Our Listening Sessions highlight the urgent need for industrialised societies to listen to Indigenous communities, by creating the platform for Western leaders and wider audiences to quietly, respectfully, and intentionally listen to their perspectives and lived experiences.

The vast majority of the world’s remaining biodiversity can be found in the territories of Indigenous and land-based communities. As we collectively explore how to live in harmony with the rest of nature, can a starting place be listening to those who live in cultures that support the flourishing of their diverse ecosystems?

We started the Listening Session format in 2019. Please disperse these teachings wherever there is fertile ground.

Watch Listening Session recordings

Listening Session with Nemonte Nenquimo at Meta

Listening Sessions are an opportunity to listen to the Indigenous Peoples and land-based communities who are 5% of the ... Watch

Listening to Indigenous voices at COP26

4 November 2021
Two world changing events ran in parallel in Glasgow on the eve of Monday, November 1st. In one part of the city was th... Watch

Listening Session with Pat McCabe

Pat is joined by Alison Sudol, a singer and actor, Wendy Tan White, a tech entrepreneur, and Daniel Growald, a 5th gene... Watch

Listening Session with Manari Ushigua

During this Listening Session, journalist and cross-bench peer in the House Of Lords, Baroness Rosie Boycott; actor, pl... Watch

Listening Session with the Bishnoi

In this Listening Session, Mahesh Sufi, a Bishnoi documentary filmmaker, explains how by following these simple princip... Watch

Listening Session with the Idu Mishmi

The ancestral homeland of the Idu Mishmi community of Northeast India is the rugged and densely forested Dibang Valley,... Watch

Listening Session with Ashaninka & Guarani

Despite horrific violence, invasion, and destruction of their ancestral homeland by multiple industries, the Ashaninka ... Watch

Listening Session - Wisdom of Mother Earth

Featuring Indigenous Women and Wisdom Keepers from all four corners of the globe, this Listening Session celebrates the... Watch

Listening Session with the Juǀ'hoan Khoisan

Meet Mr.ǂOma Tsamkxao, affectionately known as Chief Bobo, of the Juǀ’hoan San (Khoisan) in Namibia. During a Liste... Watch

Listening Session with the Arhuaco Mamos

The Mamos are spiritual leaders from the Arhuaco nation of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Indigenous people... Watch