Weaving the Future

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! Cadence is a heart-led facilitator, healing practitioner, and aspiring crone who is driven by her dedication to social and ecological justice, decolonization, and cultural regeneration. After working tirelessly to try to save the world for 15 years, she experienced complete burnout. As she now stands on the other side, she is committed to providing c...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! The Weaving the Future Podcast aims to foster conversation and tangible insights on how we can live and work in ways that are aligned, sacred, equitable and joyful.  Carmen Spagnola is a Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef turned trauma recovery practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist, and kitchen witch. She is author of Spells for the Apocalypse: Practical Ma...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! The Weaving the Future Podcast aims to foster conversation and tangible insights on how we can live and work in ways that are aligned, sacred, equitable and joyful.  This episode is a spotlight on Tapestry Collective Co-op, with insights from all four owner members including host Robyn McLean. Learn about our innovative, heart-led approach to busines...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! The Weaving the Future Podcast aims to foster conversation and tangible insights on how we can live and work in ways that are aligned, sacred, equitable and joyful.  This episode focuses on Working in radically different ways: 0:00 -  Welcome and introduction 3:20 - What do I mean by “working in radically different ways”?  5:50 - Vision for working i...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! This episode focuses on the joys, challenges and importance of communal living (which we shifted to calling "shared living" during the discussion).  0:00 Intro 2:18 What do I mean by communal living? 13:58 - Discussion - Give us a snapshot of your journey with shared living/ communal living - we hear some incredible rich experiences and lea...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! The Weaving the Future Podcast aims to foster conversation and tangible insights on how we can live and work in ways that are aligned, sacred, equitable and joyful. Every month, we start by taking some time to frame and get some shared understanding of a topic, followed by a group discussion centred around questions that are emerging, interesting or...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! This episode was recorded back in June 2022.  Happy to share it now, as we are rebooting this podcast. We talked about starting from a belief that the system we live in CAN change, and staring with:  Comprehensive vision Understand what holds the problem in place Comprehensive and collective action Work with emergence

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! Weaving the Future Podcast is a passion project birthed at the height of the pandemic, and the podcast episodes I released at this time are very close to my heart. They capture deep reflections on the kind of world I want to live in and my role in shaping it. The podcast has mostly been on hiatus over the past few years as I grappled with some massiv...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! We  are all craving lives that are more authentic, connected, wild, sacred, in touch with our personal power and expression, collaborative, joyful. Lives that are equitable, where we look after each other. Lives that have more ritual, dance, celebration, expression, compassion, stillness, sensuality, awareness, and alignment. But where do we start? ...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! I’ll present a list of things to consider, to learn about, or to practice in order to help understand and work toward the change we need to see in the world. Honestly, I get frustrated when I see too much individual focus where there, but obviously our society is made up of individuals who all need to start somewhere? So what can we do?  Overall, I s...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! This is a guided visualization, meant to help our bodies, minds and spirits tune into a vision for society, connecting with others, expressing our inner voice and gifts, and the reflecting on what healing might be helpful for getting there. This visualization came to me as a “soul download” after doing some breath work during a period that I was work...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! I discuss some of the deep-seated mindsets that are at the root of our culture, along with what mindsets we might tune into in order to transform ourselves, our communities and our societies. Other terms that could be used here are assumptions, deep seated habits or paradigms.  I focus first on moving from the assumption that we are separate from the...

Use this link to send us thoughts or questions! Introduction to the podcast, including background on the host Robyn McLean, an overview of the goals of the project and how episodes will be formatted.