8 episodes
Weaving the Future Robyn McLean
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This podcast is a how to guide for transforming ourselves, our communities and society. Many of us have acknowledged the pressing need for change in the world - we notice the fear, the conflict, the waste, the gross inequity, the impending effects of climate change. And many of us also ask...What can we do? Where do we start? We reflect on these questions at a deep level and identify practical next steps to help all of us be part of the change we want to see in the world. Listen in for insight into global social movements, systems change, and how to create a more sustainable and regenerative future.
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Imagining an economic system that would support our ideal everyday lives
Use this link to send us thoughts or questions!The Weaving the Future Podcast aims to foster conversation and tangible insights on how we can live and work in ways that are aligned, sacred, equitable and joyful. Every month, we start by taking some time to frame and get some shared understanding of a topic, followed by a group discussion centred around questions that are emerging, interesting or challenging.This episode kicks off a regular monthly schedule of community discussions, which are ...
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Where do we start? Systems Level
Use this link to send us thoughts or questions!This episode was recorded back in June 2022. Happy to share it now, as we are rebooting this podcast.We talked about starting from a belief that the system we live in CAN change, and staring with: Comprehensive visionUnderstand what holds the problem in placeComprehensive and collective actionWork with emergence
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Reboot Episode: How can we live and work in radically different ways?
Use this link to send us thoughts or questions!Weaving the Future Podcast is a passion project birthed at the height of the pandemic, and the podcast episodes I released at this time are very close to my heart. They capture deep reflections on the kind of world I want to live in and my role in shaping it. The podcast has mostly been on hiatus over the past few years as I grappled with some massive changes in my life. In the background, I have actively continued to live the questions that have...
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Where do we start? Relationship level
Use this link to send us thoughts or questions!We are all craving lives that are more authentic, connected, wild, sacred, in touch with our personal power and expression, collaborative, joyful. Lives that are equitable, where we look after each other. Lives that have more ritual, dance, celebration, expression, compassion, stillness, sensuality, awareness, and alignment.But where do we start? We will dig into this question together in a 3-part series of rich community conversation...
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Where do we start? Individual level
Use this link to send us thoughts or questions!I’ll present a list of things to consider, to learn about, or to practice in order to help understand and work toward the change we need to see in the world. Honestly, I get frustrated when I see too much individual focus where there, but obviously our society is made up of individuals who all need to start somewhere? So what can we do? Overall, I suggest the idea of living the questions, rather than trying to have all the answers.In this ep...
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[PRACTICE]: Guided visualization for transforming ourselves and society
Use this link to send us thoughts or questions!This is a guided visualization, meant to help our bodies, minds and spirits tune into a vision for society, connecting with others, expressing our inner voice and gifts, and the reflecting on what healing might be helpful for getting there.This visualization came to me as a “soul download” after doing some breath work during a period that I was working on this project quite a bit. I was surprised, since I had been taking more of an intellectual a...