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Nora Bateson is an award-winning filmmaker, research designer, writer, educator, and international lecturer, as well as president of the International Bateson Institute based in Sweden. She is the creator of the Warm Data theory and practices. Nora’s work brings the fields of biology, cognition, art, anthropology, psychology, and information technology together into a study of the patterns in ecology of living systems. Her work asks the question “How we can improve our perception of the complexity we live within, so we may improve our interaction with the world?”
Beneath Our Feet: participating with regenerative futures weaves the voices of Samantha Power (BioFi project), Austin Wade Smith (Regen Foundation), and Daniel Christian Wahl (author of Designing Regenerative Cultures) ~ three innovators, educators, and thoughtful leaders in the regenerative and bioregioning space. This film is an artifact and provocation ~ intended as a catalyst for wanting to learn more, opening, and bridging into the conversation on participating with regenerative futures because everyone has a role to play.
Dr. Zak Stein is a philosopher of education, as well as a Co-founder of the Center for World Philosophy and Religion. He is the founder of the AI Psychological Research Coalition also the co-founder of Civilization Research Institute, the Consilience Project, and Lectica, Inc. He is the author of dozens of published papers and two books, including Education in a Time Between Worlds. Zak received his EdD from Harvard University.
This is an extract from the interview with Austin Wade Smith (AWS) introducing the novel idea of ecological institutions. AWS is an artist, ecologist, writer, and technologist based in Brooklyn, New York. They are the Executive Director of the Regen Foundation, a non-profit researching sovereign regenerative economies. Their research explores the interrelation of mutualism, animism, and bioregionalism in decentralized technical and economic infrastructures. Previously, they taught critical methodologies on climate justice in art and engineering at universities in New York.
An excerpt from my interview with insight guide and founder of Alderlore Insight Center, a non-profit educational organization focusing on post-formal education. Bonnie is the ring leader of the Pop-Up School.
A sweeping interview with Jonathan Rowson. Jonathan is co-founder and Director of Perspectiva and author of the Joyous Struggle on Substack.
Jeremy Johnson is an author (Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness), publisher (Integral Imprint), managing editor (Integral Leadership Review), podcaster (Mutations) and integral philosopher.
Another film from the Jeremy Johnson interview. Jeremy is an author, publisher (Integral Imprint), managing editor (Integral Leadership Review), podcaster (Mutations) and integral philosopher.
Joanna Macy is an environmental activist, author, and scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She discusses the Great Turning in this short film.
Another great short with Bonnitta Roy. Bonnie is a pioneer in post-formal education teaching insight practices for individuals who are developing meta-cognitive skills.
Bonnie is back. In this film she goes into deep nuances on what wisdom is and how we can cultivate it in our lives.
I spent two weeks crash learning how to rudimentarily make an AI film -- using AI to "increase the potential for the good" (thanks Bonnitta Roy for that phrase). Everything in the video (except for the script which I wrote) is AI generated...which still entirely requires creativity and imagination on behalf of the creator.
Jeremy Johnson is an author (Seeing Through the World: Jean Gebser and Integral Consciousness), publisher (Integral Imprint), managing editor (Integral Leadership Review), podcaster (Mutations) and integral philosopher. Jeremy’s substack.
Another film from the Bonnitta Roy interview.
A full length interview with Cynthia Bourgeault: a modern-day mystic, Episcopal priest, writer, and internationally known retreat leader. We sat down with her in June 2026 to ask some questions about living in this time between worlds.
A full length interview with Dougald Hine: who is a social thinker, writer, speaker and the co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project and a school called HOME. His latest book is At Work in the Ruins(2023) and he publishes new essays on his Substack, Writing Home.
Short film from a longer interview with Douglas Rushkoff: an American media theorist, author, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist, and documentarian.
A full length interview with the eloquent Nigerian born trickster Báyò Akólomáfe. Báyò is a philosopher, (recovered) psychologist, professor, and poet. He is a teacher and public intellectual renowned for his unconventional views on global crises, activism, and social change.
“I think one of the key journeys that we’re in the middle of is to reimagine ourselves as not just beings, but becomings.”