Exploring the inconvenience of unlearning

This week’s conversation explores the idea of ‘unlearning’ and what it means to widen our perspectives, change our minds, shift our behaviours and ‘update’ our knowledge about the world. Unlearning can be something of a provocative term for some people, and yet holds the invitation for us to shift some of the habits, behaviours and mindsets that are contributing to so many of the crises we face in order to enable a healthier future for people and planet.

In this conversation we explore some of the different resonances of unlearning in our cultural contexts, think about what and why we need to unlearn, and talk about what it looks like as a process for healthy growth.

During this episode we reference the following:

• The Blind Men and the Elephant
• The Death of the Author - Roland Barthes
• The Amritsar massacre
• The Danger of a Single Story - Chimamanda Adiche
• Controversy around teaching Of Mice & Men
• Doughnut Economics - Kate Raworth
• Thinking in circles not straight lines - Blogpost (Rachel Musson)
• Can changing our perspective change everything - Blogpost (Rachel Musson)
• Neuroplasticity in action (2 minute video)
• The Work That Reconnects - Joanna Macy
• From domination to restoration - Article (Jon Conradi)

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