Making of a Puppet

In this episode, we embark on a fascinating journey into puppetry, exploring how it serves as both an art form and a transformative experience. Our guest Jacqueline Twillie shares their training and the personal growth of mastering the craft, revealing how puppetry becomes a powerful tool for immersive storytelling. We discuss the deep connections forged through this art, its impact on personal relationships, and the joy of lending our voices to bring characters to life. We create moments of joy and understanding through puppetry, building bridges between people in unexpected ways. As we reflect on this journey, we also look ahead to future aspirations, celebrating the magic and limitless possibilities of puppetry!

Host: Jack Manning Bancroft, CEO and founder of AIMEGuest: François Taddei - founder and president of the Learning Planet InstituteThis episode blasted into outer space with Francois from Learning Planet Institute and designed another unique puppet.The Institute’s mission is to explore, research and share new ways of learning and cooperating in order to respond to the needs of the youth and the planet. By encouraging and disseminating a culture, methods and tools for empowerment, it transforms organisations. Ultimately, it leads communities and supports “Learning Planetizens” to take care of themselves, others and the planet.

Guests: Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta, Founder , Dr. John Davis, Senior Research Fellow. Joshua Waters, Senior Research Fellow.  Jack Manning Bancroft, Honorary Fellow & CEO and founder of AIMEThis episode we sat down with Tyson, Josh and JD from the Indigenous Systems Knowledge Lab to design a puppet.The IKS Lab was established in early 2021 by Dr Tyson Yunkaporta, author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World. The IKS Lab is an activist, public-facing think-tank, rooted in a strong evidence base of research. It uses Indigenous Knowledges as a prompt and provocateur for seeing, thinking, and doing things differently.It leads with the insight that Indigenous Knowledge carries the patterns, systems, methods and protocols to make regenerative models of production, trade, economics, governance and technology function sustainably at scale. It is a place where Indigenous thinking is applied to the issues that complexity scientists are working on across economics, design, leadership, governance, evolutionary dynamics, environment, cognition and consciousness.

Host: Jack Manning Bancroft, CEO and founder of AIMEGuest: Johny Mair, Co-Founder of EthicFor the first ever episode of the Making of a Puppet Podcast we sat down with Johny Mair from Ethic to dive into what we're doing together and see what puppet design emerges from the conversation.Ethic's story began in late 2015 when our founders began considering how they might leverage their complementary skill sets—spanning finance, institutional investing, engineering, and design—for maximum social impact. Driven by a desire to help create a world where all investing is sustainable investing, they set about uniting two traditionally separate communities: sustainability and institutional quantitative finance.