How do we achieve social buy-in for the huge, disruptive and sustained transformation entailed in making our societies sustainable? Why is it such a problem that social media has become the 'public square' where we have big conversations about

How dopamine makes the world go round - with Daniel Lieberman

Dec 1st, 2022 53m 55s

How does a single chemical in our brains drive love, sex, consumerism and creativity? Why are some people more 'dopmaninergic' than others, why is that such a big deal for politics, and what does it mean for change-makers?Daniel Lieberman is a

How to build cultures of belonging - with Michelle Barsa

Nov 22nd, 2022 52m 40s

How can we build inclusive belonging in conditions of acute polarisation - for example when members of a historically privileged group feel that more power and status for a historically marginalised group means less power and status for them? W

How the world is making our children mad - with Louis Weinstock

Sep 19th, 2022 1h 4m

How can we raise children in a world that appears to have gone so wrong? How are our children’s minds affected by that world, and how can we as parents and caregivers help them through it in ways that give them agency and the power to make the

How to build a larger us - with Alex Evans

Jun 27th, 2022 46m 55s

A special edition of our podcast to talk about Building a larger us, our new guide to how to change the world in ways that bring people together rather than dividing them - not as a them-and-us, but as a larger us.Alex Evans (founder of Larger

How to have curious conversations - with Mónica Guzmán

Mar 22nd, 2022 57m 19s

What does it take to have conversations across deep divides? What's required of us - and what's required of the person we're talking to? What can happen when we have these kinds of curious conversations, and how can change-makers use them?Mónic

How to become citizens not consumers - with Jon Alexander

Feb 7th, 2022 56m 48s

What are we doing to ourselves when we tell ourselves we're Consumers 3,000 times a day? What would it look like to put the same creativity and energy into involving people as Citizens? What would you do in this time, if you truly believed in y

How to build a coalition that transforms - with Nisha Anand

Sep 24th, 2021 52m 9s

How did progressive campaigners in the US manage to win bipartisan legislation ending the 'lock-em-up and throw away the key' era in criminal justice - and persuade 87 out of 100 Senators to vote for it, and Donald Trump to sign it? Answer: by

How to be a good ancestor - with Roman Krznaric

Jul 15th, 2021 1h 3m

We live in the age of the tyranny of the now, driven by 24/7 news, the latest tweet, and the buy-now button. With such frenetic short-termism at the root of contemporary crises – from the threats of climate change to the lack of planning for a

How to put our societies back together again - with Jon Yates

Jun 18th, 2021 1h

Jon Yates is the author of "Fractured: Why our societies are coming apart and how to put them back together again". He's uniquely well placed to explore these issues, having both served as a government adviser and co-founded a series of chariti

How to change people's minds - with Dave Fleischer

May 5th, 2021 1h 9m

Dave Fleischer runs the team at the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Leadership Lab that created deep canvassing - a groundbreaking approach to political campaigning that uses doorstep conversations to change people's minds about potentially polarisin

Why some people are primed to be authoritarians - with Karen Stenner

Mar 30th, 2021 1h 2m

Karen Stenner has spent years researching why some people seem to have a psychological predisposition towards authoritarianism in the right conditions.With her co-author Jonathan Haidt, Karen has explored how about a third of people across doze

How to challenge hate - with Hadiya Masieh

Mar 21st, 2021 22m 4s

Hadiya Masieh has over two decades' experience in countering violent extremism and understanding how to challenge hate - and a unique perspective given her own experience as a former member of an extremist political organisation.Today, Hadiya r

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