Roots to Health - building Food Resilience at all Scales with Daphne du Cros of the Shropshire Good Food Partnership
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all know by now that plants grown in living, thriving, life-filled soil, give us living, thriving...
Dance of the Spiritual Warrior: Balancing Love and Power with Jamie Bristow
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to (re)orient our entire culture around the power of love? To answer this, we ha...
The Magic of Darkness: learning to love life in the night with author Leigh Ann Henion
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you love the dark? Do you yearn for sunset and the amber glow of a fire with the night growing ...
Starting in the Ruins: Of Lions and Games with Crypto-Advocate and Changemaker Andrea Leiter
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest, Andrea Leiter, is one of those polymaths who brings not just breadth, but astonis...
Walking the wild, mythic Edge of Being with visionary elder and soul initiator Bill Plotkin
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the true vow of your life, the one it would kill you to break? This phrase comes from the ...
Eco-Civilisation: the future we deserve and how we will get there with Jeremy Lent
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is an eco-civilisation? What are its values and what are the frames within which it works? Why ...
ReWilding our Horses, Rewilding our Souls with Kelly Wendorf of the EQUUS
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we heal ourselves from the 'lost-ness' that afflicts our culture? How do we move on from the ...
Building the roots of a world that will work - with Victoria Hurth, co-author of Beyond Profit
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'Each of us was put on this earth at this time to personally determine the fate of humankind. Do y...
Of Beetles' wings and Brittlestars: using Biomimicry to co-create a flourishing future with Michael Pawlyn
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is humanity for? What happens if we rethink not just the way we plan buildings, but our entir...
Let the Wild Gods Rise! Bridging Between the Worlds with Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let the Wild Gods Rise. Easy to say and harder to do - but if you were offered a portal, a way to ...
The Magic in the Tales we Tell: Living new Stories in Service to Life with Paddy Loughman
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves, each other and our place in the...
A Dawning Mind: Exploring the science of spirituality with Dr James Cooke
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why are we here? How do we think? What is the nature of life? What are the boundaries between oursel...
Step by Radical Step: The Route to a Flourishing New Economy with Colleen Schneider
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our western (Trauma Culture) economies run on two falsehoods - we might go so far as to call them li...
The Crisis and the Call: Journeys through Species-Wide Soul Initiation with Sara McFarland
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As the old system is splitting apart, a few brave souls are already working to hospice this old syst...
Dreams as a Way of Life - Becoming a Good Relative with author Hilary Giovale
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our Trauma Culture has spread across the globe with terrifying speed and ghastly efficiency. But t...
PopShift: Changing the global Narrative on all our screens with Romain Vakilitabar of Pathos Labs
20 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are a storied species: Everything we do arises from the stories we tell ourselves and each other ...
Co-Evolving Humanity: Outgrowing Modernity with Vanessa and Giovanna Andreotti - and Tim Logan
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's podcast I was honoured to join a four-way conversation between Giovanna and Vanessa d...
From Darkness to Radiance: Lights On Learning with Julia Black
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the midst of the Great Transformation, one of the most exciting changes taking place is in our ca...
Otterly Amazing! Common Sense Farming can feed us all with Charlie Bennett
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“In a world where our wildlife is becoming extinct at a frightening rate, we are setting up an oas...
Be like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny Douglas
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Water is our lifeblood and Clean Water (along with Clean Air and Clean Soil) is one of our core Thre...
People's Charter for People Power - with Katy Rubin and Oli Whittington of Our House
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We know that our 'democracy' is, in fact, a kleptocracy that is not fit for purpose IF that purpose ...
Dancing the Path of the Inner Warrior with Diarmuid Lyng of Wild Irish Retreats
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're on the edge of a cliff and the way out is through - through the obfuscations and extractive va...
Still In the Eye of the Storm: Finding Calm and Stable Roots with Dan McTiernan of Being EarthBound
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our priority now is to find -and then embody - a sense of grounded stability, a sense of safety, a s...
Sit with the River, Breathe Sacred Smoke, Love with the World: Building a Bioregional world with Joe Brewer
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can Bioregionalism supplant the nation state as the natural unit of civilisation? Joe Brewer is ...
Solstice Meditation 2025 - Sun Stands Still - by Manda Scott
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Here is a meditation for the Solstice – the moment when the sun stands still.It is suitable for Su...
Thoughts from the Solstice Edge: Turning the Page on a Dying System with Manda Scott
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we head into the solstice- that moment when the sun stands still—whether you're in the northern...
Falling in Love with the Future - with author, musician, podcaster and futurenaut, Rob Hopkins
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week, Rob Hopkins, is a towering figure in the world of regenerative change. Co-fou...
ReWilding our Water: From Rain to River to Sewer and back with Tim Smedley, author of The Last Drop
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you listen to this podcast for any length of time, you'll know that I believe the way forward is ...
This is how we build the future: Teaching Regenerative Economics at all levels with Jennifer Brandsberg-Engelmann
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we let go of the sense of scarcity, separation and powerlessness that defines the ways we liv...
Brilliant Minds: BONUS podcast with Kate Raworth, Indy Johar & James Lock at the Festival of Debate
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are honoured to bring to Accidental Gods, a recording of three of our generation's leading thinke...
Farm as Church, Land as Lover: Community. farming and food with Abel Pearson of Glasbren
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all know the future rests upon us building heart-grounded, spirit-led communities that link human...
Working from the Inside Out: Paths to Personal and Global Transformation with Renée Lertzman
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We've known for decades that the 'Yell, Tell and Sell' strategy of belittling people, endeavouring t...
The Others Within Us: Meeting our Spirit Guides and other entities with Bob Falconer
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our world is more magical than we know - more than we can know. Increasing numbers of us are reali...
Radical Change: Building a Parallel Economy with Peter Kemp of Citizen Coin
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are living through a time between stories—where the old economic narratives of scarcity, extrac...
Beyond Zero Sum: Rehumanising our Conflicts with Carm Aufderheide of NorthStar Training Solutions
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
All flourishing is mutual, that's a given. And yet the schisms in our culture, the tribal divides an...
Red Pill/Blue Pill, Green Pill/True Pill – Creating a Media Commons with Debs Grayson of Opus Independents
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our legacy - or status quo - media is owned and run by billionaires for billionaires and the stories...
How to Save the World - tipping points of social diffusion with Katie Patrick of Hello World Labs
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'If you're not changing the numbers, you're not changing the world.' So says this week's guest, Kati...
Bonus: Thoughts from the Edge - If the current system is not fit for purpose, what's our core response?
12 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Suppose we accept that the current system is not broken - it is doing what it was always designed to...
Wellbeing: It’s about wholeness, not happiness - with Dr Mark Fabian, author of Beyond Happy
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We grow up thinking we want to be happy (or at least, not-sad). But happiness isn't enough. What w...
A Longing for Belonging: Shifting the Cultural Paradigm with Looby Macnamara and Leona Johnson
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If we are in the midst of the Great Derangement (thank you Amitav Ghosh), what tools do we have to h...
Now Then! Building networks of citizen power with James Lock of Opus in Sheffield
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We all know the current system of predatory capitalism is not fit for purpose. We don't (yet) all ...
Be More Hawk! Being the courage to follow what's right with Rachel Musson of ThoughtBox Education
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The old systems are no longer fit for purpose. What does an education system look like that's fit fo...
Miraculous Carbon: Celebrating the Book of Life, Death and Potential with author Paul Hawken
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we step past the magical thinking of the elites that says we can either use AI to 'Solve for ...
Authentically human: celebrating the magic of life with Mark McCartney of the 'What is a Good Life' podcast
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In these turbulent times, what values most strongly underpin our humanity and how can we nurture our...
Seeing the Bigger Picture: psychedelics and sense-making with Alexander Beiner of Kainos
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do we shed the shackles of modernity and step into a new set of stories that could help us grow ...
Becoming Spiritual Warriors: exploring a politics of radical Compassion with Jamie Bristow
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world of turmoil where the only certainty is uncertainty, what happens if we who yearn for a fu...
Kin-centric Rewilding 2 - Bonus - continuation of the conversation with Daniel Firth Griffith
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel remains one of the few people I know who is originally of the Trauma Culture but is living ab...
Kin-centric Rewilding - restoring relationship to the land and ourselves with Daniel Firth Griffith, author of StagTine
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
By now we know that we need to connect to the More than Human world. We know we need to grow into ad...
Find the Others! Beyond the Death of Democracy lies Citizen Power - with Jon Alexander of the Citizen Collective
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Democracy is breaking around us in real time and a small percentage of those in power would like us ...
Of Schoolishness, Space and Emergence into vibrant systems: a joint podcast with Tim Logan of Future Learning Design
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If what our culture most urgently needs is for a critical mass of us to grow into adults and then el...
Living through the Death of Democracy: Manda's thoughts on love, liberty and the continued existence of complex life on earth
25 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We are living through the death of democracy and the onset of Techno-Feudalism. But this is not a ...
HeartFood - Healing our communities with Food grown on Regenerative Farms with Erin Martin of FreshRxOK
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when people with chronic, unstable diabetes eat food grown in local, regenerative farms...
Radical Creativity: creating a Global Council of Women with Jenny Grettve of EIT Culture and Creativity
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can we bring wisdom to those with power and power to those with wisdom? If we were to step int...
The Phoenix Always Rises: Evolving into the Future Human with Prof Chris Bache, Author of LSD and the Mind of the Universe
08 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast is predicated on the belief that if we all work together, we can still lay the foundati...
Democracy Rising: Making 2025 the year we recover from Peak Polarisation with Audrey Tang, Ambassador at Large for a safer, kinder world
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible that 2024 might have been the year of 'Peak polarisation' around the world and that f...
Heart of Oak: Talking Druidry, Spirituality and the nature of Magic in the MetaCrisis with Philip Carr-Gomm
25 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Druidry is the indigenous spirituality of the islands of Britain, but how does is live in the contem...
Seven Generations Perspective Meditation for December 2024
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Traditionally, we have offered a meditation for the solstice - and these are available in the links ...
Solstice Cheer: Three Friends uphold a Podcasting Tradition with Della Duncan, Nathalie Nahai and Manda Scott
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is the fifth year of our traditional Winter Solstice podcast gathering in which Nathalie Nahai ...
Must Read, Must Listen, Must View: Manda's favourite books, podcasts and videos this Winter Season
14 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's that time of year - when all we really want is to curl up and reflect, go inside, become the po...
The Power of (good) Food with Nick Weir of the Open Food Network
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Clearly we're at an inflection point in the history of humanity. Our experiment with a notional de...
Avoiding Burn Out, Fall Out, Drop Out (and Freak Out): Practical Routes to a whole, healed future with Dan McTiernan of Earthbound
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we become the change we need to see in the world? What are the actual, practical steps to g...
Adaptation is Here: Launching the TrAd (Transformative Adaptation) Book with Rupert Read and Morgan Philips
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We're teetering on the brink of ecosystem and cultural collapse. How do we adapt and transform to ...
Holding the Paradox: Navigating a changing world with Andrea Hiott of Making Ways
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are not going back. But how do we go forward now in a world where the old norms are under assau...
Being the Best Ancestors we can - with Dr John Izzo of the Elders Action Network
13 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we all respond to the seismic events of the US election? Specifically, how do those of us o...
Bonus: The System is Dead. Long Live the (new) System! Thoughts on the US election and the self-terminating algorithm
08 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It occurs to me that we are now at an inflection point in the WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, ...
Turning waste into wellbeing, wildlife, food and forests: Bringing permaculture to schools with Elliot Riley
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you're over 40, the world you grew up believing in no longer exists. The younger generation app...
Having your C.A.K.E. (Compassion, Awareness, Knowledge, Empathy) and sharing what you learn - with Andrew Hale of Dog Centered Care
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does an understanding of what makes dogs tick, help us to understand ourselves and our place in ...
Rethink, Repair, Rebuild – with Natalie Bennett, former leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can we achieve total systemic change? And are there politicians anywhere who are ready to make i...
The Lama, the Oath and the Web of Treasure Vases - with Cynthia Jurs, author of 'Summoned by the Earth'
16 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We know we need to shift from our Trauma Culture to a resilient, connected Initiation Culture where ...
Living Well in a Tiny House with Rachel Butler and Maddy Longhurst of Bristol Tiny House Community
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our two guests this week are deeply embedded in the creation of Tiny Homes as a way for us meet the ...
Of Reindeer, Donkeys and the verb that is Water. Stories of climate-healing with Judith Schwartz, author of The Reindeer Chronicles
02 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we move beyond our myopic focus on carbon/CO2 as the index of our harms to the world? What ...
Building an Economics of Happiness: How - and why - our Future must be Local with Helena Norberg Hodge of Local Futures
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do we build the local futures we all know we need? What does it actually take to become a good...
Autumn Equinox meditation 2024
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Here is an Autumn Equinox Meditation to help set you up for the shift from the long days to the long...
Thoughts at the Autumn Equinox 2024 - how, what, when, where and why
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is our regular September bonus episode - a brief look at where we're at - how I (Manda) see thi...
Forking the Future: building routes to viable change with Tim Frenneaux of Pivot
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My first guest after the summer break is Tim Frenneaux, whom I first met in his role as Source for t...
Stop killing the planet! Shaping International law so it's on the side of Life – with JoJo Mehta of Stop Ecocide International
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can our national and international legal systems be harnessed in service of life, to put the brakes ...
The Manic Fire Monkeys Do It Again (and Again): Exploring the wonder of human evolution with Dr Shane Simonsen
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The climate emergency is impacting our entire eco-sphere. Plants are at the core of every food cha...
Finding the Courage to Care - Ways to build a Mothering Economy with author Jenny Grettve
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'Are we [in our WEIRD culture] intelligent enough to be more generous than we have ever been through...
When is a Tree not a Tree? The 'Net Zero' Wood Burning Scam - with Dr Mary Booth of Partnership for Policy Integrity
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We live in a burning world. As we record, there are record wildfires across the Americas, record tem...
A trillion willing helpers: Exploring the microbiome of people and animals with Joe Flanagan of Ingenious Probiotics
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We know that being kind to our gut biome is crucial to our health, but what about the trillion happy...
Governable Spaces: Solve for democracy on the internet and our outer politics becomes a lot more sane - with Nathan Schneider
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Western world is in a crisis of democracy - but we learn a lot of our principles from the ways w...
Net Zero Cities: Crafting a Generative Urban Future with Georgia Cameron of Dark Matter Labs
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cities: most of us live in them and most of them are geared around the old values of the last centur...
Earth and Soul: Reconnecting Amid Climate Chaos with Leah Rampy
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Clearly we need urgently to shift the democratic dial towards something that might actually serve th...
Creating Quantum Theatre: radical story-becoming to change the world with Jenifer Toksvig
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Humanity is a storied species - everything we do from forming partnerships, to buying stuff, to movi...
The Tools we Need: Raising the Collaborative Commons with Resilience Strategist Michael Haupt
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We know by now that the old system is crumbling, that the old paradigms are no longer fit for purpos...
How the System is Slaying Us - and What to Do About It: Getting Healthy in Toxic Times with Dr Jenny Goodman
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does our increasing destruction of the earth's biosphere also impact our health? What diseases...
Election Special 4: What is Governance for and how can we shape genuine democracy - with Glen Weyl of the Plurality Institute
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If the current electoral/governance system is not fit for purpose (and who could possibly imagine it...
Beautiful Trouble - crafting a political Alternative - and an independent Scotland - with Indra Adnan and Pat Kane
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The question of how we reshape democracy, walking the fine line between stagnation and populist rage...
Election Special 3 - Labour party Manifesto - anything worthwhile? with Jeremy Gilbert
23 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What are we being offered by the incoming Labour Government? What's good in their Manifesto (spoiler...
Taking back the Power: Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels and onto the good stuff with Howard Johns of OneZero
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're blowing open a route towards energy security, reduced carbon footprint and saving money ...
The Jay, The Beech and The Limpetshell with author Richard Smyth
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Richard Smyth, author, crossword designer, cartoonist - and father of two you...
Clean Air, Clean Water, Clean Politics - Election Special 2 with Baroness Natalie Bennett of the Green Party
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
in this second election special, we talk to Natalie Bennett (or Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle if ...
Answers to the Questions of life: Biomimicry, Complexity and Peacebuilding with Dr Deborah Benham
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Dr Deborah Benham, Biomimicry Educator, Transition Town Co-Lead Link and Deep...
Breaking the Doom-Loop of UK Politics with Neal Lawson of Compass
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Buy Manda's book hereOur first Election Special with friend of the podcast, Neal Lawson.Neal is Dire...
Wild shamanic theatre and becoming embodied: with Jessica Buckler of the ALEF Trust
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest, Jessica Bockler is one of those people who sparks every fire in my being - and i ...
The Story is in our Bones: Rewilding Ourselves with author and activist Osprey Orielle Lake
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Once in a while, a book comes along that changes how we see the world, that re-sets something fundam...
Any Human Power - Manda Scott talks about her new Thrutopian Mytho-Political thriller
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week the tables are turned and Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture Magazine interviews Manda ...
No such thing as Waste, No such place as 'Away'! - Composting our way out of the meta-crisis with Nicky Grady Scott
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join us on a deep dive into the transformative world of composting with Nicky Grady Scott, a master ...
Writing the Deluge: Dark nights, Apocalypse and Hope with author Stephen Markley
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author Stephen Markley opens the doors to The Deluge, his ground-breaking, world-changing Climate/Me...
Eco-Spirituality - Exploring Deep in the Woods of the Divine with Woodford Roberts and Rupert Read
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this deep, thoughtful conversation, two of the men at the heart of the Climate Majority Project d...