Capita In Conversation

In this series of Capita In Conversation, we talk to interviewees from around the world to hear their stories, knowledge, wisdom and ideas on how to create child and family flourishing.

Episode 7 - Elliot Haspel In Conversation with Chiara Rosselli

In this episode, Capita Senior Fellow Elliot Haspel interviews Chiara Rosselli, co-founder and executive director of the APROPOS Group, a non-profit, politically neutral think tank operating in the field of democratic innovation specializing in the development and implementation of process design methods for the political sphere.

Early Years Climate Action Task Force

Capita and This is Planet Ed (the Aspen Institute) have co-convened the Early Years Climate Action Task Force to draft the U.S. Early Years Climate Action Plan. The plan will recommend ways the country can help young children, zero to 8, flourish in the face of climate change. It will be published in late 2023. The task force’s work is supported, in part, by the W. Clement and Jessie V. Stone Foundation.

 
 

Health is Membership Series

 

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Just over 25 years ago in a speech in Louisville, Kentucky, farmer, poet, critic, and essayist Wendell Berry sought to restore love, healing, wholeness, and health to the lexicon of modern American health care. In this series, we explore the ongoing importance of what Berry said to our thinking about health and healthcare.

Episode 1

A conversation with Duke University professor, agrarian, and theologian Norman Wirzba on parenting, the erosion of attention, and relationships that cultivate the potential of every person.

Episode 2

A conversation with critic George Scialabba on alternative futures, the impoverishment of our lives by clickbait culture, and growing up at scale.

Episode 3

A conversation with Rev. Grace Hackney on eating together faithfully, health as the flourishing of community, how seasons help us learn restraint, and the pedagogy of the land.

Episode 4

A conversation with Matt Finn about taking health is membership seriously in the design of hospitals, clinics, and other spaces where healthcare happens.

Episode 5

A conversation with Duke University professor and psychiatrist Warren Kinghorn about wholeness and mental illness, loneliness, and seeing patients as “inhabitants of stories” rather than “bearers of symptoms.”

Episode 6

A conversation with Mary Berry about growing up in Henry County, Kentucky, why "cradle to career" is a bad idea, the value of limits and, of course, her dad, Wendell Berry.