Sukhema (aka Larry Butler) is a poet and a publisher who teaches tai-chi in healthcare settings, leads therapeutic writing groups for Lapidus Scotland, and has helped establish Towards Transition Glasgow. He completed a facilitator training in the Work That Reconnects (WTR) with Maitrisara, Chris Johnstone and others in England. He co-led a WTR facilitator training course in Scotland with Jenny Mackewn. Larry has 30 years experience facilitating groups and he’s here to talk to us today about the Art of Doing Nothing.
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MWS Podcast 159: Margaret Wheatley on Who do We Choose to Be
Our guest today is Margaret Wheatley. Margaret, or Meg has worked globally in various roles since 1966, such as a speaker, teacher, community worker, consultant, advisor, and formal leader. She believes that leaders must evoke people’s generosity, creativity, and community in a world that she feels is tearing us apart. A deep understanding of Systems Theory underpins her work and she has written nine books, including the Leadership and the New Science, her recent The Warrior’s Songline as well as the recently updated ‘Who do We choose to be’ Facing reality / Claiming Leadership / Restoring Sanity, the topic of our discussion today, which for me is an inspirational book on not only how to be a sane and compassionate leader in times of crisis and likely collapse but also for anyone who would like to embrace a more pragmatic version of hope that is based on action, courage, presence and responsibility rather than wishful thinking.
MWS Podcast 158: Dan Nixon on cultivating a spirit of questioning in relation to our digital lives.
Our guest today is Dan Nixon. He’s a writer and researcher specialising in themes around attention, environmental philosophy and digital culture. A particular area of interest and expertise is the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty and he’s also a mindfulness teacher. He’s written a couple of essays for Aeon and his ideas have been picked up and discussed in the Sunday Times, The Economist and the Guardian among others. He co-lead Perspectiva’s work on the Digital Ego. He’s going to talk to us today about cultivating a spirit of questioning in relation to our digital lives.
The MWS Podcast 157: Andy West on The Life Inside
Our guest today is Andy West, a senior specialist and training officer at the Philosophy Foundation. He has written for the Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement and Lino amongst others. For the past several years he has taught philosophy in prisons and he’s here today to talk to us about his first book ‘The Life Inside: A memoir of prison, family and philosophy
The MWS Podcast 156: Gavin Haynes on the Purity Spiral
My guest today is Gavin Haynes, a freelance journalist, writer, presenter and former editor-at-large at Vice. He’s here to talk to us about the Purity Spiral. How a process of moral outbidding is corroding communities from within.