“Women are social architects, builders of community and wielders of soft power”: Alternative Global’s Indra Adnan speaks at Harvest Kaplankaya
Alternative Global founder and co-initiator Indra Adnan was master-of-ceremonies at last year’s Harvest Kaplankaya festival in October 2022. The event is a mix between a TED conference (big issues and major policy), a spiritual/practical community (many methods of self-development) and an incubator for ‘the feel of the future’. Indra recorded the interview embedded above in October.
The blurb runs:
Indra Adnan at Harvest Kaplankaya
Indra Adnan talks about the importance for women to help articulate the social impact of the work they do at home. She also tells about how she grew up with an Indonesian father and a Dutch mother. Indra Adnan is a writer, psycho-social therapist & political entrepreneur, specialising in future politics, and conflict transformation, who has consulted for the World Economic Forum, Indian, Finnish and Danish governments, and NATO.
[2:52] - To start the 6th season of Harvest Series podcast, Indra Adnan explains where we left Harvest last time, after a panel organised by Jamie Wheal with Gabor Maté, Wade Davies and Indra Adnan.
[5:50] - Indra on carrying a double heritage: Indonesian and Holland, two innovative countries.
[7:40] - Indra, as a master of the ceremony of Harvest, wanted to bring a feminine perspective on the actual crisis. Women are the social architects of our lives.
[12:50] - Why women are not that keen on being in front of the stage.
[15:20] - Why had Indra decided to be a pain in the ass, insisting that women are visible.
[16:50] - How was Indra Adnan's experience in politics in the UK, when she tried to become a candidate for Member of Parliament
[19:30] - Indra, on stage in Kaplankaya, explains the concept of re-worlding.
[22:30] - Which advice does she give regarding storytelling? What about the story that women are powerless?
[25:10] - What does it mean, not to become the follower of someone else?
[31:20] - Harvest of the Day : if something easy could be done and make the world a better place, what would it be for Indra?
Sound editing by Alice Krief @lesbellesfrequences
Technician in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi
Artwork by Pedro Vidigal
The founders of Harvest Series are Burak Öymen and Roman Carel
More on the next Harvest Kaplankaya event in May 2023. And below is a video of a discussion at the May 2022 HK event, where Indra participated with Gabor Mate, Jamie Wheal and Wade Davis in a closing plenary panel titled “Western Civilisation: What to Keep and What to Kill”.