Episode 75 - Dan Burgess - Rambling in the Woods - Reflections from the heart

This episode is a reflective ramble in the woods from me your podcast host @dan__burgess 

There are no guests (apart from wind, trees, buzzard and pigeon)

The episode marks an end to this season of recordings and to this format of conversations this year.

And a pause in episodes until early Autumn.

For me this episode was a chance to honour some shifts, to reflect personally, and to try and speak to this moment from my heart intelligence. 

So this a spontaneous, honest, open, vulnerable, meandering, reflective share. And some of my opinions on the context we are in at this moment as climate breakdown becomes seemingly impossible to ignore. 

How I am deepening my own learning, practices and offerings through deeper relational intentionality with the more than human world,  including a recent Vision Quest I completed and participation as a co-learner in a new 18 month learning journey -  ‘Kincentric Leadership’.

And how all this is shaping the future of the podcast, the work I do and the evolution of Becoming Crew.

I also speak to some of my own overwhelm with how to show up and speak to what I often feel is the ‘insanity’ and paradox of these times. 

 - a moment in time I’m calling ‘peak don’t look up’

I talk about grief and its essential part in the cycle of life, as an act of love, and how suppressing our grief, our loss in these times is leading to so much stress, fear, anger, numbness, distraction and overwhelm.

I speak of the urgent need of getting our ‘collective attention’ back, and the urgency for more of us to step into service, to begin to look beyond our own individual agendas and into collective action, how we can begin to serve the greater whole, to serve life, becoming crew as we call it round here.

Finally I wanted to reflect on my takeouts and learnings from the podcast conversations with my amazing guests this year and why they feel important and valuable for these times we are facing into.

I also share what next for the podcast in the Autumn and from Becoming Crew.

To be honest I recorded this episode for me, but I hope you find something in it for you, let us know, we’d love to hear from you.

A big thanks to all the guests, contributors and our crew for making this podcast happen and to all our beautiful listeners for supporting us.

We hope you get some rest over the next month, the Autumn is going to be very lively  - we are all being called to step into service,  to cultivate our creative courage, to cross into the uncertainty and navigate from our hearts - we are all needed, for the sake of our young, for future ancestors, for all beings, for the future of life on this planet we call home.

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