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How can we confront collapse with care and compassion?

Vanessa de Oliveira Andreotti is the Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. She is a former Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change and a former David Lam Chair in Critical Multicultural Education. Vanessa has worked extensively across sectors internationally in areas of education related to global justice, global citizenship, critical literacies, Indigenous knowledge systems and the climate and nature emergency. Vanessa is the author of “Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity’s wrongs and the implications for social activism” and “Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion”.

She says in an interview with evolve: “Modernity is a living story with several characteristics. It's a story that inhabits us, it's a singular story of progress, development and civilization. It is so powerful that it conditions the ways that we relate to the world, the ways that we think, imagine, hope, process both emotions and trauma, and the possibilities that we have for relating to each other and creating or enabling different futures.”

In Radio evolve we share a recording from an evolve LIVE! Event with Vanessa in 2024, in which she speaks about the process of hospicing a worldview that no longer serves us and how we can usher into a new way of seeing and inhabiting the world.

evolve World recently opened the Interbeing Monastery, an online space for spiritual and cultural practice. At a time with so many crises, it is particularly important to meet in a shared intention and longing to connect to the sacred depth of existence in order to be able to respond in conscious and loving ways to what is happening in the world. Inner and outer transformation go hand in hand.

The Interbeing Monastery is a space to come together in practices like meditation, Lectio Devina (a sacred reading practice), Emergent Dialogue, the Interbeing Tea Dialogues and other practices. People can become a free community member and join practices in their own rhythm. These practices can form an ecology of practice that strengthens each other and offers a way for deep transformation of self and culture.

In this episode of Radio evolve, we speak about the role of spiritual practice in the transformation of culture, the power of shared intention, about the shared global presence that is possible in online spaces, and the invitation that the Interbeing Monastery offers.

More info: www.evolve-world.org/interbeing-monastery/

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Kitt Johnson is a dancer and choreographer from Denmark who works worldwide with solo performances and site-specific projects. Her repertoire also includes ensemble works, New Circus, and productions designed for children. In her solo performances she addresses existential themes of the human condition, and in her site-specific works as the artistic director of the company X-act she explores the hidden secrets and potential of neighborhoods in many parts of the world.

Kitt Johnson says about her work: “I highly believe that the things that we are occupied with as private people in our private life, have a lot of energy. If there's something really urgent and interesting for you, there's a lot of energy there. To create a performance from that point of departure has a huge potential to also be valuable for other people. In a way, my job is to transform what is urgent for me as a private person into something that can be hopefully universal to all times and cultures. That's very ambitious. Or at least to be relevant for other people because these themes are existential. The themes themselves are relevant to everyone, because there's a lot of power where it burns.”

In Radio evolve we speak about the power of an embodied investigation of our shared human condition.
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Arawana Hayashi in dialogue with Elizabeth Debold

 

„The dance is more than the dancers,“ says Arawana Hayashi, creator of Social Presencing Theater at the Presencing Institute. Hayashi has worked with systems change catalyst Otto Scharmer to bring together her experience as a dancer with his work with organizations. What does it mean that the dance is more than the dancers? The dance has its own energy and coherence beyond, but not separate from, the dancers. In other words, the fields of connection between us hold wisdom that our bodies can sense. Social fields—the energy and knowledge implicit between us—can open pathways to understanding and response that the rational mind cannot see.

The Art of Making a True Move is the title of Hayashi’s book. She has developed a practice that brings meditation and movement together that enable new shared potentials to be revealed. Working with the „stuckness“ that often gets in our way individually and collectively, Hayashi teaches us to respond from a deeper, embodied place that opens up ways to truly move through and beyond being stuck. A greater whole is tapped into that is accessed through the social field.

“When we relax a little bit, then a gesture emerges that is not planned or thought about. That's what we call the true move. It comes out of nothing or a gap between discursiveness or conceptual frameworks. An openness that ties with genuineness and simplicity. And it can open completely new possibilities that we cannot access by thinking or individual insight.”

In this conversation from an evolve LIVE event in 2025, Arawana Hayashi and Elizabeth Debold engage in an inquiry into the embodied knowing that leads to a true move: How can our embodiment become a pathway to wisdom? Why does an awareness of the social field open up the potential of our togetherness.

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How may we practice hosting for the unfolding of Life?

 

Elizabeth Debold in Dialogue with Toke Moeller

Thursday, January 15th, 8 pm CET

 

For thirty years, Toke Moeller has been hosting conversations that matter in a world of complexity, conflict, crisis, and division. These are the conversations that feel so necessary and yet so often are avoided. Inspired to bring people together to respond to the many conflicts that divide us, Toke trusted the human capacity for curiosity and care. With his partners, he developed The Art of Hosting, an approach to these conversations that comes from generosity--the generosity of holding a space as a host. The Art of Hosting opens up a participatory, communal form of leadership that Moeller has taken into 32 countries.

And there was something else that opened up in this practice. They called it „The Magic in the Middle.“ What is this magic? A mysterious opening to a shared perception that happens when the participants let go of their assumptions and agendas and listen. Toke has reverence for this magic, feeling that it is inappropriate to try to pin it down. In an interview with evolve Magazin, he says:

“When you come to that kind of gentle, conscious space, it's like the magic of life unfolding, not the magic that you want to cook up as mysterious. When we feel that goodness, that well-being, that wish to support each other and respect each other's lives becomes more important than being right.”

In this Radio evolve, which was recorded at an evolve LIVE! Webinar, Toke Moeller and Elizabeth Debold inquire into the Magic in the Middle and the importance of hosting the conditions to create the future. How does hosting create a space for Life to unfold? What can we learn from the space between us about the future that wants to emerge?

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