with the three pillars of our heart minds: joyful curiosity, gratitude and compassion. The meditation is available with Birdsong and with MusicBirdsong https://media.transistor.fm/66b6845b/79a1c49b.mp3Music https://media.transistor.fm/8284fc49/d9bae6ab.mp3

Sep 23, 2023 • 21:48

Walking the edge between light and dark: Equinox reflections on Accidental Gods past, present and future

Walking the edge between light and dark: Equinox reflections on Accidental Gods past, present and future

As we head into winter in the northern hemisphere, as the tilt of the world hangs in balance, we reached our 200th episode.  So this is a time to look back and look forward: to look at where we've been, where we are and where we might go. From our origins as an adjunct to the Accidental Gods Membership, explaining the neurophysiology and neuropsychology behind what we're doing, and then then the spiritual grounding of connecting to the web of life... we moved into talking to people who live at t

Sep 23, 2023 • 24:36

Meeting the Spirit of the Land: exploring Spirituality in Farming with biodynamic grower, André Tranquilini

Meeting the Spirit of the Land: exploring Spirituality in Farming with biodynamic grower, André Tranquilini

In this, our 200th episode of Accidental Gods podcast, I am delighted to be joined by André Tranquilini, estate manager at Waltham Place, a 220 acred biodynamic estate in Berkshire, in the UK. André is a biodynamic farmer, consultant and teacher. He has been the manager at Waltham Place since 2018. André has worked extensively as a market gardener, Steiner school teacher and farmer, and was a founding member of the seed company, Living Seeds, in Portugal. Born in Brazil, André has had t

Sep 20, 2023 • 1:26:28

Making The Nettle Dress: a journey of attention and intention and magic and loss with Allan Brown and Dylan Howitt

Making The Nettle Dress: a journey of attention and intention and magic and loss with Allan Brown and Dylan Howitt

"Grasping the Nettle' is at the heart of the film. Making a dress this way is a mad act of will and artistry but also devotional, with every nettle thread representing hours of mindful craft. Over seven years Allan is transformed by the process just as the nettles are. It's a kind of alchemy: transforming nettles into cloth, grief into beauty, protection and renewal. A labour of love, in the truest sense of the phrase, The Nettle Dress is a modern-day fairytale and hymn to the healing p

Sep 13, 2023 • 1:19:25

Healthy Human Culture: Diving deep into ourselves, each other and the world, with Sophy Banks

Healthy Human Culture: Diving deep into ourselves, each other and the world, with Sophy Banks

How do good people create systems of oppression?  What is Health? What is unHealth? And how do we move from the latter to the former in ways that mean good people create systems of co-creation, inter-being and connection?  This week, we explore all these questions with Sophy Banks, Founder and Lead Facilitator of Healthy Human Culture. This week's guest is a remarkable woman who was one of the shining lights amongst those who came to teach us at Schumacher college, before the pandemicSo

Sep 6, 2023 • 1:01:32

Inspiring the Climate Majority Project with Prof Rupert Read

Inspiring the Climate Majority Project with Prof Rupert Read

We're on the edge of so many tipping points it's hard to know where to start.  But paralysis isn't useful and so we need to talk to the people who are still moving forward - and who have ideas of how we can carry more and more people with us.   With that in mind, this week's guest is a many-time friend of the podcast: someone completely aligned with our aims and ideals and whose energy, activism - and capacity to write and publish books that are right on the nail - leave me awestruck. P

Aug 30, 2023 • 1:08:16

The Art of Living Well - A Creative Life on the Land with Elisa Rathje of AppleTurnover TV

The Art of Living Well - A Creative Life on the Land with Elisa Rathje of AppleTurnover TV

In this week's episode I'm talking to someone I met on last year's Thrutopia Masterclass: someone who was there to explore and share ideas about how we might get through to that flourishing future we'd be proud to leave behind. Elisa Rathje is an artist, a filmmaker, a podcaster, a writer, an unschooling parent - and a homesteader whose life is an expression of her philosophy that we need to live closer to, and in harmony with, the land. She and her family farm one and a half acres on S

Aug 23, 2023 • 1:13:47

Spiritual Activism: Permaculture of land, heart and people with Maddy Harland

Spiritual Activism: Permaculture of land, heart and people with Maddy Harland

This podcast is focussed on all the ways that we can bring all of ourselves to the project of total systemic change: our minds, bodies, spirits, hearts - and the practicality of what we do.  Given this, we're delighted to welcome to the podcast Maddy Harland, the Co-founder and Editor of Permaculture Magazine . Maddy, and her husband Tim, co-founded a publishing company, Permanent Publications, in 1990 and Permaculture Magazine in 1992 to explore traditional and new ways of living in gr

Aug 16, 2023 • 1:13:41

This Mighty Heart: exploring the power of Heart Intelligence with Scilla Elworthy

This Mighty Heart: exploring the power of Heart Intelligence with Scilla Elworthy

We all know that we need to reconnect to our HeartMinds and to bring our Heart Intelligence up to meet the explosion of left brain intelligence - we just don't know how to do it. This week's guest is one of my living heroes - who does have clear, grounded ideas of how to do this. Dr Scilla Elworthy was thirteen years old when she saw the Soviet Invasion of Hungary on the television and understood the horror of what was happening. Her mother found her packing a case to go to Budapest to

Aug 9, 2023 • 53:27

Giving Birth to an Alien Intelligence: AI - existential risk or integral part of the solution with Daniel Thorson

Giving Birth to an Alien Intelligence: AI - existential risk or integral part of the solution with Daniel Thorson

How dangerous is AI? Are Large Language Models likely to subvert our children?  Is Generalised AI going to wipe out all life on the planet?  I don't know the answers to these. It may be that nobody knows, but this week's guest was my go-to when I needed someone with total integrity to help unravel one of the most existential crises of our time, to lay it out as simply as we can without losing the essence of complexity, to help us see the worst cases - and their likelihood - and the best

Aug 2, 2023 • 1:17:46

Walk Deep, walk true, and listen to your dreams: wordsmithing the human spirit with Abigail Morgan Prout

Walk Deep, walk true, and listen to your dreams: wordsmithing the human spirit with Abigail Morgan Prout

Peruvian shaman Oscar Miro-Quesada says that "Consciousness creates matter, Language Creates Reality, Ritual creates relationship.”  This week I'm speaking with someone who bring reality into being with words and weaves relational rituals.  Abigail Morgan Prout is a poet, life coach, mother and visionary. She and I have been talking to one another for about three and a half years. We connected just before lockdown and then, as life became weirder, Abigail's daily poems were a bright flash in the

Jul 26, 2023 • 1:19:40

A Green New Deal that Works for People and Planet with Max Ajl

A Green New Deal that Works for People and Planet with Max Ajl

Our guest this week is Max Ajl, who is an associate researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment and a postdoctoral fellow with the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University. He has written for multiple journals and is an associate editor at Agrarian South & Journal of Labor and Society. It was his 2021, his book, 'A People's Green New Deal', published by Pluto Press, that brought Max to my attention.  If you've been listening to the podcast

Jul 19, 2023 • 1:20:25

Becoming a Stag Beetle!  Living the Interspecies Treaty of Finsbury Park with Ruth Catlow

Becoming a Stag Beetle! Living the Interspecies Treaty of Finsbury Park with Ruth Catlow

In this week's episode, we have a return guest to the podcast. Ruth Catlow has taken the amazing work she did in lockdown and held live festivals in the park where people get to become one of the seven core species: a dog, a Canada goose (just visiting!) a tree, grass… and, yes, a stag beetle. What they're not being, are people. So they're looking at the world through new eyes, hearing it with new ears, smelling, tasting, sensing in all ways - and the whole experience of what it is to live in th

Jul 12, 2023 • 1:05:44

Voting our way to a fairer future: Contemplations on quadratic voting with Ruth Catlow

Voting our way to a fairer future: Contemplations on quadratic voting with Ruth Catlow

This is the part of the podcast where we talk about voting systems, specifically the quadratic voting on the blockchain that Ruth has made into an app that's in use in the Park.  Then we moved into her work with Government ministries and big corporations, bringing the aliveness and liveliness, and special insight of Live Action Role Play into politics and industry to help people see things from a wider context.  This is how we change the world: one new idea at a time...

Jul 12, 2023 • 37:40

Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse with economist Gaya Hetherington

Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse with economist Gaya Hetherington

What does it take to avoid global collapse?  Is there still time?  And if so, what are the societal, social, cultural and goal-oriented changes that we need to make to get there? This week's guest is one of the new generation of super-thinkers who have the capacity, individually and collectively, to bring into being that better future our hearts know is possible. Gaya Herrington received her first master’s degree in Econometrics from the Liberal University of Amsterdam and her second master’s in

Jul 5, 2023 • 1:16:22

Exploding the Myth of a Farm-Free Future (and fake meat!) with Chris Smaje

Exploding the Myth of a Farm-Free Future (and fake meat!) with Chris Smaje

How do we make the case for a fully ecological farming system, that can feed all of us, while restoring the bio-sphere and providing affordable, nutritious food. How can we become a good keystone species - and what does that mean.  This second episode with Chris Smaje, explores his new book, 'Saying No to a Farm Free Future: The Case for an Ecological Food System and against Manufactured Foods.' Chris was last a guest on the podcast in the spring of this year (2023), in episode 166, in which we

Jun 28, 2023 • 1:21:51

Psychedelics: the key to evolution or (yet more) big Pharma hype? With Dr Ros Watts of ACER Integration

Psychedelics: the key to evolution or (yet more) big Pharma hype? With Dr Ros Watts of ACER Integration

We are the Accidental Gods.  We didn't plan to be the ones to hold the god-like power to destroy most of the life on this planet, but here we are, at a place where one single species - ours - has the capacity to do just this. The routes to Armageddon seem to be increasing all the time, but they all have one thing in common: they're predicated on our absolute disconnection from the web of life. It is a central tenet of this podcast that, for most of our evolutionary history, humanity has existed

Jun 21, 2023 • 1:17:57

Summer Solstice Meditation - Essence

Summer Solstice Meditation - Essence

This version of the summer solstice meditation has periods of silence in which you can explore your own feelings and observe the focus of your awareness.  As with all meditations, please find a safe, quiet place where you can be completely undisturbed for the duration of the meditation - and a short while afterwards. Thank you.

Jun 20, 2023 • 22:31

Summer Solstice Meditation - with birdsong

Summer Solstice Meditation - with birdsong

This version of the summer solstice meditation has birdsong overlaid so there is no silence.  As with all meditations, please find a safe, quiet place where you can be completely undisturbed for the duration of the meditation - and a short while afterwards. Thank you.

Jun 20, 2023 • 22:31

Manda - Summer Solstice Roundup, Reading and Listening

Manda - Summer Solstice Roundup, Reading and Listening

At the halfway point of the year, Manda looks back on what's been on the podcast, forward at (some of) what's to come, thoughts on where we're at as a world, and explores the books and podcasts that have stood out in the past six months. Non fiction  A People’s Green New Deal by Max Ajl https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-people-s-green-new-deal-max-ajl/5731783?ean=9780745341750Building Tomorrow by Paddy Le Fluffy https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Building-Tomorrow-by-Paddy-Le-Flufy/978173

Jun 20, 2023 • 51:27

The Sacred Depths of Nature: exploring the interface of science, spirituality and religion with Ursula Goodenough

The Sacred Depths of Nature: exploring the interface of science, spirituality and religion with Ursula Goodenough

Sometimes the synchronicity of this podcast leaves me very happy. About six months ago, I was thinking that I wanted to talk to someone who really lived at the interface between science and spirituality, where I could begin to sand down some of the rough edges of my own thinking. And that afternoon, I discovered that the 2nd edition of Professor Ursula Goodenough's book 'The Sacred Depths of Nature' was due to be published in the first half of this year. So we set up a podcast and then it turned

Jun 14, 2023 • 1:28:52

Reality Check: Less Quantity, More Quality in a Future that will Work, Part 4 of our series w Simon Michaux

Reality Check: Less Quantity, More Quality in a Future that will Work, Part 4 of our series w Simon Michaux

This is the fourth of our ongoing series with Dr Simon Michaux.  As ever, we ranged far and wide, but this time within the remit of 'what does the world look like in 2050 if we make good choices now?'   Specifically, how do we construct and power our civilisation beyond the emergence of the new system.  And yes, that's impossible to predict exactly, but it's not overly hard to make some basic observations - that we'll have phased out fossil fuels; that we'll reduce our inputs and outputs; that w

Jun 11, 2023 • 1:16:38

Lifeboats and Volcanoes: part 3 of our series with Simon Michaux

Lifeboats and Volcanoes: part 3 of our series with Simon Michaux

This week's guest is fast becoming a friend of the Podcast. In the first part of what is now an ongoing series, Dr Simon Michaux outlined for us the nature of the materials crisis - the fact that there is simply not enough stuff, not enough copper or cobalt or lithium to continue to manufacture at the levels we have been - and there's not even enough to make the renewable (or, as Nate Hagens would call them, rebuildable) technology to replace the fossil fuel power we're going to have to stop usi

Jun 7, 2023 • 1:08:06

Primary Strategy: Growing a new voting paradigm in the South Devon Primary

Primary Strategy: Growing a new voting paradigm in the South Devon Primary

As you'll know by now, one of our core motivators in creating this podcast was the realisation that the 'democratic' systems of the world are largely broken and are not a useful way to affect change. I used to be a political activist. I thought I'd given all that up, but today's conversation has definitely re-awakened my political instincts because today I'm talking with two of the people who set up South Devon Primary: a group committed to changing the political system in the UK. So the first t

May 31, 2023 • 1:10:00

No More Fairy Stories: Writing the way through, one tale at a time - with Denise Baden

No More Fairy Stories: Writing the way through, one tale at a time - with Denise Baden

If you've listened to this podcast at all recently, you'll know that I'm in the editing phase of the new book - the phase where we 'carve it into tiny pieces, throw significant chunks of it in the recycling (because words are never wasted and text storage is basically free) and rebuild the rest into something shinier, sharper and generally more succinct.' And I'm telling you this because this week's guest is a fellow writer who knows what it's like to stare at a blank page until your forehead bl

May 24, 2023 • 1:16:39

Meeting the Ocean: Rekindling our deepest connections through art and science with Markus Reymann

Meeting the Ocean: Rekindling our deepest connections through art and science with Markus Reymann

How do we really create systemic change? How do we shift narratives towards a generative future? How do we bring artists, scientists, policy makers, educators, conservationists, journalists, and all the different siloed tribes together in ways that let them genuinely communicate and listen to the web of life? This week's guest is someone who is actively working on so many levels to change all these things.  As you'll hear, Markus Reymann is a Director of a European Arts foundation, which doesn't

May 17, 2023 • 1:18:54

Proudly Mad: exploring mental health and the climate emergency with Charlie Hertzog Young

Proudly Mad: exploring mental health and the climate emergency with Charlie Hertzog Young

How did one man make the shift from Not wanting to live in this world, to refusing to live in this world?If you've listened to this podcast for any length of time, you'll know that I did the Masters in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher college in 2016-17.  It was a genuinely life changing experience not least because I met some of the most inspiring people I could imagine - young, motivated and incredibly bright. And of them all, Charlie was the brightest. Even before we met, he'd studied eco

May 10, 2023 • 1:17:25

Building Tomorrow: Bonus addition: Painting 2050 if we get things right

Building Tomorrow: Bonus addition: Painting 2050 if we get things right

Paddy and I recorded a brief 15 minute bonus of how the world could look if we actually employed all the strategies in 'Building Tomorrow' - so sit back, soak it in - and then let's make it happen... BIO: Author, Paddy le Flufy read mathematics at Cambridge, then - as seems to have happened with quite a lot of our recent guests, he took a job in the city and qualified as an accountant with KPMG. And then, as also seems to happen with our guests, he didn't buy into the system, but instead spent y

May 4, 2023 • 11:52

Building Tomorrow: Practical steps to a new economic system with Paddy Le Flufy

Building Tomorrow: Practical steps to a new economic system with Paddy Le Flufy

As you will know by now, this podcast searches long and hard for answers to the over-riding question of 'what do we need to do, to get us from where we are, to where we need to be to set the stage for that generative future our hearts know is possible?' So when I got a book that directly asked and then answered that question, I dived straight in. 'Building Tomorrow: Averting Environmental Crisis With a New Economic System' does exactly what it says on the cover. It's full of concrete examples of

May 3, 2023 • 1:28:50

Building Bridges to the Future with Cat Tully of the School of International Futures

Building Bridges to the Future with Cat Tully of the School of International Futures

If you've listened to the podcast at all over the past few years, you'll know that the search for routes to total systemic change has always been the driver of what we're doing and why we're doing it. Even so, it's not often I talk to someone who is singlemindedly exploring the routes to that systemic change and who has the tools to help everyone explore the potential for what might come next. And so this week, I am immensely happy to have had the chance to talk to Cat Tully, a remarkable woman

Apr 26, 2023 • 1:14:33

Bridging from the Necessary to the Possible with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs

Bridging from the Necessary to the Possible with Emily Harris of Dark Matter Labs

IF the present system is broken - and is in fact the heart of the meta-crisis - how can we transform peacefully to something that will work to create the future we'd want to leave behind? That's the core question of this podcast and so it was with great joy, that I found Dark Matter Labs. DML says of itself, "We’re working to create institutions, instruments and infrastructures for a more equitable, caring and sustainable future.Around the planet, we’re feeling the consequences of outdated insti

Apr 19, 2023 • 1:13:40

Drawing Humanity out of the Cave with Dr Simon Michaux (Part 2 of a series)

Drawing Humanity out of the Cave with Dr Simon Michaux (Part 2 of a series)

This week, we're returning to the second part of the ongoing series with Dr Simon Michaux. If you haven't listened to the first part, I'd recommend you do and I'll put the link in the show notes, but the edited highlight is that Simon is a mining engineer who is dedicated to crunching the numbers that nobody else bothers to crunch - of how much stuff there is: key stuff, like copper and lithium and cobalt and concrete - and where it comes from and how much power it takes to dig it up and move it

Apr 12, 2023 • 1:32:14

The Fine Art of Huddles: multiplying our potential by the power of our peers with Zahra Davidson of Huddlecraft

The Fine Art of Huddles: multiplying our potential by the power of our peers with Zahra Davidson of Huddlecraft

How can we begin to shift away from the old hierarchical dominance structures of our past 2,000 years, towards something where everyone brings the best of themselves and embraces and celebrates the best in other people?It was in hunting for answers to this, that I came across this week's guest: someone who is opening doors all round the world in the creation of a regenerative, emotionally literate future.  Zahra Davidson was Co-founder of and is now the Chief Executive and Design Director at Hud

Apr 5, 2023 • 59:01

Bonus: Exploring the banking crash with Grace Rachmany - in which I ask all the questions I never asked before...

Bonus: Exploring the banking crash with Grace Rachmany - in which I ask all the questions I never asked before...

Following our podcast with Grace Rachmany, we stayed online and talked about the banking crash. At the time of recording, we only knew about Silicon Valley Bank - Credit Suisse hadn't gone down yet - but we talked about the nature of finance, of cryptocurrencies, of the totally unsustainable nature of the economy.  This is the kind of conversation that I often have with guests after the podcast is over. Usually it happens off-air and I wish we'd captured it. And this time, we did.  So if you're

Mar 29, 2023 • 46:26

Meshworks of Being: Building Community on the DAO with Grace Rachmany of Priceless DAO

Meshworks of Being: Building Community on the DAO with Grace Rachmany of Priceless DAO

We know that the future is based on Community. What we lack are practical routes to creating communities of community on a worldwide scale - ones that can form and will be resilient enough to survive.  In this week's podcast, therefore, I'm genuinely thrilled to introduce you to one of the women who is breaking new ground in the creation of communities at scale and across wide geographic areas.  In quite specific order, Grace Rachmany is a mother, a tech industry trouble shooter, author of over

Mar 29, 2023 • 1:20:38

Dancing with the Muppets of Cutthroat Island: Transforming Industry to create a genuine Green Revolution with Dr Simon Michaux

Dancing with the Muppets of Cutthroat Island: Transforming Industry to create a genuine Green Revolution with Dr Simon Michaux

How much actual stuff do we have in the world compared to what we need to make the 'Green Revolution' happen?  This week's guest is another of those recently elevated to my pantheon of people I Must Listen To whatever they say and however they say it and I am genuinely thrilled to welcome him onto the podcast.  Dr Simon Michaux has been a physicist and geologist. His PhD is in mining engineering and he worked for years in the mining industries in Australia. In 2015, he moved to Europe and became

Mar 22, 2023 • 1:15:11

Reasons to be Sheepful: from wedding shawls to burial shrouds with Yuli Somme of Bellacouche

Reasons to be Sheepful: from wedding shawls to burial shrouds with Yuli Somme of Bellacouche

Our crisis, our challenge, our opportunity is complex. More than ever, it matters now that we not get caught in separate silos where we focus just on atmospheric carbon, or just on plastic pollution, or just on our cultural addiction to fossil fuels. We need responses that cover all of these fields, new stories that let us move into a future we can barely imagine. So, that's what this podcast is for: to give a platform to people whose perspectives are new or different or challenging or inspiring

Mar 15, 2023 • 1:18:10

Technology for a future that works with Cory Feco of the DOI Foundation

Technology for a future that works with Cory Feco of the DOI Foundation

The one big question that this podcast exists to answer is - what does our future look like when it works? When we endeavour to answer this, there seems quite a clear divide between those us born in the twentieth century who grew up in a world before broadband, and those born in the nineties and later who never got to know the strange weeble of the dial up tone, but instead grew in a world where their every move was dissected by their peers on social media. We can look some other time at the emo

Mar 8, 2023 • 1:17:04

Be Kind, Be Useful, Create Giants in the Sky: transforming community with Alan Lane of Slung Low

Be Kind, Be Useful, Create Giants in the Sky: transforming community with Alan Lane of Slung Low

The Accidental Gods podcast exists to set the conditions for emergence into a new system: to bring a critical mass of us to a place where emergence into a new system is a rewarding reality.  To get there, we bring to you some of the many astonishingly creative, compassionate, switched-on people who are working at the leading edge of change. Alan Lane is one of these people. He's the artistic director of the theatre company Slung Low, which in turn is one of the most innovative theatre companies

Mar 1, 2023 • 1:06:31

One Planet Living: Mapping Minds to create a new Consciousness, with Pooran Desai, OBE.

One Planet Living: Mapping Minds to create a new Consciousness, with Pooran Desai, OBE.

It is our mission on this podcast - and the wider membership community from which it arose -  to open doors and break down barriers, to bring forward the ideas and the actions of, and give voice to, the absolutely amazingly creative people who get that business is not usual, that the reality we have created for ourselves is misguided at best - and dangerously toxic at worst - and are doing their best to bring about change in a timescale that matters. This week, we spoke with Pooran Desa

Feb 22, 2023 • 1:06:06

Saving Chocolate! and finding solutions to the meta crisis with Nicola Peel

Saving Chocolate! and finding solutions to the meta crisis with Nicola Peel

Accidental Gods podcast exists to open doors and break down barriers, to bring forward the ideas and the actions of and give voice to the gloriously creative people who give their lives to the idea and realisation of a regenerative future.   In this wide-ranging conversation with Solutionist and film-maker, Nicola Peel, we learned of the horrors of oil spills in the Amazon and the ways fungi could clear them if only the oil companies would let the work begin. We explored the nature of regenerati

Feb 15, 2023 • 1:14:04

Living in a Post-Carbon, Post-Capital, Post Urban world - with Chris Smaje, author of A Small Farm Future

Living in a Post-Carbon, Post-Capital, Post Urban world - with Chris Smaje, author of A Small Farm Future

Chris Smaje is a social scientist by training and a small-scale farmer by occupation. For the past 19 years, he has co-worked a small farm in Somerset, in southwest England.  Previously, he was a university-based social scientist, working in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surry and the Dept of Anthropology at Goldsmith's College. HIs focus was aspects of social policy, social identities and the environment. Since switching focus to the practice and politics of agro-ecology, he'

Feb 8, 2023 • 1:04:55

Unlocking Curiosity: Regenerating Business from the packaging up with Jo Chidley of Re and Beauty Kitchen

Unlocking Curiosity: Regenerating Business from the packaging up with Jo Chidley of Re and Beauty Kitchen

Jo Chidley is one of those forces of nature, unconstrained by the way things are usually done.  As the co-founders of Beauty Kitchen, she and her partner refused venture capital, keeping their business free to become a B-Corp and to put people and planet ahead of profit.  She's dedicated to producing the best outcome for the people who work for her as well as for the people who buy her products.  And in the process of finding the best ways forward, she came across the horror of single use packag

Feb 1, 2023 • 1:00:23

Stop eating Chicken! - The future of food with Rob Percival, author of The Meat Paradox

Stop eating Chicken! - The future of food with Rob Percival, author of The Meat Paradox

Rob Percival is a writer, campaigner and food policy expert with The Soil Association. His commentary on food and farming has featured in the national press and on prime time television, and his writing has been shortlisted for the Guardian’s International Development Journalism Prize and the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s Food Sustainability Media Award. He works as Head of Food Policy for the Soil Association.The Meat Paradox is his first book, and goodness, it's been a world changer - since its

Jan 25, 2023 • 53:54

Cultures of Commoning: Quadratic voting, indigenous connectivity and pacifist chess with Ruth Catlow

Cultures of Commoning: Quadratic voting, indigenous connectivity and pacifist chess with Ruth Catlow

This week's conversation ranges over an astonishingly wide range of topics from ways to facilitate interspecies communication through play and ways to play 3-person pacifist chess (and thereby change the world), to the nature of democracy and how the use of quadratic voting on the blockchain to inspire artistic endeavours in north London might be expanded nationally and internationally on the scale of global governance to shift the cultural dominance away from capital hegemony to a more fluid, g

Jan 18, 2023 • 1:11:04

Being the Change: Journeys in Service to Life with Gail Bradbrook

Being the Change: Journeys in Service to Life with Gail Bradbrook

This week's guest is a friend of the podcast, Dr Gail Bradbrook.  Best known for her role in co-founding Extinction Rebellion, Gail is one of our nation's (and our world's) deepest thinkers on radical change: what will it take to shift the juggernaut of predatory capitalism from the orgy of extraction, consumption and destruction that has brought us to the edge of crisis, and instead turn it towards a celebration of life in all its forms? Gail is also a leading beacon of practical activism - how

Jan 11, 2023 • 1:03:30

Plan. Pause. Reset: Real Steps to Radical Transformation with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick

Plan. Pause. Reset: Real Steps to Radical Transformation with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick

Eva is a climate activist, process designer and facilitator. She has co-convened the Transformative Conflict for Transition Network summit, supports sociocratic system development, decision-making and facilitation in many contexts including Extinction Rebellion Scotland.Justin is an anthropologist and activist from Edinburgh. He is a member of Extinction Rebellion Scotland. Since 2009, has worked with the Forest Peoples Programme, supporting communities to secure their community lands and determ

Jan 4, 2023 • 1:14:53

Three years on: Manda's reflections on our third anniversary - and looking forward into 2023

Three years on: Manda's reflections on our third anniversary - and looking forward into 2023

As we move from our third to our fourth year, it seemed like a good time to look back on the origins of the whole Accidental Gods project - why and how we started and what our original aims were - and then to look forward to the coming year and what we're focussing on both on the podcast and within the membership.   So much has changed even in such a short time. We're all more aware than ever of the tipping points around us, but also more aware of what we can do, of the many, many roles that are

Dec 30, 2022 • 39:54

Food, Farming and Feeding the Soul: with Satish Kumar in conjunction with the Oxford Real Farming Conference

Food, Farming and Feeding the Soul: with Satish Kumar in conjunction with the Oxford Real Farming Conference

Satish Kumar is one of the absolute titans of the Regenerative movement in the UK.  In 1962, he and and one of his fellow Jain monks made an 8,000 mile mendicant peace pilgrimage around the world, stopping in the capitals of what the nuclear nations of the earth: Russia, USA, China, France and the UK.  He settled in the latter and soon became known for his work in connecting people and ideas. He founded the Small School in Devon and went on to found Schumacher College, deeply rooted in his ideas

Dec 28, 2022 • 59:27

Traditional Solstice Celebration: Looking back and looking forward with Della Duncan and Nathalie Nahai

Traditional Solstice Celebration: Looking back and looking forward with Della Duncan and Nathalie Nahai

As the year stills and tilts afresh, we bring you our annual moment of reflection with two podcast hosts we really admire.  There's a meditation at the end, to bring you into your own space of stillness and reflection, but ahead of this, we delve into where we think the global human psyche is at this moment,  how we feel when we look upstream, and what we see; and what makes our hearts sing, and what does it prompt us to do: core questions that open up a wealth of ideas, reflections and imaginin

Dec 20, 2022 • 1:03:58

Earthborne Rangers: Playing our way to a future that works with Andrew Navaro

Earthborne Rangers: Playing our way to a future that works with Andrew Navaro

The average child in the western world attends 10,000 hours of school - and plays 20,000 hours of games.  In the 'adult' world, many of us spend hours devoted to levelling up our characters and exploring imaginary worlds.  If the Tech-bros get their way, we'll soon live entirely in the Metaverse and have minimal contact with the real world beyond the walls of our concrete hutches.  But imagine a different world: where the people of earth have come together to solve the multi-polar traps of the c

Dec 14, 2022 • 1:25:12

Living Well within our Limits: Actions for systemic change with Prof Julia Steinberger

Living Well within our Limits: Actions for systemic change with Prof Julia Steinberger

Professor Julia Steinberger researches and teaches in the interdisciplinary areas of Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology.  She is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for her research project 'Living Well Within Limits' investigating how universal human well-being might be achieved within planetary boundaries. She is Lead Author for the IPCC's 6th Assessment Report with Working Group 3.She has held postdoctoral positions at the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich, and

Dec 7, 2022 • 41:45

Data is the New Plastic! Ethics, Accuracy and AI with Dr John Collins of Machine Intelligence Garage

Data is the New Plastic! Ethics, Accuracy and AI with Dr John Collins of Machine Intelligence Garage

Dr John Collins worked for the UK's Central Electricity Generating Board in the days when such things were nationalised industries. His PhD involved creating a real-time dosimeter for workers in nuclear plants so they didn't have to wait 2 weeks to learn the results of the film-based dosimeters that were in use. In doing so, he saved the CEGB considerable amounts of money - and, mere importantly,  saved the lives and health of the men and women who worked there. Thus began a lifetime working at

Nov 30, 2022 • 59:05

Telling the Truth and Moving Forward: Building the Moderate Flank with Rupert Read

Telling the Truth and Moving Forward: Building the Moderate Flank with Rupert Read

Rupert Read is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, but he is also a Green party activist, and a prolific speaker, media spokesperson and author advocating for a wholehearted, whole-culture response to the Climate and Ecological Emergency. A long-term friend of the podcast, Rupert joins us today to talk about his new book: 'Do You Want to Know the Truth: The Surprising Rewards of Climate Honesty' and to announce the launch of a new movement, the Moderate Flank, whi

Nov 23, 2022 • 57:49

End of year round-up: Manda's favourite podcasts, fiction and non-fiction of 2022

End of year round-up: Manda's favourite podcasts, fiction and non-fiction of 2022

As we do each year, we've curated a list of the Accidental Gods' favourite podcast and books of 2022.  Enjoy!Podcasts Nate Hagens The Great Simplification - fourth of four (so far) with Daniel Schmachtenbergerhttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-great-simplification-with-nate-hagens/id1604218333?i=1000583952697The Sustainable Food Trust episode with Dr Michael Antoniouhttps://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-sustainable-food-trust-podcast/id1511133906?i=1000559083233/Global Governance Futu

Nov 16, 2022 • 56:08

Regenerative by Design: Creating Communities that work with Charlie Fisher of Transition by Design

Regenerative by Design: Creating Communities that work with Charlie Fisher of Transition by Design

Charlie Fisher is a co-founder and director of the Co-operative Architecture Practice, Transition by Design. He's a researcher and urban-instigator working on regenerative land use approaches and more collaborative forms of city-making driven by the belief that to unlock collective imagination for equitable societies we must remove structural barriers that are preventing people from connecting with one another.His role over the past decade has been to build capacities within land-based organisat

Nov 9, 2022 • 1:12:48

Fractal Improv: finding generosity, connection and compassion amidst our fear with Belina Raffy

Fractal Improv: finding generosity, connection and compassion amidst our fear with Belina Raffy

Belina Raffy, Empress and Improvisation guide,  is the director of Maffick Ltd & Applied Improvisation and Thrivability thought-leader, Thrivable World Quest co-founder and global captain.She used to work in London and New York as an Executive for one of the largest global financial institutions, in 13 years, she saw many people struggle with burn-out.  She studied improvisation to find out: 1) how these skills help individuals respond to the unexpected, and navigate ambiguity 2) how it can tran

Nov 2, 2022 • 1:09:38

Compass: Charting a Progressive Route through the Political Maelstrom with Neal Lawson

Compass: Charting a Progressive Route through the Political Maelstrom with Neal Lawson

Neal Lawson was brought up in an activist household and joined the Labour party at sixteen.  After university, he worked for the Transport and General Workers' Union and then was a speech writer for Gordon Brown during the New Labour years.  He has been helping to lead the political campaign group, Compass, since its formation in 2003. He is more focused than ever on how to make big transformative change happen. He works on strategy, relationships, funding and fronting Compass. He writes for The

Oct 26, 2022 • 51:53

The Kindness of Strangers: Ocean Rowing, Solitude and Transformation with Dr Roz Savage MBE

The Kindness of Strangers: Ocean Rowing, Solitude and Transformation with Dr Roz Savage MBE

Dr Roz Savage MBE is an Ocean Rower, Author, Speaker, Lecturer, Sustainability Advocate. Her feats have been described by Sir Richard Branson as “Heroic, epic, inspiring, historic.” Best known as the first (and so far only) woman to row solo across the world’s “Big Three” oceans - the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian - Roz inspires us to think again about what is possible, and encourages us to step up fully into the potential of our highest selves.She combines her self-taught life skills with princ

Oct 19, 2022 • 1:11:53

Matereality and Corporate Mischief: reshaping Business as if the job were to create a world that works with B.Lorraine Smith

Matereality and Corporate Mischief: reshaping Business as if the job were to create a world that works with B.Lorraine Smith

B. Lorraine Smith is a writer, speaker, corporate mischievist, and generally curious student of life. She changes minds (most often her own), casting a dubious eye on the line between work and play. She holds a vision of a future where all industry is a force for healing and any exceptions compost themselves into history. She has been working towards this vision with global companies since 2004, bringing together activists, executives and thought-leaders.  she shares what she finds as she goes a

Oct 12, 2022 • 1:04:14

Flourish: Designing new paradigms and expanding our agency with Sarah Ichioka

Flourish: Designing new paradigms and expanding our agency with Sarah Ichioka

Sarah Ichioka is co-author with Michael Pawlyn of 'Flourish' a rich, inspiring book that outlines key paradigm shifts for this time of planetary emergency.  Looking deeply into the web of life, Flourish proposes a bold, imaginative - and do-able - set of regenerative principles to transform how we design, make and manage our buildings and our communities. Sarah is an urbanist, curator, writer and podcast host.  Connecting cities, culture and ecology, she has been recognised as a World Cities Sum

Oct 5, 2022 • 1:16:18

Planet, not Profit: Envisioning a genuinely sustainable future in a not-for-profit world with Jennifer Hinton

Planet, not Profit: Envisioning a genuinely sustainable future in a not-for-profit world with Jennifer Hinton

Dr. Jennifer Hinton is a systems researcher and activist in the field of sustainable economy. Her work focuses on how societies relate to profit and how this relationship affects global sustainability challenges. Her relationship-to-profit theory uses systems thinking and institutional economics to explain how key aspects of business and markets drive social and ecological sustainability outcomes. She started developing this theory in the book How on Earth, which outlines a conceptual model of a

Sep 28, 2022 • 1:16:13

Re-Enchantment: Creating rituals to re-discover our embodied sovereignty with Isla McLeod

Re-Enchantment: Creating rituals to re-discover our embodied sovereignty with Isla McLeod

Isla McLeod is a creator of ceremonies, ritual designer, transformational healer and companion at the thresholds.  She has dedicated her life to bridging the gap between humanity and the soul of the earth.  In her new book, 'Rituals for Life: A guide to creating meaningful rituals inspired by nature', she brings decades of experience in creating ritual and ceremony to the exploration of what ritual is and how it can enhance our lives, returning our sense of engagement, of being part of something

Sep 21, 2022 • 1:06:03

The Meat Paradox: Ethics, morality and shamanic spirituality: exploring the politics of protein with Rob Percival

The Meat Paradox: Ethics, morality and shamanic spirituality: exploring the politics of protein with Rob Percival

For hundreds of thousands of years, we lived as forager-hunters, our lives intimately entwined with the lives - and then deaths - of the animals that we ate.  And then we cut that link and now we eat meat in plastic packages with cute pictures on the front to remove our awareness of the death that has arisen. And yet at our deepest levels, we know that meat is murder.  How do we resolve this paradox?Rob Percival is a writer, campaigner and food policy expert. His commentary on food and farming h

Sep 14, 2022 • 1:12:40

Hagitude: Paving the way to empowered elderhood with Sharon Blackie

Hagitude: Paving the way to empowered elderhood with Sharon Blackie

Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer, psychologist and mythologist. Her highly acclaimed books, courses, lectures and workshops are focused on the development of the mythic imagination, and on the relevance of myth, fairy tales and folk traditions to the personal, social and environmental problems we face today. As well as writing five books of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestselling If Women Rose Rooted, her writing has appeared in several international media outlets, among t

Sep 7, 2022 • 1:17:06

Beyond the tribal divisions of right and wrong: Exploring Restorative Engagement with Sophie Docker

Beyond the tribal divisions of right and wrong: Exploring Restorative Engagement with Sophie Docker

Sophie Docker is a highly experienced workshop leader, facilitator and mediator working in organisations, education and community. She is Level 3 trained in restorative Justice and CNVC Certified Nonviolent Communication trainer with a number of other decision-making, dialogue communication and conflict engagement tools up her sleeve. She has a degree in Politics and Economics and a Postgraduate diploma in Law but most of her learning came from meditation, and wide and wild experiments in living

Aug 31, 2022 • 1:10:13

Co-Creators of the future: exploring the birth of a new education system with YouthxYouth co-founder Zineb Mouhyi

Co-Creators of the future: exploring the birth of a new education system with YouthxYouth co-founder Zineb Mouhyi

Zineb Mouhyi is the co-founder of two charitable organizations, YouthxYouth & the Weaving Lab. YouthxYouth is a movement to radically reimagine the future of education with the goal of accelerating the process of young people influencing, designing, and transforming their education. The Weaving Lab is a global community of practice with the mission of advancing the field of weaving, understood as the practice of interconnecting ideas, people, projects, organizations, places, and ecologies to sup

Aug 24, 2022 • 1:03:53

A Wild Farming Life: Building a regenerative croft from scratch with Lynn Cassells

A Wild Farming Life: Building a regenerative croft from scratch with Lynn Cassells

Lynn Cassells and Sandra Baer met while working as rangers for the National Trust and soon realised that they shared a dream to live closer to the land.  They bought Lynbreck Croft at the edge of the Cairngorms National Park in the Highlands of Scotland in March 2016  - 150 acres of pure Scottishness - with no experience farming but a huge passion for nature and the outdoors.  Now, they raise their own animals and sell the produce, grow their own fruit and vegetables, and are as self-sufficient

Aug 17, 2022 • 1:14:56

The Politics of Being: Wisdom and Science for the new world with Dr Thomas Legrand

The Politics of Being: Wisdom and Science for the new world with Dr Thomas Legrand

Holding a Ph.D. in (Ecological) Economics and having studied international development, political science, and management, Thomas Legrand works in the field of sustainability for UN agencies, private companies, and NGOs. His focus is on forest conservation, climate change, sustainable finance, and organizational transformation.His spiritual journey began at the age of 23 with an encounter with native spirituality in Mexico, before embracing the wisdom of a wide range of traditions and practices,

Aug 10, 2022 • 1:10:49

Banking on the Beetles: Creating a local circular agro-economy with Liberty Nimmo of The Three Turnips

Banking on the Beetles: Creating a local circular agro-economy with Liberty Nimmo of The Three Turnips

By now it's obvious that our current system is destroying all life on the planet - and our food/farming system is key both to the current levels of destruction: industrial farming is eroding soil, poisoning the biosphere on land and sea, gobbling up fossil fuels and harming our health. Conversely, local community agriculture projects that link together viable enterprises in a network of circular economies is one part of the key to a viable, flourishing future.  Liberty Nimmo is part of a three-p

Aug 3, 2022 • 1:13:46

Of Course We Can!  Lifting the lid on possibility with James Brown, mulit-Paralympian Gold Medalist and Climate Activist

Of Course We Can! Lifting the lid on possibility with James Brown, mulit-Paralympian Gold Medalist and Climate Activist

James Brown is an athlete, inventor, social entrepreneur, multi-Paralympian gold medal winner  - and climate activist.  There was a time when James was known most for his astonishing achievements across many sports. Between 1980 and 2015, he took part in no less than five Paralympic Games (winter and summer) as well as eighteen World Championship events.His range of disciplines was extraordinary: they included track running, cross-country skiing, triathlon, swimming, road/track cycling and guide

Jul 27, 2022 • 1:10:41

Bridging the Gap: finding truth, reconciliation and climate justice with Saurav Roy

Bridging the Gap: finding truth, reconciliation and climate justice with Saurav Roy

With a track record of founding startups at a young age, and executing entrepreneurial roles in global non-profits, Saurav Roy was selected as one of the youngest Global Shapers by the World Economic Forum at Bangalore in 2017.  Since then, he has studied for a Masters in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher Collage, and is now working for the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a London-based, independent financial think tank that strives to influence the nature of global finance, away from stranded fos

Jul 20, 2022 • 1:05:36

Trees, Trees, Trees! How we can grow food around, within and on them - with Ben Raskin

Trees, Trees, Trees! How we can grow food around, within and on them - with Ben Raskin

Ben is head of Horticulture and Forestry at the Soil Association.  Author or co-author of eight books including Zero Waste Gargenind, The Woodchip Handbook and The AgroForestry Handbook, Ben holds specialist knowledge and experience that includes Community Supported Agriculture, woodchip, and starting up new horticultural businesses.All told, he has been working in horticulture for more than 25 years and has been with the Soil Association since 2006.During that time he has chaired the DEFRA Edib

Jul 13, 2022 • 1:09:45

Weaving with the Land: The future of regenerative farming with Caroline Grindrod

Weaving with the Land: The future of regenerative farming with Caroline Grindrod

Caroline Grindrod is a consultant and coach in regenerative systems and leadership. Along with background in environmental conservation and upland land management, holistic management and experience in designing sustainable and regenerative food businesses, Caroline has a lifelong passion for personal development, wild spaces and a growing interest in regenerative leadership.She draws upon that diverse range of skills and experience to offer an ever-evolving and truly unique approach to working

Jul 6, 2022 • 1:09:20

Finding the adjacent possible: routes to political and social transformation with Dave Snowden of The Cynefin Company

Finding the adjacent possible: routes to political and social transformation with Dave Snowden of The Cynefin Company

He is the creator of the Cynefin Framework, and originated the design of SenseMaker®, the world’s first distributed ethnography tool. He is the lead author of Managing complexity (and chaos) in times of crisis: A field guide for decision makers, a shared effort between the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission’s science and knowledge service, and the Cynefin Centre.He divides his time between two roles: founder Chief Scientific Officer of The Cynefin Company and the founder and Di

Jun 29, 2022 • 1:05:02

Designing Education fit for the 21st Century with Prof David John Helfand

Designing Education fit for the 21st Century with Prof David John Helfand

Professor David J. Helfand, a faculty member at Columbia University for forty-five years, served nearly half of that time as Chair of the Department of Astronomy. He also recently completed a four-year term as President of the American Astronomical Society, the professional society for astronomers, astrophysicists, planetary scientists and solar physicists in North America. He is the author of nearly 200 scientific publications and has mentored 22 PhD students, but most of his pedagogical effort

Jun 22, 2022 • 52:29

How the World is  making our Children Mad - and what to do about it - with Louis Weinstock

How the World is making our Children Mad - and what to do about it - with Louis Weinstock

Louis Weinstock is a psychotherapist who works with children and the child within us all. He helps people find light in the darkness - in the things the are unseen, unheard and unspoken. For over 20 years, he has expertly guided children and adults through some of the toughest challenges life can throw at us - loss, trauma, divorce, burnout and breakdowns. And now he has a new book: How our World is Making our Children Mad - and what to do about it. He's taking 'mad' in both senses of the world

Jun 15, 2022 • 59:18

Connecting with Power: How the media could reframe our world - and why they must - with Donnachadh McCarthy

Connecting with Power: How the media could reframe our world - and why they must - with Donnachadh McCarthy

Donnachadh McCarthy is a professional eco-auditor, author and environmental campaigner. He is a former deputy chair of the Liberal Democrats and served on the board of the party for seven years. He is now not a member of any political party and enjoys working with people in all parties or none to address our common environmental crises. He is a former columnist with The Independent and has had articles printed in the Guardian, Times, Ecologist, Resurgence etc.He is the author of Saving the Plane

Jun 8, 2022 • 54:25

Net Positive: Designing a regenerative future with Prof Janis Birkeland

Net Positive: Designing a regenerative future with Prof Janis Birkeland

Professor. Janis Birkeland is Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning in the University of Melbourne. Janis has dedicated her personal, professional and academic life to figuring out what is genuine sustainability - how to plan for a built environment that is not just 'less bad' than the alternatives, but actually returns more to the land and the people who live in and around it thn whatever went before.  Throughout her professional career, she has been

Jun 1, 2022 • 59:26

Imagination Activism: exploring radically better futures (and SolarPunk) with Phoebe Tickell

Imagination Activism: exploring radically better futures (and SolarPunk) with Phoebe Tickell

Phoebe Tickell is an imagination activist, renegade scientist, systems thinker and social entrepreneur.  Originally trained as a biologist (she has a first class degree in Biological Natural Sciences from Cambridge University), she now works across multiple societal contexts applying a complexity and systems thinking lens and has worked in organisational design, advised government, the education sector and the food and farming sector. Until 2021 she was working in philanthropy at The National Lo

May 25, 2022 • 46:31

BioRegionalism: The Design Path for Regenerating Earth with Joe Brewer

BioRegionalism: The Design Path for Regenerating Earth with Joe Brewer

Joe Brewer has separate bachelors degrees in physics, mathematics, and interdisciplinary studies and a masters in atmospheric sciences. He is a complexity researcher, innovation strategist, experience designer, and serial social entrepreneur who brings a wealth of expertise to the adoption of sustainable solutions at the cultural scale. Among his notable achievements are the creation of an undergraduate degree program in Earth Systems, Environment and Society at the University of Illinois and de

May 18, 2022 • 56:31

Regenerative Renaissance: Managing the new economy with Rieki Cordon of Seeds. Part 2 of 2

Regenerative Renaissance: Managing the new economy with Rieki Cordon of Seeds. Part 2 of 2

Rieki Cordon of SEEDS says, 'We need a Renaissance over revolution because a revolution is technically just revolving. It’s having the same power structures, but with new people in power.  What’s interesting about a Renaissance is it’s a fundamental shift of the paradigm. So it’s not something that’s “us vs them”; like a revolution where the mission is often, “let’s take down the 1%.”It’s more about rethinking how our systems are designed, and how we show up in society. We have fundamentally new

May 11, 2022 • 41:09

Regenerative Renaissance: Weaving new worlds with cryptocurrencies based on community, with Rieki Cordon of Seeds. Part 1 of 2

Regenerative Renaissance: Weaving new worlds with cryptocurrencies based on community, with Rieki Cordon of Seeds. Part 1 of 2

Rieki Cordon, one of the facilitators of SEEDS regenerative currency, describes the necessary regenerative renaissance as follows: "We need it (the renaissance) to be regenerative; if not, humanity is not going to be able to continue this experiment called civilization because our planetary ecosystem services will fail. That’s one side. The other side is we can build the most beautiful world and civilization the world has ever known. And why not? Why not make all of our rivers drinkable again? W

May 4, 2022 • 49:45

Thrutopia Bonus: 10th Anniversary of Sacred Economics: Charles and Jimi Eisenstein with Della Duncan

Thrutopia Bonus: 10th Anniversary of Sacred Economics: Charles and Jimi Eisenstein with Della Duncan

For over a decade, Charles Eisenstein has been a pillar of the movement to a regenerative future.  His book is essential reading, his blogs and podcasts are always thoughtful interventions that offer insight at crucial junctures of our progress towards a more conscious evolution.  He dares to go where others either fear to tread or just don't have the insight, and he leads by example: his life is based on compassion and the gift economy. He's one of the few people who lives as far as possible ou

Apr 29, 2022 • 1:00:23

Waking Up: Power, possibility and politics in a Fractal Age with Indra Adnan

Waking Up: Power, possibility and politics in a Fractal Age with Indra Adnan

Indra Adnan is a psychosocial therapist, founder of The Alternative Global and author of The Politics of Waking up: Power and possibility in the fractal age.  She has been a journalist, a director of a political think tank and a community organiser. She is always an activist. Her passion is the creation of methods of connection that allow everyone to be fully themselves, to find the place from which meaning and purpose arise and to act from there.  She gave up her job at the think tank on the da

Apr 27, 2022 • 1:00:44

Beautiful Methane: Powering the transformation with Will Llewellyn

Beautiful Methane: Powering the transformation with Will Llewellyn

Will Llewellyn has worked in the renewables industry for decades.  Now a co-director of Red Kite Management, he advises individuals and firms on the use of food waste, animal slurry and human effluent as feedstocks for biodigesters which can both reduce the leakage of fugitive methane into the atmosphere where it acts as a greenhouse gas and provide a power source for vehicles, a heating source for buildings and a potential baseline load filler in power generation.Will on LinkedIn: https://www.l

Apr 20, 2022 • 56:55

Transformative Connection: Mapping the way through with Thrutopia's originator: Rupert Read

Transformative Connection: Mapping the way through with Thrutopia's originator: Rupert Read

Nobody can doubt now that we're in the midst of the climate and ecological emergency: doom scrolling is now a national sport.  But if we think about doom, that's what we'll get and most of us would prefer that we had a way through to a future we'd be proud to leave behind. It's up to us to make this happen and Professor Rupert Read, with his long history of climate action through the Green Party, Extinction Rebellion and his writing, is well placed to make this happen. He's also the originator o

Apr 13, 2022 • 55:57

Down to Earth Derby: Growing a city Green from the inside out

Down to Earth Derby: Growing a city Green from the inside out

Jamie Quince-Starkey has worked with planes, trains and automobiles, but he found himself most at at home in himself, and at peace with the world when he had his hands in the soil, growing thing to eat. Many of us might resonate with this, but Jamie took it a step further and set up Down to Earth Derby, a life-changing project that, as he says, "is an idea born out of conflict; the conflict of living life in the modern-day and the realisation of the negative impact we have on this planet. The ch

Apr 6, 2022 • 1:00:55

Buccaneer Economics: Blowing away the old and inventing what works with Prof. Steve Keen

Buccaneer Economics: Blowing away the old and inventing what works with Prof. Steve Keen

Professor Steve Keen, Honorary Research Associate with the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security at the University College London, was one of the handful of economists to realize that a serious economic crisis was imminent, and to publicly warn of it from as early as December 2005 (http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15892/). This, and his pioneering work on modelling debt-deflation, resulted in his winning the Revere Award from the Real World Economics Review (http://rwer.wordpress.com/) f

Mar 30, 2022 • 1:09:10

The Business of Awakening: Finding a generative future within our businesses with Garry Turner

The Business of Awakening: Finding a generative future within our businesses with Garry Turner

Garry Turner has spent most of his professional life as an international product manager looking after £20m of business within a £3bn business within the chemical industry.  Until 2018, he was locked into the life of job/mortgage/car/KPIs and all that goes with external validation.  And then he woke up - and realised that any sense of meaning and purpose was missing.   His journey since then is one of opening and awakening taken in the most grounded way, so that he can express fully what it mean

Mar 23, 2022 • 1:01:50

The Gentle Power of Craftivism: With Sarah Corbett of the Craftivist Collective

The Gentle Power of Craftivism: With Sarah Corbett of the Craftivist Collective

At the age of three years old, Sarah Corbett occupied social housing to keep it standing (it's still up), and from then on, was a committed activist at the local, national and international level, first with her parents, and then later, as part of wider activist movements.  But as an introvert, and a deep strategic thinker, she wanted to make change in ways that were gentle, but powerful,  harnessing the power of connection, rather than outrage and confrontation. Founder the Craftivist Collectiv

Mar 16, 2022 • 1:07:03

What's an Economy for, anyway?  Building an economy for people and planet with Yannick Beaudoin

What's an Economy for, anyway? Building an economy for people and planet with Yannick Beaudoin

Yannick Beaudoin is Director-General for Ontario and Northern Canada with the David Suzuki Foundation and Director for Innovation and forOntario with the Wellbeing Economies Alliance for Canada and the Sovereign Indigenous Nations.  He brings a ‘new economics for transition’ lens to the organisation to enable the transformation of Canada towards social and ecological sustainability.  He has a background in marine geology, was former Chief Scientist with GRID-Arendal, a United Nations Environment

Mar 9, 2022 • 1:00:58

Manda's Basic Tips for Writers

Manda's Basic Tips for Writers

The Thrutopia Masterclass is designed to help us all generate the ideas, the frames and the stories we'll need to take us through to a future we'd be proud to leave to the generations that follow us.   If you've ever wanted to tell stories, it's for you. It's an ideas generator, a narrative incubator and a dissemination guide.  What is isn't, is a basic writing course.  This isn't a basic writing course, either - but it's a selection of things that I feel really matter if you're going to write,

Mar 7, 2022 • 47:15

Daring to risk: finding our purpose in a turbulent world with Maggie Ostara.

Daring to risk: finding our purpose in a turbulent world with Maggie Ostara.

Maggie Ostara, PhD left her job as the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies at Columbia University when she realised she’s not meant to work for anyone else.Twenty five years later at the height of of the pandemic, she created the Eight Pillars of Feminine Sovereignty and the six Feminine Sovereign Archetypes and then organised and hosted the online Women Evolving Our World Conference (and upcoming podcast).She is committed to helping people from all walks of life to connect deeply with the fl

Mar 2, 2022 • 1:04:40

Activism by Design with David Johnson of the Stanford Law School

Activism by Design with David Johnson of the Stanford Law School

Dave Johnson began his career as a trial lawyer in the courtrooms of Miami. After a decade, he came to Stanford to study design, tech and environmental law. He has worked for several Silicon Valley companies, with an increasing focus on teaching, first at Stanford Law School and then the Hasso Plattner Institute for Design at Stanford (a/k/a the d.school). His most recent articles are Design for Legal Systems, to be published by the Singapore Academy of Law, Mar/Apr 2021, and  Designing Online M

Feb 23, 2022 • 1:02:29

Stairway to Heaven: Food, Farming and the Regeneration of our landscapes with Patrick Holden of the Sustainable Food Trust

Stairway to Heaven: Food, Farming and the Regeneration of our landscapes with Patrick Holden of the Sustainable Food Trust

Patrick Holden is the Founding Director and Chief Executive of the Sustainable Food Trust.After studying biodynamic agriculture at Emerson College, he established a mixed community farm in Wales in 1973, producing at various times: wheat for flour production sold locally, carrots and milk from an 85 cow Ayrshire dairy herd, now made into a single farm cheddar style cheese.He was the founding chairman of British Organic Farmers in 1982, before joining the Soil Association, where he worked for nea

Feb 16, 2022 • 45:19

The Whispers of a New World: Stepping into a different future with Tamsin Omond, activist and visionary

The Whispers of a New World: Stepping into a different future with Tamsin Omond, activist and visionary

Since dropping banners against Heathrow Airport's third runway from the roof of the Houses of Parliament, Tamsin has consistently shifted public conversation on the climate and ecological emergency.They have organised a number of high profile protests, co-founded a Suffragette inspired environmental campaign - Climate Rush, coordinated (the successful) Save England's Forests coalition, founded a CIC - The Momentum Project - that mobilises the community surrounding London City Airport, led global

Feb 9, 2022 • 1:14:47

Thrutopia Masterclass: Writing our Way to a Future we can be Proud to leave as our Legacy.

Thrutopia Masterclass: Writing our Way to a Future we can be Proud to leave as our Legacy.

One of the things that sets us apart from other species (as far as we know) is that we are forever building futures in our heads. Whenever we embark on something new: a relationship, a job, a project, a house move…it's fired and inspired by the stories we tell ourselves of how we'll feel, how others will engage with us, how our lives will be different - and often better.  The futures might not pan out as we think, but we got ourselves where we need to be by our ability to shape ideas of a differ

Feb 5, 2022 • 17:33

Business Unusual: Can Business sweep us to a Regenerative Future? With Nathalie Nahai

Business Unusual: Can Business sweep us to a Regenerative Future? With Nathalie Nahai

Nathalie Nahai is host of The Hive podcast, author of two books, international speaker and consultant with businesses big and small. Her clients have included Unilever, Google, Accenture and Harvard Business Review, among many others. Her most recent book,  'Business Unusual: Values, Uncertainty and  the Psychology of Brand Resilience', opens up worlds of business where profit is not the only motive, where psychological safety, meaning and solidarity are core business values and businesses are l

Feb 2, 2022 • 1:06:25

Earth Alchemy, Ceremonies and Soul Journeys with shamanic teacher Isla McLeod

Earth Alchemy, Ceremonies and Soul Journeys with shamanic teacher Isla McLeod

Isla McLeod is a celebrant, ritualist, walker-between-the-worlds and deep connector to spirit.  She says of herself: "I am a creator of ceremonies, ritual designer, transformational healer and companion at the thresholds. Inspired by nature, forged by my longing, devoted to remembering. Lover of moss, mushrooms, trees, wild swimming and moonlight.It is my deepest wish to inspire and support a remembrance of what is sacred in our lives and guide people back home to the natural world. To create an

Jan 26, 2022 • 59:40

The UnderTorah: Exploring an Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams with Rabbi Jill Hammer

The UnderTorah: Exploring an Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams with Rabbi Jill Hammer

Rabbi Jill Hammer, PhD, is an author, scholar, ritualist, poet, midrashist, and dreamworker. She is the Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy for Jewish Religion, a pluralistic seminary, and cofounder of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, a program in earth-based, embodied, feminist Jewish spiritual leadership. Her own experience of dreams as a source of deep teaching, wisdom and connection to the All That Is (however we define it) led her to a lifetime of exploring dreams and how

Jan 19, 2022 • 1:04:53

Communities of craft and purpose: building a future that works with Alice Holloway of the London Urban Textiles Commons

Communities of craft and purpose: building a future that works with Alice Holloway of the London Urban Textiles Commons

Alice Holloway has a degree in jewellery making from Central St Martin's and a Masters in Design for the Cultural Commons from the London Metropolitan University.  She is founder of the Little Black Pants Club, co-founder of London Urban Textiles Commons and is committed to helping people find joy and beauty in the creation of all that we need: to building a future of community and connectivity where we no longer depend on mass production or on real people being devolved into numbers. Her projec

Jan 12, 2022 • 1:11:26

Parenting in the Climate Emergency: Building a future we'd be proud to leave to our children - with Eva Bishop

Parenting in the Climate Emergency: Building a future we'd be proud to leave to our children - with Eva Bishop

Eva Bishop is mother of two young children, as well as being a long-term a climate activist and current communications director for the Beaver Trust.  She is dedicated to finding ways that we can all create emotional and practical resilience in the face of the climate emergency - but in particular, how parents and care-givers can help young people develop the skills they will need to navigate a world that is undergoing total transformation - while at the same time, helping to be part of the chan

Jan 5, 2022 • 1:12:46

Power to change the world - for good or really, really bad.  With Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute

Power to change the world - for good or really, really bad. With Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute

In this, our ninth season (and third year), we are aiming to look more deeply into the ways we might create a flourishing future that we would be proud to leave to the generations that follow us. With that in mind, our first guest of this new season is Richard Heinberg, author of the magesterial, 'Power: Limits and Prospects for Human Survival' which came out in September 2021.  Richard  is Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute, and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost ad

Dec 29, 2021 • 1:00:48

Three-Way Solstice PodBoom: The Hive, Upstream and Accidental Gods virtual solstice party

Three-Way Solstice PodBoom: The Hive, Upstream and Accidental Gods virtual solstice party

This is now official solstice tradition - we three explore the questions we've asked others through the year, look at what moved us in our podcast interviews and what they are pulling us towards for next year. And we offer a solstice meditation at the end, to bring you, too, to the quiet point of looks-withinNathalie Nahai is an international speaker, consultant and author of two books: the recently published Business Unusual: Values, Uncertainty and the Psychology of Brand Resilience, and busin

Dec 20, 2021 • 1:08:20

Winter Book Round up with Manda - Best of the Fiction, non-fiction - and podcasts - to share this season

Winter Book Round up with Manda - Best of the Fiction, non-fiction - and podcasts - to share this season

Here we go, people of the podcast - the books and their links. I've linked through Blackwells, because I used to love Heffers (part of the same chain) when I was in Cambridge.  Do obviously feel free to support your local bookshop. KSR: The Ministry for the Futurehttps://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Ministry-for-the-Future-by-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/9780356508863/Cory Doctorow - Walkawayhttps://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Walkaway-by-Cory-Doctorow/978178669307/Victoria Goddard The Ha

Dec 15, 2021 • 38:39

Ministry for the Future: exploring the ways through that work with Kim Stanley Robinson

Ministry for the Future: exploring the ways through that work with Kim Stanley Robinson

'If I could get policymakers and citizens everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future' Ezra Klein, Vox'A novel that presents a rousing vision of how we might unite to overcome the greatest challenge of our time' TED.com'A breathtaking look at the challenges that face our planet in all their sprawling magnitude and also in their intimate, individual moments of humanity' Booklist (starred review)'Gutsy, humane . . . a must-read for any

Dec 8, 2021 • 1:01:37

Your money or our lives: Economics, Green New Deal and a post-COP world with James Meadway

Your money or our lives: Economics, Green New Deal and a post-COP world with James Meadway

Dr James Meadway is an economist whose work has focused on developing viable alternatives to neoliberalism, and has published widely on democratic ownership, environmental economics, and automation and the digital economy.He was previously economic advisor to John McDonnell when he was Shadow Chancellor, and was chief economist at the New Economics Foundation. He is currently writing a book on the British economy after the 2008 crisis, and appears regularly on broadcast media as a commentator on

Dec 1, 2021 • 1:05:40

Weaving the Web of Meaning: Building Eco-Civilisation with Jeremy Lent

Weaving the Web of Meaning: Building Eco-Civilisation with Jeremy Lent

Jeremy Lent, described by Guardian journalist George Monbiot as “one of the greatest thinkers of our age,” is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis, and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future.Born in London, England, he received a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University, an MBA from the University of Chicago, and was a former internet company CEO. His award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultura

Nov 24, 2021 • 1:03:14

Transport for a flourishing Future: Zero deaths, Zero Emissions, Zero Carbon - with John Whitelegg.

Transport for a flourishing Future: Zero deaths, Zero Emissions, Zero Carbon - with John Whitelegg.

Dr John Whitelegg, BA PhD LLB, is visiting professor, School of the Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University and was formerly professor of geography and head of department at Lancaster University and a staff member of the global science policy organisation, the Stockholm Environment Institute.He has worked with the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Energy and the Environment (Germany) and is an associate of the Kassel Centre for Mobility Culture (Germany) and a board member of the Cali

Nov 17, 2021 • 1:07:45

New Myths for Humanity: With Alina Siegfried, author of 'A Future Untold'

New Myths for Humanity: With Alina Siegfried, author of 'A Future Untold'

We are the stories we tell ourselves - about who we are and where we're going. In our small day to day decisions, we think how our stories of ourselves will be enhanced by the things we do. So when all our stories have been about scarcity, separation and powerlessness, and how we can fight to gain more than those with whom we are in competition - how can we build healing, whole, healthy stories that will bring us forward to a flourishing future? Alina Siegfried is a performance poet, storyteller

Nov 10, 2021 • 1:01:09

Untangling the Entanglements of Activism with Anthea Lawson, activist, author and organiser

Untangling the Entanglements of Activism with Anthea Lawson, activist, author and organiser

Anthea Lawson is a campaigner who’s interested in the connections between our inner lives and the world we create together.  Over two decades, she has campaigned to shut down tax havens and stop banks fuelling corruption and ecological destruction. She launched an award-winning campaign for transparency over who owns companies, which was taken up by many other organisations and has resulted in changes to the law in dozens of countries. She worked on the successful campaigns for an Arms Trade Tre

Nov 3, 2021 • 1:16:42

COP26 and Beyond: Future strategies to keep us alive with Rupert Read

COP26 and Beyond: Future strategies to keep us alive with Rupert Read

Dr Rupert Read is a long term climate activist.  On the day after this podcast goes out, he'll be in court on charges of Criminal Damage for pouring water soluble paint on the steps of a hard-core climate denying think tank.  No stranger to action as well as thought, he is one of he nation's foremost climate philosophers and in today's episode, we explore together the nature of our current crisis, the hope (or otherwise) for international agreement at COP26 and action at an appropriate scale aft

Oct 27, 2021 • 1:07:27

Be What you Love: total systemic change, one fractal conversation at a time: with Dr Anna Birney of Forum for the Future

Be What you Love: total systemic change, one fractal conversation at a time: with Dr Anna Birney of Forum for the Future

The systems around us have grown up in a world that assumed them impervious to change. But - as Greta has said - change is coming. So how do we navigate it, and shape it to a flourishing future?  How can we be part of the bigger change the world needs to see?  Dr Anna Birney is Director of the School for System Change at the Forum for the Future. She is author of Cultivating System Change: A Practitioner's companion, and she is 'passionate about designing and facilitating systems change programm

Oct 20, 2021 • 54:06

The Future is Farming - Part 2 of 2 with Ffinlo Costain

The Future is Farming - Part 2 of 2 with Ffinlo Costain

We live in an era of empty food, vast food miles and a burgeoning ecosystem emergency that is largely pushed by a chemical-based agriculture system that is poisoning waterways, oceans, and soil, destroying the biodiversity of our land and waters and harming the health of humanity.  A regenerative farming system that works, in Ffinlo's words 'with nature rather than in spite of nature' can do so much to improve our health, bring us back into relationship with the living earth, restore our devasta

Oct 13, 2021 • 38:45

Regenerative Farming - the key to the Climate and Ecological emergency: with Ffinlo Costain - Part 1 of 2

Regenerative Farming - the key to the Climate and Ecological emergency: with Ffinlo Costain - Part 1 of 2

We live in an era of empty food, vast food miles and a burgeoning ecosystem emergency that is largely pushed by a chemical-based agriculture system that is poisoning waterways, oceans, and soil, destroying the biodiversity of our land and waters and harming the health of humanity.  A regenerative farming system that works, in Ffinlo's words 'with nature rather than in spite of nature' can do so much to improve our health, bring us back into relationship with the living earth, restore our devasta

Oct 13, 2021 • 48:29

Towards a Progressive Future: politics and activism in the world of climate change with Jeremy Gilbert

Towards a Progressive Future: politics and activism in the world of climate change with Jeremy Gilbert

This is one of our most nakedly political conversations - because politics is the language of power and those who rule over us do so with at least the vestige of a democratic mandate.   To understand how to affect change, we need to understand how to shift the levers of power on a worldwide scale. But change always begins at home, so in this week's episode, we're talking about political activism in the UK and where it might go in the near term.  Our guest is someone really well placed to discuss

Oct 6, 2021 • 1:01:18

Medicine Woman Speaks: Deena Metzger, elder, wisdom-keeper, poet and visionary brings 19 Ways to a Viable Future

Medicine Woman Speaks: Deena Metzger, elder, wisdom-keeper, poet and visionary brings 19 Ways to a Viable Future

From her experience at three years old when she saw the spirit of her grandmother at the foot of her crib, Deena Metzger's life has been devoted to the exploration of the worlds of spirit and of humanity, combined, in search of an answer to the question: What is your Calling? Working as a poet, novelist, therapist, healer and visionary, she has brought together Nineteen Ways to a Viable Future - a route by which all of humanity can become the best of ourselves and thus be what the web of life ne

Sep 29, 2021 • 58:06

Thresholds to Truth: Conversations on Climate Change with younger generations with Louis Weinstock

Thresholds to Truth: Conversations on Climate Change with younger generations with Louis Weinstock

Louis Weinstock is a remarkable man - a deeply committed therapist who does his best to make his skills available to as many children and young people as need them - and so many do.  He focuses on grief and loss, initially around death and diagnoses of fatal illness, but increasingly the existential grief of our dying ecosystem and the despair, rage and frustration at a world that is not acting as it could or should.  In this profoundly moving podcast, we talk in depth about how all of us can ex

Sep 22, 2021 • 59:55

Sounds like Magic: a journey into the wild magic of sound with Caro C

Sounds like Magic: a journey into the wild magic of sound with Caro C

Caro C has been described as a Soul Enchantress (BBC Radio 3) and a 'One Woman Electronic Avalanche' (BBC Introducing), she's a composer and musician, a sound engineer and a solo performance artist. She's a rock climber and a dreamer, a creator of magic with all things sound.  She created the music that is our signature at the head and foot of the podcast and she's been our engineer and producer for nearly two years, weaving miracles with technology and weaving our conversations in ways that bri

Sep 15, 2021 • 57:31

Accidental Gods Podcast bookclub with writer and commentator, Ece Temelkuran

Accidental Gods Podcast bookclub with writer and commentator, Ece Temelkuran

Ece Temelkuran is an international columnist, political analyst, novelist and sharp, brilliant, astute  - and great hearted - writer.  Her books 'HOW TO LOSE A COUNTRY' and 'TOGETHER' have been met with great international acclaim.  (she shared a stage at the Edinburgh Festival with Ed Milliband, of the outstandingly successful 'Reasons to be Cheerful' podcast. He was also something political at one point in the UK, when such things mattered...) She was our guest in podcast 74 -and on the first

Sep 12, 2021 • 1:03:25

Circles of Power: Urban Micro Anaerobic Digestion with Rokiah Yaman

Circles of Power: Urban Micro Anaerobic Digestion with Rokiah Yaman

Rokiah Yaman is the Project Director for LEAP Micro Anaerobic Digestion. A part of the project from the start, she coordinates the LEAP demonstration sites, oversees fundraising and planning activities, and manages infrastructure and operational logistics, helping to bring micro AD technology and the closed-loop ethos into public spaces where people can see who it works in their own communities.In this episode, Rokia talks us through the technologies involved in Micro Anaerobic Digestion, and in

Sep 8, 2021 • 56:01

Thresholds of Being: Connecting to the webs of land, life and death with Dr Sharon Blackie

Thresholds of Being: Connecting to the webs of land, life and death with Dr Sharon Blackie

Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning writer and internationally recognised teacher whose work sits at the interface of psychology, mythology and ecology.Her highly acclaimed books, courses, lectures and workshops are focused on the development of the mythic imagination, and on the relevance of our native myths, fairy tales and folk traditions to the personal, social and environmental problems we face today.As well as writing four books of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestselling If Wo

Sep 1, 2021 • 59:01

Power to the People: an Energy R-Evolution for the 21st Century with Howard Johns

Power to the People: an Energy R-Evolution for the 21st Century with Howard Johns

Howard Johns was a climate activist on the front lines until he realised that he needed ways to say 'yes', instead of 'no'.  Accordingly, he set about building solutions, eventually founding Southern Solar a national solar energy company, and Ovesco a locally owned renewable energy cooperative. At the same time he chaired the trade body representing the UK solar industry, finding himself once again a campaigner around energy policy in the process. A believer in solutions, Howard is convinced we

Aug 25, 2021 • 59:25

Beaver ReWilding: Gateway to Transformation - with Eva Bishop of the Beaver Trust

Beaver ReWilding: Gateway to Transformation - with Eva Bishop of the Beaver Trust

The Beaver Trust is a small group of committed individuals who understand the deep interconnectedness of life.  By bringing beavers back to the UK where once they flourished, they are seeing whole ecosystems grow back to life.  In their work with farmers and landowners, they are able to open gateways to radical restoration of our landscapes and biodiversity, reversing the catastrophic species loss of the past five decades. Eva Bishop is their Communications Director. In this week's episode, we e

Aug 18, 2021 • 1:01:50

Meeting the World unmasked - with Forrest Landry

Meeting the World unmasked - with Forrest Landry

"Love is that which enables choice. Love is always stronger than Fear. Always choose on the basis of Love."  – Forrest LandryYou might know him as the founder and CEO of Magic Flight, a company among the first to introduce the portable vaporizer to the world, but Forrest Landry is really a philosopher, writer, researcher, scientist, engineer, craftsman, and teacher who has been studying and practicing the varied High Arts since the mid 70’s.Before creating Magic Flight, Forrest was a third gener

Aug 11, 2021 • 1:03:09

The Road to Glasgow: Climate Pilgrimages converging on COP26 with Bamber Hawes and Benjamin Christie.

The Road to Glasgow: Climate Pilgrimages converging on COP26 with Bamber Hawes and Benjamin Christie.

COP26 takes place in Glasgow, Scotland in November of this year.  This is our best  - possibly our last - chance to persuade those who govern the world that the climate and ecological emergency needs swift and radical action.  So how can we get the message through to those who are driving our collective bus that they need to turn the wheel before we all hurtle over a cliff?  How can we persuade them that 'business as usual' is no longer an option, or that alternatives do exist if we only had the

Aug 4, 2021 • 1:03:45

A Bridge to the Future: Walking the path between Wisdom and Despair with Matthew Taylor

A Bridge to the Future: Walking the path between Wisdom and Despair with Matthew Taylor

Matthew Taylor, CBE FAcSS, is the Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, but before that, he was Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the Arts (or more properly, for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) - and before that, he was head of the Number 10 Policy Unit for Tony Blair's Labour Government.  He is a regular panelist on BBC Radio 4's Moral Maze, presents 'Agree to Differ' and occasionally, Analysis on the same channel. He's also deeply interested in the intersection between neurophy

Jul 28, 2021 • 51:34

Active Hope: bringing resilience and reconnection to the world with Chris Johnstone and Madeleine Young

Active Hope: bringing resilience and reconnection to the world with Chris Johnstone and Madeleine Young

With a background in medicine and psychology, Chris Johnstone's work over the last thirty years has focused on exploring what helps us face disturbing situations (whether in our own lives or the world) and respond in ways that nourish resilience and well-being. His books include Active Hope (co-authored with Joanna Macy and translated into more than eleven languages) and Seven Ways to Build Resilience. His online resilience courses have attracted students from more than sixty countries. He lives

Jul 21, 2021 • 1:00:14

Being, Belonging, Beyond: Bringing the sacred to a turbulent world with Sue Philips of Sacred Design labs

Being, Belonging, Beyond: Bringing the sacred to a turbulent world with Sue Philips of Sacred Design labs

Sacred Design Lab is a soul-centred research and development lab that explores and interprets the changing landscape of spiritual and community life. The Lab collaborates with divinely restless, intellectually curious and entrepreneurially practical leaders to help design and prototype the spiritual communities and infrastructure of the future, interpreting ancient best practice in the service of transformation. Sue Philips, one of the co-founders of the Lab says of herself that, 'I am relentles

Jul 14, 2021 • 55:59

The Mermaids had to happen! Reflections on G7 activism - and beyond with Sophie Miller

The Mermaids had to happen! Reflections on G7 activism - and beyond with Sophie Miller

Sophie Miller trained at Central St Martins before moving on to a decade-long career in television design.  Now, she gives her time and energy to Extinction Rebellion as a Red Rebel - and to Ocean Rebellion, of which she is a co-founder.   She lives in Cornwall, and so when she discovered that the first post-Covid G7 summit was taking place in her country and her county, she had to ask. In this week's second inspiring podcast, she describes what it actually takes to mount a successful action in

Jul 7, 2021 • 44:31

Fire at Sea: bringing activism - and mermaids! - to the G7 summit with Sophie Miller

Fire at Sea: bringing activism - and mermaids! - to the G7 summit with Sophie Miller

Sophie Miller trained at Central St Martins before moving on to a decade-long career in television design.  Now, she gives her time and energy to Extinction Rebellion as a Red Rebel - and to Ocean Rebellion, of which she is a co-founder.   She lives in Cornwall, and so when she discovered that the first post-Covid G7 summit was taking place in her country and her county, she had to ask. In this week's inspiring podcast, she describes the practical - and spiritual - path that has brought her to t

Jun 30, 2021 • 49:50

How to Save the our Planet: the Facts - with Professor Mark Maslin

How to Save the our Planet: the Facts - with Professor Mark Maslin

How do we unpick the damage of Neoliberalism?  How can we break the connections between work and income and unsustainable consumerism?  Amidst the ideas of how our climate is changing, Professor Mark Maslin, FRGS, FRSA, offers answers to the social and economic ills of our time.  Mark Maslin FRGS, FRSA is a Professor of Earth System Science at University College London. He is a Royal Society Industrial Fellowship, Executive Director of Rezatec Ltd and Director of The London NERC Doctoral Trainin

Jun 23, 2021 • 1:04:37

Behave More! Rebuilding Our World Differently with Alexandra Kurland

Behave More! Rebuilding Our World Differently with Alexandra Kurland

Alexandra Kurland is a horse clicker trainer, behaviourist, classical rider - and convenor of the annual (now bi-annual) Science Camp that explores the art and science of positive reinforcement. She is host of the Horses for Future podcast, co-host of the Equiosity podcast, and author of The Click that Teaches and a whole host of other books and online courses about horse training.  In today's podcast - the second of two - Alex and Manda continue to dive deeply into the fundamental question of o

Jun 16, 2021 • 58:36

Behave! - Solving the existential crisis of our times, with Alexandra Kurland

Behave! - Solving the existential crisis of our times, with Alexandra Kurland

Alexandra Kurland is a horse clicker trainer, behaviourist, classical rider - and convenor of the annual (now bi-annual) Science Camp that explores the art and science of positive reinforcement. She is host of the Horses for Future podcast, co-host of the Equiosity podcast, and author of The Click that Teaches and a whole host of other books and online courses about horse training.  In today's podcast - the first of two - Alex and Manda explore one of the fundamental questions of our time - how

Jun 9, 2021 • 48:10

The Hijacking of our Common Law - and how to set it free: with Mothiur Rahman of the New Economy Law Center

The Hijacking of our Common Law - and how to set it free: with Mothiur Rahman of the New Economy Law Center

Mothiur Rahman is founder of New Economy Law and a pioneer member of XR.  In his first podcast with us, we explored the work he has done, helping to create a law that works for ordinary people.  This week, we look at the ways the current system is breaking the law and how we can help to re-weave it into something that helps people and planet to flourish. New Economy LawArticle: Stir for Action - Land and PowerArticle: Resurgence & Ecologist - Extinction Rebellion, A Civil Rights MovementPresenta

Jun 2, 2021 • 1:07:50

Braver Angels: building trust, empathy and decency across the political chasm

Braver Angels: building trust, empathy and decency across the political chasm

Braver Angels - originally Better Angels - came into being after the divisive nightmare of the 2016 Presidential Election in the US.  It began with a group of people in a barn in South Lebanon Ohio and has since spread to 20,000 people around the US, with chapters in other nations around the world.  Their skill - their superpower - is to bring the social and humane technologies originally created to help bring together couples on the brink of the most acrimonious divorces.  With skills in listen

May 26, 2021 • 51:46

River Dart Wild Church: Druid Christian Sam Wernham, founder of a land-based church explores the nature of wild contemplation.

River Dart Wild Church: Druid Christian Sam Wernham, founder of a land-based church explores the nature of wild contemplation.

"When do you feel most alive? When are you most open and connected with a deeper sense of being? When do you fall in love with life and want to turn towards the world with hope and care?Perhaps, like us, your sacred ground is the earth under your feet… your sacred spaces are cathedrals of trees with branches filled with wind and rain, sunlight or stars… your baptismal pools are filled with deep brown river water or the wild and salty sea. Perhaps, like us, you yearn to share this… for spiritual

May 19, 2021 • 1:04:46

Together: best-selling author Ece Temelkuran talks about her new book - and why dignity matters more than nationalist pride

Together: best-selling author Ece Temelkuran talks about her new book - and why dignity matters more than nationalist pride

Ece Temelkuran is one of the Turkey’s best known novelist and political commentators. She has contributed to the Guardian, Newstatesman, New Left Review, Le Monde Diplomatique, Frankfurter Rundschau, Der Spiegel, The New York Times and Berliner Zeitung.Her books of investigative journalism broach subjects that are highly controversial in Turkey, such as the Kurdish and Armenian issues and freedom of expression.Her novel Women Who Blow on Knots won a PEN Translates award, sold over 120.000 copies

May 12, 2021 • 57:14

ReWorlding: Co-Creating a Politics of Wholeness with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick

ReWorlding: Co-Creating a Politics of Wholeness with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick

Eva and Justin were guests of podcast 44 [https://accidentalgods.life/re-democratising-democracy/] - in which we explored the links between personal and collective trauma -and they outlined the work they were doing in Scotland to build towards a constitutional convention that would help to weave new democratic structures for an independent Scotland. Now they are weaving a new Gathering into being - an online week, bringing together people from all over the world to find new ways to be human in t

May 5, 2021 • 1:09:25

Webs of Connection: Rebuilding soil, talking with bees and the magic of fungi with Navona Gallegos

Webs of Connection: Rebuilding soil, talking with bees and the magic of fungi with Navona Gallegos

We first spoke with Navona Gallegos  in podcast #55 (here) when she had newly moved onto the land she was starting to farm in New Mexico. In this podcast, she returns to talk about how her work is progressing there - and to talk more deeply about the actual mechanisms we can use to draw carbon down into our soils.  She says this: "Where I am called is to bring more focus on the fungi, as that really is the 'how' of soil regeneration, be it agricultural, forest, greening deserts, whatever, and I

Apr 28, 2021 • 58:09

Swimming in a New Sea: creating a different world of money with Jonathan Dawson of Schumacher College

Swimming in a New Sea: creating a different world of money with Jonathan Dawson of Schumacher College

Jonathan Dawson, co-creator of the Masters in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher college, is a sustainability educator and a former President of the Global Ecovillage Network. He has around 20 years experience as a researcher, author, consultant and project manager in the field of small enterprise development in Africa and South Asia and before joining the College he was a long-term resident at the Findhorn ecovillage.Jonathan is the principal author of the Gaia Education sustainable economy c

Apr 21, 2021 • 1:04:17

Wild Weeds/Living Foods: Katrina Blair of Turtle Lake Refuge on Wild Foraging, Plant Whispering and healing the earth

Wild Weeds/Living Foods: Katrina Blair of Turtle Lake Refuge on Wild Foraging, Plant Whispering and healing the earth

Katrina Blair began studying wild plants in her teens when she camped out alone for a summer with the intention of eating primarily wild foods. She gained an MA from John F Kennedy University in Orinda, CA in Holistic Health Education and - as she tells us in the podcast - went on to found Turtle Lake Refuge in 1998, a non-profit organisation whose mission is to celebrate the connection between personal health and wild lands. She teaches sustainable living practices, permaculture and wild edible

Apr 14, 2021 • 57:14

Honouring the Children: We bequeath them the Earth.  What do they need from us in this time of transformation?

Honouring the Children: We bequeath them the Earth. What do they need from us in this time of transformation?

When David SmartKnight heard that the G7 summit was coming to Cornwall in June 2021, he went to the land and asked of it ‘What can I do?’  That night, he had a dream… and as is the way of things, when we align ourselves with life, the world joins our actions. Pretty soon he and his co-producer, Klaudia van Gool had a team of people, who came together to make a beautiful, moving 3 minute video and a project of awe-inspiring scope, to bring the words of the world’s children to the world’s leaders

Apr 7, 2021 • 48:25

Wild Law and Justice in action: Spiritual Activism with Mothiur Rahman, founder of New Economy Law

Wild Law and Justice in action: Spiritual Activism with Mothiur Rahman, founder of New Economy Law

Mothiur Rahman, pioneer member of Muslims for Extinction Rebellion and of New Economy Law speaks with raw courage and a unique combination of vulnerability and strength as he describes his own journey to spiritual connection and how it informs his life, from supporting anti-fracking campaigners to working with XR visioning.   From helping defeat the first major fracking application in the UK, to taking part in XR actions to highlight government inaction, Mothiur walks his talk with clear integri

Mar 31, 2021 • 1:02:27

ReWilding the Forests of Life: Alan Watson Featherstone, Trees for Life and moving forward

ReWilding the Forests of Life: Alan Watson Featherstone, Trees for Life and moving forward

In this second of two parts with Alan Watson Featherstone we explore more deeply the creation of Trees for Life - how it arose and what it entailed... In itself, this is impressive, but what makes it inspiring for those of us who might not be able to set up a world-changing forest reWilding project, is the extent to which, having made a commitment to change the world, the world itself supports us in our endeavour.  This is what is so inspiring about Alan's story, what gives us hope in a world hu

Mar 24, 2021 • 1:02:21

Seeds of Change: Growing a different Future with Alan Watson Featherstone

Seeds of Change: Growing a different Future with Alan Watson Featherstone

Alan Watson Featherstone is an ecologist, nature photographer, international speaker - and founder of Trees for Life, the charity that grew from a promise made at a Gathering, into a multi-million pound organisation owning - and ReWilding - thousands of acres of the Scottish Highlands. Along the way, he organised the planting of trees by the million, the fencing of thousands of acres to protect saplings - and helped lay the roots for the re-introduction of beavers to Scotland.  His journey from

Mar 17, 2021 • 53:39

Parents for A Future: Creating a world we're proud to bequeath to future generations with Rupert Read

Parents for A Future: Creating a world we're proud to bequeath to future generations with Rupert Read

Professor Rupert Read works in the philosophy department at UEA in Norwich.  He's author of numerous books and a hands-on, sit-in-the-streets climate activist.  His latest book, Parents for a Future is a passionate, beautifully argued clarion call for all of us to do whatever it takes to move us onto a trajectory that will shape the future we need and want for future generations: a future we're proud to leave behind.  This year in particular is a crucial turning point. As we emerge from COVID an

Mar 10, 2021 • 1:02:07

Meeting our needs, healing the earth: Donnie Maclurcan of the post growth institute

Meeting our needs, healing the earth: Donnie Maclurcan of the post growth institute

Donnie is a facilitator, author and social entrepreneur, passionate about all things not-for-profit. Originally from Australia, he moved to the U.S. in 2013, from where he coordinates the Post Growth Institute. As a consultant, he has worked in Egypt, Kenya, Fiji, Thailand and South Korea, helping 500+ not-for-profit projects start, scale and sustain their work, while his own initiatives include developing: Free Money Day, the Post Growth Alliance, the (En)Rich List, the Offers and Needs Market

Mar 3, 2021 • 1:11:51

Breaking the Austerity Myth: The system is broken - but we can mend it. With Richard Murphy

Breaking the Austerity Myth: The system is broken - but we can mend it. With Richard Murphy

We all know the economy is broken - that the experiment of free market capitalism has driven us to the edge of extinction. The problem is working out what to replace it with that will help us to find new ways of being without creating such havoc that lives are destroyed in the process.   In this first of a two-part series, Richard Murphy explores ways we can change the current system to create a different world. Richard Murphy is a political economist, author of the book 'The Joy of Tax', and is

Feb 24, 2021 • 1:10:27

The Town that shaped its world: Pam Barrett on FlatPack/DIY Democracy and taking charge of politics

The Town that shaped its world: Pam Barrett on FlatPack/DIY Democracy and taking charge of politics

Pam Barrett worked at the heart of the Westminster government's civil service. Then she moved to picturesque Buckfastleigh, a mill town on the edge of Dartmoor in Devon, and began to see how badly the town was served by the town and regional councils.  She started a group to preserve the town's only swimming pool. That grew, and the pool was saved, and she moved on, in time, to stand as an independent for the town council. A group of others stood with her, and they gained 9 seats on a 12 seat co

Feb 18, 2021 • 1:08:05

The Subtle Shaman: Chris Taylor, living our purpose and the Tao of R-evolution

The Subtle Shaman: Chris Taylor, living our purpose and the Tao of R-evolution

Chris Taylor, author of 'The Tao of Revolution' is a Tai Chi teacher, regenerative farmer, musician, performance poet, facilitator-of-change and author - who describes himself as a revolutionary mystic. Or mystical revolutionary. His book is described as 'A field guide for Global Transformation, - a book on climate and societal change that isn't about the coming chaos, but about how we learn to live with the future.  The system will not be over-thrown, it will be overgrown - here's how.' In this

Feb 10, 2021 • 59:07

Models of Mind: bringing emotional intelligence into the heart of governance with Rachel Lilley

Models of Mind: bringing emotional intelligence into the heart of governance with Rachel Lilley

Dr Rachel  Lilley combines  extensive  academic research with  many years practical  experience  working  with  teams and senior leaders  to offer unique and practical  insights  into attention, emotions, consciousness and decision making.  She has particular expertise in behaviour change related to sustainability, climate change and community engagement as well as extensive academic and personal experience of using mindfulness to develop self and other awareness and gain insight.In today's podc

Feb 3, 2021 • 1:02:02

Everybody Now: A PodBoom on The Climate and Ecological Emergency

Everybody Now: A PodBoom on The Climate and Ecological Emergency

Everybody NowClimate Emergency and Sacred Duty  We’ve caused a turning point in the Earth’s natural history. Everybody Now is a podcast about what it means to be human on the threshold of a global climate emergency, in a time of systemic injustice and runaway pandemics. Scientists, activists, farmers, poets, and theologians talk bravely and frankly about how our biosphere is changing, about grief and hope in an age of social collapse and mass extinction, and about taking action against all the o

Jan 28, 2021 • 1:47:09

Kindness, tribalism, faith, hope: exploring Christianity in the climate crisis with David Blower

Kindness, tribalism, faith, hope: exploring Christianity in the climate crisis with David Blower

David Benjamin Blower is a radical Christian theologian, a musician, a writer, and a podcaster. He is co-host of NOMAD podcast which describes itself as 'Stumbling through the post-Christendom wilderness looking for signs of hope". His first book Kingdom vs Empire is 'an explosive manifesto for politicised faith in 21st Century Britain.'In this deep dive into the nature of faith, we explore spirituality, belief, tribalism - and the narratives we spin ourselves of where we are and where we could

Jan 27, 2021 • 1:04:50

The Ocean is Alive: Ocean-shaman Glenn Edney speaks of the living waters of the Earth.

The Ocean is Alive: Ocean-shaman Glenn Edney speaks of the living waters of the Earth.

Glenn Edney is a Deep Ecologist, an Ocean explorer, diver, sailor, an activist for the living Ocean - and a deeply thoughtful visionary, following in the footsteps of his hero, Jacques Cousteau. He's the author of three books, the most recent, published in 2016, is 'The Ocean is Alive'.  He wrote this as his way to help those of us more land bound to understand that, like Gaia, the Ocean is a living entity with its own hyper-complex physiology - that everything from the chemical composition of t

Jan 20, 2021 • 59:14

Trust The People: Creating a politics that works

Trust The People: Creating a politics that works

Trust The People is a movement of community builders open to everyone sharing deliberative democratic tools to support local communities dealing with global crises.   In this episode, Mags Mulowska, an activist with TTP, explores how our current system is broken, and the ways we can change it so that everyone has choice and a voice, so that everyone's voice is heard and communities build around a sense of place and of purpose.   She describes the courses run by TTP and some of the ways they have

Jan 13, 2021 • 56:19

Four arrows flying: Alnoor Ladha, activist and visionary on changing the stories we tell ourselves.

Four arrows flying: Alnoor Ladha, activist and visionary on changing the stories we tell ourselves.

Alnoor Ladha's  work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking and narrative work. He was the co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules (TR), a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others focused on changing the rules that create inequality, poverty and climate change. TR started in 2012 as a time-bound project and an experiment in anarchist organizational design, exploring new ways of how to work, play and make tro

Jan 6, 2021 • 1:05:48

Building Soil: Healing the Earth: Feeding Humanity - Regenerative Farming with Navona Gallegos

Building Soil: Healing the Earth: Feeding Humanity - Regenerative Farming with Navona Gallegos

Navona Gallegos is an ecologist and farmer working to transition desert back into grassland in the arid Southwest of Turtle Island. She works and educates on the intersection of clean water, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and nutrition: soil. Navona's passion is decolonization and she sees building soil as the keystone that allows us to step into right relation with our surrounding ecologies, access more of our innate capacities, and create a culture that truly meets our needs.  Her insight

Dec 30, 2020 • 1:00:43

All the Best of 2020: Books and Podcasts that will lift you into the new year - and beyond.

All the Best of 2020: Books and Podcasts that will lift you into the new year - and beyond.

We have to stop consuming stuff... but we never stop imbibing ideas. So here are some to choose from - all links to Blackwells. For obvious reasons. Non-Fiction 'From what is to what if' by Rob HopkinsThe Trembling Warrior and others by Gill Coombs'The Best of Times, the Worst of Times' by Paul Behrens'How to Be More Pirate' by Alex Barker'Doughnut Economics' by Kate Raworth (also Doughnut Economics Action Lab) 'Less is More' by Jason Hickel'The Ocean is Alive' by Glenn Edney'The Tao of Revoluti

Dec 23, 2020 • 30:58

Birthday/Solstice Celebration: a new Anniversary tradition, with Della Duncan and Nathalie Nahai

Birthday/Solstice Celebration: a new Anniversary tradition, with Della Duncan and Nathalie Nahai

So, it's our Birthday - and it's that time of year when every pundit endeavours to look back at the year just gone and ahead to the one that is coming. And we thought we'd like to establish a parallel tradition, where we bring together our favourite podcasting-friends and explore the ways we think.  So we set up a structure that will be repeatable in future years... where we give each other gifts of a book, podcast or something else that has brought us real insight, and then we explore each othe

Dec 21, 2020 • 1:14:12

Living to Learn: transforming education with Rachel Musson of ThoughtBox

Living to Learn: transforming education with Rachel Musson of ThoughtBox

Suppose we all learned three things at school: empathy, critical thinking and systems thinking... imagine how different the world would be. Suppose we learned how to think clearly, how to communicate, how to understand our own feelings and express them without feeling the need to trash other people just because we were hurt, or angry. Rachel Musson, founder and educational director of ThoughtBox, a radical, new co-learning programme speaks of her journey to create the system, and how it's workin

Dec 16, 2020 • 1:02:17

The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Responding to Climate Change with Dr Paul Behrens

The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Responding to Climate Change with Dr Paul Behrens

We live on the edge of change - the facts can be terrifying, but the creative potential of our times is inspiring and just as jaw-dropping as the horrors of the reality we inhabit.  Paul Behrens is Assistant Professor of Energy and Environmental Change at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He has advised governments and his work on climate change has appeared in leading scientific journals, as well as on the BBC, in the New York Times and Scientific American.  He's got a clear, un-sensational

Dec 9, 2020 • 59:57

Breaking the Rules to save the world: How to be More Pirate, with Alex Barker

Breaking the Rules to save the world: How to be More Pirate, with Alex Barker

The concept of radical, renegade, revolutionary insurgency based on the model created in the Golden Age of Pirates was given wings by Sam Conniff's best selling book, BE MORE PIRATE.  In the wake of its success, Sam needed to find ways to help the many people the book inspired. And for that he needed help. Enter Alex Barker, Primary Pirate, visionary, breaker of rules and maker of gatherings on and offline. Alex and Sam between them have steered Pirate groups from industries as far apart as car

Dec 2, 2020 • 1:01:54

Spiritual Activism, Raw Courage and Being the Change: Sophie Miller of the Red Rebel Brigade

Spiritual Activism, Raw Courage and Being the Change: Sophie Miller of the Red Rebel Brigade

Red is the colour of our life blood. It joins us to the land and all the web of life.  It was chosen as the original colour of the silent life-dancers of Extinction Rebellion as an explicit symbol of this life blood - and although other colours have been used, notably black for oil and blue for the sea - the  feature of a red line of silent individuals threading between police and activists has become a key component of XR Actions across the world. For those not involved in the Red Rebel Brigade

Nov 25, 2020 • 54:21

Codes for a Healthy Earth: New rules for a flourishing world with Shelley Ostroff

Codes for a Healthy Earth: New rules for a flourishing world with Shelley Ostroff

Great Thunberg says that ‘We cannot save the planet by playing by the rules, so the rules have to be changed’.  This is self-evidently true, but that leaves us with the question of what rules could we create that we could all live by. Polly Higgins has the Earth Protector law, but Shelley Ostroff has gone one step further with her Codes for a Healthy Earth and the World Water law.  Together, these rules spell out our connection with the More than Human world, and leave us with agency, initiative

Nov 18, 2020 • 57:38

Adapting Business:Transforming our systems, careers -and the landscape of business with Mike Raven of AQai

Adapting Business:Transforming our systems, careers -and the landscape of business with Mike Raven of AQai

Mike Raven is a Radical collaborator, rapid researcher, speaker, facilitator and entrepreneur.He's a holistic business graduate and practitioner. He's a qualified Naturopath, who has studied at Schumacher College and been a UN Global Goals Ambassador.  He's co-Founder of LEAPS - which accelerates Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals using design-style sprints.And most recently, he's co-Founder of AQai, whose mission is to improve humanity's adaptability at speed and scale, to help en

Nov 11, 2020 • 1:07:58

City Repair: Planet Repair: Human Repair. Mark Lakeman on building regenerative cities to heal ourselves and the world.

City Repair: Planet Repair: Human Repair. Mark Lakeman on building regenerative cities to heal ourselves and the world.

Mark Lakeman is the founder of the City Repair Project, as well as the founder and Design Director at communitecture, architecture & planning. Both organizations are Portland, Oregon-based world-changing initiatives that transform social, political, and physical infrastructure in order to embed permanent transformative effects. He has also been lead instructor for the Planet Repair Institute’s Urban Permaculture Design Course for a decade. Mark’s work has been published by El Mundo, Dwell, Archi

Nov 4, 2020 • 1:02:16

The Path of the Trembling Warrior: Gill Coombs on activism, courage and resilience

The Path of the Trembling Warrior: Gill Coombs on activism, courage and resilience

Gill Coombs is a writer, coach, and facilitator. Her approach is rooted in her own long, colourful journey towards fulfilling work.  In 2010, Gill left a corporate Learning and Development career to travel around the country on foot and public transport, leading workshops for communities on living in harmony with self, people and planet. She is now an elder visionary with Extinction Rebellion and her own experiences of street-level non violent direct action led to the writing of her newly update

Oct 28, 2020 • 59:45

Trauma, Politics and Empathy: re-democratising democracy with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick

Trauma, Politics and Empathy: re-democratising democracy with Eva Schonveld and Justin Kenrick

At the start of Lockdown, Eva and Justin set out to interview 100 people in Scotland - deep, wide, broad interviews across the widest range of opinions.  Now, they are bringing those together, creating the foundations for a consultative democracy that really listens to people’s cares and concerns.  If it can happen in Scotland, it can happen all around the world.  We need new structures.  This podcast, and the Medium article that led to it, aim to be the absolute foundation resources for those w

Oct 21, 2020 • 1:01:47

Dreaming a flourishing future: Rob Hopkins on radical creativity, activism and re-booting our imaginations

Dreaming a flourishing future: Rob Hopkins on radical creativity, activism and re-booting our imaginations

'Climate Change is a failure of the imagination'.  If this is so, and this is a time when we need to be at our most imaginative, how can we change the trajectory of our falling imaginations?  Rob Hopkins, author of 'From What Is to What If?', offers an answer.   In this podcast, we explore the ways that all of us could combine to create a new future - ways to recharge and restart and give space to our imaginations.  Rob offers a vision of a future and actual examples of change happening now from

Oct 14, 2020 • 56:02

Grief Walker and Fire Keeper: Medicine woman Fiona Shaw speaks of Trust, Grief and Emotional Authenticity

Grief Walker and Fire Keeper: Medicine woman Fiona Shaw speaks of Trust, Grief and Emotional Authenticity

In 1997, Fiona Shaw was initiated as a Medicine woman in the Red Path tradition. Since then, she has created communities of ceremony in the UK, Germany, Portugal and Israel.  As the years have progressed, she has seen the acceleration towards the crisis of these times, and seen the changes in the nature of the circles.  This podcast was recorded at the Autumn Equinox of 2020, when Fiona had just come out of ceremony.  The grounding of that, informs all that she says of who we are, who we have be

Oct 7, 2020 • 55:48

A New D.E.A.L: The Doughnut Economics Action Lab explained by Rob Shorter

A New D.E.A.L: The Doughnut Economics Action Lab explained by Rob Shorter

The imagination needs mental and emotional space to enable us to create a vision of the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible. Rob Shorter wrote his dissertation at Schumacher on how we cultivate our imagination and change the cultural narrative towards the thinking that Doughnut Economics embodies. In this podcast, we dive deep into the nature of imagination and how we can let it grow.  We explore Doughnut Economics and how the model can transform our world. And we look at the work o

Sep 30, 2020 • 1:01:28

Hero, Sleepwalker or Manipulator? Our Choice in the Game of Life with Gill Coombs

Hero, Sleepwalker or Manipulator? Our Choice in the Game of Life with Gill Coombs

Gill Coombs is a facilitator, coach, peripatetic counsellor and an elder of Extinction Rebellion.  Of her three books to date, The Game is the second. In it, she outlines the powers of the Dark Four: The Dark Media, Dark State, Dark Finance, Dark Corporations - and the ways they battle the generative forces of light. And in her game, we can each choose to play one of seven avatars. We might choose a different one in each moment. We might play them so close together as to be indivisible. But it i

Sep 23, 2020 • 1:04:12

Communities of Earth Protection: embracing the law with Jozette Khimba

Communities of Earth Protection: embracing the law with Jozette Khimba

Jozette Khimba has been a lifelong activist, but it was her connection with activist Barrister, Polly Higgins that took her to Stroud and the Stop Ecocide campaign.  With Polly's death in 2019, Jozette became part of the Earth Protector Communities movement, striving (in her case) to bring the concept of Earth Protection as a moral and legal construct into schools, colleges and universities across the world. As increasing numbers of young people are joining the movement for change, Jozette expla

Sep 16, 2020 • 51:38

Fractal Flourishing in the Symbiocene: Building an Ecological Civilisation with Jeremy Lent

Fractal Flourishing in the Symbiocene: Building an Ecological Civilisation with Jeremy Lent

Jeremy Lent is an author whose writings investigate the patterns of thought that have led our civilization to its current existential crisis. His recent book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, explores the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day. He is founder of the nonprofit Liology Institute, dedicated to fostering an integrated worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the Earth

Sep 9, 2020 • 1:02:35

Hearing our Calling - exploring the world of our soul’s true calling with Gill Coombs.

Hearing our Calling - exploring the world of our soul’s true calling with Gill Coombs.

Gill Coombs is a writer, facilitator, coach and activist. In 2011/12 Gill studied Holistic Science at Schumacher College, and then wrote her first book Hearing our Calling. In 2015 she stood as a Parliamentary Candidate for the Green Party, and the following year published The Game: Life vs the Dark Powers. Gill was arrested twice during 2019 with Extinction Rebellion, and as a member of the Visioning Circle, helped to establish XR’s Eldership Circle. She has written three life changing books -

Sep 2, 2020 • 58:03

Daring to be Wild: Mary Reynolds of 'We Are The Ark' on reWilding our lands and lives

Daring to be Wild: Mary Reynolds of 'We Are The Ark' on reWilding our lands and lives

Mary Reynolds set her intent to win a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower show with her first (and only) exhibit. To do it, she created a wild garden that left visitors in tears for the lost memories of their youths... and she won her gold medal.  Her life since has been a long unfolding of dreams connecting her to the wild land of her Irish ancestors, deepening her experience and coming ever closer to the land. With a raw humility and deep passion, she speaks here of her journey and of how we can

Aug 26, 2020 • 1:13:02

Four steps to transformation - Manda Scott in a podcast Q&A

Four steps to transformation - Manda Scott in a podcast Q&A

We know that our healing depends on our re-connection with the web of life, with what we call ‘The Natural World’ until we stop seeing it as something other and start seeing it as an integral part of ourselves.   But knowing is different to doing. Declarative learning is not performative learning - both are necessary, but each occupies different bits of our nervous systems and it’s only when we actually begin to embody change that we understand it - and it’s from this embodiment that transformat

Aug 19, 2020 • 56:57

Growing into Relationship with the Earth: Mac Macartney, visionary, leader and teacher offers transformation

Growing into Relationship with the Earth: Mac Macartney, visionary, leader and teacher offers transformation

"When a human embryo is in the mother’s womb, creation whispers into their being ‘I am placing a piece of my genius inside you’.  Our task then is to find it, discover it, and share it. If that gift becomes the center of our work - we will shine and be seen and i's unearthing will bring a deep happiness and a sense of fulfilment and purpose."Mac Macartney is a writer, visionary, teacher, thought leader, TED talker, founder of Embercombe and leader of The Journey.  A role model for the best of ma

Aug 12, 2020 • 1:10:02

Feeling for the Edges of Ourselves - talking empowerment, neuroscience and societal change with Adam Hamdy

Feeling for the Edges of Ourselves - talking empowerment, neuroscience and societal change with Adam Hamdy

Adam Hamdy is a novelist, screenwriter, advisor-to-ministers (not that they necessarily listen, but that's their loss) and soon-to-be author of a book on the neuroscience of empowerment - how we can do it and why it's essential.  Our conversation ranged from Phytoncides (yes, but trust me, it's fascinating), to the neuroscience of love, and - as ever, what we can actually do, to make a difference in the world around us. LinksAdam's site: http://www.adamhamdy.com Ligandal site: https://www.ligand

Aug 5, 2020 • 1:07:01

ReBirthing Civilisation - Part 2: Elder Councils and the United Peoples' Coalition with Benjamin Ross

ReBirthing Civilisation - Part 2: Elder Councils and the United Peoples' Coalition with Benjamin Ross

As we awaken to an emergent planetary coherence, we rely on stories about our Cosmovisión or Ultimate Purpose to place ourselves within our bodies, our communities, our planet, and our universe. Benjamin Ross, Media and Alliance Building Lead for the new governance group, One Nation, is an evolutionary myth-maker, meta-coherence steward, nurturer of emergence, and lover of all beings. Through the expression of non-dual archetypes, all-win ontology, and visionary holistic thriving in media, gover

Jul 29, 2020 • 36:35

ReBirthing Civilisation: a Pattern for a new governance with Benjamin Ross of One Nation

ReBirthing Civilisation: a Pattern for a new governance with Benjamin Ross of One Nation

As we awaken to an emergent planetary coherence, we rely on stories about our Cosmovisión or Ultimate Purpose to place ourselves within our bodies, our communities, our planet, and our universe. Benjamin Ross, Media and Alliance Building Lead for the new governance group, One Nation, is an evolutionary myth-maker, meta-coherence steward, nurturer of emergence, and lover of all beings. Through the expression of non-dual archetypes, all-win ontology, and visionary holistic thriving in media, gover

Jul 29, 2020 • 45:20

What Humanity Wants - Moral Imagination & a new kind of change with Phoebe Tickell

What Humanity Wants - Moral Imagination & a new kind of change with Phoebe Tickell

Phoebe Tickell is embedded in, and embodies the new sense-making and change-making of the world.  Founder of Moral Imagination and facilitator of Radical Collaborations, Phoebe works in fields as diverse as philanthropic funding at the National Lottery Community Fund,  innovative governance models, holistic science curricula and the convening of courses on deep systems thinking.  Here, she explores the nature of reality, how 'Warm Data' and a systems approach can help us to perceive the world as

Jul 22, 2020 • 1:08:00

Imagineering 2: Weaving a flourishing future with Miki Kashtan

Imagineering 2: Weaving a flourishing future with Miki Kashtan

Miki Kashtan, co-founder of the Bay Area NVC and adept nonviolent communication practitioner, lays out the pathways she believes could take us towards a future where everyone flourishes.  If we explore the flows of life - of need and resource, of how we interact, then we can begin to heal the patriarchal wounds of separation, scarcity and powerlessness and move into a world where mutual care and trust lead us to a state of community, empowerment and provision.  Links: Miki Kashtan website: https

Jul 15, 2020 • 1:03:11

Imagineering: ReWeaving the Human Fabric with Miki Kashtan - Part 1

Imagineering: ReWeaving the Human Fabric with Miki Kashtan - Part 1

Practical visionary Miki Kashtan has devoted her life to the exploration and practice of non violent communication: to finding ways in which choice can become a central part of human existence: the capacity to set aside the patriarchal wounds of separation, scarcity and powerlessness and to choose instead, connection, flow and the ability to meet the needs of the whole of the web of life.   In this two-part podcast, she lays out the baselines of choice, of the ways we can think and feel and be b

Jul 8, 2020 • 58:51

Fierce Tenderness and White Horse Hill Woman: the teachings of Carolyn Hillyer

Fierce Tenderness and White Horse Hill Woman: the teachings of Carolyn Hillyer

Carolyn Hillyer lives on a 1,000 year old farm in the heart of Dartmoor.  Her fierce, deeply spiritual guardianship of this place involves a heart-commitment to sharing the space with those who have been and those yet to come. As we near the end of (the first) Covid lockdown, she talks - and sings - of her spiritual connection to the ancestors of this land, of the ceremonial spaces she has built, of the Sami women and the bear skull that they brought in honouring - and of the remains of a Bronze

Jul 1, 2020 • 1:09:02

No More Rat Race.  Creating a world without bullshit jobs - with renegade economist, Della Duncan

No More Rat Race. Creating a world without bullshit jobs - with renegade economist, Della Duncan

Renegade Economist and Right Livelihood coach, Della Duncan, has spent most of her professional life exploring the ideas that might transform our culture into the more beautiful, flourishing - fun, joyful,  - safe - world our hearts know is possible.  In this deep-dive interview, we explore the furthest edges of what our world might look and feel like if we were able to reconfigure our economy so that every transaction was predicated on the flourishing of the human and more-than-human worlds.

Jun 24, 2020 • 1:03:27

No More Business as Usual: A second interview with Rupert Read of XR

No More Business as Usual: A second interview with Rupert Read of XR

Professor Rupert Read, Green Party activist, XR speaker, and deep adaptation philosopher, speaks openly, deeply - and with a raw, almost unique honesty  - about the dangers of the current time, and the need to turn away from ‘business as usual’ There are times when we need to shock ourselves out of our complacency, when we need to realise how close to the edge of extinction., we are, when we need to step away from the fantasies of ‘business as usual’ and re-appraise the very nature of what it is

Jun 17, 2020 • 1:14:04

Nurturing our bodies and souls: Talking to Abel Pearson of Glasbren

Nurturing our bodies and souls: Talking to Abel Pearson of Glasbren

Abel Pearson is a poet, peasant farmer, permaculture educator & activist, tending soil in West Wales and listening for the stories we need to build community and culture, restore health and breathe new life into our connection to land, food and seed. He is the founder of Glasbren, a non-profit social enterprise working to reimagine our food systems, rewild the way we eat, live and grow food and regenerate our communites, the people that live in them and the land we depend on. Glasbren is a Commu

Jun 10, 2020 • 1:01:17

Humanity Rising: the global summit that will change the future

Humanity Rising: the global summit that will change the future

"What's the equivalent, by 2030, of putting humanity on the moon?  What do we need to do that is bigger than life, worthy of human nobility, such that if it put into action around the world, we would be credited as that generation of human beings that when the chips were down really made a difference? That's what we want to do. That's the aspiration for Humanity Rising to work together with like-minded, similarly inspired people from all over the world. Over the next 10 years to make the critica

Jun 3, 2020 • 57:49

When we can't meet in person, how can we build connection? A second conversation with Sarah Schlote

When we can't meet in person, how can we build connection? A second conversation with Sarah Schlote

Life is changing and we need to find ways to keep ourselves emotionally resilient.  Sarah Schlote, therapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, has spent her professional life exploring the pathways by which we find safety  - in our own bodies, in our closest relationships, and out in the world. In today’s podcast, we explore the ways we can find the connection that science (and experience) tells us we need to feel safe in the presence of others.  We explore ways that we can work towards saf

May 27, 2020 • 1:04:33

Activism in Service to the Earth: A conversation with Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion

Activism in Service to the Earth: A conversation with Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion

Dr Gail Bradbrook has a PhD in molecular biophysics.  She was founder of a program called ‘StreetSchool Economics’.  She’s a visionary, social and spiritual activist - and, of course, she’s best known as one of the co-founders of Extinction Rebellion.  She has a deeply held spiritual path that underpins the values of all her work - being in service to the earth in the best way she can guides everything she does.  In this podcast, she talks about those values, about the moments when she prayed fo

May 20, 2020 • 1:14:24

How do our deepest selves find balance? Part 1 of a conversation with Sarah Schlote

How do our deepest selves find balance? Part 1 of a conversation with Sarah Schlote

Recent advances in neuroscience have shed light on those things that are most precious to us  - a sense of equanimity and inner safety, of balance, and of the capacity to relate in ways that leave us feeling nourished.  All of these stem from early patterning and recognising the times we're off balance can help us to find how best to resource ourselves. In this deep dive into the neurophysiology of poly-vagal theory, Sarah Schlote, director of the Healing Refuge in Canada, and of Equusoma, the c

May 13, 2020 • 1:00:37

Death, Dead and Dying - ways of navigating our own mortality: an interview with Dr Judith Wester

Death, Dead and Dying - ways of navigating our own mortality: an interview with Dr Judith Wester

Dr Judith Wester is a thanatologist: an academic who specialises in the study of death, dying and the cultural rituals of many nations.  Her life is given to teaching others of all ages and in all walks of life how to broach this subject with themselves and so with other people.  In this deep dive into death, Judith explains the difference between death, dying and dead, between grief, mourning and bereavement - and looks into the ways we could explore beyond the inevitable mortality of each of u

May 6, 2020 • 59:59

Lockdown: A moment of death and rebirth - A conversation with Angharad Wynne

Lockdown: A moment of death and rebirth - A conversation with Angharad Wynne

Angharad Wynne is a visionary, land-walker and storyteller. She works to reconnect people from around the world with the wild lands and ancient lore of Britain. Her own encounter with death has transformed an already-deep connection to the land, and the lore of the islands of Britain.  She draws inspiration from her storytelling - and the ways it is led by the deeper needs of the ancestors to have their voices heard - and from her spiritual practice, leading pilgrimages deep into the edge-spaces

Apr 29, 2020 • 1:02:20

Explorations of Being: a Conversation with Nathalie Nahai

Explorations of Being: a Conversation with Nathalie Nahai

Nathalie Nahai is host of the outstanding podcast, The Hive.  Her humanity, her deep, broad grasp of psychology, particularly the psychology of online influences and the ethics around them, informs all of her work. In this conversation, we explore together what lockdown means, and how we might grasp this moment in ways that will leave all of us better when it's over, but that won't leave us guilt-tripped or (even more) exhausted.  We explore what it means to be human. How to transcend the moment

Apr 22, 2020 • 1:04:30

What If....?  A journey through time and place

What If....? A journey through time and place

If we can really begin to feel the emotional reality as a physical thing, a felt-sense in our bodies, so that it suffuses all of us - then we can aim for this. If you want longer variations - or if you live in the Southern hemisphere and would prefer to go north, than south - you'll find more here: https://accidentalgods.life/what-if-imagining-the-new-future-our-hearts-know-is-possible/

Apr 22, 2020 • 30:00

Conscious Evolution: The time is now. A conversation with Rob Cobbold

Conscious Evolution: The time is now. A conversation with Rob Cobbold

I haven't often had the pleasure of speaking with someone else whose life revolves around the concept of conscious evolution: what it is, why its time is now  (with increasing urgency) and how we might move the great, hypercomplex, super-connected web of humanity towards it.   Rob has both a materialist and a spiritual perspective on the ways we might reach conscious evolution so this was a particularly interesting deep dive into what it will take to reach our critical mass. Rob's website is htt

Apr 15, 2020 • 1:12:41

Shaman: A conversation with visionary and healer Chris Luttichau

Shaman: A conversation with visionary and healer Chris Luttichau

This was recorded on the third day of lockdown in the UK. Our world is changing and we're feeling things we've never felt. Or feeling them more deeply. Or strangely.  If ever there was a time to re-connect with our heritage, to re-discover the ancient teachings of the indigenous shamanic peoples of every continent, that time is now.  In this podcast, Chris Luttichau shares the teachings of the Inner and Outer Minds, of the Four Attentions, and offers a meditation to help us to become grounded in

Apr 8, 2020 • 1:04:04

Movement Medicine in the time of Corona Virus. A conversation with  Ya'acov Darling Khan

Movement Medicine in the time of Corona Virus. A conversation with Ya'acov Darling Khan

Ya'acov Darling Khan is an international teacher of Movement Medicine and a shamanic practitioner. His new book: 'Shaman: Invoking Power, Presence and Purpose in the Core of who YOU Are' is out on 30th of March - a clarion call for the new era where we know our globalised links and have found that we can co-operate in ways that leave the dinosaurs of our governments far behind the curve. In this insightful, raw conversation, Ya'acov and Manda Scott explore the nuances of the present moment, thei

Apr 1, 2020 • 1:15:54

Inner Resilience: finding clarity, courage and connection in a time of Corona Virus

Inner Resilience: finding clarity, courage and connection in a time of Corona Virus

Joanna Macy calls this the Great Unravelling - a time when everything changes.  And we are human, so most of us live somewhere on the spectrum between finding change unsettling, to finding it genuinely terrifying.  Where we are on that scale is often dictated by our inner resilience: our ability to return to inner stability after a destabilising shock.  So just now, when the shocks are coming daily, our ability to find resilience is critical.  In this podcast, we explore some of the ways we can

Mar 25, 2020 • 31:42

Finding stillness, Finding wholeness: Sharing enquiry with Daniel Thorson of Emerge

Finding stillness, Finding wholeness: Sharing enquiry with Daniel Thorson of Emerge

The Emerge podcast is a must-listen for anyone interested in exploring human potential as we surge into the anthropocene.  Its host, Daniel Thorson is fearless in exploring the ways we can evolve, interviewing thought-leaders in the fields of psychology, philosophy, spirituality - all individuals engaged in finding ways we can become the best of ourselves - and better.   A former activist/organiser at Occupy Wall Street, Daniel has spent tens of thousands of hours in meditation, and almost as ma

Mar 18, 2020 • 1:02:08

Dreams of Divinity: Rabbi Jill Hammer on mysticism and the meaning of life

Dreams of Divinity: Rabbi Jill Hammer on mysticism and the meaning of life

Rabbi Jill Hammer is an author, midrashist, mystic, poet, essayist and Hebrew Priestess. Director of spiritual education at the academy of Jewish Religion in New York and co-founder of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute.  She is committed to an earth based and a wildly mythic view of the world in which nature, ritual and story connect us to the body of the cosmos and to ourselves - she has been called 'a Jewish Bard'.  In this episode, we explore some of her extraordinary life, and how her J

Mar 11, 2020 • 50:36

This Civilisation is Finished? - A conversation with Rupert Read

This Civilisation is Finished? - A conversation with Rupert Read

Rupert Read is convinced that societal collapse is inevitable - and near.  And that this is White Swan effect - it's not remotely surprising or coming out of left field.  So this being the case, we need to act - we have a choice between crashing into extinction OR moving forward to a transformation of our culture and society so profound that what transpires bears no resemblance to the current society. Given that this is the case, what can we do?  In this lively, dynamic conversation with Rupert

Mar 4, 2020 • 31:37

Healing Our Selves and the World: an Interview with Della Duncan

Healing Our Selves and the World: an Interview with Della Duncan

Podcaster, economist, and spiritual activist, Della Duncan is deeply integrated in the movement for human and planetary change.  In this deep-diving conversation, we explore what it is to 'InterBe' such that we can take our place fully in the web of consciousness.  Drawing deeply on her own experience, Della explores the ceremonies that we can undertake to help us shift our consciousness to reach a place where we can open our eyes and see ourselves in the mirror of the world.  As someone who has

Feb 26, 2020 • 50:21

Feelings: How to shape the ones we want

Feelings: How to shape the ones we want

Changing how we feel is the goal of most Self Help courses, a great deal of therapy and most of the routes that lead to alcohol and drug abuse. Suppose we could do it intelligently, with a generosity-of-spirit that allows us to fall in love with the act of living.  So that life becomes a wonder, however it is lived? In this final podcast of series 1, we take a look at this ultimate sticking point in our society.  For many of us, feeling just isn’t safe and feeling good is either self-indulgence

Feb 19, 2020 • 29:15

Emerging from Complexity: This is how we become the change we need to see

Emerging from Complexity: This is how we become the change we need to see

Complexity is all around us - in fact if we're looking for a distinction between complicatED things as opposed to comPLEX things, then it's that people make things complicated (but linear, and readily described) while the whole of the rest of the web of life makes things that are complex... from a cell to an organ to a human (or animal, or plant) body, to an ecosystem, to our climate, to the entire planetary biosphere... (which is why modern medicine doesn't get so far when it tries to treat us

Feb 12, 2020 • 24:12

Hacking our Habits:Letting go of the old stuff, to make way for something new

Hacking our Habits:Letting go of the old stuff, to make way for something new

As is clear by now, if large numbers of us are going to find a way to move towards conscious evolution, then we have to solve the problem of how ordinary, time-poor, stressed out people in a world hurtling towards chaos and calamity, can find the time, space and bandwidth actually to become the change we need to see in the world.To this end, we explored the neuroscience of habits in the last podcast and now, here, we want to look at how habits shape who we are as people. Because really quite lar

Feb 5, 2020 • 28:54

Changing our Minds: Mind hacks to shape our habits

Changing our Minds: Mind hacks to shape our habits

'Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny'  - Lao Tsu mapped the progress from habits of thought (and we would add habits of feeing) towards the truth of what we become.  In this episode, we map the core science of what makes our habits move from simply things we do once, to things that we do without thinking them... that then have a core impact on who we are and how we design our energy through the days, both as individuals and as a culture. We look at the absolute basics of reinforcem

Jan 29, 2020 • 35:40

Growing into Coherence 3 - Heart and Intent focused meditations

Growing into Coherence 3 - Heart and Intent focused meditations

The entire aim of Accidental Gods is facilitating the routes toward conscious evolution.   The early podcasts opened the concept of ReAwakening into Connection with the Other-than-Human world.  The previous podcast opened the door to Growing into Coherence - the ways in which we can use the fact that 'what fires together wires together' to develop a practice of close and open focus meditations.  This podcast explores the routes towards Heart Coherence - which develops outwardly as regularities i

Jan 22, 2020 • 25:08

Growing into Coherence - 2 - What is mindfulness?

Growing into Coherence - 2 - What is mindfulness?

There are four obvious types of meditation, mindfulness, contemplation… whatever you want to call it, there are four types that form the foundation of this work. All of them help us to build our focused attention into intention and then the rest of the practice changes the nature of the focus. As we've said already, the key to successful practice - to building enduring habits - is to evoke a background affective texture (that is, a feeling) that is intimately woven with the act of our practice.

Jan 15, 2020 • 18:54

Growing into Coherence

Growing into Coherence

Of the four steps to conscious evolution and the paradigm shift that we need, this is the one that most people have explored at some point.  This is the place where we shift our brain patterns from beta pattens to theta, delta or - rarely so far, but I think it'll become more frequent - gamma.  This is where we make the most of the fact that what fires together wires together so that we can begin to have more control over what we think and what we feel, so that in the end, we can reshape both.

Jan 8, 2020 • 24:47

(Re) Awakening into Connection

(Re) Awakening into Connection

Re-Awakening into Connection is the core of what Accidental Gods is about - the return of our heritage, our birthright, our ability to live in context with the web of life. It's not long in evolutionary terms, since we were a part of the living world, able to ask questions, and answer the questions that were asked of us.  Now, as we stand on the cusp either of catastrophe or extraordinary change, we need to regain that capacity: we need to re-awaken our innate abilities so that we can take our p

Jan 1, 2020 • 25:04

Conscious Evolution: ReWilding Humanity's Soul

Conscious Evolution: ReWilding Humanity's Soul

It's time for Conscious Evolution - for a radical shift in what it means to be human: co-creation; an awakening and a reconnection. We are the accidental gods - all of us - we are the generational era that stands on the brink of species level extinction. For the first time in the history of evolution on this planet, one member of one species could conceivably wipe us all out.  We didn't plan this, but it's where we are.  What can we do? No problem is solved from the mindset that created it.  So

Dec 24, 2019 • 18:53

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