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 86: What's Our Relationship to Time?
In this episode, we explore vary nature of time.
Episode 85: What is the purpose of Art?
So what is art for? What purpose does it serve for us as individuals and for our society? How does the experience of creating art differ from a visit to a museum to view the artwork of others?
This w…
Episode 84: What’s the Story of your Life?
There is ‘what happened’. And then there is ‘the story we tell’ about what happened. Over time, our propensity to narrate events into a story that means something creates something much larger... o…
Episode 83: Should Happiness Be Our Goal?
Behind and beneath all our smaller goals sits one enormous Ultimate goal — to be Happy. Whether by purchasing the latest consumer product, doing yoga, taking a holiday or searching for our dream job,…
Episode 82: Resolutions and Intentions for 2018
It’s that time of year again. Time to Celebrate and Evaluate what has happened over the previous year. And time to Invision, Create and Commit to our intentions for the coming New Year.
This episode …
Episode 81: The Wheel of Life
In this episode, Clay and Sarah explore The wheel of Life and how to use it to identify areas of your life you want to improve.
Episode 80: Moving the body to change the mind
Movement — We’re all encouraged to exercise, to get in our 10,000 steps, to use standing desks, take walks at lunch. We focus on the way movement impacts our health, or our weight. But rarely do we…
Episode 79: Is Contemplation the path to happiness?
Aristotle claimed that Contemplation is the highest form of happiness. Yet as he himself admits, there is a dispute about what happiness means and how to achieve it. Some seek happiness through pleas…
Episode 78: Does a Higher Purpose drive your life?
The idea of one’s Life Purpose can be tricky. Many of the supposed self-help gurus will tell us that we have one, or that we need to find one. And there are times when we believe them. Times when fin…
Episode 77: How technology shapes our Identity
When we post something on social media, are we sharing something about ourselves? Or is this specific technology shaping what we say and therefore think about who we are? Do we choose our identity? O…
Episode 76: Why Curiosity is the trademark of the Masters
There’s that old saying — Curiosity killed the cat. There are stories that warn of the dangers of curiosity, stretching back to Adam & Eve, Icarus & the sun, and Pandora’s Box. For much of western hi…
Episode 75: Lessons from Walden Pond
In 1845 Henry David Thoreau moved into a little house he built himself on Walden Pond outside Concord, Massachusetts. His experiment in simple living and renewing connections with nature has inspired…
Episode 74: What do we get out of spirituality?
Food, water, shelter - these are essentials. But a spiritual practice? Is it also an essential part of our lives? Is it a natural compulsion, responding to something within us? Or is it something we …
Episode 73: How do we choose our career?
Many of us listening to this podcast are on a track now...we've been through school, chosen to specialise in some area and are now out in the working world. But what happens when we want a career cha…
Episode 72: Is Our Need for Certainty Leading Us Astray?
In this episode we examine the nature of certainty and why we seek it even though it can lead to our own happiness.
Episode 71: Artificial Intelligence, Super-Intelligence & Our Human Future
Stephen Hawking says that AI will be "either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity", and Elon Musk claims it is the "biggest risk we face as a civilisation". So what's so threatening…
Episode 70: How to be a Man in the modern world
In times past, the role of a Man and the pathway of becoming a man would have been clearly defined. Hunter, warrior, provider, protector — these roles and responsibilities would have been bestowed th…
Episode 69: Breathing - are we doing it wrong?
Breathing. It's the most fundamental part of life. And unlike so many aspects of our health like our diet, exercise, and sleep, it's something we don't really have to think about. Or do we? In this w…
Episode 68: Why We Camp...
Coming to the end of the summer, many of us will have spent some time pitching a tent and camping in a field under the stars. It's a lot of work, there are a lot of bugs, and as Clay reflecting while…
Episode 67: The Art of Listening
In this episode Clay and Sarah explore what it means to truly listen to another person and how important sound is to our daily life.