Welcome to Season 2! In this Season, we’ll set off on a journey in each episode to explore a particular topic using a nature lens. Like last season, we’ll share our own thoughts and learning, but this time round we’ll also stop off along the way to learn from guests, who we see as “guides”.  Through our explorations, we hope to inspire new thoughts and ideas in ourselves, and our listeners.

In episode 1 of Season 2, we explore the concepts of Waiting and Patience:

• Start: We share our new approach to Season 2 and what’s drawing us to the topic of Waiting and Patience, as well as explore “What’s In a Word?”
• ~08:10: We join our first guide, Hamish Mackay-Lewis, a leadership and life coach, facilitator and meditation teacher. He has varied international experience working with people from all walks of life in business, the armed forces and not-for-profits. His passion is to work with groups and individuals to create space for reflection, renewal and reconnection with the wisdom of nature. He strongly believes that personal and spiritual development and reconnection to nature are prerequisites for societal and environmental regeneration.  He aspires to a life of adventure, wilderness and exploration of the nature of consciousness and indigenous wisdom from around the world. Hamish shares more at http://www.hamishmackaylewis.com.
• ~28:50: We reflect on what Hamish shared and bring in our own experiences and reflections around waiting and patience, drawing from the natural world, including 31,800 year old germinating seeds, and gestation lengths in creatures.
• ~36:15: We move to our second guide, Lindsey Chapman, a TV and Radio presenter on BBC One, BBC Two, Channel 5 and Radio 4. Passionate about people, arts and the natural world, she has tackled complex subjects from climate change to the power of poetry. Brought up in rural East Yorkshire, Lindsey grew up with a deep appreciation of nature and green space.  Lindsey shares more about her work and the charities and projects she supports here: http://www.lindseychapman.co.uk.
• ~63: We look at what we took away from our time with Lindsey as well as common themes brought up by both guides. We finish our journey by thinking about where we are now in terms of waiting and patience and how we want to be, going forward. We also pose some questions for our listeners to consider.

We hope you enjoy it (...despite Elizabeth's dodgy mic / audio quality in this episode!).

If you'd like to explore this and other topics further, you're very welcome to join our private Facebook group, 'Unfurling Podcast'.

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References:

~5: “Waiting”, Online Etymology Dictionary: Multiple entries including to watch, to guard, to be awake

~5: “Patience”, Online Etymology Dictionary: “The quality of suffering or enduring; submission”

~7: Joyce Meyer: “Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.”

~8: Hamish Mackay-Lewis

~18: John P. Milton’s “Way of Nature” 

~23: Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”

~25: Brian Swimme: “If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.”

~26: The Biggest Little Farm

~26: “The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World” by Wade Davis 

~31: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: “Regeneration of whole fertile plants from 30,000-y-old fruit tissue buried in Siberian permafrost” 

~35: Animal gestation periods 

~37: Lindsey Chapman

~40: “Wild Animal Rescue Wins RTS Award” 

~41: Chris Packham 

~1:01: The Cloud Appreciation Society 

~1:07: Fulton J. Sheen: “Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing".  It waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.”

~1:10: The poem “Patience” by Rabindranath Tagore

~1:15: Jill Biden: “Life is difficult, and if you sit around waiting for fun to show up, you'll find yourself going without it more often than not."

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