Irresistible (fka Healing Justice Podcast)
140 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 627 ratingsFormerly 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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You're invited to BOOK CLUB!
May 16, 2019 09:00 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MBWelcome to BOOK CLUB: a new gathering place for our listener community to learn, explore, and practice together. We'll share must-read titles (with 3 months time for you to read the book), a quarterly selection, and monthly activity together. Participate how you want to, take it at your own pace, and join in for what suits you. AK Press' Suzanne Shaffer joins us on this episode to talk radical publishing, anarchist business structure, book club memories in feminist bookstore basements, and ...
36 Practice: From #MeToo to #WeConsent with adrienne maree brown
May 14, 2019 09:30 - 19 minutes - 26.4 MBThis practice from adrienne maree brown is for liberating the language of desire and cultivating consent. These skills are central for us to access pleasure, boundaries, right relationship, and justice in ways that the #MeToo movement is asking us to examine more deeply. This practice focuses on the realm of sexuality (NSFW - depending on your work), but these skills can and must be applied across all realms of our lives. Join us in practicing saying "No" as a complete sentence, "Not now,"...
36 Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good with adrienne maree brown & Amita Swadhin
May 07, 2019 13:28 - 1 hour - 105 MBToday we're talking with adrienne maree brown and Amita Swadhin about adrienne’s new book, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. Get your copy now from www.akpress.org with code PODCAST for 15% off! ----- Welcome to Book Club! This is our first selection for HEALING JUSTICE PODCAST BOOK CLUB: a new gathering place for our listener community to learn, explore, and practice together. Join Book Club at any reward level $10 & up on our Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/healingjus...
35 Práctica: Mapas Locos con Agustina Vidal del Icarus Project
April 30, 2019 09:35 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBEsta semana, Agustina Vidal del Proyecto Icarus nos ofrece una actividad para apoyar a nuestra salud mental que se llama "Mapas Locos." Se puede usar este guión de práctica para hacer esta actividad: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_GwfnFr6pEwUEsPZptbJ35oems0s78kM_CiCVKwhDcw/edit * Download the previous episode to hear this practice in English / Se puede escuchar esta práctica en ingles por el episodio previo * También se puede escuchar el episodio conversacional con Agustina y Rhiana ...
35 Practice: Mad Maps with The Icarus Project's Rhiana Anthony
April 30, 2019 09:30 - 17 minutes - 24.4 MBIn this practice, Rhiana Anthony of The Icarus Project offers us a concrete tool called "Mad Maps" to help us develop a plan to support our own mental health. Use this worksheet to follow along and participate: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I2vtfT-j1R4KcA5F710YvD9XiVB8xpjv/view?usp=sharing In the previous episode (Destigmatizing Mental Health), we talk with Agustina Vidal and Rhiana Anthony of The Icarus Project about everything mental health: why mental health is stigmatized in the firs...
35 Destigmatizing Mental Health with The Icarus Project (Agustina Vidal & Rhiana Anthony)
April 23, 2019 09:30 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBFor our first full episode back with Season 2, we talk with Agustina Vidal and Rhiana Anthony of The Icarus Project about everything mental health: why mental health is stigmatized in the first place, how it interplays with systems of oppression, suicide, ableism, medication, hospitalization, and more. The Icarus Project is a support network and education project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness. We advance social justice by fo...
Welcome to Season 2! (with Kirin Kanakkannatt & Kate Werning)
April 16, 2019 09:00 - 44 minutes - 61.1 MBWelcome to Season 2 of Healing Justice Podcast! This season's theme might just be action-while-incomplete. Or change-in-motion. Hear host Kate Werning and incoming Board member Kirin Kanakkannatt talk about all the ways we are working to grow and aren't there yet, and how we decided to come back to hang out with y'all and grow in public anyway. You'll hear what we've been up to these past 4 months and what to expect this season; including our new amazing disability justice Access Team, a ...
LIVE from Little Haiti: Food Sovereignty & Healing (with Uprooted and Rising & Inez Barlatier)
April 02, 2019 08:30 - 1 hour - 88.3 MBWelcome to our LIVE SHOW from Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami, Florida! We are joined by Uprooted & Rising leaders Estefanía Narváez and Miles Francisco, and the amazing local musician Inez Barlatier. We shared live music, deep personal stories, and learned about food sovereignty as a site of liberation and healing - from its parallels to survivorship, to the origins of soul food in West Africa, to what Uprooted & Rising is mobilizing around now. We also offer creative ways that funde...
Resilience is Ours: Voices from the Allied Media Conference
March 06, 2019 14:31 - 29 minutes - 40 MBResilience is deeply necessary for us to survive and thrive, but it can often be imposed, distorted, or misunderstood. So we wanted to hear from our people what it means to them, and how they cultivate it for themselves. This past June, our podcast volunteer team from all over the country took a trip to Detroit together for the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference (AMC), and hosted a workshop called Healing Justice Podcast Story Lab. We set up recording booths and asked participants to share...
New Years Practice: Cast a Spell with adrienne maree brown
December 27, 2018 13:15 - 47 minutes - 65.5 MBWelcome to a very special New Years practice with adrienne maree brown, where she'll guide you through writing and casting a spell for yourself and your community to help transition us from 2018 to 2019. You'll need 30-90 minutes, a clear space, something to write on, and something to write with. ** If it helps you to have the prompts adrienne uses visually, scroll all the way to the bottom of these show notes for a list of the key questions for this practice. ** ------ THE REMIX This pra...
LIVE from our 1st Birthday Party (with Jillian White, Alexis Francisco, Sumitra Rajkumar, & The Peace Poets)
December 13, 2018 00:47 - 1 hour - 151 MBWelcome to our first-ever LIVE SHOW, coming at you from our first birthday party! We are joined by Kate Werning, Jillian White, Sumitra Rajkumar (of episode 12), Alexis Francisco (of episode 33), The Peace Poets (of episode 23) with Dr. Drum, and 150 of our celebrating friends in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. We enjoyed powerful music with The Peace Poets and Dr. Drum, talked about how healing is moving for us in our organizing work, and celebrated the amazing things this broader community has m...
LIVE from Our 1st Birthday Party (with Jillian White, Alexis Francisco, Sumitra Rajkumar, & The Peace Poets)
December 13, 2018 00:47 - 1 hour - 151 MBWelcome to our first-ever LIVE SHOW, coming at you from our first birthday party! We are joined by Kate Werning, Jillian White, Sumitra Rajkumar (of episode 12), Alexis Francisco (of episode 33), The Peace Poets (of episode 23) with Dr. Drum, and 150 of our celebrating friends in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. We enjoyed powerful music with The Peace Poets and Dr. Drum, talked about how healing is moving for us in our organizing work, and celebrated the amazing things this broader community has m...
You're invited to our Birthday Party!
November 21, 2018 12:47 - 4 minutes - 6.47 MBYou're invited to our first birthday party & live show! More info and tickets here: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjparty Sliding scale tickets and sponsorships available. Did we mention there will be cake? If you can't be in Brooklyn on December 11th, join us via livestream on our Instagram (@healingjustice) or Facebook page (Healing Justice Podcast). Thank you to Kirin Kanakkanatt, Jillian White, Kate Werning, and Zach Meyer for creating this episode.
Making Meaning of Victory & Loss with Maurice Mitchell (Working Families Party), Barbara Dudley (lifelong activist), & Alexandra Rojas (Justice Democrats)
November 07, 2018 21:26 - 1 hour - 97.4 MBWe made it through to November 7th! Come get through your midterm election adrenaline/terror hangover with us. The world is drowning in spin and hot-takes, so we're holding a different kind of vulnerable, real-talk space to process the results and work to understand what comes next for our movements as we take stock of both our wins and our losses. Let's hear about how fun Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory party was *and* recommit ourselves to the long-game work of building a multiraci...
Inside the Candidate Experience with Stacey Abrams, Ashlee Marie Preston, & Nelini Stamp
October 31, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBWelcome to our CANDIDATES TELL ALL episode, powered by Black women! Running for office is an incredibly strenuous experience. Why do candidates do it, and how do they keep themselves grounded along the way? Esteemed guests join us today to dish about candidacy and all that it entails: Stacey Abrams (Democratic candidate for Governor of Georgia) tells us how she stays energized on the campaign trail and what her favorite TV shows are, Ashlee Marie Preston (the first transgender candidate to...
Campaign Workers, Unite! There is Power in a Union (with Meg Reilly of Campaign Workers Guild & Shanequa Charles)
October 24, 2018 09:30 - 1 hour - 110 MBCampaign Workers Guild (CWG) is organizing the movement to unionize political and issue-based campaign workers nationwide. CWG Vice President Meg Reilly joins us to talk about why transforming the working conditions of campaigns is necessary for our end goals, how building worker power impacts strategy and what’s possible, and gives us a play-by-play of where to start if you want to start a union. Host Kate Werning and organizer Shanequa Charles share some of their experience and learnings f...
Building Transformative Campaign Culture with Nancy Leeds (CampaignSick) and Becca Rast (Jess King for Congress)
October 17, 2018 11:25 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBWomen campaign managers are transforming the old boys club of transactional campaign culture. We’re joined first by Nancy Leeds of the infamous CampaignSick Tumblr, home of the memes that make us laugh til we cry… and then just keep on crying. Then Becca Rast shares about her transformative work as a campaign manager on the Jess King Congressional race in Pennsylvania, and how a long-term perspective can build healthy campaign culture and leave powerful organizing infrastructure behind after...
Elections vs. Movements: a strategy showdown with Sunrise (Varshini Prakash & Will Lawrence)
October 10, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBIt’s a battle of strategy, values, and culture: should we be building social movements for the long-term that embody all of what we deserve; OR engaging in the current reality of the political cycle to win what we can, while we still can? Varshini Prakash and Will Lawrence of Sunrise Movement join us to blow up the binary and explain how their work makes sense of the rhythms of elections and movement vision. With the 2018 US midterm elections upon us, Healing Justice Podcast brings you the ...
Surviving Elections: a new miniseries on midterms, movements, & staying human
October 02, 2018 04:22 - 4 minutes - 6.62 MBWith our first podcast season complete and the 2018 US midterm elections upon us, Healing Justice Podcast brings you the SURVIVING ELECTIONS miniseries to help us all survive this political cycle together. Whether you’re a despairing or disenfranchised voter, a campaign worker, a movement organizer who’s given up on our broken democracy, or watching with horror from outside the United States, we’ve got something for you here. Learn more & check out the upcoming episode list at www.healingju...
Practice: Radical Gratitude Spell (by adrienne maree brown, read by Fhatima Paulino)
August 26, 2018 21:34 - 5 minutes - 7.34 MBA 5-minute practice to show gratitude for yourself and others on the path to liberation. The only way that feels appropriate to end this first, long season of Healing Justice Podcast, is with GRATITUDE. Thank you to adrienne maree brown for granting us permission to read this powerful spell, and thank you to Fhatima Paulino (of epsiode 15) for reading it with such kindness and sending us out with a blessing. --- radical gratitude spell by adrienne maree brown read aloud with permission ...
Season 1 Reflection, pt 3: Visioning the Future (Marcia Lee, Zach Meyer & Kate Werning)
August 21, 2018 10:37 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MBWelcome to part 3 of our 3-part Season One reflection series. You're joining host Kate Werning, practitioner Marcia Lee of Healing by Choice (episode 18), and our sound designer Zach Meyer. We reflect on this year, explore accountability and hope, and ask big questions followed by quizzical "duck face" (you'll have to listen to Marcia explain what that is herself!). You also will hear us invite you into a meaningful opportunity to share your voice and help us shape the future. You can do th...
Season 1 Reflection, pt 2: The Power of Practice (Justin Campbell & Kate Werning)
August 16, 2018 12:10 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MBWelcome to part 2 of our 3-part season 1 reflection series. We are excited to share our reflections on practice with you from the past year, and also invite in your voice and practice stories here: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjpsurvey Join host Kate Werning & friend of the podcast Justin Campbell for a conversation about navigating this growing library of practices, and committing to personal practice in your life. Tune in to part 1 and part 3 of our reflection series, too: exploring vulnerabi...
Season 1 Reflection, pt 1: Vulnerability & Voice (Jacoby Ballard & Kate Werning)
August 09, 2018 17:28 - 54 minutes - 75.3 MBWe're BACK... just in time to bring you a 3-part season 1 reflection series and take a seasonal production break. (And inviting in your voice: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjpsurvey !!!) This reflection series took a long time to record and produce -- mostly because reflection and distillation of wisdom just feels so incomplete. It hasn't been the right time, and our learnings aren't codified -- they are in process, changing daily, and so recording a final reflection is a somewhat impossible tas...
34 Trauma, Healing, & Collective Power with generative somatics (Spenta Kandawalla, adrienne maree brown, Prentis Hemphill, & Staci K. Haines)
July 05, 2018 13:00 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBThis week, we’re listening in as a brilliant crew from generative somatics has a powerful conversation about trauma, oppression, healing and organizing for structural change. They dig into the connections between personal, collective and structural transformation, and between healing and building collective power. They also explore the term Healing Justice and ask: what does embodied healing have to do with creating liberation? For this week’s practice, we recommend you dive back into the H...
33 Practice: Centering Prayer with Mystic Soul (Alexis Francisco & Cicia Lee)
June 28, 2018 10:00 - 23 minutes - 32.8 MBIn this practice, you’re joining Alexis Francisco and Cicia Lee for the meditative experience of Centering Prayer. They describe it as a constant practice of letting go of factors we can’t control in order to get our egos out of the way and be able to show up well to our lives and our work. Origin: Centering Prayer practice is said to be created by Trappist monks in fairly recent history, and draws on a rich lineage in Christian mysticism, particularly in the catholic tradition in Europe th...
33 Contemplative Activism -- Cicia Lee, Alexis Francisco, & Teresa P Mateus of Mystic Soul
June 26, 2018 13:44 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBWelcome to part 3 of a 3-part collaborative series between the Mystic Soul Project and Healing Justice Podcast! This week, Cicia Lee, Alexis Francisco, and Teresa P Mateus join us to talk about the role of contemplation in activism, queerness in spiritual community, what POC-centered contemplation can look like, lamentation and grief, and how attending to the internal and breaking through illusion *is* a form of action. Download the corresponding practice episode to practice Centering Pray...
32 Practice: Relational Inclusion with Cedar Landsman of Relational Uprising
June 21, 2018 12:41 - 18 minutes - 24.7 MBJoin Cedar Landsman of Relational Uprising in learning how to inquire appreciatively into what we may be inclined to judge, reject, exclude, dismiss, or devalue about another’s experience. We see what new information this brings to us, helping us to see beyond our own entrenched perspective. This activity is meant to be done in conjunction with a relational storytelling and resonance practice, which creates the necessary support to do this activity well. (To learn Resonance Practice, see He...
32 Bridging Complexity Collectively -- Relational Uprising (Lucién Demaris & Cedar Landsman)
June 19, 2018 17:12 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBThis week, we’re talking with Lucién Demaris & Cedar Landsman of Relational Uprising about individualism as a system of oppression; “heroic” cultures of organizing; indigenous traditions of healing in Ecuador; repairing rupture, suspicion, and judgment; and bridging as a form of increasing our ability to hold complexity in our movements. Recommended listening that this episode builds upon: Episode 20: Relational Culture with Mark Fairfield. Download the corresponding practice (32 Practice:...
31 Practice: Heart Over Head with Teo Drake
June 14, 2018 10:30 - 9 minutes - 13.1 MBJoin Teo Drake in this incredibly simple embodied exercise to practice privileging your heart above your head. The questions Teo asks in this practice are: To whom do I belong? Who holds me? Who am I in love with? Who do I carry with me at my heart center? What can my heart come home to? There are lots of reasons that different versions of the yoga pose Balasana (Child’s Pose) that Teo offers might not work in your body. Here’s one option of an instructional video offering various opt...
31 Intention & Impact: Showing Up Right-Sized -- Teo Drake
June 12, 2018 16:44 - 55 minutes - 75.6 MBThis week, we’re talking with Teo Drake about the relationship between intention and impact, what it means to be right-sized, the rage of coming of age during the AIDS epidemic, Being Trans and HIV+ poster child, having a quiet nature AND fighting white supremacy, and risk as a devotional act. Download the corresponding practice (31 Practice: Heart Over Head) to join Teo in privileging your heart above your head. It’s simple, short, and embodied. Practice episodes always publish on Thursda...
30 Practice: Sing for Freedom with Resistance Revival Chorus' Abena Koomson Davis
June 07, 2018 14:08 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MBJoin Resistance Revival Chorus Musical Director Abena Koomson Davis in a meditative singing and listening practice you can do alone or in a group. Get ready to hear her beautiful voice and join in! Download the corresponding conversation (30 Joy as an Act of Resistance) to hear performances of protest songs new and old from Resistance Revival Chorus, as well as their thoughts on song and sisterhood, intersectionality, singing at the Grammy’s with Kesha for #TimesUp & the #MeToo movement, p...
30 Joy as an Act of Resistance -- Resistance Revival Chorus (Sarah Sophie Flicker & Meah Pace)
June 05, 2018 12:45 - 47 minutes - 65.3 MBThis week, we’re talking with Resistance Revival Chorus members Sarah Sophie Flicker and Meah Pace. You’ll hear their performances of protest songs new and old, as well as their thoughts on song and sisterhood, intersectionality, singing at the Grammy’s with Kesha for #TimesUp & the #MeToo movement, the Womens March principles, parenthood, and self care. FULL show notes including all song credits and sources, references from this episode, and production credits can be found at https://www.h...
29 Practice: Reclaiming Our Names with AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez of Mystic Soul
May 31, 2018 10:30 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MBIn this practice, you’re joining AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez of the Mystic Soul Project to learn how to facilitate a Name Reclamation group activity. You can download the corresponding conversation (episode 29) to hear AnaYelsi talk Indigenous Reclamation with Teresa P Mateus and Ra Mendoza. -- Here are the instructions for this activity: When we hear someone's name, what we are really hearing are stories –of origin, of tribes, of ancestors, of healing, and of self-determination. There’s h...
29 Indigenous Reclamation -- Mystic Soul (AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez, Ra Mendoza, & Teresa P Mateus)
May 29, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 84.3 MBWelcome to part 2 of a 3-part collaborative series between the Mystic Soul Project and Healing Justice Podcast! This week, AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez, Teresa P Mateus, & Ra Mendoza join us to talk about Indigenous reclamation, IndoLatinx identity, mujerista / womanist / queer theology, and practical acts to decolonize spiritual practice. Download the corresponding practice about reclaiming our names to learn an activity from AnaYelsi that can be a meaningful tapping into lineage and ancestry...
28 Practice: Essences for Everybody... Making Your Own Medicine with Dori Midnight
May 24, 2018 12:00 - 28 minutes - 39.4 MBJoin Dori Midnight to learn how to make an essence, a people’s medicine, of your own. These are incredible instructions and so fun to follow - the possibilities are endless. Follow along with the written guide here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1POLbYWNyUTFHrGbi_G_3ci4a3p3nYguVBw-wunIdigY/edit?usp=sharing Download the corresponding conversation (28 People’s Medicine and Queer Magic) This week, we’re talking with radical herbalist, healer, and witch Dori Midnight. You’ll hear us talk a...
28 People's Medicine & Queer Magic -- Dori Midnight
May 22, 2018 09:34 - 1 hour - 86.1 MBThis week, we’re talking with radical herbalist, healer, and witch Dori Midnight. You’ll hear us talk about her hilarious story of queer witchy magic from a young age, plants as allies, how activists can better care for our bodies and align with the earth, the role of imagination in social justice, and a disability justice lens on healing and liberation. Download the corresponding practice (28 Practice: Essences for Everybody… Making Your Own Medicine) to join Dori to learn how to make an e...
27 Practice: Compartmentalizing in a Healthy Way with Je Naé Taylor of BYP100 Healing & Safety Council
May 17, 2018 10:00 - 11 minutes - 15.6 MBJoin us for a personal practice from Je Naé Taylor about compartmentalizing in a healthy way. How do we organize our thoughts and emotions around conflict so we can do what we need to do in the moment, and carve out space to process it thoroughly at an appropriate time? You don’t need any specific supplies or space, just listen wherever you are. Referenced in this practice: “I am inhaling. I am exhaling.” -- prompt from Thich Nhat Hanh You can download the corresponding conversation (27 I...
27 Interventional Healing & Accountability -- BYP100 Healing & Safety Council (Je Naé Taylor & Kai M Green)
May 15, 2018 10:17 - 50 minutes - 69.3 MBWelcome to part 2 of a 2-part conversation with Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100). This week, Healing and Safety Council members JeNaè Taylor & Kai M Green join us to talk about interventional healing and accountability practices - aka what to do when harm occurs in our organizations. They share about how they’ve built out intentional practices that anticipate potential harm, how they use role plays and scenarios to come to agreements and processes together before situations happen, and their...
26 Practice: Deepening Community Agreements with BYP100 Healing & Safety Council (P Ife Williams & Chris Roberts)
May 10, 2018 10:00 - 12 minutes - 17.6 MBIn this practice, you’re joining (P) Ife Williams & Chris Roberts of BYP100 Healing and Safety Council in a guided collective exercise to explore creating group cultures of safety, affirmation, trust, accountability, and validation. Grab a pen and paper or open up a notes app to take some notes, so as you listen you can learn how to facilitate this yourself for your team in the future. The prompts they teach us are: Safety within [our group] looks like… Validation within [our group] looks...
26 Preventative Healing & Accountability -- BYP100 Healing & Safety Council (P Ife Williams & Chris Roberts)
May 08, 2018 10:00 - 52 minutes - 71.5 MBWelcome to part 1 of a 2-part conversation with Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100). This week, Healing and Safety Council members Pascale Ife Williams (Ife) and Chris Roberts join us to share about preventative healing practices, aka how we can set up organizational practices and culture to reduce harm. They talk about what enthusiastic consent means for their organization, their commitment as an abolitionist organization to address harm without using the punitive systems we seek to dismantle,...
25 Practice: Grounded Breathing with Teresa P Mateus of Mystic Soul Project
May 03, 2018 10:00 - 14 minutes - 19.8 MBIn this practice, you’re joining Teresa P Mateus of Mystic Soul Project for a grounded breathing exercise. It’s so simple, and so powerful. All you need is a space where you can focus, and to close your eyes if you choose to. Teresa will invite you to stand, sit, or lay down. You can download the corresponding conversation (25 Mystic Soul: People of Color Centered Spirituality) where we’re talking with Teresa and the other two co-founders of The Mystic Soul Project: Ra Mendoza and Jade Perr...
25 Mystic Soul: People of Color Centered Spirituality (Teresa P Mateus, Jade Perry, & Ra Mendoza)
May 01, 2018 10:00 - 45 minutes - 62.3 MBWelcome to part 1 of a 3-part collaborative series between the Mystic Soul Project and Healing Justice Podcast! This week, Mystic Soul co-founders Teresa P Mateus, Ra Mendoza, and Jade Perry join us in a self-facilitated conversation to talk faith origin stories (including Christianity, Catholicism, and Indigenous traditions), the work of bridging worlds, what it means to be POC-centered in approaching spirituality and activism, and grieving appropriation of POC ancestral traditions. You c...
24 Practice: Forgiveness Meditation with Jacoby Ballard
April 26, 2018 11:00 - 19 minutes - 26.4 MBIn this practice, you’re joining Jacoby Ballard for a guided meditation for forgiving ourselves and others. All you need is a space where you can focus. Jacoby will invite you to stand, sit, or lay down. Here are the core prompts if you’d like to see them in writing: “May I forgive myself for any thoughts, words, or deeds that have caused harm. May I allow myself to be a student of life and to make mistakes.” “I offer you forgiveness for any of your words, thoughts, or deeds that have...
24 The Art of Allyship: Coming Alongside -- Jacoby Ballard
April 24, 2018 10:00 - 53 minutes - 74 MBWe’re talking with Jacoby Ballard about all things allyship, accompliceship, and solidarity. You’ll hear some captivating stories about navigating layers of identity, privilege, and oppression... a word about pronouns… how practice can help us ground the charge we feel when triggered... and whether we should we even be using the word ally, accomplice, or whose role it is to name those things anyway. You can download the corresponding practice (24 Practice: Forgiveness Meditation) to join Ja...
23 Practice: Sacred Writing with the Peace Poets (The Last Emcee & Lu Aya)
April 19, 2018 11:00 - 31 minutes - 42.6 MBIn this practice, you’re joining Peace Poets Lu Aya and The Last Emcee in a guided exercise for sacred writing. You’ll hear Frankie 4 perform “Lightwork,” and be led through a series of prompts to write your own poetry. This practice is one they offer regularly as part of their workshops, and can be practiced alone but is ideal in a group. Maybe you give it a listen through first and then invite some friends or your team to join in it with you next time! You’ll just need something to write...
23 The Cypher is the Opposite of Prison: Liberating Language -- The Peace Poets
April 17, 2018 11:00 - 58 minutes - 80 MBThis week, we’re talking with the Peace Poets: Lu Aya, The Last Emcee, Frankie 4, and A-B-E (and RAM 3 in spirit). We talk about the power and meaning of language, writing for healing and connection, the cypher as a gathering place for healing and reclaiming power through story. They also share thoughts on direct action, gender, conflict, and how they stay together as a crew through the decades. You’ll hear them burst into poetry and song throughout this episode because that is just what the...
22 Practice: Healing in Direct Action with Black Lives Matter Global Network (Miski Noor & Kandace Montgomery)
April 12, 2018 11:00 - 15 minutes - 21.7 MBIn this practice, you’ll hear stories, examples, and important questions to ask ourselves to incorporate healing and wellbeing into the preparation for action, during direct action itself, and aftercare. You can also download the corresponding conversation with Kandace Montgomery & Miski Noor (episode 22). We talk about the 18 day police station occupation following the police murder of Jamar Clark in Minneapolis, and how healing, escalation, and direct action can and need to go hand in han...
22 Sustaining Ourselves When Confronting Violence -- Black Lives Matter Global Network (Miski Noor & Kandace Montgomery)
April 10, 2018 15:45 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBThis week, we’re talking with Kandace Montgomery and Miski Noor of Black Lives Matter Global Network and Black Visions Collective in the Twin Cities. We’ll hear about the 18 day police station occupation following the police murder of Jamar Clark in Minneapolis, and how healing, escalation, and direct action can and need to go hand in hand. They also share about collective housing, gaining trust in moments of crisis and direct action, raising money for therapy and support for leaders who nee...
21 Práctica: Rezo Diario de Gratitud con Francisca Porchas Coronado (Español)
March 29, 2018 09:05 - 12 minutes - 17.8 MBEsta semana, Francisca nos guia en un rezo diario de gratitud en español. Se puede escucharlo y participar de cualquier lugar - solo, o en comunidad… sentado, caminando, o donde sea. Esta práctica viene de un zine que ella hizo con otros compañeros que se llama “Resistencia Ancestral,” que se puede grabar del sitio de web de Mijente aquí (es gratis!): https://mijente.net/2017/11/02/ancestral-spiritual-resistance-zine/ * Download the previous episode to hear this prayer in English / Se puede...
21 Practice: Daily Gratitude Prayer with Francisca Porchas Coronado (English)
March 29, 2018 09:00 - 19 minutes - 26.3 MBIn this practice, you’ll experience a daily gratitude prayer with Francisca Porchas Coronado in English. It can be listened to from a quiet and still place, or on the go - wherever you can dedicate your heart and attention. You can find a version of this prayer along with other practices in the Resistencia Ancestral / Ancestral Spiritual Resistance Zine you can download for free from Mijente: https://mijente.net/2017/11/02/ancestral-spiritual-resistance-zine/ * Se puede escuchar este rezo e...