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Jo Hunter on Creativity, Shame and Connection - E48 Jan 17, 2019

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How can rediscovering our creativity free us to thrive?

In this episode entitled 64 Million Artists: Unlocking The Creative Potential of a Nation, Amisha meets creative consultant and entrepreneur Jo Hunter.

Jo grew up very creative, but as the pressures of adult life kicked in, like so many of us she became focused on being fast and being perfect, rather than being creative. When the hectic pace of her 'dream job' began to take its toll, Jo took a month out to slow down and reconnect. She asked people around her to set her some creative challenges, and working through them one by one she rediscovered her own creativity - her capacity to take risks and to play - and it changed her life.

Now with her organisation 64 Million Artists Jo works to help others reconnect with their own creativity. The team go into a variety of workplaces from factories to hospitals and challenge people to step out of their comfort zones and into the realm of new, playful experiences. Jo speaks about the structural, social and organisational obstacles to creativity and how we can bust through them to unleash our creative selves for the benefit of all.

"Creativity is the essence of who you are, it's absolutely connected to spirituality and the true expression of yourself. When you are not really being who you are it's an immediate blocker to being creative."~ Jo Hunter

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2019/01/17/e48-jo-hunter-on-creativity-shame-and-connection-64-million-artists-unlocking-the-creative-potential-of-a-nation/

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Johann Hari on Depression, Addiction and Connection - E47 Jan 10, 2019

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In this episode entitled Lost Connections: Finding Others Instead of Ourselves, Amisha meets author and journalist Johann Hari. Johann's best-selling book 'Chasing the Scream' is focused on addiction and the war on drugs, while his most recent publication 'Lost Connections' dives into the deeper causes and unexpected solutions for the rising tide of depression and anxiety.

Together Johann and Amisha discuss how our society and culture is failing to meet people's needs in the most basic way. They speak about the discourse of rage and humiliation that dominates our current socio-political context and the origins and impacts of our addiction to 'junk values'.

During his 30,000 mile quest to understand depression, addiction and connection Johann encountered people from all walks of life seeking to heal the epidemic of depression and anxiety. We hear stories from across the globe of communities banding together to recover collective control, meaning and connection.

"The best journeys are not where you find yourself, the best journeys are where you find other people..." ~ Johann Hari

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2019/01/10/e47-johann-hari-on-depression-addiction-and-connection/

For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/

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Amisha Ghadiali on Courage, Receptivity and Elegant Rebellion -E46 Jan 01, 2019

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How do we recognise the golden threads that weave together a full and inspired life?

In this episode entitled Understanding the Beauty of Our Worlds, our show notes writer Lucy White sits down with founder and host of the podcast Amisha Ghadiali so that you can tune into where this project has come from. Amisha shares the story of the different threads running through her life that are lovingly woven together in The Future Is Beautiful book and podcast.

What Amisha is offering with this podcast and everything she does is permission to be human, to live beyond silos and allow the different elements of our inner and outer life to be present in all we do. She is interested in the full spectrum of our experience, honouring and celebrating our challenges as well as our joy.

Together Amisha and Lucy discuss learning to embrace and enter willingly into our darkness and the collective shadows we all hold. Furthermore, how to get in touch with our core intuition in order to transform our deepest and earliest patterning - and of course how all of this can lead us to a wide open beautiful future.

"We can't create a beautiful future by bypassing everything we don't like and creating a fake utopia that sits on top of it. There's a lot of power in our darkness and that's often where the treasure is." - Amisha Ghadiali

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2019/01/03/e46-amisha-ghadiali-on-courage-receptivity-and-elegant-rebellion/

For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/

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Jem Bendell on Deep Adaptation, Climate Change and Societal Collapse -E45 Dec 21, 2018

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How can we adapt to the inevitability of climate-induced societal collapse?

In this episode entitled Acceptance and Evolution in the Face of Global Meltdown, Amisha sits down with strategist and educator Jem Bendell. Jem published a paper in July 2018 introducing the concept of Deep Adaptation and stating his belief in the inevitability of climate-induced societal collapse within the next 10 years.

Jem first became an environmentalist as a teenager in 1988 and went on to train as in climate science during his degree before moving into the field of sustainable business. Alarming data on melting ice and permafrost drew Jem back to climate science, where he soon realised that what we see today are many signs of runaway climate change, which has already gone beyond our control.

Through his work on Deep Adaptation, Jem offers three questions for humanity at this time: what do we most value, what must we let go of and what must we restore that has been lost? Jem speaks about sharing his message with school children and sustainable development professionals alike, the fascinating responses he has received to his work and the resulting existential and spiritual shifts in his own life.

"The big challenge of our time is to make sure that when our hearts break we stay open and connected and curious rather than coming up with stories to justify ourselves being violent to others that we have othered more than those closest to us." - Jem Bendell

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2018/12/27/e45-jem-bendell-on-deep-adaptation-climate-change-and-societal-collapse-acceptance-and-evolution-in-the-face-of-global-meltdown/

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For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/

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Erika Gagnon on Plant Medicine, Tobacco and The Eagle & Condor Prophecy - E44 Dec 19, 2018

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How can plant medicines help humanity to heal?

In this episode entitled Healing Wisdom of The Americas, Amisha meets Canadian Ceremonial leader & Wisdom Keeper Erika Gagnon.

Erika grew up in a typically North American cultural experience without any spiritual inclinations. She was raised in family of mixed heritage amid the separatist movement in Quebec. We hear the story of how - after reaching a crisis point in her early thirties which led to a series of transformational experiences - she connected for the first time with the Red Road, and an unexplored part of her ancestry, beginning her journey on the medicine path, which now spans almost three decades.

Together Erika and Amisha speak about how to honour the sacred medicines appropriately and the dangers and deceptions that abound in the world of plant medicine. Erika speaks about working with tobacco as a medicine for ritual and healing - and how it differs from the mainstream commercial and recreational use of tobacco. She shares her experiences of working consciously with trauma and the discordant or destructive energies that can become lodged in our bodies, in order to release and heal them.

"The sacred master plant medicines help us remember who we are, where we have come from and where we are going. They help us to enter different levels of our awareness and consciousness, to be able to access different levels of healing for our bodies, minds and spirits." ~ Erika Gagnon

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2018/12/22/e44-erika-gagnon-on-plant-medicine-indigenous-wisdom-and-the-eagle-and-condor-prophecy-healing-wisdom-of-the-americas/

For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/

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Vinay Gupta on Blockchain, Biotech and Consciousness - E43 Dec 12, 2018

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What will it take to bring world-changing technologies to the mainstream?

"What is required is not more creation, but extremely precise clinical destruction. We need the old world to die and we need to kill it...We have had 50 years of hippy good vibe activism and it hasn't solved a single problem." ~ Vinay Gupta

In this episode entitled Raising the Floor of Humanity Through Cultural Activism and Hard Capitalism, Amisha sits down with technologist, policy analyst, futurist, and global resilience expert Vinay Gupta. Vinay's life's work is to ensure the long-term survival of humanity by finding solutions to our biggest problems. Together he and Amisha speak about some of the most complex and urgent challenges humanity faces today, as well as the elegant technological and systemic solutions that are already within our grasp.

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2018/12/13/e43-vinay-gupta-on-blockchain-biotech-and-consciousness-raising-the-floor-of-humanity-through-cultural-activism-and-hard-capitalism/

For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/

Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link, https://love.allthatweare.org/membership

To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

Polly Higgins on Ecocide Law, Living Your Purpose and Earth Protection - E42 Dec 04, 2018

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How do we create a legal duty of care for the Earth?

"For me it's not about whether or not you are an environmentalist, it's about whether or not you care. If you care you can move mountains. Any mother knows this." ~ Polly Higgins

In this episode entitled Eradicating Ecocide by an Earth Lawyer, Amisha meets with author, barrister and ecocide law expert Polly Higgins.

Polly describes how she arrived to a critical choice point in her life where she came to the realisation that the Earth was in need of a good lawyer, and she knew someone for the job… in 2005 she took year out from her successful career as a barrister, and 13 years later still hasn't gone back.

In 2010 Polly proposed to the United Nations that ecocide become an international crime and since then has been working solidly on bringing this proposal into law. We hear about her mission to help finance vulnerable island states to come forward into the international criminal court, allowing ecocide law to be tabled

**** Polly left her body on April 21st 2019. Please share this episode to inspire others to continue the important work that she started. She had a dream of a million people signing up to become Earth Protectors, please do this in her honour here www.stopecocide.earth ****

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2018/12/06/e42-polly-higgins-on-ecocide-law-living-your-purpose-and-earth-protection-eradicating-ecocide-by-an-earth-lawyer/

For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/

To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

Stephen Reid on Psychedelics, Extinction Rebellion and Metamodernism - E41 Nov 29, 2018

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What is the role for psychedelics in transforming our world for the better?

In this episode entitled Reconnecting with Nature in these Urgent Times, Amisha sits down with Stephen Reid, founder of The Psychedelic Society. The society runs events and experiential retreats for a community of people interested in the psychedelic experience, as well as campaigning for the decriminalisation or declassification of certain substances to allow further research into their psychotherapeutic potential.

Stephen speaks about his belief in cognitive liberty and the disastrous effects of state control - banning certain substances while encouraging others, the rising acceptance of psychedelic substances, and what it is that makes a substance addictive.

Stephen describes the profound mystical experiences that can be achieved through psychedelics, why the long-lasting beneficial effects of these substances are less likely to be felt without such an experience, and how psychedelics can change our personality - and indeed our society - for the better.

"I don't think we are that far away from the point where it is more acceptable to consume psilocybin mushrooms than it is to eat meat." ~ Stephen Reid

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2018/11/29/e41-stephen-reid-on-psychedelics-extinction-rebellion-and-metamodernism-reconnecting-with-nature-in-these-urgent-times/

For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/

Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link, https://love.allthatweare.org/membership

Indra Adnan on New Politics, Soft Power and The Feminine - E40 Nov 22, 2018

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How can we create together a political system that supports human and planetary flourishing right in the face of our possible extinction?

"We are living in an era in which people are finding their own autonomy and their own agency and they want to express that. We are not content anymore to hand all of that over to someone else." Indra Adnan

In this episode entitled Politics is Broken. It's Time for the Alternative, Amisha Ghadiali meets psychotherapist and consultant Indra Adnan. Indra is co-initiator of The Alternative UK. Only 2% of people in the UK are members of political parties and The Alternative are working to reorient political power from within the 98%.

Indra is committed to exploring politics 'with a small p' - the world of sociopolitical culture and action outside the bubble of party politics. The alternative provides a platform to raise awareness about and provide connectivity between people who are creating value within communities particularly innovating for the environment, with a daily blog highlighting new initiatives of active citizenship.

Together Indra and Amisha speak about the revolutionary act of getting to know our neighbours, how both Mumsnet and ISIS rose to influence through the power of story, how a hashtag can change lives and why women must now step forward into the public space as a matter of urgency.

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2018/11/22/e40-indra-adnan-on-new-politics-soft-power-and-the-feminine-politics-is-broken-its-time-for-the-alternative/

For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/

Be part of AllThatWeAre community by using this link, https://love.allthatweare.org/membership

To work with Amisha one on one, visit https://amisha.co.uk/leadership/

Manish Jain on Unschooling, Gift Culture and Deep Localisation - E39 Nov 15, 2018

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How can we revolutionise learning and education to serve humans and non-humans better?

In this episode entitled Freedom From the Shackles of Education, Amisha sits down with Manish Jain - social entrepreneur, writer, thinker, and founder of the Unschooling movement in India.

Manish has founded 25 alternative university campuses in India without any startup capital, created a network of 100 radical learning centres globally, and is now persuading thousands of organisations to hire people without formal educational degrees into roles previously reserved for graduates.

We hear the story of his own schooling and unschooling, as well as the pivotal moments that led him to question some of our most deeply entrenched societal norms around economy and education.

Manish speaks about the fears that hold us back from disrupting systems that no longer serve us and what we as individuals and communities can do today, for free, to create radical shifts in education and economy. He tells of the magic that happens when we weave a field of trust in our community, why he supports 'alternative child labour, and his latest project establishing a university inside a jail.

Links from this episode and more at https://allthatweare.org/2018/11/15/e39-manish-jain-on-unschooling-gift-culture-and-deep-localisation-freedom-from-the-shackles-of-education/

For Amisha's book INTUITION - https://amisha.co.uk/intuition/

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