Darcia Narvaez, Professor of Psychology at Duke university (web, university) has lived many contexts and careers before she started her research on the Evolved nest and the kinship worldview. She has written a number of books on the topic of how we care for our children, or lack of care for them, has deep implications for the world we live in today. This conversation centers around that concept and how we can break the cycle (film) and re-imagine humanity (film) in ways that take us in more regenerative directions. This is an incredibly important and timely conversation. Host: Amit Paul

Merlin Bola (Grow in Flow, LinkedIn) is a fellow curious building regenerative bridges into the fog, into whatever is to come next. This conversation is a wide ranging exploration into the realms at the edges of science and what is to come. We deal with quantum darwinism, neurodiversity, other perspectives on our brains (and bodies) self healing capabilities and the energy generating capacity of water. This is a conversation that takes us through many possibilities of what may come next. Enjoy! Host Amit Paul

Olivia Lazard (LinkedIn, writing) is an analyst, scientist and thinker looking at the intersection of peace, planetary security and ecology. This is a conversation that takes us into the current predicament through the lens of security and peace. Olivia has a unique view into the European project and we touch on some of the most potent tension at this particular juncture in time. It seems we europeans are dealing with our past and future very intensely and simultaneously. We speak of the technocraty, the growth paradigm, the economy, the ecology and about geoengineering. This is one of my favorite conversations sofar on the podcast. Enjoy! Host: Amit Paul

Jonas Roupé (LinkedIn, webpage) is a strategist and human being as well as a magician. This conversation touches upon the work he has been involved with from ecocide to making business more circular. But most of all we talk about the concept of resilience and agency in a time of crisis and collapse. Jonas outlines a pathway towards life that is perhaps counterintuitive in the current cultural narrative, an invitation to the local, the human the small. We speak of different roles and different approaches to the collapse: like protecting wise decisions now, building pathways for transition and for releasing the musts. We speak of the buddah, dharma and sanga, the physical, social and aesthetic human and much much more. This is a warm, soft conversation that left me with a a sense of joy and meaning. Enjoy! Host: Amit Paul.

Karl-Erik Edris is an author (books in Swedish), thinker and educator on the topic of leadership. We took a deep dive into the why grand narratives are probably not what we need right now, why life is probably about revealing your own stupidity to yourself and how the state of the world right now is probably not something we did wrong, rather just something we need to pay attention to so we can get it right. This is a wonderful conversation with one of the deepest thinkers and optimists I've encountered. Enjoy! Host: Amit Paul

Maria Zachs the passionate, values driven activist and founder of the Voices4Change foundation as well as the initiative Growth4change introducing hydrophonic growing techniques in one of Kenyas poorer communities. Maria speaks of her approach to local democracy, empowerment, being values driven as well as acting in full alignment with those values. We also speak about what it took to earn the trust as well as beginning to understand how to make change in some of the poorer and socially exposed areas in Kenya where she's currently working. And we of course talk about tango. This conversation touches many topics and especially the inspiring work of Maria and the organizations she has founded. Enjoy! Host Amit Paul

Jim Wallenberg is a company advisor, speaker, change leader. We spoke about engagement, working in different capacities in a company, how it is possible that many people still seem to think that engagement in a company is some random magic or luck and not a result of hard work. We also spoke about how to not get hired as a manager and what it takes to get compliance. This is a fun, tangible conversation about some the topic of leadership, management and how we get things done together. Enjoy! Host Amit Paul

Mark Milton (LinkedIn) founder of Education 4 Peace and Spirit of Humanity Forum, former director of IFOTES and co-author of the book Master of Emotions joined the podcast speaking of his long passion for listening and where his own listening brought him. This conversation touches upon the possibility of sports in peace and consciousness development. We also speaks of different levels of listening, relational consciousness, sensing and trusting and letting that be the source of movement. We also speak of more difficult topics like violence and the get a peak into how the world has changed over the past 3-4 decades for us passionate about systems transformation. Host: Amit Paul.

Jon Smeija from the Green Biz Group came by. We talked about the state of the circular economy and the challenge we are facing in the next few decades. Jon is a chemist by training and has been in technical roles in corporations for most of his career until he stepped over to the green biz group where he runs their event on circular economy. We speak of the immense challenges we are facing in the coming years and address things like there is no such thing as away, consumers are in some way product blind, the culture of convenience is one of the biggest challenges we have to face if we are to make meaningful progress and much more. Host Amit Paul

Paul Weinfield (Spotify, webpage) musician, coach, teacher and more. Paul wrote a text about the heroes journey that grabbed Amit. This is a wonderful conversation about things like surrender, growth, truth, what it means to be human. But not in a high flying, abstract way, this is tangible, close and personal. Check the links if you're curious about Paul's work. Enjoy the conversation! Host: Amit Paul

Best selling author, cosmologist and physicist Jude Currivan came on the podcast for a wonderful conversation hovering around the topic of Unity. We speak of the need for a new story, the laws of physics as relational algorithms, our 21st century technology and our 19th century world view, activism, acting local - feeling global - thinking cosmological and much more. This is an invitation to embrace the simple and not easy, assume belonging and common ground and accepting that love as the innate inseparability of all parts from the whole and the whole from all parts is the very fabric of our universe. Enjoy! Resources: Whole Worldview. Host: Amit Paul

Fredrik Forss, long term serial entrepreneur and debut author come on the podcast and we talk about his debut novel UNUM - AI god or servant. Where the book came from and his process of writing it. We also touch upon symbols and stories how one can play with them to hack our current cultural moment. We speak of some very likely questions that we will face as parents to kids growing up in the age of AI. This is a deep and fascinating conversation about a topic that Fredrik's thought a lot about over the past 6 years. Links: Fredrik Forss, the Unuminati. Host: Amit Paul

Laura Storm (webpage) author of Regenerative Leadership with Giles Hutchins, speaker, entrepreneur, community builder, mother, creator. The list is long. We got together for a wonderful conversation about the what regeneration is, the next steps and moves in the regenerative community, joy, a ceremonial attitude to life, grief and what it means to really stop and be forced to surrender to life. What does it mean to accept that there is no recovery, no going back? This covers some of what I believe to be the most important topics of our time yet not through high flying theoretical concepts rather the life and contexts that takes up most of our time. To connect check out Regenerators and Regenerative Leadership. Enjoy. Host: Amit Paul

Glenda Eoyang is the founder of the Humans Systems Dynamics Institute (hsdinstitute.org). They have been working on human systems development for several decades teaching courses and developing tools for agency and collective action in the liminal times we are in. This is a gem of a conversation. Glenda provides some valuable frames from the institutes work on how to manage and navigate in the current times and we speak about difference, paradigm shifts, questions that make a difference, baker folds, non-linear dynamics and stances we can take to be of service to the transformation. Enjoy! If you are interested in the HSDs newsletter send a note to info[at]hsdinstitute.org

Dakotah Apostolou is a co-founder of the Cohere network. Reinventing regenerative home ownership and collective living for our age. We speak about community, why arcitecths seem to have a knack for imagining what’s next, why maximum diversity around values not metrics is the way to go and why ownership is so important and yet something we need to fundamentally rethink. Dakotah and his team is looking at one of the fundamental needs of humans, shelter, and rethinking it in a way that makes it fit for whatever the world need next. Curious? Follow along at cohere.network

This is another solo reflection. This time I speak of the modes of exchange that have progressed through our paradigms, from: reciprocity, dominance and trade towards something new. Perhaps that new thing is play? And how that interacts with different ways of thinking: think mind, process mind, essence mind and source mind. Exploring how these two aspects in themselves seem to relate to the switch from exchange value to true cost and use value rather. And what happens in a world where anything is to expensive to own? Is that the path towards us reinventing ownership? This is a little open ended with out conclusions but perhaps you hear something I missed, what came a live for you? Appreciate your patience with the sound, ended up having to use a back up microphone. To see what I'm up to, connect or engage with my writing and of course more on the RCO here

Ditte Lysgaard Vind is a design practicioner, teacher and author deeply immersed in circular design. We speak of the a number of the importance of weaving together products, materials and business model. Circularity as a tool not an end in itself. Measurements of various parameters and why CO2 is a critical indicator right now. We speak of the shift form Exchange to Use value in our accounting and what that would entail and about the two fundamental principles that we need to practice: Stay with the trouble and Get tactile! This is a wonderful conversation on everything circular. If you want to get in touch with Ditte and go deeper visit: https://www.thecircularway.com

Johnn Andersson is a systems scientists looking at socio-technico-ecological systems. We speak about systems in the widest sense and also in the details. Maps and territories make their way into this conversation as well. We speak of the ontological vs the epistemological aspects of systems and what it does to us when we mistake those. We also speak about the consequences of our decision to focus on systems of innovation in the 80's vs what could have happened if we would instead have talked about systems of transformation all along. This episode is very rich and invites a different way of understanding the world in a very tangible way. Enjoy!

Kajsa Balkfors is the former (very successful) CEO of Cirkus Cirkör that has dedicated her life as a practicioner to practice the art of living in community, hosting and most recently she's worked with liberating kids in the Swedish preschools through Tillitsverket. Ola Jubelin is a friend and a skilled facilitator that you can find at facilitatingchange.se. This is a conversation between practitioners. We speak about change, what it is and how it differs from the new. The distinction between change and growth. Most of all however we speak about what is possible when we fill existing structures, like the preschool, with new content and how that has the potential, like in Kajsas case, liberates both kids and pedagogs. Enjoy the conversation!

Viveca (Fallenius) Svensson is a passionate lawyer and practitioner of legal design. We spoke about the state of privacy and trust in our society. What legal design actually is and how we can approach law completely differently. What if we actually trust the law makers good intent and instead of pushing against law as something we want to avoid we'd use law to actually guide our actions? Finding out what the spirit of the law is and pushing off from that. We also speak about automatic contract writing, a little bit about how we as consumers can do things to reclaim our power but mostly it's a peak into what is also possible in our current system. There are ways to practice law consciously. If you are curious to find out more about Vivekas work check out GentleRev. Host: Amit Paul