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Accidental GodsBe like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny DouglasWater is our lifeblood and Clean Water (along with Clean Air and Clean Soil) is one of our core Three Asks, the non-negotiable baselines that underpin a flourishing future for people and life on our planet. Getting there, means everyone beginning to care at a bone-deep level, way beneath our conscious minds and having a sense of how we might get there, supported by evidence of what works (or doesn't) so that we can create positive feedback loops of growing community between the human and Beyond-Human worlds. Living this into being is one of the core pillars o...2025-07-231h 29
Conflict Decoded PodcastHospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs & Transforming Our Relationship with Conflict with Giovanna de Oliveira AndreottiThe daughter of Vanessa Andreotti (author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and The Implications for Social Activism), Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti grew up facing the ongoing predicament of collapse.
In this episode, Giovanna shares how facing the reality of collapse no longer destabilizes her. Instead, the wisdom she’s gleaned—and her commitment to inquiry—are helping her to acknowledge reality, notice the ways it manifests within us, and do the hard work of choosing emotional sobriety, intellectual discernment, relational maturity, and responsibility in these times.
By acknowledging the ways modernity manifests in each of us, we can begin to...2025-07-211h 00
The ChatterboxHospicing Modernity | Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti Podcast: OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward Abundance (LS 41 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Hospicing Modernity | Vanessa de Oliveira AndreottiPub date: 2025-04-15Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationModernity is dying within and around us, and we need to face that death with courage and compassion. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, author of Hospicing Modernity, joins us. Highlights include: How her mixed Indigenous and German heritage in Brazil exposed her to a complex mix of love and violence, deepening her understanding of how socialization and education can perpetuate harmf...2025-05-0851 min
OVERSHOOT | Shrink Toward AbundanceHospicing Modernity | Vanessa de Oliveira AndreottiModernity is dying within and around us, and we need to face that death with courage and compassion. Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, author of Hospicing Modernity, joins us. Highlights include: How her mixed Indigenous and German heritage in Brazil exposed her to a complex mix of love and violence, deepening her understanding of how socialization and education can perpetuate harmful relationships; Why the ‘house of modernity’, which is built on a foundation of humanity’s separation from the rest of nature, is structured to ultimately fail; Why we need to ‘hospice modernity’ both within and around us, without feeling overwhelmed or rushing f...2025-04-1551 min
Cyclical MotherhoodWhy is Cyclical Motherhood needed now?Welcome back to the Cyclical Motherhood podcast!Today's episode is a shared exploration about why Cyclical Motherhood is needed now:for mothersfor our children and familiesfor the collective and beyondWe found this conversation super rich and inspiring. We leave you with a powerful enquiry to hopefully support you on your own exploration of being a cyclical mother during these times.___References and resources: the definition of 'whiteness' and 'modernity' that Hayley speaks about has been learned from the powerful book 'Hospicing Modernity' by Vanessa de Oliveira Andreottithe concept of e...2025-04-1248 min
Homeward Bound (including The Great Humbling)"Burnout From Humans" with Vanessa AndreottiThis episode is the podcast version of a live event a few weeks ago, hosted by the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective, where I joined Vanessa Andreotti – who some of you will know as Vanessa Machado de Oliveira – to wonder about what she is up to with AI.To say it came as a surprise when Vanessa mentioned that she had co-written a book with an AI bot called Aiden Cinnamon Tea… well, that would be an understatement. Here, she shares more about why GTDF has chosen to work with AI and we puzzle this through with the he...2025-03-141h 33
Deschooling DialoguesEpisode 7 | Alnoor Ladha with Vanessa AndreottiEpisode 7 - Alnoor Ladha with Vanessa AndreottiWelcome to the Deschooling Dialogues. Today my guest is Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, who's a scholar, activist, organizer, and one of the founders of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Arts/Research Collective, as well as Dean of Education at the University of Victoria.Vanessa is author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity’s wrongs and the implications for social activism, and one of the designers of the course Facing Human Wrongs: Climate Complexity and Relational Accountability, available at UVic...2024-09-221h 19
Practice You with Elena BrowerVanessa Machado de Oliveira, PhDOn hospicing modernity, an invitation to hold many paradoxical layers of complexity, to stretch your heart, to know vulnerability as your strength. (1:00) - Colonialism, identity, and family history. (7:10) - Modernity, its definition, and its impact on society, culture, and the environment. (16:53) - Modernity, colonialism, and their impact on humanity's mental health and well-being. (26:20) - Education, storytelling, and connection to nature. (32:50) - Indigenous perspectives on psychology, including the concept of the "bus" representing the multiplicity within the self. (39:08) - Modern society's disconnection from nature and self, with a focus on indigenous knowledge and practices for healing and growth. 2024-09-1447 min
Entangled WorldFrom Modernity to Relationality | Vanessa AndreottiWatch now on YouTube. Entangled World explores the interrelated, existential social, economic, ecological, and technological risks we face, their underlying drivers, and how a more beautiful world might emerge. Entangled World is a labor of love, I am deeply grateful for the generosity of my listeners and fans. Please consider supporting the project at https://www.patreon.com/entangledworldToday on the podcast, I talked with Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti. Vanessa is the author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity's wrongs and the implications for social activism, which is a beautiful an...2024-09-121h 07
The Great Simplification with Nate HagensThe Ecology of Communication: Moving Beyond Polarization in Service of Life | Reality Roundtable 10(Conversation recorded on June 14th, 2024) Show Summary: There’s a growing understanding of the need for biodiversity across ecosystems for a healthy and resilient biosphere. What if we applied the same principles to the way we communicate and use language to relate to each other and the world? Today Nate is joined by Nora Bateson, Rex Weyler, Vanessa Andreotti, and Daniel Schmachtenberger to talk about the ecology of communication. This important conversation addresses some of the traps and pitfalls of modern relating, including the use of increasingly performative language and the erosion of authentic connection, both...2024-07-281h 48The Great Simplification with Nate HagensThe Ecology of Communication: Moving Beyond Polarization in Service of Life | Reality Roundtable 10(Conversation recorded on June 14th, 2024) Show Summary: There’s a growing understanding of the need for biodiversity across ecosystems for a healthy and resilient biosphere. What if we applied the same principles to the way we communicate and use language to relate to each other and the world? Today Nate is joined by Nora Bateson, Rex Weyler, Vanessa Andreotti, and Daniel Schmachtenberger to talk about the ecology of communication. This important conversation addresses some of the traps and pitfalls of modern relating, including the use of increasingly performative language and the erosion of authentic connection, both...2024-07-281h 48The Great Simplification with Nate HagensVanessa Andreotti: "Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity"(Conversation recorded on March 25th, 2024) Show Summary: In this episode, Nate is joined by educator and researcher Vanessa Andreotti to discuss what she calls “hospicing modernity” in order to move beyond the world we’ve come to know and the failed promises that “modernity” has made to our current culture. Whether you refer to it as the metacrisis, the polycrisis, or - in Nate’s terms - the human predicament, Vanessa brings a unique framing rooted in indigenous knowledge and relationality to aid in understanding, grieving, and building emotional resilience within this space. What does it mean to li...2024-05-291h 34The Great Simplification with Nate HagensVanessa Andreotti: "Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity"(Conversation recorded on March 25th, 2024) Show Summary: In this episode, Nate is joined by educator and researcher Vanessa Andreotti to discuss what she calls “hospicing modernity” in order to move beyond the world we’ve come to know and the failed promises that “modernity” has made to our current culture. Whether you refer to it as the metacrisis, the polycrisis, or - in Nate’s terms - the human predicament, Vanessa brings a unique framing rooted in indigenous knowledge and relationality to aid in understanding, grieving, and building emotional resilience within this space. What does it mean to li...2024-05-291h 34
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regenerationEVERGREEN | Vanessa Andreotti: Allowing the earth to dream through us“We consume not only stuff but also knowledge, experiences, critique. And this consumption, many times, is not even digested. It is the consumption for consumption’s sake so that we can feel better.”What might it mean for humanity to reach a level of maturation to be able to confront the multilayered crises we now face—calling upon us to “grow up and show up” for ourselves and our planet? And how might recognizing the differing historical contexts that we were raised within help us to have more empathy when navigating our generational differences?In this episode...2024-04-2349 min
Future Learning Design PodcastA Radical New Kind of 'Probiotic' Education - A Conversation with Dr. Vanessa AndreottiWhat does it mean to help our young people understand all of the forces that have brought us to where we are, and also to take real responsibility for all of the benefits and harms that that has caused, in particular to indigenous communities around the world?
What kinds of education might 'enable healthier possibilities of (co)existence that are viable, but are unthinkable/unimaginable within our dominant cognitive and affective frames of reference.' (GTDF Collective, Global Citizenship Otherwise, p3)
An education of the gut and the heart, not just the head!
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The Other Human in the Room114. Hospicing Modernity with Vanessa de Oliveira AndreottiI had such a brain expanding conversation with Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti that the internet demons tried to shut it down! Nevertheless, we persisted and really explored what it could look and feel like to identify what is dying in our current system and society, and how we could approach these changes with a hospicing approach.Hospicing Modernity book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/675703/hospicing-modernity-by-vanessa-machado-de-oliveira/Hospicing Modernity intro course: https://scienceandnonduality.com/event/hospicing-modernity/Facing Human Wrongs course: https://continuingstudies.uvic.ca/teaching-learning-and-development/courses/facing-human-wrongs-2-0-climate-complexity-and-relational-accountability/Connect with Joan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com...2024-04-081h 11
First Voices Radio11/26/23 - Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti (Repeat)This week we're revisiting Tiokasin Ghosthorse's conversation with Professor Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti, author of “Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and Implications for Social Activism” (North Atlantic Books, 2021). The original broadcast aired in March 2023. Vanessa is a Latinx professor at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change. Vanessa began her career as a teacher in Brazil in 1994 and has since led educational and research programs in countries including the UK, Finland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Brazil and Canada. She works across sectors in international and comparative educat...2023-11-2759 min
UNDOMESTIZIERT#36 Der weibliche PilgerwegFrieden finden durch Rückverbindung
Ich spreche mit Katharina Braun über ihre ganz besondere Pilgerreise.
Ihr Projekt nennt sie : Woman of the Well
Sie ist ihren Ahnenweg gepilgert.
Katharina Braun, Tochter von Beate Geyermann-Braun und Markus Braun, Enkelin ihrer Großmütter in der Schweiz und der Pfalz.
Mit dem Fluss des Lebens, ist sie ihre Matriarchale Linie von Bern bis an die Mosel gepilgert. Mit dem Bär, über die Schlange zur Quelle der Venus, ihrer Urweiblichkeit.
Wasser als weibliche Urkraft fließt durch all unsere Adern und durch es das Wissen der Erinnerung an unsere Ahnen und das Lan...2023-09-121h 21First Voices Radio04/09/23 - Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti (Repeat)This week we're revisiting Tiokasin Ghosthorse's conversation with Professor Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti, author of “Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and Implications for Social Activism” (North Atlantic Books, 2021). The original broadcast aired in March 2023. Tiokasin will be back with a new episode the week of April 24th. Vanessa is a Latinx professor at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change. Vanessa began her career as a teacher in Brazil in 1994 and has since led educational and research programs in countries including the UK, Finland, Aotearoa/New Ze...2023-04-1059 minFirst Voices Radio03/12/23 - Vanessa Machado de Oliveira AndreottiTiokasin spends the full hour with Vanessa Machado de Oliveira Andreotti, author of “Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and Implications for Social Activism” (North Atlantic Books, 2021). Vanessa is a Latinx professor at the University of British Columbia and holds a Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change. Vanessa began her career as a teacher in Brazil in 1994 and has since led educational and research programs in countries including the UK, Finland, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Brazil, and Canada. She works across sectors in international and comparative education, particularly focusing on global justice and citizenship, Indigenous and co...2023-03-1359 min
What Can We Do In These Powerful Times?Dougald HineDougald Hine is author and co-founder of Dark Mountain, a cultural movement of people who have "stopped believing the stories our civilisation tells itself" and a School Called HOME, a "a gathering place and a learning community for those who are drawn to the work of regrowing a living culture" (personal website, Substack, wikipedia). His latest book is "At Work in the Ruins", which we discuss at length in the conversation. At the beginning Dougald describes himself as "using words, and sometimes silences, to shift the space of possibility", which I think underplays his r...2023-02-0453 minWhat Can We Do In These Powerful Times?Briony GreenhillBriony Greenhill a folk-soul improvisational artist who teaches Collaborative Vocal Improvisation (CVI) internationally, plus political activist (Twitter, Bandcamp, YouTube, Patreon). She tells her story of performing different sorts of music when she was young, but not fitting with a music degree. After her 20s in political campaigning, she stopped believing we could have 'business as usual, but greener'. An experience of Indian improvised music then inspired her to a different direction, which became Collective Vocal Improvisation.Our conversation asks: what could politics (and all of our society become) if w...2022-10-0949 min
The Carbon ConnectionGreen Dreamer - Allowing Earth to Dream Through UsSUMMARYIn this episode, host Kamea Chayne speaks with Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti, teacher, advocate, and Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities, and Global Change at the University of British Columbia. Chayne and Andreotti discuss how different generations define inclusion, the need for intergenerational communication, and decolonizing the future.Learn more about The Carbon Almanac at https://thecarbonalmanac.org. CONTRIBUTORSSpecial Acknowledgment: Kamea Chayne, Producer/Host, Green Dreamer podcastEpisode Producer: Inma J LopezEditor: Tania MarienProduction Team: Jenn Swanson, Judy Parrella, and Manon Dora...2022-07-2651 minWhat Can We Do In These Powerful Times?1. Ed GillespieFirst interview with Ed Gillespie -- "father, inspirational keynote speaker and futurist". Also, co-presenter of The Great Humbling and John Richardson and the Futurenauts, director of Greenpeace UK, a facilitator with The Forward Institute, and involved with 12 or so. different, ethical environmental startup businesses -- or, as he puts it: facilitation, activism, and investment in businesses which might help shape a better future).This episode was recorded at the start of December 2021 (so before Ukraine and other big news). Ed uses a few swear words (one b*ll*cks, a few f*cks), which would make this...2022-05-2130 min