World of Wisdom

Dr. Claudine Perlet ( LinkedIn , webpage ) stepped out from her top tier corporate job for a large insurance company in 2017 and began exploring alternatives. She landed on Regenerative Economics as her frame for the work she is doing now. This conversation speaks of the regenerative business transformation and we address, head on, some of the things that will no longer be working as we move deepe...

Renee Lertzman ( LinkedIn , webpage ) climate psychologist that's worked for more than 3 decades with large corporations and instituations (google included) dropped in for a deep conversations on the conditions conducive to change. We spoke of the importance of questions, how agency is one of the most important aspects of our humanity and how robbing those we try to change of it is counter product...

John Mack ( LinkedIn ) author, speaker, photographer and founder of the non-profit Life Calling , focused on preserving our humanity in a digital age. We get into the weeds of what technology is doing to us at the moment, and why exactly it is so pervasive. We also speak of what it has the potential to do for us. We speak of the meta-crisis and how it is an offer for us to really reimagine the wor...

Nessie Reid is the director of the Global Diversity Foundation , ( linktr.ee ) the creator of the Miking Parlour lives with her husband on an organic farm in Wales. We deep dive into food and why food sovereignty and food security are such fundamental topics. Why it is that not more of us care about food. We speak of convenience and price as two important parameters to understand, we speak of envi...

Anna Gyllenklev ( LinkedIn ) founder of Untra Studio visited the podcast. We spoke about what our environments do to us, we spoke about health and the relational nature of our world. What are the dependencies that structure our thinking? What do we have to do to think outside our brain? What are you cultivating? What do we nurture? What does it do to us when we attend to things that are not living...

Servane Mouazan ( ⁠LinkedIn⁠ , ⁠webpage⁠ ) visited the podcast and we spoke of things like collective intelligence, what happens when we invite the organisation as the living entity and inquire into it into the room, we spoke of trust and how capital is not just financial capital but rather many things. We spoke of change, and resistance to change, the invitation to listen deeply to our assumption...

Thekla Teunis ( ⁠LinkedIn⁠ ) is the founder of ⁠Grounded⁠ aiming to bring agriculture back into balance. Thekla shares her journey from Shell and McKinsey to her current work of transforming agriculture bottom up from the core. We speak of being with the consequences of what one is doing, what it takes to see and what it takes to take risk. The importance of having a team willing to go the distanc...

Vicki Saunders ( LI ) founder of Coralus and I spoke of the new ways of building business, systems transformation, the power of generosity and kindness. What happens when you get 7000 women together and let the community direct investments? What happens when you realise just how expensive control is and how cheap trust is? What are the metaphors that can set us free? We speak of transformation as...

Sam Hinds ( website , substack ) therapist, PhD and lecturer at California Center for Integral Studies, has been on before EP173 . We dive into the depths of what some call collective precensing. We speak of faith and trust. We speak of the impatience we feel, the importance of slowing down, of staying with it. We speak of responsibility, relevance, circular time and much else. The practices Sam w...

Giles Hutchins ( ⁠webpage⁠ ) has been on the podcast before ( ⁠EP107⁠ ). Recently released his 6th book ⁠Nature Works⁠ which we center this conversation around. We deepdive into the meaning of the quote: "being intimate with the immanent and transparent with the transcendent". Giles also positions us nicely in where our society is currently, we speak of the potential of living intimately with our...

Samantha Sweetwater is a coach, author, holistic practitioner ( webpage , LinkedIn , Instagram ). We spoke of what is to have lived with the awareness of existential risk for 50 years. Which places it may take you. We speak of what it means to live in these times we live in and the possibilities it offers us. We speak of embodiment, enlifenment, aesthetics, sensemaking, attention, animism, suspens...

Vanessa Andreotti author of Hospicing Modernity , dean of the faculty of education at University of Victoria and member of the DCF collective came and spoke about what it takes to begin making space for something that isn't modernity. We speak of the importance of humor and humility, staying open to both the good and the sh*t, coming into contact with what modernity is actually doing to us and...

This episode is an intermezzo. It is an audio version of Amit Pauls and Eric Lichtmans article in the Unpsychology Magazine 10: Edges : To move in spaces where worlds shift. Enjoy!

Ida Faldbakken ( ⁠LinkedIn⁠ ), CEO of KatapultX and co-founder of ⁠Katapult Future Fest⁠ , and I had a deep inquiry into what it is to gather, what it's for and what it means to not waste peoples time. We also spoke about what it takes to break our habits, like what if the people on stage are there to propagate the conversation off stage, what if these contexts do not have to scale in themselv...

Manish Jain, founder of ⁠Swaraj University⁠ and ⁠Ecoversities Alliance⁠ is this weeks guest. We spoke of alternatives to education, why education as we think of it today may be one of the root causes of the metacrisis rather than a solution for it and we spoke of reclaiming learning and knowledge. The treachery of language like 'first generation learners' and types of knowledge - spelling...

Grace Rachmany of t he Voices of humanty , Priceless DAO , DAO leadership and many more projects is this weeks guest. We spoke of democracy and the state of it, we spoke of decision making, what happens to a society that has the monetary system as it's primary social structure. We speak of value, commons, technology and responsibility. This conversation is a deep and thoughtful one that points...

Tanuja Prasad ( LinkedIn ) and I had a conversation about her work in regenerative investments. We talked about the spirit of investments, the driving force behind investment up until this point, how to transcend the extractive paradigm and shift away from the control and force as the governing principles towards something more generative. Tanuja and I spoke of the Systems view of life and how it’...

Eva Karlsson ( LinkedIn ), CEO of Houdini Sportswear visited the podcast. We got to talk about solutions that are not solutions, the planetary boundaries in business, measurement, common sense, why joy at work is a radical thing to focus on. We also spoke of the benefit of having a strict set of design boundaries to work with, spoler: it spurs creativity. We also spoke about responsibility in busi...

Jeremy D Johnson visited the podcast a second time after 2 years ( website ). This was a deep and curious conversation about change all the way down. We spoke of emergence happening in the middle, the idea of slowing down, the importance of hesitation, temporics of attention, the awakening of the relational (integrated) worldview in younger generations. We also spoke of this notion of the potentia...

Jenny Grettve founder of the Economic Institue For Feminine Futures , author of the upcoming book Mothering economy came by the podcast. We spoke of why, with all our innovative capacity, it is so difficult to create a caring and kind economy? This is a conversation on many levels that zooms in and out of the economic, educational and systemic work Jenny is involved with. We also speak of how to i...

Eric "Zippy" Harris-Braun, founder of Holochain , had a conversation about Holochain, agent centric vs data centric blockchains, the power of Holochain as one of the components of the DNA for social organisms. We speak about money and why it is not a very wholesome storage of value. We speak of gramatic capacity and LLMs as grammar deducers, the importance of membranes as well as consent...

Jeremy Akers from Gospel of change ( Substack , X , LinkedIn ) came by the podcast. We spoke of liberating structures, how to acheive coherence in groups and why that is crucial for the times we live in, game design and how that may take us forward. This is a conversation that orients towards the practical with some concrete tools and possibilities to look at for shifting habits. Enjoy! Host Amit...

Another solo episode with some pressing reflections that wanted to come out. I reflect on the myths of separation, control and survival. Also invite you to consider the Relax, Repurpose and Remember triad that Innrwrks is working on. Most of all I invite you to be with the very challenging (and rewarding perspective): If everything in this world is as its supposed to be - what are we invited to le...

Karl-Erik Edris came by for a second conversation ( here's the first from nov 2023). This time we spoke of the rise of fall of civilizations, where we currently seem to be in this current change, the axial age, the fall of the roman empire, Jesus, modernity and what might be coming next. What is it that our current ways of treating eachother and the planet can teach us? What are we invited to...

Nora Willhelm ( web , linkedin ) founder of the well , co-founder of Collaboratio Helvetica , alumn of the European youth parliament and much more came by the podcast. This is a specific and hands on conversation about what it takes to be one of those longing to bridge the existing system towards what is to come. The costs of being a bridge, why systemic work particularly is difficult to navigate...