A Solstice Celebration for 2024 w/ Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai

Upstream

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.9 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2024

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Happy Solstice! In this annual tradition, Della is joined by two fellow podcast hosts to reflect on the past year and set some intentions for the year ahead.

Manda Scott is a novelist, smallholder, and host of the podcast Accidental Gods, which showcases individuals and organizations at the emerging edge of our world to set the foundation for a future we’d be proud to leave to the generations that come after us. Manda’s latest novel, Any Human Power, is out now and available here.

Nathalie Nahai is a behavior science advisor, author and host of the podcast The Hive, which focuses on psychology, technology, and human behavior. Nathalie is the author of Webs Of Influence: The Psychology of Online Persuasion and is also the founder of Flourishing Futures Salon, a project that offers curated gastronomical gatherings that explore how we can thrive in times of turbulence and change.

One of Della’s offerings in the new year is a course she designed about how to cultivate regenerative livelihoods. She created this course with insights that she has found most helpful in bringing Upstream theories and ideas into people’s lives as a Right Livelihood coach. Whether you are in a livelihood transition, want to be in community with others trying to find meaningful work, or you just want to know more about work as a vehicle for post capitalist systems change, this course is a great fit. It includes live sessions, engaging module materials and activities including Upstream episodes, and a lively discussion forum to bring the material to life. Here is the link to learn more and register and use "UPSTREAM25" for a special 25% off coupon.

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Feeding Your Demons, Tsultrim Allione
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Summer Solstice Meditation

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Robbie here with a quick announcement before we get started on today's episode.
0:06.0	From January to April of 2025, Della will be offering a course that she designed about how to
0:12.7	cultivate a regenerative livelihood. She created this course with insights that she found
0:18.7	most helpful in bringing upstream theories and ideas into
0:22.6	people's lives as a right livelihood coach. So whether you are in a livelihood transition, whether
0:29.7	you want to be in community with others, just trying to find meaningful work, or if you just want
0:35.5	to know more about work as a vehicle for post-capitalist
0:38.7	systems change, this course will be a great fit. It includes live sessions, engaging module
0:45.6	materials and activities, including several upstream episodes, and a lively discussion
0:51.4	forum to bring the material to life.
0:58.4	The link to learn more and to register is in the show notes,
1:01.5	and just use the code upstream 25.
1:07.0	That's all caps, upstream 25 for the special 25% off coupon.
1:09.4	Okay, on with the show.
1:34.7	Ah, ah, coupon. Okay, on have the challenges of our time, then going upstream from that, we have supremacy, the supremacies, right, human supremacy, patriarchal supremacy, white supremacy,
1:40.9	global north supremacy, et cetera. But going upstream from that, we have the
1:44.6	separability or the separation. And then going upstream from that, the root or the change is
1:49.6	remembering, remembering ourselves to the web of life. And I remember somebody said with the work
1:56.8	that reconnects, Joanna Macy's work, you know, why is it called the work that reconnects when we can't actually reconnect with
2:02.6	something that we were never actually disconnected from?
2:05.3	Perhaps it's the work of remembering.
2:08.6	You're listening to Upstream.
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