A circle of inquiry into what money becomes when we treat it as a living system.

In this Voices of Emergence gathering, we convene a deep dialogue with Ida Faldbakken, Alessa Berg, Dana Ulrike Glatz, and Fredrik Blomquist to explore the future of finance through the lenses of regeneration, reciprocity, and ecological intelligence.

Together we ask:

What happens when we shift from extraction to flow?
How must leadership evolve for finance to evolve?
Can value be measured in ways that reflect life, not depletion?
What does finance look like when guided by care, imagination, and shared responsibility?
How do Indigenous cosmologies and ecological worldviews reshape the architecture of capital?

Themes include leadership culture, regenerative ownership models, Indigenous wisdom, natural accounting, adaptive governance, and the identity-level shift from extraction to guardianship.

A key takeaway: finance is not separate from us. It reflects the worldviews, incentives, and relationships we bring to it. Regeneration begins with how we listen, how we lead, and how we relate to the living systems we depend on.

Panelists: Ida Faldbakken • Alessa Berg • Dana Ulrike Glatz • Fredrik Blomquist

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We sit with Hajar Tazi, storyteller, poet, and ecosystem weaver devoted to Pachamama’s flourishing. Hajar shares how childhood moments of mystical union shaped her life, why ecosystem weaving is “care over control,” and how bioregional networks can become islands of coherence in a sea of chaos.

We explore the imaginal as a real field of collaboration, the Rights of Nature as a bridge toward lived kinship, and why unschooling and deprogramming open space for other ways of knowing. Hajar frames play as radical resistance and shows how the Great Weaving Game reframes economics toward mutual benefit. We close with feminine leadership as a posture of deep listening and fierce, relational care, and a simple seed for the future: learn directly with the more-than-human world.

Hajar Tazi is Director of Ecosystem Weaving and Strategic Initiatives at the Synergia Institute; Board member at Shareable and Gaia Education; Ambassador for the Inner Development Goals; Member, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature; Fellow, Bio-Leadership Project and Rhizome; Creator, The Great Weaving Game.

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Meet Alessa Berg, founder and CEO of Top Tier Impact, the global ecosystem of impact and sustainability leaders shaping the future of capital and culture.

Alessa shares her journey from traditional finance to regenerative economics, and how her multilingual, cross-cultural background turned her into a translator between worlds—between capital and consciousness, systems and stories.

Together, we explore:

- How finance can evolve from extraction to regeneration
- The role of feminine wisdom and embodiment in leadership
- The importance of collective value over individual gain
- Why intention and integrity matter more than ever in impact investing
- How regenerative finance, community, and consciousness can help humanity cross its next threshold

This conversation bridges economics, ecology, and inner development—reminding us that money, like energy, flows best when it serves life itself.

Voices of Emergence is a podcast about inner transformation and systemic regeneration, hosted by Alex de Carvalho and Rudy de Waele.

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Systems entrepreneur and impact investor Dana Ulrike Glatz joins us to explore how capital can flow in service of life—guided by indigenous wisdom, embodied leadership, and alliances rooted in reciprocity.

We trace Dana’s path from a grounded childhood in rural Germany to spiritual initiation in India, through World Economic Forum rooms and into the Amazon—where she’s convening an Ancestral Wisdom Boat journey from Manaus to Belém ahead of COP30. 

Dana shares why true emergence begins in the body; how lineage, silence, and presence shape leadership; what “capital as sacred streams” looks like in practice; and why systemic investing must mimic living systems, move at biological time, and be stewarded by coherent communities.

In this episode:

• Emergence as somatic stillness and co-created field
• Family lineage, post-war trauma, and discerning what to conserve vs. renew
• From impact transactions to systemic investing rooted in trust and bioregions
• Indigenous teachings on balance, shadow integration, and reciprocity
• The resurgence of the feminine and “wise leadership” beyond gender
• Designing finance like nature: cycles, seasons, patience, relationship
• COP30, the Eagle & Condor prophecy, and building an Earth Shield of bioregions

If you’re curious about regenerative finance, embodied leadership, and how alliances can steward capital flows that actually heal places, this conversation is for you.

Voices of Emergence is a podcast about inner transformation and systemic regeneration, hosted by Alex de Carvalho and Rudy de Waele.

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In this luminous conversation, we sit down with Canay Atalay — transformation architect, regenerative innovation strategist, and founder of the RX Innovation Institute — to explore how we can redesign the operating systems of business, technology, and leadership through the feminine principle and a regenerative lens.

Canay shares her journey from the pharmaceutical and media industries to pioneering regenerative innovation — a systemic approach that integrates cultural transformation, conscious AI, and life-centered economies. Drawing from her Turkish and Sufi heritage, she bridges mysticism, systems thinking, and practical frameworks for global transformation.

We talk about:

- Sufism, love, and the art of surrender

- Collapse as initiation and the dance of death and renewal

- Recoding scarcity mindsets into abundance

- Feminine intelligence as the missing link in business innovation

- The role of embodiment, motherhood, and pleasure in regeneration

- Moving from generative to regenerative AI

- The importance of community, coherence, and embodied leadership

This episode is a deep remembrance that the system is you — and that regeneration begins within.

Voices of Emergence is a podcast about inner transformation and systemic regeneration, hosted by Alex de Carvalho and Rudy de Waele.

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In this episode, we sit down with Louie Valotti — founder of Genesis Health and guide at the intersection of biology, consciousness, and healing.
Trained in Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Maté and initiated into the Peruvian Q’ero lineage of shamanism, Louie bridges modern trauma work with ancient ritual and spiritual science.

Together we explore:

- how trauma becomes a portal for the soul’s realization

- the connection between emotional repression and cellular renewal

- the role of ritual, prayer, and ceremony in reconnecting body, mind, and spirit

- masculine and feminine integration in leadership and community

- why humanity’s current crisis may be an initiation into collective awakening

A deeply embodied conversation about emergence, authenticity, and remembering the sacredness of being alive.

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A circle of inquiry into the soul of intelligence — human, artificial, and planetary.

In this special Voices of Emergence gathering, we convene a deep dialogue with Amanda Efthimiou, Lisanne Buik, Timothée Brès, and Fred Destin — exploring what it means to stay human in an age of accelerating intelligence.

Together we ask:

How can AI serve life, not control?

What does it mean to “parent” artificial intelligence?

Can technology carry wisdom, compassion, and care?

How do we cultivate AI hygiene — mindful use, embodied ethics, and community discernment?

Themes include embodiment, shadow work, regenerative design, and the mythic tension between Moloch (optimization and control) and Sophia (wisdom and coherence).

Key takeaway: AI mirrors the systems and souls that create it. Our collective task is not to fear or worship it, but to bring consciousness, presence, and love into our relationship with intelligence itself.

Panelists: Amanda Efthimiou • Lisanne Buik • Timothée Brès • Fred Destin
Hosted by Rudy de Waele & Alex de Carvalho

📖 Read the full circle summary & reflections on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/voicesofemergence/p/ai-ethics-and-emergence-rethinking

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We speak with biologist, whole-systems designer, and author Daniel Christian Wahl, whose book Designing Regenerative Cultures has inspired changemakers and communities worldwide.

Together they explore how regeneration moves beyond sustainability — not as a brand or technique, but as life’s innate process of creating the conditions for more life.
Daniel reflects on emergence and complexity, the deep intelligence of living systems, and the portal of place through which we remember our belonging to Earth and to one another.

Topics include:

The difference between sustainability and regeneration

Salutogenic design and bioregional thinking

The intimacy of community and place as biological needs

Circle work as an ancient human technology

The shadows of techno-solutionism and AI’s disconnection from natural intelligence

Re-imagining education as community and cultural transmission

Daniel reminds us that regeneration begins not in the lab but in the compost — in the humility of returning to place, to story, and to the living web that sustains us all.

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What if the way we speak, listen, and relate could regenerate culture itself?

In this episode of Voices of Emergence, we sit down with Jean-Philippe Steeger—narrative practitioner, facilitator, and founder of Perspectivist—to explore communication as a living, relational art. Drawing from his personal story and professional work at the intersection of systems change, story, and somatics, Jean-Philippe invites us to see dialogue as more than exchange; it’s how we shape belonging, restore coherence, and open new futures.

Together, we explore how regenerative communication is not about fixing what’s broken, but about speaking from wholeness, sensing the field, and inviting others into meaning-making that honors place, body, and complexity. From cultural storytelling to the role of grief in transformation, from post-performance leadership to wisdom economies, this is a conversation rooted in radical honesty and the language of possibility.

“Regenerative communication is the story, language, and embodied wholeness of a culture that thrives with nature.” —Jean-Philippe Steeger

Whether you're a facilitator, changemaker, or simply someone who senses the need for new ways of relating, this episode offers insight into how we might rewrite the story of us—together.

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What happens when ancestral wisdom meets frontier tech? In this conversation, Mamadou Touré — founder of Ubuntu Tribe — lays out a living philosophy of “shared prosperity” where finance becomes regenerative, transparent, and truly inclusive.

We explore:

Ubuntu as a practical operating system for business (“I am because we are”)

Why Western finance skews toward accumulation (collateral + info asymmetry) and how Islamic and Ubuntu logics differ

Tokenized, gold-backed assets and traceable, mercury-free supply chains as a path beyond extraction

Scarcity as a social spell vs. abundance as practice — and how language (“economy” = oikos nomos, laws of the home) shapes reality

AI and blockchain as tools for integrity and transparency, not control — the “finance + technology + spirituality” trifecta

Africa’s role in the next era: youth leadership, cultural memory, and a rising planetary consciousness

A few moments you’ll love: the “candy basket” story of collective joy, re-reading Malthus in an exponential tech age, and Mamadou’s closing seed: “All is one, and one is all.”

Mamadou is Founder and CEO of Ubuntu Group focused on Advisory and Investment activities across industries and aimed at supporting firms in Africa achieving scalable and sustainable growth on the continent. He previously worked in global finance (Deloitte, IFC/World Bank, GE Capital) and has been recognized by Forbes and the World Economic Forum for his pioneering work at the intersection of finance, technology, and inclusive development.

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