Conversations

making meaning series

Explore our sense-making conversations with people working to build new ways of living and doing society.

Inner change, outer action with Gretchen Steidle

We talk to Gretchen Steidle, Director of Spirituality and Social Change at the Garrison Institute, about what inner work can reveal about our outer world and how to translate those insights into social change.

Read our reflections on the conversation here.

Indigenous insight for a better world with Donna Kerridge

Donna Kerridge, Director of Ora New Zealand, discusses how Māori teachings can help us understand our global challenges and why we all have it within us to make a better society.

Read our reflections on the conversation here.

From apartheid to awakening with Choden

Buddhist monk and founder of the Mindfulness Association Choden tells about his experience growing up in Apartheid South Africa, the lessons he has learned from Buddhism, and what he believes is going to be key to creating a more compassionate, just world.

Read our reflections on the conversation here.

Transforming politics with Kat Thane

Facilitator, coach, and government relations adviser Kat Thane talks to us about why we need to rethink our idea of politics - what it’s for, how’s it done, and who’s it done by. She offers her views on how we can start to change politics from the inside out as well as examples of places where this is already beginning.

Read our reflections on the conversation here.