How do we navigate cognitive dissonance in this crazy-beautiful world?

“There's laundry to do and a genocide to stop…”

This first line of a short poem by Vinay Krishan hits hard, not least because it captures so powerfully the complex and confusing state we are finding ourselves in. How to we navigate the day to day process of living in the midst of so many overwhelming crisis all around us? How can we make sense of actions and unfoldings that literally cannot make sense? How do we stay sane in a world that feels like it’s falling apart?

In this week’s episode we explore the notion of cognitive dissonance and how to navigate the endless contradictions, hypocrisies and complexities of our current world. We explore what it means to ‘live through collapse’, why so many of our systems are falling apart; how we can sustain our own sense of groundedness and vitality and what it means to practice active hope and turn towards the light.

In this episode we reference the following:

• Outgrowing Modernity – panel discussion (video)
• What is cognitive dissonance? (video)
• ‘On imagination’: Vanessa Andreotti & Rob Hopkins (video)
• Joanna Macy – A wild love for the world (podcast)
• The Four Mountains - Decolonial Futures (article)
• Wild – Sarah Wilson (podcast)
• Two Loops Theory – Berkana Institute (PDF)
• The Rise & Fall of Civilisations – Meg Wheatley (article)
• There’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop – Vinay Krishnan (poem)

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