If a topic was a book, consider these Learning Playlists the introductory paragraph.

Lead your own learning with Huddlecraft’s Archive of Learning Playlists 🧠

Across 2023, with help from the Huddlecraft team and Huddle hosts, I curated Learning Playlists covering topics such as life, death, parenthood, ancestry, leisure, creativity and more. They complimented the themes of the peer-learning journeys (Huddles) that Huddle Hosts launched in 2023. Along with explaining what a Learning Playlist is, and how they could be useful to you, in this article I have also created an archive of these lists for you to explore the themes yourself (and enrich your own learning). You’ll find 🎙 podcasts, 📖 books, 📺 movies, 📝 articles… learn in a style that suits you from 7 cherry-picked resources for each theme. 🍒

Index

1. Key reflections on the Learning Playlists
2. The Learning Playlists
3. Conclusion

Here are some key reflections on the Learning Playlists:

1. 🌈 Diverse range of topics: These playlists cover a wide array of topics, ranging from fear to creativity, leisure to burnout. This diversity reflects the versatility of the Huddle model, which can be used to explore (almost) any theme. Feel free to jump straight to a theme that interests you and ignore those that don’t!
2. 🧠 Purpose of learning playlists: The primary purpose of creating these playlists is to offer a structured and curated approach to exploring specific topics. They serve as gateways to delve into various subjects, encouraging continuous learning.
3. 🕸 Connection with Huddles: The playlists are not just standalone resources but are connected to a broader learning ecosystem, particularly through the concept of Huddles. Offered by Huddlecraft, Huddles are peer learning journeys centered around a topic that sets you alight. In 2023, Huddle Hosts brought 8 Huddles to life!
4. ▪️ Brevity in playlist design: Limiting each playlist to seven resources is a deliberate choice to maintain conciseness. In a way, the playlists act as curated guides, eliminating the overwhelm that can come with an abundance of information on the internet when researching a certain topic.
5. 7️⃣ Symbolism of the number seven: Nachmanides, a philosopher, explained the significance of the number seven in the natural world. There are 7 days of the week, 7 colors in the rainbow, 7 musical notes, and 7 directions. I like the connection.
6. ✨ Encouraging curiosity: After 1 year of creating these lists, I’m more curious about these topics than ever before, and I have gained a rich library of resources to reflect back on. Now they can be yours too!
7. 🎉 Celebrating creators: Bringing attention to these resources acknowledges the wonderful people, organisations and communities who have created all these articles, resources, podcasts and more.

Now that you’ve got some background context into why we created them, and how they could be useful to you, let’s dive into the learning playlists.

The Learning Playlists

If you’re interested in the following topics (not the least, the topic of learning!), do please keep reading for an archived collection of learning playlists covering power, leisure, and everything in between.

1. Fear Learning Playlist
2. Ancestry Learning Playlist
3. Hopefulness Learning Playlist
4. Collaborative Creativity Learning Playlist
5. Creative Practice Learning Playlist
6. Leisure Learning Playlist
7. Male Whiteness Learning Playlist
8. Collective Governance Learning Playlist
9. Hybrid Work Culture Learning Playlist
10. Death x Life Learning Playlist
11. Community Learning Playlist
12. Power Learning Playlist
13. Financial Empowerment Learning Playlist
14. Burnout Learning Playlist
15. Parenthood Learning Playlist

1. Fear Learning Playlist

With the help of Fear Factor Huddle Host, Rose Mosse, we curated a list of 7 links for exploring the theme of fear. Fear Factor is a learning journey inviting participants to learn more about who they are by doing something that they think they can’t. Curious to explore your own fears and the theme of fear itself? Take the leap with the resources below…

1. 🎧 Listen to: Fearless by Invisibilia. Explore what would happen if you could make fear disappear. Hear about the striking (and rare) case of a woman with no fear.
2. 📺 Watch: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals, a TED Talk by Tim Ferris.
3. 📕 Read: Fear Less by Pippa Grange. Face not-good-enough and replace your doubts, achieve your goals, and unlock your success.
4. 📕 Read: Immunity to Change by Robert Keegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey, and create your own immunity x-ray by following this excerpt.
5. 🧪 Experiment: Answer these 7 questions to support your exploration of your life purpose. What do the answers reveal? What fears might you need to overcome in order to live a life more aligned with your purpose?
6. 📕 Read: Ruminate on this story of the great Hasidic Rabbi Zusya (Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol).
7. 📺 Watch: The Call to Courage by Brene Brown on Netflix (the link is to the trailer on YouTube).

2. Ancestry Learning Playlist

Linked to the Huddle: Ancestors’ Homecoming, this learning playlist is curated with the theme of ancestry in mind. Hosted by Robbie Solway, Ancestors’ Homecoming was a Huddle created to reflect on our pasts, presents, and futures by connecting to our ancestors with compassion and curiosity. Dive into these curated resources to go on your own ancestral learning adventure.

1. 🎧 Listen to: A podcast from Rachel Yehuda and the OnBeing Project about how trauma and resilience cross generations.
2. 📺 Watch: Mustafa the Poet being interviewed about how justice, identity, and community roots are intertwined.
3. 📕 Read: Three imaginative writers consider what it means to be made and fashioned by others in Ancestors, an anthology edited by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ed Pavlic, & Ivelisse Rodriguez.
4. 📞 Interact: Dial-An-Ancestor, a long term participatory audio installation by Tamika Abaka-Wood created in 2021 while part of the Huddle: Unravelling Time.
5. 📕 Read: Robbie’s blog post on their journey leading up to this point, describing their motivation behind the Huddle, and how their own background has been part of their family history process.
6. 🖼 See: What We Carried, a photographic storytelling project sharing the experiences of Iraqi refugees.
7. 📺 Watch: What Our Fathers Did: A Nazi Legacy, a film from 2015 about the sons of two Nazi war criminals reckoning with their fathers’ atrocities.

3. Hopefulness Learning Playlist

Letícia Usanovich, Host of the Huddle: Hope: the group project has put together a list of 7 links for investigating the theme of hope. This Huddle was a peer-learning journey created to forge a more hopeful approach to life through shared wisdom and co-creation. If you’re curious to spark your own hope-filled learning journey, take your pick of links below and get inspired.

1. 📘 Read: Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit is an inspiring analysis of grassroots actions that have led to transformative victories in our history.
2. 🧪 Experiment: Read What is Hope in Psychology, and then try these 4 activities to instill hope as a daily companion.
3. 🎧 Listen to: When nothing seems to work, how do you make change? The Ashes on the Lawn, a podcast from Radiolab, tells a profound story of the contradictory motives and dilemmas faced by activists struggling to make our world better.
4. 📘 Read: Explore the impact of kindness in our capacity to feel hopeful in Letícia Usanovich’s blog post: Can hitchhiking be an expression of hope?
5. 📺 Watch: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, a film about a boy who refused to give up on hope for his family and community of farmers in Malawi.
6. 📺 Watch: The Ted talk, An Argument for Hope from Noella Moshi.
7. 📺 Watch: The Science and Power of Hope, a TEDx talk by Chan Hellman. Dive into the neuroscience behind hope and its impact on mental and emotional well-being.

4. Collaborative Creativity Learning Playlist

How can imagination help us collaborate better in the place/s we live and work in? That’s the key learning question that was conceptualised by Entangled Places Huddle Host, Stephanie Bickford-Smith. If you’re curious about the theme of collaborative creativity, we’ve curated a list of 7 links for further investigating…

1. 🎧 Listen to and explore: Imagination Activism: exploring radically better futures with Phoebe Tickell, founder of Moral Imaginations. Moral Imaginations works to introduce collective imagining practices to community imagining and collective decision-making.
2. 🧪 Experiment with: Green Club, a free and open platform for educators and students with workshops and learning resources related to the circular economy.
3. 📺 Watch: Watch this video on Legislative Theatre which explains its history and use as a collaborative, educational, and political process. Communities, advocates and policymakers work together in a creative process to identify, develop and build support for new legislation.
4. 🧪 Read and experiment with: The Community Weaver’s Companion, a PDF guide from The Relationships Project which features insights, tools and frameworks for translating ideas into action.
5. 📅 Attend: Running from 14 June — 14 July, ‘Assemble in the Forest’ is an invitation from Forest of Imagination to come together at a festival full of adventure, to enjoy culture, to celebrate beauty and biodiversity and to showcase the imagination of community.
6. 📕 Read: The Trespasser’s Companion by Nick Hayes is a rallying cry for greater public access to nature and a gently rebellious guide on how to get by trespassing.
7. 📕 Read: The Walker’s Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs by Tristan Gooley is for everyone to enrich their own walks and see their surroundings in a completely new light.

5. Creative Practice Learning Playlist

For those of you who, like Make Weird, Make Wild Huddle Host Charlie Hammond, are interested in spending some time exploring creative practice, here are 7 links for delving further into this theme…

1. 📕 Read: Austin Kleon’s Show Your Work is a good guide to how to get your work directly to your supporters and to embrace showing the icky bits.
2. 🎧 Listen to: From the founder of ****Street Wisdom, Wanderful Podcast is designed to bring a bit of wonder to your walking. A fusion of mindfulness, neuroscience and wellness, suddenly every street can be full of inspiration.
3. 📺 Watch: My Octopus Teacher is the story of a filmmaker who forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.
4. 📺 Watch: POWER is a ‘show and do’ project building a solar power station across the rooftops of North East London, working with art and infrastructure to tackle the interlinked climate/energy/cost of living crisis.
5. 📺 Watch: Devising Celebration: Engineers of the Imagination is a useful introduction to the theatre of image, large scale dramatic construction techniques, processional theatre, outdoor performance and spectacle.
6. 📺 Watch: If you like the idea of world making, Dimension 20: Neverafter is a series of spooky, funny, and heartbreaking fairy tales set in the grimmest fairy tale world.
7. 🔍 Explore: The Weird Show is an art platform created in 2010 by Rubén B and Max-o-matic, dedicated to the showcase and exploration of contemporary collage.

6. Leisure Learning Playlist

Is the good life calling you? With the help of Living The Good Life Huddle Host Maria Dorthea Skov, we’ve curated a list of 7 links for answering that call and easing into this topic. Living The Good Life was created as a peer group experiment in leisure, play and rest as the source of personal and societal transformation.

1. 🔍 Explore: A More Play-Ful Future, brought to you by RADAR, a decentralized collective of 300+ members who have set out to accelerate better futures — in multiplayer mode.
2. 🎧 Listen to: The Myth of Freedom Under Capitalism, a podcast episode exploring the irony of being imprisoned under the freest system ever — capitalism.
3. 📕 Read: Written and gathered by Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good explores something she calls “pleasure activism,” a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the myth that changing the world is just another form of work.
4. 📕 Read: The 7 types of rest that every person needs, an article by Saundra Dalton-Smith MD for TED.
5. 📅 Attend: Join The Slow Work Garden x Living The Good Life in Slow Sessions for a midweek resistance of living in speedy systems. Be less productive, less efficient, more lazy! Luxuriate in nothingness for a little while.
6. 📺 Watch: Slow living is NOT a capitalist ‘trend’.
7. 📕 Read: In How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Jenny Odell sends up a flare from the heart of Silicon Valley, delivering an action plan to resist capitalist narratives of productivity, and to become more meaningfully connected in the process.

7. Male Whiteness Learning Playlist

Is a world beyond patriarchy and white supremacy possible? With the help of White Men, What’s Next? Huddle Host, Jamie Pett, we’ve curated a list of 7 links for investigating the theme of patriarchy and white supremacy. The peer-learning journey White Men, What’s Next? was born out of the idea to explore how white men can help bring about a world beyond white supremacy and patriarchy. You can deepen your own knowledge on this topic by exploring the links below…

1. 📘 Read: Relinquishing the Patriarchy, a letter to white men written by adrienne maree brown. She also provides an accompanying resource list.
2. 🎧 Listen to: Scene on Radio has a podcast series on the origins of whiteness (Seeing White) and of male supremacy (MEN).
3. 📘 Read: Miki Kashtan’s articles A Love Letter to My Brothers and Feminism as Power and Love: Realigning Humanity with Life. Kashtan is an author, an international teacher and practitioner of Nonviolent Communication.
4. 🎧 Listen to: Creating a positive White antiracist identity — what is the process?, a podcast by The Modern White Man.
5. 🎧 Listen to: What if ending male violence was men’s work?, a podcast by From What If to What Next.
6. 📺 Watch: The instagram video: “Straight white guy tries not to take up space at nonprofit lunch”.
7. 📘 Read: Figuring Out Fatherhood by Sam Weatherald.

8. Collective Governance Learning Playlist

Collective governance means people coming together to organise, govern and make decisions about their organisation, community or endeavour. Here are 7 links for further exploring this theme (and seeing what the peer-learning journey Humans Being Human at Work, Hosted by Justin Joseph Taylor is all about)…

1. 🎧 Listen to: In The Future of Collective Decision-Making, David Sauvage talks about his vision for a more beautiful world through participatory democracy, and how we can make healthy decisions.
2. 📺 Watch: Curious about power sharing in organisations? Learn more by watching What is a DAO: Decentralized Autonomous Organisation (DAO) for beginners.
3. 🎧 Listen to: The Three Harmonies Meditation by Richard Rudd with singing bowls helps you unwind, relax and tune into your body.
4. 🔍 Explore: Sahana Chattopadhyay’s podcast: Facilitating Emergence & Generative Communities explores a radical shift in the way we view organisations, communities and the role of leaders within them. Her Medium articles also explore this theme.
5. 📺 Watch: Collective Sensemaking in The Age of Existential Risk by Jamie Wheal.
6. 📺 Watch: Human Organisation by Joachim Stroh. Stroh is an Organisational Designer looking at new human-centric ways of building organisations.
7. 🔍 Explore: The Chronicles of Samara is a co-created text aiming to inspire a regenerative movement for positive change. Host Fellow Justin Joseph Taylor is a contributor.

9. Hybrid Work Culture Learning Playlist

Is hybrid work killing off collective culture? How can we make hybrid working a super power of collective greatness, or we-ness in our organisations? The list of the resources below were inspired by the Huddle Hybrid Power Lab, Hosted by Sarah King.

1. 🧪 Experiment: Curated by Mark Eddleston, New Ways of Working Playbook can be used to explore key patterns found in progressive organisations & to experiment with some of the most helpful practices out there.
2. 🧪 Experiment: Make friends with remote technology and create the human connection that’s vital for collaboration, with Closer Apart: How to design and facilitate brilliant workshops online.
3. 📘 Read: The Trauma of Zoom, a short article by Hanna Thomas Uose that speaks to the problem that human connection can solve.
4. 📘 Read: Work Better Together is a co-authored reflection from Enspiral contributors on how the power of community can transform how businesses are built.
5. 🔍 Explore: WorkTripp helps teams create impactful offsites to supercharge team culture & performance.
6. 🎧 Listen to: How science can fix remote work, an episode from the podcast series: WorkLife with Adam Grant. Find out what science says about how to keep your teams cohesive.
7. 🎧 Listen to: The Being Considered Podcast explores wellbeing at work for organisations across all shapes and sizes.

10. Death x Life Learning Playlist

How can we stretch our capacity to deal with loss of various kinds? With the help of Death x Life Huddle Host Christina Watson and our community, we’ve curated a list of 7 links for investigating the theme of death, life and loss. View the showcase highlights reel if you’re curious to see the finale of the Death x Life peer-learning journey. Otherwise, dive in and begin your own research…

1. 📺 Watch: Die Wise: How to Understand the Meaning of Death, a video by Stephen Jenkinson encouraging us to die well, which, Jenkinson says, is a right and responsibility of everyone.
2. 📘 Read: The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in this practical handbook for mastering the art of grieving.
3. 🃏 Play: The Artists’ Grief Deck, a set of 60 medium format ‘flashcards’ that are individually designed by artists, sometimes in collaboration with grief workers.
4. 🎧 Listen to: Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal in conversation with Krista Tippet of On Being. Atul discusses the ancient human question of death and what it might have to do with life.
5. 🔍 Explore: Life. Death. Whatever is an initiative to redesign the dialogue around death and dying. Their Five Things series is a collection submitted by people with lived experiences of illness, cancer, dying, funerals, grief, suicide, baby loss, addiction and more.
6. 🔍 Explore: Stewarding Loss offers tools and guidance to support organisational endings which are responsible, intelligent and compassionate.
7. 🎧 Listen to: Guest of For The Wild podcast, Yoalli Rodriguez investigates Grief as an Ontological Form of Time, bringing us to Mexico to investigate deep connections with land, ongoing colonial violence, and the grief that comes with loving a place

11. Community Learning Playlist

With the help of Turning Points Huddle Host Kate Weiler and our community, we’ve curated a list of 7 links for investigating the theme of community.

1. 📘 Read: This Is Where You Belong by Melody Warnick, a guide to loving the city you live in.
2. 🎧 Listen to: Radio Garden — explore live radio and feel a sense of connection to local communities around the world.
3. ✋ Get involved: Co-Lab Exeter is a learning centre dedicated to learning and wellbeing in Exeter.
4. 📘 Read: Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities, a must-read for anyone interested in building sustainable communities with future-thinking in mind.
5. 📘 Read: Right to Roam are a campaign run by artists and activists, advocating for open access to land in England. Check out this article: Wild camping on Dartmoor: the right-to-roam protest.
6. 🔍 Explore: Relationships Project delves into the field of relationship-centred practice and provides tools and resources to aid your journey.
7. Explore: In light of exploring disconnection to people and place, Campaign to End Loneliness provides some of their latest thinking and research on loneliness.

12. Power Learning Playlist

Is it time for you to take a power trip? Power Trip Huddle Host Emily Danby has curated a list of 7 links for investigating the theme of power. Power Trip was a peer learning journey for social change makers to test and transform how they work with power. Start your own power trip by exploring the resources below…

1. 🎧 Listen to: the How to Citizen Podcast, where Baratunde Thurston reimagines the word “citizen” as a verb and reminds us how to wield our collective power.
2. 🎧 Listen to: The Protective Use of Force, by Marshall Rosenberg. Rosenberg offers insightful stories, anecdotes, practical exercises and role-plays that will dramatically change your approach to communication for the better.
3. 📺 Watch: How to understand power, a TED-Ed lesson by Eric Liu. Or watch his TED Talk: Why ordinary people need to understand power.
4. ✏️ Test out: Resources and activities for exploring how you work with power from Sheila McKechnie’s Power Project. Suitable for individuals and groups.
5. 🔍 Explore: Power Literacy by Maya Goodwill, a beginner’s guide to democratise, decolonise and create socially just participatory processes.
6. 📘 Read: Alanna Irving’s article: “No Boss Does Not Mean No Leadership”, reclaiming the concept of leadership.
7. 📘 Read: White Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun, written to outline and analyze how white supremacy operates in organisations.

13. Financial Empowerment Learning Playlist

How can we create lasting financial ease in our lives and communities? With the help of Lola O and our community, we’ve curated a list of 7 links for looking further into the theme of financial ease and empowerment. These were inspired by the Huddle: Her Financial Ease Legacy, a compassionate enquiry for black women. Explore the resources below to start your own learning journey with financial empowerment in mind…

1. 🎧 Listen to: The Meaningful Money Personal Finance Podcast, which explains all aspects of your personal finances in simple, everyday language.
2. 📘 Read: The One-Page Financial Plan is for those who think budgeting is dull and boring.
3. 📘 Read: Start your journey to financial success with Female Invest’s guide for safe, smart, and sustainable investing: Girls Just Wanna Have Funds.
4. 🔍 Explore: Money Movers, and get your friends or colleagues together to take climate action with your finances.
5. 🤳Follow: Clever Girl Finance, for tips and access to 30 free personal finance courses.
6. 📕 Read: Lola has collected a bunch of interesting articles on the topic of the racial wealth gap. Find them here.
7. 📺 Watch: Why Financial Well-Being For Women of Color is Critical by Clever Girl Finance.

14. Burnout Learning Playlist

Stuck in cycles of burnout or near-burnout? This Learning Playlist explores this theme, encouraging you to stop, rest and fill up your cup. It was inspired by the Huddle: Beyond Burnout, Hosted by Rebecca Birch. Take some time to yourself and explore the resources below…

1. 📘 Read: You’re Not Lazy. Or Failing. You’re in Burnout’s Perfect Storm.
2. 🤳Follow: The Nap Ministry on Instagram to activate and inspire you to rest.
3. 🎧 Listen to: A soft murmor, ambient sounds to wash away distraction & relax.
4. 📘 Read: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski. This book explains why women experience burnout differently than men — and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life.
5. 📕 Read: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. Recommended for women facing daily burnout.
6. 💬 Read: Emily Pearce’s poem: ’She Speaks Slowly’.
7. 📙 Read: Rebecca, host of Beyond Burnout, has created a helpful guide for dealing with change: Ritual Recipes.

15. Parenthood Learning Playlist

For those of you, like Project Parent Huddle Host Max Fyfe, who are fascinated by the topic of parenthood, here are 7 links for delving further into this theme. Project Parent was conceptualised to make space to connect, reflect and activate a parenting project with a supportive, peer group of parents.

1. 🎧 Listen to: Human Layers, a meditation by The Long Time Academy on developing empathy for ancestors.
2. 📘 Read: What happened when 10 men went on a journey to explore 21st Century Fatherhood? Read the booklet from the Father Figures Huddle to find out!
3. 📕 Read: “How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk” is packed with approaches to support better outcomes.
4. 📙 Read: Philippa Perry’s “The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did)” describes how your parents changed your approach to parenting.
5. 💬 Read: Our favourite quote by William Martin about teaching children to value the ordinary.
6. 📺 Watch: Bluey. Apparently adored by Ryan Gosling and Natalie Portman, Bluey has become a hit cartoon among all ages. Read more about it.
7. 🎙 Listen to: “Mum, will the planet die before I do?”, a podcast that deals with raising kids in a planetary emergency.

Conclusion

And that’s a wrap on a year-long project in Learning Playlist curation! I hope you enjoyed stepping through these gateways into various themes, and that you are inspired and encouraged to explore and continue your learnings in whatever topics have set you alight.