Survival of the Kindest

84: Dr Tommy Wood - How to Support Brain Health "What matters most for any baby with a brain injury is the environment they go home to and grow up in... What happens in hospital has a relatively minor effect." Dr. Tommy Wood is currently the assistant professor of paediatrics and neuroscience at the University of Washington. He originally trained in biochemistry at the University of Cambridge, goi...

83: Alex Evans - Larger Us "The twin ideas of national sovereignty and competitiveness are preventing so much of the collective action that we need". This week survival of the kind of podcast features, Alex Evans. Alex is the founder of Larger Us, an organisation which aims to enable social change through expanding our sense of a collective self, rather than thinking in terms of us versus them. Al...

82: Dr Rick Hanson - Allocentrism "Are you committed to telling the truth and playing fair? And are you committed to supporting those who do tell the truth and play fair regardless of political view? And are you prepared to cast out of your political party those who do not tell the truth and play fair?" This week's Survival of the Kindest podcast features Dr Rick Hanson. Rick is a psychologist and...

81. Dr Kirsten Auret - Palliative Care and Communities " We want care to be place-based. We want people to be able to get care close to home, or in their home. We want care to be experienced as Safe. We want care to be experienced as Compassionate. We want people's families to be included and Respected. " Dr Kirsten Auret is a palliative care specialist and assistant professor at the University of...

80. Professor Danai Papadatou - Merimna & Childhood Bereavement " Remember that when you lose a loved person, grieving is a long-term and sometimes very painful process and with many turns ups and upside downs that will affect the entire your entire life. But at the same time grieving is a natural and a healthy process because through grieving you are able to progressively adapt to a new reality f...

79: The Value of Death - Prof Allan Kellehear, Dr Libby Sallnow, Dr Richard Smith, and Dr Julian Abel " Death and life are bound together. Without life, there would be no death. " This week's Survival of the Kindest podcast is a joint interview between Professor Allan Kellehear, Dr Libby Sallnow, Dr Richard Smith and myself. Richard was editor of the British Medical Journal for 25 years. Libby and...

78: Dave and Sara Brave Heart - Humility and Compassion " Your responsibilities to others are more important than your own personal wants. " This week's podcast features Dave and Sara Brave Heart. Daves childhood was not easy. His father suffered from alcoholism and Dave also found some solace in alcohol. Both he and his father were successful in coming to grips with their addiction, finding compa...

77. Dr Ros Watts - Psilocybin As A Treatment For Depression "I have become more and more interested in community and nature as important ways of integrating not only psychedelic experiences, but just life experiences. " On this week's Survival of the Kindest podcast I am delighted to welcome Dr Ros Watts. Ros managed to combine both a conventional and unconventional side to her childhood, doing we...

76: Holly Prince - You Will Be An Ancestor To Somebody. And What Is Your Legacy? " Start thinking about being accountable to the next 6, 7, 8 generations down the line, it really encourages you to live your life in a good way. " We welcome back Holly Prince to this week's Survival of the Kindest podcast. Holly was a guest on episode 15. She is a First Nations palliative care researcher who worked...

74: Diana Reynolds - The Bigger Picture "If you're looking at the bits you're not seeing the bigger picture " On this week's Survival of the Kindest podcast I am delighted to welcome Diana Reynolds. Diana is the Sustainable Development Change Manager for Welsh Government, where she is a leadership coach and manages a long term behaviour change programme. Diana has, in various existences, been a sc...

73: Judah Amani - Making Sense "Music provides the vehicle to express things that are quite difficult to express" On this week's Survival of the Kindest podcast I am delighted to welcome Judah Amani. Judah has an extraordinary background being brought up in Iran, London, and Israel. This unique combination of different cultural upbringings was somewhat disorientating for him. Judah found that he w...

72: Jenny Kassan - What the Community Want "The small moment of someone choosing to invest a hundred dollars, $500 in a local business, makes such a huge difference. It's a radical act. If we can have more of those small moments, I believe it'll make a huge difference. " On this weeks survival of the kindest podcast I am delighted to welcome Jenny Kassan. Jenny grew up in something of a radical ho...

71: Olaf Kuhlke - Cultural Entrepreneurship " We have to come to terms with our uncomfortable past and it shouldn't be a burden to discuss this. It shouldn't be something that drives people to protest at school boards but it should be something that is you know actively integrated into school curriculum ." This weeks survival of the kind of podcast features Olaf Kuhlke. Olaf was brought up in Germ...

69: Tawnee Prazak Gibson - Compassion in Life and Sport "Everybody wants to coach the elite athletes, Olympic athletes, the ones winning races, the ones qualifying for championships. You name it. What about everybody else? Because the vast majority of us are everybody else ." CW disordered eating. This week Julian talks to host of the Endurance Planet Podcast, triathlon coach Tawnee Prazak Gibson,...

68: David Aynsley What Community Policing Can Be "I knew we were doing something wrong, but I didn't know what the right was." The story of how a policeman became instrumental in setting up a Cornish dance group is fantastic. The TR14-ers, named by its young members, are based in Cambourne in Cornwall (a.k.a TR14) and was set up in 2005 by David Aynsley our guest this week. David's core of compass...

67: Bennet Zelner - Regenerative Economics "My focus now is on how do we transform the economic system so that it fosters connection, that it helps people connect to other people, helps them connect to themselves and helps them connect to the natural world. " This week Julian talks to regenerative economist Bennet Zelner. While economics is not something that is habitually associated with compassi...

66: Nicole Hewlett - Knowing, Being and Doing " Our community is a living organism ." This week Julian talks to Nicole Hewlett. Nicole grew up unaware of her aboriginal roots until her teens, however she always had a deeper understanding of herself which somehow acknowledged a difference, and she always was drawn and emotionally and socially connected socially to minority communities. After studyi...

65: Part 2 of Hazel Stuteley O.B.E - It's Not Rocket Science "The biological changes, the chemical changes that happen in the brain when people get a sense of inference and control is huge. It's massive." This week Julian and Hazel conclude their conversation about Hazel's amazing work after the enormous success of the Beacon project in Cornwall. While Hazel had a disappointing stint with the Gove...

64: Part 1 of Hazel Stuteley O.B.E - Beacon "I was taught how to be compassionate, and you need to be taught " This week is the first part of a conversation with Hazel Stutley O.B.E. Her work has been lauded widely for both the impact that it has had and the way that stakeholders are at the centre of her work, in a way that has been truly transformative. In part 1 Hazel talks about how she came to...

63: Dr Rod Gritten - Part of Nature "We're part of nature, we're all nature and we've done a damn good job of trying to get away from that. " This week Julian talks to ecologist Dr Rod Gritten, the former Head of Ecology of Snowdonia National Park. Since becoming enthralled with spiders as a young boy, Rod has always been invested and connected in the environment and the ecosystem. He has a deep u...

62: Dr Tess Moeke-Maxwell - Flow with the River "It's when somebody's dying that we can join with them in this beautiful space of the celebration; they're transitioning." This week Julian is joined by Dr Tess Moeke-Maxwell, founding member of the Te Ārai Palliative and End of Life Research Group in the School of Nursing at the University of Auckland where she is also a Research Fellow. The reclama...

61: Eivind Hoff-Elimari - Politics and Policy for the Good Life " What if we don't manage to stop a collapse of biodiversity? Then a windmill electric car will be of no value to, I guess, hurricanes against mass migration and so on. But if we're doing what we know is a flourishing democracy, with equality and trust amongst people, that'll mean everything for our ability to continue civilisation, a...

60: Kristoffer Robin Haug - Big Problems, Easy to Solve - Green Politics in Norway " It's hard in Norway, and this may be because we get so much of our national money from oil and gas. There's an expression; never expect a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding ." Norwegian Green Party politician Kristoffer Robin takes Julian through where Green Politics is at...

59: Maff Potts - Camerados and the Public Living Rooms " Mutuality is baked into Camerados. You don't come to Camerados to be helped you come to Camerados just to look out for each other. " This week Julian talks to Maff Potts, the founder of the Camerados Movement, former government adviser and policy writer on homelessness, and the man who convinced the Millennium dome to be a venue for Crisis a...

58: Brendan Martin - All We Want Is Warm Social Interaction " Its basic purpose is to enable people to live with as much meaning in their lives as they can. In a way that both combines individual autonomy with warm social interaction. " Brendan Martin came to community development through a very interesting path. Having worked as a journalist with a particular interest in how privatisation of vari...