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Coming Home to LifeBorder Work with Bayo Akomolafe & Tyson YunkaportaIn this episode, Philipa and Daniel talk about post-activism, border transgressions and making sanctuary with Dr Bayo Akomolafe and Dr Tyson Yunkaporta. Bayo Akomolafe is a widely celebrated international speaker, post-humanist thinker, philosopher, writer, activist and professor of psychology. He is the author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak. Bayo is the Founder of The Emergence Network and and a Global Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley. He is also the Inaugural...
2026-01-0253 min
sympoietics. Raum für Wechselseitiges33 Rethinking Psychology. Bayo Akomolafe (engl.)Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, Psychologe und Philosoph, wirkt und lehrt in vielen öffentlichen Räumen in den USA, in Brasilien, Europa, Indien und Afrika. Dieses Gespräch wurde im Rahmen der Tagung „Träume und Trickster“ des Sympoi Instituts im November 2025 im Appenzellerland in der Schweiz aufgenommen.Die Reise unter dem Titel „Rethinking Psychology“ beginnt bei Bayo Akomolafes nigerianischen Wurzeln der Yoruba Kultur und seinen Zugängen zu Kosmologie und Weltenzugang der Orixás, im besonderen dem Trickster dieser Welt: Exú. Exú, der im kolonialen Erbe mit dem Teufel assoziert wird, führt uns zur Frage, wie wir heute den politischen, ökol...
2025-12-1957 min
Sounds of SANDTending the Threshold: Bayo AkomolafeRecorded live at The Eternal Song Seven Day Film Premiere Gathering.
In this episode, hosts Maurizio and Zaya engage in deep conversation with Yoruba philosopher and post-humanist thinker Bayo Akomolafe. In this episode, Bayo shares a Yoruba creation myth involving the Orishas, highlighting the importance of flow and memory. He reflects on his journey as a psychologist in Nigeria and critiques the political dimensions of healing. The dialogue also touches on the limits of modernity, the significance of wounds in creating new worlds, and the interconnectedness of all living beings. Bayo’s insights invite listeners to reconsider tra...
2025-11-0646 min
Wonderstruck26: Philosopher Bayo Akomolafe - Beyond Fixing the World: Embracing the Cracks and Creating SanctuaryWhat if the cracks in our world aren't flaws, but thresholds into the unknown? In this episode of Wonderstruck, we sit with philosopher, poet, and playful trickster Bayo Akomolafe. Bayo's vision invites us to linger in mystery rather than rush to solutions. He takes us into the unfolding terrain of post-activism, where possibility, not certainty, becomes our guide.In this conversation, we explore:✦ How physics becomes philosophy… and poetry offers a new way of seeing✦ How AI unsettles our ideas of consciousness and what it means to be human✦ His vision o...
2025-10-071h 19
Voices of EmergenceBayo Akomolafe on Cracks, Tricksters, and Dancing Sideways with CollapseWhat if the cracks in our world weren’t problems to fix, but portals to step through?In this mythic, poetic, and gently disorienting conversation, Bayo Akomolafe invites us into the liminal, into the spaces between collapse and emergence, between logic and story, between the human and more-than-human. We explore what it means to become otherwise in times of profound unraveling.Bayo shares what it means to be a “recovering psychologist” in the face of modernity’s certainties, and how Yoruba cosmology opened a different kind of knowing, one shaped by entanglement, slowness, and reverence for the...
2025-09-2551 min
What is Collective Healing?A Taste of Global Social Witnessing, with Bayo AkomolafeHosted by Kosha Joubert. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Description: For Dr Bayo Akomolafe, Global Social Witnessing is a way to "be with each other in the fires, and not burn." As the Pocket Project prepares to launch Phase Two of the Global Social Witnessing Facilitator Training on September 3, 2025, this episode features a dialogue between Bayo and Kosha Joubert, the Pocket Project CEO, from Phase I of the course. "For those of you who would like to show up for this sharing together, this is not a place of checking each others' stories – it's a...
2025-08-2637 min
The Nature Of with Willow DefebaughBayo Akomolafe: How to Move Through Chaos Without Needing ControlWhat if the rupture of these tumultuous times is not an ending, but an opening? In this episode, Willow speaks with Bayo Akomolafe, philosopher, poet, and thinker whose work challenges us to step beyond binaries and into the fertile, unpredictable space of emergence. They dig into how transformation doesn’t come from rigid certainty or oppositional thinking, but from the cracks—where new possibilities take root. Nature does not resolve tension; it composts it, making way for something unexpected to arise. Bayo invites us to see the turbulence of our moment not as a problem to be solved, but as a...
2025-05-1340 min
Point of Relation with Thomas HueblBayo Akomolafe | Bold Frontiers of Spiritual HealingThomas Hübl sits down with celebrated speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, and author Bayo Akomolafe to explore the leading edges of spiritual thinking and human identity. Bayo is a deeply experimental thinker, informed by the African cosmologies of the Yoruba and Igbo traditions. He leads an exploration into a new paradigm of healing that de-centers the individual to focus on the village, on the communal.He and Thomas discuss how modernity, especially in Western cultures, creates a false dichotomy between spirituality and science, pathologizes behavior that should instead be integrated, and offers a reductive, motionless view o...
2025-04-1559 min
Planetary Regeneration Podcast070: Bayo Akomolafe | Rituals of Incompleteness in the Age of AIOn this episode of the Planetary Regeneration Podcast, host Gregory Landua sits down with philosopher and poet Bayo Akomolafe during a Regen Network retreat at Race Brook Lodge. Together they explore AI as trickster, the sacredness of incompleteness, and what it means to build tools for ecological governance in a world unraveling.
From Yoruba cosmology to Karen Barad’s agential realism, this conversation weaves themes of decoloniality, relationality, and the possibility of new rituals in the cracks of modernity.
Bayo Akomolafe (PhD) is an author, speaker, and founder of the Emergence Network. Trained as a clinical psychologist and rooted in Yo...
2025-04-1558 min
Love & Philosophy#56: Radical Incompleteness & Windows of Ritournelle with poet philosopher Bayo AkomolafeSend a love messageRitournelle is a concept created by Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari for A Thousand Plateaus (1987.) It's the main subject of 11th plateau 1837: Of the refrain. In this episode of 'Love and Philosophy,' host Andrea Hiott engages in a deep and thought-provoking conversation with philosopher, psychologist, and poet Bayo Akomolafe. They discuss the transformative power of love, the complexities beyond binary categorizations, and the idea of life as a process filled with relational tensions and incompleteness. The discussion covers Bayo's personal journey, including reflections on his father and his book 'These Wilds Beyond Our...
2025-04-1139 min
Sounds of SAND#6 New Gods at the End of the World: Bayo Akomolafe & Sophie Strand (Encore)Today, we present a wild and flowering conversation between two poets, writers, philosophers, and theobiologians Bayo Akomalofe and Sophie Strand.
This conversation is from a 2022 SAND Community Gathering. To hear the full conversation with Q&A from the live webinar you can view it here (with SAND Membership).
In Greek Mythology, the Titan Kronos eats an indigestible stone and vomits up the new Olympic pantheon of gods. In our current time, people planted in stratigraphic layers of shared trauma find themselves uniquely ill – physically and mentally. We are unable to digest food and unable to dige...
2025-04-1057 min
Deschooling DialoguesEpisode 8 | Alnoor Ladha with Bayo AkomolafeIn this conversation, Bayo Akomolafe and Alnoor Ladha explore the entanglements of identity, activism, whiteness, and emergence in a time of planetary crisis. Bayo challenges the notion of human centrality, advocating for humility as ‘dis-ability’ — an epistemological opening to new ways of knowing, being, sensing and relating in the world. They discuss whiteness not as a racial category but as a terraforming project, shaping the world’s dominant systems. From the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge to the syncopation of cultural rupture, they examine how disruption invites transformation. Ultimately, they invite us to step beyond certainty, into the dance of...
2025-03-1540 min
Clown Spirit PodcastBayo Akomolafe: Clowning the CracksIn this episode of the Clown Spirit podcast, I talk with guest Bayo Akomolafe, celebrated speaker, teacher, and self-styled 'fugitive'. We talk about themes of playfulness, innovation, and the concept of 'cracks'—the imperfections and gaps that exist within systems. Bayo eloquently discusses how these cracks are not merely flaws but essential elements that facilitate newness and transformation. The conversation was an organic and improvised 'mess', interspersed with humor, interruptions by Bayo's son, and para-reflection. Bayo's poetic and philosophical insights challenge traditional notions of innovation, perfection, and moral policing, advocating instead for a deeper engagement with the fluid and myste...
2025-03-0949 min
Pánsá Pánsá PodcastSE6/EP57: Conversation with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe on African Traditional Beliefs and Their Impact on Mental Health Perception, Research, and Treatment, and the Experiences of Africans in the Diasporal came across Dr. Akomolafe’s profile on Facebook about a seminar he was planning on giving therapy service providers titled “Where Do We Go When Healing Becomes Ill?Navigating the Empire of Trauma”. After connecting with his website, I was incredibly impressed with his background and the life journey that shaped whom he has become today. I asked if he was open to conversation, and I wasthrilled when he accepted my invitation. The mission of this conversation was to discuss the role of African traditional belief systems in influencing the perceptions of the approach and the mana...
2025-02-0753 min
Embodied Justice with Dr. Judy LubinRethinking Justice and Belonging in Times of Crisis with Bayo AkomolafeIn the premiere episode of Embodied Justice's second season, host Dr. Judy Lubin sits down with the talented Bayo Akomolafe. A speaker, poet, and philosopher, Bayo is renowned for his thought-provoking perspectives on global crisis, social change, and the transformative potential of embracing chaos. Together, they dissect the exhaustion often felt in activism and discuss unconventional frameworks for creating just and equitable communities. This episode is an invitation to rethink how we engage in resistance and to consider finding hope and beauty amidst societal upheavals.In this episode:Rethinking Activism: Dr. Judy Lubin...
2025-02-0551 min
THE SPACESHIP EARTH PODCASTEpisode 97: Bayo Akomolafe | On Whiteness, Monsters and More Than Human OpeningsIn deeply mysterious times I can think of no finer human to help us consider other ways of seeing, thinking and responding to the crises than Bayo Akomolafe who we welcome back for Episode 97.Bayo is a philosopher, writer, post-activist, professor of psychology and executive director of the Emergence Network.Bayo was guest in Episode 66 and this conversation was recorded live in a Becoming Crew online learning event in June this year .As we witness mythic scale events unfold almost weekly, this conversation feels more timely now than it did 5 months ago when...
2024-11-181h 26
Hunger for WholenessWhen Wholeness Arrives with Bayo Akomolafe (Part 2)When Wholeness Arrives with Bayo Akomolafe (Part 2)Ilia Delio and Bayo Akomolafe continue their conversation about navigating the legacy of modernity and our journey into the future as a species. Bayo shares his perspective on the legacies of ingenious thought—particularly how it’s seen from the West. They ask, whether we ever arrive at wholeness? And what, if anything, does politics have to do with it?ABOUT BAYO AKOMOLAFE“The idea of slowing down is not about getting answers, it is about questioning our questions. It is about staying in the places that a...
2024-11-0430 min
Hunger for WholenessHow (Post-)Humans Evolve with Bayo Akomolafe (Part 1)How (Post-)Humans Evolve with Bayo Akomolafe (Part 1)Ilia Delio is joined by the prolific writer and activist Bayo Akomolafe. Bayo shares with us about his Christian background, growing up as the son of a diplomat in Nigeria. Ilia asks Bayo about how he has uniquely wrestled with the legacy of modernity and Western thought and his own unique approach to process and post-humanist thought.ABOUT BAYO AKOMOLAFE“The idea of slowing down is not about getting answers, it is about questioning our questions. It is about staying in the places th...
2024-10-2828 min
Inspired Evolution with Amrit Sandhu 🙏🏻IE416: Bayo Akomolafe: Exploring Ontological Indeterminacy, Posthumanism, and the Nature of Reality ✨🚀 READY TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE? Achieve Spiritual Fulfillment & Lasting Success with Amrit's Exclusive 1-on-1 MENTORING & COACHING.📅 FREE 30-MINUTE STRATEGY SESSIONS AVAILABLE: Limited Spots—Secure Your Place NOW! Apply here: 👉 https://www.amrit.coach/life___________________Bayo Akomolafe explores profound ideas on the fluidity of reality, questioning fixed definitions and embracing the concept of "becoming" instead of "being." He critiques modern clarity and urges for deeper awareness, suggesting that rigidity in identity or truth stifles true transformation. Drawing from Yoruba cosmology, quantum physics, and posthumanism, he presents a world always in flux, where boundar...
2024-10-231h 08
The Trauma TherapistLooking For The Cracks with Dr. Bayo AkomolafeBayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is a widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak. Dr. Akomolafe is the Founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide initiative that seeks to convene communities in new ways in response to the critical, civilizational challenges we face as a species. He is host of the post...
2024-09-1627 min
RSA ConversationsReGeneration Rising S2E10: Border Work with Bayo Akomolafe & Tyson YunkaportaIn this episode, Philipa and Daniel talk about post-activism, border transgressions and making sanctuary with Dr Bayo Akomolafe and Dr Tyson Yunkaporta. Bayo Akomolafe is a widely celebrated international speaker, post-humanist thinker, philosopher, writer, activist and professor of psychology. He is the author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak. Bayo is the Founder of The Emergence Network and and a Global Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley. He is also the Inaugural Sch...
2024-07-3054 min
Roots to RenewalSeason Two, Episode Ten: Post Humanist Thinker Bayo Akomolafe on Embracing UncertaintySend us a textIn this episode of Hawthorne Valley's Roots to Renewal podcast, we are honored to welcome Dr. Bayo Akomolafe. Post humanist thinker, poet, teacher, essayist, and author. Together, he and our host, Martin Ping share a thought provoking conversation exploring a rich tapestry of ideas, beginning with Bayo’s inspiring fellowship at the Schumacher Center for New Economics. The conversation delves into the concept of drifting and its relevance in our current times, the value of embracing uncertainty, grieving as a form of politics and so much more. It's a deep and reflective dialogue you...
2024-07-2545 min
Next Economy Now: For the Benefit of All Life(Rebroadcast) Bayo Akomolafe: The Consequences of AnthropocentrismWe're excited to reshare this deeply inspiring and perspective-shifting chat from 2022 with the one and only Bayo Akomolafe. Bayo grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and is a father, son, brother, life partner, author, poet, teacher, public intellectual, international speaker, post-humanist thinker, and so much more.For full show notes, visit: https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/bayo-akomolafeLearn more at lifteconomy.com/mba and use code PODCASTMBA to save 10% on tuition!
2024-07-0233 min
E.T.: The PodcastEp. 17 - Generative Monstrosity with Bayo AkomolafeI ended this recording and felt cringey. I shook my body a bit. I was feeling foggy, unsharp, slow, unable to hold an eloquent philosophical conversation those days. Broken. Then, I had a long-awaited session with dear Bayo Akomolafe. I swiftly danced with the whiffs of my monstrosity and invited it into the conversation, coherent enough with what emerged. In the end, broken is open.
More than a month after, I opened it, edited it, transcribed it and digested more of it. I love how it turned out.
We...
2024-06-1149 min
The Mark Divine ShowWhat is Post-Humanism? Deconstructing Western Paradigms with Bayo AkomolafePosthumanism invites us to think beyond human-centric thinking and embrace a more inclusive, interconnected worldview. By confronting cultural challenges and seizing opportunities in life's unexpected disruptions, we can transform our understanding of the world and our role within it. Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, psychologist, and professor from Nigeria. He is the Chief Curator of The Emergence Network and host of the online course, 'We Will Dance with Mountains'. Dr. Akomolafe's work explores themes of post-humanism, decolonization, and the deconstruction of conventional Western paradigms. He seeks to challenge and reframe dominant narratives around human s...
2024-06-1142 min
IDGs PlusEp. 12 - Generative Monstrosity with Bayo AkomolafeIn this emergent conversation with Bayo Akomolafe and host Eugenia, we explore the monstrous and how de-patologizing any monstrous aspect leads to unveiling new ways of understanding, experiencing and thus transforming public and private affairs.
The conversation explores the concept of the monster and its potential for generative and transformative politics. The monster is seen as that which cannot be sensed or represented, disrupting our familiar arrangements and exposing the violence we are already in. Courage is seen as an ecological secretion, an infection that invites us to stay with the monster and embrace its disruptive potential...
2024-06-1149 min
Scaling DeepDancing with Bayo Akomolafe: Art, Political Ecologies & MonstersBayo Akomolafe is the grateful life-partner to ‘EJ’, father to Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi, son of Olufunmilayo Ibidapo Akomolafe and Ignatius Abayomi Akomolafe, and descendant of Yoruba fields of archetypal becomings and mythopoeic landscapes. He is an author, celebrated speaker, teacher, and self-styled trans-public intellectual (a concept imagined together with and inspired by the shamanic priesthood of the Yoruba healer-trickster)- whose vocation goes beyond justice and speaking truth to power to opening up other spaces of power-with, and queering fond formulations and configurations of hope.
Bayo was born in 1983 into a Christian home, and to Yor...
2024-05-2933 min
You’re Going to Die: The PodcastBáyò Akómoláfé - LIVE at The Lost Church in San FranciscoYou're Going to Die Presents: Alive Conversation w/Báyò Akómoláfé at The Lost Church in San Francisco, recorded for You're Going to Die: The Podcast on Friday, March 15th, 2024...
Join host Ned Buskirk's LIVE conversation with Báyò Akómoláfé, father to Alethea and Kyah, grateful life-partner to Ije, son & brother, widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author.
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2024-04-1859 min
Wild Heart RevivalE1 | Báyò Akómoláfé | Beyond Identity: Tenderness, Tricksters, & Radical Accompaniment“Repair — to pair again with other alliances — making us alive in ways we don’t even know how to speak to yet.”— Báyò Akómoláfé..In this first episode of Wild Heart Revival, Bayo guides us into an exploration of a timely concept that he calls 'A Politics of Tenderness,' navigating the fluidity of identity and challenging societal norms. From radical accompaniment to the wild wisdom of tricksters, Bayo invites us to embrace an animist’s ethics along our mythic quest for de...
2024-04-0457 min
Voices of EsalenBayo Akomolafe on Tricksterism, Post Activism, and Artificial IntelligenceBayo Akomolafe is an author, teacher, and modern philosopher whose work challenges the boundaries of conventional thought. Bayo was born in 1983 into a Christian home to Yoruban parents in western Nigeria. Soon after he was born, his family moved to Bonn, Germany, to accommodate his diplomat father. While in Zaire, Bayo’s father passed away suddenly, leaving a teenaged Bayo to grapple with the painful loss.
As a young, restless academic, Bayo studied psychology and notions of healing, eventually meeting with scores of traditional shamans as a quest to better understand the notion trauma, healing and well-being. His concerns for de...
2024-03-2742 min
Sternstunde PhilosophieBayo Akomolafe – Wie wir aus der Krisenspirale herausfindenWenn wir die Klimakrise überstehen möchten, dann braucht es ein radikal neues Denken und Fühlen. Das meint der nigerianische Philosoph und Psychologe Bayo Akomolafe. Warum uns Spiritualität dabei helfen kann, die diversen Krisen ganz anders zu sehen, verrät er im Gespräch mit Yves Bossart.
Menschen der Moderne sind in einer tödlichen Logik gefangen, die es zu durchbrechen gilt, meint Bayo Akomolafe. Der nigerianische Psychologe und international gefragte Redner glaubt, wir müssen einen neuen Umgang mit der Natur lernen, ihr wieder zuhören und uns berühren lassen. Dazu müssen wir die Natur und den Men...
2024-03-0957 min
Step Inside An Mind-Blowing Full Audiobook And Elevate Your Mindset.These Wilds Beyond Our Fences by Bayo Akomolafe, Charles Eisenstein - forewordPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/169872to listen full audiobooks.
Title: These Wilds Beyond Our Fences
Author: Bayo Akomolafe, Charles Eisenstein - foreword
Narrator: Bayo Akomolafe
Format: mp3
Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
Release date: 01-23-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 12 ratings
Genres: Fatherhood
Publisher's Summary:
Tackling some of the world’s most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood, Bayo Akomolafe embarks on a journey of discovery as he maps the contours of the spaces between himself and his three-year-old daughter, Alethea. In a narrative that manages to be both intricate and unguarded, he discovers that something as commonplace as...
2024-01-234h 25
Full Audiobooks in Self-Improvement, Parenting TipsThese Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home by Bayo AkomolafePlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/436619 to listen full audiobooks. Title: These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home Author: Bayo Akomolafe Narrator: Bayo Akomolafe Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 25 minutes Release date: January 23, 2024 Genres: Parenting Tips Publisher's Summary: Tackling some of the world’s most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood, Bayo Akomolafe embarks on a journey of discovery as he maps the contours of the spaces between himself and his three-year-old daughter, Alethea. In a narrative that manages to be both intricate and unguarded, he discovers that something as co...
2024-01-2310 min
In Conversation with Nathalie Nahai130. On Flourishing, Fugitivity & The Power Of The Monster’s Story / Dr Bayo AkomolafeIn today’s conversation, I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe - a widely celebrated international speaker, teacher, public intellectual and essayist, whose convening of the concepts of ‘postactivism’, ‘transraciality’ and ‘ontofugitivity’ have ignited richer, more vibrant explorations of what it means to deepen into our collective potential. The author and editor of We Will Tell Our Own Story! with Professors Molefi Kete Asante and Augustine Nwoye, and These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to my Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books, 2017), Bayo is a recipient of the 2021 New Thought Walden Aw...
2024-01-071h 06
For The WildThe Edges in the Middle, VII: Báyò Akómoláfé, Sa’ed Atshan, Cecilie SuraskyContinuing the conversation series, “The Edges in the Middle,” presented in collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute, For The Wild is delighted to share this conversation between Báyò Akómoláfé, Sa’ed Atshan, and Cecilie Surasky. Starting from the premise that all people belong and all lives are grievable, Bayo, Cecilie, and Sa’ed will explore how honoring each other’s grief may allow us to reclaim each other’s humanity and perhaps shed light on a path forward to belonging in Israel-Palestine, for Muslims, Jews, and C...
2023-12-131h 11
Fierce CompassionHonoring the Trickster with Dr. Báyò AkómoláféIn our twelfth episode, we talk with Dr. Báyò Akómolàfè, the widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist philosopher, and author who, despite all his accolades, defines himself primarily as a father and husband. A Yoruban public intellectual known for his intricate narratives on identity, change, and interdependence, Dr. Akómolàfè challenges us to explore how western conceptions of the "self" reinforce our separation from the flows and fields of life. It is by continuing to live in the field of this disconnection, he argues, that we continue to repeat the crises that we attempt to solve.
Dr...
2023-12-1159 min
Entangled WorldCracks Leading to Systems Change | Bayo AkomolafeMy guest today is Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.). Bayo is rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak, Bayo Akomolafe is the Founder of The Emergence Network and host of the postactivist course/festival/event, ‘We Will...
2023-10-121h 22
All That We AreFuture Paradigms // Compelling Voices In Urgent Times with Lyla June Johnston, Manish Jain, Bayo Akomolafe and Helena Norberg-Hodge - E191How do we create radically new perspectives and prosper antidotes that forge systemic change? In this episode entitled Compelling Voices In Urgent Times, we hear powerful voices gathered from previous podcast episodes including Bayo Akomolafe, Lyla June, Manish Jain and Helena Norberg-Hodge; all of whom recently shared their insights at Planet Local Summit. This episode gathers deep insights into the predicaments of our time. It is an invitation to radically inspire our imagination, shift our perspectives, ask different questions and explore new ways to become involved in serving each other and the world we live in during...
2023-10-121h 51
For The WildThe Edges in the Middle, VI: Báyò Akómoláfé, Madhulika Banerjee, and Minna SalamiContinuing the conversation series, “The Edges in the Middle,” presented in collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute, For The Wild is delighted to share this conversation between Báyò Akómoláfé, Madhulika Banerjee, and Minna Salami. Speaking on the theme, “Democracy and Its Exquisite Others,” Báyò, Madhulika, and Minna delve into an exploration of what it means to truly participate in democracy, as an embodied, collective action. In this thoughtful and informed episode, they investigate the idea of “Eurocracy'' and unpack what the eurocentric definition of democracy has meant for the world as a w...
2023-09-271h 10
For The WildThe Edges in the Middle, V: Báyò Akómoláfé, Naomi Klein, and Yuria CelidwenContinuing the conversation series, “The Edges in the Middle,” presented in collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute, For The Wild is delighted to share this conversation between Báyò Akómoláfé, Naomi Klein and Yuria Celidwen. Speaking about climate grief and hope, Báyò, Naomi, and Yuria build together to consider the value in tapping into the depth of emotion as we feel it, not as we are told we should feel it. In a time marked by disruption, loss, and demise, grief may be an invi...
2023-07-1956 min
Sounds of SAND#43 I Am a Seed: Bayo Akomolafe and Chief Oluwo Obafemi FayemiThe full title of today’s episode is: “They thought they buried me; They did not know I am a seed”
In this community conversation from June 2023, SAND co-founders Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo host Bayo Akomolafe and Chief Oluwo Fayemi peeling back the layers of history and tap into the wellspring of resilience that resides within us all. Weaving Bayo's wisdom and Chief Oluwo Obafemi's ancestral knowledge, they enture into this mystical landscape, navigating the intricacies of existence, embracing the profound beauty of the unfolding journey.
Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people...
2023-07-131h 19
For The WildDR. BÁYÒ AKÓMOLÁFÉ on Ontological Mutiny /338How are the crises of our times crises of being, crises of becoming? Ayana is joined by returning guest Dr. Báyò Akómoláfé. Ayana and Báyò dance together through questions of crisis, identity, and rupture. As we attempt to break from the monoculture that cements us as citizen subjects of empire, Báyò suggests that we need an ontological mutiny. Pointing out the possibilities of a more generous and spacious politics, Báyò calls listeners’ attention to the duplicity of safety. Perhaps the things from which we recoil contain promise. As we try to stabiliz...
2023-06-301h 00
The Clearing with Katherine MayBáyò Akómoláfé on fugitive ideasIn this week’s episode of How We Live Now, Katherine speaks to author and public intellectual Báyò Akómoláfé. We consider how we can step out of the belief that humanity is in control of a passive planet, and instead wonder how we can learn to read the intelligence of the systems and landscapes that we inhabit. We meander our way to autism, and begin to think about how we can create a new language of neurodivergent experience that resists the labels applied from disinterested - or disgusted - outside viewers. And we take a look at ‘hus...
2023-06-3050 min
For The WildThe Edges in the Middle, IV: Báyò Akómoláfé and Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorContinuing the conversation series, “The Edges in the Middle,” presented in collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute, For The Wild is delighted to share Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation with scholar Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Speaking on the theme "What if justice gets in the way?,” Báyò and Keeanga engage in a lively conversation that considers how our quest for justice shapes us and is simultaneously shaped by systems of power and control. Together, they ask: how can we move justice out of the existing political paradigm and move beyond a normative sense of justice and refo...
2023-06-1458 min
The Tension of Emergence: Thriving in a world that remakes, not breaksThe Gift of Bewilderment with Báyò AkómoláféIn this episode Jennifer speaks with author, teacher and trans-public intellectual Báyò Akómoláfé about what’s revealed when we become lost and bewildered. Through story, myth and examples of ecological errancy, Báyò encourages us to stay with the trouble. With laughter and curiosity they explore—How to cultivate “lostness” in a world that privileges certainty The limits of inclusivity politics Why hiding is a courageous act of refusalHow we’re transformed by spontaneous acts of creativityTune in for an intimate and rich conversation about how we navigate separation and belonging in an...
2023-05-3045 min
For The WildThe Edges in the Middle, III: Báyò Akómoláfé and Indy Johar Continuing the conversation series, “The Edges in the Middle,” presented in collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute, For The Wild is delighted to share Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation with Indy Johar of Dark Matter Labs. Speaking on the theme “A New Theory of the Self,” Báyò and Indy dive into the milieu of life forms entangled together on earth. The conversation asks listeners to reconsider the objective nature of self and the word around us that has been so deeply ingrained within the architecture of society. Rejecting...
2023-05-2458 min
What is a Good Life?What is a Good Life? #17 - Leaving Utopia with Bayo AkomolafeOn the 17th episode of the What is a Good Life? podcast I am joined by Bayo Akomolafe, who is a widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, professor, public intellectual, essayist, and author. Bayo is the Founder of The Emergence Network, he currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, and the University of Vermont, and was appointed the inaugural Global Senior Fellow of the University of California’s (Berkeley) Othering and Belonging Institute. He has also been appointed Senior Fellow for The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany.In this episode, Bayo shares with us his...
2023-05-091h 04
Point of Relation with Thomas HueblBayo Akomolafe - Redefining Crisis: Creating Change Through ShapeshiftingThomas and celebrated international speaker, post-humanist thinker, and author Bayo Akomolafe delve into the pitfalls of modernity and modern psychology, and the need for new ways of navigating hidden and invisible thresholds. Bayo discusses his work tracing stories, folklore, and archetypes and how they invite us to do something akin to activism - a sensorial politics that he refers to as “post-activism.” They discuss the need for fresh modes of responding to crises that can invite us to develop new intelligences.Key Points:01:00 Parenting & disruptions of time and space
2023-04-2554 min
For The WildThe Edges in the Middle, II: Báyò Akómoláfé and VContinuing the conversation series, “The Edges in the Middle,” presented in collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute, For The Wild is delighted to share Báyò Akómoláfé in conversation with V (formerly known as Eve Ensler, playwright, author, and founder of V-Day and One Billion Rising). Speaking on the theme “The Promise and Limits of Restitution: Returning to ‘Congo,’” Báyò and V dance together in a conversation that shows us portals of possibility that edge us towards deep change. Discussing the Congo as both place and portal, Báyò and V contemplate the persistent and fugi...
2023-04-1955 min
You’re Going to Die: The PodcastThe Cosmic Shhh w/Báyò AkómoláféJoin host Ned Buskirk in conversation with Báyò Akómoláfé, father to Alethea & Kyah, grateful life-partner to Ije, son & brother, widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, & author, as they talk about his father’s death when Báyò was 15 years old, what it would take to dissolve the wall that death brought between them, & considering what new “cosmology of death” we all may need for these “modern times.”
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2023-03-301h 14
For The WildThe Edges in the Middle, I: Báyò Akómoláfé and john a. powellFor The Wild is honored to present a series of conversations entitled, “The Edges in the Middle,” in collaboration with UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute. In the first of these conversations, Báyò Akómoláfé speaks with john a. powell, Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute. Speaking on the theme “When ‘just getting along’ isn't enough: Is belonging possible in a world rooted in othering?,” Báyò and john contemplate the ontological weight of our desire for belonging. How might we learn how to belong together? Articulating bo...
2023-03-2955 min
How to Survive the End of the WorldDR. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other SensesWe are so honored to share an episode with you from one of our favorite podcasts, FOR THE WILD.
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“The fugitive is the figure of the Anthropocene, a political invitation to unlearn ‘mastery,’ to fall to the Earth, to learn how to commune with soil… In a sense, the fugitive answers the question that is hidden within the words of my Elders, when they say: ‘in order to find your way, you must become lost.’”
Returning guest Bayo Akomolafe guides listeners on a journey to lose oneself and leave behind the ties that bind us t...
2023-02-231h 09
The UNcivilized Podcast with Traver BoehmBayo Akomolafe — If plant medicine were a podcastEvery colonized country has a history of trauma and grief.
Today's guest Bayo Akomolafe, is a Nigerian man passionate about decolonized landscapes, writing, and poems. Today, he is here to blow our minds with his philosophy, no kidding.
If you press play, get ready to listen about decolonization, trauma, grief, mental health, psychotherapy, and how this influences and affects us as individuals.
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Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, writer, activist, professor of psychology, and executive director of the Emergence Network.
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2023-01-1654 min
Coaches Rising158 - Bayo Akomolafe: The Invitation of the CrackIn this conversation with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe we explore the beliefs that underlie our collective culture, the epistemology of identity, hypo-subjects, the decentralization of humans, how the world is more than story and potential in the instability of our times. Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, psychologist, professor and poet renowned for his unconventional views on global crises, activism, and social change. He has taught at various international universities and currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute and the University of Vermont. He sits on the Board of many organizations including Science and Non-Duality. Bayo is Executive Director and Chief...
2023-01-1057 min
RemakeBayo Akomolafe: Activism Beyond Words and AgendasTODAY'S GUEST Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is an academic lecturer, a spiritual leader, a disillusioned activist, and the author of These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home. He was born in 1983 into a Christian home, and to Yoruba parents in western Nigeria. Soon after he was born, his family emigrated to Bonn, Germany with his father on his first diplomatic assignment. This, Bayo's first trip, would foreshadow a life of travel, both literally and figuratively. He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California and University of Vermont....
2023-01-051h 05
Sounds of SAND#16 The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound: Sophie Strand and Bayo AkomolafeAn excerpt from the four day webinar The Wandering, Winding Way of the Wound with Bayo Akomolafe and Sophie Strand exploring the Politics of Cure, the Shadows of Harm Reduction, and Transgressive Networks of Care at World End.
You can enroll in the Course here: https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/webinar/wandering-winding-way
Also coming up a Community Gathering with Sophie Strand is happening next week at SAND.
We Must Risk New Shapes with Sophie StrandWednesday, December 28, 2022 10–11:30am PST
A live online conversation facilitated by Zaya & Maurizio Benazzo
Sophie St...
2022-12-2150 min
Unknowing”Composting Christianity” with Bayo AkomolafeBrie invites Dr. Bayo Akomolafe back on the Unknowing show to discuss facing the "monstrous". Together they discuss how if we are truly to be in the business of composting christianity, then we must explore the decaying, the dying, the molding as the site of emergence.
Bayo Akomolafe, Ph.D, is a widely celebrated international speaker, teacher, public intellectual, essayist and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak. To learn more...
2022-12-091h 06
Wild with Sarah WilsonBAYO AKOMOLAFE: The times are urgent, let’s slow down and become a fugitiveThis week’s guest will “shock you into noticing the world differently.” The glorious Bayo Akomolafe is a Nigerian-born Yoruba poet, author and teacher at universities and institutions across the UK, the US, Canada and India. He has also won the 2021 New Thought Walden Award which honours empowering spiritual ideas and philosophies that change lives and make our planet a better place. Bayo uses “trickster philosophy” and intense metaphors to present truly wild – but intuitively sound - ways to cope with the complex, existential challenges that we face. This is a madly challenging conversation and we touch...
2022-11-2948 min
Sounds of SAND#6 New Gods at the End of the World: Bayo Akomolafe and Sophie StrandToday, we present wild and flowering conversation between two poets, writers, philosophers, and theobiologians Bayo Akomalofe and Sophie Strand.
This conversation is from a 2022 SAND Community Gathering. To hear the full conversation with Q&A from the live webinar you can view it here.
In Greek Mythology, the Titan Kronos eats an indigestible stone and vomits up the new Olympic pantheon of gods. In our current time, people planted in stratigraphic layers of shared trauma find themselves uniquely ill – physically and mentally. We are unable to digest food and unable to digest violence. What if indi...
2022-10-1257 min
For The WildDr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses /300“The fugitive is the figure of the Anthropocene, a political invitation to unlearn ‘mastery,’ to fall to the Earth, to learn how to commune with soil… In a sense, the fugitive answers the question that is hidden within the words of my Elders, when they say: ‘in order to find your way, you must become lost.’” In this week’s episode, Bayo Akomolafe guides listeners on a journey to lose oneself and leave behind the ties that bind us to world views that do not serve humanity’s wholeness. Touching on the historical roots of fugitivity, Bayo challenges us to lean into the “pol...
2022-08-171h 08
The End of TourismS1 #15 | On Getting Lost, Making Sanctuary, and Courting Monsters | Bayo AkomolafeOn this episode, our guest is Bayo Akomolafe, a speaker, author, fugitive neo-materialist com-post-activist public intellectual and Yoruba poet. But when he takes himself less seriously, he is a father to Alethea and Kyah, and the grateful life-partner to Ej as well as the sworn washer of nightly archives of dishes.The convener of the concepts of ‘postactivism’, ‘transraciality’ and ‘ontofugitivity’, Bayo is a widely celebrated international speaker, teacher, public intellectual, essayist and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell o...
2022-06-2951 minNext Economy Now: For the Benefit of All LifeBayo Akomolafe: The Consequences of AnthropocentrismToday we host a deeply inspiring and perspective-shifting chat with the one and only Bayo Akomolafe. Bayo grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and is a father, son, brother, life partner, author, poet, teacher, public intellectual, international speaker, post-humanist thinker, and so much more. He is also the visionary founder of the Emergence Network and the host of the online course We Will Dance with Mountains.For the show notes, visit: https://www.lifteconomy.com/blog/bayo-akomolafeSubscribe to Next Economy Now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Google Podcasts
2022-06-1433 min
Sacred Sons PodcastSSP 98 - Transforming Paradigms With Poetry And Prose with Bayo AkomolafeBayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak, Bayo Akomolafe is the Visionary Founder of The Emergence Network and host of the online postactivist course, 'We Will dance with Mountains'. ON THIS EPISODE:
2022-06-0758 min
Sacred Sons PodcastSSP 98 - Transforming Paradigms With Poetry And Prose with Bayo AkomolafeBayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak, Bayo Akomolafe is the Visionary Founder of The Emergence Network and host of the online postactivist course, 'We Will dance with Mountains'. ON THIS EPISODE:
2022-06-0758 minSacred Sons PodcastSSP 98 - Transforming Paradigms With Poetry And Prose with Bayo AkomolafeBayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak, Bayo Akomolafe is the Visionary Founder of The Emergence Network and host of the online postactivist course, 'We Will dance with Mountains'. ON THIS EPISODE:
2022-06-0758 min
Transforming TraumaLostness, Trauma and Stories of Transformation with Bayo AkomolafeTrained in clinical psychology, Bayo Akomolafe, Ph.D. now works as an author, speaker, and professor. He is recognized worldwide for his thoughtful and unconventional take on global crises, trauma and social change. Bayo starts off by sharing a proverb from his Yoruba people: "In order to find your way, you must become lost". This leads to an invitation to being in the world in a different way. He offers an alternative, non-pathologizing way to think about trauma and our adaptations to it. Instead of pathologizing what we are afraid of, he invites us to "lean into th...
2022-06-0143 min
Spiritually Inspired: thought-provoking show that explores spirituality, consciousness, and energy healingSpiritually Inspired show with Bayo Akomolafe, Author, Philosopher, Psychologist.Send us a textSpiritually Inspired show with Bayo Akomolafe, Author, Philosopher, Psychologist.Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a philosopher, psychologist, professor, and poet. He is a teacher and public intellectual renowned for his unconventional views on global crises, activism, and social change. Bayo dreams of composing a “weird politics”, a postnationalist emancipatory network of making sanctuary as inquiry, a village of technologies for fugitives. In 2014, Dr. Akomolafe was invited to be the Special Envoy of the International Alliance for Localization, a project of Ancient Futures (USA). He left his lecturing position in Covena...
2022-05-3144 min
The One You FeedBayo Akomolafe on Finding a Home
Bayo Akomolafe is a widely celebrated international speaker, post-humanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and the author of two books – one of which he and Eric discuss in this episode. In this episode, Eric and Bayo discuss These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters To My Daughter On Humanity’s Search For Home.But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple...
2022-05-251h 05The One You FeedBayo Akomolafe on Finding a Home
Bayo Akomolafe is a widely celebrated international speaker, post-humanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and the author of two books – one of which he and Eric discuss in this episode. In this episode, Eric and Bayo discuss These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters To My Daughter On Humanity’s Search For Home.But wait – there’s more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It’s that simple...
2022-05-251h 05
Meaningpreneur PodcastCreating Meaningful Relationships in Business with Dr. Bayo AkomolafeDr. Bayo Akomolafe was one of the speakers at The House of Beautiful Business Conference last year and the wisdom he shared cracked open my mind and my heart. To my absolute delight, Bayo agreed to have a conversation with me on my podcast and talk about business and marketing.We discussed trust and the gift mentality, reaching out to people, having a big vision (or perhaps a vision having you), imagination, failing generously, and play.He also talked about being in awe, to stand in awe of the things that exceed us. A...
2022-05-0622 min
For The WildDr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times [ENCORE] /285This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, originally aired in January of 2020. Our hearts and minds are set to work by the urgent eco-social crises of this time. Caught in a cultural twitch of frenetic production and the sticky paradigms of modernity, we’ve penned vocabulary and designed technologies, manufactured frameworks and crunched numbers in an effort to diagnose and “treat” planetary collapse. We are invited by this week’s guest, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe, to pause and abandon solutionism, step back from the project of progress, and dance into a different set of questions: What does the Anth...
2022-05-041h 27
The Cosmic We with Barbara Holmes and Donny BryantLosing Your Way Generously with Bayo AkomolafeOn this episode, Bayo Akomolafe joins Dr. Barbara Holmes and Donny Bryant for this episode of The Cosmic We. Bayo Akomolafe is the grateful life-partner to ‘EJ’, father to Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi, son of Olufunmilayo Ibidapo Akomolafe and Ignatius Abayomi Akomolafe, and descendant of Yoruba fields of archetypal becomings and mythopoeic landscapes. He is an author, celebrated speaker, teacher, and self-styled trans-public intellectual (a concept imagined together with and inspired by the shamanic priesthood of the Yoruba healer-trickster)- whose vocation goes beyond justice and speaking truth to power to opening up other spaces of power-with, and...
2022-04-2259 min
RemakeBayo Akomolafe: Activism Beyond Words and AgendasTODAY'S GUEST Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is an academic lecturer, a spiritual leader, a disillusioned activist, and the author of These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home. He was born in 1983 into a Christian home, and to Yoruba parents in western Nigeria. Soon after he was born, his family emigrated to Bonn, Germany with his father on his first diplomatic assignment. This, Bayo's first trip, would foreshadow a life of travel, both literally and figuratively. He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California and University of Vermont....
2022-04-141h 05All That We AreRe-imagined Education, Cybernetic Flow and Bewilderment with Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe - E147How can we reimagine and reorient our curiosity during civilisational crisis? In this episode entitled Researching The Sacred, Amisha brings together Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe. Sophie is a writer, who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially between beings, ideas, differences, and mythical gradients. Bayo is a poet, philosopher, psychologist, professor and chief-curator of the Emergence Network. He curates this earth-wide project for the re-calibration of our ability to respond to civilisational crisis. Sophie and Bayo unfold a playful conversation taking us on a...
2022-04-141h 11
VOCE Dialogues: Voices of Conscious EmergenceEp.38 | Bayo Akomolafe & Charles Eisenstein, visionary speakers, essayists & authorsChloë Goodchild in conversation with visionary speakers, essayists & authors, Bayo Akomolafe & Charles Eisenstein, discussing friendship, public speaking, voice, sound, language, and much more.The VOCE Dialogues offer a simple, accessible in-depth ground for poets, authors, musicians, visual artists, and visionary teachers to share and disseminate their insights about the transformative practice of contemplative, creative and compassionate communication.Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international s...
2022-04-1348 min
The Wonder Dome#82 Fossil Poetry (with Báyò Akómoláfé)Ralph Waldo Emerson said that “language is fossil poetry.” If that's true, then Báyò Akómoláfé is one of the most remarkable archaeologists and excavators of language's hidden meanings and of our shared human past. What I love about Báyò is his capacity to reformulate, reimagine, reconfigure, and remember. He works with language in a way that deepens our understandings of what's true and real, and also what is untrue and unreal. He weaves those understandings together to help us move towards the boundaries of conventional life, where we might truly...
2022-01-251h 00
This Is Not Church PodcastThe Geometry Of Truth with Bayo AkomolafeIn This episode we chat with Bayo Akomolafe.
Bayo Akomolafe is the grateful life-partner to ‘EJ’, father to Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi, son of Olufunmilayo Ibidapo Akomolafe and Ignatius Abayomi Akomolafe, and descendant of Yoruba fields of archetypal becomings and mythopoeic landscapes. He is an author, celebrated speaker, teacher, and self-styled trans-public intellectual (a concept imagined together with and inspired by the shamanic priesthood of the Yoruba healer-trickster)- whose vocation goes beyond justice and speaking truth to power to opening up other spaces of power-with, and queering fond formulations and configurations of hope. Dr. Bayo Akomo...
2021-12-061h 08
Global Governance Futures: Imperfect Utopias or Bust17: Bayo Akomolafe – Bending Questions Into Rites of PassageBayo Akomolafe is a prolific essayist, speaker and activist, a professor of psychology, a master wordsmith and executive director of the Emergence Network. An acute observer of our troubled times, Bayo has a gift for capturing the awkward confusion of our present predicament in phrases like “the times are urgent, let us slow down.” In this conversation, Bayo invites us to sit with our awkward confusion as we explore vulnerability as strength, the acceleration of history, race and reparations, the “mind forged manacles” of our times, as well as agency in times in crisis, and much, much more. This was a real m...
2021-10-231h 20
Activist Theology PodcastOn Being Fugitives and Displacing Power - A Conversation with Bayo AkomolafeDr. Bayo Akomolafe considers his most sacred work to be learning how to be with his daughter and son, Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden – and their mother, his wife and “life-nectar”, Ijeoma. “To learn the importance of insignificance” is the way he frames a desire to reacquaint himself with a world that is irretrievably entangled, preposterously alive and completely partial. He is the Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project] and host of the online writing course, ‘We will dance with Mountains: Writing as a Tool for Emergence’. As Coordinating Curator of The Emergence Network, Bayo hop...
2021-08-0956 min
ManTalks PodcastBayo Akomolafe - Change Your Story, Change The World
Easily one of my favorite conversations this year. The depth of Bayo Akomolafe's wisdom is pretty much limitless. Listen in and be blown away. Bayo and I cover a lot of ground here, digging into the importance of ritual, the role of stories in our growth and how those stories are influenced by what's around us, the "atmosphere" of trauma, the microbiome, cripestimology, and looking for (as he calls it) the cracks in human agency.
Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a globally acclaimed lecturer, speaker, and proud diaper-changer, and considers his most sacred work to be learning how...
2021-08-0246 minUnknowing”Learning to be Lost” with Bayo AkomolafeIn Episode 003 of Unknowing, Brie Stoner is joined by philosopher, author, teacher and post-activist, Dr.Bayo Akomolafe, who describes becoming lost as a choice we must make in collaborating with seen and unseen forces to allow newness to emerge in ourselves, in society, and in the world.
To learn more about Dr.Bayo Akomolafe's work, or the books mentioned on this episode visit his website here.
To connect with Brie:
Join Brie's Patreon to access the companion master class with Brie's reflections and suggested practices that correspond with each episode and join others in community on t...
2021-07-221h 06
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration317) Bayo Akomolafe: Slowing down and surrendering human supremacyWhat does it mean that we have a crisis in form—that our problems go deeper than the visible systems we often attribute them to? What might we gain from surrendering human control and centrality, slowing down even as we feel increasing urgency to address social injustice and climate change? In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Bayo Akomolafe. Rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, Bayo is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and au...
2021-07-2045 min
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration317) Bayo Akomolafe: Slowing down and surrendering human supremacyWhat does it mean that we have a crisis in form—that our problems go deeper than the visible systems we often attribute them to? What might we gain from surrendering human control and centrality, slowing down even as we feel increasing urgency to address social injustice and climate change? In this episode, we're joined by Dr. Bayo Akomolafe. Rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, Bayo is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and au...
2021-07-2044 min
New Books in Spiritual Practice and MindfulnessBayo Akomolafe, "These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home" (North Atlantic Books, 2017)In These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home (North Atlantic Books, 2017), leading edge thinker and post-activist Bayo Akomolafe embraces some of the world’s most profound questions through the intimate lens of fatherhood. Creatively using memoir and the epistolary format, Dr. Akomolafe offers an engaging, thought-provoking look at a range of timely subjects, including the myths of modernity, climate change, food systems, and what it means to be human.Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is a writer, lecturer, and public intellectual. He is Executive Director and Chief Curator for The Emergence Network and ho...
2021-07-1432 min
Authentic Awakened Action#9 Bayo Akomolafe — Finding Wonder In The OrdinaryBayo Akomolafe is globally recognised for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on the world's interlocking social and environmental crises. He is the Executive Director of the Emergence Network. A Post-Activist Project making radical and creative inquiries into the frameworks that govern our orthodox modes of responding to crises.Bayo has authored two books: ‘We Will Tell Our Own Story' and ‘These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters To My Daughter on Humanity's Search For Home.' He considers learning how to be with his daughter, son and their mother, his most sacred work.Learn more...
2021-07-111h 31
Becoming Nature PodcastDiscovering the cracks in the mirror, with Bayo AkomolafeThis conversation has invited me to look at those in my mirror. Where I try to polish and where I accept the invitation. In the broader scale where we in West are so busy polishing that our arms are falling off. It takes some breathing deeply and a commitment to not turn away. About Bayo Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist...
2021-05-2947 min
State of Emergence064 Bayo Akomolafe – Getting Lost & Meeting the More-than-Human Vibrancy of the World Prophetic teacher, psychologist, author and poet, Bayo Akomolafe joins Terry to explore the "cracks in the world" that are opening to swallow everything we've been taught to believe and sense into the voices, adventures, and new worlds that are poised to emerge. With vivid original imagination and a ruthless deep kindness, Bayo names the limits of modern Western "solutionism" and invites us to make "fugitive breaks" away from familiar ways of knowing — to become consciously "lost" or "exiled" from our patterns of "proliferating the old." ...
2021-03-061h 36
We Are Power Crystals Podcast"If it is Imminent then it is Beautiful" with Bayo AkomolafeWhat does the fly that landed on Mike Pence’s head have to do with the fate of the United States? What does Satan have to do with God? And what did all three power crystals learn about Bayo Akomolafe when they communed in the virtual zoomiverse recently? Turn on this episode to find out! Leah, Jaison and Katie talk with celebrated writer, speaker and philosopher Bayo Akomolafe about how the pandemic has made stable identity impossible, about navigating different versions of reality, and about how our ideas of justice must stay fluid.
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2020-12-201h 22We Are Power Crystals Podcast"If it is Imminent then it is Beautiful" with Bayo AkomolafeWhat does the fly that landed on Mike Pence’s head have to do with the fate of the United States? What does Satan have to do with God? And what did all three power crystals learn about Bayo Akomolafe when they communed in the virtual zoomiverse recently? Turn on this episode to find out!
Leah, Jaison and Katie talk with celebrated writer, speaker and philosopher Bayo Akomolafe about how the pandemic has made stable identity impossible, about navigating different versions of reality, and about how our ideas of justice must stay fluid.
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2020-11-061h 22
Rune SoupTalking Sanctuary, Fugitive Spaces and Post-Activism | Dr Bayo AkomolafeThis week, we welcome to the show Dr Bayo Akomolafe. Bayo is a psychologist, educator and philosopher working and playing principally in the fields of decoloniality and ecology. He joins us today for a very special episode to celebrate the culmination of the premium member course on Custodianship, to talk about making sanctuary, fugitive spaces and post activism. "What if the way we respond to crisis is part of the crisis?" Show Notes Bayo Akomolafe's website. Bayo's essay, The Allegory of the Pit or The Irony of Victory. The Emergence Network. Interview...
2020-10-181h 18All That We AreTrust, Interbeing And Sacred Sanctuaries with Bayo Akomolafe, Manish Jain & Charles EisensteinWhat can we do to honour those that hold the world together? In this episode entitled Playing In The Wild Fields Of Trust, Amisha brings together Manish Jain (E39), an un-educator, giftivist, writer and co-founder of the Unschooling movement in India, Bayo Akomolafe (E13), a poet, philosopher, psychologist, professor and curator of the Emergence Network and Charles Eisenstein (E98) a social philosopher, author and public speaker; three leading thinkers and visionaries seeking to understand and shape the fabric of our earthly communities in new ways. In this life-affirming conversation they share their observations and insights...
2020-10-011h 44
Alight7 Dr. Bayo Akomolafe on Unlearning MasterySend a textBayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.) is Chief Curator and Executive Director of The Emergence Network. Author, lecturer, speaker, father, and rogue planet saved by the gravitational pull of his wife Ej, Bayo hopes to inspire a diffractive network of sharing within an ethos of new responsivity – a slowing down, an ethics of entanglement, an activism of inquiry, a ‘politics of surprise’. Born into a Yoruba family, Bayo graduated summa cum laude in psychology in 2006 at Covenant University (Nigeria). Bayo conducted doctoral research into Yoruba indigenous healing systems as part of his inner struggle to regain a sens...
2020-09-261h 02
Last Born In The Wilderness260 / Monstrosity / Bayo AkomolafeIn this episode, I speak with Bayo Akomolafe, author of These Wilds Beyond Our Fences. We begin by discussing Bayo's recent essay, I, Coronavirus. Mother. Monster. Activist.
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2020-07-231h 13
Embodiment Matters PodcastUncommon Considerations in the Anthropocene: A Conversation with Dr. Bayo AkomolafeUncommon Considerations in the Anthropocene An Interview with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe Friends, we're thrilled to share with you this most recent interview with our dear friend, Dr. Bayo Akomolafe. Bayo is a poet, philosopher, psychologist, professor, proud diaper changer, and passionate about the preposterous. He's a thinker and speaker unlike any you've met before. Born and raised in Nigeria, Bayo currently lives with his wife and two children in Chennai, India, and pre-pandemic, spent much time traveling the world teaching on transraciality, emergence, postactivism and more. He is a widely appreciated speaker, teacher, p...
2020-07-131h 12
Buddha at the Gas Pump547. Bayo AkomolafeBayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.) considers his most sacred work to be learning how to be with his daughter and son, Alethea Aanya, and Kyah Jayden - and their mother, his wife, and "life-nectar", Ijeoma. "To learn the importance of insignificance" is the way he frames a desire to reacquaint himself with a world that is irretrievably entangled, preposterously alive, and completely partial.
Bayo was born in 1983 into a Christian home, and to Yoruba parents in western Nigeria. Losing his diplomat father to a sudden heart complication, Bayo became a reclusive teenager, seeking to get to the "heart of the matter"...
2020-04-281h 48
Last Born In The Wilderness179 / We Will Not Arrive Intact / Bayo AkomolafeLecturer, activist, and author Bayo Akomolafe returns to the podcast. We pick up where we left off over one year ago and get into some of the major cruxes of his work, including radically reshaping the understandable, but often unexamined, sense of urgency we feel in a time of accelerating change and collapse as we fully enter into the Anthropocene, "the human epoch."
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2019-03-181h 31