This week I had the great pleasure of speaking with Anthony James, who is the host of the Regen Narration Podcast which focuses on the regeneration of life on this planet. This conversation was the meeting of two ‘meta-nodes’ discussing much from across the range of people that we have both talked to on our respective podcasts.

The topic of systems came up - those that are serving and those that are not serving us. Anthony spoke about how development involves a period of unravelling and the gentle stripping of old frameworks to reveal dissolutions as well as the need to be solid in the wilderness within.

He also shared a beautiful story from Archie Rose about the elders that are sitting around the campfire waiting for us to come home – a theme that has significant meaning throughout this conversation.

This was a fantastically delicate but powerful and strong conversation with a lot of humour - particularly listen out for Anthony talking about lasting change.

If you regularly attend or participate in an ‘alternative healing modalities’ or are drawn to searching further ‘within’ then the content of this episode is important for you to take on board.

This week, we go further into the world of spiritual and psychological emergencies with a presentation of the findings from a recent qualitative research project that explored the experiences of people here in Western Australia that have been through such an experience.

The research was conducted by Bryn with help from a number of ‘like-concerned’ friends.

The presentation shares some of the emerging patterns from the research and sheds some light into naturally occurring human growth experience.

Following the presentation there is a Q&A in which the exploration continues from the ensuing discussion.

If you wish to get in touch as a result of listening to this please feel free to email me at [email protected]

This week’s conversation with Roslyn Snyder is all about patterns – the patterns that underpin the human experience and patterns of nature.

Roslyn takes time to talk through Realm Theory that sets the framework of understanding for patterns she’s noticed across her life, vast studies and 20+ years as a practising Clinical Psychologist.

Throughout the conversation, she gives plenty of examples to provide the context for deeper understanding of how it all comes together.

It’s rare to find someone who works at this meta level of connection and who can see such deep patterns; patterns that have been understood and shared for hundreds and thousands of years previously in indigenous cultures. Indeed, Roslyn talks about how she’s not only captured the pattern mathematically but has also sang and danced the patterns.

This is a very deep conversation but right now I personally believe that this is a level of thinking and sensemaking that is missing from the overall conversation that directs where we’re going in the human experience.

How has COVID impacted our connection with one another?

This is the focus of this weeks conversation with Emma Gibbens who, based on her previous work as a political campaigner, now holds space for deeper searching conversations on a range of topics.

In this exploratory conversation we got into the need for boundaries; how social media has impacted the relationship between community, the market and government; we question the underlying structure of many assumptions that we connect upon; and we also consider how connection will differ, particularly for countries like the US and UK, as we come out of COVID.

Emma is obviously a bright and passionate lady, which produced a hugely thought provoking conversation.

The focus of this week's conversation is about how organisations, whether private or governmental, stretch forwards into what is possible rather than snapping back to the ‘old normal’ in this post COVID world.

I explore this with Andy Lamb, an experienced organisational disruption consultant who specialised in unlocking creativity within businesses.

What makes this conversation super interesting is its fractal nature in that Andy started by noticing small changes that he needed to make himself on a personal level, and then spotted the patterns that emerged applying them to larger organisations in his work.

We also dived how to remain open to learning, complexity, ecosystems, and much, much more.

While on the surface this might seem like a very heavy topic, Andy is a super articulate guy and he's tonnes of fun to talk to, which makes this a very approachable conversation that will lightly provoke quite deep thought.

What is the opposite of complexity?

That is the starting question from which I explored complexity in this wonderful conversation with the wise owl and elder that is Rod Griffiths.

Just what is complexity? Can it be defined or is it felt?

In exploring complexity, we went through many areas in this conversation ranging from beauty in design, existentialism, aesthetics, the role of our nervous system, as well as how we actively move away from complexity and why we protect ourselves from it.

We live in a highly complex world, something COVID has painfully revealed to us.

We also talked about surrendering to complexity and just being in it, as opposed to restlessly needing to do something.

This is a fantastically gentle yet deep conversation that has so much to offer as we continue to face an uncertain, complex, ever changing and ambiguous world.

Dating is broken - that is the real-life observation that returning guest Dr. Kate Raynes-Goldie is fixing with Lovego, a very clever combination of play and Lego that is designed to help those in the dating scene find a deeper and more meaningful relationship quicker and in a way that is more transparent to the deeper aspects of ourselves.

In this fun and playful discussion, Kate shares her real-life journey that brought together the mix of play, Lego and dating together.

We also broadened out the conversation to focus on the general state of human connection and the barriers to that.

NOTE: Kate is currently launching Lovego and she offering all ‘Badass Professional’ Lady WA Real Listeners the opportunity to work with her personally to journey further into their dating with Lovego; all you have to do is email her at: [email protected]

Whether you're currently dating or generally in need of greater quality human connection, there’s plenty in this discussion for you.

For more info go to: lovegomethod.com

This week, I had a fantastic conversation with a young gentleman called Joseph Andrin about death; not just death in terms of the end of life, but death in terms of the end of ideas, or stories or narratives that we might tell ourselves.

In this conversation, we talked about letting go, the process of letting go, about actually sitting and being with death and how death can question our identity as a source of its greatest growth.

Joseph is a fantastic person to talk to; he's very thoughtful and considered. He is very transparent with his emerging thought process as he shares it.

Also, there is an extra 10 minutes after the end of the conversation about the stories of death that we told ourselves probably before the period of rational enlightenment and how those mythical stories now play into our rational scientific view of the world.

When was the last time that you actively went out to meet a stranger? To expand your perspective, to truly listen to and engage with other people?

Meet Alex Waters, who set himself the challenge of having 100 coffees with 100 strangers throughout the year in 2020.

Alex shares his journey throughout the challenge and talks about how it brought a new sense of humility to him, how he learned to receive feedback, how he really zoned in on his own listening and the importance of human connection, as well as just undertaking a challenge for no other reason that you feel called to.

Alex gets raw and candid about his journey, which makes it a fantastic, fun and engaging conversation.

Hopefully, it might just inspire you to go out and meet strangers and expand your own network and perspective.