The blog post I mention: https://www.thefandomentals.com/the-dig-excavates-our-collective-grief/

The clip from film: https://clip.cafe/the-dig-2021/we-all-fail/?srsltid=AfmBOor1_y3WNnpaxTw18wLfwu_DkF4lyTkYX7QOu6vfjyc-jfWPYTQv

Penny Billington talks with Liv Torc about the project: ‘Hot Poets in Schools’. Support this project here: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hot-poets-in-schools

In Tea with a Druid, join a worldwide community of like-minded people interested in nature-based spirituality for a weekly exploration of a spiritual topic and meditation. Live Streaming every Monday at 20:00 UK time. Learn more about the Druid community and training at https://www.druidry.org The music used in the opening title is ‘Druid Circle’ by Charlie Roscoe. #spiritual#druidry#druids#pagan

Hot Poets is an ambitious, award-winning, internationally focused arts organisation, working to powerfully communicate climate change science and action through spoken word poetry. They do this by creating dynamic arts and science collaborations and partnerships with top climate change organisations and world class artists – exploring beyond the climate crisis to the science and imagination needed to save our world.

Hot Poets works in partnership with leading climate change, academic, government and arts organisations at a global and grassroots level, including the UNFCCC’s: Resilience Frontiers, The Met Office, London School of Economics, RSPB, UCL, Southbank Centre, The Gaia Foundation and 3M.

Founded in 2021 by UK Artists and change makers Liv Torc – who is a much-loved member of OBOD – and Chris Redmond, Hot Poets has generated £250,000 of project funding, worked in five continents, with over 50 artists, facilitating UN spaces and shows at Adaptation Week in Botswana (2022) and South Korea (2023) and in the Blue Zone at COP26 in Glasgow (2021), COP27 in Sharm El Sheik (2022) & COP28 in Dubai (2023).

Learning from world renowned global experts, they have researched, written and filmed 30 poetry commissions and published 2 books, with subjects as diverse as Whale Poo to Climate Litigation. Our poems have been viewed, heard and seen live over 5 million times.

HOT POETS NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

Since launching their education programme, they have been inundated with schools keen to bring these experiences into their classrooms. Demand is growing rapidly. More schools are asking us to visit than they can currently support.

They have the partnerships, the poets, the resources and the demand from schools. What they need now is the capacity to meet that demand and ensure this work reaches as many young people as possible. So they have set up a Crowdfunder Campaign. If you wish to donate to this wonderful project click here.  
To learn more visit the Hot Poets Website.

Liv Torc will also be chatting to Penny Billington all about the project on Tea with a Druid this coming Monday at 8pm UK time on the OBOD YouTube Channel!

Liv Torc and Chris Redmond

I was recently interviewed by two friends, Serge Beddington Behrens – a fellow Psychosynthesis practitioner and author – and Steve Taylor, a psychologist and mystic whose latest book, due out in September, looks at the subject of Creativity through the lives of the Beatles.

Steve will be teaching with me on the Spiritual Psychology course I talk about in this interview. More details here.

Wishing everyone a very magical Solstice weekend! Whether you are in the height of Summer or the depths of Winter, may you be blessed by the illumination, warmth and creative power of the Sun! May it bring you joy and healing! /|\

“There is often a kind of a myth that spiritual people are quite passive and maybe indifferent to the world: “Everything is really perfect. So, we don’t need to worry about anything. We don’t really need to interfere with world events because everything is basically perfect. And if you can’t sense the perfection, if you can only see the suffering and discord, maybe there’s something something wrong with you.” But I don’t think that that’s the case. I think if you are truly spiritually awakened, you feel a very strong impulse or sense of mission to help others and to make the world a better place to alleviate some of the suffering in the world to bring harmony into the discord of the world.”  Dr. Steve Taylor on the podcast Fierce Grace.