A mix to honour this moment in the Earth's cycle.

Tunes spanning 35 years, a few that were mainstays in my box of vinyl back in the late 90's. In the company of some more recent beauties.

Big love to the amazing artists, producers and creators of these sonic gifts. Full tracklist on site.

This is a 120-122 bpm groove. For honouring the Sun, love, life, grief and joy of being alive on Spaceship Earth right now.

And the possibility of dancing our ways into more beautiful and peaceful future.

A big summer salute to the cuckoos of Dartmoor who also appear in the intro.

One from the archives! Twenty three years ago - a vinyl mix in the shed at Space.FM in East London

Deep tech-house vibes

Introducing the Annual 2024 - and the official Episode 100 of the Spaceship Earth Podcast.

A reflection of the year gone by with a nod to what it might be showing us about the future that is unfolding.

A curation of the highlights of 2024 on the podcast, it features clips, reflections, insights and learnings from many of the episodes.

It’s not exhaustive, not every guest is featured but I’ve included clips that felt to me to be fertile, wise and vital insights for these times we are travelling in.

So if you are a regular listener I hope this captures some of the highlights for you and you might appreciate the reflections and insights we share.

If you are new to the podcast I hope this gives you a flavour of what we’re doing here and inspires you to dig into these conversations and episodes more deeply and jump into the becoming crew community

We’ve put a lot of time into creating this episode, I recommend putting the headphones on or turning up the speakers.

It's a sonic adventure.

This episode features sections from about 20 conversations across 2024 in just over 2 hours.

I have curated these through the following themes which were alive in 2024 and we are carrying into the podcast and the becoming crew offerings for the journey ahead:

1. The importance and possibilities of non-ordinary experiences through nature based rites of passage and rituals

2. Decolonising and growing post-capitalist realities

3. Practice-driven change for ways through the divisiveness and violence of these times

4. Honouring death, grief and composting our shit as vital regenerative practices

5. Shifting our relationality, seeing the natural world from transactional to sacred

6. Imagining and Re-membering alternative futures

7. The Future is Local - we can network for the rest

8. Centering the young/Intergenerational by Design

9. Now is the Time for Crews

Finally we'd love to hear your thoughts to help us shape the next year of the Spaceship Earth Podcast.

We want to keep crafting the offering to stay useful and relevant in these challenging and emerging times.

Your feedback helps us to understand where folks are at with the podcast in its current form.

It will take about 10 mins of your time and we'd be so grateful for your feedback.

LINKS

Our listener Survey - We’d so value your inputs in helping us shape the next chapter for the Podcast

Into the Dark - Our Winter Community Adventure - Join us

Into the Dark - a deep, slow, wintery, sonic meander, through ambient electronic melancholy into deep house.

Sounds and tracks that I’m finding connection and curiosity with in these darker, colder times of breakdown, reflection, exploration and dreaming towards the light.

Tracklist on podcast website

I hope you enjoy it.

If you walk with it, run with it, sit with it, drive with it, cook with it.

Dance with it

It’s been a year since the last Earth Sessions mix.

I finally got it together to record this.

Mixed live in my garden studio while humanity continues to implode.

Violence, suffering and despair spilling over on this Earth.

These last few weeks have been overwhelming.

But I remember today the power of music and dancing as one way to move the body and mind through dark times

Heart vibes, to connect to a deeper source within and to unite into new ways of being.

This mix signals the crossing of a threshold into darker mysterious times, towards winter.

To acknowledge the Celtic festival of Samhain (a few days ago) pronounced Sow (as in Cow)Inn

A time for dropping into mystery, decay, shedding, breaking down, letting go and composting.

Going dark and in deep in preparation for seeding new life.

Love in cycles.

This is an offering for this moment.

It’s deep, dark, trippy, fairly pumping, emotional.

Play in the dark, loudly.

For running, dancing, crying and moving through darker times.

Respect to all the producers featured in this mix.

Thank you for your beautiful sonic offerings.

Full tracklist on site

This episode has been created to honour ‘The Remix’ - our recent 3 month experiential (un)learning adventure for story rebels hosted by becoming crew.

The Remix set out to explore the power of cultural stories in these times, and not in a shiny, universal, human-centered way.

It was an invitation into a deep, creative, relational inquiry  - exploring the cultural stories we live by while at the same time re-entangling ourselves back into the vast web of life  - the world we have not made.

An intentional space to explore the intelligence, interconnectedness, kinship and mystery of life on this Earth and how that might shape and inform our creative practices, projects, the stories we carry and our ways of being in these times of great unravelling.

37 crew from 8 countries participated, guided by Dan Burgess and fellow guides Evva Semenowicz, Mark Sears, Mark De'Lisser,  and Kamara Venner.

We were joined along the way by 7 guest teachers, Bayo Akomolafe, Paddy Loughman, Phoebe Tickell, Felipe Viveros, Jay Griffiths, Easkey Britton and Sophie Strand.

Together we weaved a peer supported action learning community, cultivating deep entanglement practices with the more than human world in the places we call home,  participating in creative challenges and experiments while considering - How might our stories help to seed and grow life-sustaining cultures ?

This episode is an audio artefact of the journey, it weaves contributions from all our guests, guides and participants, it is a memory bank for us, to remember the wisdom, connections and learning we received.

We recommend headphones for this one.

Full show notes via

https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast

Episode 75 is a reflective ramble in the woods from me your podcast host Dan Burgess.

There are no guests (apart from wind, trees, a buzzard and a pigeon)

The episode marks an end to this season of recordings and also to the format of conversations this year.

And brings a pause in episodes until early Autumn.

For me this episode was a chance to honour some shifts, reflect deeply, and to try and speak from my heart intelligence.

So this is a spontaneous, personal honest, open, vulnerable, meandering, reflective share.

And some of my opinions on this moment in time.

Firstly where I find myself with my own inquiring, work and the context we find ourselves in at this moment as climate breakdown becomes seemingly impossible to ignore.

How I am deepening my own learning, practices and offerings through deeper relational intentionality with the more than human world, including the impact of a recent Vision Quest I completed and participation as a co-learner in a new 18 month learning journey exploring ‘Kincentric Leadership’.

And how all this is shaping the future of the podcast, the work I offer to others and the work of Becoming Crew.

Finally I wanted to reflect on my key takeouts and learnings from the podcast conversations with my amazing guests this year and why they feel important and really useful for these times we are facing into.

I also share what next for the podcast in the Autumn (loads) and from Becoming Crew.

To be honest I recorded this episode for me, but I hope you find something in it for you, let us know, we’d love to hear from you.

A big thanks to all the guests, contributors and our crew for making this podcast happen and to all our beautiful listeners for supporting us.

This episode contains two short audio essays from Christina Williams, a writer exploring the pathways that can connect us more deeply with the more-than-human world.

She is passionate about complexity, systems change, and how narrative shifts can drive movements for change.

Christina took part in The Remix 2023, our Stories for Life themed learning journey from Becoming Crew.

She is based in Amsterdam.

https://newfutures.substack.com/

https://stories.life/

https://www.becomingcrew.com/

This episode is a basecamp crew conversation between Dan and fellow Becoming Crew guides Evva Semenowicz and Mark Sears.

It speaks to this moment in time, where planetary boundaries are being crossed, Earth system tipping points are approaching, climate and ecological breakdown is being experienced all over western societies and yet the culture of denial, divisiveness and inaction is still dominant in government, media, and corporates.

What is true and what is real ?

What will it take for more people with influence to step fully into this moment and begin to step into service to life on our home planet, for a sense of collective action to spread ?

We speak especially to the inaction in organisations and business, beyond their own agendas, why are orgs still so passive when it comes to responding to these crises, when the very conditions that enable their businesses to function are unravelling fast.

We unpack ‘What’s Yours to Do?’ - a new one day offer from Becoming Crew to support organisations to begin to step into this new reality and cultivate courage for their own unique forms of activism and participation towards halting the destruction of our living Earth and accelerate the shift towards life-sustaining cultures.

Recorded in a meadow in Somerset at sunset on a very dry June day the conversation picks up from our last session in Episode 63 in January, reflects on the launch of The Remix - (un)learning adventure for story rebels and then into this moment and what is being called for from business and organisations and our offer of What’s Yours to Do ?

https://www.becomingcrew.com/1day

How might we make a habit of moving into uncomfortable spaces to begin cultivating new ways of being?

What stories would the living world share if they had a seat at the table?

What does a business in service to planet Earth look like?

How might business unite behind forms of activism that can benefit the whole of society ?

Matt Hocking is an extraordinary force of nature, a generous and humble being who has dedicated himself to serving our planet.

As a designer, curator and connector he has channelled his energy into the creation of forward thinking, ecologically inspired, design agency Leap; developing Goodfest, a gathering for creative change makers in Cornwall, and as an ambassador for BCorp, encouraging more creative businesses to join the movement.

Matt is a galvanising individual, a catalyst for interesting journeys and an advocate for challenging our settled concepts of 'sustainabilty'.

In a little pocket of ancient woodland in Bath, Smallcombe Woods, Dan invites Matt in the company of two ancient oaks, surrounded by the aroma of wild garlic and the pitter patter of rain drops to delve into an exploration of Matt’s service to planet Earth and their common threads of inquiry.

The conversation weaves many threads

A reflection on the state of Britain’s natural world as a result of an ingrained colonial destructive and separation logic.

The importance of a sharing economy beyond material things

Appreciation for Goodfest, in creating a space where youth wisdom sits alongside elder wisdom.

Bringing the voices of the living world into our discussions on climate action,

The dance of perfect imperfection along the journey to new, creative imaginings

How businesses can take courageous action towards systemic change.