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Irresistible (fka Healing Justice Podcast)

140 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 627 ratings

Formerly known as Healing Justice Podcast, Irresistible is a virtual practice space at the intersection of collective healing & social change. Host Kate Werning & collaborators share conversations with powerful social justice leaders, and accompanying audio practices to help resource you in your leadership and vision. We are more than resistance -- we are irresistible.

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Practice: Anger Offering from Lama Rod Owens

July 15, 2020 16:31 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MB

Join us for the last audio practice we will publish as Irresistible podcast sunsets. BJ STAR welcomes Buddhist teacher Lama Rod Owens to share an Anger Offering practice inspired by his new book, “Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger." You'll simply need a safe place without distractions to join in on this practice - no other supplies are needed. Transcript & full show notes at http://www.irresistible.org/podcast/68p ------- You can purchase the book from the publisher, No...

Love & Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger with Lama Rod Owens

June 16, 2020 19:35 - 59 minutes - 81.9 MB

Within the constant violence of the systems of oppression that structure our lives, there are infinite reasons for us to be enraged. As we recorded this conversation, hundreds of thousands of us were (and still are) taking our rage to the streets and to the page, protesting police violence and white supremacy around the world. Our righteous anger, as we can see clearly in this historical moment, exists as a sacred and necessary ingredient to our power and collective liberation. In this epis...

Sharing Leadership: Welcoming BJSTAR, our new Co-Director!

June 09, 2020 10:47 - 47 minutes - 62.6 MB

EXCITING NEWS! Irresistible is welcoming its first-ever Co-Director, the inimitable BJSTAR. We are so excited for you to get to know them in this episode & beyond! BJ joins Co-Director Kate Werning for a conversation about sharing leadership, what brought them into movement and healing work, their political homes, why lowering expectations is awesome, and putting their favorite foods on their resume. Transcript & more info at www.irresistible.org/podcast/67 ---- Become a sustaining membe...

Practice: Healing in Direct Action with Miski Noor & Kandace Montgomery

June 04, 2020 15:19 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MB

In participation with the week of action In Defense of Black Lives, we’re republishing a practice that was shared under our previous name, Healing Justice, in April 2018. Kandace Montgomery and Miski Noor of Black Visions Collective in Minneapolis took time to share some reflections with us about how to practice incorporating healing and wellbeing into the preparation for action, during direct action itself, and in aftercare. You’ll hear stories, examples, and important questions to ask ou...

Sustaining Ourselves When Confronting Violence with Miski Noor & Kandace Montgomery

June 02, 2020 21:25 - 45 minutes - 62 MB

In participation with the week of action In Defense of Black Lives, we’re republishing a critical conversation that was shared under our previous name, Healing Justice, in April 2018. Kandace Montgomery and Miski Noor of Black Visions Collective in Minneapolis took time to share with us about the 18-day police station occupation that followed the police murder of Jamar Clark in Minneapolis in 2015, and how healing, escalation, and direct action need to go hand-in-hand. We desperately wish...

Youth Voices: Our Wildest Dreams

May 26, 2020 11:30 - 21 minutes - 29.5 MB

In a time when many of our biggest visions for 2020 feel turned upside down, we're hungry for some inspiration. Enter youth voices Athina Amanor, Daniel Cook, Sary Barrios, & Theo Cooksey. In this episode, we hear four winning essays read by their authors from the YES! Magazine student essay contest this spring. The prompt was about students' Wildest Dreams for 2020, inspired by our New Years Practice with Alicia Garza here on the podcast. 1,342 students submitted essays, and these were som...

Adapting Strategy & Building Power in Crisis -- Ejeris Dixon & Dove Kent

May 05, 2020 11:01 - 55 minutes - 76.4 MB

Emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic create the conditions for accelerated political realignments. This creates an enormous threat for bold moves toward authoritarianism, but also creates major opportunity for our movements to put forward our vision for the future and shape a new common sense about what we deserve. In this episode, we face the reality of what is happening politically. We engage with how our power building strategies need to adapt to our current conditions, and also pace w...

Grief in a Time of Not Knowing with Roshi Joan Halifax

April 28, 2020 11:00 - 53 minutes - 73.8 MB

This week we are diving into the grief, loss, intimacy, and possibility available in the unknown - all the time, and especially now in this moment of pandemic forcing great transition. How may we engage with this time as a rite of passage? You'll hear from Roshi Joan Halifax; a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care; along with Reverend Jennifer Bailey & Carinne Luck of Faith Matters Network. Transcript, further resources, & full show not...

#ShareMyCheck: Redistributing Stimulus Money for Justice & Mutual Aid (with Resource Generation & Movimiento Cosecha)

April 17, 2020 11:00 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MB

Stimulus checks from the US government are starting to hit bank accounts for qualifying citizens this week. What is going on with those checks, and if we don't need them for our own immediate survival, how can we think about redistributing for justice & mutual aid right now? We spoke with Yahya Alazrak (Campaign Director at Resource Generation) and Dara Marquez (volunteer field organizer with Movimiento Cosecha) about the #ShareMyCheck campaigns they're leading. They share with us some amaz...

Organizing in a Pandemic: Disability Justice Wisdom

April 14, 2020 11:00 - 55 minutes - 76.8 MB

The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing real and significant disruptions to our lives, our communities, and our organizing. The scale of this shift in our social fabric is new, but these are challenges that disability justice organizers have always faced. How can we organize in a state of constant uncertainty and limitations on physical movement? How can we protect people with compromised immune systems as we work to build people power? How do we get the work done while leaving no one behind? Th...

Metta Meditation with Kazu Haga

March 31, 2020 11:00 - 20 minutes - 28.8 MB

Kazu Haga of East Point Peace Academy leads us through a Metta Meditation, as part of our spiritual training for nonviolent discipline. Join Book Club to read Kazu's new book, "Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm," with others all over the world. You'll also get further resources, including a live conversation with Kazu this May, at http://www.irresistible.org/BookClub Buy the book from Parallax Press with code PODCAST for 15% off Transcript and full show notes with...

Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm (Kazu Haga & Carlos Saavedra)

March 31, 2020 10:30 - 1 hour - 82.4 MB

Organizing trainers & practitioners Kazu Haga (East Point Peace Academy) and Carlos Saavedra (Ayni Institute) join us to talk about Kingian nonviolence, spiritual discipline, restorative justice, and healing for the long haul. (And a little bit about food.) Join Book Club to read Kazu's new book, "Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm," with others all over the world. You'll also get further resources, including a live conversation with Kazu this May, at http://www.irre...

You're invited to a Care Circle (feat. Circle Keeper BJ Star)

March 24, 2020 01:45 - 22 minutes - 30.6 MB

How you holding up? We're joined by facilitator & circle keeper BJ Star to check in about the ways we can support each other in community during this intense time. Sign up for an Irresistible Care Circle (Thursdays 8p ET) at www.irresistible.org/circle Transcript and full show notes with sources & thank yous at www.irresistible.org/podcast/59 Sign up as a sustainer before 3/31 to get a gorgeous Irresistible sticker and postcard in the mail! http://www.patreon.com/irresistible Join us fo...

Becoming Irresistible: the story & sources behind Healing Justice Podcast's new name

March 18, 2020 19:40 - 59 minutes - 81.2 MB

It's here - our new name for Healing Justice Podcast! We are Irresistible -- a community of practice in collective healing and social change. In this episode, hear founder Kate Werning & Advisory Circle member and past guest Ilana Lerman talk all about our name change process, inspirations, and sources for this new name. Transcript and full show notes with sources & thank yous at www.irresistible.org/podcast/58 Sign up as a sustainer before 3/31 to get a gorgeous Irresistible sticker and ...

We Are Irresistible (formerly known as Healing Justice Podcast)

March 16, 2020 13:30 - 4 minutes - 6.01 MB

It's here - our new name for Healing Justice Podcast! We are Irresistible -- a community of practice in collective healing and social change. Together, we celebrate the many traditions of movement leaders, cultural workers, and spiritual teachers who remind us to embody the liberation we are pursuing and who show us that our movements for justice can and must be expansive, vibrant, and fully alive. Because we are so much more than resistance. We are irresistible. Check out our new website...

"Should we cancel?" Coronavirus, travel & organizing

March 12, 2020 09:00 - 14 minutes - 20.4 MB

Should we be cancelling our events and travel due to COVID-19? In this mini bonus feature, we expand upon our previous episode "Coronavirus: Wisdom from a Social Justice Lens" to bring you advice about how to adapt your travel and gatherings. We share from the perspective of organizers and folks participating in social justice movements, and the decisions we need to make about our own plans and plans for our groups, teams, and campaigns. Host Kate Werning is joined by Maryse Mitchell-Brody...

Coronavirus: Wisdom from a Social Justice Lens

March 10, 2020 16:14 - 55 minutes - 76 MB

In this bonus episode, we bring you timely medical information, invocations, grounding practices and reflections from the March 7, 2020 webinar: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Preparation for People Living with Chronic Illnesses in the United States.  Unlike much of what we’re seeing in the media and public discussion, this virtual gathering centered the wisdom and life experiences of people who live with chronic illnesses and disability.  The voices you'll hear are: - JD Davids, strategist and st...

Coming soon...

February 21, 2020 04:04 - 15 minutes - 20.7 MB

Kate drops in to share stories from the community, and updates about what's coming next.   This is our last episode under the name "Healing Justice Podcast." The next time you tune in, you'll see our NEW name, which is launching on March 16, 2020. The library will remain connected, so if you subscribe now and join our email list at http://www.healingjustice.org , you won't miss a thing.   To get in on the *first run of swag* from our new name, join our Patreon at at http://www.patreon.com/hea...

2020 Visioning: a New Years Practice with Alicia Garza

December 30, 2019 11:45 - 27 minutes - 37.3 MB

Alicia Garza, principal at Black Futures Lab and co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, offers a visioning practice to guide us through the transition from 2019 into 2020 with focused personal & political power.   You'll need 30 minutes, and ideally a printed version of the accompanying visual guide (though it also works with a piece of paper and something to write with). This practice can be done alone or in a group.    Download the visual guide, read Alicia's full bio, and access the transcript ...

Going Internal: an update from Healing Justice Podcast

December 18, 2019 15:02 - 20 minutes - 27.9 MB

Podcast founder & host Kate Werning shares an update on our project's internal life, the lengthening timeline of our name change process, and our upcoming healing & hibernation season.   You'll also hear about our upcoming Book Club selection & a preview of our special New Years Practice from Alicia Garza, coming your way on 12/30!   Find all show notes & access the transcript of this episode at http://healingjustice.org/podcast/53   To send us ideas, encouragement, stories, and love during ...

Follow the Ones Who Know the Way: a love poem for young leaders by Taj James

November 26, 2019 11:50 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MB

As the Generation Transformation Series draws to a close, our series host Taj James offers an original poem as a love letter to young leadership. May our young leaders continue to inspire and bring forth a world rooted in justice. For the full text of the poem, visit http://healingjustice.org/podcast/generation4 -------- This series is in partnership with the Next Gen Fund, a response to a growing call from frontline organizers to learn from restorative & transformative practices in order t...

Practice: Investing in Leadership with Freedom, Inc.

November 19, 2019 11:50 - 26 minutes - 35.8 MB

How do we invest in leadership and political development in our communities and believe in our people’s potential to grow, while simultaneously protecting the most vulnerable as others are in their learning process? Kabzuag Vaj, Zon Moua, and Bianca Gomez from Freedom, Inc. offer some of their practices for recognizing how we may cause harm as we are learning and building together, and how to implement policies and structures centering the well-being and leadership of those most impacted by s...

Generative Organizations with Freedom, Inc.

November 12, 2019 11:50 - 58 minutes - 135 MB

Freedom Inc. staff Kabzuag Vaj, Bianca Gomez, and Zon Moua join us for a conversation about the complexities of building a multi-generational, multi-racial, multi-gender organization working to end violence and advance gender & racial justice in Madison, WI. Their real talk about building leadership long-term, and enacting accountability while welcoming members to grow, embodies disciplined, graceful, transformative base-building. For full show notes, transcript, bios of our guests, and add...

Practice: Cultural Humility with Chinese Progressive Association

November 05, 2019 11:50 - 16 minutes - 22.1 MB

In this practice episode, Carolyn Nguyen and Emily Wong of Chinese Progressive Association’s Youth MOJO (Movement of Justice and Organizing) offer us a practice they use with young folks to cultivate cultural humility. They dispel the myth of cultural competency, inviting us instead into deep listening and reflection on what it takes to build deep cross-cultural and cross-generational trust and understanding. When you're ready to practice, you'll need a journal and something to write with. ...

Intergenerational Organizing with Chinese Progressive Association

October 29, 2019 10:50 - 1 hour - 94.4 MB

Lai Wa Wu, Emily Wong, Angela Zhou (also known as Zhou Rui Fang), and interpreter Adrian Leong of Chinese Progressive Association & Youth MOJO (Movement of Justice and Organizing) in San Francisco join series host Taj James to reflect on the challenges and victories of intergenerational organizing, the complexity of cross-cultural work across generations, and the importance of incorporating mental health supports in youth organizing.  For full show notes, transcript, bios of our guests, and...

Generation Transformation: Youth Organizing & Resilience with United We Dream and Next Gen Fund

October 22, 2019 10:51 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MB

Youth organizers are leading the way in integrating transformative practices into their power-building work, and informing the way funders think about resourcing movements. Joining us are series guest host Taj James from the Movement Strategy Center, Eli Cuna from New Mexico Dream Team & United We Dream's UndocuHealth project, Supriya Lopez Pillai from Hidden Leaf Fund, and Claribel Vidal from the Ford Foundation's Civic Engagement team.   For full show notes, transcript, bios of our guest...

Reflection on Season 2 with Kate Werning, Whitney Spencer, and Jhaleh Akhavan

October 08, 2019 10:50 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MB

Join us for a reflection on the episodes and changes over this last season, as well as some exciting announcements on the horizon! We also share an introduction to the growing team, with Director Kate Werning (she/her) joined by Digital Organizer Whitney Spencer (she/her) and Producer Jhaleh Akhavan (she/they), following their staff onboarding retreat! For full show notes, transcript, and additional resources from this episode, visit www.healingjustice.org/podcast/48 To see all transcript...

Practicing Access: Making Our Podcast More Accessible

October 01, 2019 10:55 - 58 minutes - 79.8 MB

Join Healing Justice Podcast Access Team members Erika Wolf, Michaela Anang, and Kate Werning for a conversation reflecting on the labor and lessons of our journey toward increasing accessibility here at the podcast. Our 100-member volunteer Access Team represents numerous continents, languages, and identities, and today we launch a complete collection of transcripts for all 110 our past episodes and practices! Hear us share about how we did it, and our continuing work to grow in access as a ...

46 Access is Love with Alice Wong

September 24, 2019 10:55 - 1 hour - 85 MB

Join us in talking to disability activist and media maker Alice Wong about building media that values accessibility, disability as a political and socio-cultural identity, and her journey in founding the Disability Visibility Project. We also reflect on the continuing work of Access is Love, a campaign that aims to help build a world where accessibility is understood as an act of love instead of a burden or an afterthought. Access full resources, notes, and the transcript at http://www.heali...

45 Practice: My Inside Voice with Bea Anderson

September 17, 2019 10:55 - 20 minutes - 28.7 MB

In this practice episode, Bea Anderson shares a practice for feeling the strength and medicine of your own voice. It can be done privately or in a group, and you don't need any special materials to join in. ----------- CONVERSATION EPISODE:  Last week we talked with Bea about liberating our voices to speak up, overcoming silence, and balancing and harmonizing our voices together in a unified and disciplined struggle for justice. Go back and check out that conversation, and subscribe to/fo...

45 Liberating Our Voices with Bea Anderson

September 10, 2019 10:55 - 1 hour - 91 MB

Join us in talking to sound healer and community organizer Bea Anderson about liberating our voices to speak up, overcome silence, heal what needs to be healed in our lineages, and balance and harmonize our voices together in a unified and disciplined struggle for justice. ----------- Join us for Book Club! 📚 Book Club is our gathering place for our listener community to learn, explore, and practice together. Our current selection, Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance ...

44 Practice: Sacred Shower or Bath -- Eroc Arroyo-Montano

September 03, 2019 09:00 - 13 minutes - 18.7 MB

In this practice episode, Eroc Arroyo-Montano offers a practice from Mijente Ancestral Resistance Zine for transforming grief. He shares an approach to creating your own cleansing shower ritual to open up sacred space to ground and release in a way that speaks to you. This is a good episode to listen to in preparation for your actual practice of this ritual so you can learn the ropes. When you're ready to practice, you'll need access to a bath or shower, and optionally some candles and a sp...

44 Tender Masculinity with Eroc Arroyo-Montano

August 27, 2019 09:00 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MB

Join us in talking to cultural organizer Ernesto "Eroc" Arroyo-Montano about patriarchy, accountability, transformation, queerness, and tender masculinity. Some resources we mention in our conversation include: adrienne maree brown's essay, "relinquishing the patriarchy" http://adriennemareebrown.net/2019/05/28/relinquishing-the-patriarchy/ Resources for dismantling patriarchy compiled by adrienne maree brown, Leah Penniman, and others: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VGHxOo4uC0Xdk7B6...

43 Practice: Reconnecting with Ourselves with Nora Samaran & Serena Lukas Bhandar

August 20, 2019 14:47 - 14 minutes - 20.1 MB

Nora Samaran and Serena Lukas Bhandar, authors of "Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture," offer us a practice for nurturing our nervous systems and reconnecting with ourselves. This practice can be done alone or in a group, and will require a piece of paper and something to write with, as well as a safe space where you can comfortably quiet your senses and pay internal attention. The second half of this practice is called Right Brain Left Brain and is adapted from...

43 Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture with Nora Samaran and Serena Lukas Bhandar

August 12, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour - 82.6 MB

This week, we’re talking to Nora Samaran and contributing writer Serena Lukas Bhandar about Nora’s new book, "Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture." We talk about how nurturance culture is the opposite of rape culture, its role in developing healthy relationships, different attachment styles, gender, and how to pursue accountability without shame or excluding people from community. ----------- PRACTICE: In the Practice episode (publishing next week), Serena and N...

42 Practice: The Do-Over with Idelisse Malavé and Joanne Sandler

August 06, 2019 10:00 - 12 minutes - 17.2 MB

In this practice, Joanne and Idelisse offer a writing exercise called "The Do-Over" to help process experiences of bias and discrimination, and to seed creativity and reflection. It connects the personal and political, and can be done alone or in a group. You'll need a piece of paper and something to write with. ----------- CONVERSATION: Download the episode prior to this one to hear Joanne & Idelisse talk about aging in the movement. They tell us about the secrets of bitchcraft, the impor...

42 Aging in the Movement with Two Old Bitches Idelisse Malavé and Joanne Sandler

July 30, 2019 10:00 - 45 minutes - 63 MB

This week we’re talking Aging in the Movement with Idelisse Malavé and Joanne Sandler, extraordinary women leaders for global justice and co-hosts of the podcast Two Old Bitches. They tell us about the secrets of bitchcraft, the importance of friendship and creativity, being unapologetically yourself, trusting yourself and others, tender transparency, the importance of having friends in every decade of life, play, and therapy (well maybe - that last one is contested). This interview is host...

41 Practice: Rooting in Desire with Samia Abou-Samra & Ije Ude of Turtle Tank

July 23, 2019 10:00 - 35 minutes - 48.2 MB

What is your WHY? This is an amazing practice for creating a Purpose Statement that discerns and names your inner DESIRE, for the sake of clarifying your work and essence. Samia Abou-Samra and Ije Ude of Turtle Tank lead us through an exercise that will require something to write on and write with, and can be done individually or in a group. You'll want a good period of time - around 40 mins - to really drop in. If the pacing between questions is fast for you, feel free to hit the pause bu...

41 Sacred Work & Radical Purpose -- Ije Ude & Samia Abou-Samra of Turtle Tank

July 17, 2019 09:30 - 1 hour - 149 MB

Samia Abou-Samra and Ije Ude of Turtle Tank join us this week to talk about SACRED WORK. They teach us how desire is core to finding the work that will point us toward personal and collective healing, how we must work in a free and loving way rather than "toward" love and freedom, and how to center ways of working that actually work for us rather than leaving us wondering why it's so exhausting to try to keep engaging. This is an essential listen for anyone expressing any kind of work in the...

40 Practice: The Perfect Nap with Tricia Hersey of The Nap Ministry

July 09, 2019 09:00 - 18 minutes - 24.9 MB

In this practice episode Tricia Hersey, aka the "Nap Bishop" and founder of The Nap Ministry, sets us up with a soothing recording to prepare us for THE PERFECT NAP. We hope you enjoy the profoundness of her principles and the soothing music. Learn, fall asleep to the recording, or both. On last week's conversation episode, Tricia schooled us in all things anti-capitalism and rest. She shared about her inspiration studying records of enslaved African ancestors in the US South, how laziness ...

40 Rest as Reparations with Tricia Hersey of The Nap Ministry

July 04, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 85.8 MB

This week we're joined by Tricia Hersey, aka the "Nap Bishop" and founder of The Nap Ministry, to be schooled in all things anti-capitalism and rest. She shares about her inspiration studying records of enslaved African ancestors in the US South, how laziness is a myth, what happens physiologically when we rest, and whether our movements can really afford to rest when they build prisons while we sleep. ----------- ABOUT OUR GUEST: Tricia Hersey is a Chicago native living in Atlanta with o...

Help us re-name Healing Justice Podcast!

July 01, 2019 20:12 - 18 minutes - 24.7 MB

Host Kate Werning describes some of the 'why' behind our name transition that will happen this November (fuller exploration will be shared this fall), and the goals and intentions for our new name. Help us vision the new name with your ideas, words, poetry, drawings, images, and more... share as much or as little as you like here: http://www.healingjustice.org/name Looking forward to finding the new name together!

39 Practice: Condolence Ceremony with Jonel Beauvais

June 25, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MB

This week Jonel Beauvais of the Akwesasne people in Mohawk territory offers us a practice from her people. It's a ritual for condolence, inspired by the way her own community welcomed her back as she came home from prison. You can use this ritual to mark a meaningful return, death or loss, or a moment of transformation and change. Jonel uses a deer skin, eagle plume, and water for this ritual, and invites you to use objects that feel appropriate and accessible to you. She has only shared t...

39 Thriving After Incarceration with Jonel Beauvais & Aida Cuadrado Bozzo of Community Change

June 19, 2019 23:31 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MB

This week we're joined by Jonel Beauvais and Aida Cuadrado Bozzo from the Womens Fellowship at Community Change, which exists to hone the organizing skills of formerly incarcerated women of color or those otherwise directly impacted by incarceration and the criminal justice system. Jonel talks about the trauma of incarceration and her return to her community (Akwesasne people in Mohawk territory), resilience of women of color, frontline leadership, and the community’s role in ritualizing ret...

Healing Justice Podcast is hiring!

June 17, 2019 12:23 - 7 minutes - 10.5 MB

Healing Justice Podcast is hiring for two part-time positions: a Digital Organizer & a Podcast Producer. Job descriptions & how to apply at http://www.healingjustice.org/work Come get creative in building online community to sustain social justice leaders with us! It's a great opportunity to contribute powerfully and creatively to movement work in an outside-the-box way, while also living an alternative relationship to time than organizing jobs that are dependent on the rapid-response/news ...

38 Claiming Our Ideology, inspired by Phillip Agnew

June 11, 2019 10:30 - 10 minutes - 14.6 MB

This is a practice offered by host Kate Werning based on our conversation with Phillip Agnew in the prior episode. It leads us through reflecting on the Dream Defenders' Freedom Papers and how we can contemplate and communicate our own ideology as we work for liberation.  Read along with the Dream Defender Freedom Papers here: https://www.dreamdefenders.org/freedompapers Thank you to Aja Monet, Arsimmer McCoy, Yaheli, & Adejare for your reading of the poem “This is the Year” by Phillip Agn...

38 Practice: Claiming Our Ideology, inspired by Phillip Agnew

June 11, 2019 09:30 - 10 minutes - 14.6 MB

This is a practice offered by host Kate Werning based on our conversation with Phillip Agnew in the prior episode. It leads us through reflecting on the Dream Defenders' Freedom Papers and how we can contemplate and communicate our own ideology as we work for liberation.  Read along with the Dream Defender Freedom Papers here: https://www.dreamdefenders.org/freedompapers Thank you to Aja Monet, Arsimmer McCoy, Yaheli, & Adejare for your reading of the poem “This is the Year” by Phillip Agn...

38 Role Transitions & Visible Leadership with Phillip Agnew

June 04, 2019 18:28 - 1 hour - 83 MB

Phillip Agnew, former Executive Director of the Dream Defenders and leader in the Movement for Black Lives, joins us to talk about his recent leadership transition and what it's like to evolve in public. He touches on so much: movement celebrity culture, the limitations of highly visible leadership, what it means to have a clear leftist ideology, what he would have done differently in his own transition, collective responsibility for mental health, and his own name change to Umi Selah and t...

37 Practice: Somatic Check-In (Feeling the Pulse) with Lucién Demaris of Relational Uprising

May 27, 2019 20:11 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MB

This practice is a Somatic Check-In to feel one another's pulse and breath, and experience the possibility for awareness of co-regulation of our social engagement systems. It is simple and intimate, and can be practiced in a pair or group of 3 - it's good for a room to do together, divided intro groups of 2 or 3 (more people = more support). It involves watching the breath move in one another's bodies, and touch of the hands and wrists, so it's important to get consent for that level of clos...

37 Relational Somatics with Lucién Demaris of Relational Uprising

May 21, 2019 09:30 - 1 hour - 83.4 MB

This week we are talk Relational Somatics with Lucién Demaris of Relational Uprising. I love listening to how Lucién perceives and understands the world in such an insightful web of relationship and interaction -- our bodies in relation to one another and the ecology as the foundational way we co-regulate. This understanding of somatics as relational is an important and unique offer in that way, challenging the idea of self-mastery and replacing it with an invitation for ways we can all be t...

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