In this episode, my first back for this year, Ash and I dive further into the waters we began wading into in our previous episode . Exploring the intersection of queer ways of being, masculinity, and the mythopoetic orientation, we build on this inquiry based on reflections for our last 5 months of circling with men across many generations. What does the mythopoetic orientation afford us as we look to restore, and restory ourselves-in-the-world? How do we relate to 'masculinity,' 'femininity' an...
Feb 27, 2022•56 min•Ep. 35
Sean is a man, a voice, and a guide I've been tracking for some time, for his work in the eco-psychotherapy and psychedelic-assisted therapy space. Within the frame of rewilding, or de-domesticating the mind, remembering and reclaiming what Martin Shaw calls the 'wild twin,' the selves it can be easy to exile in our culture, we explore how both ecological re-connective practice and psychedelic-assisted therapies support us on this path of deliberately and pre-emptively meeting the wild. As the f...
Oct 12, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 34
In this episode, I read my most recent essay on “ Eros, the Evolution of Life and Mind, and Moving from Psychology Toward Soul-Making .” This paper explores Eros (in it’s mythological and evolutionary sense) as a guiding organisational principle of life and invites us to tend to our connection to Eros as a partner in our renewal and re-engendering of relationship. Drawing on evolutionary biology, integral theory, attachment theory, theories of mind, developmental moral imagination, and more, I a...
Sep 27, 2021•39 min
In today’s episode, I had the honour of connecting in with dear brother Eamon Armstrong, exploring ways of being that allow for greater degrees of integration, and soul to live through us. In a world that prizes some expressions, criticises and condemns others, it’s no wonder we become partial even to ourselves. Through an exploration of queer ways of being, masculinity, and transformative culture, we touch the nerve of broadening senses of ‘self,’ to open to more inclusive and honouring epistem...
Sep 12, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 33
If we are to restore, or re-story, our world within larger narratives that acknowledge and honour the whole, how can we be with the natural world in a learning and listening capacity? Dr. Geoff Berry coined the term ‘ecomythic’ to speak directly to this. In our conversation, we explore the ways story and deep nature connection can support us in finding ourselves in larger mythologies, they can support us in living through myths that are more inclusive. We explore the meaning of myth, how myth ha...
Aug 30, 2021•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 32
In our world of bits and bobs, parts and objects, them and us, what is it that binds us, reminding us of our inter-weaving, and our nature as relational, systemic, and intertwined beings? How can we tell a different Story of Me, of Us and of Now, that acknowledges the in-between, the rich space between us? My dear friend Asher Packman and I dive into the role of the mythopoetic in restoring the world, or re-storying the world. We explore the roots of the mythopoetic resurgence within the menswor...
Aug 15, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 31
Building cultures and places that celebrate our uniqueness, and our potentials is the work of each of us, whether we regard ourselves as business leaders, proud parents, loving friends, or contributing citizens. We find ourselves within systems of oppression, and through existing in these cultures, inherit relational patterns that support these ways of being. It is part of our work in this world, to deconstruct inequalities and weave inclusion, to come to understand how we, ourselves are support...
Aug 04, 2021•54 min•Ep. 30
Contemplating system and cultural change, and our role within it can be daunting, and quite honestly, disempowering. Engaged Buddhism though, might have something to remind us. In today’s episode, we connect with Brother Phap Hai, a Senior Student of venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, to explore how the practice of Engaged Buddhism might support us as stewards of change in our lives, and our communities. What is Engaged Buddhism ? What does it look and feel like in practice? How can it support us in our...
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 29
In today’s episode, I connect with, and we get to explore with, someone I’ve admired and learned much from in the past years. Jenny’s articulation of regenerative culture and leadership, bringing together the worlds of philosophy, ecology, mythology, science, and soul-centricity has endowed my own sense of ‘regenerative practice’ with greater depth and meaning. We explore the roots of the mechanistic paradigm, the ways it serves, and the limitations we are living in the experience of, as well as...
Jun 29, 2021•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 28
Everyone is a facilitator, whether consciously or unconsciously. In our relationships at all levels - professionally and personally - we are woven into, affected by, and affecting a web of relations. In this episode, I sit down with my dear brother, co-groover, and facilitator from Melbourne, Henry Fowkes. We explore the nuanced and little-spoken-of insights into facilitation and group-work. In this, we cover the terrain of embodied attunement , integrating authenticity and authority , the role ...
Jun 14, 2021•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 27
What does it really mean to ‘hold space?’ What is the opposite of ‘holding space?’ Is this something we can teach, and if so, how might we? Heather is a group facilitator, deep thinker-feeler, and space-holder I’ve admired for some time, and in this episode, we dive into what it truly means to be a ‘bowl,’ and not a ‘mould;’ to liberate through space, not hijack. Exploring some of the core questions Heather sits with every day, and brings to her work in teaching the art of space holding, we touc...
May 31, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 26
In today's episode, I dive a little into the process of taking pause and sensing invitations . More specifically, I share a little of my process in taking pause in the last 4 months, the invitation, and newfound commitment to the show that has arisen. It is a shorter practice episode sharing my re-commitment to the show, a refined thread of inquiry I'll be pulling, and an opportunity to be gifted 3 x 1-hour 1:1 Depth-work sessions with yours truly. As a way of connecting with you all, I've share...
May 18, 2021•27 min
In this episode, Paul Austin and I explore the Third Wave of psychedelic use and its role in evolving consciousness, restoring relationship, and living in paradox. Paul is the founder of The Third Wave , committed to re-normalising psychedelics in our fragmented and Newtonian world, offering ways to re-integrate these medicines in healthy, reverent and effective ways. As tools for rewilding our psyches, and moving beyond tameness that often has us other aspects of self and world, how might we en...
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 25
If we are to thrive - personally and collectively - in the 21st century, we are asked to unlearn and relearn ways of knowing and being that are more congruent with our ecologies and the natural systems we are a part of. We are also asked to remember and honour the wisdom of our Indigenous cultures as we look for ways of belonging together and to the more-than-human world. In this episode, Louka and I explore what it means to broaden our epistemologies, take responsibility for our own journey of ...
Nov 02, 2020•55 min•Ep. 24
Satish Kumar is a former Jain monk, Indian British activist and speaker, as well as the Founder of Schumacher College in Devon. We met 6 years ago at a private retreat of teachers, guides and stewards committed to restoring a regenerative future — his humility, zest for life, gentleness and conviction in his activism has inspired me since. In this episode we explore what it means to become a pilgrim of life and infuse our activism with the sacred; what inner, social and ecological peace look lik...
Oct 26, 2020•58 min•Ep. 23
What a delight! In this conversation, I connect and dance with Nina Simons, Co-Founder and Relationship Strategist at Bioneers. A movement, community and media platform I’ve admired and relished over the past years, committed to healing relationship to our ecologies, the sacred and beloved community. In this time, noticing our tendency towards the light, toward the neatly-woven, the linear, and toward the “masculine," we explore what a feminine-inflected or heart-led paradigm of leadership might...
Oct 19, 2020•57 min•Ep. 22
In today’s episode, we have the honour of connecting with East Forest, hearing some of his heartfelt stories and practices for listening to the muse, and partnering with sound as a healing agent on his own path home. As someone who I’ve admired and sat in meditation or ceremony with many times in the past 2 years, it was an absolute gift to dive into live-dialogue with East. We explore the ancient role of music and sound in welcoming the invisible aspects of our fleshly lives, how building a rel...
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 21
To ground some of our explorations in recent conversations, join me for a short and succinct look at how mindfulness practices help us contribute to not only our personal liberation but to broader social reform. I also share an “architecture of mindfulness meditation” as a simple tool for arriving in your own practice, understanding the foundations for retraining attention and building choicefullness. These episodes are designed as a way to explore more of the theory, technique and practices sup...
Oct 05, 2020•23 min•Ep. 20
Movement is a universal language that not only supports us in bodying ourselves, moving through trauma and cohering our body-minds, but also accessing ways to be in relationship with others and the more-than-human. Melissa has been a dear friend and guide on my own path to wholeness and it was such an honour to dive into a dancing-dialogue together. Supporting us in our journey to embodiment and bodying more of ourselves as leaders and stewards of the emerging future, we explore why and how move...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 19
What does it truly mean to reclaim our emotions, to live in integrity with our inner and outer lives in congruence? Not only supporting men in their path of healing and renewal, what does this look like as we as a culture come into community congruence? Dan is the Co-Founder at EVRYMAN and has spent many years stewarding a more integrated masculinity. We touch on the cultural forces at play and balancing both compassion and courage in owning our work as men in restoring a culture that supports a...
Sep 22, 2020•57 min•Ep. 18
Whether you’re leading an organisation, team, or not, we’re all leading in many ways - in our lives, our loves and our work. Maybe, it’s the claiming of our role as stewards and leaders that is in many ways our step into being of service with integrity. Honouring the impact our very being-in-the-world has on our concentric circles of relationship. Christine is an executive coach, alchemist and advocate for regenerative leadership and culture. Both with a vision for a world where the words ‘love,...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 17
When money is remembered as energy, we begin to relate to it with reverence, with choice. Joshua Ackman is the former Head of Co-Investment at River Capital and is an “impact” investor I admire for his intentionality and somewhat Tantric relationship to capital - a man who is known for speaking the words love, spirit and money all in the one sentence. In our conversation, we explore what an integrated approach to investing that includes the ‘irrational,’ emotional, and relational might look like...
Sep 02, 2020•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 16
Another queer brother from abroad, Day is internationally known for his work using Morning Altars to inspire thousands around the world to renew their relationship to nature, creativity and impermanence through ritual and the practice of Earth art. Diving into some of the threads of our cultural imagination keeping us at odds with our own wholeness, Day and I explore themes of impermanence, queering masculinity and non-binary ways of being in lived relationality with uncertainty and mystery. In ...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 15
In a world where it can seem we have lost touch with what it means to be together, to live, work, and grow in community, practices to remember and recondition our relational patterns seem crucial. Rich is a Co-Founder of Enspiral , The Hum , and a brilliant thinker and facilitator when it comes to re-thinking social systems, designing spaces for meaningful culture, and practical ways to re-build community from the ground up. Join us as we explore questions of building " micro-solidarity ,” circl...
Aug 12, 2020•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 14
There is much that happens in teams, relationships, and our lives that words simply cannot touch. There is much that we experience in our lives that without alternative tools to touch, we remain distant to and fragmented by. Join me in this rich dialogue with Spencer Honeyman as we explore the necessity of rhythm, music, improv-theatre, and other creative practices to give voice to the transpersonal and invisible dimensions of leadership and culture. We explore the “subtle energy competency” wit...
Aug 04, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 13
If we are come to live and lead in a way that truly nourishes life, allows for creativity to flourish, and mends our relationship with both place and people, integrating opposites and learning to live at the threshold of polarities is crucial. John Wolfstone and I embark on a wild journey here from an adolescent leadership to a more integrated, humble, and reverent leadership. Touching on many nuanced and subtle threads of what it means to embrace our brokenness, transition to adulthood, and exi...
Jul 27, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 12
Guiding our communities to greater coherence requires leaders less armed with strategies and techniques, but with the courage of the heart to navigate and move with the broader complexities of human experience. Rob is someone I’ve admired from afar for his nuanced and articulate understanding and insight into navigating paradox, participatory leadership and facilitating regenerative social spaces. In this conversation we explore the roots of inadequacy, the paradox of completeness and the founda...
Jul 10, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 11
Join me for a 20-minute guided meditation and reflection on what can be carried forth with you into this next epoch in time, post-COVID19. What did you notice during this time that you might like to leave behind? What might serve you to bring forth? What is the quality or the essence of your being-in-the-world in this next chapter? We'll take some time, sense into the discerning self and reflect with curiousity and compassion. -- Show-notes and links here Connect with me on Instagram Connect wit...
Jul 05, 2020•26 min•Ep. 10
In this time we are asked to walk the "twin-trail,” to balance the necessity for action in the world, as well as take responsibility for that which our current climate is reflecting within ourselves. Jessica is the founder at MEISOU, a brand supporting people in embedding rituals of mindfulness and meaning into their everyday life. As a Brazilian women, global traveller and mindfulness facilitator in-training at UCLA, I’ve always admired her ability to honour her internal landscape and integrate...
Jun 30, 2020•55 min•Ep. 9
Acknowledging the fragility, tenderness and humility required in this time, Mac is someone I admire for his ability to form relationships across cultures and generations on order to bridge worlds. He has worked with Indigenous elders over many years and has incredible insight and experience in forming mutually-beneficial relationships so as to form genuine alliances rooted in reverence. I share this conversation in this time, as we explore what it means to be in relationship with who Mac’s guide...
Jun 15, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 8
