Dr. Ernesto Sirolli is one of the world' s leading consultants on the topic of economic development. He started working in the field of International Aid in Africa in 1971 and has since worked in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, Latin America and Asia in projects that promote local entrepreneurship and local self determination. Dr. Sirolli resides in California, USA where he was invited to establish the Sirolli Institute, a social enterprise that teaches: - civic leaders to capture the passion energy and imagination of their own citizens - corporations to empower local entrepreneurs to create local wealth - entrepreneurs to form passionate teams capable to transform dreams into viable enterprises. Dr. Sirolli received a Laurea di Dottore in Political Sciences from Rome University in 1976 and a Ph.D in Local Enterprise Facilitation from Murdoch University, Australia in 2004. Dr. Ernesto Sirolli received The 2016 IOEE International Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship Education at the House of Lords in London. Dr. Sirolli is the author of two books: "Ripples from the Zambezi" a best seller that is used by Economic Development Faculties in Universities the world over, and :"How to start a business and ignite your life" a book aimed at would be entrepreneurs. In 2012 Dr. Sirolli was invited to give a TED TALK ; his talk :"Shut up and Listen" has been translated in 31 languages and downloaded more than 3.8 million times.

Dr. Ernesto Sirolli is one of the world' s leading consultants on the topic of economic development. He started working in the field of International Aid in Africa in 1971 and has since worked in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, Latin America and Asia in projects that promote local entrepreneurship and local self determination. Dr. Sirolli resides in California, USA where he was invited to establish the Sirolli Institute, a social enterprise that teaches: - civic leaders to capture the passion energy and imagination of their own citizens - corporations to empower local entrepreneurs to create local wealth - entrepreneurs to form passionate teams capable to transform dreams into viable enterprises. Dr. Sirolli received a Laurea di Dottore in Political Sciences from Rome University in 1976 and a Ph.D in Local Enterprise Facilitation from Murdoch University, Australia in 2004. Dr. Ernesto Sirolli received The 2016 IOEE International Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship Education at the House of Lords in London. Dr. Sirolli is the author of two books: "Ripples from the Zambezi" a best seller that is used by Economic Development Faculties in Universities the world over, and :"How to start a business and ignite your life" a book aimed at would be entrepreneurs. In 2012 Dr. Sirolli was invited to give a TED TALK ; his talk :"Shut up and Listen" has been translated in 31 languages and downloaded more than 3.8 million times.

I am delighted to welcome Simon Betteridge on to survival of the kindest podcast Simon has been in healthcare chaplaincy since 2003. He worked as Chaplain at

University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust since 2004 and became lead

chaplain & Bereavement Service Manager in 2010. Over the last 7 years he has been involved with and led various new initiatives mainly within the community, more recently in Cornwall, where he is building a collaboration working towards a Compassionate Kernow. In 2017 he started a Compassionate Community project providing support for patients approaching the end of their life and their families, and bereavement support in the community.

In his own words, Simon describes his work.

"30 years ago I started out in youth and community work. My training had been excellent but it didn't prepare me for what it meant to build the relationships that changed my world view in such a profound way. Since then within community development, healthcare, grassroots sport, prison, and in faith groups my passion has been to enable all people to have a voice, and experience life in all its fullness. I've had the privilege of seeing people of many different backgrounds flourish, overcoming inequities, prejudice, illness, isolation and much more.

While out for a walk a man stopped me and said "are you Simon?" He went on to thank me for saving his life 25 years ago. I had supported him through a brief sentence in a YOI and helped him build a different path for his life. He'd never been in trouble again and had a wonderful family. In a different context, an elderly lady living with COPD had not been out of her other than to visit hospital for 7 years. Along with others living with COPD she helped create a new community where those who had become isolated and experienced very poor wellbeing, to live again. The last two years of her life were transformed including going on holiday with her family.

Being given a voice that matters and the power to decide the "so what" is transformative, it enables reconciliation and restoration within families, local communities, and wider society. I'm now working on a new initiative in Cornwall aiming to build a new Compassionate Community partnering grassroots sport, the local church, business, and other VCSE groups."

It can be quite hard to understand that emotions play a fundamental role in our evolutionary biology. This is mainly because emotional science historically focused on the negative aspects of emotions such as anger and fear. Dacher Keltner paid a second visit to the podcast with the publication of his excellent new book Awe.

We have difficult emotions which cause us all kinds of problems, but they can also be seen in a prosocial, evolutionary light. Fear and anger can help to save us in a life threatening situation. Love, friendship and wonderment, or as Dacher calls it, awe, help to bind us human beings together, and we really need that right now, given the state of the world.

Dacher is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, who directs the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab.He is the founder and faculty director of the Greater Good Science Center, and host of the podcast The Science of Happiness.

Training in science is built on theory and evidence. The hope is that scientific theory turns into reproduceable results. In the case of medicine, finding evidence is the search for the holy grail. Bu the ivory towers of academic practice often do not sit easily in the muddy waters of the world of day to day clinical medicine. Our guests today found a different way of helping people with life limiting illness through finding ways of communicating outside of the clinical setting. Dr Sammy Winemaker, Associate Clinical Professor in Family Medicine at McMaster University, Canada. She is a practicing palliative care clinician, educator and podcaster, having started the Waiting Room Revolution, along with our second guest, Professor Hsien Seow.

Hsien is a distinguished academic in the field of palliative care research. He is Chair of the Canada Palliative Care and Health System Innovation and Professor in the Department of Oncology at McMaster University. Dissatisfied with the pace of influence of research findings being translated into clinical care, he joined Sammy to use the Waiting Room Revolution as a tool for public engagement, helping people to be more prepared when receiving a life limiting illness diagnosis. Together, Hsien and Sammy have written their excellent book Hope For the Best, Plan for the Rest. They also run an excellent podcast – The Waiting Room Revolution https://www.waitingroomrevolution.com

The themes of belonging, community and urban regeneration, well known to the listeners of Survival of the Kindest Podcast, are central to the work of this week's guest, Dr Sophie Yarker, recommended by Dr Simon Lennane.

Sophie is a Research Fellow based in the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing, working on the Ageing in Place in Cities project.

She has a PhD in Human Geography which looked at the nature and extent of local belonging and attachment to place in the context of urban regeneration.

Her research interests are around how we can build more inclusive urban neighbourhoods particularly in the context of urban regeneration and population change. These interest are focused around three main themes;

- Collaborative and inclusive forms of urban development

- Social innovation within the community and voluntary sector

- Conceptualising local neighbourhoods and feelings of belonging and attachment to local communities

Carey Sipp

To be fully present, to make best use of the incredible potential we all possess, to make the most of what it is to be human, we need a deep sense of belonging and connection. This is something that arises out of our family, our friends and our community. Too often, the development of these deep trusting relationships is marred by traumatic experiences of childhood. But these experiences do not define the people who have them. None of us want to be judged by anything other than the best parts of ourselves. People with adverse childhood experiences are not defined by them.

Carey Sipp found the truth of this through her own story. She recognised her positive childhood experiences as well as her adverse ones. She went on to become the strategic director of Positive and Adverse Childhood Experiences Connect (PACES Connect) and describes herself as " a disrupter of multi-generational cycles of trauma and addiction. Just one generation of trauma-free humans can end poverty."

Neil was a school teacher, and an extraordinary one at that. I know he was a great teacher because my 3 children all passed through his classroom. Inspired by the remarkable educator Ken Robinson, his path to being a teacher was varied, and he put the children first, sparking their imagination and looking after their welfare as the most important thing to do. Schools should be nourishing places of belonging, because each child will become an adult, and if we want our communities to flourish, learning how to do this has to start early in life!

For this episode of Survival of the Kindest, we welcome Christian Ntizimira, who has been doing remarkable work in Rwanda, developing palliative care through making use of the most precious of resources, the community. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the African Centre for Research on End of Life Care. A Fulbright Alumni who graduated from Harvard Medical School his career includes time at Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, City Cancer Challenge Foundation, and the Rwanda Palliative Care and Hospice Organization (RPCHO). He has recently published a fantastic book on communication with families in the context of end of life, called The Safari Concept.

Charlie Herzog Young is a climate activist and author of Spinning Out, his new book, which explores his journey navigating climate change and mental health issues which affected him from his early years onward. Charlie makes the explicit what many of us experience, that of nihilistic feelings about the inevitable progression of climate breakdown. And not just this. The nihilism is worsened by those in power who place self interest above the welfare of everyone else, including plants and animals. This sense of depression about the world ended up precipitating a mental health crisis, resulting in a serious suicide attempt, which in itelsf resulted in a double amputation of his legs. Charlie has found an answer in climate activism in multiple forms, including his excellent new book.