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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.

In this episode, I’m joined by Homa Tavangar and Will Richardson. Homa is a best-selling author of Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World and Global Kids. Homa advises and trains K-12 schools and Boards around the world. She was born in Iran, has lived on four continents, speaks four languages, and has heritage in four world religions.

Will Richardson has spent over 40 years in education, the last 20 of which have focused on sparking global conversations around educational change in response to the growing challenges and opportunities that our complex times present. He is the author of six books, and most recently published "Confronting Education in a Time of Chaos, Complexity and Collapse."

Together, Homa & Will co-founded the Big Questions Institute (BQI), which challenges educators to develop personal and institutional capacity for addressing the confounding problems of our time. It aims to help educators of all stripes build their capacity to see and accept this unique moment for what it is and to peer into the future with skill, grounding that work in "fearless inquiry," a disposition of deep questioning and truth-telling.

Homa and Will explore what it means to truly educate children in a rapidly changing world, focusing on the importance of relationships, connection, and the sacred elements of learning. The conversation delves into the roles of community, power dynamics in schools, while also highlighting the beacons of light in small, startup schools, many of them nature based, that are doing things radically different from mainstream education. We discuss the community-and-child-empowering frameworks that can help bring about desperately needed shifts in our education system by beginning with asking, “What is sacred?”

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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.

In this episode, I am joined by Samantha Sweetwater, an author, thought leader, ceremonial guide, educator, and executive coach. For over 30 years, Samantha has facilitated individual and group transformational experiences in diverse communities, cultures, and industries on five continents. Her work leading conversations about our relationship with the Earth, spirituality, and systems change is transforming the way we think about what it means to be human.

Samantha highlights that separation from the Earth that we are nested inside of has been our human predicament and that the next stage of evolution looks like a conscious reunion that organizes towards a purpose to co-harmonize and create abundance for all beings within the biosphere.

We also discuss the metacrisis, that we're reaching existential tipping points we've never reached before at a planetary scale. Samantha imagines a vision 300 years into the future where we’ve managed to co-orchestrate, through climate catastrophe, through the migration of billions of people, through massive cycles of famine and disease, a more regenerative way to live in harmony with all life.

Samantha’s divine feminine wisdom offers a perspective that is urgently needed as our world undergoes a profound phase shift.

Whether this episode is new to you or a chance to revisit it, I hope her words provide space for reflection and inspiration as we step into a new year.

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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.

In this episode, I’m joined by Alex Randall from the Civilization Research Institute to discuss Development in Progress, a recent paper released by The Consilience Project, an initiative of the Civilization Research Institute.

I highly recommend taking the time to read it—this paper sheds new light on the widely accepted progress narrative, the idea that technological innovation, markets, and institutions have unambiguously improved our quality of life. While modernity has undeniably brought many benefits, such as medical advancements and technologies that connect us globally, this paper challenges us to question the costs of progress as we define it today. It argues that the overlooked side effects of our pursuit of progress have accumulated to a point where they now pose existential risks to life on our planet.

The good news is that there are relatively simple ways we can start making changes that reduce these downsides. Alex emphasizes that progress itself isn’t inherently harmful, but by expanding our view of what progress encompasses, we can better recognize and address its unintended consequences.

We delve into some innovative frameworks developed by the Civilization Research Institute, like prudent problem-solving and yellow teaming—approaches that can immediately enhance how we take meaningful action in both our organizations and our personal lives.

For those of you who understand the metacrisis and are eager to know how you can make a difference, this episode is especially exciting!