Episode 9

Dan Burgess: Passengers and Crew on Spaceship Earth

How might we participate as Earthlings, part of a living planet, in kinship with the more-than-human?

Dan Burgess is a regenerative practitioner, creative strategist, and facilitator working at the intersection of ecology, culture, and transformation. With roots in the worlds of storytelling, activism, and systems innovation, Dan helps individuals and organizations reimagine their roles in a world undergoing profound change. He draws on years of experience in creative industries, participatory leadership, and place-based learning to design processes that foster deep connection, agency, and collective renewal. Dan is known for his work in cultivating regenerative mindsets and practices that align human activity with the rhythms and needs of the living world. He is the founder and host of Spaceship Earth, a podcast and platform for exploring how we might live with greater imagination and responsibility as crew members of a planet in crisis. At heart, Dan is a bridge-builder—linking the inner and outer, the personal and systemic, the practical and the poetic in service of a thriving future. We discuss:


🄄 The balance between trying to get more people on board with our transformative ideas and the need to put energy into how we are creating space in ourselves to create space;


🄄 How the culture of modernity is a passenger story, where few of us are benefiting from modernity, within humans and as humans;


🄄 How ideas are processes that move and drift through interactions with others and their ideas, a sort of confluence that is never isolated.


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Check out the Spaceship Earth podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-spaceship-earth-podcast/id1338946235

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