How Can We Connect?

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"How can we connect, it's about connection, wasn't it? And connecting people are not connected yet. But you can take it wherever you want to take it because Justin has opened up some really interesting avenues," he says. "I think creating that space where we're able to think freely and creatively together is one of the things that we're kind of after with these assembly processes." 'We tend to be triggered when we come into contact with people who think differently to us,' she adds.

Eva is a climate activist, process designer and facilitator. She has co-convened the Transformative Conflict for Transition Network summit, supports sociocratic system development, decision-making and facilitation in many contexts including Extinction Rebellion Scotland.
Justin is an anthropologist and activist from Edinburgh. He is a member of Extinction Rebellion Scotland. Since 2009, has worked with the Forest Peoples Programme, supporting communities to secure their community lands and determine their own futures.

Long term friends of the podcast, Eva and Justin live and work right at the leading edge of change, exploring and testing ways to help people move into the flowing, more vulnerable, less triggered spaces that allow for genuine inner change, and therefore change in our outer relationships. The spaces this work creates are essential to the move to a future where people and planet flourish.

In this first Accidental Gods podcast of 2023, we explore the things that make our hearts sing, and the ways Eva and Justin's work is transforming communities around the world, with a particular emphasis on their homeland of Scotland, where Independence feels a breath away.

Politics, Trauma and Empathy paper https://www.globalassembly.net/news/politicstraumaempathy
Rewording https://www.globalassembly.net/reworlding-2022-programme
Rewording on Medium https://medium.com/experiental-space-research-lab/reworlding-the-art-of-living-systems-d6fef0deeb11
Previously on Accidental Gods - Episode #44 https://accidentalgods.life/re-democratising-democracy/
Previously on Accidental Gods - Episode #73 https://accidentalgods.life/reworlding-co-creating-a-politics-of-wholeness/
The film on the Ogiek of Mount Elgon that Justin mentioned is here
Deep Decolonisation Resource is here