An exploration of self-similarity across diversity. Diving in to themes of conflict transformation, cultural evolution, transcending political polarization, racial healing, music, art, history, the future, science and spirituality. Host, Duncan Autrey, interviews with interesting people with unique perspectives on the world and seeing what we can learn from each other, because “we all have a role to play in the whole.” Duncan Autrey is a conflict transformation catalyst and educator. We all ...
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Are you ready to transcend polarization and ensure thoughtful citizen participation in our political decision-making process? Democracy is struggling, but we already have the tools to make things better. Join conflict transformation catalyst Duncan Autrey as he reveals the skills and wisdom available to help us co-create the future of democracy. Listen to interviews and talks featuring the many people and concepts ready to help us move forward, including: conflict mediators, dialogue facilit ...
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Upgrading the Thanksgiving Narrative (Re-Release)
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35:59Join host Duncan Autrey in a special Thanksgiving episode of the Omni-win Project Podcast. In this soul-stirring solo session, Duncan revisits a crucial message from a previous Thanksgiving episode, emphasizing its heightened relevance amidst our current political climate and looming election year. Delve into an enlightening exploration of Thanksgi…
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Host Duncan Autrey is back, energized from a year of growth and pivotal experiences. This season, he'll share insights from his work a whole movement of people collaborating to advance and amplify political healing and democratic innovation. Season 2, aligning with the 2024 election year, promises a mix of solo episodes, discussions, and highlights…
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Three Reasons to Celebrate Thanksgiving [Solo]
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35:29Many US Americans love to celebrate Thanksgiving and their traditions but it is also a time of mourning for Indigenous people. Discover the true history behind the Thanksgiving and how we can use this holiday as a way to co-create a better future for our nation. During this episode, Duncan will share with you three respectful ways in which we can c…
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Honoring Dignity & Leading in Polarization
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1:22:23“Trauma is the glue that holds polarization in place.”In this classic Fractal Friends episode re-release, Duncan speaks with David Brubaker about the depth of polarization. They discuss the importance of honoring each others’ (and our own) dignity, even when we don’t agree with each other. Empathy is a valuable tool we can use to understand other p…
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Uniting Fractured Communities Through Dialogue
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1:02:54“We lose so much potential when we focus on our differences.”You’ve probably noticed that our political landscape is dire. Everyone’s fighting, everyone has an enemy, and we’re no closer to solving society’s critical problems. How can we fix this?In this episode with Kathleen Oweegon, discover amazing ways to start tuning in to the other side and u…
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We Must Change Our Broken System (Part 2/2)
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55:49“America belongs to everyone who lives here.”This week, Guy and Heidi Burgess are back to finish their conversation with Duncan. Check out the first part HEREWhile it’s important to break down oppressive structures, we don’t have a concrete vision for what we’d replace them with. How can we ensure the replacement system doesn’t continue oppressing …
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How Hyper-Polarization Threatens Our Future, and What To Do About It. (Part 1/2)
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1:00:34Welcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast.It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so j…
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Welcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast.It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so j…
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A Breakthrough for Preventing Society's Collapse
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1:05:59Welcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast.It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so j…
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Creating a Healthy Democracy For Everyone
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1:14:02Welcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast.It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so j…
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"Efficient Collaboration Through Convergent Facilitation" with Paul Kahawatte
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1:25:25Welcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast.It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so j…
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"Liberating our Capacity for Thinking and Collaboration" with Jordan Hall
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49:23Welcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast.It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so j…
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"How Can We Make Dialogue More Attractive And Accessible?" Thinking Together with Olga Liapis-Muzzy
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1:21:05Welcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast. It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so …
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"Conscious Cultural Evolution" with Carter Phipps
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1:04:38Welcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast. It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so …
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"Overcoming Political and Media Manipulation Together" with Bill Shireman
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56:28Welcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast.It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so j…
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Reclaiming Our Power with Nonviolence with Miki Kashtan
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1:01:34Welcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast. It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so …
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"Why We Need A Wiser Democracy Now" with Tom Atlee
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51:38Welcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast.It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so j…
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Here’s a special bonus episode for listeners of the Omni-Win Project Podcast. Duncan welcomes Raye Rawls for an exclusive Q&A session with an audience from the Democracy, Politics and Conflict Engagement Initiative (DPACE). Listen to learn about the tips and tricks for Reflective Structured Dialogue from this award-winning mediator and dialogue fac…
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"Building Resilience and Relationship through Dialogue" with Raye Rawls
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1:05:17Discover reflective structured dialogue, an extraordinary tool for deepening our understanding of other's perspectives, rather than solving problems. Duncan and Raye Rawls talk about how this process, created by Essential Partners, can humanize our enemies and bring us together.In contrast, Raye raises concerns that our current tools for healing di…
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"Combating Polarization and Extremism with Meta-Ideological Politics" with Ryan Nakade
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40:50Episode title: "Combating Polarization and Extremism with Meta-Ideological Politics" with Ryan NakadeWelcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast. (or a similar greeting? Quite like the idea)It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win…
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"Why Ideology Is Not the Enemy" with Ryan Nakade
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41:07Welcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast. It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so …
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"Fixing Democracy with Mediation and Conflict Transformation" with Ken Cloke (Part 2/2)
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38:52It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so join us in co-creating the future of demo…
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"The Greatest Challenges of Our Democracy" with Kenneth Cloke (Part 1/2)
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41:39It's time to upgrade our democracy. If you're fed up with the status quo and want to catalyze political and societal change, you're in the right place. The Omni-Win Project Podcast is ready to shed light on the many opportunities we have to revolutionize our political culture. We’re all in this together, so join us in co-creating the future of demo…
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Introducing Duncan and the Omni-Win Project
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21:04Our democracy is having a hard time, and there’s pretty much an international consensus that things aren’t working. Our global system is ineffective and divisive.People don’t believe that this system represents their voices because it doesn’t. We’re not making an effort to include everyone’s voices. Decisions aren’t collaborative, even when it come…
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Hi Fractal Friends. Sorry, it’s been a while. I have some bittersweet news for you… After wrapping up the last series of episodes coming into the beginning of 2021, I found myself really wanting to find a way to put together my love for podcasting, my passion for conflict transformation and my real interest in trying to figure out how to improve ou…
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Welcome to the Omni-Win Project Podcast. In this message your host, Duncan Autrey, shares with you what you can expect from The Omni-Win Project Podcast.The goal of the Omni-Win Project is to facilitate the healing and evolution of our democratic systems and political culture, so that we can co-create a future that works for everyone.The first coup…
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"Healing the Political Divide" with Bill Shireman
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1:45:50Bill Shireman is a republican environmentalist and activist dedicated to supporting solution-based politics. He is the co-author of In This Together: How Republicans, Democrats, Capitalists and Activists are Uniting to Tackle Climate Change and More and the Founder and CEO of Future 500. We talk about how our political system is designed to be inef…
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"Mission Focus, Stewardship & Sensemaking" with Jim Uhlmann
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1:59:42Major Jim Uhlmann is a former green beret commando, father, neighbor, gardener, citizen and libertarian. He is a stewardship consultant and a full stack human system(s) engineer. In this conversation we talk about facing the fact that we are humans who are living in a biological reality, with a drive to avoid pain and fear and move towards what we …
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"A Prayer for Peace, Reconciliation & Grace" with Michael Brodeur
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1:37:39This is part of series of episodes where I interview forward-thinking people from the conservative side of the political spectrum in the spirit of cultural healing. Michael Brodeur is a minister and proud follower of Jesus. Michael was raised in the heart of 1960s counterculture in San francisco, Michael is not your typical minister and this is not…
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"Solutionary Love in America (and the World)" with Alixa Garcia
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1:24:43In this episode I talk with Alixa Garcia, a musician, poet, visual artist, filmmaker, activist, and educator. She is a visionary and radical solutionary of our time. Along with Naima Penniman, Alixa co-created the amazing duo Climbing Poetree. For 17 years, Alixa and Naima have dedicated themselves to “harnessing creativity as the antidote to destr…
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"Response Ability & Doing No Harm" with Wendy Wood
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1:36:15Wendy Wood is a conflict transformation colleague of mine. She's one of the co-founders of The Karuna Center for Mindful Engagement, the co-author of the book Do No Harm: Mindful Engagement for a World in Crisis, and a founding member of the Democracy Politics and Conflict Engagement (DPACE) Initiative of Mediators Beyond Borders International. Wen…
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"Thinking Globally and Legislating Locally" with Cheryl Davila
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1:26:46Cheryl Davila is an elected member of the Berkeley City Council. Councilmember Davila is currently up for reelection and this conversation provides an intimate window into the experience of an elected representative who is working at the local level to address global and national issues while also communicating directly with the people she represen…
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"Building Bridges with Music" with Austin Willacy
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1:18:00Austin Willacy is a musician, producer and musical mentor. Austin is a member of the Thrive Choir of Thrive East Bay, and The House Jacks. In this conversation we talk about finding your passion and then doing the work of growing into your best self. We talk about the role of mentorship and developing resilience through vulnerability. We talk about…
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"Using Dialogue to Heal Local & Global Ruptures" with Pablo Lumerman
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1:35:40Pablo Lumerman is a conflict transformation colleague from Argentina. In this conversation we talk about the power of living in the present moment, the importance of remembering deep history and enacting our visions for the future. We discuss a comparative history of colonialism, race and racism between Argentina and the United States. We draw para…
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"Designing Workplaces of Safety & Trust" with Alla Weinberg
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1:26:49In this episode I talk with Alla Weinberg. Alla is my business partner, and we are the co-founders of Spoke & Wheel the workplace relationship experts. In this conversation we talk about our vision of a future of work, where people are excited about the work they get to do and nourished by the people they get to work with. We talk about how teams, …
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"Honoring Dignity & Leading in Polarization" with David Brubaker
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1:24:56David Brubaker is a Professor of Sociology, and Author of a new book called When the Center Does Not Hold: Leading in an Age of Polarization In this conversation we talk about polarization and what happens when conflict reaches its highest levels: people stop caring about the issues and the conflict turns personal. When this happens people start to…
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"Intersectional & Authentic Transformation" with Sunshine Michelle Coleman
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1:31:47Sunshine Michelle is a spiritual leader, a visionary, an academic and a poet who is deep into her doctoral dissertation about Authentic Self-Expression of Black and Brown Women.Her academic inquiry is based on a sacred sister circle that she has been conducting over the last year in Berkeley, California. In this conversation we talk about finding a…
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"Growing & Healing Through Conflict" with AddieRose Mayer & Ei Ei Samai
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1:25:18In this episode I talk with AddieRose Mayer and Ei Ei Samai. AddieRose is the Executive Director at SEEDS Community Resolution Center. Ei Ei is a Culture Designer at Samai Group. This conversation is grounded in reality-based optimism that’s rooted in our lived-experiences that show that not only is it possible to communicate across our differences…
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