This is a journey of exploration into two questions: 'How did we break?' and 'How do we heal?'. Here, I interview guides who can help us explore the terrain we need to explore in order to uncover and develop answers to these two questions.

Today's guide is Manda Johnson. Manda was born and raised in the UK, but has spent her adult life in New Zealand where she has been actively engaged in her own process of inner transformation for 40 years; a process centred on the ongoing restoration of her own trauma. Manda has a background in Acupuncture, Hypnotherapy, Somatic therapy and Psychodrama, working with individual and groups. In NZ, Manda Johnson is a facilitator of transformation for Collective Intelligence.

Manda has played an important part in the non-profit Pocket Project, established and led by Thomas Hubl, which is dedicated to the restoration of collective and intergenerational trauma. Within the Pocket Project, she has pioneered the philosophy and practice of what is called Global Social Witnessing and is co-initiating a World Witnessing collective.

Manda's experience of living in intentional community for 20 years has helped her to develop a deep appreciation for and trust in the potential and the magic of the Collective.

Key links:

https://www.globalsocialwitnessing.org/

https://www.globalsocialwitnessing.org/product/

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These interviews are part of a journey of exploration into two questions: 'How did we break?' and 'How do we heal?'.

Our guide for this interview is Prof Jason Moore. Here, Jason helps us understand our 'breaking' as historically enacted and deepened through successive waves of capitalist imperialism. Jason reveals how this racist and patriarchal project has necessitated and effected a now planetary scale reordering and ultimately destruction of the 'Oikeios' or 'web of life'.

At the heart of Jason's philosophy is a non-dualism that challenges and unites dualisms. Jason argues that our path to healing is not just through a practical politics of socialism, but equally through a 'revolutionary politics of love' that we are only just beginning to explore and articulate.

Jason W. Moore (https://jasonwmoore.com) is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology. He is author or editor, most recently, of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015), Capitalocene o Antropocene? (Ombre Corte, 2017), Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press, 2016), and, with Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (University of California Press, 2017). His books and essays on environmental history, capitalism, and social theory have won several major prizes. He coordinates the World-Ecology Research Network.

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This is a journey of exploration into two questions: "How did we break?' and "How do we heal?". These interviews are with guides who can help us explore the terrain we need to explore in order to uncover and develop answers to these two questions.

Today's guide is the eminent Marxist economist Michael Roberts. Michael worked as an economist for investment banks in the City of London for over 40 years, closely observing the machinations of global capitalism from within the dragon’s den! At the same time, he was a political activist in the labour movement for decades. Since retiring, he has written several books: The Great Recession – a Marxist view (2009); The Long Depression (2016); Marx 200: a review of Marx’s economics (2018): and jointly with Guglielmo Carchedi as editors of World in Crisis (2018). Michael is the author of the invaluable blog, The Next Recession, which you can find here...

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/

This interview sees Michael sharing indispensable Marx's and his own Marx-inspired insights into the origins and nature of our current crisis and, in broad terms, what the way beyond looks like.

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