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This Podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation, and the structure of belonging. It's about leaving a culture of scarcity for a community of abundance. This first season is a series of interviews with Walter Brueggemann, Peter Block, and John McKnight. The subsequent episodes is where change agents, community facilitators, and faith and service leaders meet at the intersections of belonging, story, and local gifts. The Common Good Podcast is a coproduction of commongood.cc, bespokenlive.org and commonchange.com

Recent Episodes

Common Good Podcast x The Liminal Space Episode 7: What Becomes Possible When We Listen Beyond Ourselves with Tristan and Rashid

In this final episode of the miniseries, Tristan and Rashid step back to reflect on what seven episodes of storytelling from Cape Town have revealed. They revisit the arc of the series, from grounding ourselves in our bodies with Bongeka and Aphiwe, to the critical hope of Ashley and Helene, the courage of Ncedisa, the radical imagination of Leila, and the belonging found at Charlie and Barry’s dinner table. They explore the power and danger of stories, drawing on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “...

17 MIN

Common Good Podcast x The Liminal Space Episode 6: Belonging at the Table with Charlton and Barry

What if the most radical thing you could do is invite someone to sit at a table with no queue, no power dynamic, and a really good meal? In this episode, Tristan and Rashid introduce two unlikely friends: Charlton Alexander, a tour guide and facilitator who invites people to connect with the city and its stories, and Barry Lewis, an architect from the UK who has spent decades building sandbag homes alongside communities in Cape Town’s townships. Through a clip from the original Liminal Space ...

15 MIN

Common Good Podcast x The Liminal Space Episode 5: Reorienting Towards Community and Radical Imagination with Leila

What would it look like if any two people could sit at a table and have a conversation? In this episode, Tristan and Rashid begin with a wide-ranging exploration of shared consciousness, Ubuntu, and the Hebrew concept of tzedakah, before introducing Leila Kidson, a social systems researcher, facilitator, and designer who co-founded the social design studio OCTOPI. Through a clip from the original Liminal Space episode, Leila paints a picture of radical imagination that is refreshingly honest....

17 MIN

Common Good Podcast x The Liminal Space Episode 4: Music, Courage and Resisting Collusion with Ncedisa

What does it take to stop colluding with systems that dehumanise us? In this episode, Tristan and Rashid explore the role music plays in grounding us, reminding us of our humanity, and giving us the courage to resist. They introduce us to Ncedisa Nkonyeni, an African-centred systems change and field learning partner who teaches organisations to apply systems change to their strategies and partners with collectives committed to organisational well-being. In a clip from the original Liminal Spa...

15 MIN

Common Good Podcast x The Liminal Space Episode 3: Critical Hope and the New Imagination with Ashley and Helene

What kind of hope is worth holding onto? In this episode, Tristan and Rashid unpack the idea of critical hope, drawing on the work of Jeff Duncan-Andrade and a powerful quote from Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of Hope. They introduce us to Ashley and Helene Visagie, founders of Bottom Up, a Cape Town youth organisation that equips teenagers with tools of critical thought to question the systems around them rather than simply plugging gaps. In clips from the original Liminal Space episode, Ashley de...

17 MIN