Catalyzing Radical Systemic Change: Recent Episodes
Alistair Langer
Introducing the signature format, a funky, raw, wild, and uncut live experience. Participate, listen and ask questions in a series of discussions that delve into mapping, discovering and the cross-pollinating that catalyzes radical change.
Dive deep into the transformative world of Gene Keys in this enlightening episode with Kristin van Wey, a revered expert in personal development and holistic healing. Gene Keys, an innovative extension of Human Design, employs 64 genetic archetypes to help individuals understand their life path and realize their fullest potential.
Kristin, who has spent 35 years in transformative coaching and holistic practices, guides us through the practical and profound impacts of Gene Keys. She explains how these archetypes can lead to self-awareness and evolutionary growth, offering insights into one’s personal and professional relationships.
In this episode:
• Introduction to Gene Keys: Discover the relationship between Gene Keys and Human Design and how it can transform your life.
• Core Concepts and Principles: Understand the dynamics of ‘shadow’, ‘gift’, and ‘siddhi’ and the transformative journey within the Gene Keys framework.
• Practical Applications: Learn how to apply Gene Keys in everyday life to foster personal growth, with real-life examples from Kristin’s extensive practice.
• Gene Keys and Relationships: Explore how Gene Keys can enhance relationships and improve team dynamics and leadership.
• Future of Gene Keys: Envision the potential of Gene Keys in the evolving landscape of personal development and how to start your journey today.
Kristin’s vast experience and empathetic approach make her insights invaluable for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of themselves and their interactions with others. Whether you are new to Gene Keys or looking to deepen your practice, this episode is your gateway to unlocking a profound journey of self-discovery and transformation.
🔗 Useful Links:
• LET’S Empower
• Kristin van Wey’s Website
• Gene Keys Books
• The Art of Contemplation by Richard Rudd
• Genetic Matrix
Tune in now to discover how the Gene Keys can illuminate your path to personal and collective evolution.
Explore the deep and complex world of Ayahuasca ceremonies and the responsibilities of those who facilitate them. Our guests, Lacey Ann Luna and Todd Michael Roberts, bring decades of experience in plant medicine and are deeply rooted in the Shipibo tradition. They emphasize the importance of serving Ayahuasca with integrity, ensuring that facilitators are well-versed and ethical in their practice. This discussion will cover the necessity of thorough preparation, the dangers of commodification in the Ayahuasca industry, and the importance of understanding the source and composition of the medicine. Furthermore, we delve into the potential underbelly of the industry, including the risks of quick fixes and the exploitation of cultural traditions. Both Lacey and Todd are currently refining their practices in Peru, focusing on trauma-informed approaches and integrating indigenous wisdom with Western therapeutic practices. This episode also touches on the darker aspects of shamanism, including the use of black magic and ethical concerns surrounding the power dynamics in ceremonies. Join us as we unpack these critical issues, aiming to enhance the ethical standards and transformative potential of Ayahuasca ceremonies.
To Learn more about me: www.alistairlanger.de
Explore the complexities of wealth and privilege in this thought-provoking podcast. We tackle the prejudices faced by those born into financial privilege, and how they learn to navigate societal projections. We discuss the misconception that money equates happiness, emphasizing the essential need for emotional connection, which is often overlooked in privileged upbringings. We delve into the dark sides of privilege and highlight the lifelong journey of healing. We learn about the founding of Enclave, a unique organization for next-generation wealth holders, and its mission to create safe spaces for growth. We reflect on the potential for wealth to drive positive change and the evolving role of wealth holders in society. Join us for an insightful conversation on transforming wealth into a force for good and envisioning a future of impactful contributions.
To Learn more about me: www.alistairlanger.de
Welcome to "Gamifying Planetary Transformation," where we delve into the intersection of play and purpose in shaping our collective future. In this episode, we explore the profound insights of James P. Carse on finite and infinite games, setting the stage for our discussion on why gamifying the Great Transition is essential for the emergent new paradigm.
Our guest, Adam Apollo, CEO of Superluminal Systems and co-founder of UNIFY.org, brings a wealth of experience and vision to the table. With his expertise in fostering global collaboration and sustainable action, Adam offers unique perspectives on indigenous wisdom, planetary stewardship, and the transformative power of technology.
We delve into the three groundbreaking technologies poised to revolutionize our world overnight: local distributed energy systems, molecular replication, and control of gravitational fields. Adam shares how these innovations can drive positive change on a planetary scale, offering hope for a more sustainable and equitable future.
As we explore the genesis and interrelation of UNIFY.org and Superluminal Systems, we uncover Adam's latest endeavor: CoreNexus™. This 4D Social Operating System aims to gamify regenerative impact, empowering individuals and organizations to drive positive change through collaboration and creativity. From decentralized trust networks to regenerative economic models, CoreNexus™ represents a bold step towards a more connected and sustainable world.
Finally, we explore the promise of blockchain technology and Holochain in reshaping societal structures, paving the way for a more inclusive and transparent future. With his visionary leadership and dedication to planetary transformation, Adam Apollo offers hope and inspiration for a brighter tomorrow.
Join us as we embark on a journey towards a playful yet purposeful approach to planetary stewardship. Together, we can unlock the infinite possibilities of the Great Transition and create a world where every voice is heard and every life is valued.
For more information on Adam Apollo and his work, visit:
- Adam Apollo: https://www.adamapollo.com/
- Superluminal Systems: https://superluminal.is
- UNIFY.org: https://www.unify.org
- CoreNexus™: https://corenexus.is
When we observe the state of affairs on a broad scale, we become painfully aware that the institutions governing the planet are operating on outdated systems. For new pluralistic governance models to emerge, we need to rethink the foundations, mechanisms, and processes at play on a fundamental level and prepare for an inevitable transition.
It’s my great pleasure to share this podcast with Anastasia Kalinina, co-founder of the reState Foundation, which aims to reimagine the future of governance and global collaboration.
Find here the most exciting nuggets we explored:
- After discovering the ceilings of what legacy systems are capable of in senior positions at international organizations and institutions, like the UN and WEF, with reState Foundation, we’re aiming to reimagine the future of governance, global collaboration, and accelerating the transition to more desired futures as a human family.
- Governance systems worldwide struggle to harness the full potential of emerging technologies, limiting people's ability to shape agendas on both local and global levels.
- On a global level - we need better planetary coordination mechanisms to define and manage global commons. Peer-to-peer, participatory, global citizen assemblies, new planetary institutions, etc.
- We are sleepwalking toward the edge of a cliff, against the backdrop of a planetary catastrophe that is only beginning to unfold, destined to drastically reshape our lives. What we need is calm and non-delirious systems thinking, a skill that can be developed over time.
- We need to enhance cooperation to the level of a mature Technosphere. This is really what the new ecosystemic technologies such as Web3, blockchain, open source and the like are about, to move from a narcissistic vision of isolated entities, unaware of their impact, to cooperative and ecologically aware ecosystems.
- We're failing to convey the magnitude of the shift we're experiencing. It is our generation that is being called upon to make this transition. Our lifestyles are destined to transform, whether we like it or not. While history has seen a few collapses of civilizations, what sets this moment apart is that we're now part of a fully entangled planetary civilization — where food systems, energy systems, oceans, technology, and everything else are intricately intertwined and impact one another.
- Transitioning from the enlightened Newtonian worldview to a quantum worldview, how can we broaden the notion of agency and rights to include all forms of life? Considering that the Earth's population encompasses not only humans, how do we design for a more-than-human world? How does this expand accountability vis-à-vis the wholeness of life?
- How can we reimagine energy systems, food systems, urban design, education, logistics, data, policy, finance, future of monetary systems, economic systems, healthcare, governance and organizational culture?
- A case for the planetary commons: I advocate for cosmo-localism, i.e. the subsidiarity of material production, but the supersidiarity of immaterial collaboration. The evolution of civilization can be seen as a pulsation of the commons, with the extractive institutions of markets and states in charge of ascending periods, followed by a popular striving to re-invent the only regenerative and protective institution that is the commons.
- Planetary commons recognize the complexities and interdependencies inherent in the Earth system and acknowledge the potential of an all-encompassing commons approach that extends its focus beyond facilitating equal access to resources (current international law around commons), to one that is focused on safe-guarding critical Earth system regulating functions.
- When we look at the future of network states, we recognize that there are roughly 35 million digital nomads in the world, with the financial power equal to the GDP of Germany, so people choose kinship based on shared visions and aspirations as opposed to geographic proximity. We see a plethora of experimental spaces in governance - private cities, regenerative communities, free zones with their own governance structures. All of these are important spaces for the future of governance discussions.
- How does inner work influence outer outcomes? What does conscious leadership mean? Can our policy-makers and business role models explore and spread that? What does it take? A departure from conventional thinking and bold, audacious action - transcending traditional notions of authority - understanding the interconnectedness of the world - nurturing the collective vision for desirable futures - satisfying the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations
Anastasia Kalinina has always been involved in system change, social impact, community building, global affairs, international diplomacy, and creating alternative futures. She has held senior positions in global non-profits such as Amnesty International and the International Service for Human Rights, as well as international institutions like the United Nations (Senior Advisor) and the World Economic Forum (Director for Eurasia). She was also a member of the founding team of the Global Shapers Community.
Once she discovered the limitations of traditional institutions, she started an independent journey by co-founding a Swiss-based non-profit, reState Foundation, aiming to reimagine the future of governance and global collaboration, and accelerating the transition to more desired futures as a human family. The foundation campaigns for acting as one species and tackling challenges as a human collective. reState provides a platform for designing, building, and testing viable alternatives to existing systems.
Anastasia holds a BA in Arts from Bard College New York, MA in Public Affairs from the University of Northern Iowa, MS in Human Rights from the London School of Economics, and an Executive Master degree in Global Leadership, delivered jointly by Columbia University, INSEAD, London Business School, Wharton Business School, and China Europe International Business School. Anastasia is a World Economic Forum Global Leadership Fellow, an Apolitical Academy Fellow, John Smith Fellow, and an honorary member of the International Project Management Association. Anastasia regularly writes for various international outlets, including the Independent, the New Atlanticist, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society’s blog, etc. Her areas of expertise and interest include public governance, planetary commons, conscious leadership, social innovation, civic tech, policy, and global affairs.
reState Foundation
Toolkit for the future of governance
Use cases for the future of governance
It seems our culture appropriates, wraps and repackages almost anything it can get its hands on. So, after yoga, meditation, plant medicine, the newest buzz word seems to be trauma. But beyond it being - in my eyes often banalized - what is actually trauma? And how does it relate to NeuroBalancing?
It’s my great pleasure to be in this virtual room together today with Johannes Eisenburger, one of my closest friends and a trained trauma therapist. So, like always in this podcast series, before we dive into the topic itself: What were the pivotal moments in your life that made you the human being that you are - and how do they relate to the overarching topic of today?
- Let’s start defining trauma: The difference between shock, developmental and attachment trauma.
- Survival strategies and coping mechanisms.
- Your near death experience and the biggest aviation accident in German history.
- Why do people - depending on the depth of their trauma - continuously retraumatize themselves?
- The Drama Triangle - and how to break free of that vicious cycle.
- Our healing journeys: Let’s share some commonalities in our healing journey (shock trauma) and maybe also some differences. Especially where the different modalities helped us.
- Neuro-states dictate how we feel, think and engage with the world.
- Nervous system eats strategy for breakfast.
- How does trauma relate to a dysregulated nervous system?
- The dark side of the psychedelic renaissance, like psychosis or spiritual narcissism.
- Choose your guides wisely!
- Finally - why did you consciously coin your work neuro-balancing, instead of trauma healing?
https://www.johannes-eisenburger.com
Johannes EisenburgerEmerging from a backdrop of profound adversities and enlightening triumphs, Johannes has woven his life challenges into a powerful narrative of empowerment, passion, and transformation. His journey is a testament to his unwavering commitment to not just survive but thrive in the face of adversity.Johannes' story takes a profound turn when he faced a near-death experience following a severe accident.
In that moment, he journeyed into the light, encountering his grandfather and experiencing a profound sense of peace. This encounter with the divine shifted his perspective on life and death, dispelling his fear of mortality.Motivated by a desire to break free from societal pressures that emphasized outer achievements over inner authenticity, Johannes embarked on a path of self-discovery.
He discovered an innate ability to read people and situations, adapting himself to societal norms to seek validation and love. Like many, he wore a facade to navigate life's challenges, concealing his true emotions beneath layers of achievement, overthinking, and relentless activity.However, life's inevitable trials struck with the loss of two close friends to cancer, both within the same week. Johannes found himself falling into a deep well of suppressed sadness and pain, leading to a profound period of depression. It was in this dark abyss that he confronted his inner demons and began the transformative work of healing.Johannes' journey shifted from running and escaping to facing his shadows head-on.
He took responsibility for his emotions, setting him on a path of profound personal growth. From pain emerged purpose, and Johannes emerged from his trials as a beacon of resilience, strength, and authenticity. Today, Johannes draws upon his personal experience and expertise in somatic trauma-therapy to guide high-achieving entrepreneurs, helping them confront the immense stressors of rapid business scaling.
He is an expert in navigating trauma, transforming it into a source of strength and wisdom. Johannes' story is a testament to the power of facing one's deepest fears and emerging stronger, grounded, and purpose-driven. He is here to hold space for those on their own transformative journeys, helping them unlock their truest nature and joy in life.
Millions of people use plant medicine every year under various circumstances. Little focus is often taken on how to integrate and embody these visionary states into everyday life.
It’s my great pleasure to be in this virtual room together with Dr. Katherine D. Coder, who is working in this field for over 10 years.
There’s three main areas of focus that we will touch upon in this episode:
- How do we best integrate plant medicine after the ceremony ends?
- What role does trauma play in integration?
- The intersection of spiritual awakening and social change.
Like always in my podcast series, and handing over to you:
What are the pivotal biographical moments that made you the human being that you are and show up with your purpose in the way you do?
When the Ceremony ends: How do we best integrate plant medicine?
- Psychedelics are very seductive! Introducing Visionary Plant Medicine Integration: Power and Pitfalls
- How much ceremony is too much ceremony? And, when is ceremony not the best next step?
- If your shaman is not from your culture or local to you, what can you do to integrate after a ceremony? Who do you turn to? Especially highlighting the differences in traditional and “western/integrated/neo-shamanic settings”
- What do you do when ceremony reveals trauma? How can you find and trust the “right guides” with a trauma informed background.
- What kind of support do you need post-ceremony to help yourself fully heal?
- How can you ground your work with visionary plants and walk the teachings in your daily life? Especially focus on psycho spiritual discipline and practices.
What role does trauma play in integration?
- somatically informed and trained facilitators
- bringing the visionary state back into soma to be fully embodied, importance of working with dissociation and gently shifting out of the trauma-based identity
- Example – deep sense of something being “wrong” with me
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Archetypal death-rebirth cycle
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Sharing some of your own healing practice & offerings
The intersection of spiritual awakening and social change
- Promotion of Compassionate Action in Premodernity: Indigenous traditions, The Axial Age, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions, Indian religious traditions: Hinduism and Buddhism, Ancient Greek traditions
- Moving Toward the Interdependence of Social Action and Spirituality & Reconsidering the path of spiritual development
- Contemporary Socially Engaged Spirituality
- Social action as a spiritual practice
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Varieties of socially engaged spirituality
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How can we ensure that all these peak experiences people get do not further spiritual narcissism?
Dr. Katherine Coder
is an awakener of evolutionary potential and a guide to remember one’s birthright and soul essence. She weaves the ancient wisdom into the now, serving as a vessel for the Divine Feminine in modern times. She holds the form and the formless, facilitating the integration of the known with the unknown.
Her transformative work connects body, mind, heart and Soul and seeks to meet each person as and where they are in the journey of life. Her stance is to recognize the fundamental Truth in each person, honor them as that Truth, and begin the work that needs to be done to bring a person to this essential nature.
Her specialties include trauma resolution, attachment challenges, codependency, childhood and family wounding, women’s work, and motherhood. From a transpersonal perspective she helps her clients with deeper awakenings and integrations. She brings together Western clinical psychology, Eastern spiritual teachings, indigenous wisdom, and the continuous cultivation of the deep feminine in the world.
She has taught lunar wisdom, elemental wisdom, herbal plant wisdom, elements of ceremony, and facilitated women’s work, council circles, workshops, retreats, year-long women’s feminine spirituality schools, and transformative book clubs.
Co-creation has been one of the most abused buzzwords in the last years, alongside maybe sustainability. So, why should cocreation as a cultural change technique be of such importance for the many challenges we face as humanity, from local communities, to city planning, to global governance issues?
It’s my pleasure today to share this virtual room together with Jascha Rohr, who works with participatory design and cocreative processes and formats for over 25 years, on a micro, meso and macro scale.
Like always, starting the podcast, and before we dive into the concepts, the scaffolding and architecture of the design of cocreation, I want to start with the human being.
- Jascha sketched his biography from the ecological question and exponential growth, permaculture and participatory design.
- Basics of cocreation: What exactly does the term “cocreation” mean and why did you decide to write a whole book about it?
- Areas of application: In what social and organizational contexts do you see the greatest potential for the principles of cocreation? Jascha shares two examples, one to inject cocreative DNA into a process design on the parliamentary level in Germany around nutrition and another one on a whole city level, in the city of Frankfurt/Main for innovation in the schooling sector.
- Discerning the basic ingredients: When we look at the models, concepts and methods such as the Cocreative Commune, Governance Design, and the Field Process Model - they all have a radically nondual process orientation and the breakdown of mental silos (e.g. in between inner and outer work).
- Challenges: What obstacles and challenges often arise when people try to cocreate, and how can they be overcome? Experience is the only way to understand, so we need opportunities to participate in good facilitated processes.
- What role does tech play in the area? I reckon through a full stack lens, there are many different layers and applications that are needed. So, what tech is available, and what tech solutions are lacking in the space to facilitate a co-creative process? Instead of again putting nature, society, and technology into mental and emotional silos, we explore the concept of “Gaia the Cyborg” from Donna Haraway.
- Future of cocreation: How do you see co-creative processes developing in the future? Are there any trends or developments that might become particularly relevant in the coming years? The pivotal moment will be a shift from methods to processes, to attitude, to paradigm.
- Practical Tips: For listeners who are excited about the concept of cocreation after this conversation: What first steps do you recommend they take to implement co-creative principles in their own work or communities? It’s always the same principles: create a field of playfulness, potentiality, and agency, invite people to it, protect the qualities, otherwise let go and, above all and anything, trust the process.
Jascha Rohr
is philosopher, social entrepreneur, developer and facilitator of participatory and co-creative design processes. He works on new ways of collaboration that enable us to discover our collective potentials and develop solutions and ideas for acute social problems. My goal is to enable participation that can change the world we live in for the better.
He is also founder, benefactor and board member of the Cocreation Foundation. I see myself as a process artist and hands-on intellectual. Using models, concepts and methods such as the Cocreative Commune, Governance Design and the Field Process Model, I believe I can support new attitudes and ways of seeing and working towards a more vibrant, sustainable world.
He lives with his partner and wife Sonja Hörster, my son and a demented cat in an eco-settlement in the countryside near Oldenburg and in Berlin. Two co-daughters have already left home.
https://www.partizipativ-gestalten.de
https://cocreation-foundation.org/
https://www.murmann-verlag.de/products/jascha-rohr-die-grosse-kokreation [in german]
From “Breaking Open the Head”, “Quetzalcoatl Returns”, “How Soon is Now?”, “Conspiranoia”, and “When plants dream”, I’ve been following the footsteps of Daniel Pinchbeck for over a decade now. I appreciate his radical honesty, speaking truth to power, slaughtering holy cows, and bridging many different areas of exploration.
Sometimes, your writing seems like advocating doomsday scenarios - and albeit many of the signs point
in the wrong direction, I want to distill in our conversation today what gives you hope.
Before that, let’s start with giving the listeners an overview of your body of work.
Easiest is to run through your oeuvre, the books, and articles you have written. I want to know what made you write these pieces, as well as how they shaped your reality forward.
- Please sketch from a meta-perspective how you see your body of work evolving from “Breaking Open the Head”, “Quetzalcoatl Returns”, “How Soon is Now?”, “Conspiranoia”, “When plants dream”.
- What were the crucial, pivotal points that moved you from one paradigm to the other?
- How do your personal experiences link to your body of work?
- What’s the quintessence from your own work?
- What body of work are you currently working on?
- What gives you the most hope? I know you reference yourself more on the pessimistic side but nevertheless, what are signs of hope?
http://www.pinchbeck.io/
Key Arguments from Post-Capitalist Philanthropy:
- Capitalism has inherent flaws that perpetuate inequality, environmental degradation, and social injustices.
- Philanthropy, as practiced within the capitalist system, often maintains the status quo and fails to address root causes.
- Post-capitalist philanthropy seeks to transform the underlying systems and structures that create and perpetuate societal problems.
- Philanthropists should prioritize systemic change, challenge power imbalances, and support movements working towards equitable and sustainable futures.
- Collaboration and solidarity among philanthropic organizations and grassroots movements are essential for effective systemic change.
Key Arguments from Alnoor Ladha
- Capitalism's focus on profit maximization and growth leads to exploitation of people and the planet.
- Philanthropy, in its current form, acts as a Band-Aid solution that fails to address the root causes of systemic problems.
- Philanthropists must shift their focus from charity and individual projects to challenging and transforming the systems that perpetuate inequality and environmental destruction.
- Genuine change requires redistributing wealth and power, democratizing decision-making, and centering marginalized communities.
- Social and environmental justice movements are critical catalysts for systemic change, and philanthropists should support these movements by leveraging their resources and networks.
Podcast Questions
- How can post-capitalist philanthropy challenge the systemic flaws of capitalism and contribute to radical systemic change?
- What are the limitations of traditional philanthropy in addressing root causes, and how can we move towards a more transformative approach?
- What strategies can philanthropists employ to actively challenge power imbalances and support movements working towards equitable and sustainable futures?
- How can collaboration and solidarity between philanthropic organizations and grassroots movements strengthen the impact of systemic change efforts?
- What role does wealth redistribution, democratizing decision-making, and centering marginalized communities play in catalyzing genuine and lasting change?
- How can philanthropists effectively leverage their resources and networks to support social and environmental justice movements?
- Finally, since the book is about anything post-capitalist: How do you envision a post-capitalist society?
Alnoor Ladha
is Co-director of Transition Resource Circle, Council Chair for Culture Hack Labs and Co-author of “Post Capitalist Philanthropy”.
From 2012 to 2019 he was the co-founder and executive director of the global activist collective The Rules. He holds an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics.
He lives in Costa Rica at Brave Earth, a center for applied cultural transition.
Paving the Path for a Sustainable Planet
When I look back at the last 38 episodes, quite a lot of them focus on the lever that money has. Money makes the world go round, as the saying goes. So, before we dive deeper into the nitty-gritty of impact investing - and the why, how, and through what you make a difference, I want to start with the human being, Alessa Berg.
- Who are you as a person, what do you care about, and why are you building what you’re building?
- Let’s reverse your journey. So, where are you standing now, beyond Top Tier Impact with ESG360 and the upcoming series on Gaia TV?
- Please share with us your personal journey that led you into the realm of impact investing. What was your initial spark of interest, and how did you nurture it into your current career?
- What is Top Tier Impact? How do you differentiate it from other networks of impact investors? What is your personal vision behind the creation of Top Tier Impact? How does it align with the wider objectives of sustainable and socially responsible investing?
- Where do you see the market for impact investing currently? In this context, do you see yourself more as a market-maker, or as an adopter?
- How do you address the issue of ESG criteria sometimes being used as greenwashing instruments in impact investing? What steps can we take to prevent this?
- Please highlight some of the investments you have made, especially those that have had significant systemic leverage across sectoral boundaries?
- Why do you believe that impact investing is crucial for the transition towards a planetary civilization, particularly at this critical juncture in human history?
- Can you shed some light on the potential you see in Blockchain and DLT for enhancing the transparency, accountability, and impact of your investments?
is an entrepreneur, investor, and active board member of several companies. Swiss-born and fluent in six languages, Alessa created her first business at eleven years old, and has been investing in the blockchain and biotech sectors since graduating from Oxford University in 2012. After covering product at early-stage technology startups, Alessa worked in private equity at Blackstone, and in venture capital at Mosaic Ventures. She’s the youngest member of her Oxford degree’s advisory board.
Alessa is the co-founder of ESG360, a climate and ESG risk management SaaS platform that enables its enterprise clients to quantify the financial impact of climate and ESG factors, then take strategic decisions on that basis.
Alessa Berg speeches.
Alessa also founded Top Tier Impact (TTI) to accelerate the mainstream adoption of impact and sustainability. TTI has become the global ecosystem of leaders focused on the critical issues of our time, present across more than 45 countries. For Alessa and TTI, “impact” represents a positive paradigm shift towards a sustainable, equal and joyous society.
https://www.toptierimpact.com
https://www.alessaberg.com/
Alessa Berg
https://esg360.io
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Hosts: Alistair and Alex
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The conversation focused on personal transformation, indigenous traditions, and working with sacred plant medicine
- Alex shares her journey from a career in Western medicine to exploring Ayahuasca and personal growth
Exploring Ayahuasca and Campbell Ceremony
- Alex's decision to follow her excitement and leave her career in western medicine
- Alex's discovery of Ayahuasca and the transformative path it led her on
- Alex's training in the use of Kambo ceremony after learning about its potential medical benefits
- Alistair's curiosity about Kambo and inquiry into Western medicine's stance on it
Benefits and Risks of Kambo Medicine
- Discussion on Kambo, a peptide extracted from frog secretion, as a medicine
- Alex's personal experiences using Kambo to treat health issues and addiction
- Exploring the animistic philosophy of perceiving everything as having higher intelligence or spirit
Energetic Centers and Kambo Medicine
- Alistair and Alex's discussion on the different energetic centers impacted by Kambo medicine
- Highlighting the importance of following protocols and disclosing any health issues before using Kambo
- Kambo's potency in flushing through the entire meridian system
Plant Medicines and Self-Reflection
- Alex and Alistair sharing their experiences with plant medicines, including Kambo and mushrooms
- Alex's journey to becoming a mushroom healer and acknowledging the pitfalls of ego leading to burnout
Burnout and Shamanic Training
- Alex's experience with burnout, therapy, and shamanic training
- Exploring the energetic and healing potential of mushrooms
- Emphasizing the importance of self-work and due diligence when choosing a spaceholder
Supporting Indigenous Communities and Plant Medicine
- Discussion on the hosts' involvement with indigenous communities and plant medicine
- Emphasis on reciprocity, friendship, and avoiding pedestalizing indigenous people while supporting their communities
Healing Power of Plant Medicine and Consciousness Shift
- The healing potential of plant medicine and the need for a quantum leap in consciousness and healing
- Mention of Alex's potential participation in a music and medicine event in Berlin, pending personal considerations
Conclusion:
- Recap of the main points discussed in the episode
- Invitation for listeners to explore personal transformation, indigenous traditions, and sacred plant medicine
Luca Ruggeri
Co-Founder & Platform Design Micro-Enterprise Lead
Electronic engineer since 2003, he has worked in the telecommunications industry for 10+ years with large corporations. From 2013, struck by lean & agile thinking, he began to engage with startups up to co-found one in the context of smart mobility and cleantech, selected and funded by the EU (Incense) among the best 28 cleantech startups in 2016. Well connected with the local entrepreneurial and startup ecosystem as a director of Roma Startup and mentor/advisor of some startups, he is an expert in change management, service & process design, the impact of technology, and business model innovation. Consultant for the Italian government on the use of emerging technologies (above all AI & DLT) till 2020, he coordinated the task force of AI experts that led to the first whitepaper on AI for public administrations in 2018. Since 2016, he has been firmly committed to the development of the Platform Design Toolkit and co-founded Boundaryless in 2018.
https://www.boundaryless.io/
What we do:
- https://boundaryless.io/our-approach/
LINKS:
- https://www.clubofrome.org/publication/the-limits-to-growth/
- https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sixth-assessment-report-cycle/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut_Economics:_Seven_Ways_to_Think_Like_a_21st-Century_Economist
“Making inner, personal development accessible to large parts of the population is a prerequisite for stable and flourishing democracies.”
There seem to be patterns that connect individual personal development (cognitive, moral) to the development of societies through stages from pre-modern, to modern, to post-modern and beyond. The question is then, how can we collectively raise the level of consciousness of the citizens? Through which means? And what can we learn from societies collapsing? And with the looming fate we collectively face, where many signs of the omni-crises point into collective Armaggedon and Apocalypse until the end of this century, where do you personally see signs of hope? What could be a “third attractor” beyond the extremes of surveillance state capitalism China style and late stage extractive capitalism in the West?
- Whereas it seems clear to us that the meta-crises, omni-crises and meaning-crisis are all interlinked, what are ways to build the capacities for meaning making to adresse the many converging global challenges?
- As you spent more than a decade exploring with the leading renegades and experts the field of societal development, what are your main takeaways?
- What can we extrapolate from the Nordic Secret? Meaning the uprise of Scandinavia due to large investments into public education?
- From the many endeavors you are supporting as a philanthropist and serial social entrepreneur, what are promising examples?
- From all the initiatives and projects you helped kick-start, what will you do differently in the years ahead? What is the legacy you want to leave behind?
- Do you see a realistic change in the next decades ahead that some of the code explored in your books, moves into more mainstream applications? Or the other way put, are there already large scale applications of personal development into societies that you see taking fruition?
Tomas Björkman has a long career behind him as entrepreneur in a variety of businesses within financial services, IT, property and banking – working all over Europe. He founded Investment Banking Partners AB and served as chairman of EFG Investment Bank.
In 2008 Tomas established Ekskäret Foundation in Stockholm. The foundation has established a conference facility on its island Ekskäret in the Stockholm archipelago. The mission of the foundation is to facilitate personal development and social change with the aim to help create a more conscious society. A special focus of the foundation is supporting the development of social entrepreneurs and the understanding of the complexities of social change. The foundation also operates the Ekskäret Klustret co-working space in central Stockholm with the aim to bring together organizations working towards a more conscious society.
Tomas is also a member of the Club of Rome, a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Science and a fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Science. Among Tomas' initiatives are the Perspectiva Institute in London, Co-Creation Loft in Berlin, the Emerge media initiative (www.whatisemerging.com) and the digital platform for personal growth: 29k.org.
Tomas has published three books: The Market Myth (2016), The Nordic Secret (2017, co-authored with Lene Andersen) and The World We Create (2019).
https://www.tomas-bjorkman.com
https://www.whatisemerging.com
https://systems-souls-society.com
https://www.innerdevelopmentgoals.org
https://29k.org
Is there any methodology or framework that can help us approach creatively and solve the many entangled wicked issues we face collectively.
I want to start with a quote:
“In the past, changing the self and changing the world were often regarded as separate endeavors and viewed in either-or terms. But in the story of the Great Turning, they are recognized as mutually reinforcing and essential to one another.”
― Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone, Active Hope
In my own biography from an early age I was overwhelmed with what today is called the omni-crisis, multi-crisis or poly-crisis. When we look at the state of affairs on planet Earth, we are faced with runaway climate change, many of the crucial planetary boundaries crossed, large macro-economic changes away from a Western dominated narrative and exploitative late stage capitalism going haywire.
It seems we need to adjust to chaos. But I reckon most listeners will agree, that’s not what we are used to in our brains that pretty much haven’t changed since we roamed the Earth as hunters and gatherers.
- So, where does Human System Dynamics (HSD) fit into the puzzle of the Great Turning?
- “Certainty used to be the foundation of knowledge and action. Those days are gone. Today, uncertainty is the only certainty. HSD’s Pattern Logic helps you make decisions and take action, even when you can’t predict or control anything in your world.” Please explain that quote from the website.
- If I got it right, HSD is not a ™ but an open source methodology that everyone can nudge, tweak, integrate into her respective toolbox? What do you think is the cooperative advantage that follows that open source approach?
- Is HSD more than “just” another change management methodology?
- Please start with describing HSD, at best by using a hands-on example?
- What are the crucial ingredients of HSD?
- What’s the vision? I read on the website “Our Vision: People everywhere thrive because we see patterns clearly, seek to understand, and act with courage to transform turbulence and uncertainty into possibility for all.” What does that mean in practice?
- Please highlight some best practice examples and success stories where HSD has made a difference.
- Where do you see the future of HSD?
- What’s the legacy you want to leave behind?
Dr. Glenda Eoyang
works with public and private organizations to help them thrive in the face of overwhelming complexity and uncertainty. She is a pioneer in the field of human systems dynamics (HSD), which she founded. Through Human Systems Dynamic Institute, Glenda uses her Models and Methods to help others see patterns in the chaos that surrounds them, understand the patterns in simple and powerful ways, and take practical steps to shift chaos into order. Her clients include Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oxfam International, Canada School of Public Service, Cargill, Fraser Health Authority (BC), and Roche/Genentech.
Glenda’s latest book, with co-author Royce Holladay, is Adaptive Action: Leveraging Uncertainty in Your Organization (Stanford University Press, April 2013). https://www.hsdinstitute.org
In episode 34 of our podcast, we delve into the current state of Web3 amidst recent crypto market downturns, with a specific focus on Cerulean Ventures and their investment strategy. While some remain skeptical about the transformative potential of blockchain technology, others fail to discern meaningful endeavors from mere speculation. Cerulean Ventures, however, believes in the regenerative power of natural assets and backs crypto and Web3 companies that are building the necessary infrastructure and tools for scaling climate impact. By taking a hands-on approach, they assist their portfolio companies across various domains, from technical aspects to marketing and operations. One significant theme explored is the shift from ownership to stewardship of the Earth, facilitated by Web3 and blockchain technology, which enables novel forms of value exchange and interlinked hyperlocal communities. We highlight examples of promising initiatives, such as stakeholder governance and accounting systems for nature, alongside the regenerative renaissance—a term emphasizing the regeneration of soil, biodiversity, and other natural assets. While some aspects of Web3 are overhyped, Cerulean Ventures remains focused on unlocking value through interblockchain communication and other infrastructural innovations. The episode concludes with a call for discernment in evaluating Web3 initiatives and emphasizes the potential of Web3 and the regenerative renaissance in unlocking systemic change and shifting towards stewardship of the Earth. For more information, visit Cerulean Ventures at cerulean.vc.
Jahed Momand
co-founded Cerulean Ventures with his partner Matthew Stotts. Cerulean Ventures backs crypto / web3 companies building the infrastructure and tools necessary to scale climate impact in this decade.
Cerulean Ventures is an investment firm that believes natural assets will unlock the next $50 trillion in growth, while incentivizing the regeneration of Earth through new coordination technologies.
We focus on the ecosystems in Cosmos Network and Regen Network, but invest actively outside it, as we believe the value unlocked by interblockchain communication (IBC) and other infrastructural innovations will rapidly scale climate impact through user-focused web3 tools.
We take a deeply hands-on approach informed by our own experience and background as founders, helping our portfolio with everything from the technical (mechanism design, product management, data engineering) to marketing and operational (community engagement, governance, tokenomics design, recruiting).
He also actively contribute to DAOs, as a steward to both PrimeDAO and GnosisGuild.
https://cerulean.vc
Since times unknown people retreat into darkness. What was once a space for hermits and monks has now spread as a practice all around the world.
With this podcast, we want to shed light upon some of the misconceptions around darkness retreats, share best practices, talk about neurobiological correlates accompanying this practice, share quite a bit about our own experience, as well as take a deeper dive into the spiritual market as a whole.
- Let’s start with our own experience with the darkness retreat.
- The background from different spiritual traditions.
- Common Misconceptions about Darkness Retreats
- After having hosted more than 600 darkness retreats at The Hermitage Severin is sharing some best practices around:
- Let’s talk about the neurobiological correlates that are processed in the nervous system whilst spending extended periods in darkness:
- Let’s disentangle the experience in darkness from a psychedelic experience.
- What are no-gos?
Severin Geser is a dedicated meditation practitioner and a passionate astrologer who loves to share his wisdom and hold space for those who are ready to begin their own journey. He spent fourteen months as an ordained monk in a monastery in Thailand, one year as an Ashtanga Yoga teacher at a center in Colombia, and two years in and out of extended silent meditation retreats and a three-month Meditation Teacher Training Course at Hridaya Yoga before co-creating The Hermitage on Lake Atitlán, in Guatemala.
https://www.thehermitageretreats.com
Since times unknown people retreat into darkness. What was once a space for hermits and monks has now spread as a practice all around the world.
With this podcast, we want to shed light upon some of the misconceptions around darkness retreats, share best practices, talk about neurobiological correlates accompanying this practice, share quite a bit about our own experience, as well as take a deeper dive into the spiritual market as a whole.
- Let’s start with our own experience with the darkness retreat.
- The background from different spiritual traditions.
- Common Misconceptions about Darkness Retreats
- After having hosted more than 600 darkness retreats at The Hermitage Severin is sharing some best practices around:
- Let’s talk about the neurobiological correlates that are processed in the nervous system whilst spending extended periods in darkness:
- Let’s disentangle the experience in darkness from a psychedelic experience.
- What are no-gos?
Severin Geser is a dedicated meditation practitioner and a passionate astrologer who loves to share his wisdom and hold space for those who are ready to begin their own journey. He spent fourteen months as an ordained monk in a monastery in Thailand, one year as an Ashtanga Yoga teacher at a center in Colombia, and two years in and out of extended silent meditation retreats and a three-month Meditation Teacher Training Course at Hridaya Yoga before co-creating The Hermitage on Lake Atitlán, in Guatemala.
https://www.thehermitageretreats.com
Since times unknown people retreat into darkness. What was once a space for hermits and monks has now spread as a practice all around the world.
With this podcast, we want to shed light upon some of the misconceptions around darkness retreats, share best practices, talk about neurobiological correlates accompanying this practice, share quite a bit about our own experience, as well as take a deeper dive into the spiritual market as a whole.
- Let’s start with our own experience with the darkness retreat.
- The background from different spiritual traditions.
- Common Misconceptions about Darkness Retreats
- After having hosted more than 600 darkness retreats at The Hermitage Severin is sharing some best practices around:
- Let’s talk about the neurobiological correlates that are processed in the nervous system whilst spending extended periods in darkness:
- Let’s disentangle the experience in darkness from a psychedelic experience.
- What are no-gos?
Severin Geser is a dedicated meditation practitioner and a passionate astrologer who loves to share his wisdom and hold space for those who are ready to begin their own journey. He spent fourteen months as an ordained monk in a monastery in Thailand, one year as an Ashtanga Yoga teacher at a center in Colombia, and two years in and out of extended silent meditation retreats and a three-month Meditation Teacher Training Course at Hridaya Yoga before co-creating The Hermitage on Lake Atitlán, in Guatemala.
https://www.thehermitageretreats.com
Millions of digital nomads live a life many aspire to. The numbers are hard to quantify, but the statistics speak for 16 million digital nomads from the US alone. And over 35 million at least worldwide. And the numbers - especially during and after the pandemic keep rising sharply. They are anticipated to grow to 1 billion people working remotely by 2035. Most of us share the dream of working and living remotely for at least a couple of months per year. And some dream of living in a community as a way of life. In this episode, we will deep dive into Cohere - The Future of Living with Dakotah Apostolou.
The question then becomes - how can we create a regenerative business model that serves the many generations after us, whilst enjoying a life free of the constraints most of us don’t want to endure anymore? Who out there really wants to spend more time in an office than really needed?
How can we create incentive mechanisms that create a commons based around food security, water, and being surrounded by inspiring people?
These are some of the questions that we are going to explore in today’s podcast around Cohere - the next generation of a community co-owned cooperative that aims to precisely solve at least some of the questions many of us ponder over.
- Why the name Cohere?
- What’s exactly the niche that you’re focusing on?
- Why connect change makers, social entrepreneurs, and change agents?
- What’s the broader ecosystem or meta-network that you want to serve with Cohere?
- What are you trying to do differently than other players in the market serving the needs of digital nomads? Please differentiate yourself from the other players in the market.
- How do you make sure you give back to the local, indigenous communities, where normally most of the value added is extracted from? How do you create an incentive mechanism that includes them?
- Every start-up has to start somewhere. Please sketch your involvement in
- Costa Rica
- Berlin
- Guatemala
- Peru
- Ecuador
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Colombia
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What about Cohere excites you most?
- Let’s take a deep dive into the Web3 part and the tokenomics behind Cohere
- Let’s disentangle the tokenomics from the broader Crypto market!
- Where do you see the biggest potential in the market?
- Finally, for the crucial junction in history we find ourselves in, what are the contributions and the leverage Cohere provides for the broader ecosystem?
Dakotah Joseph Apostolou is a designer of buildings, networks, and businesses. As an instigator of community, his passion is applying design thinking to create regenerative systems for the physical environment as well as inspiring collaboration between people and businesses. The latest expression of this is through his work with Cohere, a global network of member-owned coliving communities that blur the lines between work, life, and travel.
Graduating top of his class at Taliesin, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Dakotah embodies the ethos of Wright by virtue of his commitment to developing financially accessible human settlements that connect people to the natural world while restoring the health of the local ecosystem and communities.
https://www.cohere.network
How can we create incentive mechanisms that create a commons based around food security, water, and being surrounded by inspiring people?
These are some of the questions that we are going to explore in today’s podcast around Cohere - the next generation of a community co-owned cooperative that aims to precisely solve at least some of the questions many of us ponder over.
The question then becomes - how can we create a regenerative business model that serves the many generations after us, whilst enjoying a life free of the constraints most of us don’t want to endure anymore? Who out there really wants to spend more time in an office than really needed?
Millions of digital nomads live a life many aspire to. The numbers are hard to quantify, but the statistics speak for 16 million digital nomads from the US alone. And over 35 million at least worldwide. And the numbers - especially during and after the pandemic keep rising sharply. They are anticipated to grow to 1 billion people working remotely by 2035. Most of us share the dream of working and living remotely for at least a couple of months per year. And some dream of living in a community as a way of life. In this episode, we will deep dive into Cohere - The Future of Living with Dakotah Apostolou.
The notion is that the huge demand for psychedelic experiences comes with a lot of second and third-order effects and unintended consequences. To name but a few: Psychedelic tourism leads to endangering the very species the ceremonies rely on, and a lot of the sacred medicines, from Ayahuasca to Peyote are threatened by extinction. The psychedelic sacraments are in danger in consumerist societies being abused instead of unlocking their potential.
- Why psychedelics at all? Why do we think a focus on legalizing psychedelics has a crucial role to play in the omni-crises we face?
- Why did you choose the name Tabula Rasa Ventures?
- The ecosystem from Tabula Rasa Ventures, Energia Foundation, and Psyched Conference.
- How do we make sure to give back to the indigenous communities, where ultimately most of the knowledge is conserved?
- How do you make sure you don’t create just another wave of extractive business models that usurp the healing potential and make way for business à la Big Pharma?
- Where is the biggest potential in the market?
- Define the coordination challenge - and why and how that is linked to collective healing and solving the largest existential threats, and why that links to psychedelics.
- Finally, a question that I’ve already asked a couple of times in the podcast: What can we do to prevent spiritual bypassing, spiritual materialism, and spiritual narcissism? Especially in the last years, instead of people getting “rid” of their egos, I see supercharged egos, using micro-dosing to quench the last bit of efficiency and genius in work life.
Marik Hazanis an engineer, advocate, entrepreneur, and investor who has worked across “counter-culture” industries. He founded the first incubator focused on psychedelic startups and runs the world’s largest psychedelics conference, Psyched. He is the founding partner of Tabula Rasa Ventures, the premiere accelerator fund for early-stage psychedelic companies, and is the CEO of Energia Holdings Inc., an organization building the future of health by turning healthcare’s blindspots into preventative care solutions.
- Finally, a question that I’ve already asked a couple of times in the podcast: What can we do to prevent spiritual bypassing, spiritual materialism, and spiritual narcissism? Especially in the last years, instead of people getting “rid” of their egos, I see supercharged egos, using micro-dosing to quench the last bit of efficiency and genius in work life.
Marik Hazanis an engineer, advocate, entrepreneur, and investor who has worked across “counter-culture” industries. He founded the first incubator focused on psychedelic startups and runs the world’s largest psychedelics conference, Psyched. He is the founding partner of Tabula Rasa Ventures, the premiere accelerator fund for early-stage psychedelic companies, and is the CEO of Energia Holdings Inc., an organization building the future of health by turning healthcare’s blindspots into preventative care solutions.
- How do you make sure you don’t create just another wave of extractive business models that usurp the healing potential and make way for business à la Big Pharma?
- Where is the biggest potential in the market?
- Define the coordination challenge - and why and how that is linked to collective healing and solving the largest existential threats, and why that links to psychedelics.
The notion is that the huge demand for psychedelic experiences comes with a lot of second and third-order effects and unintended consequences. To name but a few: Psychedelic tourism leads to endangering the very species the ceremonies rely on, and a lot of the sacred medicines, from Ayahuasca to Peyote are threatened by extinction. The psychedelic sacraments are in danger in consumerist societies being abused instead of unlocking their potential.
- Why psychedelics at all? Why do we think a focus on legalizing psychedelics has a crucial role to play in the omni-crises we face?
- Why did you choose the name Tabula Rasa Ventures?
- The ecosystem from Tabula Rasa Ventures, Energia Foundation, and Psyched Conference.
- How do we make sure to give back to the indigenous communities, where ultimately most of the knowledge is conserved?
To name but a few: Psychedelic tourism leads to endangering the very species the ceremonies rely on, and a lot of the sacred medicines, from Ayahuasca to Peyote are threatened by extinction. The psychedelic sacraments are in danger in consumerist societies being abused instead of unlocking their potential.
There are a lot of phony gurus and curanderos around in the market. And the market is very opaque - mainly, obviously also due to the fact that in many countries working with the sacred sacraments is illegal. A lot of people sell shortcuts to healing and enlightenment. There is little interest in setting standards, procedures, processes, and a culture of care - and instead, the market forces are taking over, creating the next gold rush.
- What are key learnings working as a coach and spiritual guide in the last years?
- What are the pitfalls?
- What are the lessons and iterations in teaching?
- How to summarize the correct approach?
- How did you make an inventory of your own teachings?
- We see a huge wave of people doing plant medicine but I personally see too little integration into everyday life, and also way too few offers in terms to integrate those peak experiences. Also, truly we need preparation for these intense, transformational spaces to really stick.
- Let’s dive deep into the psychedelic renaissance:
- What are ways to create conscious capitalism and awaken people that have leverage?
- How can we out-innovate capitalism?
- What can we do to prevent spiritual bypassing, spiritual materialism, and spiritual narcissism? Especially in the last years, instead of people getting “rid” of their egos, I see supercharged egos, using micro-dosing to quench the last bit of efficiency and genius in work life.
- How is the conscious use of psychedelics and Web3 interlinked?
- How can we encode mutually beneficial values of exchange that represent the myriad of different flows?
- How can we create the next evolution of the internet?
- How can we codify the linguistics of the visionary realms into code for blockchain and ERC20 tokens?
- How can we unlock the value of creativity?
Hamilton Southeris a business leader, sacred plant psychedelic influencer, podcaster, and entertainment innovator, blockchain innovator and platform creator. He is motivated by social purpose with experience in founding and leading a USA 501c3 charitable organization.
https://www.gaialabs.io
https://fullstock.io
https://www.liquidearth.io
https://bluemorphotours.com
- How is the conscious use of psychedelics and Web3 interlinked?
- How can we encode mutually beneficial values of exchange that represent the myriad of different flows?
- How can we create the next evolution of the internet?
- How can we codify the linguistics of the visionary realms into code for blockchain and ERC20 tokens?
- How can we unlock the value of creativity?
- Let’s dive deep into the psychedelic renaissance:
- What are ways to create conscious capitalism and awaken people that have leverage?
- How can we out-innovate capitalism?
- What can we do to prevent spiritual bypassing, spiritual materialism, and spiritual narcissism? Especially in the last years, instead of people getting “rid” of their egos, I see supercharged egos, using micro-dosing to quench the last bit of efficiency and genius in work life.
To name but a few: Psychedelic tourism leads to endangering the very species the ceremonies rely on, and a lot of the sacred medicines, from Ayahuasca to Peyote are threatened by extinction. The psychedelic sacraments are in danger in consumerist societies being abused instead of unlocking their potential.
There are a lot of phony gurus and curanderos around in the market. And the market is very opaque - mainly, obviously also due to the fact that in many countries working with the sacred sacraments is illegal. A lot of people sell shortcuts to healing and enlightenment. There is little interest in setting standards, procedures, processes, and a culture of care - and instead, the market forces are taking over, creating the next gold rush.
- What are key learnings working as a coach and spiritual guide in the last years?
- What are the pitfalls?
- What are the lessons and iterations in teaching?
- How to summarize the correct approach?
- How did you make an inventory of your own teachings?
- We see a huge wave of people doing plant medicine but I personally see too little integration into everyday life, and also way too few offers in terms to integrate those peak experiences. Also, truly we need preparation for these intense, transformational spaces to really stick.
- When we take a look at sustainability through the lens of the Bell curve, where can we sense the biggest leverage for the decades ahead? Is it more in the realm of adoption and mainstreaming of less bad (like saving energy, and carbon) behavior in business? Or is it rather in radically rethinking business models at the core?
- Some of the examples of Tariq's work
- that are outstanding in their ripple effects across sectors
- that have the potential to build templates for other projects, as to massively scale
- and finally, some examples that failed, and also why?
- We dive deep into the concepts of de-growth, post-growth, decolonizing growth, reciprocal stewardship, and beyond species.
- What do “Public-Planet-Partnerships” mean?
- Where are business models in place that are already exemplary for the regenerative paradigm? And if so, in which sectors? And that can scale.
- Let’s talk about system demonstrators. Let’s imagine for a moment we could choose some bioregions in the world where together with legislators, business leaders, and new technology we could showcase that the regenerative paradigm truly works in action. What would be a scale in action that would be sufficiently big enough to showcase? Yet small enough of a sandbox to allow for failure - which obviously is very much needed when we are sailing into uncharted territory.
- Finally, what do we think are the necessary steps toward a planetary civilization ahead? Taking into account the leverage points that unlock through the role at 3BL but also through the other organizations and adjacent networks where we can make a difference.
Tariq Al-Olaimyis Co-founder of a global ecosystem of social and planetary systems enterprises, including 3BL Associates, Diversity on Board, Recipes for Wellbeing, and Public-Planet Partnerships. He is among the first 100 certified biomimicry specialists in the world, with a diverse educational background in degrowth, post-growth economics, exponential innovation, investment & financial risk management, and spiritual ecology. Tariq has held advisory board, and co-chair roles with organizations such as the World Economic Forum, UNESCO, EAT Foundation, and Greenpeace MENA (Ummah for Earth). He is Ubuntu peer peace coach and community leader with a decade of experience within international climate movements. He is an experienced speaker, having conducted training and workshops across six continents to over 120+ nationalities. He is featured in publications such as The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. He was host of the Dubai Expo 2020 ‘People and Planet’ Podcast. Also he is fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and has received multiple global awards and recognitions for leading projects that contribute toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
https://www.3blassociates.com
- Let’s talk about system demonstrators. Let’s imagine for a moment we could choose some bioregions in the world where together with legislators, business leaders, and new technology we could showcase that the regenerative paradigm truly works in action. What would be a scale in action that would be sufficiently big enough to showcase? Yet small enough of a sandbox to allow for failure - which obviously is very much needed when we are sailing into uncharted territory.
- Finally, what do we think are the necessary steps toward a planetary civilization ahead? Taking into account the leverage points that unlock through the role at 3BL but also through the other organizations and adjacent networks where we can make a difference.
- We dive deep into the concepts of de-growth, post-growth, decolonizing growth, reciprocal stewardship, and beyond species.
- What do “Public-Planet-Partnerships” mean?
- Where are business models in place that are already exemplary for the regenerative paradigm? And if so, in which sectors? And that can scale.
- When we take a look at sustainability through the lens of the Bell curve, where can we sense the biggest leverage for the decades ahead? Is it more in the realm of adoption and mainstreaming of less bad (like saving energy, and carbon) behavior in business? Or is it rather in radically rethinking business models at the core?
- Some of the examples of Tariq's work
- that are outstanding in their ripple effects across sectors
- that have the potential to build templates for other projects, as to massively scale
- and finally, some examples that failed, and also why?
- When we take a look at sustainability through the lens of the Bell curve, where is the most significant leverage for the decades ahead? Is it more in the realm of adoption and mainstreaming of less bad (like saving energy, and carbon) behavior in business? Or is it rather in radically rethinking business models at the core?
- When we look at the state of affairs of a world in multi-crises or Omni-crises, how can we make a case for sustainability? Sustainability is still seen as an add-on, as something that is “nice to have” but we “can’t afford it now”?
- What examples of business models are already exemplary for the regenerative paradigm? And if so, in which sectors?
- Let’s talk about system demonstrators. Let’s imagine for a moment we could choose some bioregions in the world where together with legislators, business leaders, and new technology we could showcase that the regenerative paradigm truly works in action. What would be a scale in action that would be sufficiently big enough to showcase? Yet small enough of a sandbox to allow for failure - which obviously is very much needed when we are sailing into uncharted territory.
- Finally, what are the necessary steps toward a planetary civilization ahead? Taking into account the leverage points that you can unlock through Volans but also through the adjacent networks that make a difference.
- Let’s talk about system demonstrators. Let’s imagine for a moment we could choose some bioregions in the world where together with legislators, business leaders, and new technology we could showcase that the regenerative paradigm truly works in action. What would be a scale in action that would be sufficiently big enough to showcase? Yet small enough of a sandbox to allow for failure - which obviously is very much needed when we are sailing into uncharted territory.
- Finally, what are the necessary steps toward a planetary civilization ahead? Taking into account the leverage points that you can unlock through Volans but also through the adjacent networks that make a difference.
- When we look at the state of affairs of a world in multi-crises or Omni-crises, how can we make a case for sustainability? Sustainability is still seen as an add-on, as something that is “nice to have” but we “can’t afford it now”?
- What examples of business models are already exemplary for the regenerative paradigm? And if so, in which sectors?
- When we take a look at sustainability through the lens of the Bell curve, where is the most significant leverage for the decades ahead? Is it more in the realm of adoption and mainstreaming of less bad (like saving energy, and carbon) behavior in business? Or is it rather in radically rethinking business models at the core?
- We unpack Web3 and Blockchain technology and ask ourselves what meaningful endeavors do we see on the horizon that can unlock systemic change?
- When it comes to Web3 exploding - what should we put up as a discerning radar? What are the features that make us find the golden needles in the haystack?
- What promises of Web3 might be phony? And on the other hand what endeavors could be underrated?
- Unpacking the regenerative renaissance; It seems like the word sustainability got hijacked and the next term is regeneration or the regenerative economy. What real-world examples are exemplifying at the core of their business model to not only do less harm but actually regenerate, i.e. soil, biodiversity, etc?
- Where are Web3 and the regenerative renaissance unlocking their maximum potential together? Where do we see examples where we move from ownership to stewardship of the Earth? What are new types of value exchange beyond the monetary exchange, i.e. DAOs and DHOs?
- We explore global exchange systems via interlinked hyperlocal communities that strengthen each other.
- What types of currencies - beyond the term being simply understood as monetary exchange systems are on the horizon, like mutual credit currencies, real asset-backed currencies
- We explore global exchange systems via interlinked hyperlocal communities that strengthen each other.
- What types of currencies - beyond the term being simply understood as monetary exchange systems are on the horizon, like mutual credit currencies, real asset-backed currencies
- Unpacking the regenerative renaissance; It seems like the word sustainability got hijacked and the next term is regeneration or the regenerative economy. What real-world examples are exemplifying at the core of their business model to not only do less harm but actually regenerate, i.e. soil, biodiversity, etc?
- Where are Web3 and the regenerative renaissance unlocking their maximum potential together? Where do we see examples where we move from ownership to stewardship of the Earth? What are new types of value exchange beyond the monetary exchange, i.e. DAOs and DHOs?
- We unpack Web3 and Blockchain technology and ask ourselves what meaningful endeavors do we see on the horizon that can unlock systemic change?
- When it comes to Web3 exploding - what should we put up as a discerning radar? What are the features that make us find the golden needles in the haystack?
- What promises of Web3 might be phony? And on the other hand what endeavors could be underrated?
In this podcast we will talk about:
- Mr. Rodundo’s quote: “Botanical Heart and Mechanical Mind”
- Some of the great significant projects that our guest has been involved in and the main takeaways from the projects he advises on and develops.
- Taking into account the current state of affairs of the multi-crises we are facing, it is true that building landscape-scale business models to regenerate large swaths of land - as well as preserving nature - is of tantamount interest. We will share our personal attitudes towards what we think about truly being able to restore large - and ultra-large-scale.
- For large-scale ecosystem restauration, we need to involve a myriad of disciplines, from biology to investing, from sociology, and anthropology to Web3, from conflict mediation to designing, and implementation, and project management. We see creative tension, and things really moving forward, which is exciting. However, what are the main pitfalls we see happening in the sector?
- None of us can predict the future - but we can co-create it. what would be the expectations and predictions for the future? We will especially focus on the EU and North America since those regions have to play an important role in the transition.
None of us can predict the future - but we can co-create it. what would be the expectations and predictions for the future? We will especially focus on the EU and North America since those regions have to play an important role in the transition.
For large-scale ecosystem restauration, we need to involve a myriad of disciplines, from biology to investing, from sociology, and anthropology to Web3, from conflict mediation to designing, and implementation, and project management. We see creative tension, and things really moving forward, which is exciting. However, what are the main pitfalls we see happening in the sector?
Taking into account the current state of affairs of the multi-crises we are facing, it is true that building landscape-scale business models to regenerate large swaths of land - as well as preserving nature - is of tantamount interest. We will share our personal attitudes towards what we think about truly being able to restore large - and ultra-large-scale.
In today’s podcast we will talk about:
- Mr. Rodundo’s quote: “Botanical Heart and Mechanical Mind”
- Some of the great significant projects that our guest has been involved in and the main takeaways from the projects he advises on and develops.
In this episode with Juan Saldana we dive deep into discussing:
- Mr. Saldana’s biography and how it links to conscious investing, and what were the defining turning points linking to the topic.
- A big fraction of all assets in the world is in real estate. This offers big levers for structuring the projects and deploying the capital in more meaningful ways. We will discuss the biggest opportunities that are arising in the market from the point of view of a real estate developer.
- A drastic change requires not just following the market but also making a move that will change its direction of it. So, we will try to explain where to follow and where to shape the market.
- Unpacking some of the concepts that objectively need to be implemented toward a regenerative economy ahead, such as creating a sustainable real estate ecosystem that we lack so much nowadays and restorative practices that we already are exemplifying themselves.
- The differences between stewardship and ownership. What role do sovereignty and equity play to create community wealth and resilience? And deriving from here, how can we create a regenerative impact?
- Our guest’s daringly positive outlook beyond the collective multi-crises we are currently facing. what would the leverages be that made us create a future of peace, ecological health, and abundance with all sentient beings on this beautiful planet?
Who is Juan Saldana?
Juan Saldana III is the founder/director of P3 Markets, a deeply conscious commercial real estate development company that applies restorative methodologies to develop valuable and scalable mixed-use assets. P3 Markets is a game-changing organization focused on producing equitable impact projects that advance community wealth and resiliency. Juan is a bilingual and international business executive with over 24 years of multidisciplinary service and experience. His peers often describe him as a creator, magician, and rebel.
- The differences between stewardship and ownership. What role do sovereignty and equity play to create community wealth and resilience? And deriving from here, how can we create a regenerative impact?
- Our guest’s daringly positive outlook beyond the collective multi-crises we are currently facing. what would the leverages be that made us create a future of peace, ecological health, and abundance with all sentient beings on this beautiful planet?
- A drastic change requires not just following the market but also making a move that will change its direction of it. So, we will try to explain where to follow and where to shape the market.
- Unpacking some of the concepts that objectively need to be implemented toward a regenerative economy ahead, such as creating a sustainable real estate ecosystem that we lack so much nowadays and restorative practices that we already are exemplifying themselves.
In this episode we will dive deep in:
- Mr. Saldana’s biography and how it links to conscious investing, and what were the defining turning points linking to the topic.
- A big fraction of all assets in the world is in real estate. This offers big levers for structuring the projects and deploying the capital in more meaningful ways. We will discuss the biggest opportunities that are arising in the market from the point of view of a real estate developer.
In this episode:
We will dive into your biography and sketch some of the defining turning points from your childhood, adolescence, and adulthood that connect to the topic.
- What comes after the liminal/sense-making web?
- How do we get our hands dirty in building a good world?
I know you are involved in many different projects, please sketch a couple, especially focussing on where you see the levers for systemic change
- The flywheel
- Delodi
- https://motherland.earth
- https://www.gita.global
- Initiative for the Regenerative Economy https://regenerativemarktwirtschaft.org
- https://pirate.partners/
And please also mention how you finance these whole endeavors, and how Delodi plays a crucial role to unlock the financial grease to shuffle money into these projects.
Main point being - with our dialogue I want to inspire other entrepreneurs to build a “Full Circle” and an ecosystem for systemic change. I know actually few that are successful in doing that.
- What are the main things you are wrestling with?
- What could be a wild card that drastically unlocks more torque on your engine going full circle?
Finally, when you dare to take a daringly positive outlook beyond the collective multi-crises we are currently facing, what would the leverages be that made us create a future in peace, ecological health, and abundance with all sentient beings on this beautiful planet?
Bio of my guest, Thomas Schindler:
A childhood dominated by dinner table conversations around ion channels, power microscopy, nuclear war, and ecosystems collapse left its marks. Instead of becoming a rockstar, which had been the original plan, Thomas became an entrepreneur driven by applying the power of science and technology toward making the planet a good place. This led to a series of for-profit and non-profit organizations, initiatives, and projects toward that objective which can be explored on his website https://thomas.cr
Main point being - with our dialogue I want to inspire other entrepreneurs to build a “Full Circle” and an ecosystem for systemic change. I know actually few that are successful in doing that.
- What are the main things you are wrestling with?
- What could be a wild card that drastically unlocks more torque on your engine going full circle?
Finally, when you dare to take a daringly positive outlook beyond the collective multi-crises we are currently facing, what would the leverages be that made us create a future in peace, ecological health, and abundance with all sentient beings on this beautiful planet?
I know you are involved in many different projects, please sketch a couple, especially focussing on where you see the levers for systemic change:
- The flywheel
- Delodi
- https://motherland.earth
- https://www.gita.global
- Initiative for the Regenerative Economy https://regenerativemarktwirtschaft.org
- https://pirate.partners/
And please also mention how you finance these whole endeavors, and how Delodi plays a crucial role to unlock the financial grease to shuffle money into these projects.
In this episode:
- We will dive into your biography and sketch some of the defining turning points from your childhood, adolescence, and adulthood that connect to the topic.
- What comes after the liminal/sense-making web?
- How do we get our hands dirty in building a good world?
- I know you are involved in many different projects, please sketch a couple, especially focussing on where you see the levers for systemic change
In today's podcast we will talk about:
- We do know about Michael Stern’s career and his biggest achievements in his field, but we will open the connecting window to his childhood that will help us picture what made him the leader he is now.
- In the Mission Statement of Emerging Leaders Project, we read “Emerging Leaders Project exists to empower current and future leaders to work skillfully with emergence, steward humanity through the Great Transition, and co-create a more beautiful world.” - What makes this endeavor unique as the mission statement reads rather generically?
- Intersubjective practices have critical significance for the great upcoming transition. When there is trust, safety, intimacy, and relatedness you can go quite quickly into a deeper field of coherence in the ‘we’ space. Is the 'we' space misused or even abused by the false prophets?
- More about the intersubjective practices: We are in the midst of an evolutionary leap that will allow us to emerge as a global intelligence on a previously unimaginable degree of coherence. So, why are these intersubjective behaviors so important in our times?
- The modern consumerist society has shaped a person’s mind to work in a way that will only satisfy their egos. Big companies teach us to think about ourselves and only do what pleases us, of course this is happening while they sell their product to us to appease our egoistic self. So how can we let go of our unreasonably bloated egos?
- We see a lot of things converging in the market over the last few years. What's the unique synthesis of ancient wisdom, collective healing, and social innovation? We are merging trans-lineage spirituality, where we preserve the mystical core of each unique tradition, with neuroscience, quantum physics, and energetic resonance.
- The crucial levers for the necessary steps towards a planetary civilization with the expertise and knowledge of the field of our guest.
Michael Stern is a coach, facilitator, and co-founder of the Emerging Leaders Project, his mission is to support and empower current and future leaders to help humanity navigate the Great Transition and co-create a more beautiful world through synthesizing ancient wisdom, collective healing, and social innovation. He is originally from New York City and currently lives in Portland, Maine. He loves the ocean, mixed martial arts, dope beats, and being a father.
- The modern consumerist society has shaped a person’s mind to work in a way that will only satisfy their egos. Big companies teach us to think about ourselves and only do what pleases us, of course this is happening while they sell their product to us to appease our egoistic self. So how can we let go of our unreasonably bloated egos?
- We see a lot of things converging in the market over the last few years. What's the unique synthesis of ancient wisdom, collective healing, and social innovation? We are merging trans-lineage spirituality, where we preserve the mystical core of each unique tradition, with neuroscience, quantum physics, and energetic resonance.
- The crucial levers for the necessary steps towards a planetary civilization with the expertise and knowledge of the field of our guest.
- Intersubjective practices have critical significance for the great upcoming transition. When there is trust, safety, intimacy, and relatedness you can go quite quickly into a deeper field of coherence in the ‘we’ space. Is the 'we' space misused or even abused by the false prophets?
- More about the intersubjective practices: We are in the midst of an evolutionary leap that will allow us to emerge as a global intelligence on a previously unimaginable degree of coherence. So, why are these intersubjective behaviors so important in our times?
- In the Mission Statement of Emerging Leaders Project, we read “Emerging Leaders Project exists to empower current and future leaders to work skillfully with emergence, steward humanity through the Great Transition, and co-create a more beautiful world.” - What makes this endeavor unique as the mission statement reads rather generically?
- Intersubjective practices have critical significance for the great upcoming transition. When there is trust, safety, intimacy, and relatedness you can go quite quickly into a deeper field of coherence in the ‘we’ space. Is the 'we' space misused or even abused by the false prophets?
In today's podcast we will talk about:
- We do know about Michael Stern’s career and his biggest achievements in his field, but we will open the connecting window to his childhood that will help us picture what made him the leader he is now.
- In the Mission Statement of Emerging Leaders Project, we read “Emerging Leaders Project exists to empower current and future leaders to work skillfully with emergence, steward humanity through the Great Transition, and co-create a more beautiful world.” - What makes this endeavor unique as the mission statement reads rather generically?
In this episode we have the pleasure to listen to our guest talk about:
- Kosha Joubert's biography: how growing up in South Africa and living during the Apartheid as a child and as a youngster contributed to the defining turning points in her life.
- What is collective trauma and how can we recognize and accept it?
- What made Kosha Joubert become aware that collective trauma is such a core topic? Examples of collective trauma and where it prevents us from really creating the change we want to see.
- Core learnings from building the Global Ecovillage Network into a worldwide movement reaching out to over 6000 communities on all continents
- Why is healing collective and intergenerational trauma of such core significance for us as humanity at this collective inflection point?
The Pocket Project:
- Where is it standing?
- What are its contours, and processes?
- Where do you see it going?
- What would need to happen for the learnings to “infect” other parts of society?
- We can imagine thousands of apocalyptic scenarios for the future, but we let that go for a second and we will attempt to imagine what can happen in the future if we follow a better path than now.
Kosha Anja Joubert serves as CEO of the Pocket Project, dedicated to restoring a fragmented world by addressing and healing personal, ancestral, and collective trauma.
She holds an MSc in Organisational Development, is an experienced facilitator, coach, and consultant, and has worked extensively in the fields of systems regeneration, intercultural collaboration, and trauma-informed leadership. Kosha grew up in South Africa under Apartheid and has been dedicated to transformational edgework ever since. She has authored several books and received the Dadi Janki Award (2017) for engaging spirituality in life and work and the One World Award (2020) for her work in building the Global Ecovillage Network into a worldwide movement reaching out to over 6000 communities on all continents. https://www.opencircle.live/team/koshahttps://pocketproject.org/
We can imagine thousands of apocalyptic scenarios for the future, but we let that go for a second and we will attempt to imagine what can happen in the future if we follow a better path than now.
- Core learnings from building the Global Ecovillage Network into a worldwide movement reaching out to over 6000 communities on all continents
- Why is healing collective and intergenerational trauma of such core significance for us as humanity at this collective inflection point?
The Pocket Project:
- Where is it standing?
- What are its contours, and processes?
- Where do you see it going?
- What would need to happen for the learnings to “infect” other parts of society?
- What is collective trauma and how can we recognize and accept it?
- What made Kosha Joubert become aware that collective trauma is such a core topic? Examples of collective trauma and where it prevents us from really creating the change we want to see.
Kosha Anja Joubert serves as CEO of the Pocket Project, dedicated to restoring a fragmented world by addressing and healing personal, ancestral, and collective trauma.
She holds an MSc in Organisational Development, is an experienced facilitator, coach, and consultant, and has worked extensively in the fields of systems regeneration, intercultural collaboration, and trauma-informed leadership. Kosha grew up in South Africa under Apartheid and has been dedicated to transformational edgework ever since. She has authored several books and received the Dadi Janki Award (2017) for engaging spirituality in life and work and the One World Award (2020) for her work in building the Global Ecovillage Network into a worldwide movement reaching out to over 6000 communities on all continents. https://www.opencircle.live/team/kosha https://pocketproject.org/
In this episode we will discuss how growing up in South Africa and living during the Apartheid as a child and as a youngster contributed to the defining turning points in her life.
- What is collective trauma and how can we recognize and accept it?
- What made Kosha Joubert become aware that collective trauma is such a core topic? Examples of collective trauma and where it prevents us from really creating the change we want to see.
Iboga - the gateway to the energetic hyperdimensional realms
In this episode of Signature Format, we will dive deep into:
- Iboga in a nutshell. Starting from the basic information to the explored medical use around the world. What is a story of the realm of Tabernanthe Iboga?
- Personal experiences with Iboga, as well as encounters with the traditional Bwiti Cult in Gabon, from a curative, cultural, and experiential point of view.
- Knowing other plant medicine, such as Ayahuasca, Mushrooms, Peyote, or San Pedro, as well as other synthetic psychedelic compounds such as MDMA and LSD, what are the unique features of Iboga? Mr. Erny will elaborate on the healing and therapeutical aspects of the plant and give us more exemplary experiences from the inside - the “experience itself” before going through it.
- More about the Global Iboga Therapy Alliance (GITA), their policy, advocacy, and market-shaping strategies. How do they promote and foster spiritual awareness and make Iboga accepted on a broader scale?
- Did you know that in the West it’s used to heal addictions? However, lately, further research showed that microdosing Iboga is a plausible cure for Parkinson's Disease.
- Fundraising for further studies. The GITA is still a relatively small organization and the plant is not fully explored either. Producing medical literature is crucial for the further development of the treatment and to clear up the contradictions surrounding it.
- Iboga as a cultural phenomenon. Tobias Erny will tell us about his visit to Gabon, and more importantly, what he thinks needs to be done to preserve the culture rather than exploit it in the future.
Tobias Erny experienced in 2006 the curative power of Iboga. He began to delve deeply into research and work with the sacred wood. Besides helping others to decode its ancient wisdom, he wrote the German-language standard reference book on Iboga, organizes conferences and events evolving around Iboga, and is active as a networker, facilitator, consultant, and speaker for the Global Iboga Therapy Alliance. His mission is to promote and foster spiritual awareness and make Iboga accepted on a broader scale. Besides his activities in Europe & Mexico, he supports a Gabonese NGO which helps to preserve the cultural heritage of Bwiti and the sustainable farming of Iboga. Currently, he coordinates the Iboga program of the Beckley Foundation in Oxford.
Iboga as a cultural phenomenon. Tobias Erny will tell us about his visit to Gabon, and more importantly, what he thinks needs to be done to preserve the culture rather than exploit it in the future.
- Did you know that in the West it’s used to heal addictions? However, lately, further research showed that microdosing Iboga is a plausible cure for Parkinson's Disease.
- Fundraising for further studies. The GITA is still a relatively small organization and the plant is not fully explored either. Producing medical literature is crucial for the further development of the treatment and to clear up the contradictions surrounding it.
More about the Global Iboga Therapy Alliance (GITA), their policy, advocacy, and market-shaping strategies. How do they promote and foster spiritual awareness and make Iboga accepted on a broader scale?
Iboga - the gateway to the energetic hyperdimensional realms
In this episode of Signature Format, we will dive deep into:
- Iboga in a nutshell. Starting from the basic information to the explored medical use around the world. What is a story of the realm of Tabernanthe Iboga?
- Personal experiences with Iboga, as well as encounters with the traditional Bwiti Cult in Gabon, from a curative, cultural, and experiential point of view.
- Knowing other plant medicine, such as Ayahuasca, Mushrooms, Peyote, or San Pedro, as well as other synthetic psychedelic compounds such as MDMA and LSD, what are the unique features of Iboga? Mr. Erny will elaborate on the healing and therapeutical aspects of the plant and give us more exemplary experiences from the inside - the “experience itself” before going through it.
Stephan Rechtschaffen, MD, author of Timeshifting, is cofounder of the Omega Institute and creator and director, and visionary of Blue Spirit Costa Rica in Nosara. He has been teaching Manifest Your Vision for more than 20 years and regularly consults with centers, organizations, and businesses in this emerging field. For decades, he has been involved in developing communities that model sustainable and spiritual dimensions of living a more wholesome and authentic lifestyle. He has served and currently serves as a consultant or board member to many organizations that promote this type of work, including Upaya Zen Center, the Center for Discovery, and GeoFund.
Rechtschaffen is also a widely recognized holistic physician who lectures on health, wellness, nutrition, longevity, and time. He is a coauthor of Vitality and Wellness and author of Timeshifting, a book that focuses on one’s relationship to time and stress amidst the quickening pace of modern life. These interests have drawn him to living and working in the more mindful and slower paced environment of Blue Spirit Costa Rica.
“No permanence is ours; we are a wave That flows to fit whatever form it finds” ― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
If you were to distill the turning points and lessons of your life phases into pearls of wisdom what would they be? From your childhood, Adolescence to Adulthood As the Founder of Omega Institute in 1977 and now Blue Spirit Costa Rica you are deeply immersed in the field of spirituality, personal development, and hosting retreats for almost half a century:
What are the critical developments you see happening in the sector with spirituality going mainstream and personal development being usurped as a commodity? What are your main learnings, key takeaways, and pearls of wisdom that you want to share?
I want to have you reflect on your notion of the absence of individual and social wisdom - replaced by information and speed - thus talking about time and process - its connection to deeper wellbeing - and thus sizing of new tribal communities that can honor peaceful and nature-based practices
They say we are in the third wave of the psychedelic renaissance. I’m pretty critical of many things I see going on. What’s your take on psychedelics - your personal experience - especially when it comes to training states of consciousness through techniques like meditation. What is it that gives you the most hope when you look at the current state of affairs on the planet? What are the necessary steps towards a planetary civilization ahead when we look at the insides that make us human?
Finally, when you dare to take a daringly positive outlook beyond the collective multi-crises we are currently facing, what would the leverages be that made us create a future in peace, ecological health, and abundance with all sentient beings on this beautiful planet?
What are the necessary steps towards a planetary civilization ahead when we look at the insides that make us human?
Finally, when you dare to take a daringly positive outlook beyond the collective multi-crises we are currently facing, what would the leverage be that made us create a future in peace, ecological health, and abundance with all sentient beings on this beautiful planet?
They say we are in the third wave of the psychedelic renaissance. I’m pretty critical of many things I see going on. What’s your take on psychedelics - your personal experience - especially when it comes to training states of consciousness through techniques like meditation.
What is it that gives you the most hope when you look at the current state of affairs on the planet?
I want to have you reflect on your notion of the absence of individual and social wisdom - replaced by information and speed - thus talking about time and process - its connection to deeper wellbeing - and thus sizing of new tribal communities that can honor peaceful and nature-based practices
If you were to distill the turning points and lessons of your life phases into pearls of wisdom what would they be?
- From your childhood
- Adolescence
- Adulthood
As the Founder of Omega Institute in 1977 and now Blue Spirit Costa Rica you are deeply immersed in the field of spirituality, personal development, and hosting retreats for almost half a century:
- What are the critical developments you see happening in the sector with spirituality going mainstream and personal development being usurped as a commodity?
- What are your main learnings, key takeaways, and pearls of wisdom that you want to share?
Guest Bio: "I bring deep experience helping develop and build strategies, processes, and teams to manage, grow and scale companies to their maximum value. I have been passionate about finding scalable solutions to be able to begin to thrive with all of nature and this planet. Currently, Roland Van der Meer am Executive Chairman of UpTerra, an Ag Tech company that is bringing a revolution to farming structuring water and frequency imprinting at scales unheard of before, that dramatically reduces all inputs and significantly improves yields. He is also Chairman of Amphibian Capital, a fund of funds of quantitative crypto funds, that donates 50% of its profits to Regenerative Assets.
Over the past 12 years has helped create and build three firms in sustainable real assets that now manage over $2.5B in assets across Agriculture, Energy, Water, and Waste. Equilibrium Capital, Biological Capital, and Ultra Capital. Each of these companies represents a new approach to investing in regenerative solutions that scale: Ultra Capital, investing in small and mid-size infrastructure and real asset projects that accelerate fundamental resource sustainability in agriculture, energy, water, and waste. Bio-Logical Capital, a land investment, development, revitalization, and conservation firm, and Equilibrium Capital, a sustainably-driven real asset funds manager.
In the prior 20 years, he co-founded ComVentures, a venture early stage investor in the communications sector, that managed over $1.5B. My personal track record has over a 20% IRR.”
Let’s dive into your biography and sketch some of the defining turning points from your childhood, adolescence and adulthood that made you the human being that you are now.
Let’s look deeper into your career: What are your main takeaways from working for 20 years as a venture early-stage investor? Please sketch: Equilibrium Capital, Biological Capital and Ultra Capital, Amphibian Capital
How do we bring the needed resources to regenerative projects and communities so humanity can thrive with the natural world? Please sketch some of the scalable solutions to begin to thrive with all of nature and this planet.
When you look at the current state of affairs on the planet, what are the biggest leverage points you see: Personal development, Cultural development and Systems change
How do you try and apply an integral lens in your investment approach?
Finally, when you dare to take a daringly positive outlook beyond the collective multi-crises we are currently facing, what would the leverages be that made us create a future in peace, ecological health, and abundance with all sentient beings on this beautiful planet?
Finally, when you dare to take a daringly positive outlook beyond the collective multi-crises we are currently facing, what would the leverages be that made us create a future in peace, ecological health, and abundance with all sentient beings on this beautiful planet?
How do we bring the needed resources to regenerative projects and communities so humanity can thrive with the natural world? Please sketch some of the scalable solutions to begin to thrive with all of nature and this planet.
When you look at the current state of affairs on the planet, what are the biggest leverage points you see:
- Personal development
- Cultural development
- Systems change
How do you try and apply an integral lens in your investment approach?
Let’s look deeper into your career:
What are your main takeaways from working for 20 years as a venture early-stage investor? Please sketch
- Equilibrium Capital
- Biological Capital
- and Ultra Capital
- Amphibian Capital
Let’s dive into your biography and sketch some of the defining turning points from your
- childhood
- adolescence
- and adulthood that made you the human being that you are now.
- Let’s dive into your biography and sketch some of the defining turning points from the biography and how they tie into the overarching topic.
- You have been investing for over three decades now. Where do you see the market going? And what’s your response to that?
- Please define Integral Investing? What makes this framework so meaningful - beyond just another framework?
- Please sketch some of the projects you are involved in as an investor. Please elaborate on your search, vetting, due diligence, investing process, and how you accompany these endeavors.
- When you look at the current state of affairs on the planet:
- What do you think are the necessary ingredients we need to manifest a planetary civilization ahead?
- What role does Integral Investing play in that?
- On a more personal note - as a quinta essentia - why do you think embracing the integral framework, not only as an investor is so crucial?
- Finally, when you dare to take a daringly positive outlook beyond the collective multi-crises we are currently facing, what would the leverages be that made us create a future in peace, ecological health, and abundance with all sentient beings on this beautiful planet?
Finally, when you dare to take a daringly positive outlook beyond the collective multi-crises we are currently facing, what would the leverages be that made us create a future in peace, ecological health, and abundance with all sentient beings on this beautiful planet?
On a more personal note - as a quinta essentia - why do you think embracing the integral framework, not only as an investor is so crucial?
Please sketch some of the projects you are involved in as an investor. Please elaborate on your search, vetting, due diligence, investing process, and how you accompany these endeavors.
- Let’s dive into your biography and sketch some of the defining turning points from the biography and how they tie into the overarching topic.
- You have been investing for over three decades now. Where do you see the market going? And what’s your response to that?
- Please define Integral Investing? What makes this framework so meaningful - beyond just another framework?
Dr. Christin ter Braak-Forstinger, LL.M. is the co-founder and CEO of Chi Impact Capital. Christin is passionate about proactively making the shift towards a regenerative and deep-impact economy a reality. Christin has a long-standing experience and tracks record in impact investing; She completed her Doctoral Thesis at Harvard Law School (summa cum laude), her Master's Studies at Duke Law School, and studied Law and Business Administration before in Austria; Christin is a regular author, key-note speaker, juror and long-time university lecturer in impact investing. Privately, Christin is the co-founder of award-winning NGO Braveaurora, active in North Ghana since 2009. Christin loves to spend her spare time with her family in nature; meditation forms an integral part of her life.
Interested in: Conscious Investing and Impact Investing
- Let’s dive into your biography and how it links to conscious investing. What were defining turning points linking to the topic?
- Why the term conscious investing, discerning it from impact investing?
- I’m curious to listen to your processes of finding, vetting, due diligence, investing into, and accompanying those endeavors you think are meaningful - all whilst looking through your lens of conscious investing.
- Let’s take a broader look into the landscape of impact investing:
- What’s your perspective on the state of affairs in general, as the market is adopting more ESG criteria within mainstream financial products?
- Where do you personally draw a line between less bad, low-hanging fruits, the market moving in general, and things simply greenwashing?
- Ideally, you bind your carry to the impact of the investments you make!
- Money makes the world go round. Why do you think that for the great transition towards a planetary civilization ahead, conscious investing is such a crucial ingredient?
- Finally, when you dare to take a daringly positive outlook beyond the collective multi-crises we are currently facing, what would the leverage be that made us create a future in peace, ecological health, and abundance with all sentient beings on this beautiful planet?
- Raising your own consciousness on a personal but also on an investment level.
- That we take care of biodiversity issues in our investment decisions.
Finally, when you dare to take a daringly positive outlook beyond the collective multi-crises we are currently facing, what would the leverage be that made us create a future in peace, ecological health, and abundance with all sentient beings on this beautiful planet?
Raising your own consciousness on a personal but also on an investment level.
That we take care of biodiversity issues in our investment decisions.
Money makes the world go round. Why do you think that for the great transition towards a planetary civilization ahead, conscious investing is such a crucial ingredient?
Let’s take a broader look into the landscape of impact investing:
What’s your perspective on the state of affairs in general, as the market is adopting more ESG criteria within mainstream financial products?
Where do you personally draw a line between less bad, low-hanging fruits, the market moving in general, and things simply greenwashing?
Ideally, you bind your carry to the impact of the investments you make!
What are the processes of finding, vetting, due diligence, investing into, and accompanying those endeavours Dr. Christin think are meaningful - all whilst looking through your lens of conscious investing.
Dr. Christin ter Braak-Forstinger, LL.M. is the co-founder and CEO of Chi Impact Capital. Christin is passionate about proactively making the shift towards a regenerative and deep-impact economy a reality. Christin has a long-standing experience and tracks record in impact investing; She completed her Doctoral Thesis at Harvard Law School (summa cum laude), her Master's Studies at Duke Law School, and studied Law and Business Administration before in Austria; Christin is a regular author, key-note speaker, juror and long-time university lecturer in impact investing. Privately, Christin is the co-founder of award-winning NGO Braveaurora, active in North Ghana since 2009. Christin loves to spend her spare time with her family in nature; meditation forms an integral part of her life.
Conscious Investing and Impact Investing
Let’s dive into your biography and how it links to conscious investing. What were defining turning points linking to the topic? Why the term conscious investing, discerning it from impact investing?
Meditation - Pitfalls, misunderstandings and gross oversimplifications
The market for spirituality is exploding. With massive second order effects kicking in like poor transparency, phony gurus, idolizing and sugarcoating spiritual bypassing. How can we ensure that we don’t use these ancient old techniques to build narcissistic super egos? What role does complementary shadow work play?
In the dialogue we dive into:
Four Definitions of “Spiritual” or “Spirituality”
- 1) our first definition of spirituality is that it is the highest level of any of the developmental lines (cognitive, kinesthetic, moral, emotional)
- 2) second definition of “spirituality,” this specific developmental line, called “spiritual,” would be what we were talking about
- 3) A third way of defining “spiritual” or “spirituality,” according to Wilber, is as a religious or spiritual experience. Therefore, in this third definition, spirituality would be understood as a state of consciousness
- 4) For our fourth definition, “spiritual” or “spirituality” could refer to a a special kind of attitude. Not a developmental line, not the highest level of a developmental line, and not a state of consciousness, but rather a kind of attitude at any of the structures of consciousness. This attitude could be involved with love, or compassion, or wisdom, as Wilber points out in his definition — but it can be found at any of the structures of consciousness. That’s our fourth definition of “spiritual” or “spirituality” — a special attitude.
States & Stages of Consciousness
- Stages: Spiral Dynamics - Lines of Development - Multiple Intelligences - relatively stable center of gravity of consciousness - values - morals
- States:Waking, Dreaming, Formless Sleep, Altered States of Consciousness
Why is Shadow work so important?
- Or: Do we really see just another guru blowing up?
- Stripping the Gurus: Many gurus that were famous in the 1970 most likely wouldn’t be so famous today. We need to be aware of the the context in which the transmission happened.
Pre-Trans-Fallacy
- “Pre/Trans Fallacy” which states that people often mistake what’s pre-conventional (earlier phase of development) for being post-conventional (later stage of development) because neither is conventional. One example he uses is the New Age spiritual movements which glorify a return to an infantile state of acting purely on emotion and desire. They mistake these earlier, narcissistic emotional whims for spiritual experiences since both emotional revelry and spiritual experiences are non-rational experiences. Since their emotional revelry is non-rational, and spiritual experiences are non-rational, they confuse the two.
Spiritual Materialism
- Spiritual materialism is the belief that a certain temporary state of mind is a refuge from suffering. An example would be using meditation practices to create a peaceful state of mind, or using drugs or alcohol to remain in a numbed out or a euphoric state.
- Spiritual materialism is a term coined by Chögyam Trungpa in his book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism.
Spiritual Bypassing
- Spiritual bypassing is a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks". The term was introduced in the mid 1980s by John Welwood, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist.
Spiritual Materialism
- Spiritual materialism is the belief that a certain temporary state of mind is a refuge from suffering. An example would be using meditation practices to create a peaceful state of mind, or using drugs or alcohol to remain in a numbed out or a euphoric state.
- Spiritual materialism is a term coined by Chögyam Trungpa in his book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism.
Spiritual Bypassing
- Spiritual bypassing is a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks". The term was introduced in the mid 1980s by John Welwood, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist.
Pre-Trans-Fallacy
- “Pre/Trans Fallacy” which states that people often mistake what’s pre-conventional (earlier phase of development) for being post-conventional (later stage of development) because neither is conventional. One example he uses is the New Age spiritual movements which glorify a return to an infantile state of acting purely on emotion and desire. They mistake these earlier, narcissistic emotional whims for spiritual experiences since both emotional revelry and spiritual experiences are non-rational experiences. Since their emotional revelry is non-rational, and spiritual experiences are non-rational, they confuse the two.
Why is Shadow work so important?
- Or: Do we really see just another guru blowing up?
- Stripping the Gurus: Many gurus that were famous in the 1970 most likely wouldn’t be so famous today. We need to be aware of the the context in which the transmission happened.
States & Stages of Consciousness
- Stages: Spiral Dynamics - Lines of Development - Multiple Intelligences - relatively stable center of gravity of consciousness - values - morals
- States:Waking, Dreaming, Formless Sleep, Altered States of Consciousness
The market for spirituality is exploding. With massive second order effects kicking in like poor transparency, phony gurus, idolizing and sugarcoating spiritual bypassing. How can we ensure that we don’t use these ancient old techniques to build narcissistic super egos? What role does complementary shadow work play?
In today’s dialogue we dive into: * Four Definitions of “Spiritual” or “Spirituality” + 1) our first definition of spirituality is that it is the highest level of any of the developmental lines (cognitive, kinesthetic, moral, emotional) + 2) second definition of “spirituality,” this specific developmental line, called “spiritual,” would be what we were talking about + 3) A third way of defining “spiritual” or “spirituality,” according to Wilber, is as a religious or spiritual experience. Therefore, in this third definition, spirituality would be understood as a state of consciousness + 4) For our fourth definition, “spiritual” or “spirituality” could refer to a a special kind of attitude. Not a developmental line, not the highest level of a developmental line, and not a state of consciousness, but rather a kind of attitude at any of the structures of consciousness. This attitude could be involved with love, or compassion, or wisdom, as Wilber points out in his definition — but it can be found at any of the structures of consciousness. That’s our fourth definition of “spiritual” or “spirituality” — a special attitude.
Ferananda Ibarra has a background in collective intelligence, organizational architecture, and entrepreneurship focused on decentralized systems that solve our major global challenges. Her focus is on integral design and the development of new systems of economics, culture and governance that intrinsically incentivize life-enhancing behaviors at all levels of agency, supporting distributed and conscious participation in our global evolution. She co-founded The Metacurrency Project, VillageLab, Holo and Holochain and currently serves as Director of The Commons Engine, a service agency focused on currency design and decentralized tech for commons-oriented projects. She is deeply engaged with the Regenerative movement. She is currently launching The Coventina Foundation to bring funds for the decentralized tech ecosystem and the emergence of asset-backed currencies for universal human needs.
The source of her commitment arises from the experience of living systems. Nature gives her powerful keys in her inquiry towards wholeness. Love as a first commitment brings forward a heart intelligence that nourishes her deeply.
In this episode we are going to dive deep into:
- Basics of currency design: Euro, Dollar, and all the other money currencies are constructions. It takes a long time to gain the social trust that establishes a flow for example between farmers and dentists or any other profession.
- Ying and Yang currencies and how their combination brings stability to a community. The locality is still an obstacle, however, the internet and modern technologies give us way more opportunities than ever before.
- Instead of calling them “alternative currencies” - a scary phrase for many - we will call it “complementary currency”. We discuss the examples of Colines in Mexico and Curitibas in Brazil, as well as collective dashboards and the idea behind them.
- Emerging future of asset-backed currencies: It is highly likely to see food, energy, the internet, and a lot of other things as foundations of value exchanges as people have already experienced that empty tokens are easily destructible. However, we have to be smart about it, not everything can work as an asset for the currency, like land.
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: We discuss the possibility of the Credit Union which will be a trustworthy autonomous organization handling our data when we implement the credit system infused with the national currencies we have today, so we will free ourselves from the boring monoculture of currency that basically most of us rely on.
- Taking back the power over the internet and democratizing it is one of the future missions. It is conspicuous that big corporations that took the endless possibilities of freely connecting with one another from the ordinary people, covered them in a wrapping paper, and sold them piece by piece. We need to undo the damage. People have to take over and be in charge of creating social equality in the communities worldwide - especially in the ones that are experiencing late-stage capitalism right now.
- Finally, debunking some common myths about the crypto market going haywire.
Taking back the power over the internet and democratizing it is one of the future missions. It is conspicuous that big corporations that took the endless possibilities of freely connecting with one another from the ordinary people, covered them in a wrapping paper, and sold them piece by piece. We need to undo the damage. People have to take over and be in charge of creating social equality in the communities worldwide - especially in the ones that are experiencing late-stage capitalism right now. Finally, debunking some common myths about the crypto market going haywire.
- Emerging future of asset-backed currencies: It is highly likely to see food, energy, the internet, and a lot of other things as foundations of value exchanges as people have already experienced that empty tokens are easily destructible. However, we have to be smart about it, not everything can work as an asset for the currency, like land.
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations: We discuss the possibility of the Credit Union which will be a trustworthy autonomous organization handling our data when we implement the credit system infused with the national currencies we have today, so we will free ourselves from the boring monoculture of currency that basically most of us rely on.
Instead of calling them “alternative currencies” - a scary phrase for many - we will call it “complementary currency”. We discuss the examples of Colines in Mexico and Curitibas in Brazil, as well as collective dashboards and the idea behind them.
Unbeknownst to many currencies have an underlying design. Where this was since the dawning of humanity, an undertaking of the privileged view today with the advent of blockchain technology we see a plethora of initiatives sprouting.
For this reason, our guest, Ferenanda Ibarra, and I try to link currency design with collective intelligence and other vital social factors that help shape the future of the different value exchange methods. As she quotes from one of her very first exposures to the topic: "Neither of you are going to go anywhere if we don't fundamentally change one thing - the structure of money".
We are going to dive deep into: * Basics of currency design: Euro, Dollar, and all the other money currencies are constructions. It takes a long time to gain the social trust that establishes a flow for example between farmers and dentists or any other profession. * Ying and Yang currencies and how their combination brings stability to a community. The locality is still an obstacle, however, the internet and modern technologies give us way more opportunities than ever before.
The Huni Kuin means "the real people" - a name that aptly describes them, because their entire culture is connected to the rainforest. They have ancient knowledge about the healing power of plants and social cohesion; they live in harmony with nature and as inhabitants of the forest, they protect it most sustainably.
In this crucial junction of history, bridging indigenous wisdom as well as balancing the masculine and feminine is all the more important. In the dialogue today with Alexandra Schwarz-Schilling, Founder of Coaching Spirale in Berlin and Founder of Living Gaia, a holistic healing biotope in Alto Paraiso, Brazil. The joint endeavour we are exploring is building a holistic retreat centre in Brazil and preserving the indigenous lands of the Huni Kuin.
Alexandra Schwarz-Schilling is Founder and Managing Director of Coaching Spirale in Berlin and Founder of Living Gaia, holistic healing biotope in Alto Paraiso, Brazil She is also a senior coach and teaching coach (DCV) since 1997. Alexandra Schwarz-Schilling is always concerned with the big question: What is the human being? She wants to get to the bottom of his essence. She has been doing this long before she met her great passion, coaching, in 1996.
She studied anthropology and ethnology, led theater projects in Moscow, and trained in shamanism. Her experiences abroad in London and Paris, in India and Japan have shaped her; her business studies, her studies in psychology, her insights as a mother of three children - her knowledge, her skills, her experience combine in a wonderful way in her work at Coaching Spirale Berlin. Since 2011, she has been dedicating herself to her next big task: building a holistic retreat center in Brazil and preserving the indigenous lands of the Huni Kuin.
https://www.coaching-spirale.com
https://www.living-gaia.org/home-english.html
https://hunikuin.org/en/home/
The land purchase project near Jordao. The Huni Kuin need a place to live. And the problem is that in Jordao there are a lot of Brazilian farmers and they are close to the indigenous territories, and there the cattle graze. We want to protect the forest and support their indigenous way of life. Protecting the rainforest and protecting the indigenous are one and the same.
Not romanticising or tokenizing indigenous people. The Huni Kuin only got contacted some 80-100 years ago. Even though they are one of the biggest ethnic groups in the Amazon region, they are only 20.000 people. The problem now is pretty simple and straightforward: Now that they are having a lot of children, but live on small territories, the villages are exploding. Also they can’t pursue their nomadic life and most settle down. Many of them started to travel and start ceremonial work but without proper education. The problem is that both putting them down like still most Brazilians do or putting them on a pedestal creates separation. When those travelling come back with a lot of money they don’t necessarily give it back to the community. Also the Brazilian culture has turned the Huni Kuin into a very patriarchal culture, and since they don’t have a written history, only within two generations a lot of the ancient old wisdom gets lost. This is why we think it’s key to invest into women.
- In Alto Paraiso, we are building Living Gaia, a holistic retreat centre and biotope on 300 hectares of land to educate the women. Women have to take leadership. And we also support the women as shamans.
- The land purchase project near Jordao. The Huni Kuin need a place to live. And the problem is that in Jordao there are a lot of Brazilian farmers and they are close to the indigenous territories, and there the cattle graze. We want to protect the forest and support their indigenous way of life. Protecting the rainforest and protecting the indigenous are one and the same.
- An appreciative yet critical view on Ayahuasca. We both agree that we should drink the medicine time and again but approach it with respect, as well as take time to integrate. Ultimately it’s about not giving you responsibility away and to not make a cult out of plant medicine.
- The Huni Kuin: Living with some of the few remaining indigenous tribes in the Amazon feels like a memory of our collective past, how we can live in harmony with nature. There will always be children around. This is because in a village there is no separation like in modern culture. Being there feels like a deep remembering, a deep healing.
“Protecting the rainforest and protecting the indigenous are one and the same.”
In this crucial junction of history, bridging indigenous wisdom as well as balancing the masculine and feminine is all the more important.
In the dialogue today with Alexandra Schwarz-Schilling, Founder of Coaching Spirale in Berlin and Founder of Living Gaia, a holistic healing biotope in Alto Paraiso, Brazil. The joint endeavour we are exploring is building a holistic retreat centre in Brazil and preserving the indigenous lands of the Huni Kuin.
In our dialogue we dive deep into:
- Different indigenous traditions from North America and the Amazon.
- A critique of patriarchy and the history of the sexes.
- An appreciative yet critical view on Ayahuasca. We both agree that we should drink the medicine time and again but approach it with respect, as well as take time to integrate. Ultimately it’s about not giving you responsibility away and to not make a cult out of plant medicine.
I want to be very critical towards the end. From my point of view - with surveillance state capitalism going haywire in all directions - isn’t it a nice thing to say “more mindfulness” please and not to question the underlying extractive from all sides deep code structures. Put the other way: As we see with the relationship (and the great book) “Zen and War”, mindfulness itself is an agnostic tool, or intervention, or capability, and can also be abused, or twisted to serve just more efficiency and more extraction. I’m curious about you riffing off of that.
- “Love is the opening for regeneration. If we want to heal global warming, let’s go to where love resides already: the human heart.” – Paul Hawken, author of Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming and Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation
- “The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit.” – Former US President Barack Obama
- “Compassion has an enormously practical application in the world. It is an entry point to action on all types of social and environmental issues.” – Tom Rivett-Carnac, political lobbyist for the UNFCCC and co-author of The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
- “We’re swamped with so much information, so cultivating the attention is key - the ability to focus on and actually retain information so as to really discern what is important.” – Anne-Louise Friedrichsen, Advisor at the Directorate-General for Human Resources and Security, European Commission
- “We are so focussed on digital stimuli that as a counterforce we have a growing need to look inside, and also to look to real and physical things such as nature. I think there is this growing fear that we are being alienated from our physical reality.” – Yoko Alendar, Member of the Estonian Parliament and chair of its Environment Committee.
- “I think mindfulness can help improve mutual understanding by creating space for considering any serious, intractable or complex situation, both logically and emotionally.” – Scott Brison, former Member of the Canadian Parliament and President of the Canadian Treasury Board
“We need to approach the climate crisis from a position of consciousness, and of conscience, as well as science. I think that’s where mindfulness and compassion can be absolutely key. They can make that connection between the mind, body and heart - in an evidence-based way.” - Chris Ruane, Member of the British Parliament for 20 years and founder of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness “There are many changes to make over the next 10 years, and each of us will take different steps along the way, but all of us start the transformation in one place: our mindset.” – Christiana Figueres, Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 2010-2016.
Similarly, change at collective, organisational and systems levels requires more time and investment in research and policy. While thousands of trials demonstrate the effectiveness of mindfulness and compassion interventions in a clinical context, studies that examine direct causation of prosocial outcomes are at an early stage. For instance, while positive relationships between mindfulness and sustainable consumption can be demonstrated, it cannot yet be assumed that mindfulness leads directly and causally to sustainable consumption behaviour. However, evidence suggests that mindfulness can create preconditions for such changes.
Mindfulness seems to be everywhere these days. But it’s not often that I see mindfulness connected to politics. Which is exactly what Jamie is doing for many years. Especially in times of the many divides and the multi-crises we find ourselves in, bridging wisdom traditions and weaving unlikely alliances is more important than ever.
While we don’t suggest that mindfulness and compassion are sufficient on their own to effect radical change, we argue that these innate human capacities are fundamental to conscious connection: at all times, and particularly in meeting the many dimensions of the climate crisis.
What of all that you learned are the most important building blocks towards manifesting a planetary civilization?
From social impact, over spirituality and culture, what’s the undercurrent that glues these topics together?
What of all that you learned are the most important building blocks towards manifesting a planetary civilization?
Why didn’t more people know about these powerful healing tools, especially in his home country, Germany? And why are they so stigmatised? He left the retreat with a clear mission: to bring information about these medicines to as wide a German audience as he could reach and, hopefully, many more beyond. His Journeys podcast was born less than a year later, and his guests now include scientists, psychotherapists, bodyworkers, CEOs, spiritual teachers, retreat facilitators and others like him working with plant medicines.
A critical yet appreciate ride through psychedelic assisted psychotherapy:
- The medicine is but a catalyst. You need to do the work.
- Be aware - set, setting, dose make a huge difference.
- It’s all about the integration in your everyday life.
A critical yet appreciate ride through psychedelic assisted psychotherapy:
- Why medicine is not the answer!
- More medicine is not the answer!
- There’s a lot of different medicines out there. Choose wisely!
In as much as we both are strong proponents of the inherent wisdom of psychedelics and both are very grateful for the impact the work with these plants has made in our own healing journeys, in this podcast we want to shed a critical light on quite a couple of things we recognize often not being reflected in the market.
There are many common misconceptions on psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. The market is very lopsided. There is a lot of supply and thus a plethora of possibilities to make psychedelic experiences but very little qualified people that help to integrate those peak experiences. Also, the market is pretty opaque and tilted towards offering almost anything you can imagine but often those consuming the medicine can’t handle the impact it creates.
The title seems almost a contradiction as we see the housing and affordability crisis mainly driven by extractive real estate business models in many metropolitan areas around the globe.
But this is not carved in stone. We can truly sense into the soul of a property and feel into what that space within its given surrounding really wants to serve for. And create the circumstances that enable a broad variety of stakeholders to cocreate a place full of abundance including the arts and take sustainability really to the next level.
Welcome to explore the episode with Frank Sippel, Founder of Real Future, and developer of a bunch of alternative real estate projects such as Holzmarkt and Malzfabrik.
We explore how real estate can be a very hands-on, palpable driver of change, especially doubling down on the new piece to be developed at Fürstenberg an der Havel, only 50 minutes from Berlin central station. Here at Röblinsee, Real Future will build a mixed-use quarter with all its outstanding potential for high location attractiveness. Living, actively on and near the water is the central credo of Quarter Havelfabrik.
https://www.realfuture.de/referenz-havelfabrik/
Der Titel scheint fast ein Widerspruch zu sein, denn die Krise des Wohnraums und der Erschwinglichkeit wird in vielen Metropolen der Welt hauptsächlich durch extraktive Geschäftsmodelle in der Immobilienbranche verursacht.
Aber das ist nicht in Stein gemeißelt. Wir können wirklich in die Seele einer Immobilie hineinspüren und erfühlen, wozu dieser Raum in seiner gegebenen Umgebung wirklich dienen soll. Und wir können die Bedingungen schaffen, die es einer Vielzahl von Interessengruppen ermöglichen, gemeinsam einen Ort der Fülle zu schaffen, einschließlich der Kunst, und Nachhaltigkeit wirklich auf die nächste Stufe heben.
Willkommen zu einem Gespräch mit Frank Sippel, dem Gründer von Real Future und Entwickler einer Reihe von alternativen Immobilienprojekten wie dem Holzmarkt und der Malzfabrik in Berlin.
Wir erkunden, wie Immobilien ein sehr praktischer, greifbarer Motor für Veränderungen sein können, vor allem in Bezug auf das neue Projekt, das in Fürstenberg an der Havel, nur 50 Minuten vom Berliner Hauptbahnhof entfernt, entwickelt wird. Hier, am Röblinsee, wird Real Future ein gemischt genutztes Quartier mit all seinen herausragenden Potenzialen für eine hohe Standortattraktivität errichten. Wohnen, aktiv am und im Wasser ist das zentrale Credo des Quartiers Havelfabrik.
https://www.realfuture.de/referenz-havelfabrik/
Welcome for a live podcast with Frank Sippel, Founder of Real Future, and developer of a bunch of alternative real estate projects such as Holzmarkt and Malzfabrik.
We will explore how Real Estate can be a very hands-on, palpable driver of change, especially doubling down on the new piece to be developed at Fürstenberg/Havel.
Here at Röblinsee, Real Future will build a mixed-use quarter with all its outstanding potential for high location attractiveness. Living, actively on and near the water is the central credo of Quarter “Havelfabrik”.
Welcome for a live podcast with Frank Sippel, Founder of Real Future, and developer of a bunch of alternative real estate projects such as Holzmarkt and Malzfabrik.
We will explore how Real Estate can be a very hands-on, palpable driver of change, especially doubling down on the new piece to be developed at Fürstenberg/Havel.
Here at Röblinsee, Real Future will build a mixed-use quarter with all its outstanding potential for high location attractiveness. Living, actively on and near the water is the central credo of Quarter “Havelfabrik”.
Welcome for a live podcast with Frank Sippel, Founder of Real Future, and developer of a bunch of alternative real estate projects such as Holzmarkt and Malzfabrik.
We will explore how Real Estate can be a very hands-on, palpable driver of change, especially doubling down on the new piece to be developed at Fürstenberg/Havel.
Here at Röblinsee, Real Future will build a mixed-use quarter with all its outstanding potential for high location attractiveness. Living, actively on and near the water is the central credo of Quarter “Havelfabrik”.
Welcome for a live podcast with Frank Sippel, Founder of Real Future, and developer of a bunch of alternative real estate projects such as Holzmarkt and Malzfabrik.
We will explore how Real Estate can be a very hands-on, palpable driver of change, especially doubling down on the new piece to be developed at Fürstenberg/Havel.
Here at Röblinsee, Real Future will build a mixed-use quarter with all its outstanding potential for high location attractiveness. Living, actively on and near the water is the central credo of Quarter “Havelfabrik”.
Welcome for a live podcast with Frank Sippel, Founder of Real Future, and developer of a bunch of alternative real estate projects such as Holzmarkt and Malzfabrik.
We will explore how Real Estate can be a very hands-on, palpable driver of change, especially doubling down on the new piece to be developed at Fürstenberg/Havel.
Here at Röblinsee, Real Future will build a mixed-use quarter with all its outstanding potential for high location attractiveness. Living, actively on and near the water is the central credo of Quarter “Havelfabrik”.
Welcome for a live podcast with Frank Sippel, Founder of Real Future, and developer of a bunch of alternative real estate projects such as Holzmarkt and Malzfabrik.
We will explore how Real Estate can be a very hands-on, palpable driver of change, especially doubling down on the new piece to be developed at Fürstenberg/Havel.
Here at Röblinsee, Real Future will build a mixed-use quarter with all its outstanding potential for high location attractiveness. Living, actively on and near the water is the central credo of Quarter “Havelfabrik”.
Der Immobiliensektor als Motor des Wandels
Der Titel scheint fast ein Widerspruch zu sein, denn die Krise des Wohnraums und der Erschwinglichkeit wird in vielen Metropolen der Welt hauptsächlich durch extraktive Geschäftsmodelle in der Immobilienbranche verursacht.
Aber das ist nicht in Stein gemeißelt. Wir können wirklich in die Seele einer Immobilie hineinspüren und erfühlen, wozu dieser Raum in seiner gegebenen Umgebung wirklich dienen soll. Und wir können die Bedingungen schaffen, die es einer Vielzahl von Interessengruppen ermöglichen, gemeinsam einen Ort der Fülle zu schaffen, einschließlich der Kunst, und Nachhaltigkeit wirklich auf die nächste Stufe heben.
Willkommen zu einem Gespräch mit Frank Sippel, dem Gründer von Real Future und Entwickler einer Reihe von alternativen Immobilienprojekten wie dem Holzmarkt und der Malzfabrik in Berlin.
Wir erkunden, wie Immobilien ein sehr praktischer, greifbarer Motor für Veränderungen sein können, vor allem in Bezug auf das neue Projekt, das in Fürstenberg an der Havel, nur 50 Minuten vom Berliner Hauptbahnhof entfernt, entwickelt wird. Hier, am Röblinsee, wird Real Future ein gemischt genutztes Quartier mit all seinen herausragenden Potenzialen für eine hohe Standortattraktivität errichten. Wohnen, aktiv am und im Wasser ist das zentrale Credo des Quartiers Havelfabrik.
Der Immobiliensektor als Motor des Wandels
Der Titel scheint fast ein Widerspruch zu sein, denn die Krise des Wohnraums und der Erschwinglichkeit wird in vielen Metropolen der Welt hauptsächlich durch extraktive Geschäftsmodelle in der Immobilienbranche verursacht.
Aber das ist nicht in Stein gemeißelt. Wir können wirklich in die Seele einer Immobilie hineinspüren und erfühlen, wozu dieser Raum in seiner gegebenen Umgebung wirklich dienen soll. Und wir können die Bedingungen schaffen, die es einer Vielzahl von Interessengruppen ermöglichen, gemeinsam einen Ort der Fülle zu schaffen, einschließlich der Kunst, und Nachhaltigkeit wirklich auf die nächste Stufe heben.
Willkommen zu einem Gespräch mit Frank Sippel, dem Gründer von Real Future und Entwickler einer Reihe von alternativen Immobilienprojekten wie dem Holzmarkt und der Malzfabrik in Berlin.
Wir erkunden, wie Immobilien ein sehr praktischer, greifbarer Motor für Veränderungen sein können, vor allem in Bezug auf das neue Projekt, das in Fürstenberg an der Havel, nur 50 Minuten vom Berliner Hauptbahnhof entfernt, entwickelt wird. Hier, am Röblinsee, wird Real Future ein gemischt genutztes Quartier mit all seinen herausragenden Potenzialen für eine hohe Standortattraktivität errichten. Wohnen, aktiv am und im Wasser ist das zentrale Credo des Quartiers Havelfabrik.
Der Immobiliensektor als Motor des Wandels
Der Titel scheint fast ein Widerspruch zu sein, denn die Krise des Wohnraums und der Erschwinglichkeit wird in vielen Metropolen der Welt hauptsächlich durch extraktive Geschäftsmodelle in der Immobilienbranche verursacht.
Aber das ist nicht in Stein gemeißelt. Wir können wirklich in die Seele einer Immobilie hineinspüren und erfühlen, wozu dieser Raum in seiner gegebenen Umgebung wirklich dienen soll. Und wir können die Bedingungen schaffen, die es einer Vielzahl von Interessengruppen ermöglichen, gemeinsam einen Ort der Fülle zu schaffen, einschließlich der Kunst, und Nachhaltigkeit wirklich auf die nächste Stufe heben.
Willkommen zu einem Gespräch mit Frank Sippel, dem Gründer von Real Future und Entwickler einer Reihe von alternativen Immobilienprojekten wie dem Holzmarkt und der Malzfabrik in Berlin.
Wir erkunden, wie Immobilien ein sehr praktischer, greifbarer Motor für Veränderungen sein können, vor allem in Bezug auf das neue Projekt, das in Fürstenberg an der Havel, nur 50 Minuten vom Berliner Hauptbahnhof entfernt, entwickelt wird. Hier, am Röblinsee, wird Real Future ein gemischt genutztes Quartier mit all seinen herausragenden Potenzialen für eine hohe Standortattraktivität errichten. Wohnen, aktiv am und im Wasser ist das zentrale Credo des Quartiers Havelfabrik.
Der Immobiliensektor als Motor des Wandels
Der Titel scheint fast ein Widerspruch zu sein, denn die Krise des Wohnraums und der Erschwinglichkeit wird in vielen Metropolen der Welt hauptsächlich durch extraktive Geschäftsmodelle in der Immobilienbranche verursacht.
Aber das ist nicht in Stein gemeißelt. Wir können wirklich in die Seele einer Immobilie hineinspüren und erfühlen, wozu dieser Raum in seiner gegebenen Umgebung wirklich dienen soll. Und wir können die Bedingungen schaffen, die es einer Vielzahl von Interessengruppen ermöglichen, gemeinsam einen Ort der Fülle zu schaffen, einschließlich der Kunst, und Nachhaltigkeit wirklich auf die nächste Stufe heben.
Willkommen zu einem Gespräch mit Frank Sippel, dem Gründer von Real Future und Entwickler einer Reihe von alternativen Immobilienprojekten wie dem Holzmarkt und der Malzfabrik in Berlin.
Wir erkunden, wie Immobilien ein sehr praktischer, greifbarer Motor für Veränderungen sein können, vor allem in Bezug auf das neue Projekt, das in Fürstenberg an der Havel, nur 50 Minuten vom Berliner Hauptbahnhof entfernt, entwickelt wird. Hier, am Röblinsee, wird Real Future ein gemischt genutztes Quartier mit all seinen herausragenden Potenzialen für eine hohe Standortattraktivität errichten. Wohnen, aktiv am und im Wasser ist das zentrale Credo des Quartiers Havelfabrik.
Der Immobiliensektor als Motor des Wandels
Der Titel scheint fast ein Widerspruch zu sein, denn die Krise des Wohnraums und der Erschwinglichkeit wird in vielen Metropolen der Welt hauptsächlich durch extraktive Geschäftsmodelle in der Immobilienbranche verursacht.
Aber das ist nicht in Stein gemeißelt. Wir können wirklich in die Seele einer Immobilie hineinspüren und erfühlen, wozu dieser Raum in seiner gegebenen Umgebung wirklich dienen soll. Und wir können die Bedingungen schaffen, die es einer Vielzahl von Interessengruppen ermöglichen, gemeinsam einen Ort der Fülle zu schaffen, einschließlich der Kunst, und Nachhaltigkeit wirklich auf die nächste Stufe heben.
Willkommen zu einem Gespräch mit Frank Sippel, dem Gründer von Real Future und Entwickler einer Reihe von alternativen Immobilienprojekten wie dem Holzmarkt und der Malzfabrik in Berlin.
Wir erkunden, wie Immobilien ein sehr praktischer, greifbarer Motor für Veränderungen sein können, vor allem in Bezug auf das neue Projekt, das in Fürstenberg an der Havel, nur 50 Minuten vom Berliner Hauptbahnhof entfernt, entwickelt wird. Hier, am Röblinsee, wird Real Future ein gemischt genutztes Quartier mit all seinen herausragenden Potenzialen für eine hohe Standortattraktivität errichten. Wohnen, aktiv am und im Wasser ist das zentrale Credo des Quartiers Havelfabrik.
“It always seems impossible until it's done.” Nelson Mandela
How can we facilitate the many chrysalis cells for the emerging, regenerative paradigm that are so far often not connected, when already aligning groups is quite challenging? We truly need groups of groups that share a common North Star, all while they still pursue their own goals, obviously. This is an undertaking that has never been done before on a global scale. But we know leaps in history are possible, from the abolition of slavery, the women’s liberations movement, the end of Apartheid, the fall of the Berlin wall.
What are patterns we can distil and templatize to scale the joint efforts we all share to create the world we all know in our hearts is possible to paraphrase Charles Eisenstein?
Welcome to our second edition on “Facilitating large scale cultural change” with Pamela von Sabljar, facilitator from the evolutionary edge, Jeff Genung, Managing Director of Prosocial World and Mila Aliana, catalyst of change, alchemist, and guardian of life.
Ending with
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” Edward O. Wilson
“Let’s bend reality together.” Pamela von Sabljar
“Only love will save our life. Only love will redeem our world.”
Ending with
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” - Edward O. Wilson
“Let’s bend reality together.” - Pamela von Sabljar
“Only love will save our life. Only love will redeem our world.”
What emergent properties are likely to occur on a macro level that we cannot foresee on a micro to meso level - talking about the moonshot of how to better facilitate towards the birthing of a planetary civilization ahead and obviously COP & WEF clearly showing that they can’t solve the multiple gridlock effects.
How can we foster the emergence of a healthy counter weight of the emerging, regenerative paradigm to invite the extractive paradigm to shift sides?
In this second edition on “Facilitating large scale cultural change” with Pamela von Sabljar, facilitator from the evolutionary edge, Jeff Genung, Managing Director of Prosocial World and Mila Aliana, catalyst of change, alchemist, and guardian of life, we investigate what are patterns we can distil and templatize to scale the joint efforts we all share to create the world we all know in our hearts is possible to paraphrase Charles Eisenstein?
“It always seems impossible until it's done.” Nelson Mandela
How can we facilitate the many chrysalis cells for the emerging, regenerative paradigm that are so far often not connected, when already aligning groups is quite challenging? We truly need groups of groups that share a common North Star, all while they still pursue their own goals, obviously. This is an undertaking that has never been done before on a global scale. But we know leaps in history are possible, from the abolition of slavery, the women’s liberations movement, the end of Apartheid, the fall of the Berlin wall.
“The Politics of Politics is Politics.”
I just came up with that quote preparing for this episode, obviously riffing off the notorious quote “The business of business is business.”, from Milton Fridman, the godfather of our current neoliberal economic paradigm gone haywire.
The question then is rather, does it need to be what it is today?
The current model of institutionalized representative parliamentary democracy is broken. Voting cycles prevent politicians from truly thinking and acting for the long term. Party politics aggravate the many existing divides in our societies. There has been a class emerging of professional politicians which all too often do not represent the electorate. And political parties as institutions themselves are eroding as they are highly biased towards the older generations in power, creating multiple gridlock effects for those that will have to live with the world we hand over in the next decades.
Yet, what could be a new way to imagine politics?
In this episode we are diving deep into the weeds of Citizen Action Networks (CAN). We reflect how much of the inner worlds we all inhabit, from the trauma we hold, to the memetic center of gravities that steer our perception of reality, to the culture we need to nourish, for a “Politics of Waking Up”.
- How can we create a CAN of CANs?
- How can we harness soft power vs. hard power in the digital age?
- What is already here, a reference to the Indonesian “Ada”, which literally means “there is”. So, everytime you are searching for something or want to manifest something, actually, it is already here.
In this episode we are diving deep into the weeds of Citizen Action Networks (CAN). We reflect how much of the inner worlds we all inhabit, from the trauma we hold, to the memetic center of gravities that steer our perception of reality, to the culture we need to nourish, for a “Politics of Waking Up”.
- How can we create a CAN of CANs?
- How can we harness soft power vs. hard power in the digital age?
- What is already here, reference to the indonesian “Ada”, which literally means “there is”. So, everytime you are searching for something or want to manifest something, actually, it is already here.
The current model of institutionalized representative parliamentary democracy is broken. Voting cycles prevent politicians from truly thinking and acting for the long term. Party politics aggravate the many existing divides in our societies. There has been a class emerging of professional politicians which all too often do not represent the electorate. And political parties as institutions themselves are eroding as they are highly biased towards the older generations in power, creating multiple gridlock effects for those that will have to live with the world we hand over in the next decades.
“The Politics of Politics is Politics.”
I just came up with that quote preparing for this episode, obviously riffing off the notorious quote “The business of business is business.”, from Milton Fridman, the godfather of our current neoliberal economic paradigm gone haywire.
We live in times where it is obvious that the current economic paradigm cannot uphold much longer. In this week’s session we are going to focus on very hands-on examples that redefine impact investing, to ensure that the human factor and wellbeing is counted in, as well as sense into intergenerational investment and new ways to create impact through multi-stakeholder relationships, breaking up the barrier between classical philanthropy and impact investing.
I welcome as guests:
- Kaitlin Archambault, Founder of Open Future Coalition, weaving a multi-sided ecosystem that mutually empowers us all to be the greatest lever for change by the exchange of capital, skills, & knowledge in service of transparent, measurable impact.
- Joshua Haynes, Founder of Masawa. Masawa’s Impact Fund invests in early stage founders and their companies revolutionizing mental wellness, primarily in Europe via the Nurture Capital approach.
- Indy Johar, Co-Founder of Dark Matter Labs, a strategic discovery, design and development lab working to transition society in response to technological revolution and climate breakdown.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Much like Abraham Lincolm’s quote indicates, we are in crucial times to make sure we build frameworks, templates and applications to reframe the way capital is allocated for a regenerative future for the many generations after us.
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” Much like Abraham Lincolm’s quote indicates, we are in crucial times to make sure we build frameworks, templates and applications to reframe the way capital is allocated for a regenerative future for the many generations after us.
Dive deeper into exploring new ways to create impact through multi-stakeholder relationships, breaking up the barrier between classical philanthropy and impact investing.
Let's focus on very hands-on examples that redefine impact investing, to ensure that the human factor and wellbeing is counted in, as well as sense into intergenerational investment.
We live in times where it is obvious that the current economic paradigm cannot uphold much longer. In this week’s session we are going to focus on very hands-on examples that redefine impact investing, to ensure that the human factor and wellbeing is counted in, as well as sense into intergenerational investment and new ways to create impact through multi-stakeholder relationships, breaking up the barrier between classical philanthropy and impact investing.
"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." Lin Chi
We need to kill the buddha to embrace a 21st century understanding of ages old wisdom.
This means to unpack meditation as a panacea for everything, to nuance where its timeless gem shines bright, and where it is at best complemented by other techniques for personal development. The original quote in a nutshell means that “Buddha-nature” can never be out there. It’s always ever present in all and everything. So, if you see the Buddha out there, kill him.
We are living in a world where meditation has become a commodity and the spiritual market is booming. There is meditation for burn-out prevention, to alleviate stress, to make managers more successful, for better sleeping. It is sold as a panacea for roundabout everything.
And exactly that we are going to debunk in this week’s episode.
- Let’s unpack the very broad headline for what meditations stands for, a plethora of techniques from a very broad range of cultural traditions and backgrounds.
- What is the relationship between meditation and the shadow of the psyche most of us carry with us?
- What could be a North Star - from the broad range of techniques - that could serve beginners to find and deepen their meditative practice?
- What are psycho-spiritual practices that complement those aspects of personal development that meditation can’t serve?
- What are the stages one passses through in the journey of being a meditator? How can we define progress?
- Instead of “Spiritual Bypassing” (a term coined by Robert Augustus Masters, with the same title as a book), avoiding seemingly “negative” emotions, what does a healthy integration of peak experiences and difficult emotions mean?
We are finishing our conversation noting that maybe best meditation can be understood as a interwoven sequence of waking up (to the original nature of the mind), growing up (in the various aspects of us being human), cleaning up (taking care of our personal mess) and showing up (making a difference with what we want to see in the world).
Instead of “Spiritual Bypassing” (a term coined by Robert Augustus Masters, with the same title as a book), avoiding seemingly “negative” emotions, what does a healthy integration of peak experiences and difficult emotions mean?
We finish our conversation noting that maybe best meditation can be understood as a interwoven sequence of waking up (to the original nature of the mind), growing up (in the various aspects of us being human), cleaning up (taking care of our personal mess) and showing up (making a difference with what we want to see in the world).
There is meditation for burn-out prevention, to alleviate stress, to make managers more successful, for better sleeping. It is sold as a panacea for roundabout everything. What are the stages one passses through in the journey of being a meditator? How can we define progress?
We are living in a world where meditation has become a commodity and the spiritual market is booming. Let's explore what are psycho-spiritual practices that complement those aspects of personal development that meditation can’t serve?
“Buddha-nature” can never be out there. It’s always ever present in all and everything. So, if you see the Buddha out there, kill him. Hence, what is the relationship between meditation and the shadow of the psyche most of us carry with us? What could be a North Star - from the broad range of techniques - that could serve beginners to find and deepen their meditative practice?
"If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him." Lin Chi
We need to kill the buddha to embrace a 21st century understanding of ages old wisdom. This means to unpack meditation as a panacea for everything, to nuance where its timeless gem shines bright, and where it is at best complemented by other techniques for personal development.
Let’s unpack the very broad headline for what meditations stands for, a plethora of techniques from a very broad range of cultural traditions and backgrounds.
“Radical Self Coaching in Trauma”
Are we collectively traumatized? Isn’t it that almost all of us hold in our lineage victims and perpetrators of war and genocide? Science tells us that trauma is epigenetically inherited for at least three generations. And beyond intense trauma, many of us have experienced - being conscious of it or not - very difficult and demanding episodes in our lives.
- What’s the relationship between trauma and coaching?
- How do traumatized people perceive everyday life?
- What are the coping mechanisms many of us (ab)use to flee from the constant terror of our collective armageddon lurking around the corner?
- What could be a healthy interface to let our hearts open and vulnerable yet not get suffocated by the sheer immensity of the challenges we face?
I welcome my guests Bridgee Melling and Marius Rothe.
They are offering therapy and coaching with a focus on trauma, LGBTQ+, non-traditional relationship models, sexuality (including kink), psychedelic integration and life coaching. Their work is based in psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, psychodynamic therapy and systemic therapy.
Instead of “Spiritual Materialism”, where people usurp peak experiences to grow their ego, what can Radical Self Coaching do, to prevent that? And finally, as you are offering therapy and coaching, what is the relationship between them? Where does coaching end and therapy begin and vice versa?
Bridgee Melling and Marius Rothe offer therapy and coaching with a focus on trauma, LGBTQ+, non-traditional relationship models, sexuality (including kink), psychedelic integration and life coaching. What could be a healthy interface to let our hearts open and vulnerable yet not get suffocated by the sheer immensity of the challenges we face?
What could be a healthy interface to let our hearts open and vulnerable yet not get suffocated by the sheer immensity of the challenges we face?
Beyond intense trauma, many of us have experienced - being conscious of it or not - very difficult and demanding episodes in our lives. What are the coping mechanisms many of us (ab)use to flee from the constant terror of our collective armageddon lurking around the corner?
Welcome to our episode #4 on “Radical Self Coaching in Trauma”
Are we collectively traumatized? Isn’t it that almost all of us hold in our lineage victims and perpetrators of war and genocide? Science tells us that trauma is epigenetically inherited for at least three generations. Let's explore what’s the relationship between trauma and coaching?
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” But what if we could facilitate culture to align with strategy instead to counterbalance that famous quote from management pioneer Peter Drucker?
To be able to “Facilitate Large Scale Cultural Change”, we need to embrace a healthy balance of feminine and masculine archetypes, lean into the unknown, and trust the evolutionary impulse running through us.
This asks for hospizing the crumbling paradigm as to create fertile soil and nutrients for the regenerative future we all know in our hearts is possible.
Join Pamela von Sabljar - facilitator from the evolutionary edge, Jeff Genung, Managing Director of Prosocial World and Ross Hall, Co-Founder of The Weaving Lab and Learning Societies Co-Lead at Jacobs Foundation in this emerging dialogue.
Exploring and delving deeper to understanding what is Yin-Yang and the feminine-masculine: How could facilitation look like when we honour both the principles of the masculine and feminine?
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” What if we could facilitate culture to align with strategy instead to counterbalance that famous quote from management pioneer Peter Drucker? How can we serve the healthy unfolding of the whole spiral?
What if truly, listening from an embodied perspective where to unlock the biggest source of power - that precious space in between us, where the new is birthing into the present moment. From now, to now, to now.
We explore Eros as the driving force of life itself, unlocking the potential on the fringes of where ecosystems and ontologies meet:
What if we could invite more people into contemplative practice? What if there was already a crucial mass of pioneers for the regenerative future we all wish for, and all it needs is helping to midwife it?
To be able to “Facilitate Large Scale Cultural Change”, we need to embrace a healthy balance of feminine and masculine archetypes, lean into the unknown, and trust the evolutionary impulse running through us.
This asks for hospizing the crumbling paradigm as to create fertile soil and nutrients for the regenerative future we all know in our hearts is possible.
Join Pamela von Sabljar - facilitator from the evolutionary edge, Jeff Genung, Managing Director of Prosocial World and Ross Hall, Co-Founder of The Weaving Lab and Learning Societies Co-Lead at Jacobs Foundation in this emerging dialogue.
“Money, money, money
Must be funny
In the rich man's world” Abba (1976)
What if we could use money as a means to create a regenerative future? Money is not something static. It’s a social construct and like any social construct it can be redesigned.
In today’s episode we are going to debunk the boom on cryptocurrencies and shed a light on how to integrate indigenous wisdom into the very architecture and scaffolding of a cryptocurrency, together with Franz Josef Allmayer, Lead Ambassador for Seeds and Mila Aliana, senior consultant and indigenous elder.
We need to learn how to nuance and differentiate between just more casino capitalism gone haywire and the factual possibility of how we can actually bake wisdom, long termism, circularity and bioregionalism into a crypto currency.
We strongly believe that decentralized finance, complex voting and value creation mechanisms revolutionize the way we can organize in DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) and pave the way towards a regenerative economy.
How can we bake sacredness, love, long termism into a cryptocurrency? We need to learn how to nuance and differentiate between just more casino capitalism gone haywire and the factual possibility of how we can actually bake wisdom, long termism, circularity and bioregionalism into a crypto currency.
What if we could use money as a means to create a regenerative future? Money is not something static. It’s a social construct and like any social construct it can be redesigned. How can we be in harmony with ourselves, with nature and with spirit, reflecting on the Indonisian indigenous principle of Tri Hita Karana?
How can we use the power of decentralized finance to create a post scarcity world using token economics? We strongly believe that decentralized finance, complex voting and value creation mechanisms revolutionize the way we can organize in DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations) and pave the way towards a regenerative economy.
In today’s episode we are going to debunk the boom on cryptocurrencies and shed a light on how to integrate indigenous wisdom into the very architecture and scaffolding of a cryptocurrency, together with Franz Josef Allmayer, Lead Ambassador for Seeds and Mila Aliana, senior consultant and indigenous elder.
How can we move from Proof of Work or Proof of Stake to a Proof of Contribution, so as to be able to align our financial system to the nature of what is really out there.
In the first edition of „catalyzing radical systemic change“ we are looking into the very foundations that make up our everyday reality as citizens and share hands-on examples to build a regenerative future together.
- How can we restructure property rights so that all citizens participate in long and sustainable wealth creation?
- How can we recode our democratic institutions to unlock the collective intelligence and wisdom of its citizens?
- How do we move from a paradigm of ownership to one of care?
- How can we enable the self-sovereignty of for example a forest as to capture its entangled value?
- How do we build the generative context for longitudinal value?
- How can we incorporate long termism into financial products for intergenerational asset management?
- One of the key levers for unlocking massive funds is to structure and create new asset classes for infrastructure investment, with the sketched example of TreesAI as the asset class closest to market. And with the magnitude of the challenges ahead this also needs a look into whole city retrofit as an entangled asset class.
- The key is unlocking the plethora of co-benefiary spillover effects these new types of asset classes carry. Which is a once in a couple of generations opportunity ahead.
Structurally remaking our Democracy -> towards Deep Democracy
- What kind of decision architectures and organisations would help us to navigate a world that has always consisted of complex systems, composed of many components interacting with each other and creating emergent properties and behaviors? Accepting that we live in a complex emergent world makes uncertainty and learning the hallmark of our futures as opposed to predictability and control.
- Therefore, it is likely that learning institutions are better able to cope with an era of persistent emergencies and remain relevant. They could establish a new way of acting that is transformative and supports a socio-ecological transformation of all public systems.
- Institutions as "integrated systems of rules that structure social interactions" could become learning institutions if they would systematically facilitate a learning cycle between the consequences of social interactions and the adaptation of the rules that structure them.
- We, the public, have to demand a public management shift - from military control models to organizational learning approaches.
- The transformation of democracy itself will become a question of global peace and collective survival. It is not just a matter of overcoming challenges, crises but also of being able to organize our democratic processes (politics), institutions (polity) and guidelines (policies) in a co-creative manner.
Spill-over value
The High Line Effect shows very clearly a pathway for citizens in densely populated areas that could profit for the landvalue uplift, instead of investors taking the major share.
Property values could be calculated on a quarterly or yearly basis, with homeowners voting on and sharing a part of their uplift (say 10%) to the communal fund in the form of equity.
Co-Benefits
We take a look at the project TreesAI, as just one example of how we can create new ways to capture the various co-benefits that trees in an urban environment procure, such as reduced noise levels, improved air quality, storm water reduction, improved biodiversity and many more.
Entanglement
We know, for example, that climate change is not an isolated crisis: it is fundamentally a symptom of a structural problem in how we govern and how our relationships in the world are governed — in terms of our relationship with the future, our relationship with the natural and material world and our relationship with each other.
We live in an age of entanglement, where the externalities we generate create huge problems in space and in time. It’s difficult for each of us to be part of and have a say in these deep systemic change processes. It can be easier if we equip our systems to learn and democratize the transformation of the way we care, feed, house, power or move on a daily basis.
Deep time & long termism
How can we nuance and balance i.e. second and third order effects of long termism, where often an unhealthy marriage of the few ultra wealthy marry the concept with transhumanism? And how can we make sure that long termism as a concept doesn’t become an ideology to escape the challenges we are facing now as humanity, despite obviously the future generations outnumbering us always?
Be part of this experimental process of discovery and self-reflection, to reach a deeper understanding of empathy, truth, and the complexities of life. Meet Pamela von Sabljar in conversation with Alistair Langer, where they explore the ‘Why, How, What and Who’.
The story of the self as an individual who would move around the world.
Who was given gratitude and all the gifts of life and understanding the mindset of the system and everyone included in it.
Who? Alistair Langer acts as an agent and companion catalyzing radical systemic change. His HQ is in Berlin but his endeavors span all continents. He’s a long term meditator, dedicated shamanic practitioner and loves to cook spicy curries for friends. Ah, and he has been dancing since childhood. Having worked through his early childhood trauma, he feels humble, grateful and excited to be of service for the birthing of a planetary civilization in peace, ecological health and abundance for all sentient beings on this gem of a planet called Earth.
The series of dialogues will unfold not only in classical 1:1 dialogue formats but often invite groups representing clusters of topics:
- We explore money, value, long termism and how we can link decentralized finance and cryptocurrencies to the wisdom of indigenous cultures caring about the next seven generations.
- How can we bake collective intelligence and wisdom into the processes of the institutions that govern us, from the local, national to the transnational level?
- How can we heal the individual and collective traumas many of us carry and how can we make not only personal development but also therapy available to many more citizens?
- We debunk McMindfulness and meditation as a panacea for all and everything and unpack the richness but also the complexity of how we can all unfold our maximum personal potential.
- How can we build coalitions for the grand challenges ahead, that combine philanthropy and next generation impact investing?
For those not watching the episode but hearing it, I recommend checking my Ecosystem at https://alistairlanger.de/ecosystem/
We need to discover, map, cross-pollinate and weave together the many endeavors that represent the crucial building blocks for the transition towards a planetary civilization within our lifetime.
Be part of this experimental process of discovery and self-reflection, to reach a deeper understanding of empathy, truth, and the complexities of life. Meet Pamela von Sabljar in conversation with Alistair Langer, where they’ll explore the ‘Why, How, What and Who?’.
This is not “just” another podcast. I’m mapping, portraying and actively weaving together the manifold initiatives that are building the necessary building blocks towards a planetary civilization ahead. In the last 14 years, I worked as a changemaker and social entrepreneur focussing on radical systemic change.
In the series unfolding I interview individuals and organizations one on one, host salon formats, as well as invite the audience to join the discourse. I want to inspire and showcase best practice examples that already exist, or are in the making, that are transforming our systems, institutions, culture and us as individuals at the very core of our everyday lives. Hence I’m time and again using the word radical, stemming from the Latin word root. I strongly believe that we need to dig through the root causes of the current system to build the new system we all know our hearts is possible.
Welcome to get to know the renegades, thought leaders, influencers, activists, impact investors and think tanks that dare to not only question our current paradigm but radically reimagine what is possible.