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Practical Bravery - RADICAL WATER!
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Practical Bravery - CUTTING EDGES!
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Practical Bravery - CONSCIOUS CO-WORKING!
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Practical Bravery: VOLATILE INNOVATION!
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Practical Bravery: FUTURE-PROOFING WORKPLACES!
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Practical Bravery: CREATIVE PARTICIPATION!
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Practical Bravery : EMPOWERED ENTERPRISE!
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Practical Bravery: MUSICAL POLITICS!
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Practical Bravery: CLEAR-SIGHTED SOCIAL ENTERPRISE!
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Possibility Club — Practical Bravery
015 Coconut Thinking — Dr Benjamin Freud
‘Irascible’ definition (via the Oxford English Dictionary)
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/irascible_adj?tl=true
Dr Benjamin Freud — the Coconut Thinking website
https://coconut-thinking.com/benjamin-freud/
Dr Bemjamin Freud via LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminfreud/?originalSubdomain=id
“The word ‘coconut’ is a little cheeky and frankly came off the tip of my tongue because I love coconuts. But a coconut is both a fruit and a seed, and it’s also a nut. And I like this idea of being able to be multiple things at the same time.”
Dr Benjamin Freud on Twitter / X
https://twitter.com/i/flow/login?redirect_after_login=%2FDrBenjaminFreud
Dr Benjamin Freud speaker page on the World Education Summit website
https://www.worldedsummit.com/speakers/dr-benjamin-freud/
“Education is my second career but I brought so many lessons about the way things could be from Silicon Valley — but they don’t necessarily have any anchor in what’s good for the world.”
[on Silicon Valley] “…It was indulgent, it was hedonistic, there were so many dark sides to it, but I’ll take back this rule breaking, I’ll take back these long-haired kids who just didn’t care and were going to say I’ll quit my job so I can make something for myself.”
“It was really when I had a child that I realised I get a lot of my energy from kids. I find them hilarious, I find them more interesting than many adults I meet. That’s how I got into education.”
Prem International School, Chiangmai, Thailand
“Why is it that you’re an outlier school if you put the needs of the students and relationships with the students first? What is more important than our relationships with each other?”
“Anything that’s a living system — this can be organisations as well, of course — exists because of the networks in which they are. There’s a certain kind of weird boundary between it and the world.”
“I do think education has to be values-driven: we layer a certain amount of values that allow us to create more conditions for life to thrive on the planet. Just like a living system grows and re-structures and re-organises.”
“It’s better to have no plan and a new vision, than a new plan with an old vision.”
Nora Bateson
https://batesoninstitute.org/nora-bateson/
“I’m a little bit nervous about words like ‘regeneration’, I’ve used it for a while but now that I see that if you type in ‘Coca Cola’ and ‘regeneration’ there’s a web page that comes up, I’m thinking there’s gonna be a whole bunch of teal-washing coming on.”
“Sustainability and regeneration are, let’s face it, issues for the global north.”
“You ask how we get policy-makers to change? Force universities and employers to require eco-literacies, just like you require math and reading and writing literacies. That would do a lot.”
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This episode was recorded in June 2023
Interviewer: Richard Freeman for always possible
Editor: CJ Thorpe-Tracey for Lo Fi Arts
For more visit www.alwayspossible.co.uk