Naturally Smart People: Recent Episodes
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Join Paul and Erik for an hour long conversation on a cold Friday at the end of January 2019...
Megan Seneque & Fiona Mckenzie join Paul for a conversation exploring a question posed by Megan back in the summer of 2018. It took a while to edit and keep to an hour so apologies for the slowness in releasing the programme, but its very nice to finally make it public. Comments and suggestions welcome paul@foundation.rocks
Students from Kingsmead Primary School in Cheshire end season two with a set of short reports from science week at the school.
Penny Moon is the founder and Personal Development Director & CEO of A Quiet Place. A Quiet Place provides evidence based, personal development programmes, supporting the achievement of unique outcomes for all ages and abilities, focusing on future aspirations and dreams, whilst drawing upon a completely holistic approach, it has a long track record of outstanding work, supporting the well-being of people in their places. Penny and I sat in my kitchen drinking tea and eating cake on a cold February Friday afternoon, I turned on the record button and off we went!
Alex talks about his work bringing together communities of people from around the world to explore the leadership roles pertinent to the needs of our time.
How do systems learn? How do we re-frame and make sense of our thinking in the world of fragmentation and disconnect. Our guest today is Nora Bateson, an internationally acclaimed thinker working on the frontier of ideas concerned with the space between politics, art, economy, intimacy and all the different ways we look and define life. Nora travels in the spaces between these realms and compares the patterns which are the material concerned with how we create an ecology of mind. In our conversation we explore some of these ideas and themes.
Principal Mr. Desi McKeown is interviewed by the BBC Essex evening news programme 29/11/17 talking about the school initiative The Deanes Beans and how they are selling their own brand of our naturally Smart Coffee to the community of the school parents and families to raise funds for enrichment activities.
S2E1 of Naturally Smart people begins with a conversation with Oliver Goshey who runs the Abundant Edge project. Oliver talks about Natural Building, design and well-being.
Adam (speaking first) and Kerry talk about their school. Holy Family School in Adelaide, they consider their approach to leadership and change, how to nurture a community of learners, and along the way and amongst other things we discuss 'yabbies' (crayfish) and bottled water.
Among many things Joe and I talk about his recent work Last Days on Earth a beautiful unfolding and emergent poem spread across an entire year of release via the web (go to https://last-days-on.earth for more.
Sudha talks about her recent work with Spark and Solar MC - connecting people through some amazing technology and a whole other way of thinking about energy and what it is and how it works.
A short response to the question 'How to live a good green life' as part of the Naturally Smart People Series
An interview with the musician Andrew Hargreaves talking about his work and ideas that have informed his work in The boats and Tape Loop Orchestra.