Exploring convenience, courage and conformity

In this season's conversations, Holly and Rachel each bring something that has caught their attention during the week, and spend time exploring some of the learning, unlearning, wisdom and practices that these provocations inspire.

This week, Holly started us off with a poem: Small Inconveniences by Elise M. Powers which touches on the perils and potential of convenience in our lives and invites us to step more into appreciating the process. This provocation inspired an interesting discussion about food, time, the washing up and our endless pursuit of happiness and meaning. Following this - and threading quite wonderfully - we reflected together on a provocation brought by Rachel asking if conformity was the opposite of courage. From being authentic to the challenges of culture and belonging, conversations were rich and went in all sorts of unexpected and delicious directions.

Some of the resources mentioned in this podcast include:

• Small Inconveniences - Elise M. Powers (poem)
• The Story of Stuff - Annie Leonard (short video)
• The Care Calculator - a ThoughtBox resource (PDF)
• Slow Food University - venue and movement (website)
• For a Student Who Used AI to Submit a Paper - Joseph Fasano (poem)
• The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas - Ursula K. Le Guin (short story/ PDF)
• Perhaps the World Ends Here - Joy Harjo (poem)
• The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt (book)
• Triple WellBeing in Practice - ThoughtBox (online course)

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