This offering comes from Becoming Crew Guide Mark Sears.

It is an ancient myth from the Inuit tradition.

It emerged from the back of the cave following our first session of our learning adventure The Remix and a provocation from Bayo Akomolafe. He invited us to consider the possibility of shapeshifting and the idea that it is only through strange encounters beyond our comprehension that new stories might emerge.

This is a short tale, but a deep one and it begs the question - 'what have we sent into exile that we might need to reclaim right now in our culture where we find ourselves as lonely hunters at the doorway of our huts.'

As you listen perhaps you might want to ask yourself, where do you find yourself in the story?

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What if the health of the wild waters of the Earth are a reflection of human health?

What if restoring our relationship with the wild waters on this earth was a way to restore and heal our own health ?

How might moving into a more intentional relationship with water within us and around us help us through these times of fear, grief and complexity?

How might cultivating practices and rituals with water today begin to catalyse cultural shifts towards a return of the sacredness between humans and the waters on this Earth?

Easkey Britton is a surfer, scientist, academic, social ecologist, activist, writer and artist who has dedicated her life to exploring connection with the ocean and wild waters of this Earth and understanding our human relationship with water as watery beings.

This is Easkey’s third time on the podcast and this episode is in honour of her new book Ebb and Flow, Connect with the Patterns and Power of Water.

An essential book for this moment, as we are beginning to understand through witnessing the health of the rivers and ocean around us - what we do to the wild waters of this Earth ultimately we do to ourselves.

Packed with wisdom and practices to restore health to ourselves and the wild waters around us, Easkey has weaved together insight and intelligence from her own deep experiences and those of wisdom keepers, water guardians, scientists, activists and indigenous scholars from all over Spaceship Earth.

This conversation riffs on a number of threads in the book.

This is an Ocean Mic episode in collaboration with Finisterre

Play-out track

‘Landscape’ by East Forest and Peter Broderick

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Welcome to this first Stories for Life minisode from The SpaceShip Earth Podcast.

The intention with these mini episodes is to serve up short form sonic offerings - poems, stories, readings, meditations and musical gifts.

These offerings will either be riffing on 'love stories', helping us relate to ourselves, to each other and to this more than human world that we inhabit in more entangled, mysterious, interconnected and life sustaining ways.

Or drawing our attention to 'horror stories' in our modern cultures that through their deeply ingrained pervasiveness keep us trapped in the destructive and divisive story of separation.

This first offering comes from writer and poet Mike Benson, a poem entitled - GDP: seems kind of Gross.

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Love Ssega is a musician, songwriter and performing artist . He is weaving a beautifully diverse path collaborating across different art forms, whilst also speaking up for complex environmental, social and educational issues.

The original frontman-songwriter of Grammy-winning Clean Bandit, he is currently Artist In Residence for Royal Festival Hall’s Philharmonia Orchestra.

London-born, his music blends a mix of New Wave, 80s Hip-Hop, African polyrhythms and NYC Disco into smart, modern Pop and has been played all over the world.

In this conversation Dan invites Ssega to explore the question ‘What does it mean to be a music artist in a time of climate, ecological and social crisis’ ?

And they journey through some of his amazing projects riffing on many threads.

Ssega is weaving extraordinary magic through his actions and artistry - exploring climate justice, social and racial justice, air pollution, social housing issues and so much more through music, performance, collaboration and co-creation with communities, galleries, poets, orchestras, and more.

Please do check out Ssega’s abundant music and creative projects, you won’t be disappointed.

And please comment and share if this episode speaks to you.

Links, show notes and tracklist via https://www.thespaceship.earth/podcast/2023/5/12/episode-68-love-ssega-finding-another-way

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Why do rivers need guardians ?
What does it mean to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis ?
Can nature have legal rights?

Paul Powlesland is a civil barrister, environmental activist and guardian of the River Roding in East London.

Paul is shaking up what it means to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis.

In this bonus episode following on from the previous long form conversation, Paul speaks specifically to the Rights of Nature movement, what it's all about and what the rights of a river might look like through his relationship with the River Roding, a river in east London which Paul guardians.

This is also a special episode for us - being the first Ocean Mic episode  -  a new collaboration between The Spaceship Earth podcast and Finisterre.

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Why do rivers need guardians ?
What does it mean to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis ?
Can nature have legal rights?

Paul Powlesland is a civil barrister, environmental activist and guardian of the River Roding in East London.

Over the last few years single handedly bringing life back to  this river and growing a community of crew re-connecting and regenerating the river and exploring what the legal rights of a river might look like.

Paul is shaking up what it means to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis.

After practising as a barrister in London for a decade, Paul realised the urgent need to create greater respect and protection for the natural world within our legal system. 

He founded Lawyers for Nature to represent the natural world and all who are seeking to defend it in the courts as best he can within the current legal framework. 

He has a deep affinity for wild water, lives on a boat, on a stretch of tidal river, and has founded community project The River Roding Trust to bring life back to the River Roding in East London.

This episode weaves many threads including -
- what it means to be a lawyer in a time of environmental crisis,
- the importance of reconnecting with nature, our more than human family
- the beautiful inquiry into making rivers sacred again and giving them legal rights.

This is also a very special episode for us - being the first Ocean Mic episode  -  a new collaboration between The Spaceship Earth podcast and Finisterre.

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Why do rivers need guardians ?

What does it mean to be a lawyer in a time of climate and ecological crisis ?

Can nature have legal rights?

An Ocean Mic episode in collaboration with Finisterre dropping very soon, exciting on many fronts.

#thespaceshipearthpodcast #becomingcrew #oceanmic

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Bayo is an author, writer, celebrated speaker, teacher, and self-styled trans-public intellectual - whose vocation goes beyond justice and speaking truth to power to opening up other spaces of power-with, and queering fond formulations and configurations of hope.

Bayo invites us to see the crises of our times with a post activist, post humanist lens, revealing cracks and bringing much-needed trouble to settled narratives.

His writing and speaking is prolific, vital and so generous.

His provocations and the invitations that sit under them are not always fully comprehended in our more comfortable human centered cultures of progress which Bayo speaks to with clarity in this conversation.

This was a shorter episode recorded online at the end of a slightly frazzling week, but as ever with Bayo this conversation is full of gifts, stunning insight, provocation and fertiliser for navigating these mysterious times.

Bayo is one of our special guests on The Remix kicking off in May - a 3 month action learning adventure for story rebels from Becoming crew.

Applications open

https://www.becomingcrew.com/theremix

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This beautiful prayer was born during the conversation between V (formerly Eve Ensler) and Bayo Akomolafe - The Promise and Limits of Restitution: Returning to 'Congo' from the Democracy & Belonging Forum.

In the spirit of experimentation Bayo invited V to co-create a prayer for this moment, for what this moment calls us to attend to.

A prayer for becoming other, for becoming more than human.

We were deeply touched not just by the words that emerged but also by the spirit of the invitation and witnessing of the beautiful dance between V and Bayo and all that is present through them.

Evva has been sharing the prayer during some of our becoming crew gatherings and it continues to be deeply appreciated.

So we made a recording of Evva reading the prayer and added some audio vibes.
And with the blessing of V and Bayo we release it into the wild.

A true prayer for this moment in time.
One for headphones and turning up.

If it speaks to you please share.

Original talk
https://www.youtube.com/live/7JgcAqzDbUA?f

https://www.eveensler.org/

https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/

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Episode 64 with Dougald Hine.

Dougald is co-founder of The Dark Mountain Project.

Co-host of The Great Humbling podcast.

Co-founder of a School called Home in Sweden where he lives with his partner and son.

And Author of new book ‘At Work in the Ruins’ - the focus of this conversation.

In this book Dougald is opening up vital spaces for different types of questions, conversations and invitations to be considered and explored as we face into the unravelling mystery of these times - times of endings.

‘At Work in the Ruins’ is a gift for this moment for those who know intuitively in their heart and gut that many things from 'modernity' need to end.

Now is a time for humility and creative courage, for letting go of stories, ideas, behaviours and systems that no longer serve life and crossing a threshold into imagining what could be and becoming the change.

We highly recommend this book.

Available everywhere you get your podcasts

We hope you appreciate this episode.

Please do share, rate and review if this speaks to you.

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