The Conversation Factory Book Club: Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Conversation Factory book club is an experiment I’ve been running for a few months now. I’m experimenting with deeper conversations and collaborations with the subscribers of the Conversation Factory Insiders group as well as working to go deeper with some of the ideas that have been shared on the Podcast.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is the first prototype, that I ran a few months back with two Alums of the Facilitation Masterclass, Meredith England and Jenn Hayslett. I won’t say more about them - they introduce themselves at the *end* of the episode... I like the idea of them just being trusted friends to you, because they are trusted friends to me!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you haven’t listened to the episode where I</span> <a href= "https://theconversationfactory.com/podcast/sand-talk-how-indigenous-thinking-can-save-the-world-tyson-yunkaporta"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">interview Tyson Yunkaporta, the author of Sand Talk</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, about how</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Indigenous</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">thinking can (and will!) save the world, I think you can still enjoy this episode...even if you haven’t read the book...although I think you should!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As Tyson says in his book:</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“There are a lot of opportunities for sustainable innovation through the dialogue of Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of living...the problem with this communication so far has been asymmetry - when power relations are so skewed that most communication is one way, there is not much opportunity for the brackish waters of hybridity to stew up something exciting.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is a powerful image, to have a real, two-way conversation, as equals, between modern and indigenous ways of thinking, and to allow something new to emerge from the turbid, brackish waters…Th