Born and raised in Scotland - and still a Scot at heart - Manda has been, variously, a veterinary surgeon, veterinary anaesthetist, acupuncturist (people and animals), crime writer, columnist, blogger, economist - and author. In between, she teaches shamanic dreaming, creative writing and concept-based dog training.

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Rewilding Mythology

For most of human history, myth was a durable mode of knowledge transmission, kept alive and resilient by the breath-laced web of communal storytelling. But the rise of empire depended on the deracination of mythologies. Just as landscapes were stolen and terraformed so were whole pantheons uprooted from their social and ecological contexts. How can we reroot, rewild, and retell?

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The Digital Age

Demystify the complex systems controlling wealth and power and reclaim agency. Led by pioneering activists, this journey explores how finance, big tech, and more intersect to deprive communities of sovereignty. Together we'll map leverage points to build capacities and rewrite stories towards collective flourishing.

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How do we connect to the web of life?

"We're very good at linear thinking. Extremely good. Yeah, we got to send rockets to the moon, how'd we do that? We assemble all the parts, we get the maths right, we send a rocket to the moon. Linear thinking—really, really good. We're incredibly bad at complexity, and systemic thinking. However, if we connect to the web of life, it is complexity. And then all we have to do is ask of it, what do you want of me? And be able to respond to the answer in real time."

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The way out is through: on Thrutopia

We need a whole load of new stories if we’re going to make it through whatever window we still have left. We need stories that tell us about the thousands of people within our system who are striving to change it for something that works much, much better. We need stories of ways we could shift our political and economic structures to ones that are regenerative by design. Imagine a future where our great grandchildren look back and say, ‘Yes, it was hard. Yes, they made mistakes. Yes, they left it way, way too late, but that was because they didn’t know what to do. And my goodness, when they had the visions, they threw themselves into making them happen. And we’re here now, living lives we love, because they took the risk to change the way things worked.’ That’s the world we’re aiming for.