WorldWild Podcast
Episode 61 28th Oct 2024
Emerge and See with
Dr. Dan Siegel
This, our first episode after a two year pause, follows a new format intended to enable conversations to be grounded in a shared experience of landscape and wild foods. Each episode will record a conversation that takes place in the context of a walk where wild foods are noticed, talked about and gathered before being made into a meal which Miles shares with his guest. This week's episode is one of three with author and thinker Dan Siegel whose work as a therapist and neuroscience researcher led him to found the new interdisciplinary field of Interpersonal Neurobiology. This Episode records the journey from Dan’s AirBnB in Oxford to a location in rural Oxfordshire where miles and he went for a walk and shared a meal. The next two episodes document the conversation during the walk and then the journey back to Oxford. This first conversation has Miles explain the purpose of the podcast, which leads to a discussion of land ownership and colonisation, Joanna Macy’s ‘The Great Turning’, anarchism and the village mind.
'Village intelligence... people are encouraged to honour that they
have something differentiated to offer that is essential to the collective good'
About Dan Siegel
Internationally acclaimed neuropsychiatrist, Dr. Dan Siegel has pioneered decades of research on how we can improve our individual and collective well being. Dr. Siegel is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine. Outside of the medical community, he is well-known for his prolific writing on child development, parenting, and personal transformation. His work has been translated into over 40 languages and utilized by Microsoft, Google, the U.S. Department of Justice, and The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family.
Further reading
> IntraConnected by Daniel J. Siegel, published by W. W. Norton, 2022
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> Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence by Daniel J. Siegel, published by TarcherPerigee, 2018
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> Anarchism: A very short introduction by Colin Ward, published by Oxford Academic, 2004
About the show
We offer a series of conversations to tap into the wildness within ourselves and to uncover what is possible when we do. It is our hope that through the WorldWild Podcast we can contribute to the revitalisation of wild food culture and conversation around the world.
Through people who know their landscapes intimately, we gather the threads to weave a rich tapestry. Piece by piece the vision of a wilder world comes into view. The wild embrace of nature welcomes us back and offers us a seat at the table. A feast, no less!