We recorded this podcast on the morning of the US Presidential election results, with Donald Trump re-elected into office for another 4 years. Recognising the enormity of this moment in time, and the wide-rippling influences that US politics and policies have on so much of the world, this conversation felt important to have live and in-the-moment as the results were unfolding.

Disclaimer: This is not a political analysis podcast as we are not deconstructing the resonance of the politics or the voting decisions being made. Instead, we wrangle with the complexities of this moment in human history. We explore the inconvenience of nuance in a world fixated on binaries; we discuss the role and resonance of leadership; we reflect on the influences on our cultural narratives and the capacity to keep holding onto active hope in the face of such adversities.

In this episode we reference the following:

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - JK Rowling (book)
• The Fellowship of the Ring - JRR Tolkien (book)
• The Master and His Emissary - Dr Iain McGilchrist (book)
• The Divided Brain - Dr Iain McGilchrist (TedTalk)
• The Peace of Wild Things - Wendell Berry (poem)
• Yawanawá community elder's headdress - the harpy bird (image)

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This week in the UK it’s the school half term holiday and the ThoughtBox team are slowing down too, taking time for some reading, research and essential time in nature. We aren't recording a podcast this week, so we wanted to take this opportunity to share a gift with you instead.

For those of you who haven’t had a chance to check out our other podcast series yet, here is the first episode of Stories of Triple WellBeing® where I’m joined by two other wonderfully inconvenient women - Tina Farr and Clare Whyles of St Ebbe’s School in Oxford, UK sharing how they're positively disrupting their school culture to put Triple WellBeing at the heart of learning.

Rachel and I will return again next week for another episode...

You can listen to the rest of the Stories of Triple WellBeing® podcast on:

✳️ Spotify

✳️ Acast

✳️ Apple Podcasts

And most other podcasting platforms.

In the episode, we refer to:

• St Ebbe's Primary School
• Ken Robinson - Do Schools Kill Creativity?
• ThoughtBox - Transforming Education Leadership Summit
• Debra Kidd - Pedagogue in Residence
• Matthew Syed - Rebel Ideas
• Otto Scharmer - The Essentials of Theory U
• Brené Brown: Listening to shame
• ThoughtBox - Triple WellBeing® Fellowship
• Forest School
• The Harmony Project
• OPAL - Outdoor Play and Learning

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In this week's episode we explore the role of stories in shaping the lives we are living. Each of us is born into a story. It forms our perspective on the world, shaped by the culture we're part of, the education we receive and the values and mindsets that we are taught. These stories help us to make sense of the world around us and our place within it and shape the world in which we live. In this episode, we explore the ever-growing appreciation that the dominant story of human progress is actually limiting our capacity to thrive and pushing us into a world of personal, social and ecological crisis. So what happens when we change the story? What other stories are out there, creating healthier futures for people and planet? How can we feed ourselves different stories? What happens when we live our lives by these stories instead?

In this episode we reference the following:

• Three Stories of our Times - Joanna Macy (Website)
• Two Loops Theory - Berkana Institute (Framework)
• Do we live in a selfish world - Global Action Plan (Video)
• Common Cause Foundation (organisation)
• The Danger of a Single Story - Chimamanda Adiche (Ted Talk)
• Utopia for Realists (and how we can get there) - Rutger Bregman (book)
• The Story of Triple WellBeing - Rachel Musson (free ebook)
• Stories of Triple WellBeing (ThoughtBox podcast)
• Vinted & Depop (Second hand clothes apps)
• The Lord of the Rings - J R Tolkein (book)
• 2040 - The Regenerators (documentary)
• Naughty from Matilda the Musical (song by Tim Minchin)

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