Who doesn't love a happy accident!? Serendipity is the unexpected thing that happens in the space between you and the world, that you have the ability to notice and take action on. In a time of many great global challenges when collectively we need all the help we can get, is there a way for each of us to intentionally create more serendipitous opportunity from seeming mishaps?  In this conversation, serendipity researcher Wendy Ross shares her thoughts on the roles of wisdom & skill, cultivated mess, attunement to the environment, time & perspective, risking failure AND having the practical and emotional resources to be able to absorb that failure, in the manifestation of the positive phenomenon that is serendipity.

Possibility Studies Network online conference January 20/21 https://www.possibilitystudies.net/2025-online
More on Wendy https://www.wendyamross.co.uk/ and https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/profiles/staff/wendy-ross/
More on Sarah https://www.humhealing.com/

"An encounter with wonder leaves us with something to wrestle with" In this conversation with David Mattson of Drexel University, he shares his insights on the phenomenon of wonder for shattering perceptions, opening doors to new possibilities, and helping us find our way to what really matters (turns out...it's each other). 

Check out David's wonderful wonder blog https://typeshare.co/wonderblog
More on the Possibility Studies Network https://www.possibilitystudies.net/
More on Sarah https://www.humhealing.com/

"The world is not just the way that we think it is." Questioning assumptions can be anxiety provoking, but possibility lives in the realm of what we don't know yet. In this conversation Vlad Glăveanu, Founder of the Possibility Studies Network, shares his thoughts around the importance of embracing "not knowing" (and all of the discomfort that comes with that) for innovation, collective change, and finding the joy and power of wonder.

More on the PSN https://www.possibilitystudies.net/

Paul Shorthouse of Circular Economy Leadership Canada gives the lowdown on how to reduce, eliminate, reuse or recover up to 50% of the carbon currently lost as waste in our cycles of production. Maybe the economy AND the environment can both win if we turn our linear mindsets, models and systems into circular ones? (PS...This is so much more than chucking the "right" thing in the recycling bin.)

More on Paul & Circular Economy Leadership Canada: Home - Circular Economy Leadership Canada
And on their blog, an article specific to the focus of this conversation Closing the Loop: How the Circular Economy Powers Climate Action - Circular Economy Leadership Canada
More on Sarah and her work on personal empowerment and transformation hum - About (humhealing.com)

How to put possibility at the center of an exploration into possibility? Simple...ask the archetypes! Working through the lens of an archetypal understanding of self, along with the powerful approach for personal inquiry that is Family Constellations, can bring great illumination into any issue. In this episode I share a family constellations approach for understanding how your dominant archetypes may be unwittingly playing against you as a part of the issues that present in your life. Includes:
-intro to archetypes
-intro to family constellations approach
-guided activities to help you use an archetypes constellation process
-how this helped me re-orient my relationship to "possibility".

Some references:
Caroline Myss "Archetypes: Who Are You?"
Carol S. Pearson "Awakening the Heroes Within"
Carl Jung "Man and His Symbols" (and other titles)
Joseph Campbell on Hero's Journey "The Hero With a Thousand Faces"
Bert Hellinger on Family Constellations "Love's Hidden Symmetry" (and other titles)

Samhain on October 31st marks the Celtic New Year, and is a time where the veils between the worlds are said to be the thinnest. What does this mean for our outer experience and for our inner one? Here I take a look at the origins of Samhain, how the customs of modern day Halloween are rooted in many of the Samhain rituals of our ancestors, and how we can make use of this kind of liminal time, crossing the thresholds of our own consciousness in to the challenging but rewarding territory of facing the shadow within. I move in to a story of the legendary Irish mythological figure Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) who, on Samhain, faces a fire breathing fire on the Hill of Tara to reclaim his rightful inheritance. The symbology of this story is rich, and like all myths, can speak deeply to our unconscious knowing.

A big thank you to storyteller Daniel Alison, for his telling of this Fionn mac Cumhaill story. See Podcast — House of Legends

We are each immersed in personal, collective and universal energetic fields, but what are these fields anyway and how do people work with them for the purposes of healing? In this conversation with Akashic Records reader Megan Sirett, we share our own insights on "the field", how we approach it, and what we can all learn from leaning in to this layer of understanding about our true natures. More on Sarah at humhealing.com and Megan at megansirett.com. 

More on Barry and his work at https://www.healingbodytherapeutics.com/

More on Sarah https://www.humhealing.com/