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The Great Simplification with Nate HagensReimagining the Cultural Narrative: Art and Storytelling for Systemic Change with Dougald Hine(Conversation recorded on November 12th, 2024) In today’s modern era, the overwhelming flood of information that constantly flows our way can leave us feeling disoriented, lost, and powerless. Even science – our most trusted source of truth – can be taken out of context to fuel division and distort the reality around us. In the midst of this confusion, how can we learn to ground ourselves and find guideposts that can direct our lives and work? Today, Nate is joined by storyteller and social thinker, Dougald Hine, to explore the importance of narratives in shaping our unders...2025-02-121h 36The Great Simplification with Nate HagensReimagining the Cultural Narrative: Art and Storytelling for Systemic Change with Dougald Hine(Conversation recorded on November 12th, 2024) In today’s modern era, the overwhelming flood of information that constantly flows our way can leave us feeling disoriented, lost, and powerless. Even science – our most trusted source of truth – can be taken out of context to fuel division and distort the reality around us. In the midst of this confusion, how can we learn to ground ourselves and find guideposts that can direct our lives and work? Today, Nate is joined by storyteller and social thinker, Dougald Hine, to explore the importance of narratives in shaping our unders...2025-02-121h 36
Forest of Thought16. LIVE: Does it still make sense to talk about climate change? // DOUGALD HINEDoes it still make sense to talk about climate change? This seems a strange question to ask, for someone who has spent much of his adult life talking to people about climate change, but it is the question writer Dougald Hine has found himself wondering about lately.
When we talk about climate change, we are entering into a conversation that is framed by science, yet climate change also asks us questions that lead beyond that frame. In recent years, however, the language of science has become supercharged: from the placards that read ‘Unite Behind the Science’ to the...2021-12-071h 21
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S4E1: 'Confessions' The Great Humbling is back for a fourth series of conversations between Dougald Hine and Ed Gillespie, now as part of the wider patchwork of Homeward Bound. Our theme for this first episode is confessions, but we start by looking back over the summer that's gone. Ed offers us Carol Campayne's seasonal map of responsible leadership with questions that follow the turning of the year: Spring: What's emerging? What are the new green shoots? Summer: What's blooming? What's in floral technicolor? Autumn: W...2021-11-0337 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S2E7: 'State of Jeopardy' In the week before the US election we finally do an episode where we talk about American politics and how it fits into this larger conversation about what it means if we’re living in a time of great humbling. ‘Jeopardy’ was originally used in the 14th century in chess and other games to denote a problem, or a position in which the chances of winning or losing were evenly balanced. It’ss the exposure to or imminence of death, loss, or injury. The danger that an accused p...2020-10-3151 min
Forest of Thought4. A world of many worlds // DOUGALD HINEThe big story of never-ending Progress has captured our imaginations for hundreds of years. But now we seem to be witnessing its unravelling. The search for other stories is no longer a fringe activity, but taking place in all parts of society. What do we want to keep from this story, and what do we leave behind? In this episode we explore the idea of Progress together with writer Dougald Hine.
Ten years ago, Dougald co-founded The Dark Mountain Project, which has grown into world-wide community of artists and writers. He and his partner Anna Björkman n...2020-06-2551 minForest of Thought2. The Great Unveiling // PELLA THIELWhat is the corona crisis revealing to us – about our societies and about ourselves? Join us in conversation with activist and ecologist Pella Thiel as we discuss the deeper meaning of apocalypse, and how it is interwoven with hope and desire.
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LINKS TO THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT:
About Pella: pellathiel.se.
Swedish Transition Network: omstallning.net.
Charles Eisenstein’s essay on corona: charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/.
Writer and thinker Dougald Hine...2020-05-1253 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)The Great Humbling S1E1: 'Mapping Lava' How will they look in hindsight, these times we're living through? Is this a midlife crisis on the road to the Star Trek future, or the point at which that story of the future unravelled and we came to see how much it had left out? What if our current crises are neither an obstacle to be overcome, nor the end of the world, but a necessary humbling? With Covid-19 calling into question the ways we have been living, Ed Gillespie and Dougald Hine set out to explore what it means to be h...2020-04-0459 min