Our tenth episode of Unfurling, and the end of season 1!

In this episode, we take inspiration from a coaching 'completion' session, and think about:

• Our takeaways and highlights from having created episodes 1-9 (our listeners are a definite highlight!).
• The challenges we've experienced in making Unfurling, like technology and imposter syndrome.
• What we want to let go of as we look ahead; what we trust in; and what we're grateful for.
• Our thoughts on how season 2 might look a bit different -- namely, a new format with different segments and featured guests.
• Our hopes for Unfurling.

If you'd like to connect with others, or share ideas and resources, you're welcome to join our private Facebook group, here.

Thank you for listening -- and we hope to reconnect with you for season 2, in 2021.

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Please excuse Elizabeth's poorer than usual sound quality in this episode -- the microphone had clearly decided to try out the 'strategic non-action' that we mention in the episode ;-)

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References & quotes:

~3: Jonathan Lockwood Huie: “Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.”

~5: Episode 5 (Confidence): Flamboyant Cuttlefish, Eclectus Parrots, Praying Mantises

~5: Episode 9 (Language): Prairie Dogs

~5: Episode 1, 3, 4, 9: References to Suzanne Simard’s work on underground forest networks, and how trees “talk” to each other 

~6: Episode 6 (Connections & Networks): “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr.: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” 

~8: Trailer

~9: Episode 4 (Listening): Eco-Acoustics and recording 3D sound portraits of primary equatorial rainforests

~10: Episode 4 (Listening): Henry David Thoreau: “It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.”

~12: Episode 2 (Climate Change): David Wallace-Wells: “When it comes to contemplating real-world warming dangers, we suffer from an incredible failure of imagination.” 

~12: Episode 1 (Joy and Wonder): “The Overstory” by Richard Powers

~16: Episode 8 (Place): John Burroughs: “Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.”

~20: Bonus Episode (About Unfurling & Us): E. O. Wilson: "We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesisers; people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.” 

~27: “My Heart Leaps Up” by William Wordsworth: 

“My heart leaps up when I behold 

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began; 

So is it now I am a man; 

So be it when I shall grow old, 

Or let me die!

The Child is father of the Man;

And I could wish my days to be

Bound each to each by natural piety.”

~28: Episode 1 (Joy and Wonder)

~29: Development”: “mid 17th century (in the sense ‘unfold, unfurl’): from French développer, based on Latin (from Google / Oxford Languages)

~30: Quagga -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga

~36: “The wisest and noblest teacher is nature itself.” -  Leonardo da Vinci

~36: “An Old-World Thicket” by Christina Rossetti: 

“Such mirth they made, such warblings and such chat

With tongue of music in a well-tuned beak,

They seemed to speak more wisdom than we speak,”

~40: Wu Wei (Strategic Non Action) from the Tao Te Ching (“Do that which consists in taking no action and order will prevail,” -- https://qz.com/876067/the-chinese-principle-wu-wei-eliminates-the-need-for-lifehacks/

~c. 41: Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche” by Bill Plotkin -- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soulcraft-Crossing-Mysteries-Nature-Psyche/dp/1577314220

~41: Episode 9 (Language):  “My Octopus Teacher” on Netflix.

~43: “Feeling Good by Nina Simone”: “It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me, and I'm feelin' good.” -- https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ninasimone/feelinggood.html

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