Episode 57 - Phoebe Tickell - Imagination Activist
Phoebe Tickell is a Biologist and Systems thinker who develops methodologies and approaches suited to a better world. With a degree in Biological Natural Sciences she brings her understanding of biological networks and systems thinking into governance, organisational structures, narratives and imagination. From co-founding multiple organisations, designing and implementing learning programmes to facilitating groups across the world, Phoebe has been called a voice of the emerging future and one of the most important systems thinkers of her generation.
Recorded in the Devonian woods around a campfire, Dan and Phoebe discuss:
- Reflection, peace and slowness in a time when there’s lots to do
- The rejection of indigenous wisdom/science unless ‘discovered’ by western science
- Systems change; yet aren’t we the system?
- In times of grief, what would a sane culture do?
- Evolving from a self-exterminating society to a self-sustaining society
- Caring for young imaginations in an era of technological entertainment
- Moral Imagination. Imagination activists. And imaginal zones
- Subsidising slowness, not speed and rewiring our economy
- Power of the ‘sit spot’, make believe, masks and role play
- Relationships and value between the human and more-than-human world
- Everything is not in the government's hands. We can be empowered to create our own reality
- Designing systems with wisdom. Bring it on!
Community and Links
Phoebe Tickell - www.phoebetickell.com
Moral Imagination - www.moralimaginations.com
Twitter: @solarpunk_girl
@moral_imagining
Community:
Schumacher College - campus.dartington.org/schumacher-college
The Onion Collective - www.onioncollective.co.uk
People:
Pat McCabe www.patmccabe.net
Michael Pollan michaelpollan.com
Stefan Harding humansandnature.org/stephan-harding/
Bill Plotkin www.animas.org/about-us/our-founder/
Lou Macnamara resourcejustice.co.uk
Joanna Macy www.joannamacy.net
Jiddu Krishnamurti jkrishnamurti.org
Buckminster Fuller www.bfi.org
Sir Ken Robinson www.sirkenrobinson.com
William Gibson
Brian Eno
Gregory Bateson
Gregory Cajete
Daniel Schmachtenberger
Quotes:
Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”
Edward Wilson: “We’re overloaded with information. And starved of wisdom.”
Play Out Track:
Bonobo - Sapien
From the Album ‘ Fragments’
music.apple.com/gb/album/sapien/1…8878?i=1584969129
Sound Credits:
Features birdsong recorded by Fintan O'Brien
@fintanobrien
Interview clip from Sara Summers - Watchet Collective
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