In this episode of Voices of Emergence, the roles gently shift. For the first time, co-host and co-founder Rudy de Waele steps into the guest seat, and we slow down together to explore what shaped his path.
This is not a standard biography. Its a reflective conversation about emergence as a relational process, and about leadership as stewardship of conditions rather than control of outcomes.
We move through Rudy's early imprinting in jazz and improvisation, the intensity of early internet and mobile innovation, and the moment when the story of acceleration started to crack. Rudy shares how disillusionment became a threshold, how regenerative communities reoriented his sense of what is possible, and how a serious heart event forced a deeper pause and surrender.
We also go into Vipassana and what equanimity means in lived experience, and then we bring it home to Voices of Emergence: why this is becoming more than a podcast, what it means to hold a field, and why real human connection, creativity, and capacity-building matter even more in an AI-saturated world.
If you have been moving fast, carrying a lot, or sensing that the old maps no longer apply, I hope this lands as a moment to slow down and listen for whats already stirring.
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Myth As Biology, Rewilding Masculinity, And The Stories Shaping Our Future
In this episode, we sit down with writer and mythopoetic thinker Sophie Strand for a wide-ranging conversation on myth, illness, ecology, and the stories shaping our future.
Sophie shares how chronic illness changed her relationship to myth, not as metaphor, but as something cellular and lived: a way communities carry precious knowledge through collapse and transmit it through relationship. We explore the "supracellular" self, distributed intelligence, and what biology can teach us about collaboration, boundaries, and the fear-based pull toward simplistic good/bad thinking.
From there, we dive into The Flowering Wand and the rewilding of the masculine: composting the lonely hero archetype, recovering lost forms of stewardship and fathering, and creating a more biodiverse ecosystem of masculinity. Alex brings in Pan and Hephaestus, and the conversation turns toward the mythopoetic threshold: how to work with symbols, synchronicity, and archetypes without floating into spiritual escapism.
We also enter the big questions of consciousness: are we nearing a Copernican shift in consciousness studies? Sophie offers a striking image: caterpillars that melt in the cocoon, yet somehow carry memory forward. If the brain liquefies, what persists? Is consciousness a field we tune into, more like a radio than a machine?
Finally, we explore technology and AI with nuance: the material and extractive roots of the digital realm, "haunted technology," the ethics of knowledge production, and why storytellers carry responsibility for the futures we train into the world. Sophie closes with a provocative invitation: if you want ideas to last, plant them in love stories, because romance and eros still move culture at scale.
Guest: Sophie Strand
Books: The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine; The Body Is a Doorway
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We sit down with Lucian Tarnowski, founder of United Planet, to explore one of the most important questions of our time: What does it take to shift from a dystopian worldview into a lived experience of possibility?
Lucian argues that belief is a form of technology — and right now, humanity is being “conquered by dystopia.” Our collective pessimism feeds back into the systems we build. To change the future, we must change the story.
We talk about:
- Why “the enemy is apathy in possibility”
- How narratives and myth shape the worlds we create
- The UP Games and why immersive experiences unlock collective intelligence
- Planetary identity, acupuncture points, and the role of Ibiza
- What ancient wisdom and indigenous traditions teach about this moment
- The rise of Gaia AI and the role of augmented intelligence
- How we move beyond the constraints of the nation-state
- Why the next decade may offer the greatest civilizational pivot in human history
This episode blends personal story, deep systems thinking, indigenous insight, and grounded optimism about the future we are capable of choosing.
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Ancestral Memory, Decolonization, and Cultural Leadership
What if museums were not monuments to the past, but living ecosystems in service of life?
In this conversation, cultural strategist and regenerative thinker Lucimara Letelier joins Rudy de Waele and Alex de Carvalho to explore how museums—and all cultural institutions—can evolve from extractive, colonial structures into places of healing, belonging, and ecological imagination.
From her Afro-Brazilian ancestry and the realities of Brazilian colonial history, to her years in deep ecology and her work with Indigenous communities, Lucimara brings a rare synthesis of lived experience, cultural strategy, and spiritual depth.
Across this wide-ranging dialogue, we explore:
- How ancestry shapes our understanding of regeneration
- Why museums hold “sacred space” and ancestral presence
- The emotional and ecological importance of deep sorrow and active hope
- Repatriation, decolonization, and protocols for ethical cultural care
- Museums as community hubs for biocultural wisdom
- The inner work leaders must do to embody regeneration
- Why we are all “museums inside of us,” carrying social memory and stories
This episode invites us to rethink culture itself—not as something to preserve, but as something alive, relational, and capable of healing our future.
Learn more about Lucimara’s work:
regenerativemuseums.com
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Fred Destin is co-founder of Stride.VC and one of Europe’s most respected venture capitalists.
Over two decades, Fred has backed some of Europe’s most iconic startups, but this conversation goes far beyond business. Fred shares his deeply personal journey, revealing how he moved from hyper-performance to presence, from stoicism to stewardship, and from capitalism’s speed to life’s flow.
We explore:
- The myth of mastery and the illusion of success
- The collapse of narratives and the Dark Night of the Soul
- Shadow integration, self-love, and healing the father wound
- Capitalism, AI, and the moral crisis of speed
- The future of technology, trust, and regenerative venture
- Awakening to awe, humility, and systemic consciousness
Fred’s reflections are disarmingly honest and profoundly human — a map for anyone seeking to reconcile inner transformation with systemic change.
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Reclaiming connection, community, and the wisdom of place
We sit with Helena Norberg-Hodge, a pioneer of the localization movement, founder and director of Local Futures, and author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh.
Helena begins by naming a painful truth she has witnessed on every continent over the last forty years: young people everywhere are struggling with depression. She invites us to see this not as an individual pathology, but as a rational response to an economic system that pushes us into competitive, urban, sped-up lives that promise everything and deliver very little. From her decades in Ladakh, she offers a rare glimpse of a culture that knew neither suicide nor depression and lived with time wealth, many skills, and deep intergenerational bonds.
We explore how globalization, industrial agriculture, and algorithmic finance pull us away from each other and from the living world, and how localization offers a practical and spiritual path back to sanity. Helena shares stories of community food systems, farmers’ markets where conversations multiply, and even prison programs where growing food and crafting for the local community dramatically reduce violence and recidivism.
Along the way, we touch the themes of feminine futures and the hunger for a more caring, slower, relational way of living. Helena speaks about the loss of singing, the shutting down of tears, and the emergence of men’s and women’s circles as a spontaneous corrective. We look at how cracks in the dominant story can become thresholds into a different way of being.
We close with Helena’s focus on local food and soil as a primary leverage point for healing ecosystems, bodies, and communities. Her seed for the future of humanity is simple and radical: the seed of connection, planted in local ground, through food and relationships that bring us back into belonging with each other and with Earth.
If this conversation resonates with you, share it with someone who feels the weight of this moment and is looking for grounded hope and practical pathways into a more life-affirming future.
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A circle of inquiry into what money becomes when we treat it as a living system.
In this Voices of Emergence gathering, we convene a deep dialogue with Ida Faldbakken, Alessa Berg, Dana Ulrike Glatz, and Fredrik Blomquist to explore the future of finance through the lenses of regeneration, reciprocity, and ecological intelligence.
Together we ask:
What happens when we shift from extraction to flow?
How must leadership evolve for finance to evolve?
Can value be measured in ways that reflect life, not depletion?
What does finance look like when guided by care, imagination, and shared responsibility?
How do Indigenous cosmologies and ecological worldviews reshape the architecture of capital?
Themes include leadership culture, regenerative ownership models, Indigenous wisdom, natural accounting, adaptive governance, and the identity-level shift from extraction to guardianship.
A key takeaway: finance is not separate from us. It reflects the worldviews, incentives, and relationships we bring to it. Regeneration begins with how we listen, how we lead, and how we relate to the living systems we depend on.
Panelists: Ida Faldbakken • Alessa Berg • Dana Ulrike Glatz • Fredrik Blomquist
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We sit with Hajar Tazi, storyteller, poet, and ecosystem weaver devoted to Pachamama’s flourishing. Hajar shares how childhood moments of mystical union shaped her life, why ecosystem weaving is “care over control,” and how bioregional networks can become islands of coherence in a sea of chaos.
We explore the imaginal as a real field of collaboration, the Rights of Nature as a bridge toward lived kinship, and why unschooling and deprogramming open space for other ways of knowing. Hajar frames play as radical resistance and shows how the Great Weaving Game reframes economics toward mutual benefit. We close with feminine leadership as a posture of deep listening and fierce, relational care, and a simple seed for the future: learn directly with the more-than-human world.
Hajar Tazi is Director of Ecosystem Weaving and Strategic Initiatives at the Synergia Institute; Board member at Shareable and Gaia Education; Ambassador for the Inner Development Goals; Member, Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature; Fellow, Bio-Leadership Project and Rhizome; Creator, The Great Weaving Game.
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Meet Alessa Berg, founder and CEO of Top Tier Impact, the global ecosystem of impact and sustainability leaders shaping the future of capital and culture.
Alessa shares her journey from traditional finance to regenerative economics, and how her multilingual, cross-cultural background turned her into a translator between worlds—between capital and consciousness, systems and stories.
Together, we explore:
- How finance can evolve from extraction to regeneration
- The role of feminine wisdom and embodiment in leadership
- The importance of collective value over individual gain
- Why intention and integrity matter more than ever in impact investing
- How regenerative finance, community, and consciousness can help humanity cross its next threshold
This conversation bridges economics, ecology, and inner development—reminding us that money, like energy, flows best when it serves life itself.
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Systems entrepreneur and impact investor Dana Ulrike Glatz joins us to explore how capital can flow in service of life—guided by indigenous wisdom, embodied leadership, and alliances rooted in reciprocity.
We trace Dana’s path from a grounded childhood in rural Germany to spiritual initiation in India, through World Economic Forum rooms and into the Amazon—where she’s convening an Ancestral Wisdom Boat journey from Manaus to Belém ahead of COP30.
Dana shares why true emergence begins in the body; how lineage, silence, and presence shape leadership; what “capital as sacred streams” looks like in practice; and why systemic investing must mimic living systems, move at biological time, and be stewarded by coherent communities.
In this episode:
• Emergence as somatic stillness and co-created field
• Family lineage, post-war trauma, and discerning what to conserve vs. renew
• From impact transactions to systemic investing rooted in trust and bioregions
• Indigenous teachings on balance, shadow integration, and reciprocity
• The resurgence of the feminine and “wise leadership” beyond gender
• Designing finance like nature: cycles, seasons, patience, relationship
• COP30, the Eagle & Condor prophecy, and building an Earth Shield of bioregions
If you’re curious about regenerative finance, embodied leadership, and how alliances can steward capital flows that actually heal places, this conversation is for you.
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In this luminous conversation, we sit down with Canay Atalay — transformation architect, regenerative innovation strategist, and founder of the RX Innovation Institute — to explore how we can redesign the operating systems of business, technology, and leadership through the feminine principle and a regenerative lens.
Canay shares her journey from the pharmaceutical and media industries to pioneering regenerative innovation — a systemic approach that integrates cultural transformation, conscious AI, and life-centered economies. Drawing from her Turkish and Sufi heritage, she bridges mysticism, systems thinking, and practical frameworks for global transformation.
We talk about:
- Sufism, love, and the art of surrender
- Collapse as initiation and the dance of death and renewal
- Recoding scarcity mindsets into abundance
- Feminine intelligence as the missing link in business innovation
- The role of embodiment, motherhood, and pleasure in regeneration
- Moving from generative to regenerative AI
- The importance of community, coherence, and embodied leadership
This episode is a deep remembrance that the system is you — and that regeneration begins within.
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In this episode, we sit down with Louie Valotti — founder of Genesis Health and guide at the intersection of biology, consciousness, and healing.
Trained in Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Maté and initiated into the Peruvian Q’ero lineage of shamanism, Louie bridges modern trauma work with ancient ritual and spiritual science.
Together we explore:
- how trauma becomes a portal for the soul’s realization
- the connection between emotional repression and cellular renewal
- the role of ritual, prayer, and ceremony in reconnecting body, mind, and spirit
- masculine and feminine integration in leadership and community
- why humanity’s current crisis may be an initiation into collective awakening
A deeply embodied conversation about emergence, authenticity, and remembering the sacredness of being alive.
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A circle of inquiry into the soul of intelligence — human, artificial, and planetary.
In this special Voices of Emergence gathering, we convene a deep dialogue with Amanda Efthimiou, Lisanne Buik, Timothée Brès, and Fred Destin — exploring what it means to stay human in an age of accelerating intelligence.
Together we ask:
How can AI serve life, not control?
What does it mean to “parent” artificial intelligence?
Can technology carry wisdom, compassion, and care?
How do we cultivate AI hygiene — mindful use, embodied ethics, and community discernment?
Themes include embodiment, shadow work, regenerative design, and the mythic tension between Moloch (optimization and control) and Sophia (wisdom and coherence).
Key takeaway: AI mirrors the systems and souls that create it. Our collective task is not to fear or worship it, but to bring consciousness, presence, and love into our relationship with intelligence itself.
Panelists: Amanda Efthimiou • Lisanne Buik • Timothée Brès • Fred Destin
Hosted by Rudy de Waele & Alex de Carvalho
📖 Read the full circle summary & reflections on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/voicesofemergence/p/ai-ethics-and-emergence-rethinking
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We speak with biologist, whole-systems designer, and author Daniel Christian Wahl, whose book Designing Regenerative Cultures has inspired changemakers and communities worldwide.
Together they explore how regeneration moves beyond sustainability — not as a brand or technique, but as life’s innate process of creating the conditions for more life.
Daniel reflects on emergence and complexity, the deep intelligence of living systems, and the portal of place through which we remember our belonging to Earth and to one another.
Topics include:
The difference between sustainability and regeneration
Salutogenic design and bioregional thinking
The intimacy of community and place as biological needs
Circle work as an ancient human technology
The shadows of techno-solutionism and AI’s disconnection from natural intelligence
Re-imagining education as community and cultural transmission
Daniel reminds us that regeneration begins not in the lab but in the compost — in the humility of returning to place, to story, and to the living web that sustains us all.
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What if the way we speak, listen, and relate could regenerate culture itself?
In this episode of Voices of Emergence, we sit down with Jean-Philippe Steeger—narrative practitioner, facilitator, and founder of Perspectivist—to explore communication as a living, relational art. Drawing from his personal story and professional work at the intersection of systems change, story, and somatics, Jean-Philippe invites us to see dialogue as more than exchange; it’s how we shape belonging, restore coherence, and open new futures.
Together, we explore how regenerative communication is not about fixing what’s broken, but about speaking from wholeness, sensing the field, and inviting others into meaning-making that honors place, body, and complexity. From cultural storytelling to the role of grief in transformation, from post-performance leadership to wisdom economies, this is a conversation rooted in radical honesty and the language of possibility.
“Regenerative communication is the story, language, and embodied wholeness of a culture that thrives with nature.” —Jean-Philippe Steeger
Whether you're a facilitator, changemaker, or simply someone who senses the need for new ways of relating, this episode offers insight into how we might rewrite the story of us—together.
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What happens when ancestral wisdom meets frontier tech? In this conversation, Mamadou Touré — founder of Ubuntu Tribe — lays out a living philosophy of “shared prosperity” where finance becomes regenerative, transparent, and truly inclusive.
We explore:
Ubuntu as a practical operating system for business (“I am because we are”)
Why Western finance skews toward accumulation (collateral + info asymmetry) and how Islamic and Ubuntu logics differ
Tokenized, gold-backed assets and traceable, mercury-free supply chains as a path beyond extraction
Scarcity as a social spell vs. abundance as practice — and how language (“economy” = oikos nomos, laws of the home) shapes reality
AI and blockchain as tools for integrity and transparency, not control — the “finance + technology + spirituality” trifecta
Africa’s role in the next era: youth leadership, cultural memory, and a rising planetary consciousness
A few moments you’ll love: the “candy basket” story of collective joy, re-reading Malthus in an exponential tech age, and Mamadou’s closing seed: “All is one, and one is all.”
Mamadou is Founder and CEO of Ubuntu Group focused on Advisory and Investment activities across industries and aimed at supporting firms in Africa achieving scalable and sustainable growth on the continent. He previously worked in global finance (Deloitte, IFC/World Bank, GE Capital) and has been recognized by Forbes and the World Economic Forum for his pioneering work at the intersection of finance, technology, and inclusive development.
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What if emergence wasn’t a trend, but a remembering? What if complexity is not something to solve, but to compost?
In this rich and deeply poetic conversation, we sit with Ryan (Ra) James Kemp, a systems futurist, relational architect, and cultural integration guide who walks between quantum systems, indigenous cosmologies, regenerative design, and embodied remembrance.
From the sacred flow of water to the architecture of kinship, Ra reminds us: we’re not here to fix life, we’re here to remember we are life.
Together, we explore:
- Relational Intelligence vs. Transactional Systems
- Emergence through Emergency
- Biocultural Heritage and Planetary Remembering
- Unlearning, Integration, and the Role of Grief
- Post-Growth as a Return to Wholeness, Not a Metric
- Why the Future is Found by Deepening into Now
This episode is an invitation to melt the ice off our hearts, re-enter the sacred rhythms of the Earth, and shift from sustainability to reverent participation.
Whether you’re a systems thinker, an artist, an elder in training, or simply someone navigating the cracks of collapse—this conversation offers a map made of metaphor, memory, and the sacred alchemy of becoming. Stay with us until the end for insights on relational architecture, ancestral continuity, and why peace with Earth matters more than peace on Earth.
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In a world built on speed, separation, and distraction, what happens when we pause long enough to feel the world again?
Writer and researcher Virginia Vigliar explores what it means to live with attention, to move with awe, and to reclaim the quiet power of connection.
Known for her sensorial essays and poetic activism, Virginia speaks of “soft deconditioning” as a gentle rebellion against systems that keep us numb. She invites us to notice what’s already here: joy in the cracks, magic in the mundane, and the voice that returns when we finally make space for it.
Together, we explore:
• Why attention is a form of resistance in an overstimulated world
• How awe reawakens our humanity
• Storytelling as a tool for deconditioning and collective healing
• The importance of building spaces for connection and expression
• Moving beyond binaries into rhythm, nuance, and relational depth
This is not a conversation about gender, polarity, or ideology — it’s a living inquiry into what emerges when we let go of old categories and begin to listen differently.
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What does it take to lead from courage when the old system makes one last stand?
In this episode, cultural futurist and ecosystem builder Ida Faldbakken joins us to explore daring as a practice, naming what’s hard, finding beauty in the mess, and cultivating creative resilience in a world moving fast.
We go deep on:
Daring & vocalization
Creativity as grounded force
Ancestral memory & ritual
From “impact” to “wisdom investing”
Community beyond hype cycles
AI & culture
Safety & belonging
Ida is known for weaving across tech, art, and systemic change—curating gatherings (like Katapult in Oslo), nurturing cross-disciplinary communities, and now convening The Lineage Office, a field for wisdom-led design and “grounded forward” futures.
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In this deeply resonant episode, we sit with Silke von Brockhausen—a regenerative leader, facilitator, and former UN insider who’s spent two decades navigating crises from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan.
Silke shares her journey from institutional peacebuilding into the living waters of regeneration, where healing systems begins with healing ourselves. Together, we explore what it means to lead from presence, to metabolize collective trauma, and to cultivate coherence in a collapsing world.
This is a conversation about reclaiming trust, awakening feminine intelligence, and remembering wholeness—not through fixing the old, but by attuning to what wants to be born through us.
Together we explore:
– how attention and narrative act as forces of creation
– trauma-informed systems change and collective healing
– planetary consciousness and post-national belonging
– embodied leadership and feminine wisdom
– cultivating coherence and trust in a collapsing world
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