Emerge
Indra Adnan, co-initator of the Alternative UK, speaks with Daniel Thorson, host of the Emerge Podcast, about systems change, creating an 'omni-win' political system, Greta Thunberg and the power of integrity.
This conversation happened in Kyiv at the Emerge Gathering 2019 and is part of the 'Politics of Waking Up' series.
The Alternative UK: www.thealternative.org.uk/
Emerge Podcast: www.whatisemerging.com/emergepodcast
Audio edit: Louis Allen
State of Emergence
A New Republic of the Heart is a place for spiritual practitioners and change agents to learn, practice, and become the next-stage citizens and leaders who can rise to our collective moment. Terry Patten speaks to Indra Adnan about the new political system she sees arising in the age of people power.
The Future is Beautiful
How can we create together a political system that supports human and planetary flourishing right in the face of our possible extinction?
“We are living in an era in which people are finding their own autonomy and their own agency and they want to express that. We are not content anymore to hand all of that over to someone else.” Indra Adnan
In this episode Amisha Ghadiali meets psychotherapist and consultant Indra Adnan. Indra is co-initiator of The Alternative UK. Only 2% of people in the UK are members of political parties and The Alternative are working to reorient political power from within the 98%. Indra is committed to exploring politics ‘with a small p’ - the world of sociopolitical culture and action outside the bubble of party politics. The alternative provides a platform to raise awareness about and provide connectivity between people who are creating value within communities particularly innovating for the environment, with a daily blog highlighting new initiatives of active citizenship.
Together Indra and Amisha speak about the revolutionary act of getting to know our neighbours, how both Mumsnet and ISIS rose to influence through the power of story, how a hashtag can change lives and why women must now step forward into the public space as a matter of urgency.
Two Pages with Michael Bungay
Indra Adnan reading from Ken Wilbur’s A Theory of Everything and discusses the growing chasm in society.
Whatever country you’re living in, perhaps you feel the divide between ‘us’ and ‘them’ is becoming sharper. And that chasm is getting wider, deeper, and more treacherous. Indra Adnan raises a provocative question in light of that: why are we invested in the failure of half of our society? Indra challenges the very way we do politics as an agent of change both locally and in the wider world, and her latest book, The Politics of Waking Up, speaks to that. Get all the book links and resources at https://www.mbs.works/2-pages-podcast/
Indra reads from Ken Wilbur’s ‘A Theory of Everything.’ [Reading begins at 28:10]
Hear us talk about:
The definition of power. “Too often seen as force or coercion.” [2:45]
“People came together in extraordinary ways.” [13:31]
“It’s not politics itself which is toxic…” [36:28] |
A force of change. [43:16]