Joy is...Play.
A Friday 'Shing Lights' episode with Rosie Watson, a runner and climate activist, who, in 2019, began an epic journey running self-supported from her doorstep in the Lake District, across Europe, to Bulgaria. The purpose of ‘The New Story Run’ was to use the challenge to contribute towards changing the way we talk and think about the climate crisis. By meeting people on the way who were working on climate crisis related issues, and telling their experience from their individual perspective, she hoped to spread ‘new stories’ regarding how we can work together towards a better future.
Like all the best conversations, ours took some unexpected turns to focus on issues far beyond attempting an endurance challenge. We discussed: the transition from aspiring fashion designer to environmental campaigner; how a more holistic cross-pollination of research disciplines might benefit finding solutions to global problems; the speed and dissociation of modern living; intuitive planning and being people-led; the freedom of living simply; putting trust in strangers; the circular economy of kindness of kindness; learning to be open; the complexity of 'vulnerable woman' narratives; thoughts around pressing pause and re-starting; why 'normal' is not enough; the creativity that can emerge from adversity; the importance of playfulness; the symbiosis between how we treat each other, the world and ourselves; inadvertently filling our stress buckets, burn out, overtraining and chronic fatigue; letting go and re-finding ourselves; re-writing what constitutes an adventure, and what we can all do to nurture our inner child.
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