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Recent additions, past year:
The Future of Lough
Neagh - my report on the study tour of The Lough Neagh Partnership to
Hebridean community land trusts (Nov 2024)
Hope - a reflection for the Iona Community (Sep 2024)
Review of The Orgreave Stations - liberation theology and the 1984
Miners' Strike (Jun 2024)
A Sermon to the English on
Land Reform, Dark Mountain special issue on "the land", (Jun 2024)
The Man of
Calling - festschrift chapter for Prof Ulli Kockel, on the Tao of
leadership in teaching (May 2024)
Two articles:
Magne Oftedal's
Leurbost Gaelic & Ishbel Maclennan obituary, Lochs News, Isle of Lewis
(Apr 2024)
'Don't
be angry with the river', report on GalGael Trust trip to Iona, with
link to Testimony to the late boat designer Iain Oughtred (Apr 2024)
First
Principles and Second Sight - video, in one-to-one conversation with
philosopher Iain McGilchrist (Dec 2023)
Prayer for the
Day
on BBC Radio 4, six texts PDF and audio link, 25 Nov - 1 Dec
(Dec 2023)
Two articles:
On 'unmediable
violence' & Quaker charism beyond war, in The Friend
(Nov 2023)
Data
Set on our solar & heat pump renewable energy system, 64% reduction
in CO2 emissions (updates)
Interviews
selected press, radio, TV & podcast (to date)
[BBC
Thoughts for the Day (to date)
Twitter
feed
All publications
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Hello, and a warm welcome to the website of Alastair McIntosh. Thank
you for visiting my home page. See below for
contact
details and my public itinerary.
The tabs above for
are for main themes, and links on the left include a classified index of my publications
and some other key ports of call.
I grew up and was educated on the Isle of Lewis in the
Outer Hebrides of Scotland,.
Together with four years in the 1970-80s working with appropriate technology
in Papua New Guinea, my background gave me a grounding that has shaped my
life's work. Much of this has focussed on land reform, community empowerment
and the psychology and even spirituality of the wider human condition.
Since 2004, my wife
Vérène Nicolas
and I have lived within the parish boundary of Govan
in the City of Glasgow where I am a founding trustee of the
GalGael Trust. This
works to "demonstrate ways of living with greater humanity in our times",
helping one another to rebuild community and to counter unjust social
structures that impact upon a hard-pressed urban area. Véréne is French. We
met in rural Ireland in 1996, and she works with transformative learning and
collaborative leadership.
Nearly all of what I've posted on this website has been previously published
or delivered as an address. The resources here include landing pages for my
books, the text of speeches, academic papers, articles and letters in the
press, poetry, reports and some broadcasts. There's direct links to the past
year's publications at the bottom left column of this page. Video etc. is
either on the
interviews
menu, or provided as Zoom recording links for the current and previous year
in my public itinerary lower down this page.
Since 1996, my work has been mainly
freelance as a human ecologist,
writer, speaker, researcher and activist. I am a Quaker, an
honorary senior research fellow (honorary professor) in the College
of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, and as a Fellow of the
Centre for Human Ecology was Scotland's first professor of human ecology at
the University of Strathclyde. I have also held honorary fellowships at the
Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages (University of Ulster), the School of
Divinity (University of Edinburgh) and the Schumacher Society.
What I do and stand for
This website broadly
represents my work in human ecology -
the study of and participation in relationships between the natural
environment and the social environment. My approach to this integrates depth
psychology and the spiritual. I understand the spiritual to be the inner
ground of being in which our outer lives are held. In this, I am especially influenced by
liberation theology in Christianity and other
faiths, this being theology that liberates
theology to liberate humanity. In choosing what to work on, I therefore ask questions
like:
| Does what I do feed the hungry?
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| Is it relevant to the poor or to
the broken in nature? |
| Is it meaningful?
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| Does it give life? |
In practice, this means working with professional
groups, communities and key individuals within them to develop their vision,
courage and capacity for practical change. It is the question of what gives
life that most binds my work together, work that often involves holding
seeming contradictions together in tension, and trying to approach matters
with what the Celtic monks called
"the inward ear of the heart" (Adomnán, Columba, II:13).
My books have variously been described as "weaving a
dizzying range of ideas into a single bright fabric" by the poet John
Burnside, "an inspiration to anyone who cares about their own connection to
place" by Professor Carolyn Merchant, "a life-giving vision for our
collective future" by Professor Michael E. Mann, "solid on the science yet
dedicated to the human spirit" by Professor Katharine Hayhoe, "careful,
sober reasoning" by Mary Midgley, "a spiritual journey" by Starhawk,
"world-changing" by George Monbiot, "life-changing" by the Bishop of
Liverpool and "truly mental" by Tom Yorke of Radiohead.
Places at which I have spoken or taught include:
| Environmental organisations including
the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature, WWF International, the Society for Ecological
Regeneration and Schumacher College; |
| Religious bodies such as the
World Council of Churches, the Holy Trinity Sergyev monastery and Iona
Abbey; |
| Military institutions (on
nonviolence) regularly at the UK Defence Academy, also the Royal College
of Defence Studies, the École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr, the Irish
Military College and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy; |
| Business groups including
Groupe Credit Mutuel, Shell plc, Nokia
Research Centre and Lafarge (on whose
Sustainability Stakeholders' Panel I sat for a decade); |
| University institutions including the
Russian Academy of Sciences, Duke
Divinity School, INSEAD business school, the Glasgow School of Art and
the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; |
| Festivals including the Edinburgh International,
Ashville Wordfest, Greenbelt, HowTheLightGetsIn and the Lochs
Agricultural Show back home in the Isle of Lewis. |
Background and availability for events
Born in 1955, all of my school education (1960-73)
took place
in the community where I was raised, on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer
Hebrides or Western Isles. A traditional Scottish education allows for a
generalist worldview. I hold a BSc in geography from the University of Aberdeen
(1973-77) submajoring in psychology and moral philosophy; a financial MBA from
the University of Edinburgh (1980-81); and a PhD by published works in
liberation theology, land reform and community empowerment from the
Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster (2008). A CV
and short bio is
here.
Since 1996 I've made my living on an entirely self
employed basis - writing, broadcasting, keynote speaking at
events, workshops, retreats, taught courses and consultancy. For
availability see my
public itinerary, and a rough idea of the kind
of things I talk about at this list.
My personal financial accountability, my suggesting scale of charging for
events, and my approach to travel in the face of climate change are all given
here.
I undertake live and online events, and have the technology to offer blended
events using Zoom. The pandemic has caused
most face-to-face events to
have been cancelled or shifted online from 2020 into early 2022. However, I
am fully vaccinated, and for in-person invitations can
offer to bring and operate Zoom-adequate cameras and studio-quality wireless
microphones to enable blended events.
I run this website to
represent myself professionally. Its main purpose is to make my
published work readily available and to give events information. Forgive it being
a homespun website. I use antique FrontPage software from the
last century, but it does a good enough job and I know how to manage it
myself. Treat it as a retro experience.
Contact information:
Alastair McIntosh
26 Luss Road
Glasgow
G51 3YD
Scotland / Ecosse
Email -
mail@AlastairMcIntosh.com (preferred first point of contact)
Mobile (cellphone):
+44 (0) 7444 580 380 (preferred second point of contact)
Twitter: @alastairmci (I can be DM'd without
requiring to follow. I do not normally use other social media.)
For work issues please
try to avoid phoning outside weekday working hours. Remember time
zones - we're in GMT or BST in summer (i.e. GMT+1). If you need to
discuss something that requires much thought I prefer an email first
if possible to arrange a mutually convenient calling time. I am on
Skype, Facetime, WhattsApp and Zoom: but unless it is a pressing matter
please first try to arrange any call by email or text.
Directions to our home/office:
Public Transport:
For public transport in
Scotland, it is worthwhile downloading the
Traveline Scotland
app. If coming from central Glasgow, take the subway (underground train)
to either Govan or Ibrox. They're each one mile from our house. From
Govan is a more interesting walk, but Ibrox is a simpler route and
less congested if we're picking you up by car (see below if walking). From
either Govan subway
station or the city centre (Renfield St), you can get a
McGills Route 26
bus to the second stop on Craigton Road, from where we're the next
street up on the right. The fare is £3.60 from town as of the start
of 2018). They're every 10 or 16 minutes during the day, but the
timetable is unreliable. Our house is no.
26, half way along Luss Rd on the right. If coming from city
centre's Queen St or Central stations, the stops for the 26 bus are
on Renfield Street (extending onto Union Street). Taxis up from Govan are about £4,
from city centre about £12, and from the airport about £20.
If walking from the
subway exit at Ibrox, turn right
onto Copland Road. Up to the lights and turn right. Pass alongside
the Rangers football stadium, go straight on over the first
roundabout, straight over the second roundabout, on to the lights,
turn right down Craigton Road, and Luss Road is the 5th exit on the
left (depending on what you count as an exit).
By Car: If coming
on the M8 from east or west, exit at junction 24 (Helen Street),
signposted for Govan. Head downhill and over the lights to a
roundabout, as if heading to the Clyde Tunnel. Turn left at the
roundabout then right at the lights into a residential area,
Craigton Road (signposted to "Elderpark Workspace"). Luss Road is
the 3rd on the left (or 4th depending on what you count).
If coming by car from the
North via the Clyde Tunnel, as you exit the tunnel prepare to take
the first left just at the tunnel's end. Be careful - it comes on
you very quickly and it's easy to overshoot. This brings you out
onto Govan Road with a very large roundabout. Turn right at this,
onto Drive Road, passing a Elder Park on your left. At the end of
Drive road, keep the park on your left by turning left onto
Langlands Road. Take the 3rd right, just before you lose the park,
onto Arklett Road, then 2nd right is Luss Road.
Avoid the M8 approaches if
you can when there's a football match on at Ibrox. There may also be
parking congestion at such times. Taxi drivers from outwith this
area do not know it well. Tell them that you want Luss Road which is
off Craigton Road, and to take the Helen Street exit if
coming from the M8.
If you are viewing in iOS or
similar "Reader" mode, temporarily "hide reader", or otherwise
turn it off, to view the timetable below and links above and to the
side. Reader modes generally only let you see plain text. They don't
display a full web page with boxes, tables, etc..
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Alastair
McIntosh's Itinerary of Main Events
This
table shows roughly which dates I'm booked up for, with
booking links and, often, links to previous events' video
recordings. That is why last year's activity is in the left
column and this year's and beyond on the right. For information on
booking me please
click here. Gaps
in the timetable do not necessarily signify availability,
especially over weekends, as this is not my private diary.
Dates marked for delivery of Thought for the Day mean that I
have to be near a BBC studio early that morning and have
time on the previous day for preparation - though these
dates can sometimes be swapped with another presenter. Events marked
"s.t.c." are "subject to consent/confirmation",
and it is always best to confirm the time and venue of events with the organisers'
information before turning up. |
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2023 (last
year) |
This Year - 2024+ |
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As this year continues to see Covid
uncertainty, I can offer Zoom facilities for up to 500
participants. I also have portable equipment for my events
to offer blended meetings with excellent speaker & audience
audio and wide-angle audience camera.
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BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Fri 27 Jan
2023 (changed date), (preparation
previous day).
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Speaking on the panel at a
public meeting on Falkland Estate’s Future: Learning from
the communities of Eigg and Langholm, 1900 - 2100,
Falkland Palace, Fife,
Register here.
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Scottish launch of the new edition of
Poacher's Pilgrimage: a Journey Into Land and Soul at the
Pitlochry Winter Words Literature Festival,
1530 - 1630, Fri 10 Feb.
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At Work in the Ruins, I
will be in dialogue with Dougald Hine about his new
book, together with Caro Ross & Dougie Srang at the GalGael Trust, 15 Fairley St., Glasgow,
1930, Sat 11 Feb.
Eventbrite tickets here, by donation, note that workshop
will be cold so dress warmly.
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Delivering the Dick Balharry
MemorialTalk 2023 to the Ramblers Association of Scotland to mark
the anniversary of the 2003 Land Reform (Scotland) Act -
"Land Reform, Access, and the Renewal of Relationship" -
both in-person in Edinburgh and blended by Zoom, 28 Feb. Video
recording
here
and text version
here.
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Lead speaker in the
Maryport Arts &
Literary Festival for the English launch of the new edition
of
Poacher's Pilgrimage:
a Journey into Land and Soul,
1930 (doors open 1900), Sat 4 Mar, Senhouse Roman Museum.
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Building on the above at
Maryport, a workshop
the next morning, Sun 5 Mar, 0945 - 1130:The Pilgrimage of Life,
details & ticket info at the event link above.
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Talk, The Basket of
Community, as a contributor to the course
KINSHIP 2023:
World as Archipelago by
Advia, 1800, Tue 7 Mar.
Watch
video.
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BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Tue 14 Mar, (preparation
previous day).
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Leading the Quaker Westerly
Gathering,The Pilgrimage of Life, Crianlarich youth hostel, Fri 17 to
Sat 18 March,
fully booked.
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On BBC Radio Scotland Sunday
Morning With, discussing "after the Pandemic", Sun 19
Mar.
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A sharing and discussion on
Ground Zero: Atomic Theology
and Third Millennium Christianity with
SCANA: Scottish Christians Against Nuclear Arms,1000, Tue
21 Mar., (by Zoom, members only).
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Private event pre the next day's
Carbon Offsets conference, 1900, Wed 22 Mar.
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Keynote speaker in the
Carbon Offsetting and Communities
conference, on "Who is 'the community' and why
does it matter?",
Scottish Universities Insight Institute, Strathclyde
University, 23 - 24 Mar.
Podcast of my talk.
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Meeting with Open Seas to
discuss marine protection, private, 1000, Sat 25 Mar.
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In conversation with the Isle of
Iona artist Mhairi Killin, Looking North Through Art,
University of St Andrews, 1330-1430, Wed 5 April.
Watch
video here.
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BBC Radio Scotland repeat of
interview with Verene and I on pain, cultural trauma and
Good Friday, 0600 - 0630.
Listen to it here.
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Quaker membership interviewing,
1700, Tue 11 Apr., private event.
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Interview with Caspar Henderson,
out on Loh Lomond, Wed 12 Apr., unavailable all day.
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Meeting with Tayvallich
Initiative community representatives, 1800, Thu 13 Apr.,
private event.
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A sharing with Prof Laura
Hope-Gill's creative writing class, Lenoir-Rhyne Uni, N.
Carolina, by Zoom, 2030 Thu 13 Apr, private event.
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Talk on imagination in academic
research methodology, Towards an Ecology of the
Imagination in "Composting
the City", University of Warwick,1915 - 2045, Tue 18
Apr, by Zoom.
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Community Land Scotland
consultation on "rewilding" and land reform, 1300, 20 Apr,
private event.
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Leading GalGael Trust retreat to
Iona, Sat 22 - Tue 25 April.Read
the report.
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Iona Community, to
discuss leading Oct 2024 week at Iona Abbey, 1300, Mon 1
May.
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Our Seas consultation over HPMAs,
1500, Thu 4 May, private event.
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GalGael Trust Iona group
post-event sharing, 1500, Thu 11 May.
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BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Fri 19 May, (preparation
previous day).
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1st research interview by Lucy
Rist, University of Stockholm, about lecturing on peace to
the military, 1100 - 1300, Fri 19 May, private event.
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Meeting with community leaders
in Papua, Indonesia, Zoom to discuss theology of land and
community empowerment, 0930, Thu 25 May, private event, but see
Training for
Transformation Papua.
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2nd research interview by Lucy
Rist, University of Stockholm, about community empowerment
work in New Guinea, 1100, Mon 29 May, private event.
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Video interview with host Diego
Mcall, University of Barcelona on newly released CLS
discussion paper:
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Carbon,
2000, 30 May.
Watch here.
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BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Tue 13 Jun, (preparation
previous day).
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Recording podcast with host
Craig Dalzell on CLS natural capital, 'rewilding' and land
reform
discussion paper, 1400, Wed 14 Jun.
Listen here.
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Introducing the film Second
Sight (Alison McAlpine) with the tradition bearer
Margaret Bennett and the 'ghost car' in the Folk Film
Gathering, Cameo Theatre, Edinburgh, 1800, Fri 16 June.
Watch
the video link at bottom here (£2.80).
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On BBC Radio Scotland's
Sunday Morning discussing
Marianna in Conspiracy Land BBC podcast series -
conspiracy theories and the art of holding a conversation -
0830 - 0900, Sun 18 June,
listen
here for next 30 days.
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GalGael Trust board meeting,
Glasgow, 1715, Tue 20 Jun.
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Story & poetry on the each-uisge,
the Gaelic water horse as a latter-day ghost car (o yes!),
at GalGael Trust's summer solstice gathering, in the
Unexpected Garden (round the back of 15 Fairley St) 1800,
Thu 22 Jun, all welcome.
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Hiding away in a house swap in
the Hebrides, 7 - 20
July.
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BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Thu 27 Jul, (preparation
previous day).
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AGM of Our Seas, hosting at GalGael
Trust's "unexpected garden" (GalGael being a member), evening Thu 27 Jul.
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Facilitating and feeding
pilgrims with the Coat
of Hopes COP26 at the Glasgow Quaker Meeting House, Sat
28-29 March.
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NatureScot meeting with
Community Land Scotland, Scottish Land Commission, etc., to
discuss Community empowerment and green
finance/investment partnership,partly in response to my
Discussion Paper, Tue 22 Aug, Battleby, private event.
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Hosting the Canadian-Scots-Maori
scholar of indigenous peoples Lewis Williams, Thu 24 - Sun
27 Aug, s.t.c..
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BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Tue 29 Aug, (preparation
previous day).
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Taking GalGael to the Peter
Howson expedition and Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, Wed
30 Aug..
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Hosting Maori-Scots British
Academy scholar Lewis Williams in a sharing on Indigenous
environmental philosophy and the ethical remembering of who
we are, 1800, Thu 24 Aug, GalGael Trust, Glasgow.
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Guest in discussion at Totnes
Left Book Group of my book (with Matt C)
Spiritual Activism: Leadership as Service, register
for in person event in Totnes
here (I'll be dropping in by Zoom for Q&A from around
1700), 1530 - 1800, Tue 29 Aug.
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Presentation on The Point of
Modern Scottish Land Reform: the Eigg Trust and Community
Cohesion at UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference, St
Andrew's Building, School of Education, University of Glasgow, Tue 5 Sep,
private event.
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Recording BBC Sounds podcast
interview on land reform, 1700, Thu 7 Sept.
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Teaching a day workshop and
possibly a public lecture,
The Recovery of Indigeniety: Land, People and
Imagination, Findhorn Community, Cullerne House, Forres, Sun 10 -
Tue
12 Sep (fully booked).
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Public talk, requested by Findhorn residents,
Discernment - 'an all-consuming fire'
in the Universal Hall,
Findhorn, 1900 - 2030, Mon 11 Sep, all welcome, free
(contact Rebecca Miles). (This talk, shaped by the
material shared above, will reflect upon 'he spiritual
callings of our times some half a century since the 1960s
counterculture reached the North of Scotland).
Watch
video here.
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In France, visiting wife's
relatives & holiday, 14 - 27 Sept.
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BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Wed 4 Oct, (preparation
previous day).
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Delivering the annual
ecotheology lecture to The Hazelnut
Community, "Prayer as the Cosmic Root of Poetry", 1930 - 2100
Tue 17 Oct,
Zoom
video with discussion here.
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A sharing with a mainly BIPOC
(black, indigenous & other people of colour) folk on course
with Kincentric on The Recovery of Indigeniety, 1800,
Wed 18 Oct. (private, Zoom).
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"Mightier than a lord?"
Community
Land Week event with simple shared meal at
GalGael Trust, Glasgow,
1800 - 2100, Thu 19 Oct.
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A sharing on Soil and Soul
with creative writing students at Lenoir-Rhyne University,
N. Carolina, by Zoom, private evnet, 2300, Thu 19 Oct.
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Guest on BBC Radio Scotland,
Sunday
Morning, on sense of time through the stages of life (with Dr Ruth Ogden), then on rules of engagement
and "just war" in contemporary war
(with UN advisor Mark Mueller). Between about 0840 and 0920, Sun 29 Oct (Nb.
clocks gone back), listen for 30 days
at this link.
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Participant in Scotland's
Land: one resurce, many uses, Scottish Futures Forum,
Scottish Parliament, afternoon Mon 30 Oct, private event.
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Speaking in the
New College Festival, Books & Belief, Edinburgh
University Divinity with Merryn Glover & Alistair Moffat,
about spirituality and
Poacher's Pilgrimage, evening Fri 3 Nov.
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GalGael Trust board meeting,
evening Tue 7 Nov, Glasgow.
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BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Tue 14 Nov, (preparation
previous day).
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Teaching in Centre for Human
Ecology's "Degrowth Course 2023", lectures and discussion on
Land, People & Power and, How do we know what we
think we know? The epistemology of Radical Human Ecology,
Gullane, Fri 17 - Sat 18 Nov.
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In conversation in lieu of a
sermon on the spirituality of climate change - with Doug Gay
at Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church of Scotland, Glasgow,
1100, Sun 19 Nov.
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Presenting BBC Radio 4
Prayer
for the Day, for 2 mins each morning at 0543 from
Sat 25 and Mon 27 Nov to Fri 1 Dec (i.e. excluding the
Sunday).
PDF of texts here (listern links live for 6 months).
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GalGael Trust Annual Gathering
AGM, 1800 Thu 14 Dec, 15 Fairley St, Glasgow (postponed from
7th).
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Public discussion with Iain
McGilchrist, chaired by Jonathan Rowson, evening 1900 -
2040, Tue 19 Dec, by Zoom.
Video recording here.
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BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Fri 29 Dec, (preparation
previous day).
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BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Fri 12 Jan
2024.
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Meeting with NatureScot (SNH) &
Community Land Scotland for an update on
communities, carbon & biodiversity issues,1400, Mon 15
Jan.
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Community Capacity Building with
Papua, Indonesia, online training session 1 of 5, 0700 -
1100, Fri 26 Jan.
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Open Path Lecture
(conversational) to mental health professionals,
The Recovery of Psychology as Engagement with the Soul,
Open Path
Psychotherapy Collective, online 2 pm USA Eastern
Standard Time, 1700 UK time, Thu 1 Feb. View recording
(free)
on Vimeo, here.
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BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Tue 13 Feb, (preparation
previous day).
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A talk to the
Interfaith Glasgow
event - What will re-ignite the climate movement? Faith,
hope or righteous anger?
- St Mungo Museum of Religious
Life and Art, Glasgow, 1400 - 1600, Sun 18 Feb. Free,
in-person,
register here [almost sold out as of 13th].
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Ecology of the Imagination,
an interview with Dr David Lorimer of the
Scientific and
Medical Network, recorded Tue 20 Feb,
listen to podcast here.
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Community Capacity Building with
Papua, Indonesia, online training session 2 of 5, 0700 -
1100, Fri 23 Feb.
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Speaking in Creativity,
Community and Change, an event of Forth
Environment Link and Creative Degrowth Network, on: "The
Artist as Activist in Rekindling Community Spirit." The
Barracks, Stirling,
1300-1700, Tue 27 Feb,
tickets (in-person) here.
[Sorry -sold out].
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Speaking in the
Maryport Arts and Literature Festival, Cumbria, on my
books, Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the
Survival of Being and Soil and Soul: People versus
Corporate Power, Fri 1 - Sat 2 Mar (speaking Sat
morning).
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Guest lecture on Land,
Community & Power on master's course at Edinburgh
Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh, Mon 11 March.
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Taking GalGael Trust
participants to Isle of Iona, Fri 15 - Mon 18 Mar.
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Sharing with the staff of
Community Land Scotland, Govan, Glasgow, noon Tue 19 Mar.
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Public talk for Glasgow Life,
Climate, Community and the Crisis of Meaning,
Mitchell Library,
1830 - 1930 Tue 19 Mar, free, info
& tickets here.
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Community Capacity Building with
Papua, Indonesia, online training session 3 of 5, 0700 -
1100, Fri 22 Mar.
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Te Tiriti
based futures Anti-racism 2024 Event of the Tāmaki
Tiriti workers - a breakfast (NZ) or fireside (Europe) chat
about my book
Soil and Soul,
1930 Fri 22 Mar UK time, 0830 Sat 23 Mar NZ
time, Sat 23 Mar, for an hour.
View video recording here.
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Speaking on a panel on "Carbon:
Offsetting it, Capturing it and Reducing it", with Prof
Steve Keen and Katie Gallogly-Swan, in the Scotonomics
Festival of Economics, and drawing on my
natural capital discussion papers. The Little Theatre,
Dundee, 1150 - 1245, Sun 24 Mar,
full programme & tickets
here.
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Hosting an online Memorial
Gathering "after the manner of Friends" for the late Iain
Oughtred, boatbuilder, Quaker and artist in wood, wind and
music. Thu 28 Mar, 1800 - 1930 GMT/UTC+0, zoom registration:
https://bit.ly/oughtred
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Reconnecting, in the Isle of
Eigg, Sat 6 - Sat 13 April.
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Panellist in webinar "Carbon
Trading: Shifting Responsibility", by
Scottish Ecological Design Association. See background
papers on carbon offsetting published by Community Land
Scotland
here. Event at 1630, Thu 18 April, tickets
here.
-
BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Tue 30 Apr, (preparation
previous day).
-
Quaker response to Land Reform
Scotland Bill 2024, 1200, Wed 1 May.
-
Short talks on Beltane in Celtic
lands, GalGael Trust, 1230 Wed 1 May for trainees and
evening Thu 2 May for the wider community, based around
BBC text, 15 Fairley St., Glasgow.
-
Lecture to Diploma in
Psychodynamic Counselling students at
The
Garnethill Centre, Glasgow -
Spirituality -1700 - 1915, Wed 1 May.
-
Community Capacity Building with
Papua, Indonesia, online training session 4 of 5, 0800 -
1200, Fri 3 May.
-
Keynote address "Calling Back
the Flow of Life to the Community" at conference Myth, Ritual and Practice for the Age of Ecological
Catastrophe, European Forum for the Study of
Religion and the Environment with the Lincoln Theological
Institute, Potsdam, Germany, 17 - 19 May.
-
Launch of festschrift for Prof
Ullrich Kockel, 1600 - 1730, Mon 20 May.
-
BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Wed 22 May, (preparation
previous day).
-
Community Capacity Building with
Papua, Indonesia, online training session 5 of 5, 0700 -
1100, Fri 24 May.
-
Hosting a US student study group
with Prof Laura Hope-Gill on creativity, community, writing and place, Glasgow, Fri 24
- Sat 25 May.
-
GalGael Trust Board,
1700 - 2000, Tue 28 May.
-
Contributing to Columba Week at
Iona Abbey: a pilgrimage walk to St Columba's Bay (on the
Tue daytime), a sharing on "Columba and a Hebridean
Spirituality for Our Times" (Wednesday 7.30 pm) and a talk
around my books in the Iona Community shop (Thu 4 pm): week
8 - 14 June, (now fully booked).
-
Speaking on Kenneth White and
the Shamanic Imperative at conference of the
Advanced Research Centre and the Scottish Centre for
Geopoetics, The Life and Work of Kenneth White, University of Glagow, Fri 14 - Sat 15 June,
bookings here.
-
BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, broadcast 0720ish, Tue 18 Jun, (preparation
previous day).
-
Isle of Lewis, family holiday,
Fri 5 - Sat 20 July (corrected date).
-
BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, preparation during daytime Thu 25 Jul,
broadcast 0720ish the next day.
-
Speaking to special collection
for the GalGael Trust trips to Iona at Glasgow Quakers,
morning Sun 28 July.
-
Speaking at Young Friends
(Quakers, Scotland and N of England) Summer Shindig camp, Sustainability Begins with Simplicity,
Isle of Cumbrae,
Mon 29 Jul, s.t.c..
-
Webinar of Lough Neagh
Heritage Plan, Lough Neagh Partnership (Northern Ireland), invited speaker on
Community Land Acquisition in Scotland, 1900, Tue 30 July.
Watch the
video
here - my main input from 40 mins in.
-
GalGael Trust Board,
1700 - 2000, Tue 20 Aug.
-
BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, preparation during daytime Thu 22 Aug,
broadcast 0720ish the next day.
-
Speaking in the 30th anniversary
celebration of the Pollok Free State motorways protest,
GalGael Trust, Sat 24
Aug, afternoon in Pollok woods and evening at GalGael's
Unexpected Garden, near Ibrox subway.
-
Speaking on community
empowerment and leadership at the annual
conference of the Development Trusts Association of
Scotland, panel on Local Democracy with Lesley
Riddoch & Tom Sneddon, Glasgow
Caledonian University, afternoon, Tue 27 Aug.
-
In discussion on Thinking
Green About the Future with Laura Moodie at
Kirkcudbright Fringe Festival, Cookery School venue, 1100
Fri 6 Sep (travelling down on 5th), booking t.b.a.
here.
-
In France with wife's family,
Tue 10 - Sun 22 Sept.
-
Discussion of liminal spaces and
spiritual experience on Sunday Worship, BBC Radio 4,
Sun 22 Sept, broadcast 0810, listen again online from about
8:15 in
here.
-
Discussion with medical
professionals in "XR in Health",
reading group of Riders on the Storm, by Zoom, 2000,
Sun 22 Sept.
-
BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, preparation during daytime Wed 25 Sep,
broadcast 0720ish the next day.
-
Speaking on spirituality and
sense of place in Dear Green Place, a weekend event
of St Margaret's Episcopal Church, Newlands, Glasgow,
afternoon Sat 28 Sep, free,
info here.
-
Leading a week with the Iona
Community at Iona Abbey, Pilgrimage of Life (note
changed title): a week to explore our lives as
pilgrimage, deepening our resources to face climate change
etc.. Sat 5 - Fri 11th Oct,
details here
- fully booked.
-
Book reading and signing, Iona
Community shop, Iona Abbey, 1600, Thu 10 Oct.
-
A sharing at the Centre for
Human Ecology visioning day, Pearce Institute, Govan,
morning, Sat 12
Oct.
-
Dialogue with Rob Benson's
students at College of the Atlantic, Maine, USA, on Soil
and Soul, by Zoom, 1800 (1300 EST) Fri Oct 18.
-
Leading a study tour of
The
Lough Neagh Partnership to community land trusts in
the Isles of Lewis
and Harris, 19 - 27 Oct dates incl. other travel in the H&I.
Study Tour itinerary: 22nd Ceann an Ora & local
energy, welcome from David Cameron ex chair of
Community Land Scotland; 23rd
West Harris Trust,
Bays of Harris Community Estate, St Clement's &
Roineabhal,
North Harris Trust,
Harris
Tweed Centre and/or
The Social Distillery; 24th
Galson Estate Trust,
Carloway
Estate Trust, Gearannan, Broch and Stones; 25th
Stornoway Trust and
Museum nan Eilean Stornoway.
-
On BBC Radio Scotland's Sunday
Morning programme discussing the American election, the UK
budget and 'Let's Stop Shouting Day', from about 0910 -
0955, Sun 3 Nov,
listen
here.
-
Keynote address, Celebrating
Community Ownership: Deepening our Humanity, at the AGM of Greener Kirkcaldy, Sat
9 Nov,
article.
-
The Power of Silence: Three
Quakers Share Personal Stories of Discovery, Scottish
Interfaith Week, St Mungo's Museum of Religious Life & Art,
I'll be sharing along with Nuala Watt and Mark Coleman of
Glasgow Quaker Meeting, 1830 - 2100, Mon 11 Nov., free, no
booking needed,
details here.
-
BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, preparation during daytime Thu 14 Nov,
broadcast 0720ish the next day.
-
Seventy-Three
Foundation community development planning retreat Papua
provinces Indonesia, Stirlingshire, 18 - 21 Nov,
private event.
-
GalGael Trust board meeting,
Govan, 1700 - 2100, Tue 19 Nov.
-
"Land, Nature, Justice" - keynote address
To
Restore a Light Unto the Nations: Israel, Palestine and the
Spiritual Power of Scottish Land Reform, an event of
Highland - Palestine with
Prof Mazin Qumsiyeh
and Jessie Chang of Bethlehem University and local
contributors, Boat of Garten,
nr. Aviemore, 1400 - 1930, Sat 23 Nov. For info on this and Prof Manzin's
and his wife's other Palestinian solidarity events in the
Scottish Highlands,
see here, and event registration
here.
-
A sharing on Mysticism:
a Spiritual Awakening for Our Times for
Glasgow Quakers Young Friends, 1930 - 2100 Mon 25 Nov,
Glasgow Quaker Meeting House, 38 Elmbank Cresc., free and
open to all in the age range teenager to 35.
-
BBC Radio Scotland
Thought for the
Day, preparation during daytime Tue 3 Dec,
broadcast 0720ish the next day.
-
St Andrew's Day inaugural lecture
to the National Convention on Scotand's Future, Edinburgh, evening 30 Nov, t.b.a..
Postponed probably to February 2025.
-
GalGael Trust Board,
1700 - 2000, Tue 18 Feb 2025.
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