About Alive & Learning: Conversations about Impact Networks, Living Systems, Foresight & Futures
Alive & Learning is a 6-part podcast series on discovering the intersection between the practices of cultivating networks, engaging a systemic lens, and thriving futures brought to you by Circle Generation, School of Systems Change, and School of International Futures. Listen to conversations with practitioners as they share how they use relational approaches and a living systems world view to navigate accelerating change.
Episodes highlight insights and experiences on the ground in diverse local contexts. Conversations focus on working with dynamic challenges in complex systems and ways of working that enable practitioners to engage and collaborate in uncertainty. Together we consider the role a living systems worldview may play informing how we engage in complex situations.
This podcast is co-hosted by Carri Munn and Elsa Henderson with narration from Nzwaki Adonisi. Key collaborators include Anna Birney, Sean Andrew, Cat Tully, and Abi Nokes. We are grateful for support from the Small Foundation as our production partner.
Please listen to the podcast, share it with fellow changemakers and funders, and leave an honest review. Continue the conversation using #aliveandlearning and visit aliveandlearning.net. We can all have more impact if we think holistically and take action together.
This final episode is a poignant reflection on the interconnectedness of people and ideas in the pursuit of meaningful change. Carri, Elsa, and Nzwaki lift up common threads arising across the conversations in this series, especially how our relationships allow us to navigate during times of uncertainty and change. They highlight the importance of activating our collective imagination and advocate for storytelling as a tool for shifting mindsets and connecting global ideas to local action. Th...
31 Oct 2024
Signals of the Future
In this episode, we highlight three stories from foresight practitioners from Africa, New Zealand and Canada about convening diverse people to imagine and shape better futures together. Their stories touch on climate, youth, indigenous cultures, and our relationship to grief. The first story features young climate Leaders Iman Bashir and Fisayo Oyewale from Next Generation Foresight Practitioner’s Climate Futures Hub. They share experiences organizing intergenerational spaces that...
17 Oct 2024
Spaces for Collective Imagining
In this episode, we talk to Cat Zuzarte Tully and Abi Nokes of School of International Futures (SOIF) about the practice of foresight and what distinguishes SOIF’s approach from other futurists. We explore intersections with network practice and what it looks like to convene people to deliberately shape futures together. Cat and Abi share what it takes to host interactive foresight sessions that promote psychological safety conducive to collectively imagining futures. They talk about cha...
8 Oct 2024
Facilitating Catalytic Collaborations – Part 2
In part two, our third story is about The Social Employment Fund based in South Africa. This government initiative creates part-time jobs that build people’s skills while benefiting communities. An essential part of their successful model is The Social Employment Network, that convenes community partners to promote collaboration, learning, and shared commitment to creating and filling community-based jobs that directly contribute to community welfare. Our guests are Margo Pa...
19 Sept 2024
Facilitating Catalytic Collaborations – Part 1
In this episode, released in two parts, we highlight four stories of people around the world engaged in shifting systems in agriculture, housing, employment, finance, and place-based ecosystem regeneration. We’ll hear about what these practitioners are learning and how their work is unfolding in real time. You won’t hear our hosts, only the voice of the person sharing their story.In part one, we begin with the African Food Fellowship, a dynamic network of leaders working to radically change f...
5 Sept 2024
Relating Through Change
In this episode, we talk to Anna Birney and Sean Andrew from the School of Systems Change about using a living systems paradigm to understand social systems and complexity. They explore the work of changemaking through deep inquiry into relational dynamics and the prospect of shaping systemic change by addressing power dynamics. They emphasize embracing change at a granular level, recognizing the transformative potential in mundane actions becoming everyday practices that ultimate...
21 Aug 2024
A Bigger Picture
In this first episode of the Alive & Learning series, co-hosts Carri Munn & Elsa Henderson explore the ways that impact networks bring many people together to learn from diverse perspectives. They also discuss how networks strategically coordinate actions to support collective transformation.They reveal why working relationally and working through relationships is essential in our complex and dynamic world, and what it takes to cultivate the capacities of network leaders to convene di...
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