Coconut Thinking
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Coconut Thinking
The Coconut Thinking podcast brings educational provocateurs and practitioners in the regenerative space together to ask: what would it take to create the conditions for all life to thrive? Conversations are as diverse as the guests, but each one participates in the ecosystem, and each one question...
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Special Episode: School Isn’t Broken, It’s Working Exactly as Designed
In this episode of the Coconut Thinking Podcast, I take a hard look at what school really does, and what it would cost to truly change it. We keep say...
Elspeth Hay: Feed us with trees
What if the way we eat could root us back into place, instead of tearing it apart?
In this episode, I speak with Elspeth Hay. Elspeth is a write...
Josh Dorfman: The Lazy Environmentalist (not really)
What if sustainability’s future was driven by passion, shaped with youth, and told through real stories?
In this episode, I speak...
Maya Frost: Collapse
How might we consider collapse as a a transformative process that brings us together through loss and renewal?
In this episode, I speak with May...
Jennifer D. Klein: Leadership as resistance and risk
How do you lead with courage and love for every child when the culture around you is demanding you do the opposite?
Jennifer D. Klein is an educ...
Charlotte Hankin: Where are the animals?
How might our relationships other-than-human animals help us consider sustainability and regenerative education in more life-centered ways?
In t...
Special Episode: Learning is a means, not an end
How can learning&doing help us become good participants in the web of life?
In this special episode, I speak about how systems change won’t happ...
Dan Burgess: Passengers and Crew on Spaceship Earth
How might we participate as Earthlings, part of a living planet, in kinship with the more-than-human?
Dan Burgess is a regenerative practitioner...
Bas van den Berg, Mieke Lopes Cardozo, Koen Wessels: Regenerative Education requires Love, Presence, and Courage
What does it mean to nurture good relationships through regenerative education in these times we live in?
In this episode, I speak with the auth...
Special Nyepi Episode: Benjamin Freud, Ph.D. interviewed by Charlotte Hankin
We honor Nyepi with this special episode, in which Charlotte Hankin interviews Benjamin Freud. Nyepi is the Balinese Day of Silence, and is a Hindu Ne...
Katharine Burke: Earthwards
How might we shift our educational practices to deepen students’ ecological awareness, nurturing a culture of care and reciprocity with Earth’s living...
Giles Hutchins: Nature Works
Do we have what it takes to change our ways to ones that work with, rather than against, life?
In this episode, I speak with Giles Hutchins. Gil...
Mike Edwards, PhD: Resonance with place and crises
How might we weave stories together as a response to ecological breakdown, using sound to connect to place?
In this episode, I speak with Mike E...
Steffi Bednarek: Who is we, who is I?
What happens when the way we see ourselves changes the way we see the world?
In this episode, I speak with Steffi Bednarek. Steffi’s work explor...
Leslie Medema: Place-based learning at Green School Bali
How might leadership open more emergent spaces in schools?
This is the first in a series of episodes throughout the year where we invite educato...
Dave Cormier: Learning in a time of uncertainty
How might we learn (and teach) to navigate uncertainty when the system rewards final answers?
Dave Cormier is an internationally renowned educat...
Louise Romain: Sound Series Episode II
How might sound reshape our understanding of and nurture new relationships with the living world?
In this episode, I speak with Louise Romain. L...
Melissa Pons: Sound Series Episode I
What happens when we tune into sound to make sense of our world? How might noticing sounds and silences tell us more about place?
In this episod...
Bronwen Main and Frank Burridge: Biomimicry Series Episode III
How might Biomimicry help us understand the context of a problem in order for us to respond locally, not with one-size-fits-all solutions?
In th...
Henry Dicks, Ph.D. : Biomimicry Series Episode II
How might biomimicry be an ethical approach to a thriving planet rather than just another way to make cool products for money?
In this episode,...
Daniel Kinzer: Biomimicry Series Episode I
How might we create participatory, community-based technologies inspired from Nature with the interests of life in mind?
In this episode, I spea...
Tyson Yunkaporta: Right Story, Wrong Story
How might knowledge be co-created as a process of relationships between humans, other-than-humans, and the land?
In this episode, I speak with T...
Peter Sutoris, Ph.D.: Education for the Anthropocene
How might ethics world the futures our generation will leave behind? How might education respond within the climate context?
In this episode, I...
Pim Martens, Ph.D: Relationships for planetary health
How might cultivating local relationships with humans and the more-than-human contribute to overall planetary health?
In this episode, I speak...
Virgel Hammonds: Nurturing radical relationships
How do we nurture radical human relationships through authentic stories of learning?
In this episode, I speak with Virgel Hammonds. Virgel is a...
Special Episode: Charlotte, Benjamin, and the city
How is place an emergent, relational experience, rather than a fixed location?
In this special episode, Charlotte and Benjamin speak alongside t...
Kyle Wagner: The 12 Shifts for Student-Centered Environments
How might we commit to change in order to create conditions for deeper learning and put students first?
In this episode, I speak with Kyle Wagne...
David Leventhal and Ximena Rodriguez: Travel is education for living
How might regenerative travel teach us about reciprocity, contributing to a different approach to education?
In this episode I speak with David...
Clover Hogan: Climate breakdown is the symptom, not the illness
What if we decided to do things differently?
I speak with Clover Hogan. Clover is a 24-year-old climate activist and the founding Executive Dire...
Jenny Andersson: The Power of place
How might our stories be as unique as the place from which they unfold?
In this episode, I speak with Jenny Andersson. Jenny is the founder of T...
Ronald Barnett, Ph.D: Higher education is found in criticality, not university
How might we re-think higher education to be about our ability to discern the world and take action, not the diplomas we receive?
I speak with R...
Jennifer D. Klein and Jill Ackers-Clayton: Re-Wilding learning, teaching, and spaces
How might we create the conditions and spaces for learning to be wild? Or maybe we need to un-create them for wildness?
I speak to Jennifer D. K...
Kevin Bartlett: It is the Why that matters
How might we come together around a WHY rather than a HOW? Might the HOW sort itself out if we share purpose?
In this episode, I speak with Kevi...
Darren Coxon: AI and the possibile futures
How might AI create both utopian and dystopian futures all at the same time? What does this mean for education and for learning?
In this episode...
David Penberg, Ph.D.: Telling different stories of learning
How might we free ourselves from the bondage of data to tell different stories of learning?
In this episode, I speak with David Penberg, Ph.D. D...
Michael Bunce: The landscape and weather of learning
How might learning be flow between structure and emergence? How might we measure impact quantitatively and qualitatively?
In this episode, I spe...
Eri Mountbatten-O'Malley, Ph.D.: Flourishing is a dynamic process
What might flourishing look like as collective and individual experiences entangled in environment?
Eri Mountbatten-O'Malley is a Senior lecture...
Cindy Forde: Storytelling to inspire the possible
How might we tell new stories open up our imagination to what is possible?
In this episode, I speak with Cindy Forde. Cindy’s career has been de...
Rūta Žemčugovaitė: Remembering our relationality
How might we transform our relationality with the world, as the world, especially the non-human world?
In this episode, I speak with Rūta Žemčug...
Luis Alberto Camargo: If you have a deep question, ask the forest
What might happen when the landscape is our place of learning?
In this episode, I speak with Luis Alberto Camargo. Luis was named the 2023 Richa...