The Coconut Thinking podcast brings educational provocateurs and practitioners in the regenerative space together to ask: what would it take to create the conditions for all life to thrive? Conversations are as diverse as the guests, but each one participates in the ecosystem, and each one questions the dominant narrative. This is a show for those who are curious about learning, systems, and contributing to the bio-collective—all life that has an interest in the healthfulness of the planet.
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The Dr. Junkie Show is a podcast hosted by addicted person, convicted criminal, prison educator and college educator Ben Boyce. Topics include drugs and those who use them, media, and communication, along with an overall focus on systems of power.
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Welcome to your new favourite book club. If you enjoy deep dives into the greatest books ever written, you will love Hardcore Literature. Provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing literary analyses. We don’t just read the great books - we live them. Together we’ll suck the marrow out of Shakespeare, Homer, and Tolstoy. We’ll relish the most moving art ever committed to the page and stage from every age. Join us on the reading adventure of a lifetime.
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A series for people seeking practical examples of the pioneering organizations and communities going beyond sustainability and leading the way towards a better future. Regenerative organisation specialist Hannah Temple interviews groundbreaking entrepreneurs, activists and community leaders, inviting them to share their stories, work, lessons learned and personal practices. Listeners will gain inspiration, guidance and actions for how to make their own organisations and initiatives more supp ...
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Let’s run down the halls, speak out of turn, break a few rules, and have an honest conversation about why schools need to change. Join me, Sal Gordon, and other rule-breakers as we dig into what needs to change, why and how we can pick up the pace on education reform. I’m going beyond the theory. Beyond the school gates. I’m getting fidgeting and I’m not waiting to put my hand up to be given permission to talk. I think the School bell is about to ring, so let’s get ready to get real.
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Special Episode: Learning is a means, not an end
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31:28How can learning&doing help us become good participants in the web of life? In this special episode, I speak about how systems change won’t happen if we replace names and labels but continue to do the same old thing. I propose that we move beyond assessing learning, competencies, soft skills for their own sake. Rather, what if we collected the voic…
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Dan Burgess: Passengers and Crew on Spaceship Earth
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51:48How might we participate as Earthlings, part of a living planet, in kinship with the more-than-human? Dan Burgess is a regenerative practitioner, creative strategist, and facilitator working at the intersection of ecology, culture, and transformation. With roots in the worlds of storytelling, activism, and systems innovation, Dan helps individuals …
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169: Freud on Drugs, Religion, Guilt, Shame and Civilization (Civilization and its Discontents)
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27:55This week I dive into some of the work Freud wrote later in his life, particularly a book called Civilization and its Discontents published in 1930. Freud believed that the evolutionary process we can use to trace the changes humans have gone through over the centuries can also explain why culture itself has evolved as it has. He basically thinks w…
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This week I talk about Freud's love of cocaine, the historical legacy of Freud's cocaine use, and the cultural changes that have occurred since then in relation to cocaine. The stories we tell about drugs impact the experience we have when we consume them, but Freud wasn't dealing with a century of propaganda. He was, in many ways, creating some of…
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Bas van den Berg, Mieke Lopes Cardozo, Koen Wessels: Regenerative Education requires Love, Presence, and Courage
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1:01:23What does it mean to nurture good relationships through regenerative education in these times we live in? In this episode, I speak with the authors of the soon-to-be-published book, The Art of Regenerative Educatorship. Bas is an associate professor in regenerative leadership at the Mission Zero Centre of Expertise at The Hague University of Applie…
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This week I dive into some of Trump's recent comments about "Venezuelan gang members" and the USA's legacy of dehumanizing people based on their drug use. I discuss Rodney King, Joaquín Guzman aka "El Chapo," George Floyd, dehumanization, Hannah Arendt's Banality of Evil, the art of shilling for Trump (aka "minionism"), and lots more. You can find …
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Special Nyepi Episode: Benjamin Freud, Ph.D. interviewed by Charlotte Hankin
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1:20:03We honor Nyepi with this special episode, in which Charlotte Hankin interviews Benjamin Freud. Nyepi is the Balinese Day of Silence, and is a Hindu New Year celebration marked by 24 hours of complete stillness. No travel, no lights, no work, and no noise. It is a time for self-reflection and spiritual renewal. We recorded this episode a few days af…
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166: A Conversation with One of My Students about Drugs, Addiction and Neoliberalism (Maddy Grace/Levin)
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44:53This week I share a conversation with one of my students, Madeline Grace/Levin, who is creating a podcast of her own called Dependence. I will update this episode description with a link to her podcast when it's live, but in the mean time I thought I'd share a cool conversation we had last week. We talk about religion, drugs, addiction, Michel de C…
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Ep 87 - Appreciating Shakespeare on My Birthday
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1:25:24If you're enjoying the Hardcore Literature Show, there are two ways you can show your support and ensure it continues: 1. Please leave a quick review on iTunes. 2. Join in the fun over at the Hardcore Literature Book Club: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature Thank you so much. Happy listening and reading! - Benjamin…
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How might we shift our educational practices to deepen students’ ecological awareness, nurturing a culture of care and reciprocity with Earth’s living systems? In this episode, I speak with Katharine Burke. Katharine has been an educator for over 30 years, passionately advocating for ecological literacy, permaculture, and regenerative education. Sh…
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Regenerative Education with Benjamin Freud
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1:14:17What is it for education to be regenerative? No matter how long ago it was for some of us, our experiences in educational settings have a huge impact on how we go on to behave in the world. The ideas we encounter, the values we form, the relationships we develop and the ideas of ourselves we create in these spaces and phases of our lives often prov…
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165: Beers with my Dad (Steve Boyce)
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1:04:55This week I sat down to record a conversation with my dad, Steve Boyce. We talk about my childhood, his first marriage to my bio-mom, addiction and drug use in his life, what I was like as a kid, cocaine, marijuana, alcohol, and religion (plus more). Support the showBy Ben Boyce
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Regenerative Governance with Erica Neve and Patrick Andrews
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1:25:46Nature on the Board? Steward ownership? Employee ownership? Self-managing teams? For those seeking to establish regenerative organisations, the options in terms of how those organisations should be governed can feel overwhelming. In this episode we dive deeper into the submerged world of governance and look at what it actually is, surface some prin…
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This week I talk about the kratom wars: the argument over whether kratom is a deadly drug or a miracle cure (or somewhere in between). While some states are currently trying to ban kratom, others are working to make it easier and safer to get. Meanwhile, the federal government has been a bit all over the place on it, and with Trump 2.0 gathering ea…
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Do we have what it takes to change our ways to ones that work with, rather than against, life? In this episode, I speak with Giles Hutchins. Giles is a leading voice in regenerative leadership and business transformation. With 30 years of experience—including roles as Head of Transformation at KPMG and Global Sustainability Director at Atos—he now …
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Regenerative Financing with Melanie Rieback
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1:25:50What might it look like for the financing and other fundamental structures underpinning our organisations to truly help them create conditions for life's thriving? Dr. Melanie Rieback is CEO/Co-founder of Radically Open Security, the world's first not-for-profit computer security company, and the "Post Growth" startup incubator Nonprofit Ventures. …
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Ep 86 - Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
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1:21:41If you're enjoying the Hardcore Literature Show, there are two ways you can show your support and ensure it continues: 1. Please leave a quick review on iTunes. 2. Join in the fun over at the Hardcore Literature Book Club: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature Thank you so much. Happy listening and reading! - Benjamin…
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163: Kendrick, Drake, Christian Nationalism, and Accountability without Free Will
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37:19This week I tackle some of the questions and comments I've been getting over the last couple months. I talk about Trump's neoliberal agenda, his capture of the Evangelical Right, Consistency and Accountability in both criminal justice and religion, and I clean up some of what I may have missed during the last few episodes I've done on these issues.…
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Regenerative Contracting with Annette Dhami
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1:28:53We are so lucky in this episode to be joined by Annette Dhami from Dark Matter Labs. Annette leads the Beyond the Rules initiative which explores the organising and governance practices needed for an economy designed for life. Its work is in the rewriting, reinvention and reimagining of the rules, norms and laws that hold us in the current system. …
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Mike Edwards, PhD: Resonance with place and crises
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51:11How might we weave stories together as a response to ecological breakdown, using sound to connect to place? In this episode, I speak with Mike Edwards. Mike began his career researching climate change in the Southwest Pacific, where his work—cited by the IPCC—was among the first to explore ecocolonialism: how climate discourse is manipulated by the…
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162: New Projects, Old Problems, and I Can't Leave Religion Alone (Dr. Christy Perez)
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1:22:19This week Dr. Christy Perez (C Dreams) is back to talk about her new projects, and to be dragged back into old theological debates. We talk about trans rights, Christianity, the capture of Evangelical Christianity by MAGA, expectations for the next 4 years, the anti-fact stance of the recent anti-trans executive order, and we spend way too long spi…
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What happens when the way we see ourselves changes the way we see the world? In this episode, I speak with Steffi Bednarek. Steffi’s work explores the intersection of climate change, complexity thinking, and the human psyche. She is the Director of the Center for Climate Psychology. With over 25 years of experience in depth psychology, trauma-infor…
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Ep 85 - The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud)
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1:30:03If you're enjoying the Hardcore Literature Show, there are two ways you can show your support and ensure it continues: 1. Please leave a quick review on iTunes. 2. Join in the fun over at the Hardcore Literature Book Club: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature Thank you so much. Happy listening and reading! - Benjamin…
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This week I get back to the heart of the show: drug policy, drug addiction, and drugs. I talk about free will as it relates to the war on drugs, addiction and intoxication, and I dig into genetics, criminal justice, punishment and prevention. The nonsensical notion of free will, which I've yet to hear defined with any sort of coherence, plays no pa…
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Leslie Medema: Place-based learning at Green School Bali
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45:54How might leadership open more emergent spaces in schools? This is the first in a series of episodes throughout the year where we invite educators and practitioners to explore how they might share their time, talents, and gifts to uplift others. As we delve into their stories, we ask our guests what contributions they envision making in the spirit …
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This week I talk about coffee: the history, the pharmacology, the politics and the legal battles. I take a dialectical perspective, which just means I focus on both sides of the coffee discussion: it has been blamed for sexual promiscuity and inability to perform; it has been the instigator of both dictatorships and revolutions; it has been labeled…
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This week I finally finish the topic a started a few weeks ago: religious trauma and why religion often makes people into worse versions of themselves without them noticing. I discuss two of the most important questions in life: how does one find truth, and how does one decide on morality. And I point out the many ways that religions, particularly …
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Dave Cormier: Learning in a time of uncertainty
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50:10How might we learn (and teach) to navigate uncertainty when the system rewards final answers? Dave Cormier is an internationally renowned educational thinker specializing in the intersection of technology and pedagogy. He coined the term MOOC in 2008 and pioneered open and rhizomatic learning. His work on creativity and uncertainty in education is …
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This week I get back to the roots of the show and talk about drugs, specifically alcohol. How does it work? What does it do in the body? Why is it so popular in so many cultures? How has capitalism both attacked and encouraged alcohol use at various times? Why did prohibition happen in the first place? How did our relationship with alcohol change a…
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Ep 84 - Book Club Schedule for 2025
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1:00:39If you're enjoying the Hardcore Literature Show, there are two ways you can show your support and ensure it continues: 1. Please leave a quick review on iTunes. 2. Join in the fun over at the Hardcore Literature Book Club: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature Thank you so much. Happy listening and reading! - Benjamin…
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Ep 83 - Reflecting on Reading the Great Books in 2024
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1:37:19If you're enjoying the Hardcore Literature Show, there are two ways you can show your support and ensure it continues: 1. Please leave a quick review on iTunes. 2. Join in the fun over at the Hardcore Literature Book Club: patreon.com/hardcoreliterature Thank you so much. Happy listening and reading! - Benjamin…
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