Meet the team behind Thrutopia

Manda Scott started off life as a veterinary surgeon and intensive care specialist. Now, she is now an award-winning novelist, podcaster, screenwriter, smallholder, shamanic trainer and renegade economist.

In the beginning, she wrote contemporary thrillers. After half a decade, she moved back in time with the internationally best-selling Boudica: Dreaming series, partly in the belief that if we understood who we were before the Romans destroyed six thousand years of cultural evolution, we might find it easier to throw off the final strands of the system that is destroying us. “I genuinely thought the books would change the world. In many ways they did – they changed my world and I’ve never gone back to wholly contemporary novels since”.

In 2016, she took a step sideways and studied for a Masters in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College in Devon. At the time, it was one of the few post-graduate courses in the world that took as its premise that the present system is broken, and devoted the entire course to exploring ways to steer ourselves away from the climate and ecological cliff edge.

Since then, she has put her energy and effort into co-creating the Accidental Gods podcast, the Membership programme that lies behind it – and now, the Thrutopia Masterclass.

“I genuinely believe that writing our way to believable, inspiring, enthralling futures is the single most important thing any of us can do now. I think it’s urgent, but that there is still time: we create the futures we hold most strongly.

And who knows, one of us might write the book or the script or the documentary that makes the difference. Or all of us might. That’s the most likely. It’s what we’re aiming for now.”