Podcasts about Dartington

Adrian Goldberg talks to Jen Stout, author of 'Night Train To Odesa - Covering The Cost of Russia's War' Recorded at the Byline Festival in Dartington. Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg and Phil Driscoll. Brought to you by Byline Audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dark Medical Thriller by Matthew Broughton, creator of Tracks and Broken Colours.Anna tries to treat Mr Dartington and they clean up the surgery, but nobody comes, so Anna starts to go through Dr Price's notes. With original music by Sion Orgon and Rhodri DaviesCAST Anna Diaz- Saran Morgan Ged Diaz - Sion Daniel Young Ruth - Michelle Bonnard Mr Dartington - Ifan Huw Dafydd Maggie - Catrin AaronOriginal music by Sion Orgon and Rhodri DaviesProduction Coordinator Eleri McAuliffe Sound Design by Catherine Robinson Directed by John Norton A BBC Audio Wales production for Radio 4

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We all know the climate and ecological tipping points are terrifyingly close. What can we do - as individuals and collectively? Simon Oldridge has ideas that answer both of these.  Simon first joined us back in episode #182 when he joined his colleague Anthea Simmons and they spoke eloquently about the strategies of the South Devon Primary group which are aimed at raising one progressive candidate in borderline constituencies in the UK, so that the hard right doesn't swan through the middle on a minority of the votes because the anti-Tory vote has been split (again).  Getting progressive politicians into power is their primary aim, but they also want to make sure the candidates who become MPs understand the concerns of their constituents and are prepared to act as independent-minded individuals in the House of Commons, not simply lobby fodder.  So that was a fun and sparky conversation, but it seemed to me at the time that we could have delved down a lot more deeply into SImon's broader work to find politically viable ways to address the climate and ecological emergency, particularly his work with Zero Hour, the campaign for the Climate and Ecology Bill and which has produced a number of detailed and fascinating reports, including one about the Ambition Gap we have as we head for Net Zero and another entitled, 'Creating a Nature-Rich UK'.  Hence, we came back for another conversation  - because apart from anything else, it's so enlivening to talk with someone else who spends their entire life thinking about these things: and if I can't have fun on the podcast, what's the point? I am well aware that many of you listening are not in the UK  - and that politics is a very siloed space: we all have our own rules to work within and our own levels of bureaucracy and kleptocracy masquerading as democracy that we're trying to reform.  So I hope that some of the ideas we explore, particularly the bigger ones of global power systems and routes to net zero and nature-based solutions strike home far outside the boundaries of this island.  And yes, I still have Covid, so I apologise in advance for the state of my voice.  Target Seats suitable for replicating South Devon Primary https://www.politicalprimary.org/target-mapSouth Devon Primary on Twitter https://twitter.com/sdevonprimarySouth Devon Primary on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/sdevonprimary/Simon on Twitter https://twitter.com/SiOldridgeSimon on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-oldridge-17207a206/Zero Hour:  https://www.zerohour.uk/Zero Hour Reports https://www.zerohour.uk/reports/Zero Hour on Twitter https://twitter.com/@CEBill_nowCREDS - https://low-energy.creds.ac.uk/ Stanford study: https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/3539703-no-miracle-tech-needed-how-to-switch-to-renewables-now-and-lower-costs-doing-it/ Oxford study on how Decarbonising the Energy system could save $Trillions https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-09-14-decarbonising-energy-system-2050-could-save-trillions-oxford-studyClimate and Ecology Bill:https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/2943Episode 182: South Devon Primary https://accidentalgods.life/primary-strategy-growing-a-new-voting-paradigm-in-the-south-devon-primary/

Welcome to the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast. This episode is part of our special permaculture writer's series. My name is Morag Gamble. I am speaking with Devon based herbal practitioner and herb grower, educator, author and founder of the Herbal History Research Network Dr Anne Stobart.Anne has two books available through Permanent Publications, The Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook (2020), and coming out this year, Trees and Shrubs That Heal: Reconnecting with the Medicinal Forest - with 80 plants profiled, each with a simple recipe. Ann has also published her PhD research, Household Medicine of 17th Century EnglandBack in the early 1990s, Anne joined a permaculture design course at Dartington in Devon and was inspired to cultivate more herbs for use in her clinical practice. Anne grew many herbs in the cottage garden and on the allotment. but she and her partner wanted to grow more of their own plant supplies, so purchased Holt Wood in 2004 and transformed it from a redundant conifer plantation into a thriving medicinal forest garden based on a permaculture design.Anne has worked extensively in education, including leading a professional herbal medicine programme at Middlesex University in London, UK. She is a founding member of the Medicinal Forest Garden Trust, a member of the advisory board for the Journal of Herbal Medicine, and is an Honorary University Fellow at the University of Exeter.Anne has also published research articles on historical recipes and the history of herbal medicine, and has a continuing interest in research into agroforestry and permaculture related to herbal medicine.CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT ABOUT MORAG'S COURSES AT THE PERMACULTURE EDUCATION INSTITUTESupport the showThis podcast is an initiative of the Permaculture Education Institute.Our way of sharing our love for this planet and for life, is by teaching permaculture teachers who are locally adapting this around the world - finding ways to apply the planet care ethics of earth care, people care and fair share. We host global conversations and learning communities on 6 continents. We teach permaculture teachers, host permaculture courses, host Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and offer free monthly film club and masterclass. We broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country. I acknowledge this is and always will be Aboriginal land, pay my respects to elders past and present, and extend my respect to indigenous cultures and knowledge systems across the planet. You can also watch Sense-Making in a Changing World on youtube.SUBSCRIBE for notification of each new episode. Please leave us a 5 star REVIEW - it really it does help the bots find and myceliate this show.

Welcome to the Faery Whispering Podcast! Hello, I'm Claire CaselyIn this enchanting episode hear about encounters with small trooping faeries, a tall fairy guide, dragons and a ghostly matron!Join my guest Jayne Pearl and I as we chat and wander around Dartington in Devon.  Jayne is a shamanic practitioner, soul coach and spiritual healer.  She shares her childhood experience of regularly seeing and playing with trooping faeries, her first encounter with her faerie guide and connection with dragons. Jayne shares why its important for us to connect with the dragons and faeries at this time.  We also encounter the faeries of the linden trees and Jayne talks about her encounter with the spirit of a very stern school matron!Jayne and I will be hosting a ‘Solstice Faerie & Dragon Workshop' on 24th June at Dartington in Devon

As you'll know by now, one of our core motivators in creating this podcast was the realisation that the 'democratic' systems of the world are largely broken and are not a useful way to affect change. I used to be a political activist. I thought I'd given all that up, but today's conversation has definitely re-awakened my political instincts because today I'm talking with two of the people who set up South Devon Primary: a group committed to changing the political system in the UK. So the first thing to say for those of you who live elsewhere is that this episode is focused on the need for change in the Westminster Parliament. But the issues are worldwide and whatever your political system, it could probably do with being shaken up. We need to share best practice across the globe and what Simon Oldridge, Anthea Simmons and Ben Long have created feels like a template that could be replicated not just throughout the UK but across the world.   The principles are basic and while it's not going to take us to full democracy in one giant leap, it's definitely a step in the right direction.  If adopted around the nation (and the world) it could see us move away from the politics of hatred, fear and resentment to something a great deal more generative. To look at these three in more depth and so understand where they're coming from: Simon Oldridge was an accountant with Ernst and Young and then CEO of a manufacturing company. More recently, his awareness of the climate and ecological crisis has led him to engage with a group endeavouring to put forward a Climate and Ecology Bill to the UK parliament (he talks about this in the podcast) and to set up the South Devon Primary campaign which you'll hear about in much more depth. Anthea Simmons is Editor in Chief of the progressive online paper, West Country Voices, speaker for Devon for Europe and author of a number of books, including one for young climate activists. Before that, rather like Simon, she worked in financial asset management. She's a passionate advocate for the South Devon Primary and invented the Democracy Meter, which you're also hear about in the conversation. Ben Long is an author and educator and currently helps his partner run her ceramics business in Devon. He didn't join us on the podcast - partly because I think two extra voices is enough to contend with - but he's a core part of the work of South Devon Primary. And that work is practical, active, really intelligently targeted and if it were taken up around the country, could do more, I think, to shape the outcome of the next general election than anything else I've found.  Listen, enjoy - and then make this happen as near to wherever you live as you can. South Devon Primary Website https://www.southdevonprimary.org/Zero Hour https://www.zerohour.ukAnthea Simmons on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/antheasimmons/West Country Voices on Twitter https://twitter.com/WCountryVoicesSimon Oldridge on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-oldridge-17207a206/Simon on Twitter https://twitter.com/SiOldridgeSouth Devon Primary on Twitter https://twitter.com/SDevonPrimaryBen Long on Twitter: https://twitter.com/benwhlongSimon - Twitter thread w Local MP  https://twitter.com/SiOldridge/status/1641713280967213056

Pavel Cenkl is the Director of Learning and Land, and Head of Schumacher College in Totnes, United Kingdom and previously served as the Dean of Sterling College Vermont. Pavel has worked for more than two decades in higher education in America and has always been drawn to colleges and universities whose curriculum fully integrates learning with practice and thinking with embodiment.Schumacher College: https://campus.dartington.org/schumacher-college/Dartington Trust: https://campus.dartington.org/Learn more about Thoreau College and the microcollege movement at: https://thoreaucollege.org/Driftless Folk School: https://www.driftlessfolkschool.org/Thoreau's Garden: https://thoreausgarden.com/

Hello and welcome back to the Faerie Whispering podcast with me Claire Casely!  My guest for this episode is geomancer and researcher Adrian Frost  In this fascinating chat, Adrian share his research into alignments to sites that are geometrically linked to the Dartington estate in Devon.  He reveals that these alignments, to places such as Helipolis in Egypt and Cahokia, USA, contain certain messages and symbols.  Adrian believes that arcane knowledge and wisdom was encoded symbolically by the ancient Mystery School Initiates, such as the Knight's Templar, hidden in plain sight, ‘for those with the eyes to see it'Adrian has two Zoom talks about the Return of the Goddess to Dartington coming up in on 16th May and 20th June – sign up here:16th May - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-return-of-the-goddess-to-dartington-talk-7-part-i-tickets-60476232940720th June - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-return-of-the-goddess-to-dartington-talk-7-part-ii-tickets-604777575007Check out my unique and colourful faerie mugs, prints, greetings cards on my Etsy store!Join my wonderful Faery Whisperer Patreon community for behind the scenes, bonus episodes and more!  www.patreon.com/faerywhispererEnjoy, see you next time and remember to Keep Your Heart Open, and Be the Change...

This episode is an excerpt of a past Science & Wisdom LIVE dialogue, 'Interdependence & the Nature of Reality'.You can listen to the full episode here.Subscribe to our newsletter: https://www.sciwizlive.com/RRupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author of ninety technical papers and eight books, including The Science Delusion, and the co-author of six books. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge and philosophy at Harvard. As a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, he was Director of Studies in cell biology, and was also a research fellow of the Royal Society. He worked in Hyderabad, India, as Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and also lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths on the bank of the river Cauvery in Tamil Nadu. From 2005-2010, he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California and of Schumacher College in Dartington, England. He lives in London. His website is www.sheldrake.org

Chessie chats with Oli about his relocation from London to the South West of theUK, the pros & cons of offering open access to memberships to their studio & of course we hearOli's unpopular opinion about the screen printing industry which you absolutely won't want tomiss!Oli Chapman is the co-founder of Make Good Prints a screen printing studio based in Dartington,Devon. Make Good Prints offer water based fabric & paper printing services in addition to runningface to face workshops & providing open-access membership to their studio. You can find out more about Make Good Prints at https://www.makegoodprints.com/ Or alternatively, check out their Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/makegoodprints/ THIS PODCAST SPONSORED BY  Blind Maggot - Limited edition t-shirts https://www.blindmaggot.co.uk GET £10 OFF USING DISCOUNT CODE : SQUEEGEE Magna Colours - Waterbased ink specialists https://www.magnacolours.com  M&R - Screen printing equipment https://www.mrprint.com Target Transfers - Heat presses and transfers https://www.targettransfers.com DISCOUNT CODE: SQUEEGEE Adobe Creative Cloud Discount Code - Software for creatives https://clk.tradedoubler.com/click?p=265883&a=3270184 ^LINK FOR DISCOUNT ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OUR AFFILIATES  Screen Print World - Screen Printing Equipment https://screenprintworld.co.uk/ DISCOUNT CODE  for Separation Studio NXT : CRP5 Separation Studio NXT - Artwork Separation Software https://solutionsforscreenprinters.com/separation-studio-nxt/ DISCOUNT CODE FOR Separation Studio NXT  : CRP5 Annettte & Co - The best PROFIT FIRST accountant https://www.annetteandco.co.uk/chessie/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FREE SCREEN PRINTING RESOURCES & TEMPLATES https://www.squeegeeandink.co.uk/product-category/downloads/ SCREEN PRINTING TUTORIALS https://www.squeegeeandink.co.uk/product-category/screen-print-tutorial-videos/ SCREEN PRINTING BLOG https://www.squeegeeandink.co.uk/blog/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ INSTAGRAM @squeegee_and_ink https://tinyurl.com/m52wej83  TIKTOK @squeegee_ink https://tinyurl.com/5cmnsw4b

Satish Kumar is one of the absolute titans of the Regenerative movement in the UK.  In 1962, he and and one of his fellow Jain monks made an 8,000 mile mendicant peace pilgrimage around the world, stopping in the capitals of what the nuclear nations of the earth: Russia, USA, China, France and the UK.  He settled in the latter and soon became known for his work in connecting people and ideas. He founded the Small School in Devon and went on to found Schumacher College, deeply rooted in his ideas that education should engage head, hands and heart. In 1973, he founded Resurgence Magazine (now: Resurgence and Ecologist Magazine) and for the next forty three years, was its Editor in Chief, stepping down on his  80th birthday. This week, Accidental Gods teamed up with the Oxford Real Farming Conference, to speak with Satish as he prepares to head to Oxford where he'll lead a meditation for farmers on the morning of Friday 6th.  We explore more deeply his concepts of education, food and farming and the re-connection of people to the living web of life. He ends with a meditation, similar to the one he will lead live in the conference. Now entering its thirteenth year, the Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) is the unofficial gathering of the agroecological farming movement in the UK, including organic and regenerative farming, bringing together practising farmers and growers with scientists and economists, activists and policymakers in a two-day event every January. Working with partners, the conference offers a broad programme that delves deep into farming practices and techniques as well addressing the bigger questions relating to our food and farming system.Working with partners in the UK and internationally, the Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) brings the real food and farming movement together, attracting people from around the world who are interested in transforming our food system. In 2021 and 2022, the conference went entirely online, but the physical gathering has traditionally been in Oxford (it was set up as an alternative to the Oxford Farming Conference, which happens at the same time) and this year, there will again be a physical programme.ORFC has always been the place to share progressive ideas. Subjects include agroecology, regenerative agriculture, organic farming and indigenous food and farming systems. The broad programme delves deep into farming practices and techniques as well as addressing the bigger questions relating to our food and farming system.Crucially, it has always been the participants who provide the ORFC programme. The sessions reflect their diversity, ranging from the intricacies of soil microbiology to new kinds of marketing; setting up a micro-dairy to the value of introducing mob grazing and agroforestry to the farm; from the joys and tribulations of farming to the kind of economic structure we need to support the kind of food system we need. It is this diversity of participants and interests that keeps ORFC alive and growing.Online tickets are available. The ORFC works with the interpretation collective, COATI, to make sure sessions are accessible.Follow the conference on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook for all the latest news and speaker announcements.Online Programme https://orfc.org.uk/orfc-2023-online-programme/ 

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In this episode of the Mile End Institute Podcast, Dr Lyndsey Jenkins talks to Dr Anna Neima about her new book, Practical Utopia: The Many Lives of Dartington Hall which was published by Cambridge University Press in April. In this fascinating conversation, Lyndsey and Anna discuss how the 1200-acre estate at Dartington Hall near Totnes in Devon was transformed into a 'social experiment of kaleidoscopic vitality' in the 1920s and 1930s by the American heiress, Dorothy Elmhirst (née Whitney) and her husband, Leonard. They consider how a network of utopian communities across the United Kingdom shaped education, the arts, and agriculture in first half of the twentieth century and what policymakers today can learn from the 'cooperative and democratic' way of living, enriched by lifelong learning and 'a sense of creative and spiritual fulfillment', which was pioneered at Dartington Hall before the Second World War.

In this podcast Sustainable Wine's Toby Webb talks to Justin Howard-Sneyd MW, associate director of wine at the Dartington Trust. They discuss regenerative agriculture, how regenerative viticulture works in cool climates, and how all of this feeds into Justin's work at Dartington, a centre for learning in arts, ecology and social justice based on a 1,200-acre estate in South Devon, UK.

In this week's episode of The Capital of Craft, Sarah James from Craft Festival and Find a Maker talks with woodcarver and Find a Maker member, William Barsley.  William is a second career woodcarver, intensively trained at the highly acclaimed Historic Woodcarving and Gilding course at the City and Guilds of London Art School. In 2013, William took a leap of faith and left his 9-5 office job working for the United Nations in Rome to travel the globe in search of inspiration from master woodcarvers, documenting his journey along the way. Returning to London to train and then re-locating to Dartington in Devon to set up his woodcarving practise. @craftfestival @find.amaker @williambarsley  

Listen again to our first keynote session of 2022. Jake Dartington joined us to look ahead to a new year with Mindfulness. 

In this episode we talk to Tanya Desfontaines, a teacher, supervisor & practitioner of craniosacral biodynamics - a gentle way of working 
with the body using light touch that engages natural rebalancing & healing processes.   We speak about trauma, mindfulness and yoga, the importance of supervision for therapists, cranial work and compassion practices in the prison service, hospices, and society.   About Tanya Desfontaines BSc (Hons) MCSP SRP RCST BCST... Tanya began her career as an NHS physiotherapist at the Royal London Hospital, exploring many traditions and modalities of holistic health before retraining as a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist in 2007. Life events including relocation to Devon, the birth of children, recovery from illness and bereavement, and shamanic studies have all played a part in her journey of personal healing and spiritual growth. She is a now an accredited supervisor and international teacher of BCST, most recently holding a foundation training as senior tutor and course co-ordinator at the Karuna Institute, Devon. She lives with her family in Dartington, South Devon, where she also maintains a lively private practice. www.fifthworldcranial.co.uk   *** From The Heart is a podcast about Yoga, Mindfulness, healing and wellbeing from Dawn Lister and Daniel Groom, founders of Anahata Yoga Centre, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, UK. Conversations in this light hearted, kind and honest podcast series brings together people who have found ways to practise self-care in their lives, by sharing their knowledge, experiences and insights. Anahata is a heart centred and nurturing Wellbeing Studio in Leigh on Sea, Essex. Specialising in Yoga, Pilates, Yoga Therapy and mindful meditation. They offer expert tuition in small groups run by qualified and specialist professionals, who are experts in their field. Many of their teachers offer skills which support members of the public affected by long term health conditions, which may affect them physically, mentally and or emotionally. Catch up on previous episodes via the Anahata website at www.anahatayogacentre.com/podcast Follow From The Heart on Instagram at @from_the_heart_podcast.

David Lorimer's guest today is his dear friend Satish Kumar, who was the Editor-in-Chief of Resurgence (now with the Ecologist) Magazine for 43 years and was the Founder of Schumacher College in Dartington. At nine years of age, Satish renounced the world and joined the brotherhood of Jain monks. At the age of eighteen, he left the monastic order and became a campaigner working to turn Gandhi's vision of a peaceful world into reality. He undertook an 8,000-mile peace pilgrimage, walking without any money, to deliver packets of ‘peace tea' to the leaders of the four nuclear powers. Satish is the author of six books, including his most recent one Pilgrimage for Peace, which describes this remarkable pilgrimage. His autobiography, No Destination, first published by Green Books in 1978, has sold over 50,000 copies.Imaginal Inspirations is hosted by David Lorimer, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network and Chair of the Galileo Commission, an academic movement dedicated to expanding the evidence base of a science of consciousness. Imaginal cells are responsible for the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, which is the Greek symbol for the soul. These cells are dormant in the caterpillar but at a critical point of development they create the new form and structure which becomes the butterfly.scientificandmedical.net galileocommission.orgbeyondthebrain.org Works and links mentioned:https://www.resurgence.org/satish-kumar/Pilgrimage for Peace: The Long Walk from India to Washington by Satish KumarThe Intimate and the Ultimate. By Vinoba BhaveTalks on the Gita by Vinoba Bhave (Kindle edition)Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther KingSmall is Beautiful by E F Schumacher  Production: Martin RedfernArtwork: Amber HaasMusic: Life is a River, by Magnus Moone

In July 2021, Wendy was invited to the postponed Ways with Words Literary Festival at Dartington Hall in Devon to speak about her friendship and working relationship with the 100-year-old war veteran Captain Tom, who raised almost £40m for the NHS during the pandemic lockdown. This is the 50-minute audio recording of the video of that event, minus the first few minutes due to a technical fault. We hope you like it.

In this episode of Tree Radicals, macro photographer on tiny soil animals, Andy Murray,  joins Kath in our very own North Woods in Dartington, home base of the Tree Radicals team, and tells us about the delightful world of Mesofauna, and the huge role they play in our ecosystem. Check out Andy's amazing photography on his website at www.chaosofdelight.org.Find us on Instagram @thewoodlandpresents.A Tree Radicals website is coming soon, but for now you can find us at www.thewoodland.co.

Contemplative traditions suggest that the world as we perceive it is the manifestation of a deeper, unseen process, that can be investigated through meditation and personal inquiry. To what extent can this fundamental level be studied scientifically? And what can this investigation tell us about the nature of reality and consciousness?Biologist Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and Buddhist teacher Geshe Tenzin Namdak will discuss how science and contemplative traditions can tackle big questions regarding the nature of reality, the interconnectedness of all phenomena and the relation between consciousness and the material world.Our speakers will also touch upon David Bohm's theory of implicate order and Dr. Sheldrake's own hypothesis of formative causation, discussing the connections between these ideas and the insight achieved through contemplative practice.About Our Speakers:Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author of ninety technical papers and eight books, including The Science Delusion, and the co-author of six books. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge and philosophy at Harvard. As a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, he was Director of Studies in cell biology, and was also a research fellow of the Royal Society. He worked in Hyderabad, India, as Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and also lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths on the bank of the river Cauvery in Tamil Nadu. From 2005-2010, he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California and of Schumacher College in Dartington, England. He lives in London. His web site is www.sheldrake.org.Geshe Tenzin Namdak first worked as an environmental researcher having graduated in hydrology from Van Hall Larenstein University, The Netherlands. He started studying Buddhism at Maitreya Institute in 1993 and took ordination from His Holiness the Dalai Lama before engaging in his formal studies in Buddhist philosophy and psychology at Sera Jey Monastic University, South India, in 1997. He completed the entire twenty-year Geshe program at Sera Jey in 2017 and the traditional one year Vajrayana study program at Gyume Tantric College in January 2019, the first Westerner to do so. Because of his deep interest and background in science and as a member of Sera Jey's Education Department he spoke on and organized various dialogues and conferences on contemporary science and ancient contemplative wisdom of the mind and its philosophy. Currently, he is the resident teacher at Jamyang Buddhist Centre, London, and teaches worldwide.About Science & Wisdom LIVE:Science & Wisdom LIVE is a project of Jamyang London Buddhist Centre.Each dialogue explores the middle ground between science and contemplative wisdom, focusing on themes such as the ethics of artificial intelligence, gender equality, climate change, and the benefits of mindfulness and meditation for mental health.Find Out More: www.sciwizlive.comCopyright: Science & Wisdom LIVE, 2021.

A bumper show! Noel shares a brilliant account of a few days in New York! I voice the testimony of an eyewitness to a UFO in Dartington 20 years ago! Plus, the India variant dramatically pushes deaths, hospitalisations and cases up and Cummings targets the Sausage and Mancock! In Paranormal Blip alongside the Dartington UFO, Lue Elizondo on fractals and RADAR footage released by Jeremy Corbell. Here's Corbell's interview with George Knapp explaining the footage: https://youtu.be/Iy4xWZ9IkXo

Going Beyond: Dr. Rupert Sheldrake To go beyond is to move into a higher state of consciousness, to a place of bliss, greater understanding, love, and deep connectedness, a realm where we finally find life's meaning - experiences for which all spiritual seekers seek. Dr. Rupert Sheldrake - best-selling author of "Morphic Resonance" - examines seven areas of spiritual practice that are personally transformative and have scientifically measurable effects. He combines his extensive knowledge of science and the natural world, as an experienced biologist, with a broad command of mystical and religious traditions to show how we can tune into more-than-human realms of consciousness. Dr. Sheldrake shows how we can and do truly go beyond. Even everyday activities can have mystical dimensions... as we will discover Ways to Go Beyond And Why They Work! Rupert Sheldrake. PhD, is a biologist and author of more than ninety technical papers and nine books, including Ways To Go Beyond and Why They Work, and the co-author of six books. As a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, he was director of studies in cell biology, and was also a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He worked in Hyderabad, India, as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and also lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths on the bank of the river Cauvery in Tamil Nadu. From 2005-2010, he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California and of Schumacher College in Dartington, Devon. He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce. www.sheldrake.org Learn more about Simran here: www.iamsimran.com www.1111mag.com/

Restrictions are easing all across the UK, and with it comes a welcome return to some face-to-face interactions.Charity RNIB has recently held its first socially distance walk for the South-West area, covering the route from Totnes to Dartington, it was specifically designed for people with sensory loss. Our Paulina Kuchorew spoke with RNIB's Community Connection Coordinator for the South West George Hinton and RNIB Volunteer Nicki Button about the recent walk and what's in store for the next few months.To find out more call the RNIB Helpline on 0303 123 9999 or email George on George.Hinton@rnib.org.uk 

In this episode of Sense-Making in a Changing World, it is my delight to welcome Dr Pavel Cenkl, Head of Schumacher College and Director of Learning at Dartington.  We talk about the kind of higher education we need in the world today, and explore the innovative and immersive programs offered at the College - from Holistic Science, Regenerative Food and Farming, Ecological Design Thinking, and more.Pavel has worked for more than two decades in higher education where there is learning with practice and thinking with embodiment. He  has been at the college now for a few years and developing new courses too at the intersection of movement practice, ecological thinking, and environmental philosophy. Pavel is also a passionate endurance and adventure runner. Over the past five years through a project called Climate Run. Pavel has covered hundreds of miles in the Arctic and subarctic on foot to bring attention to the connections between our bodies and the more-than-human world in the face of a rapidly changing climate.Pavel holds a Ph.D. in English and is the author of many articles, chapters, and two books. Most recently he has co-edited a book celebrating the 30th anniversary of Schumacher College with Satish Kumar, Transformative Learning: Reflections on 30 Years of Head, Heart, and Hands at Schumacher College. New Society Publishers, 2021.You can watch the youtube version here.PERMACULTURE AS TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATIONIn my twenties, I studied at Schumacher College and the integrated way of learning in community was absolutely inspiring and transformative.  I have since taught at the College a number of times. The head heart and hands learning experience that I experienced at the College as a young woman is what I weave into the fabric of the face-to-face courses I create and the Permaculture Educators Program online.Permaculture is education for one planet living and through the course you become immersed in all kinds of skills and cultivate connections that support the transition to regenerative ways of being. The world needs more permaculture teachers everywhere sharing local ways, and working toward a climate-safe future through design, resilience and connection.  I invite you to join the Permaculture Educators Program with others from 6 continents to explore what that might look like and how you can make the change. This is a comprehensive online course that includes the Permaculture Design Certificate and online Permaculture Teacher Certificate, plus additional modules for creating a permaculture livelihood.FREE PERMACULTURE RESOURCESJoin me to learn more about permaculture. Come and explore the many free permaculture resources my Our Permaculture Life Youtube  and blog .YOUNG LEADERS IN PERMACULTUREWe also invite young people (11-17) interested in permaculture to join the Global Permayouth  - they have monthly online festivals, workshops, local hubs and a weekly newsletter. Scholarships available for the above course too.With loveMorag Gamble I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which I live and work - the Gubbi Gubbi people and pay my respects to their elders past and present.Audio: Rhiannon GambleMusic: Kim Kirkman 

Meg Muir is a self-employed folk artist that specialises in exclusive art on Dartington crystal, professionally framed mirrors bespoke art for all gifting occasions. Commissions are taken to personalise gifts such as gin, wine, whisky sets, prosecco, decanters and vases and candle holders. She also creates botanical art on sea glass which is created into beautiful and unique jewellery. https://www.facebook.com/megmuirartist https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-muir-artist-708b85166/ https://www.pinterest.co.uk/MegMuirArtist/_created/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-muir-artist-708b85166/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gemma-louise-hirst/message

The soundscape originates from Mary Bartlett's book binding studio at Dartington; sounds of the old press and leather bound books slowed down to create a sense of subterranean mystery. The print echoes this mystical world with an ancient style capturing the tension between man and animal. While both are united and inter-dependent a sense of dominance remains: the grand ''mane'' worn by human, being the only challenge to the true masculinity of the beast. Print available here 

The 9th episode of Darmstadt On Air is dedicated to composer Annea Lockwood who is interviewed by music journalist and Darmstadt tutor Kate Molleson. Annea was born in Christchurch/New Zealand in 1939 and moved to England in 1961to study composition at the Royal College of Music in London. In the same year, she took part in the Darmstadt Summer Course for the first time. Registered as Anna Ferguson Lockwood in 1961, 1962 and 1963, she attended classes by Olivier Messiaen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luciano Berio and others. In Darmstadt, Annea also met Franco Evangelisti who became a close friend and it was him who recommended that she asked Gottfried Michael Koenig if she might study with him which she went on to do from 1963 to 1964. A decade later, she moved to New York where she was in touch with Pauline Oliveros, John Cage, La Monte Young and members of the Sonic Arts Union. With Kate Molleson she talks about her life as a composer, her early important experience in Darmstadt, about her glass concerts and long durational river recordings, about DIYness and the small scenes in New York. Kate is a journalist and broadcaster, based in Edinburgh. She presents BBC Radio 3’s New Music Show and Music Matters. Her articles are published in The Guardian and The Herald, BBC Music Magazine or Gramophone. She teaches music journalism at Dartington and Darmstadt. Kate recommends: "It’s so worth spending time with Annea's music. 'Tiger Balm' is just wonderful, and the 'Glass World' album, and her later river maps. Also more recent pieces like 'Wild Energy' and 'Dusk'."

To go beyond is to move into a higher state of consciousness, to a place of bliss, greater understanding, love, and deep connectedness, a realm where we finally find life’s meaning.Scientist and spiritual explorer Rupert Sheldrake looks at seven spiritual practices that are personally transformative and have scientifically measurable effects. He combines the latest scientific research with his extensive knowledge of mystical traditions to show how we may tune into more-than-human realms of consciousness through psychedelics such as ayahuasca, and how everyday activities can have mystical dimensions, including sports and learning from animals. He discusses traditional religious practices such as fasting, prayer, and the celebration of festivals and holy days.Why do these practices work? Are their effects solely inside our brains and essentially illusory? Or can we really make contact with forms of consciousness greater than our own?Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and the author of more than ninety technical papers and fourteen books, including Science Set Free. After studying at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, he worked in Hyderabad, India, as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, and lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Father Bede Griffiths. From 2005 to 2010, he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge.He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Dartington, Devon, UK. He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce, with whom he has two sons.To learn more about Rupert Sheldrake and his work, visit www.sheldrake.orgTo get your copy of Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work, please visit our Amazon affiliate link.To learn more about Provocative Enlightenment Radio, go to http://www.provocativeenlightenment.com

To go beyond is to move into a higher state of consciousness, to a place of bliss, greater understanding, love, and deep connectedness, a realm where we finally find life’s meaning. Scientist and spiritual explorer Rupert Sheldrake looks at seven spiritual practices that are personally transformative and have scientifically measurable effects. He combines the latest scientific research with his extensive knowledge of mystical traditions to show how we may tune into more-than-human realms of consciousness through psychedelics such as ayahuasca, and how everyday activities can have mystical dimensions, including sports and learning from animals. He discusses traditional religious practices such as fasting, prayer, and the celebration of festivals and holy days. Why do these practices work? Are their effects solely inside our brains and essentially illusory? Or can we really make contact with forms of consciousness greater than our own? Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and the author of more than ninety technical papers and fourteen books, including Science Set Free. After studying at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, he worked in Hyderabad, India, as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, and lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Father Bede Griffiths. From 2005 to 2010, he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Dartington, Devon, UK. He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce, with whom he has two sons. To learn more about Rupert Sheldrake and his work, visit www.sheldrake.org

It is my great pleasure and honour to welcome Satish Kumar to the show today - world-renowned ecologist, thinker and educational visionary. Satish is the founder of Schumacher College and the Small School in Devon, England. He is Emeritus Editor of Resurgence & Ecologist and founder of Green Books. The BBC Natural World program, Earth Pilgrim takes us out into Dartmoor walking with Satish exploring his Soil, Soul, Society philosophy. Walking and simple living is a key thread in Satish's life as a former Jain monk born in Rajasthan, and a member of Vinobe Bhave's 'walking university'. Back in the early 1960s, when he was just 26, he set out on a 13,000km peace pilgrimage with a friend and no money. They visited key nuclear nations and visited leaders with peace tea. In London, they met Lord Bertrand Russell the 90 year old who was jailed for peace activism and inspired them.It was in 1992 that I first met Satish at Schumacher College, just a year after the college had opened. I spent almost a year there then, and have returned several times - last year as a contribution teacher to the Beyond Development program with Jonathon Dawson.I recorded this interview with Satish during that program at Schumacher College, Dartington last year just as he was releasing his latest book Elegant Simplicity: The Art of Living WellElegant Simplicity provides a coherent philosophy of life that weaves together simplicity of material life, thought, and spirit. In it, Satish distills five decades of reflection and wisdom into a guide for everyone.Back in 1992 as well as the regular conversation sessions with Satish in the Schumacher College library, we cooked up authentic Indian feasts together every Friday and I often joined his meditation class. I also had the wonderful opportunity to study directly with Fritjof Capra, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Stephan Harding, Christopher Day, Arne Naess, Vandana Shiva and many others, as well as learn woodcarving, and have space to garden, ramble in the woods, paint and play music together. It was a transformative experience and type of an education model that shifted the way I saw learning.Since then, offering educational programs has become my life - in community gardens, permaculture, ecovillages, regenerative design - and the influence of Satish's visionary education thinking is woven through it all. I am particularly focussed on sharing this way of thinking and learning through the positive and practical permaculture lens. You can find more information about the Permaculture Educators Program here or take a look at my free 4 part permaculture series about becoming a permaculture educator.Warm regards to you all,Morag GambleBlog: Our Permaculture LifeYoutube: Our Permaculture Life

Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author of ninety technical papers and nine books, including Science Set Free, and the co-author of six books. He studied natural sciences at Cambridge and philosophy at Harvard. As a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, he was Director of Studies in cell biology, and was also a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He worked in Hyderabad, India, as Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and also lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths on the bank of the river Cauvery in Tamil Nadu. From 2005-2010, he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California and of Schumacher College in Dartington, England. He lives in London. His web site is www.sheldrake.org Connect with Rupert Sheldrake: https://www.sheldrake.org/ https://www.youtube.com/c/RupertSheldrakePhD Twitter: https://twitter.com/RupertSheldrake Ways To Go Beyond & Why They Work Tell Rupert about your experience: sheldrake@sheldrake.org Connect with Nick Holderbaum: Personal Health Coaching: https://www.primalosophy.com/ https://www.primalosophy.com/unfuckedfirefighter Nick Holderbaum's Weekly Newsletter: Sunday Goods (T): @primalosophy (IG): @primalosophy Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-primalosophy-podcast/id1462578947 Spotify YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBn7jiHxx2jzXydzDqrJT2A The Unfucked Firefighter Challenge

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and the author of more than ninety technical papers and fourteen books, including Science Set Free. After studying at Cambridge and Harvard Universities, he worked in Hyderabad, India, as principal plant physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, and lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Father Bede Grifï¬ ths. From 2005 to 2010, he was director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California, and of Schumacher College in Dartington, Devon, UK. He lives in London with his wife Jill Purce, with whom he has two sons. His new book is Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work. His website is Sheldrake.org

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Rupert Sheldrake, PhD is a biologist and author of more than 90 technical papers and nine books, including Ways to Go Beyond , And Why They Work, and the co-author of six books. He studied at Cambridge and Harvard Universities. As a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, he was Director of Studies in Cell Biology, and was also a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He worked in Hyderabad, India, as Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and also lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths on the bank of the river Cauvery in Tamil Nadu. From 2005-2010, he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California and of Schumacher College in Dartington, Devon. He lives in London and is married to Jill Purce, with whom he has two sons. His web site is www.sheldrake.org.

Rupert Sheldrake, PhD is a biologist and author of more than 90 technical papers and nine books, including Ways to Go Beyond , And Why They Work, and the co-author of six books. He studied at Cambridge and Harvard Universities. As a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, he was Director of Studies in Cell Biology, and was also a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He worked in Hyderabad, India, as Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and also lived for two years in the Benedictine ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths on the bank of the river Cauvery in Tamil Nadu. From 2005-2010, he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded from Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences in Petaluma, California and of Schumacher College in Dartington, Devon. He lives in London and is married to Jill Purce, with whom he has two sons. His web site is www.sheldrake.org.

A few weeks ago I was at Soundart Radio in Dartington near Totnes, to help out with the Every Child Has a Voice project celebration. [...]

James and Sam take time out before their show at Dartington Hall to explore its UNEXPECTED history: It's all about the history of wild swimming, accidents, hiding, subversion and the Knights Templar! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

James and Sam take time out before their show at Dartington Hall to explore its UNEXPECTED history: It's all about the history of wild swimming, accidents, hiding, subversion and the Knights Templar! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Just who are literary festivals for and why do we love them so much? Gail, Steph and host Philippa go backstage with Anne Oxborough of the well-established Ways With Words and Michael Pugh of recent start-up the Llangwm Literary Festival to find out more. From the delights of surprise-hit speakers, post-show river swims, vodka-fuelled poetry sessions and the rise of fancy food stalls to the horrors of airborne green rooms, bacon-roll bust-ups and rail replacement buses, the conversation ranges far and wide in the usual Slightly Foxed way. In this month’s audio-adventure through the magazine’s archives the writer and performer A. F. Harrold goes speed-dating with Iris Murdoch at Cheltenham Literature Festival and, to finish, there’s the usual round-up of recommended reading from off the beaten track. Please find links to books, articles, and further reading listed below. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 38 minutes; 42 seconds) Books Mentioned Slightly Foxed Issue 63 (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-63-published-1-september-2019/) (2:27) Boy (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/roald-dahl-boy/) , Roald Dahl (2:32) The Eagle of the Ninth (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/the-eagle-of-the-ninth/) and The Silver Branch (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/the-silver-branch-published-1-sept-2019/) , Rosemary Sutcliff (2:37) Corduroy (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/corduroy-plain-foxed-edition/) , Adrian Bell (2:42) The Salt Path (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/raynor-winn-salt-path/) , Raynor Winn (15:52) This Is Going to Hurt (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/adam-kay-this-is-going-to-hurt/) , Adam Kay (24:05) Julian of Norwich: A Very Brief History (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/janina-ramirez-julian-of-norwich/%20‎) , Janina Ramirez (25:11) The Sea, The Sea (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/iris-murdoch-the-sea-the-sea/) , Iris Murdoch (27:07) Take Nothing with You (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/patrick-gale-take-nothing-with-me/) , Patrick Gayle (33:23) The British in India (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/david-gilmour-british-in-india/) , David Gilmour (34:50) The Silence of the Girls (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/pat-barker-silence-of-the-girls/) , Pat Barker (35:44) Travels in a Dervish Cloak (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/isambard-wilkinson-travels-dervish-cloak/) , Isambard Wilkinson (36:40) Related Slightly Foxed Articles  A Date with Iris (https://foxedquarterly.com/a-date-with-iris-murdoch-slightly-foxed-magazine/) , A. F. Harrold on the novels of Iris Murdoch, Issue 25  Other Links Oxford Literary Festival (https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/) (1:00) Sea Fever Literary Festival (https://www.seafeverliteraryfestival.com/) , Wells-next-the-Sea (1:08) The Festival of Book Clubs, a one-day annual festival in Hook in the autumn (3:38) Slightly Foxed Autumn Launch at One Tree Books (https://foxedquarterly.com/autumn-launch-party-one-tree-books/) , Petersfield. Tuesday 10 September, 6.30–8 p.m. (4:15) Ways With Words: Festivals of Words and Ideas (https://www.wayswithwords.co.uk/) , Dartington, Keswick and Southwold (5:05) Llangwm Literary Festival (http://www.llangwmlitfest.co.uk/) , Pembrokeshire (6:18) Hay Festival (https://www.hayfestival.com/home) , Hay-on-Wye (18:01) Cheltenham Literature Festival (https://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature) and Edinburgh International Book Festival (https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/) (18:08) Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable (https://www.podcastable.co.uk/)

Gail, Steph and Anna go behind the scenes with booksellers Brett Wolstencroft of Daunt Books and Kathleen Smith of Topping & Co. Bath to talk about the reality and romance of life running two of the country’s finest bookshops. Andrew Hawkins recounts the tale of a London publisher who tried his hand at repping and ended up in a spot of bother with a drunken poet in Fife, and there’s the usual round-up of recommended reading and news from Hoxton Square.  The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 38 minutes; 30 seconds) **Books Mentioned** * [Slightly Foxed Issue 62](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-62-published-1-june-2019/), will be published on 1 June. Available to order now (5:34) * Shaun Bythell, [The Diary of a Bookseller](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/shaun-bythell-diary-of-a-bookseller/) (30:12) * Jen Campbell, [Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/weird-things-customers-say-in-bookshops/) (30:16) * A Plain Foxed Edition of [84, Charing Cross Road](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/84-charing-cross-road-plain-foxed-edition/) will be published in September 2019. Available to order now (30:22) * Miriam Toews, [All My Puny Sorrows](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/miriam-toews-all-my-puny-sorrows/) (30:40) * Patrick O’Brian, [Master & Commander](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/patrick-obrian-master-and-commander/) and [The Far Side of the World](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/patrick-obrian-far-side-of-the-world/) (31:46) * Andrew Miller, [Now We Shall Be Entirely Free](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/andrew-miller-now-we-shall-be-entirely-free/) (32:36) * Angela Carter, [The Magic Toyshop](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/angela-carter-magic-toyshop/) and [The Bloody Chamber](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/angela-carter-bloody-chamber/) (33.02) **Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations** * Mike Petty’s article entitled [‘Up There on a Visit’](https://foxedquarterly.com/mike-petty-up-there-on-a-visit-literary-review/) was published in [Slightly Foxed Issue 8](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-8/) (23:14) * [Maggie Fergusson’s article](https://foxedquarterly.com/literary-love-affair-article-maggie-fergusson/) on Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road was originally published in Slightly Foxed [Issue 24](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-24/), then republished in [Issue 48](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/issue-48-winter-2015/). It appears as the preface to the Plain Foxed Edition of 84, Charing Cross Road (30:22) * Grant McIntyre’s three articles on Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin novels – [‘Friendship of Opposites’](https://foxedquarterly.com/grant-mcintyre-patrick-obrien-friendship-of-opposites/), [‘The House that Jack Built’](https://foxedquarterly.com/grant-mcintyre-patrick-obrien-house-that-jack-built/) and [‘O’Brian’s World’](https://foxedquarterly.com/grant-mcintyre-aubrey-maturin-novels-obriens-world/) – were published sequentially in Slightly Foxed Issues 40, 42 and 44 (30:46) **Other Links** * A full list of Slightly Foxed stockists can be found on our website: [Stockists](https://foxedquarterly.com/category/stockists/) (1:09) * [The Idler Festival](https://www.idler.co.uk/product/the-idler-festival-2019-at-fenton-house-weekend-ticket/), Hampstead, London, 12-14 July 2019 (3:28) * [The Llangwm Literary Fesitval](http://www.llangwmlitfest.co.uk/), Pembrokeshire, Wales, 9-11 August 2019 (3:34) * [Ways with Words Festival](https://www.wayswithwords.co.uk/), Dartington, Devon, 5-15 July 2019 (3:52) * [The Slightly Foxed 2019 Readers’ Day](https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/readers-day-2019) will be held on Saturday 2 November at The Art Workers’ Guild in Bloomsbury, London. Tickets now available to Slightly Foxed magazine subscribers only. From £60 for a day ticket (4:10) * [Daunt Books](https://www.dauntb...

Mary Bartlett's book binding studio at Dartington forms the backdrop for this soundscape as we explore the history of the Unicorn from ancient Egypt to modern day Libya. Somewhere among the tangled taxonomy of Cervids, Bovids, Equines and Paradoxa we eke out the answer to the proverbial question: are Unicorns real? Our journey continues among the ripening trusses of tomatoes as we stroll through the walled garden in the heat of the English summer... Produced by iamthehow    

Rachel Roddy and Sheila Dillon share their love of Sweet Chestnuts and find out how they're for so much more than just roasting over an open fire. Like a lot of people Rachel's first memories of Chestnuts is as stuffing for turkey, but when she moved to Rome in 2005 where there was a Chestnut seller on every corner she embraced Chestnuts as an ingredient. She and Sheila discuss the soups, cakes and stews that are made using Chestnuts and how for one restaurant-owner they're a hero ingredient which saved a population from starvation. Fabio Parasecoli, Professor of Food Studies at the New York University explains why Chestnuts were so important to the Italian region of Abruzzo and how he still makes his Grandmother's Chestnut and Chickpea soup on Christmas Eve. Martin Crawford of the Agroforestry Research Trust in Dartington sells 750Kg of Chestnuts a season and explains why he would like UK producers to challenge the imports from Italy, France, Portugal and increasingly, China, and Simon Melik from Besana UK gives an overview on the industry. Producer: Toby Field

Stuart Candy is a professional futurist and is an Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Melon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His collaborative Experiential Futures practice brings possible scenarios to life through the creation of tangible artifacts and immersive situations which give people a very real taste of how different versions of the future might turn out. As you’ll hear he playfully brings future scenarios alive in the present, through collaborations with designers, artists, actors, activists, businesses and more, and he has worked in many different places. He was recently at the Transition Design Symposium at Dartington, and I took the opportunity to sit under a tree in the shade on a gloriously sunny day for the following fascinating conversation with Stuart about the future, the imagination and the creative approaches he has developed.

Your Creative Sparks: There’s a FINE LINE between CRAZY and GENIUS. Many an artist has walked it. APPEARANCES are not at all what they SEEM, and not as important as we make them out to be. In the Land of Infinite Possibilities, when you open yourself to the possibility that ANYTHING can happen, anything CAN happen! Of Legend and Lore and mystical Lands, in this episode we join Lobsterbird and Kelli Reese in glorious green Glastonbury, communing with two ancient tree creatures named Gog and Magog and preparing for the imminent pilgrimage. A new group of pilgrims are arriving to awaken and deepen their unique gifts and skills, to immerse in and surrender themselves to the flow of energy, and to open their hearts and their imagination to a new, magical perspective. Leave us a Rating & Review! Your Travelogue The energy of the gnarled old oaks called Gog and Magog is extremely grounding. A fire nearly destroyed them, but something powerful and resilient remains. Death and Rebirth. [4:30] Driving by yellow fields growing barley, so bright, with a smell that is incredibly familiar, Sophia can see the elvin jumping. She experiences a deep, visceral knowledge of being supported - by humans and by beings of another realm. We all have that support, if we open our hearts to what’s available. [11:11] Planning pilgrimage involves having a framework AND being open to letting the pieces fall into place. We humans want to plan. We want to feel like we are in control of everything. But that’s what keeps us stuck. Letting go releases us into the flow, synchronicity, and magic. [14:54] Sophia walks through a portal and meets a Druid. Kelli acknowledges that she and Sophia were Druids in a previous life. Power principle: We have access to many different forms of information and many different ways of being. [23:06] We have to see the blood in order to access the beauty. We must allow ourselves to crack open with a willingness to let go and forgive. “The wound is where the light enters you.” ~Rumi [26:26] The Gift the druid gave Sophia – the gift of ceremony. [32:18] Time Warp - Fast Forward! Sophia and Kelli begin the recap of their journey. Picture an indoor spring. A dark cave. A private ceremony. Chanting and singing. Twelve bodies in a circle, lit by candles, their hearts blowing wide open. [33:33] The pilgrims become the students of poetry and movement in a workshop by Deborah Black and Alyson Hallet called “Embodying the Line.” [49:04] Butoh-ic Shamanism? Sophia learns of this healing practice and embodies her new knowledge in an improv performance in the redwood forest around a fire circle. The Gift of Ceremony is revealed! [51:31] After a Reiki healing ceremony at Stonehenge, the pilgrims head to Avebury – the feminine version of the standing stones. Here they were guided by Georgina, a high priestess of Avalon. [54:20] Healing abounds among the pilgrims at the Manor of Chippenham, a 13th century house with crooked stone floors, clawfoot tubs, and spaceship showers. [58:36] Links mentioned in this episode: Lobsterbird’s newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde Kelli Reese’s newest book: The Relationship Roadmap: The Spiritual Guidebook to Ditch the Uncertainty and Find Clarity on Your Marriage Deborah Black is a multi-disciplined embodied coach, teacher, energy healer and artist. Episode 10: Businesses Breaking the Mold: The Author Incubator What is Avalon? A place between mythology and the utopia of a lost kingdom… Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com. Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, leading her latest Vision Quest in the emerald temperate rainforest known as the Pisgah, the “Cradle of Forestry”. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind Sacred Survivor Quest. For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero’s Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com. ✨The newest pilgrimage is happening in Colorado in August! If you are interested in soaking in some magic so you can Level Up, shoot an email over to magic@lobsterbird.com for more details!✨ If you liked this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and drop some starshine on us in iTunes. Leaving 5 stars makes it possible to bring you more goodness. Bonus points for leaving a review!

This week, we're at Dartington, the 1,200-acre estate just outside Totnes in Devon which is so much more than a family day out. Apart from the deer walks and art house cinema, Dartington is famous for its pioneering ideas about farming, forestry and educational projects – the legacy of its Edwardian owner, the American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst. Gilly Smith meets its CEO, Rhodri Samuel and TV's Urban Chef, Oliver Rowe who has been brought in to create food to match the philosophy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the weekend of International Dawn Chorus Day, I attended Soundcamp on the Dartington Estate. After listening to a stunning dawn chorus, I talked to Tony Whitehead, ornithologist and sound engineer, who led the walk, and also to Shelley, Robert and Laura who joined me on the walk.

Helen Mark travels to south-east Devon, to the Dartington Estate. This 14th century estate was reinvented by an off-shoot of the Bloomsbury set in the mid-1920s as a centre for personal growth, innovative education and rural regeneration, inspired by the environment. It still has the arts, ecology, sustainability and social justice at its heart and aims to be 'a laboratory for living and learning with the purpose of pioneering deep personal and societal change'. Helen Mark finds out about the extraordinary history, present and future of a movement and community inspired by the landscape of Dartington.

So, it's fair to say that the majority of the population would probably view fast jet pilots as an arrogant bunch of people who display significant narcissistic attributes. Any high-achiever whether a race car driver, wealthy stockbroker or famous musician/actor would also most probably be thought of as cocky and arrogant but this is often not the case. It has been said that the Millennials, or Generation Y (those born in the 1990s), are the most 'self-satisfied' and entitled generation yet and they are frequently dismissed as lazy by the baby-boomer generation (those born between 1946-1964). In the UK we are currently seeing a shift from hereditary wealth to a meritocracy where hard work and ideas are the order of the day - Generation Y are at the forefront of this change.Generation Y are confident, connected and open to changeGeneration Y are confident, connected and open to change and this can be threatening to other generations who might feel a bit redundant or can't work 'them interwebs'. The baby-boomer's place as the wealthiest generation is caused by 3 things - size, social change (women in the workplace) and education. The current class system in British politics is slowly being replaced by a meritocracy. Yes, the new generations are slowly getting wealthier but arguably only because of inherited wealth and a public school education. Michael Young, later Lord Young of Dartington wrote, at the age of 85, of his worries. Young observed in his 2001 article, “if meritocrats believe . . . that their advancement comes from their own merits, they feel they deserve whatever they can get. They can be insufferably smug, much more than people who knew they had achieved advancement not on their own merit but because they were, as somebody’s son or daughter, the beneficiaries of nepotism. The newcomers actually believe they have morality on their side.”  A confusing picture indeed for generations split apart by many years.  Right now, though, the current generation of movers and shakers are this 'smug' Generation Y as Lord Young so eloquently states - they are also the new pilots and high achievers to be found in emerging enterprises such as tech start-ups. So, what does this have to do with Impostor Syndrome or confidence and arrogance?Impostor Syndrome can affect up to 70% of people in the workplace today'It is a psychological phenomenon in which people are unable to internalize their accomplishments. Despite external evidence of their competence, those with the syndrome remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve the success they have achieved. Proof of success is dismissed as luck, timing, or as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent and competent than they believe themselves to be. Notably, impostor syndrome is particularly common among high-achieving women.' - Wiki.  Impostor Syndrome affects more women than men and, as a demographic, more African Americans who are thought to suffer from it as a result of positive discrimination policies. Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg, suffers from it and the condition was the basis for her book 'Lean In' which promotes the role of women in the workplace. It is taught, by performance coaches, that three-quarters of those sat at a business meeting are worried that they don't know what they are doing, that they are a fraud and that they are going to get found out. Although the example above concerns a business meeting, it is equally true of a cockpit, especially if occupied by a student or underconfident pilot who is low on flying hours. Military aviation is an unforgiving business and in my career I have lost more than 30 of my friends - I stopped counting at 30. These are not all from fast jet incidents; I have lost many from helicopter and multi-engine incidents too. I call them incidents because I believe none were accidents; there is always responsibility somewhere whether from pilot or maintenance error all the way up to Governmental neglect and under funding - the subject of another post, I'm sure.   So, if 70% of the population suffers from Imposter Syndrome then does this 70% include pilots?  I can assure you it doesWhen I was in training I was fully engaged in my mission of getting to the front line - it was all I could think about. Your whole life seems to revolve around it - our initial training at BRNC Dartmouth or RAFC Cranwell is immersive - it has to be in order to turn you from a civilian into a military Officer. Then you move onto flying training which becomes arduous and totally unforgiving, placing you firmly in your stretch zone for months at a time. You see your course mates struggle and fail trips and you might fail the odd trip yourself. The guy or girl you thought was a 'sure thing' for a Harrier or Typhoon cockpit stumbles on a check ride and you start to have massive self-doubt - 'If they can't pass it how will I ever be able to?' Friends are 'chopped' around you (removed from training) and, if they are lucky, they might get a chance to be re-streamed onto rotary or multi-engine but, if not, then their military flying career ends. You've invested so much of your life pursuing this goal that you start to wonder if it's worth it. The stress can be life changing - relationships end and girlfriends/boyfriends leave. I was once asked by a student who was struggling towards the end of Advanced Flying Training on the Hawk T1 'Is it all worth it?' - he never found out, he was chopped 2 trips later.If a student is doubting their ability when flying with an instructor in the aircraft then you can be doubly sure that they are doubting themselves when they have to fly solo. At our flying school we have a dedicated 'Student Solo Outbrief'; this is there to make sure that the authorising officer of the solo student has covered everything necessary to confirm that they are in date for the multitude of currencies and qualifications that they need to fly solo. This is because the authorising officer has to be sure that the student is going to bring themselves, and the £20 million Hawk T2, back home. The list is extensive - have they flown dual in the last 7 days, did they pass the preceding sortie to a satisfactory level, is their instrument rating fit for the actual and forecast weather conditions, do they have any outstanding currencies and are they in date for the many drills and evolution's that they need in order to fly as Captain of the aircraft? It is extensive and appropriately so but it can also be incredibly daunting for the student as the magnitude of the responsibility they are about to be given starts to dawn on them. As pilots their character does not allow them to appear weak in  front of their peersAs pilots their character does not allow them to appear weak in front of their peers so when you ask them 'Are you happy to take this aircraft by yourself?' they will always reply with the affirmative. But, away from the squadron, when they are back in their comfort zone with family, friends and maybe even some of their closer course mates, they will reveal the truth - they are scared as hell and, as instructors, we know this. When we were students we were scared as hell too, not only of doing something wrong and throwing a jet away, but also of failure. The same goes for an instructor who is required to teach a student a discipline that he hasn't practised in a while. The more dynamic the nature of the flight plus the more aircraft and people involved plus the recency and flying currency of the instructor involved all add up to the level of apprehension felt by the instructor. This can be huge, the responsibility immense and, in my time as a Flight Commander on the squadron, I have had many instructors approach me with their fears. This is a good thing as it at least means that the communication channels to higher authority are working but the need to manage the variables that are causing the apprehension is very necessary. Sometimes I'd remove the instructor from the sortie for further dedicated training with an experienced and appreciative instructor or I might just fly with the instructor myself (if capacity for this existed in the sortie profile).So, when we think of a fast jet pilot as arrogant, or even a commercial pilot, who carries huge responsibilities, maybe what you are observing is a coping mechanism which is helping the individual remain confident enough to get into the aeroplane and do the job. After Andreas Lubitz supposedly flew his airliner into the French Alps, many Germanwings pilots refused to fly the next day - was this truly due to concern over the Airbus design as was cited in the news or was it a display of severe and sudden apprehension? I recently saw an airline flight roster for a new First Officer who had just joined the company (albeit after a 16 year long career flying military aircraft). Over the year the First Officer's roster would give him one weekend at home per month. Now, if he had a small family or his wife was working, how much is he going to be at home to support them? Not much, I'd guess, as on his mid-week days off his partner is quite possibly at work and cracks in their relationship will, no doubt, soon appear. Now transpose that roster onto a young First Officer straight out of flight school with maybe some financial debt from his flying training and earning not a great initial wage - you now have problems both at work and at home. A pilot's arrogance is just an attempt to portray confidenceIt is nothing more than thinly veiled Impostor Syndrome that is common throughout society - those that fly aircraft are no different, they are just trying not to get found out either. As your experience grows and you become more confident you start to care less about the opinion of others and you become more content. But until then, pilots are just not too keen on letting people know that they are all too aware of there own mortality and limited ability. So, the next time you think of a high-achieving pilot as arrogant, they are probably just feeling like an impostor which makes them more similar to you than you think. Until we slip the surly bonds of Early again - fly safe!   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brian Eno has worked with David Bowie, David Byrne and U2 but his choice of Great Life is not a rock star but the sociologist Lord Young of Dartington. Michael Young wrote the Labour Party's 1945 election manifesto, researched slum clearance in the East End of London, set up the Consumers' Association, coined the word "meritocracy", co-founded the Open University and planned the colonisation of Mars. With the help of Michael's son Toby, Brian considers the life and work of one of the architects of post-war Britain. Producer: Julia Johnson First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

Caspar Walsh is a writer and founder of the award winning charity, Write to Freedom. He is the author of Tribe Warrior from W2F Press and Criminal. His website is casparwalsh.co.uk. Here he talks to Transition Network's Rob Hopkins in a wood on the Dartington estate.

On 1st February 2013 I spoke at 'From spaces to places – Building with earth ', the Earth Building UK conference at Dartington (http://www.ebuk.uk.com). I talked about Transition and the potential role that local building materials could play in local economic regeneration.

John Elford is the director of Dartington-based publishers Green Books (www.greenbook.co.uk).

Jacqi Hodgson is a Totnes Town Councillor, a District Councillor for Dartington, and was the creator of the Totnes Energy Descent Action Plan.

Writer and journalist Toby Young returns to his childhood in North London. The son of Lord Young of Dartington, a towering figure in post-war social policy making and the originator of many of this country's institutions, Toby remembers his father being a formidable over-achiever and workaholic. His mother, the artist and writer, Sasha Mooram gave up a career at the BBC to look after Toby and his sister full time, something the children remember as being very difficult for their mother. Toby's father, who believed in comprehensive education, sent his son to two comprehensive schools. After leaving school at 16 with only one O level and on the insistence of his mother that he get a trade, he attended a work experience programme where he trained as a car mechanic, washer upper and a lavatory cleaner. But he decided the work of a manual worker was not for him. He was persuaded by his parents to go back to school and attended the sixth form at William Ellis Grammar school in London gaining 3 A levels. And it is the traditional education he experienced here, its discipline and high expectations, that Toby wants to provide in the new free school he is opening next month in West London. It is something he believes his father would be proud of. In the House I Grew Up In, Toby Young takes Wendy Robbins back to the home and haunts of his childhood.

Welcome to the Work And How To Survive It podcast brought to you by Thinking Space ConsultancyIn episode 3 we discuss the article by Tim Dartington called In Defence of Inefficiency.In this podcast we explore Dartington's arguments about the limitations of efficiency - in particular how professional judgement and leadership are potentially excluded by an emphasis on following procedures for decision-making. He argues that workers inevitably end up orientating themselves towards the procedures, and the management monitoring systems that accompany these, rather than to the actual effectiveness of their actions.He argues that those workers with a therapeutic task - whose work can only take place on the basis on establishing trusting relationships with clients - are undermined by systems of inspection that do not trust either the worker or the client. He highlights a trend which has lead to "a shift in emphasis from doing the right thing to doing things right (e.g. a shift from leadership to management and from effectiveness to efficiency". We give several examples in the podcast, both from the paper and from our consulting experience, to illustrate this argument.He asserts that we need to have apparently non-productive times - what Bion called reverie and which we call thinking space - in order to allow for the possibility of new thoughts and ideas to emerge rather than repeating one's actions according to existing routines.Related Links:Reference for the article discussed: Tim Dartington  In Defence of Inefficiency  Organisational & Social Dynamics 4(2) 298-310 (2004)It is possible to subscribe to the  Organsiational & Social Dynamics Journal via the Karnac Books website: http://www.karnacbooks.com/JournalOPUS.aspLink to Tim Dartington's website: www.timdartington.comYou can subscribe to the Work And How to Survive It podcast via iTunes: http://bit.ly/jnoJSDWe’d like to hear your feedback about the show! You can leave us your comments or questions by emailing us at: podcast@thinkingspaceconsultancy.comOr you can telephone our voice message line on: 0161 820 6507 (within the UK) or +44 161 820 6507 (from outside the UK)oice message line on: 0161 820 6507 (within the UK) or +44 161 820 6507 (from outside the UK)You can also keep in touch with Thinking Space Consultancy on Twitter: @_thinkingspace_