Radio evolve Global

Diese Woche ist in unserem globalen und englischsprachigen Programm von Radio evolve Jay Naidoo zu Gast: .

Jay Naidoo has been at the heart of one of the biggest social change attempts of our time: the transformation of South Africa. He worked closely with Nelson Mandela to overcome the apartheid regime and, as founding General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, he was asked by Mandela to join the first post-apartheid cabinet of Mandela’s presidency. Later he became Chairman of the Development Bank of Southern Africa. In 2010, Naidoo sold off a third of his stake in his social development business and donated the proceeds to two unnamed charitable trusts to continue the work of social justice He has published his autobiography, ‘Fighting for Justice’ and more recently published his book ‘Change: Organising Tomorrow, Today.’.

His has been a personal journey from militant activist to politician to social entrepreneur and now something that goes beyond and holds it all. While Jay Naidoo still sees himself as an activist, at the same time he has found a new understanding of what it means to be a poltiical human being. The indigenous wisdom of his South African culture and many other traditional cultures has transformed his approach to activism. Spirituality, particularly indigenous spirituality, opens new questions and new approaches to creating deep change. 

In this week’s Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger talks with Jay Naidoo about why political activism needs spirituality.

Diese Woche wiederholen wir in unserer internationalen Ausgabe von Radio evolve eine Radiosendung vom letzten Jahr:

Six years ago, Rajan Venkatesh became a farmer in Sawantwadi, in Maharashtra State, India. This was a very surprising choice. Not only are farmers committing suicide in extremely high numbers because the weather and the market are devastatingly unpredictable, but Venkatesh had never been a farmer before. He is highly educated; he’s a former journalist with the Times of India and taught journalism in Mumbai and New Delhi. Moreover, for many years, he was an educator, running Bodhshala, a rural mountain village school in Uttarakhand. Deeply interested in the functioning of traditional Indian society and its livelihoods, Venkatesh is inspired by Mahatma Gandhi’s vision: what is good for the community, what strengthens it, what makes families prosperous – this has to be the curriculum, the matters to be learned or studied. To follow these principles, Venkatesh made himself a learner again and became a farmer in the Indian countryside. His insights into community building in rural India offer some tantalizing glimpses how India can survive the juggernaut of modernity with its soul and communities intact.

Radio evolve’s Thomas Steininger talks with Rajan Venkatesh about the impact of modernism on Indian society and his own Ghandian vision for communal development.

Unser Gast in der globalen Ausgabe von Radio evolve ist Stephen Busby. 

Stephen Busby works internationally as a visionary leader whose aim is to facilitate new forms of cultural emergence. Living in the Findhorn Community in Scotland, he works with individuals and organizations in Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America. Stephen has developed a powerful transformative approach called Embodying Higher Consciousness. 

But what does it mean to embody higher consciousness? This question is the driver for the conversation between Stephen and Radio evolve‘s host, Thomas Steininger. It’s not about theory. Stephen literally takes us on a consciousness journey in this dialogue. With his subtle skills, Stephen opens the dialogical field to dimensions of awareness and discrimination that are usually imperceivible to the everyday mind.

Join Thomas Steininger and this week’s guest, Stephen Busby, on a journey into embodying higher consciousness.

Ein Interview mit Otto Scharmer und Arawana Hayashi

Diese Woche senden wir wieder unsere globale und englischsprachige Ausgabe von Radio evolve:

Otto Scharmer and Arawana Hayashi make a powerful and unusual team. Each of them works with sensing and presencing the field that holds us. Otto’s pioneering research with Theory U and the Presencing Institute has opened new horizons of human creativity. Awarana is a dance artist and meditation teacher. Together

they have developed a new art form, which they call Social Presencing Theatre, a method to develop a collective perception for the social field and to build the capacity to learn how to ongoingly develop such fields. We interviewed Otto Scharmer and Arawana Hayashi together for the last issue of our German magazine evolve, which proved to be a powerful example of creating a social field.

This week on Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger shares with us this remarkable conversation with Otto Scharmer and Arawana Hayashi that in itself is a fascinating investigation into the field of social mindfulness.

Ein Gespräch mit Nicholas Janni

Diese Woche in unserem globalen und englischsprachigen Programm:

Nicholas Janni changes people. As a personal and organizational coach, he works in one of the most prominent business schools in the world — the IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland — and with executives of some of the biggest companies in the world. He also works in places like Israel-Palestine and Colombia with the cultural trauma these countries are struggling with. How can people, organizations, and cultures that are part of complex and very stuck systems open themselves to transformational change?

In this week’s edition of Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger speaks with Nicholas Janni about deep change-making in unlikely places.

Ein Gespräch mit Nicholas Janni

Diese Woche in unserem globalen und englischsprachigen Programm:

Nicholas Janni changes people. As a personal and organizational coach, he works in one of the most prominent business schools in the world — the IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland — and with executives of some of the biggest companies in the world. He also works in places like Israel-Palestine and Colombia with the cultural trauma these countries are struggling with. How can people, organizations, and cultures that are part of complex and very stuck systems open themselves to transformational change?

In this week’s edition of Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger speaks with Nicholas Janni about deep change-making in unlikely places.

Unser Gast in unserer globalen und englischprachigen Ausgabe von Radio evolve:

Nicanor Perlas powerfully paints the dramatic dilemma facing humanity today: we stand torn by, on the one hand, the advancement of an Artificial Intelligence that will surpass our collective human intelligence in the next twenty to forty years and, on the other, our individual and collective inner, albeit mostly unconscious, knowing of Spirit within and around us. Perlas is deeply alarmed by the rapid transformation of the basic principles behind our open, pluralistic society–such as autonomy and privacy–by the overwhelming power of the commercial digitalization of everything.

Nicanor Perlas is a Filipino social activist who ran for president of his country; he’s also an author and publisher. Since the late 1990s, Perlas’s focus has been on social movements and their power to change the world by educating those of us in civil society about the effects of corporate globalization. Now, in the emerging era of artificial intelligence, Perlas has been exploring how a spiritually conscious, global civil society could be the answer to protect and develop the human spirit in the age of the machine.

This week on Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger talks with Nicanor Perlas about the human spirit, artificial intelligence, and how civil society needs to become both global and conscious.

Unser Gast in unserer globalen und englischprachigen Ausgabe von Radio evolve:

Nicanor Perlas powerfully paints the dramatic dilemma facing humanity today: we stand torn by, on the one hand, the advancement of an Artificial Intelligence that will surpass our collective human intelligence in the next twenty to forty years and, on the other, our individual and collective inner, albeit mostly unconscious, knowing of Spirit within and around us. Perlas is deeply alarmed by the rapid transformation of the basic principles behind our open, pluralistic society–such as autonomy and privacy–by the overwhelming power of the commercial digitalization of everything.

Nicanor Perlas is a Filipino social activist who ran for president of his country; he’s also an author and publisher. Since the late 1990s, Perlas’s focus has been on social movements and their power to change the world by educating those of us in civil society about the effects of corporate globalization. Now, in the emerging era of artificial intelligence, Perlas has been exploring how a spiritually conscious, global civil society could be the answer to protect and develop the human spirit in the age of the machine.

This week on Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger talks with Nicanor Perlas about the human spirit, artificial intelligence, and how civil society needs to become both global and conscious.

How can we re-envision and re-embody our relatedness within the entire living ecosystem? Clearly, the divisions that we have made between ourselves as humans and the rest of life are the root of the crises that we and the planet are facing. David Abram’s life and work has been a constant re-membering of our relatedness. He breaks boundaries by making surprising connections: indigenous wisdom and Continental philosophy, a magician who confounds your perception and a writer who opens your eyes. His classic book, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World, published in 1996, launched several fields, like ecopsychology, and gave new language to express the entangled material world that all growing things are one with. He explores the big questions through a deep encounter with the potential of our humanness. How, he asks, can our capacity to sense, our animal sensuality, transform us and our world?

In this week’s Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger and David Abram explore the capacities of human perceiving and sensing to re-configure ourselves and the „more-than-human-world.“

How can we re-envision and re-embody our relatedness within the entire living ecosystem? Clearly, the divisions that we have made between ourselves as humans and the rest of life are the root of the crises that we and the planet are facing. David Abram’s life and work has been a constant re-membering of our relatedness. He breaks boundaries by making surprising connections: indigenous wisdom and Continental philosophy, a magician who confounds your perception and a writer who opens your eyes. His classic book, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World, published in 1996, launched several fields, like ecopsychology, and gave new language to express the entangled material world that all growing things are one with. He explores the big questions through a deep encounter with the potential of our humanness. How, he asks, can our capacity to sense, our animal sensuality, transform us and our world?

In this week’s Radio evolve, Thomas Steininger and David Abram explore the capacities of human perceiving and sensing to re-configure ourselves and the „more-than-human-world.“