season five
SOCIAL COHESION
About Season Five:
Social Cohesion has launched, and it is aimed at exploring the forces fostering and fraying our social fabric. Each of these conversations search the intersection of human nature and human culture in hopes to rediscover meaning, novel ways of seeing, and new attitudes toward society and the changing future.
Social Cohesion episodes build on previous season themes like The Nature of Stress and Systems of Knowledge. These shows with a wide array of guests offer us the chance to consider how to become a more effective, wise, and heart-centered social being.
Podcast Include discussions of…
Amy Emerson on the healing role of MDMA and psychedelics.
Robin Dunbar on Social Brain Hypothesis and the evolutionary foundations of our social nature.
Chris Skidmore using the astrological archetypes to give us insight and images for our self and society dynamics.
Dr. Arielle Schwartz guiding us through the critical need for healing trauma and dealing with PTSD
Dr. Orin Carpenter showing us how art and spirituality function as a Cohesive force.
Performance artists Mele Estrella and Damara Vita Ganley inspiring us towards the artist’s path and how it fosters belonging.
Landscape architect, Nina Chase, illuminating how design and Future Thinking can support us to reimagine society via public spaces.
Musical artist and healer, East Forest telling the story of his documentary, Music For Mushrooms, about how psilocybin journeys can bring about healing.
Veteran Internal Family Systems trainer, Chris Burris show us how healing in groups ties us back to our ancestral traditions and is a medicine for our overly-individualistic vision of mental health.
Survival International’s efforts to protect Uncontacted and Indigenous Peoples in the face of multiple crises.
Ryan Balch showing us how to achieve productive conversation, keeping the science of social friction in mind.
African Solutions to African Problems and the vital work they do supporting rural villages in South Africa.
Author, Laura Spinney, discussing her monumental work about the mother of Indo European languages, titled Proto.
You are invited to come along with show-host, Jef Szi, as he guides us through today’s local and global challenges, and the ones that endure across the ages.
