Call to Adventure! Crafting an Integral Altruism with Jonas Søvik

About this episode

The episode explores Integral Altruism and its potential to address the meta crisis through a conversation with Jonas Søvik.

What is Integral Altruism and how could it crowd-source the answers to our meta crisis? It's a while since I learned about 'reverse mentoring': a young person mentoring someone of an older generation. The idea really took hold, so when a mutual friend connected Jonas Søvik and me, I knew I'd found someone from whom I could learn a huge amount about life, ideas, thoughts and how the world feels in circles I would otherwise never reach. Jonas and I have been exploring all this together for the past 18 months and every conversation leaves me buzzing with the potential of new doors opening and new senses unfolding, and how could we not share something so rich? And so here we are, a day after his 27th birthday, with Jonas now in Blackpool, working at the Effective Altruism Hotel, which is, in itself, a significant step outside the predatory capital model. Jonas Søvik is a coach, self-exploration and wisdom enthusiast, currently serving on the board of EA Denmark, and at the EA Hotel, helping to restructure and expand the organization/community to serve the EA community and the wider world. He is also building courses to help us all gain more control of our screen time. He swims in…

People in this episode

Guest: Jonas Søvik

Topics covered

• Integral Altruism
• meta crisis
• reverse mentoring
• effective altruism
• self-exploration
• modern wisdom
• regenerative thinking

Keywords

• Integral Altruism
• meta crisis
• reverse mentoring
• effective altruism
• self-exploration
• screen time control
• modern wisdom

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Effective Altruism Hotel, EA Denmark

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