WorldWild Podcast

How can we work within the wounds of severance to bring repair to the trauma-induced damage of people and planet?  Gail, one of the Co-Founders of Extinction Rebellion, and Miles walk from Brantham, Suffolk, to the nearby Stour estuary on a cold grey January morning. They chat about XR and protest, birdwatching, body politics, humans as a keystone species, psychedelics, and cultural change. After some time spent with the low-flying knots at the water, Miles and Gail forage some ingredients for lunch as they make their way back to the village.  As they cook and eat together, they ask what community practices we need for a kinder future. Gail is a Co-Founder of Extinction Rebellion. Her time is spent supporting people and actions to help us all meet the unfolding collapse of modernity. Dedicated to spreading dignity and freedom, reclaiming people power, and unifying with our global family, her activism has been a source of inspiration for many. Her doctorate is in molecular biophysics.   Here is a Greenbelt talk referred to in their conversation: https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/product/the-religion-we-need-next/ [https://www.greenbelt.org.uk/product/the-religion-we-need-next/]   Here are some of the books that they mention: Hospicing Modernity - Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive - Kristen J. Sollee At Work in the Ruins: Finding Our Place in the Time of Climate Crises and Other Emergencies - Dougald Hine The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World - Iain McGilchrist The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity - David Graeber and David Wengrow   Please, fund Gail’s work [https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gailbradbrook]if you can Updates about her work via telegram [https://t.me/+i4zNgXH_oDc4YjM0] Gail’s latest talk [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLojacR5ZAY], So Now What [https://buymeacoffee.com/gailbradbrook/so-now-what]blog, Just Transition [https://buymeacoffee.com/gailbradbrook/the-leadership-able-bring-just-transition] blog, Lifehouse [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ATXfN7aGa6-uFVRMr-ZJYS9eQ3NkQU_rwqXOAYmK3ko/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.e7y9sk8mf0s4]-Collapse Preparing Communities work

In this third and final episode with Dan Siegel, the journey back to Oxford centres around religion and what Dan describes as ‘communities of connection’. What new forms will emerge in future and how can we participate in fostering that emergence?

Dan and Miles start their walk in the Oxfordshire countryside contemplating access restrictions to land and the humble stinging nettle. The conversation moves on to the innate need for belonging but also the problematic reality that in group outgroup distinctions appear to also be innate. The question then arises as to whether our ingroup category can be extended to include not just all humanity but all living beings…   Visit: www.worldwild.org.uk [http://www.worldwild.org.uk/]

This week Miles speaks to Dan Siegel during their journey into the Oxford countryside. Dan is an author, therapist and founder of the interdisciplinary science of Interpersonal Neurobiology. This episode, the first of 3, introduces our new format which has Miles chatting to guests as they go for a walk that includes foraging, cooking and eating a meal.   Visit: www.worldwild.org.uk [http://www.worldwild.org.uk/]

'We would have had to move around to follow these foods'. This week we are joined by returning guest and good friend of the podcast Monica Wilde, author of The Wilderness Cure (Simon and Schuster UK, 2022). Sign up to our mailing list: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/c1u1n9 [https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/c1u1n9] Visit: www.worldwild.org.uk [http://www.worldwild.org.uk/]