The Kainos Podcast

For an audio version of this episode, follow Kainos on Spotify or Apple Podcasts . You can learn from Sam Lee, Riane Eisler, Nora Bateson, Jamie Wheal, Trish Blain, Schuyler Brown, Ari Kuschnir and Alexander Beiner on our upcoming course New Ways of Knowing . The journey begins on January 14th. Learn new and ancient skills to gain sovereignty in the present, so that you can co-create the future. I...

You can also watch this conversation on YouTube or listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts . I’m thrilled to announce that Riane Eisler will be a teacher on our online course New Ways of Knowing which begins on January 14. As a Christmas gift, we’re offering five 20% off vouchers with the code Chalice at checkout. If you’d like to buy attendance as a Christmas gift, order a ticket for yourself and wr...

I recently recorded a conversation with writer and philosopher Mark Vernon about his new book Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination . I enjoyed the book and our conversation a lot, coming away from both with new ideas on how we can imbue culture with visionary imagination, and why Blake’s genius is more important than ever. Mark holds a PhD in ancient philosophy, and our conversat...

Join Alexander and Ari on 28 August at 6pm London time for a private community session on AI filmmaking, the aesthetics of the future and the role of art in shifting culture by signing up as a founding member. Each month, we host group sensemaking sessions, invite guests like Iain McGilchrist and Nora Bateson, and learn new practices together. A year ago, my friend Ari Kuschnir produced an AI film...

Stephanie Lepp is an award-winning producer, storyteller, and speaker, whose work strives to expand hearts and minds. She’s the former Executive Director at the Institute for Cultural Evolution, a non-profit think tank that addresses political polarization at its cultural roots. Before that, she was the Executive Producer at the Center for Humane Technology, the organization at the heart of the Ne...

Join Helena Norberg-Hodge, Douglas Rushkoff, John Vervaeke, Nora Bateson, Josh Schrei and more in Sensemaking 102 . Navigate complexity and embody new narratives around Tech, Economics, Myth, Power, Systems and Meaning. The live cohort begins on Wednesday, June 11 and the content only option is available throughout the course. McDonalds in the desert. Coca-Cola in the mountains. The International...

Journey into the deep code of culture in our new online course: Sensemaking 102 . Expand your view on what’s happening and why with the help of an amazing faculty and new practices. Connect with like-minded travellers to inquire, question, and embody. Myth. Power. Economics. Tech. Systems. Meaning. Register on studiokainos.com/sensemaking-102 What matters most, what we do or how we do it? Which is...

I’m on my way to Australia for a tour hosted by Small Giants Academy ! We’re kicking off with a preview screening of the upcoming Kainos documentary ‘Crossroads’ and a talk at the Byron Bay Theatre on Saturday 22nd of March - get your tickets here . Having been ‘woke critical’ since 2016, in recent years I’ve felt increasingly vindicated as mainstream culture has pushed back against the institutio...

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For the first month of Kainos, Alexander Beiner is having conversations with some of the most important and heterodox voices exploring how to build a more beautiful world. In this conversation with systems theorist, poet and filmmaker Nora Bateson, we explore the new capacities we need to develop to navigate a time of upheaval when we don't know where we're headed. This is a public episode. If you...

There are just two places left for our breathwork and sensemaking course ‘Breathing in Culture’ which begins on 13 November - join here . Trish Blain and I are also offering a free ‘NonOrdinary Sensemaking’ session around the US election on 14 November which you can sign up for here and read more about at the end of this page. In my recent pieces, I’ve been making sense of the US election through...

In this episode I speak with Nicola Price who runs the breathwork school Inspirational Breathing . Breathwork has exploded in popularity in recent years, with some people calling it ‘the new yoga’. But what is it exactly, and how can we reconnect to ourselves, come up with new ideas and process emotions just by breathing? I’ve been training as a breathwork facilitator with Inspirational Breathing...

In this podcast episode, I speak with Trish Blain about her concept of ‘consciousness agility’ and why it can help us move into new territory in our lives. We also talk about what it takes to turn wisdom into action, why collaborating with others can be so difficult, and why creativity isn’t just about artistic expression, but a force that lies at the heart of reality.  Trish and I have designed a...

The best conversations unravel new threads with every turn of phrase. You’re left with a tapestry, not of answers but of new possibilities. I had a feeling that a dialogue with Josh Schrei might weave that kind of tapestry, and I wasn’t disappointed. If you haven’t heard of his podcast The Emerald , I’d highly recommend it. It’s gained a dedicated following over the last few years, and is as much...

There are only 6 live tickets remaining for my course New Ways of Knowing , which kicks off in less than a week. Join a collective inquiry into the ideas and practices that help us thrive in a time of upheaval, with a world-class faculty and participants from more than 20 countries. Where’s the vital edge in culture today? How do we find art to shove us into the abyss, taboo conversations to open...

In the 1960’s, communications theorist Marshall McLuhan famously wrote ‘the medium is the message’. Thousands of years before he lived, we were already expressing this idea through our creation myths; myths in which the universe is spoken into being, or danced into form. At a deep level, we’ve always known that how our world is created tells us about what has been created. Today, advanced AI is fo...

Everything in our lives, from our relationships down to the cells of our hearts, is a process of combining. Things connect to other things to form relationships that create more than the sum of their parts, and in this way the world emerges. As Nora Bateson puts it in her new book, Combining , nothing we see is ‘just that and nothing more.’  This piece is a combination of words and sound, as I rec...

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