How can artificial intelligence help us scale deliberative forms of democracy that are more resilient to autocracy? What aspects of the deliberative process are fundamentally human? What are the risks associated with using technology to scale innovative democratic process?

How can we learn to collaborate to identify solution that are not zero sum but win for all, including the planet?

How can we become skillful with diverse modes of cognition, enabling us to have a richer, nuanced, and thus more accurate understanding of the world?

Robert Gilman returns to the Denizen podcast with a three part series on essential personal competencies for a regenerative future. This first episode explores psychodynamics: having direct personal awareness of our underlying motivations, the state of our nervous system, and cognitive biases.

What is the work that is necessary for white people to do -- within themselves, their communities, and their organizations -- in order to dismantle systemic oppression and realize a just, regenerative future?

What defines white supremacy culture, and what can we do to counter it? How can this awareness support white individuals to address their racist conditioning?

In this episode we break from our typical format and practice the Aboriginal custom of yarning with Apalech Clan member and author of Sand Talk Tyson Yunkaporta.

What are the ways in which all of us can be empowered as financial activists in our lives? Author Jasmine Rashid outlines eight strategies for financial activism, spanning inner work, personal financial decisions, influence over collective financial flows, and financial activism beyond money.

What are the ways in which we can decolonize ourselves through deep inner narrative work?  How does this intersect with consciousness and spiritual practices?  Activist, artist, and slam poet Ashanti Kunene shares four unlearning principles that support us in coming into alignment with ourselves.

What does it mean to be a conscious leader? Leading expert and author Diana Chapman shares the 15 commitments that define conscious leadership in this rich and provocative conversation.

What is ethnocide? How can it help us make sense of this moment in history, with Trump's re-election on MLK Dr. Day? How can we create new rituals and practice to realize American ideals of justice and equality?

Post Growth Entrepreneurship (PGE) reframes business as a form of activism, art, spirituality, and creative expression. PGE questions entrepreneurial "common wisdom" and re-envisions business as a vehicle for pure positive impact.

What has been the role of storytelling in the psychedelic movement? This episode explores how story has contributed to and inhibited the psychedelic movement over the last 30 years.

How might we move beyond the confines of traditional notions of money and currency to enable a regenerative transition? How can we use currencies to enable a healthy economy where where resources are allocated efficiently and fairly, contributing to the overall prosperity and well-being of a community?

What are citizen's assemblies, and how might they address challenges faced with representative democracy around the world today?

How do we define progress, and how do we go about achieving it? How are our current notions of progress catastrophically problematic, creating much bigger problems than they solve? What would authentic progress look like, and how might we go about achieving it?

How can shared and purpose-driven economic models overcome the barriers they face operating in the dominant, extractive economy?  This conversation explores how progressive companies are working together at the frontiers of today's economy to enable resilience, competitiveness, and access to capital.

How can we distribute power and govern in a way that is most reflective of our collective objectives? How can we balance autonomy with alignment to best realize our shared goals?

What are the social and economic costs of widespread unresolved trauma? What does trauma do to our bodies and brains? What is required to heal trauma at its root, in our nervous systems?

How do we inadvertently show up to conflict in a way that diminishes connection, rather than restores harmony? How have dominant cultural narratives and the criminal justice system influenced our beliefs, narratives, and behaviors? How can we reorient within a new paradigm that results in more connection, intimacy, and love in our lives?