Catalyzing Radical Systemic Change - voted the No. 1 podcast on Systemic Change on Apple podcasts

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,...

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 dial...

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...

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, narcissist...

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...

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 con...

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...

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 poss...

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...

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 balanc...

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 no...

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, a...

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 collectiv...

“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 joi...

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...

“ 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 .”...

“ 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,...

“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 Mindful...

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 su...

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 suffic...