What Could Possibly Go Right?

Stacy Mitchell is co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a national research and advocacy organization that fights corporate control and works to build thriving, equitable communities. She directs its initiative to decentralize economic power and level the playing field for independent businesses. She has produced many influential reports and articles, designed local and federal policies, and collaborated to build effective coalitions and campaigns.She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:The problems of monopoly power by big corporationsThe positives in the current shifts to reign in of corporate powerThe reimagining of what the economy could be and how it could serve usComplete show notes HEREConnect with Stacy MitchellWebsite: www.ilsr.orgWebsite: www.stacymitchell.comTwitter: www.twitter.com/stacyfmitchellInstagram: www.instagram.com/stacyfmitchellFacebook: www.facebook.com/localselfreliance Follow WCPGR/ResilienceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildresilience​Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildresilience​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildresilienceSupport the showComplete Show Notes

Sarah Crowell is a dancer and choreographer who has taught dance, theater, mindfulness and violence prevention for over 35 years. She founded the Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company, which was the subject of two documentary films, and won the National Arts & Humanities Youth Program Award. Sarah has facilitated arts integration, violence prevention, cultural humility, and professional development sessions with artists and educators since 2000, both locally and nationally, and is the recipient of many awards including the KPFA Peace award.She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:That choosing to feel joy despite "the world's madness" is an act of revolution and of serviceThe value of providing spaces for young people to be heard and upliftedThe subtle difference between supremacy and hierarchyComplete show notes HEREConnect with Sarah CrowellWebsite: www.destinyarts.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/sarah.crowell.378 Instagram: www.instagram.com/sarahcrowell65Follow WCPGR/ResilienceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildresilience​Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildresilience​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildresilienceSupport the showComplete Show Notes

Christina Baldwin is a writer, wanderer, and teacher on the trail of community and story; she is co-founder, with Ann Linnea, of PeerSpirit, Inc. and The Circle Way Process, bringing modern structure and application to the human heritage of circle. Christina is the author of 7 books, including (with Ann) The Circle Way, A Leader in Every Chair; Storycatcher; Life’s Companion; Calling the Circle; and The Seven Whispers, Spiritual Practice for Times Like These. She works cross-culturally and internationally instilling circle process wherever it can flourish and in the Art of Hosting network.She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:The “need for story to survive” and to capture our humannessThat journal writing and archiving allows us to process experiences for greater understandingThe role of story in healing trauma and organizing our insightsComplete show notes HEREConnect with Christina BaldwinWebsite: https://peerspirit.comFollow WCPGR/ResilienceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildresilience​Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildresilience​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildresilienceSupport the showComplete Show Notes

Stephanie Rearick is the Founder and former Co-Director of the Dane County TimeBank (DCTB) – a 2800-member time exchange, and Creative Director of Mutual Aid Networks, a new type of networked cooperative. In addition to her work in timebanking and growing grassroots-up economic and community regeneration, Rearick is co-owner of Mother Fool’s Coffeehouse.She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:That “mutual aid networks are found throughout all living systems”That by contrast, our money system “widens the gap between the haves and have nots, and causes a competitive situation”That systems of mutual aid and care are the key safety nets in times of disaster Complete show notes HEREConnect with Stephanie RearickWebsite: https://www.mutualaidnetwork.orgWebsite: http://stephanierearick.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephanie.rearickTwitter: https://twitter.com/stephanierearic Follow WCPGR/ResilienceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildresilience​Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildresilience​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildresilienceSupport the showComplete Show Notes

Nate Hagens is the Director of The Institute for the Study of Energy & Our Future (ISEOF), which focuses on educating and preparing society for the coming cultural transition. Allied with leading ecologists, energy experts, politicians, and systems thinkers, ISEOF assembles road-maps and off-ramps for how human societies can adapt to lower throughput lifestyles. Nate holds a Master's Degree in Finance from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Vermont.  He teaches an Honors course, Reality 101, at the University of Minnesota.He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:Learning how to thrive, think positively, and sharpen your “sword” to be more effective in the things that you care aboutThe importance of coping mechanisms to deal with the frenetic stimulation, stress and worry of our current timesThat we can be examples of people living differently, away from conspicuous consumption and towards a higher standard of ethics, empathy and kindness. “Those people in turn then act as a stabilizing force for the entire community when things get tough.”Complete show notes HEREConnect with Nate HagensWebsite: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/NJHagens Follow WCPGR/ResilienceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildresilience​Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildresilience​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildresilienceSupport the showComplete Show Notes

Kristi Nelson, Executive Director of A Network for Grateful Living, is also the author of Wake Up Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted. Her life’s work in the non-profit sector has focused on leading, inspiring, and strengthening organizations committed to progressive social and spiritual change. Being a long-time stage IV cancer survivor moves her every day to support others in living and loving with great fullness of heart.She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:The place of gratefulness in intersectionality and finding a way through polarizationThat “living gratefully opens us to that granularity”, that makes space for more to be understood, seen, heard, and reckoned withThe relationship between grief and gratefulness “honors and recognizes the beauty and truth of what is being shifted”Complete show notes HEREConnect with Kristi NelsonWebsite: https://kristinelson.net Website: https://gratefulness.orgFollow WCPGR/ResilienceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildresilience​Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildresilience​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildresilienceSupport the showComplete Show Notes

Stephen Dinan is an author, speaker, and the founder and CEO of The Shift Network, an organization that delivers virtual summits, courses, and trainings on spirituality, peace, holistic health, psychology, parenting, enlightened business, shamanism, indigenous wisdom, and sustainability.Stephen helped create and directed the Esalen Institute’s Center for Theory & Research, and is a member of the Transformational Leadership Council and Evolutionary Leaders. He is the author of Sacred America, Sacred World: Fulfilling Our Mission in Service to All and Radical Spirit.He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:How small efforts and initiatives inspire others and create a larger scale for changeThe growing mainstream traction of psychedelics will help shift consciousness and generate innovationRecognizing dysfunctional polarization and seeking synthesis that “respects some of the wisdom that might be held on both sides”Complete show notes HEREConnect with Stephen DinanWebsite: https://www.stephendinan.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/StephenDinan Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephendinan Follow WCPGR/ResilienceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildresilience​Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildresilience​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildresilienceSupport the showComplete Show Notes

Hear from our host Vicki Robin in this solo episode, as she reflects on the themes emerging from “What Could Possibly Go Right?”, including:The challenges of cultural scouting and remaining open to seeing the whole picture within “growing social insanity”The limiting nature of polarized thinking, seeing things in binaries, and overgeneralizationThat navigating this unraveling together requires empathy and “leaning on the insights from all points of view”Local examples of what’s going right, including in food resilience, climate crisis action, and social responsibility within the FIRE communitySupport the showComplete Show Notes

Akaya Windwood facilitates transformation. She advises, trains, and consults on how change happens individually, organizationally, and societally. She is on faculty for the Just Economy Institute and is founder of the New Universal, which centers human wisdom in the wisdom of brown womxn. She was President of Rockwood Leadership Institute for many years and directs the Growing Roots Fund, which supports young womxn’s finance and philanthropic learning and leadership based in generosity and interconnectedness. Akaya is deeply committed to working for a fair and equitable global society while infusing a sense of purpose, delight, and wonder into everything we do. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:The notion of individualistic leadership being a “toxic myth” and that we can’t create change aloneThat aging brings a certain responsibility, to mentor the next generations of leaders and assume that power of eldershipThat acknowledging our individual calling and attending to our particular work will reduce overwhelm as our communities work together on issuesComplete show notes HEREConnect with Akaya WindwoodTwitter: https://twitter.com/AkayaWindwood Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/akaya.windwood Follow WCPGR/ResilienceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildresilience​Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildresilience​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildresilienceSupport the showComplete Show Notes

Peter Lipman is the former (founding) chair of Transition Network and Common Cause Foundation. He also chaired the UK government’s Department for Energy and Climate Change’s Community Energy Contact Group. He’s been a teacher, a co-operative worker, an intellectual property lawyer, and worked at UK charity Sustrans, latterly as external affairs director, before setting up Anthropocene Actions, a community interest company that promotes fair, loving, and ecologically regenerative societies. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” with thoughts including:That cultural change towards empathy and connection will help address challenges and “be an enormously important part of that having a go, that holding that belief that we can do better”The call to experiment more, “take more risks and be much more loving, and see where it gets us”The need to find peace with paradox; “it's about acting now with urgency… from a place of calm and not seeking to control outputs, outcomes; of kind of going with what emerges”Complete show notes HEREConnect with Peter LipmanWebsite: https://www.anaction.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/peteralipmanFollow WCPGR/ResilienceFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/buildresilience​Twitter: https://twitter.com/buildresilience​Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildresilienceSupport the showComplete Show Notes