Havana Cafe Sessions Podcast
If you love conversation and coffee, you’ve come to the right place. We meet weekly at our favourite local cafe to chat about life, the universe, and everything with the aim to make ourselves better through dialogue.
Oh and yes, we want to change the world too!
Our dialogues are not exclusive, in fact, the more people – people like you – we can engage in conversation, the more we all learn.
Our basic approach is grounded in appreciative inquiry, the Socratic method (basically asking loads of good questions that make you stop and think), and positive psychology.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2019
Episode 106: Consciousness — what is it and does it have to come in human form?
This week we're continuing our discussion of the films Ex Machina and Her, and adding on insights from the TV series Westworld and Humans, looking more closely at the question of Consciousness & Free…
Episode 105: What makes us human?
What makes us human? Is it consciousness? Is it our emotional complexity? Is it merely our physical body? Sometimes the only way to see through our biases in perception is to consider an alternative.…
Episode 104: Rediscovering the Wild
This week Clay and Sarah reach for their cups of coffee and contemplate how and why we might rediscover the wild.
Episode 103: Language...instinct, technology or virus?
This week we use Burroughs’s famous quote “language is a virus from outer space” to contemplate language as instinct, technology or virus.
Episode 102: Hedonism - Mastering the Lost Art of Pleasure and Leisure
In this episode, we revisit the original idea of hedonism as ancient Greek philosophy that argued that pleasure and happiness are the primary or most important intrinsic goods and the aim of human li…
Episode 101: “Levelling up” in your Life
When the very things that once excited us now feel boring and repetitive... When we’ve achieved our big goal but now feel as if we are stagnating and wanting more... When we’ve mastered a set of ski…
Episode 100: What's the Question That Drives You?
Hooray. We've made it to episode 100. For this episode, we reached out to you, our listeners, to find out what their ultimate questions are.
Episode 99: What stands in the way becomes the way
Obstacles, difficulties, things “not going according to plan” are an inevitable part of life. But how we respond to these so-called obstacles is what defines us.
This week Clay and Sarah explore the …
Episode 98: How has cyberspace transformed creativity?
Within the “consensual hallucination of cyberspace” which we call the internet, a creative explosion is taking place. We have access to an immense range of audio-visual arts, stories, poetry, music.…
Episode 97: Self-mastery – breaking through habits to realise your true potential
This week Clay and Sarah discuss the concept of self-mastery.
Episode 96: What Mysticism can tell us about the search for the Divine
Many of us feel a sense that there is more to Life than meets the eye. Perhaps we call it God. Perhaps we consider it a Force that pervades all life. Perhaps we don't even bother to name it. But at…
Episode 95: Is Privacy Dead?
In an age when we share so many personal experiences on social media, when data about what we buy and who we communicate with is stored, when we willing carrying a tracking device in the form of our …
Episode 94: Our forgotten relationship with Sleep
How much do you sleep? What time of the day are you most awake? These are questions of our circadian rhythms, our natural biological clocks...you know the ones we try to side-step with caffeine, ele…
Episode 93: Is Happiness a Moral Obligation?
If our attitude largely determines our reality...do we owe it to ourselves to strive for happiness? And if our mood and demeanour impact others... do we owe it to the people we love to try to be hap…
Episode 92: That which you are seeking is causing you to seek
This week, Clay and Sarah discuss the experience of ‘Seeking’, interrogate the idea of Ego and wonder what we are actually looking for...
Episode 91: What are the limits of personal freedom?
In a world in which we are all connected and even our smallest action can impact another person, how might we understand the limits of personal freedom?
Episode 90: Human nature and our Social Contract
A social contract refers to a common understanding among a group of people on acceptable ways of behaving. It is a way of theorising how and why we have laws, codes of conduct, and social norms. Yet …
Episode 89: Why we need Utopias
This week Clay and Sarah debate the usefulness as well as the problems of Utopian thinking and ask whether we need visions of Utopia.
Episode 88: The Value of Multiple Intelligences
In this episode, we explore Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences.
Episode 87: Synchronicity & the Interconnectedness of Things
Have you ever thought about an old friend you haven’t seen in years and then bumped into them shortly after? Have you ever known something you couldn’t have known — that someone in your family had be…