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Dreaming Ourselves Alive

Dreaming Ourselves Alive

Amel Murphy 7 Episodes Aug 18, 2026

Dreaming Ourselves Alive is a reflective, story-centred podcast for people living and leading through times of collapse, emergence, and transformation. Each episode is a conversation with thinkers, practitioners, and everyday changemakers exploring how we stay human, connected, and creative in a rapidly changing world. Together they explore leadership, healing, community, and the inner work that allows new ways of living and relating to emerge. The podcast weaves inner truth with collective insight, imagining and creating what might yet be.

Episodes

The Medicine You Carry with Farzana Khan
The Medicine You Carry with Farzana Khan Aug 18, 2026 2296 What if the future depends less on finding new answers than remembering what we already know?Farzana Khan is Executive Director of Healing Justice London, a social sculptor and writer whose work brings together collective healing, movement building and cultural organising. In this conversation she reflects on the practices that help us stay in relationship with ourselves, one another and the livin
Cellular Soup with Topher Wilkins
Cellular Soup with Topher Wilkins Aug 3, 2026 1848 What if the systems we've built our lives around aren't simply breaking down? What if they're dissolving, making space for something new to emerge?Topher Wilkins has spent over twenty years creating conditions in which changemakers find each other, trust each other, and build something together. In this conversation with Amel, he explores what that actually takes; not conferences, not networking,
Coming Home to Self with Caren Wakoli
Coming Home to Self with Caren Wakoli Jul 13, 2026 1935 On courage, healing and owning your story. With Caren Wakoli, hosted by Amel Murphy.What does it actually take to come home to yourself — and what have you been running from in the meantime?Caren Wakoli is a storyteller, poet and founder of Emerging Leaders Foundation in Kenya. In this conversation, she speaks from a place of hard-won aliveness: a life shaped by poverty, loss, the courage to build
The Light You’re Looking For Is Already Here with Sander Tideman
The Light You’re Looking For Is Already Here with Sander Tideman Jun 24, 2026 2216 ​​On light as practice, being beyond doing, and the hidden world beneath the visible. With Sander Tideman, hosted by Amel MurphyWhat if the light you are searching for is not something to find, but something you are?Sander Tideman is a leadership practitioner, scholar, and author of Triple Value Leadership, working at the intersection of inner development and real-world systems. This conversation
Schools Are Built for Adults, Not Children with Kavita Anand
Schools Are Built for Adults, Not Children with Kavita Anand Jun 7, 2026 1842 On the school that wraps itself around the child, why governance is an act of love, and the question every school must ask itself every day. What it means for every child to flourish? With Kavita Anand, hosted by Amel MurphyKavita Anand is an educator, systems leader, and social entrepreneur with over 40 years of experience working across schools, governments, and learning systems. This conversati
The Body Knows What Freedom Requires with Staci Haines
The Body Knows What Freedom Requires with Staci Haines May 17, 2026 2570 On anger as liberation, the difference between survival and freedom, and why personal transformation and social change are the two beats of the same heart. With Staci Haines, hosted by Amel Murphy.What if healing alone will never be enough? And what if the anger you were told to manage is actually one of the most life-giving forces you carry?Staci Haines has spent over three decades working at the
Life Wants Life in You with Gaye Donaldson
Life Wants Life in You with Gaye Donaldson May 4, 2026 2076 On reverence, the story big enough to make a difference, and why those who struggle to belong may be the ones the world needs. With Gaye Donaldson, hosted by Amel Murphy.What does it mean to belong to life itself — not just to a person, a place, or a community?Gaye Donaldson is a systemic constellation practitioner and teacher whose work has been shaped by a lifelong inquiry into belonging. Adopte
The New World Will Be Woven with Catalina Cock Duque
The New World Will Be Woven with Catalina Cock Duque Apr 20, 2026 1973 On collective intelligence, creating your own seasons, and the islands of hope already taking shape.. With Catalina Cock Duque, hosted by Amel Murphy.What if the biggest crisis of our time isn’t climate or conflict — but the false sense that we are separate?Catalina Cock Duque is a Colombian systems thinker and social innovator working across peacebuilding, bioeconomy, and youth leadership.She and
The Future Doesn’t Want to Be Controlled with Laura Pastorini
The Future Doesn’t Want to Be Controlled with Laura Pastorini Apr 7, 2026 2000 On humility as leadership, indigenous wisdom, and why transformation begins in your nearest relationships. With Laura Pastorini, hosted by Amel Murphy.What if the future isn’t something you control, but something you have to learn how to listen for?Laura Pastorini joins Amel from Cabo Polonio, a remote coastal village in Uruguay with no electricity, where time and attention move differently.They s
Justice In The Body with Sage Hayes
Justice In The Body with Sage Hayes Mar 23, 2026 2541 On belonging without safety, pleasure as resistance, and what the body remembers when the world forgets. With Sage Hayes, hosted by Amel Murphy.What does belonging actually feel like in the body, especially when the world doesn't feel safe?Sage Hayes has spent over two decades working as a somatic practitioner, and this conversation gets to the heart of what that means in practice. Not the theory

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