Two Inconvenient Women

In this season's conversations, Holly & Rachel each bring something that has caught their attention during the week, and spend time exploring what these provocations inspire and ignite.

After breaking news about the UK government UK’s approval of the Jackdaw gas-field, Holly brought the hard news of this decision to the table with a wider-perspective beyond the shoulds and should nots of more fossil-fuel extraction; so...

In this season's conversations, Holly and Rachel each bring something that has caught their attention during the week, and spend time exploring some of the learning, unlearning, wisdom and practices that these provocations inspire.

This week, Holly started us off with a poem: Small Inconveniences by Elise M. Powers which touches on the perils and potential of convenience in our lives and invites us to step more into appreciating...

In this season's conversations, Holly and Rachel each bring something that has caught their attention during the week, and spend time exploring some of the learning, unlearning, wisdom and practices that these provocations inspire.

This week, Rachel brought her interest resonance and what is happening when there is resonance - or dissonance - in the air between us. This was sparked by some of the reflections from a group of stra...

In this season's conversations, Holly and Rachel each bring something that has caught their attention during the week, and spend time exploring some of the learning, unlearning, wisdom and practices that these provocations inspire.

This week, Holly reflects on a provocative statement from Mary Beard that she hates when people say they "love reading"; whilst Rachel muses on some of the ways a quote from the 13th-century Sufi myst...

In this season's conversations, Holly and Rachel each bring a stimulus that has caught their attention during the week, and spend time exploring some of the learning, unlearning, wisdom and practices that these provocations inspire.

This week, Rachel explores the power of breath by sharing some of her own growing awareness of the impact of different ways of breathing on mind, body and emotions, whilst Holly muses on the role of ...

In our last week of the summer break, Rachel finishes the summer season with a poem - sharing some of the beautiful sentiments of the late poet Wendell Berry, who passed away just a few days ago aged 92.

The Peace of Wild Things

- Wendell Berry-

When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests i...

As the Two Inconvenient Women are on our summer break over August, we're doing a round-up of some of our favourite episodes from the last couple of seasons.

This week, we share your top 3 episodes of the year so far. Here are our most downloaded episodes of Season 6:

1. Why is play so important (and not just for children)?
2. What's the point of hope?
3. Red Alert: can we talk about the climate emergency now?

There's an inconven...

As the Two Inconvenient Women are on our summer break over August, we're doing a round-up of some of our favourite episodes from the last couple of seasons.

This week, Rachel shares her top 3 episodes:

1. E87 - Does childhood need reclaiming?
2. E69 - Why is singing so good for us?
3. E66 - What does it mean to winter?

There's an inconvenient movement growing...

It's not rebellion, exactly. More of a quiet refusal to look aw...

As the Two Inconvenient Women are on our summer break over August, we're doing a round-up of some of our favourite episodes from the last couple of seasons.

This week, Holly shares her top 3 episodes:

E85 - What's the problem with tolerating diversity? 

E76 - Why is the wisdom of children's books so relevant right now?

E74 - Do we need to know what the future looks like?

There's an inconvenient movement growing...

How can there be infinite growth on a finite planet? This question sits at the heart of many conversations about growth - especially those centred around economics, which also directly influences the cultural stories that shape the way we think, feel and act in the world. Within our educational landscapes, we're often taught to see growth as a trajectory and place to reach, and many of our cultural stories, frames and influences al...

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity"(Simone Weil) and holds the power to radically and deeply shift how we think, feel and act in the world. Many people are now pointing to a shift of attention as key to unlocking humans from being stuck within so many negative behavioural patterns; inviting us to pay closer attention to what we are actually doing, why that might be and whether our thoughts, feelings and actions ...

What does it mean to be humane? And, conversely, what might it mean to be inhumane?

Whilst there is no one way to be human, there are many shared qualities that encompass the human experience and that sit as the essence of what it is to be human; qualities that set us aside from other species. We are relational beings by nature, and have within us a quality drawn to connection. Yet there is a conflict within many areas of moder...

What is the point of hope? This question is so perfectly poised between nihilism and optimism, and the conversation explores the territory in between. When hope can so often feel like an avoidance of the present moment, or a vacuous space of impossibility, what does it have to offer us in such complex times? Conversely, hope is an act of faith in something far bigger than the human experience, and stands as a foundation of so many ...

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Play is not just for children; it is an essential adult survival tool. And yet we find ourselves living in so many cultures where play is being eroded from childhood and is virtually non-existent amongst adults. Beyond the core developmental qualities that play enables in children, engaging in recreational activities that bring joy lowers stress, triggers mood-boosting...

This week in the UK, we're in the middle of a heatwave. Record-breaking temperatures, flash floods, thunderstorms and lightning fires are all bringing the climate emergency into an immediacy of awareness for many people who previously may not have wanted or been able to look at it. But in the face of this emergency, how do we talk about what's happening without instilling more fear? And how do we find the courage to actually step i...

All of us are former children: a fact so often forgotten and yet so powerful when we remember just what is waiting inside all of us to be re-ignited. Within the wide threads of a conversation on childhood is the desire to tap beneath the cultural stories of modern childhood to re-ignite the essence of wonder that sits within us all and that is being threatened by so many of our modern problems.

Growing up in our modern world is ...