The Realisation Festival Podcast
Welcome to the podcast of the Realisation Festival, which takes place every year at St Giles House, Wimborne, Dorset (http://realisationfestival.com).
The podcast is hosted by Mark Vernon, in conversation with individuals who have attended the festival. The aim is to develop a sense of the various ways in which realising is done, as people offer reflections on ideas, experiences, books and activities.
The Realisation Festival Podcast
Latest Episodes
How Business Can Be Sacred. And Why. Nikki Trott at Realisation 2026
Can businesses today become a source of healing and regeneration? What shifts are required in our appreciation of money and wealth to make commercial organisations into living systems in the service of life? What inner work is required, both by...
Why Edges Very Much Matter. Charles Foster at Realisation 2026
Why does politics feel increasingly frantic, economics increasingly deluded, culture increasingly empty - even when led by seemingly good people? Charles Foster explores how, at root, modern ways of life uncouple us from the heart o...
The Power of Story. Sharon Blackie on her themes for Realisation 2026
How can myths and fairytales help us, personally and collectively? What stories, often almost lost, can aid us with contemporary crises? Why does the imagination so very much matter?Sharon Blackie will lead us in the exploration of these...
A Whole Other Story. A conversation on the shape of Realisation 2026.
The Realisation Festival is a soulful response to the crises of our times. So, with two months to go before this year’s gathering, Nick Shaftesbury, Pippa Evans and Ed Haddon sat down with Mark Vernon to explore the shape of the programme this ...
Reviving the Education Commons and Speaking Truth to Power. A conversation with Guy Standing
Guy Standing is an economist whose new book Human Capital: The Tragedy of the Education Commons has much to say about a key theme of the festival: bildung. His thoughts on the corruption of education by policies that have l...