by Bridget Woods | Mar 24, 2020 | Past
27 March 2020
What happens in our minds and hearts when the ground on which we stand begins to fall away, the assumptions we hold prove to be illusory and existential threats are not in some ‘other’ place in the world but right here? An unknown future brings more focus on the present which seems for me at least, to include a confusing array of emotion – joy, sorrow, confusion, relief, fury, kindness, despair, courage, a mind that races with each new piece of information and a body that just wont settle. My identity is made a little more fragile, and a little more surrendered to a cosmic unfolding I cannot fully grasp, but as the daily grind is paused and old habits suspended, I can sometimes sense the birth – of a brave new world. Sarah and I look forward to hosting our first fully virtual Gaia’d conversation and look forward to meeting you there to compare notes on this birth doula boot camp!
by Bridget Woods | Jan 21, 2020 | Past
19 February 2020
How does a respected Stockholm Resilience Center scientist make sense of our continued breaching of planetary boundaries? More importantly does he have suggestions for ways we might operate within the planet’s safe operating spaces? With Planet Boundaries and the Oxfam Doughnut Economic model in mind, Per Olssen describes system entrepreneurs and the kind of agency needed to strengthen human-nature connectedness, navigate tipping points and scale positive impact innovation. He explores leadership for breaking down destructive systems, as well as for transitioning to life-oriented systems; in short, ways to reboot systems!
Professor Per Olsson leads the Stockholm Resilience Center research stream Resilience Science for Transformations. Find out more about him here.
For the cost of coffee and a croissant, join us for an in-person conversation with Per, 7am for 8am (until 9:30am) at Italos Cafe, Kildare Road, Newlands, Cape Town.
by Bridget Woods | Oct 21, 2019 | Past
Monday 20th January 2020
Derek Chittenden introduces us to Brave Earth, a self sufficient community, regenerative farm and healing art center in Costa Rica. Using regenerative design and whole systems thinking, Derek has found a home, not only for his extraordinarily beautiful bamboo structures and meeting spaces, but also for an alternative way of life.
by Bridget Woods | Oct 2, 2019 | Past
Monday 16th September 2019
The anthropocene is already ending and the novacene has begun. The starting point for this conversation is the new book from James Lovelock (of Gaia fame) – “Novacene: the coming age of hyperintelligence”. Listen to the book
by Bridget Woods | Oct 2, 2019 | Past
Monday 18th November 2019
To what extent does our fear of death compromise life? One the one hand we long to merge with nature and the cosmos, on the other, we want to be unique, apart and in control of nature. At the apex of the anthropocene and in the midst of a sixth extinction, we are called to open our hearts and minds to death and dying as an integral part of life. Join a death doula, a palliative medical practitioner and an alchemist in a conversation on this tender and critical topic.
by Bridget Woods | Aug 21, 2019 | Past
Monday 21st October 2019
From ‘take-make-waste’ towards closed systems and restorative circular economies – where ‘waste’ is ‘food’ (input or resource) for other processes or products. Case studies and links back to biomimicry life principles. Sarah Gregersen, Associate of Stockholm Resilience, leads us in this conversation.
