The Fresh Thinking Atlas Podcast
By Stories from the Fresh Thinking Atlas, read by their author, Mike Chitty.
Categories: Education, Self-Improvement
An atlas that will help you to find the joy of participation in life...as I narrate each story recordings will appear here. None of the usual podcast intros and upsells - just the story... joyofparticipation.substack.com
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- The Child and the Bear
In a world where the cities have grown loud and the forests have retreated, a child wanders beyond the familiar paths.There she encounters a great bear, a creature feared by some and believed extinct by others. His enormous strength conceals something few have troubled to notice: a sorrow born of…
- The Woman Who Carried Nothing
There was once a woman who walked between two worlds.For many years she worked in a prison, among people whose lives had been marked by violence, loss, wrongdoing and regret. She was given rules, keys and a warning: she must take nothing in and bring nothing out.But there was one thing the rules…
- The Thread of Connection
There was once a village that had no roads. Only threads.Invisible to most, these threads connected homes, neighbours, families and strangers. They were spun through honest conversation, strengthened by listening, and made luminous by ordinary acts of care.The village was not perfect. People…
- The Listening Machine
They said it would help us listen.Not merely to hear what others were saying, but to encounter something deeper. The sorrow beneath the words. The longing beneath the argument. The possibilities waiting in the silence.And, for a while, it seemed to work.The Listening Machine is a story about the…
- The One Who Listened
Long ago, there was a village where the people had forgotten how to sing.They could still speak, argue, explain, instruct and persuade. Words were everywhere. But the songs had fallen silent.Or perhaps the songs had never left.The One Who Listened follows a child who discovers that the world is…
- The Evening The Swifts Left
Daniel had always walked quickly.He was a man accustomed to purpose, productivity and making good use of his time. When he moved to a quiet valley, he found its inhabitants strangely inefficient.They stopped to talk. They watched birds. They allowed themselves to be interrupted.And sometimes, for…
- The Orchestra With No Conductor
Visitors to the valley were convinced that someone must be in charge.The bread was baked, the water flowed, the children learned, the festivals happened, and even the occasional escaped goose was somehow returned to its proper place.Surely there must be a plan. A committee. A system.Director Pell…
- The Ember King and The River of Light
Long ago, in the age of smoke, there reigned a king whose crown was made of burning coal.He promised his people warmth, light, power and freedom. And they believed him.But the more they burned, the more they hungered. The skies darkened, the rivers grew bitter, and the forests fell silent.Then…
- The Model and the Mirror
Felix Danner believed the world could be changed by a better business model.A model that rewarded doing good rather than doing harm. One that would bring ethics, entrepreneurship and innovation together to create a fairer world.And for a while, it seemed to be working.But beneath the impressive…
- The Flame That Waited
In a clearing surrounded by trees that listened and stones that remembered, a small flame burns.People gather around it with bread, instruments, stories and silence. Something happens there. People speak differently. Grief softens. Arguments are witnessed rather than won. No one owns the flame. No…
- The Bone Harp
There was once a man who owned everything he could see.The fields. The cattle. The house on the hill. Even the river below.The law said they belonged to him.The river had other ideas.The Bone Harp is a story about ownership and belonging, and about what becomes possible when the living world…
- The Listener’s Gift
What might listening become when we stop treating it as something we do to another person?The Listener’s Gift is a story about attention, presence and the strange generosity of making room for another life. It asks whether listening is less a technique to be mastered than a way of participating…
- The Children of Two Cities
The Children of the Two CitiesThere were once two cities on opposite banks of a river.In Aurelia, children were carefully prepared for adulthood. They were taught, assessed, advised and eventually invited to choose what they would become.Across the river, Eiren did things differently.Its children…
- The Mirror of Enough
There was a strange mirror that did not reflect how you looked.Instead, it showed you something rather more unsettling.The Mirror of Enough is a story about the ways we learn to measure ourselves: against other people, against expectations, against achievement, against the person we imagine we…
- The Cartographer of Edges and the Illusion of Self
The Cartographer of Edges and the Illusion of SelfEdwin Greaves likes things to have edges.Land can be surveyed. Boundaries can be drawn. People are individuals. Relationships can be understood. The world becomes manageable when everything has a place and everything stays within its borders.But…
- The Silence Beneath the Noise
The Silence Beneath the NoiseS001 · A story from the Fresh Thinking AtlasWhat happens when we become so accustomed to noise that silence begins to feel strange?The Silence Beneath the Noise is a story about listening — but perhaps not listening in the usual sense. It asks what might become…
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