A Winter Solstice Celebration for 2023 with Manda Scott and Nathalie Nahai
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Happy Winter 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 Accidental Gods podcast, 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. Her latest novel, Any Human Power is available for pre-order on Amazon.
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 Gaia Education course called Cultivating Regenerative Livelihoods that weaves insights from this podcast and her work as a Right Livelihood coach with practical solidarity economy tools to help us better align our work with our values and contribute to economic systems change. This 12-week online course will start on January 13th and is 300 pounds with half and full scholarships available and a 15% discount for Upstream listeners available here.
Further Resources:
- Course: Cultivating Regenerative Livelihoods Course, Jan 13 - Apr 20, 2024, Virtual, Designed and co-facilitated by Della Duncan, 15% off discount for Upstream Listeners here: https://www.gaiaeducation.org/cart/155142-Cultivating-Regenerative-Livelihoods
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- Theory: Two Loop Theory by Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze
- Upstream: Marxism & Buddhism with Breht O'Shea
- Upstream: A Marxist Perspective on Elections with August Nimtz
- Upstream: Beyond the Clock with Jenny Odell
- California Doughnut Economics Coalition and positions available
- Indy Johar: talking about Inter-Becoming and the model of the autonomous house on Accidental Gods
- Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy: on shifting from a Trauma Culture to an Initiation Culture on Accidental Gods
- Grief and Joy on a Planet in Crisis: Joanna Macy on the Best Time To Be Alive on The Way Out is In
- Event: Flourishing Futures Salon
- Event: Planet Local Summit
- Winter Solstice Meditation
- Summer Solstice Meditation
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| 0:00.0 | Oh. For me the big question is what are we here for? |
| 0:24.0 | Because it's not just to pay bills and die. |
| 0:26.0 | We all know we are not here just to pay bills and die, |
| 0:28.0 | and yet we live in a system where he who pays the biggest bills wins. |
| 0:31.0 | You must, is must because he can buy himself anything he wants including |
| 0:36.1 | a rocket to Mars. How do we shift to a different value set in a time frame that will work. I look upstream and that's |
| 0:45.3 | where I get to. You are listening to upstream. Upstream. Upstream. Upstream. |
| 0:51.0 | A podcast of documentaries and conversations that invites you to unlearn everything you thought you knew about economics. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm Robert Raymond and I'm Dela Duncan. |
| 1:01.0 | Happy Winter Solstice. |
| 1:03.6 | In this annual tradition, Delas joined by two fellow podcast hosts to reflect on the past year |
| 1:09.8 | and set some intentions for the year ahead. |
| 1:12.8 | Monda Scott, based in Northern England, |
| 1:15.4 | is a prolific novelist in the host of the podcast |
| 1:18.4 | Accidental Gods, which explores the intersections |
| 1:21.3 | between science and spirituality, philosophy and politics. explores the |
| 1:23.4 | intersections between science and spirituality, philosophy and politics, and art and activism. |
| 1:27.2 | Natalie Nahai, based in Spain, is the host of the podcast The Hive, |
| 1:32.0 | which focuses on psychology, technology, and human behavior. |
| 1:36.0 | Together, Dela, Monda, and Natalie explore the core questions of accidental gods, The Hive, and upstream, share stories and insights from the year |
| 1:46.2 | and create invitations and offer gifts for the year to come. |
| 1:50.8 | One of Dela's offerings in the new year is a Gaya Education virtual course called |
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