In this luminous conversation, we sit down with Canay Atalay — transformation architect, regenerative innovation strategist, and founder of the RX Innovation Institute — to explore how we can redesign the operating systems of business, technology, and leadership through the feminine principle and a regenerative lens.
Canay shares her journey from the pharmaceutical and media industries to pioneering regenerative innovation — a systemic approach that integrates cultural transformation, conscious AI, and life-centered economies. Drawing from her Turkish and Sufi heritage, she bridges mysticism, systems thinking, and practical frameworks for global transformation.
We talk about:
- Sufism, love, and the art of surrender
- Collapse as initiation and the dance of death and renewal
- Recoding scarcity mindsets into abundance
- Feminine intelligence as the missing link in business innovation
- The role of embodiment, motherhood, and pleasure in regeneration
- Moving from generative to regenerative AI
- The importance of community, coherence, and embodied leadership
This episode is a deep remembrance that the system is you — and that regeneration begins within.
Voices of Emergence is a podcast about inner transformation and systemic regeneration, hosted by Alex de Carvalho and Rudy de Waele.
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In this episode, we sit down with Louie Valotti — founder of Genesis Health and guide at the intersection of biology, consciousness, and healing.
Trained in Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Maté and initiated into the Peruvian Q’ero lineage of shamanism, Louie bridges modern trauma work with ancient ritual and spiritual science.
Together we explore:
- how trauma becomes a portal for the soul’s realization
- the connection between emotional repression and cellular renewal
- the role of ritual, prayer, and ceremony in reconnecting body, mind, and spirit
- masculine and feminine integration in leadership and community
- why humanity’s current crisis may be an initiation into collective awakening
A deeply embodied conversation about emergence, authenticity, and remembering the sacredness of being alive.
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A circle of inquiry into the soul of intelligence — human, artificial, and planetary.
In this special Voices of Emergence gathering, we convene a deep dialogue with Amanda Efthimiou, Lisanne Buik, Timothée Brès, and Fred Destin — exploring what it means to stay human in an age of accelerating intelligence.
Together we ask:
How can AI serve life, not control?
What does it mean to “parent” artificial intelligence?
Can technology carry wisdom, compassion, and care?
How do we cultivate AI hygiene — mindful use, embodied ethics, and community discernment?
Themes include embodiment, shadow work, regenerative design, and the mythic tension between Moloch (optimization and control) and Sophia (wisdom and coherence).
Key takeaway: AI mirrors the systems and souls that create it. Our collective task is not to fear or worship it, but to bring consciousness, presence, and love into our relationship with intelligence itself.
Panelists: Amanda Efthimiou • Lisanne Buik • Timothée Brès • Fred Destin
Hosted by Rudy de Waele & Alex de Carvalho
📖 Read the full circle summary & reflections on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/voicesofemergence/p/ai-ethics-and-emergence-rethinking
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We speak with biologist, whole-systems designer, and author Daniel Christian Wahl, whose book Designing Regenerative Cultures has inspired changemakers and communities worldwide.
Together they explore how regeneration moves beyond sustainability — not as a brand or technique, but as life’s innate process of creating the conditions for more life.
Daniel reflects on emergence and complexity, the deep intelligence of living systems, and the portal of place through which we remember our belonging to Earth and to one another.
Topics include:
The difference between sustainability and regeneration
Salutogenic design and bioregional thinking
The intimacy of community and place as biological needs
Circle work as an ancient human technology
The shadows of techno-solutionism and AI’s disconnection from natural intelligence
Re-imagining education as community and cultural transmission
Daniel reminds us that regeneration begins not in the lab but in the compost — in the humility of returning to place, to story, and to the living web that sustains us all.
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What if the way we speak, listen, and relate could regenerate culture itself?
In this episode of Voices of Emergence, we sit down with Jean-Philippe Steeger—narrative practitioner, facilitator, and founder of Perspectivist—to explore communication as a living, relational art. Drawing from his personal story and professional work at the intersection of systems change, story, and somatics, Jean-Philippe invites us to see dialogue as more than exchange; it’s how we shape belonging, restore coherence, and open new futures.
Together, we explore how regenerative communication is not about fixing what’s broken, but about speaking from wholeness, sensing the field, and inviting others into meaning-making that honors place, body, and complexity. From cultural storytelling to the role of grief in transformation, from post-performance leadership to wisdom economies, this is a conversation rooted in radical honesty and the language of possibility.
“Regenerative communication is the story, language, and embodied wholeness of a culture that thrives with nature.” —Jean-Philippe Steeger
Whether you're a facilitator, changemaker, or simply someone who senses the need for new ways of relating, this episode offers insight into how we might rewrite the story of us—together.
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What happens when ancestral wisdom meets frontier tech? In this conversation, Mamadou Touré — founder of Ubuntu Tribe — lays out a living philosophy of “shared prosperity” where finance becomes regenerative, transparent, and truly inclusive.
We explore:
Ubuntu as a practical operating system for business (“I am because we are”)
Why Western finance skews toward accumulation (collateral + info asymmetry) and how Islamic and Ubuntu logics differ
Tokenized, gold-backed assets and traceable, mercury-free supply chains as a path beyond extraction
Scarcity as a social spell vs. abundance as practice — and how language (“economy” = oikos nomos, laws of the home) shapes reality
AI and blockchain as tools for integrity and transparency, not control — the “finance + technology + spirituality” trifecta
Africa’s role in the next era: youth leadership, cultural memory, and a rising planetary consciousness
A few moments you’ll love: the “candy basket” story of collective joy, re-reading Malthus in an exponential tech age, and Mamadou’s closing seed: “All is one, and one is all.”
Mamadou is Founder and CEO of Ubuntu Group focused on Advisory and Investment activities across industries and aimed at supporting firms in Africa achieving scalable and sustainable growth on the continent. He previously worked in global finance (Deloitte, IFC/World Bank, GE Capital) and has been recognized by Forbes and the World Economic Forum for his pioneering work at the intersection of finance, technology, and inclusive development.
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What if emergence wasn’t a trend, but a remembering? What if complexity is not something to solve, but to compost?
In this rich and deeply poetic conversation, we sit with Ryan (Ra) James Kemp, a systems futurist, relational architect, and cultural integration guide who walks between quantum systems, indigenous cosmologies, regenerative design, and embodied remembrance.
From the sacred flow of water to the architecture of kinship, Ra reminds us: we’re not here to fix life, we’re here to remember we are life.
Together, we explore:
- Relational Intelligence vs. Transactional Systems
- Emergence through Emergency
- Biocultural Heritage and Planetary Remembering
- Unlearning, Integration, and the Role of Grief
- Post-Growth as a Return to Wholeness, Not a Metric
- Why the Future is Found by Deepening into Now
This episode is an invitation to melt the ice off our hearts, re-enter the sacred rhythms of the Earth, and shift from sustainability to reverent participation.
Whether you’re a systems thinker, an artist, an elder in training, or simply someone navigating the cracks of collapse—this conversation offers a map made of metaphor, memory, and the sacred alchemy of becoming. Stay with us until the end for insights on relational architecture, ancestral continuity, and why peace with Earth matters more than peace on Earth.
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In a world built on speed, separation, and distraction, what happens when we pause long enough to feel the world again?
Writer and researcher Virginia Vigliar explores what it means to live with attention, to move with awe, and to reclaim the quiet power of connection.
Known for her sensorial essays and poetic activism, Virginia speaks of “soft deconditioning” as a gentle rebellion against systems that keep us numb. She invites us to notice what’s already here: joy in the cracks, magic in the mundane, and the voice that returns when we finally make space for it.
Together, we explore:
• Why attention is a form of resistance in an overstimulated world
• How awe reawakens our humanity
• Storytelling as a tool for deconditioning and collective healing
• The importance of building spaces for connection and expression
• Moving beyond binaries into rhythm, nuance, and relational depth
This is not a conversation about gender, polarity, or ideology — it’s a living inquiry into what emerges when we let go of old categories and begin to listen differently.
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What does it take to lead from courage when the old system makes one last stand?
In this episode, cultural futurist and ecosystem builder Ida Faldbakken joins us to explore daring as a practice, naming what’s hard, finding beauty in the mess, and cultivating creative resilience in a world moving fast.
We go deep on:
Daring & vocalization
Creativity as grounded force
Ancestral memory & ritual
From “impact” to “wisdom investing”
Community beyond hype cycles
AI & culture
Safety & belonging
Ida is known for weaving across tech, art, and systemic change—curating gatherings (like Katapult in Oslo), nurturing cross-disciplinary communities, and now convening The Lineage Office, a field for wisdom-led design and “grounded forward” futures.
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In this deeply resonant episode, we sit with Silke von Brockhausen—a regenerative leader, facilitator, and former UN insider who’s spent two decades navigating crises from Sierra Leone to Afghanistan.
Silke shares her journey from institutional peacebuilding into the living waters of regeneration, where healing systems begins with healing ourselves. Together, we explore what it means to lead from presence, to metabolize collective trauma, and to cultivate coherence in a collapsing world.
This is a conversation about reclaiming trust, awakening feminine intelligence, and remembering wholeness—not through fixing the old, but by attuning to what wants to be born through us.
Together we explore:
– how attention and narrative act as forces of creation
– trauma-informed systems change and collective healing
– planetary consciousness and post-national belonging
– embodied leadership and feminine wisdom
– cultivating coherence and trust in a collapsing world
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What if the cracks in our world weren’t problems to fix, but portals to step through?
In this mythic, poetic, and gently disorienting conversation, Bayo Akomolafe invites us into the liminal, into the spaces between collapse and emergence, between logic and story, between the human and more-than-human. We explore what it means to become otherwise in times of profound unraveling.
Bayo shares what it means to be a “recovering psychologist” in the face of modernity’s certainties, and how Yoruba cosmology opened a different kind of knowing, one shaped by entanglement, slowness, and reverence for the unseen. We speak of the Trickster, of AI as a mirror and a myth, and of the strange ways the soul shows up when we stop trying to make sense and start sensing instead.
This is not a conversation of easy answers. It’s a dance of metaphors, memories, and micro-ruptures — and somewhere in the dance, a glimpse of sanctuary.
00:00 Opening: Modernity, psychology, and the cracks in our world
03:00 What “emergence” awakens: incompleteness and porousness
05:00 Yoruba cosmology, Brazil, and ancestral memory
09:00 A recovering psychologist: theology, psychology, and coloniality
13:00 Collapse, cracks, and radical non-completeness
19:00 Spells, narratives, individuation & collective shadow work
23:00 Chaos, polarization, and the gifts of confusion
27:00 Sideways movements, slavery, and the Trickster
31:00 Fragmentation, resistance, and eco-cognitive assemblages
37:00 AI as crack, mirror, and Trickster presence
45:00 Mythopoetic fields, Tarot, and Narcissus’ reflection
50:00 The Emergence Network and sideways politics
55:00 Seeds for the future: “Your soul is strange and you haven’t met her yet”
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In this episode, we sit down with futurist and visionary Lisanne Buik, founder of the Gracious AI philosophy. Lisanne shares her journey from tech entrepreneurship and burnout to receiving a transformative vision that reshaped her approach to technology.
Together, we explore:
This conversation invites us to rethink not only how we use AI, but how we embody the values that guide it. Will we build technologies that deplete, or ones that regenerate? The choice is ours—and it begins now.
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What does it truly mean to be human in an age of artificial intelligence, cyberdelics, and immersive technologies?
In this electrifying conversation, we’re joined by Carl Hayden Smith—professor, researcher, and mythic technologist—whose work spans extended-state DMT research, journaling as consciousness architecture, and a framework he calls Hyperhumanism: a radical alternative to transhumanism that honors our inner technologies as the real source of transformation.
Carl takes us into the heart of Holotechnica, his practice of stacking embodied and symbolic modalities to create lasting shifts in perception and behavior. Along the way, we explore themes like AI psychosis, sigil magic, and umwelt hacking, and how each relates to the design of rituals and protocols that reshape our relationship to time, death, and meaning.
From DMT entities and memory palaces to journaling with a Hegelian twist, this episode is a deep dive into how context, awe, and symbolic design can remake our inner worlds—and perhaps our futures.
Topics We Explore
* Hyperhumanism vs. transhumanism
* AI and the mythopoetic field of resonance
* Extended-state DMT & the "DMT Island" project
* Context engineering and symbolic protocol design
* Endo-technologies, altered traits, and embodied practices
* Umwelt hacking, sigils, and the edges of perception
* Journaling as a map of time and transformation
* Death literacy, humility, and cathedral consciousness
About Carl Hayden Smith
Carl Hayden Smith is Associate Professor of Media at the University of the Arts London, director at Noonautics, founder of the Museum of Consciousness, and co-founder of the Cyberdelics Nexus. He has raised over £10M in research funding, delivered more than 300 talks in 40 countries, and published widely on consciousness, embodiment, and symbolic design.
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What happens when we treat work as a path of individuation rather than performance?
How do we hold sacred space amid collapse, and what does it take to build the New Earth from the ground of our bodies—not the illusion of control?
In this mythic, soul-stirring episode, strategist-turned-mystic Schuyler Brown joins us to explore the journey from corporate towers to kundalini awakenings, from feminine integration to ethical AI, from old success scripts to the irreversibility of awakening.
We talk about:
- The energetic cost of performing success
- Rebuilding trust between women in leadership
- Feminine and masculine integration through birth, grief, and co-creation
- The role of AI as a mirror for healing and intimacy
- How to stay coherent through collapse without bypassing
- Why control is the illusion that most urgently needs to die
This is a conversation for anyone walking the long road from head to heart—and ready to listen for what wants to emerge.
🔗 Learn more about Schuyler at https://www.artofemergence.com/
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In this deeply embodied conversation, Pamela von Sabljar joins us to explore the fierce grace of relational leadership, the subtle art of polarity, and the invitation to live from the wisdom of the felt sense.
We explore how awakening the feminine is not about gender—but about presence, eros, and the movement of life itself.
Pamela shares how letting go of control and embracing the unknown has shaped her path as a leader and facilitator of emergence.
We also touch on mythic archetypes and how they guide us toward a more connected and life-affirming way of being.
Topics include: shadow integration, decolonizing leadership, Eros as life force, and the future of feminine intelligence in systems change.
If you’ve ever wondered what it means to lead from the body, this one’s for you.
What if artificial intelligence could be a mirror for your soul?
It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the chaos of the world today. But what if, instead of turning away, we could use all that intensity to create something new?
In this episode, we talk with Timothée Brès, a fascinating guide who works at the intersection of technology, culture, and what it means to be truly human. He bridges the worlds of electronic music, body-based healing, and AI to explore how we can grow in confusing times.
In this conversation, you'll discover:
This conversation is an invitation to step into that messy but creative space where grief, technology, and myth all come together. If you're looking for your footing in a world that feels like it's falling apart, you don't want to miss this.
In this soul-nourishing episode of Voices of Emergence, we’re joined by writer, facilitator, and community builder Monika Jiang, founder of The Oneliness Project. Monika’s life and work explore the fertile space between loneliness and belonging, between estrangement and interdependence.
We talk about the hidden beauty in aloneness, the language of the body, and what it means to build community rooted in care, not hierarchy.
Monika shares her journey of reconnecting with her Chinese heritage, the influence of Thích Nhất Hạnh and Plum Village, and how she holds spaces that soften shame, awaken presence, and invite relational healing.
Together, we reflect on feminine wisdom, ancestral repair, digital intimacy, and why the next Buddha may be a sangha—a collective.
This conversation is an invitation into tenderness, presence, and radical hope.
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Monika’s Substack: https://oneliness.substack.com
What happens when the stories we grew up with no longer make sense?
In this episode, we sit down with Brendan Graham Dempsey—writer, poet, and cultural philosopher—to explore how we find meaning in uncertain times. Brendan shares his personal journey from losing faith to rebuilding a new relationship with spirituality, story, and culture.
We talk about:
It’s a conversation about meaning-making, inner change, and the bigger picture of where we go from here—individually and collectively.
Whether you're questioning old beliefs, navigating a period of change, or just curious about where culture might be heading, this one’s for you.
In this episode of Voices of Emergence, we sit down with regenerative strategist and eco-linguist Thomas Mansfield, founder of Pale Blue and creator of Cards for Life and the Thinking Like Gaia framework.
Thomas invites us into a living conversation about language, systems, and transformation—from addiction and spiritual awakening to co-designing regenerative cultures. We explore how language either contracts or expands our perception, and how Cards for Life functions as a “synchronicity engine” that rewilds not only our organizations but our very way of seeing the world.
Thomas shares his journey from personal breakdowns to planetary purpose, weaving concepts from permaculture, NLP, and biomimicry into a beautiful new mythos of emergence.
Learn more about Thomas’s work: https://paleblueperspective.com/
Explore the Cards for Life: https://paleblueperspective.com/cards-for-life
In this powerful episode of Voices of Emergence, we sit down with Samina Vabo Ansari, an Afghan-Norwegian leader, bridge-builder, and ethical technology advocate whose life traverses war zones, forests, UN chambers, and sacred dialogue circles.
Born into the chaos of post-Soviet Afghanistan, raised among Norwegian fjords, and shaped by a deep commitment to belonging, Samina speaks to the heart of what it means to lead from memory, myth, and multiplicity.
Together, we explore the wisdom of the mountains, the scars of patriarchal systems, the manipulation of algorithms, and the sacred work of holding community in collapse.
This conversation is a living circle—a place where ancestral echoes meet modern dilemmas, and where the feminine and masculine are invited back into coherence.
