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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21 Spiritual Resistance: Bridging Organizing & Healing -- Francisca Porchas Coronado
March 27, 2018 11:18 - 1 hour - 83.3 MBThis week we’re talking with Francisca Porchas Coronado. We talk about healing traditions in immigrant Latinx communities, the resilience of undocumented folks in the face of loss and grief, tending to pain politically and personally, community ritual, and her spiritual path in IFA. She’s got some specific challenging asks for organizers and healers, too, so listen in! You can download the corresponding practices (Daily Gratitude Prayer in English / Rezo Diario de Gratitud in Spanish) to ex...
20 Practice: Sharing Resonance with Mark Fairfield
March 22, 2018 11:00 - 34 minutes - 47.2 MBIn this practice, you’ll learn an exercise called “Sharing Resonance” from psychotherapist Mark Fairfield. It is a framework for building relational culture and dismantling individualism in our relationships and groups. This episode is more of a training and intro to how to share resonance, so you can listen on the go and learn the practice wherever you are… and then take it into relationship and practice it with one or more others. We especially recommend starting with groups of 3-5. Follow...
20 Relational Culture & Undoing Individualism -- Mark Fairfield
March 20, 2018 10:30 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MBThis week we’re talking with psychotherapist Mark Fairfield about the central role of connection in our lives and lethal individualism. We learn about relational culture, factors for resilience, his work supporting caregivers in the AIDS movement, how bullying is a euphemism, and failure. Download the corresponding practice (“Sharing Resonance”) to learn an amazing exercise to help build connection in your life and your community. ---- AFFIRMATIONS Each week we feature community voices u...
19 Practice: The Sing-Down with Flobots (Jonny 5 & Brer Rabbit)
March 15, 2018 11:00 - 26 minutes - 37 MBIn this practice, you’ll learn how to facilitate a group game called the SINGDOWN. This exercise is designed by Jonny 5 & Brer Rabbit of Flobots to reconnect us with the power of collective song by immersing us in a lighthearted experience of collective singing. Follow along with the facilitator guide Jonny 5 wrote for us here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-WUwdQ6qQtFap00yhYWnZMpmmijJisT3ywfkSOPmNbw/edit?usp=sharing Download the corresponding conversation (episode 19) titled “Songs f...
19 Songs for the Streets -- Flobots (Jonny 5 & Brer Rabbit)
March 13, 2018 14:24 - 47 minutes - 65.2 MBThis week we’re singing and learning with Jonny 5 and Brer Rabbit of the band Flobots. We talk about the role of artists in leadership, their late mentor Dr. Vincent Harding, the role of music in embracing and holding the range of emotions in our movements, comic books and creativity, and crafting our social justice spaces to be places that people deeply want to return to. You’re joining us between sound checks when they recently performed in Brooklyn on their “Rise + Shine” Tour. ---- AFF...
18 Practice: Holding a Healing Justice Practice Space with Healing By Choice (Marcia Lee, Violeta Donawa, & Adela Nieves Martinez)
March 08, 2018 11:00 - 14 minutes - 19.8 MBIn this practice, you’ll learn the basics of holding a Healing Justice Practice Space. It’s more of a training to lead a practice yourself, so the only thing you’ll need is a way to take notes if you want to. Download the corresponding conversation (episode 18) titled “Collective Healing” to learn more with Healing By Choice collective members Violeta Donawa, Marcia Lee, and Adela Nieves Martinez. They talk about creating healing justice practice space, the role of suffering and love in lea...
18 Collective Healing -- Healing By Choice (Adela Nieves Martinez, Violeta Donawa, & Marcia Lee)
March 06, 2018 17:51 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBThis week we’re sharing and laughing with Healing By Choice collective members Violeta Donawa, Marcia Lee, and Adela Nieves Martinez. We talk about creating healing justice practice space, the role of suffering and love in learning and transformation, asking for help, operating as a collective, the role of healers in people healing themselves, and more. ---- AFFIRMATIONS Each week we feature community voices uplifting people, organizations, and communities that embody the values of healin...
17 Notes from the Field with Kate Werning
February 20, 2018 18:38 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBIn this episode, host Kate Werning reflects on what we are learning so far as we explore the healing justice work and brilliance of the many leaders who have been on the show so far. Tune in to find out what some of the main themes are that we're observing! NEW FEATURE on the podcast: AFFIRMATIONS This is our weekly time to uplift community voices celebrating people, organizations, and communities that are embodying the values of healing justice. For a sliding scale donation, you can sub...
16 Practice: Leading Movement Songs with Intention with IfNotNow (Ilana Lerman & Helen Bennett)
February 15, 2018 12:00 - 27 minutes - 38 MBIn this practice, you’ll learn techniques to hone your skill in leading group song - including honoring lineage, guarding against appropriation, skilled coordination of group teaching and singing, and WHY songs are critical for movement building. Download the corresponding conversation (episode 16) titled “Building Liberatory Movement Cultures” to learn more with IfNotNow leaders Michal David, Helen Bennett, and Ilana Lerman. We talk culture design as a key component of movement building, ...
16 Building Liberatory Movement Cultures -- IfNotNow (Helen Bennett, Michal David, & Ilana Lerman)
February 13, 2018 11:00 - 1 hour - 87.2 MBThis week we’re talking with IfNotNow leaders Ilana Lerman, Helen Bennett, and Michal David. We talk culture design as a key component of movement building, including dealing with internalized oppression as a community, guarding against appropriation as people search for belonging, the role of song and ritual, celebrating and supporting leadership, the complexities of organizing the Jewish community, and more. ---- NEW FEATURE on the podcast: AFFIRMATIONS This is our weekly time to uplift...
15 Practice: Releasing to Pachamama with Fhatima Paulino
February 08, 2018 12:00 - 10 minutes - 14.6 MBIn this practice, “Releasing to Pachamama,” Fhatima Paulino guides you through a simple earth reconnection practice. You’ll need a quiet place, either indoors or outdoors, where you can lay on the floor, and if you like to use a candle, incense, or palo santo, you can collect that too. Download the corresponding conversation (episode 15) titled “Decolonization & The Long View of History” to learn with us about the critical perspective of a long and global view of history to help us understa...
15 Decolonization & the Long View of History -- Carlos Saavedra & Fhatima Paulino
February 06, 2018 14:18 - 1 hour - 98.9 MBThis week we’re talking with Fhatima Paulino and Carlos Saavedra from the Ayni Institute. We’re learning about the critical perspective of a long and global view of history to help us understand how long change takes and where our problems come from. We’re slowing down to care for our bodies and family members with illness, learning about collective work in indigenous traditions, Ayahuasca and people looking to the south for healing and spiritual direction, reciprocity and right relationship...
14 Practice: Ancestral Connection for White Folks with Jardana Peacock & Kelly Germaine-Strickland
February 01, 2018 11:00 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MBThis practice with Jardana Peacock and Kelly Germaine-Strickland leads you through ancestral healing work that is focused on white ancestry, but can be used by anyone. It involves meditation and writing… you need a place where you can be still, and paper and pen to write with. Download the corresponding conversation (episode 14) entitled “Ancestral Healing for Anti-Racist White Folks” to hear Kelly & Jardana talk about white ancestral healing as anti-racist practice, faith and spirituality...
14 Ancestral Healing for Anti-Racist White Folks -- Jardana Peacock & Kelly Germaine-Strickland
January 30, 2018 10:30 - 1 hour - 94 MBToday we’re talking with Kelly Germaine-Strickland & Jardana Peacock about white ancestral healing as anti-racist practice, faith and spirituality, white fragility, the complexity of ancestry and white supremacy, some Christian perspective, and why white people gotta love each other to fully be in the fight for racial justice. ---- NEW FEATURE on the podcast this week: AFFIRMATIONS We will be hosting a new segment each week that is a time for us to feature community voices and words; to u...
13 Practice: Reflection on Belonging with Prentis Hemphill
January 25, 2018 14:07 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MBThis practice with Prentis Hemphill, former Healing Justice Director of Black Lives Matter, leads you to cultivate a sense of belonging within yourself that is untouchable by external conditions. It is a political act to claim a belonging and dignity that cannot be threatened by inequality or oppression, and an emotionally empowering act to resource ourselves with this very real human need to know we belong. You don’t need anything except a quiet space for this practice, and you can try it a...
13 Blackness & Belonging -- Prentis Hemphill
January 23, 2018 17:43 - 51 minutes - 71.2 MBToday we’re talking with Prentis Hemphill, former Healing Justice Director of the Black Lives Matter Network. We talk about the ways anti-Blackness shapes all of us to deny our own humanity, the role of shame, how we heal so we can give our unique contribution, avoidance, the Black Lives Matter Healing in Action toolkit, how healers are real people with limitations who aren’t better than anybody else, and belonging as a decision we make, not an external condition. ABOUT OUR GUEST: PRENT...
12 Practice: Somatic Centering with Sumitra Rajkumar
January 18, 2018 11:00 - 16 minutes - 22.5 MBThis week's practice is a Somatic Centering practice that can be done anywhere, alone or in a group… and is one of the most fundamental building block tools of somatics, helping you to presence yourself fully in your life and in your work. You’ll need a place you can focus, and no supplies other than yourself for this practice. It can be done alone or in a group. Download the corresponding conversation with Sumitra Rajkumar via episode 12, titled "Somatics & Politics" to learn more. We disc...
12 Somatics & Politics -- Sumitra Rajkumar
January 16, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBToday we’re talking with Sumitra Rajkumar. We discuss what somatics is, the meaning (and common misinterpretation and misuse) of the concepts of trauma and trigger, the reality of this political moment, and holding the seeming contradictions of organizing, healing, head, and heart. ABOUT OUR GUEST: SUMITRA RAJKUMAR After twenty years of political education and youth-led documentary work, Sumitra is now a somatics practitioner and teacher under the auspices of generative somatics. She co...
11 Practice: Naming Our Medicine
January 11, 2018 13:00 - 6 minutes - 9.42 MBJoin Natalia Thompson and Kate Werning for a simple reflection and conversation exercise to dig deeper into the "medicine" you have to offer, and that which you are seeking this year... all inspired by an awesome resistance song. It's great for individual reflection or a team icebreaker with your crew. You may need a pen and paper, but that's it. We ask: What medicine do you bring? What medicine are you seeking? ** Share your responses to build a "community medicine cabinet" with us on so...
11 Voices from Liberation School
January 09, 2018 10:00 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBIn this special and unique episode, many voices from the first-ever Liberation School cohort share about what healing justice means to us, what beauty we are bringing and seeking in our movements, songs and stories from the Highlander Research and Education Center in East Tennessee including an interview with an elder, and what we seek to create moving forward. Tune in for some awesome grassroots leaders' voices from the South and beyond. PRACTICE: Download the next episode (Practice 11) to ...
11: Voices from Liberation School
January 09, 2018 10:00 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBIn this special and unique episode, many voices from the first-ever Liberation School cohort share about what healing justice means to us, what beauty we are bringing and seeking in our movements, songs and stories from the Highlander Research and Education Center in East Tennessee including an interview with an elder, and what we seek to create moving forward. Tune in for some awesome grassroots leaders' voices from the South and beyond. PRACTICE: Download the next episode (Practice 11) to...
10 New Years Practice: Cast a Spell with adrienne maree brown
December 31, 2017 10:05 - 31 minutes - 43.2 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 you from 2017 to 2018. You'll need 30 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. ** SHARE YOUR SPELL! We'd lo...
10 Imagination & Critical Connection -- adrienne maree brown
December 31, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBIn this episode, adrienne maree brown joins host Kate Werning to talk about the imagination battles of our time, the conversations that need to be had beneath what we think we need, the relationship between critical connection and critical mass, how she manages her time and sense of urgency, and the transition into the new year. PRACTICE: Download the next episode (Practice 10) to do a very special New Years practice with adrienne maree brown, and learn how to write and cast a spell for your...
09 Transparency Talk: a check-in chat with Kate
December 26, 2017 12:30 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBIn this episode, host Kate Werning pauses to give a fuller update about where the podcast has been and where it’s going this next year -- our victories and struggles, how you can be a part of the growth, and a preview of the amazing end-of-year practice with adrienne maree brown coming your way on December 31st to transition you well into 2018! WILL YOU HELP US CONTINUE? So many people need this support to help sustain their liberatory work, and these practices and this wisdom are not ours ...
08 Practice: Build a Grounding Altar or Sacred Space with Cara Page
December 21, 2017 13:45 - 10 minutes - 14.9 MBJoin us for a practice to build an altar or sacred space to ground you with Cara Page. You’ll need 10-15 minutes in a space where you’d like to build it: your home, your workplace, the place you’re staying right now. This can be done individually for you or collectively as a group. For your reference as you go collecting your objects as you listen along… Cara asks: Who or what do you honor that keeps you connected to ancestors? Do you have any objects or pictures that you can gather to cre...
08 We Moved Like We Needed Each Other: A Lineage Of Healing Justice -- Cara Page & Susan Raffo
December 19, 2017 16:20 - 1 hour - 101 MBIn this episode, healing justice leaders Cara Page and Susan Raffo join host Kate Werning for a conversation about the origins of the contemporary framework of healing justice, stories and learnings from early collaborations in the South and at the Atlanta and Detroit US Social Forums, how nothing is just an issue - everything we care about deeply ties to our embodiment, the importance of safety, and the fine lines between ownership, appropriation, co-optation, and trust. PRACTICE: Download...
07 Practice: Emotional Freedom Technique with Geleni Fontaine of Third Root Community Health Center
December 14, 2017 13:00 - 10 minutes - 14.9 MBJoin us for a simple tapping practice called Emotional Freedom Technique with Geleni Fontaine of Third Root Community Health Center. This utilizes the knowledge of acupressure points and is something you can truly do anywhere - alone, in a group, or on the go. Check out the practice diagram and instructions for a more visual reminder and explanation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LqN9hSw2JhcbX5jFeK8JbC4Oh6geY1Q292fytzDnA14/edit?usp=sharing The phrase you’ll use is: “Even though ____...
07 De-spa-ifying Healing & Accessibility -- Third Root Community Health Center
December 12, 2017 13:00 - 44 minutes - 60.4 MBIn this episode, members of the Third Root Community Health Center collective join host Kate Werning for a conversation about somatic symptoms of oppression and the increased pressures since the 2016 election, in what ways Trump and our current political environment is making us sick, what it would look like to de-spa-ify healing and make it part of our everyday lives instead of a luxury commodity, and how organizers and leaders can make our movement spaces more accessible to the widest range...
06 Practice: Mapping Group Conflict with Celia Kutz
December 07, 2017 12:30 - 14 minutes - 19.7 MBEver get disoriented in a conflict? This group conflict dynamics mapping practice is meant for supporting feelings of overwhelm with a clear tool for finding ground in moments of chaos. You’ll need a way to write or draw some things out, so grab a piece of paper and pen, or art supplies, or even stuff to collage with. You’ll be prompted to call to mind a recent conflict experience, either interpersonal or group. You'll want to see the visual that goes along with Celia's instructions - check...
06 Facilitating Conflict & Leading from the Feminine -- Celia Kutz
December 05, 2017 12:30 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBCelia Kutz of Training for Change joins host Kate Werning for a conversation about conflict as a generative place that can offer groups deeper clarity and insight. She speaks of strong emotions, mental health, and showing up leading from the feminine -- what it means to reclaim expressing strong feelings as a political act, inner diversity, confusing group dynamics, and de-individualizing care. ** As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positiv...
05 Practice: Meditation on Non-Striving for Activists with Katie Loncke
November 30, 2017 13:33 - 20 minutes - 28.7 MBJoin us for a meditation practice focused on non-striving for activists with guest teacher Katie Loncke of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. You’ll need 20 uninterrupted minutes, and a place you can sit, stand, or lie down to meditate. You can use this recording to meditate by yourself or with a group. Check out episode 5 for the corresponding conversation with Katie Loncke titled "Wisdom & Activism: Block, Build, Be” to listen to our conversation about what they mean by striving and non-striv...
05 Block, Build, Be: Wisdom & Activism -- Katie Loncke
November 28, 2017 14:37 - 48 minutes - 66.9 MBIn this fifth episode of Healing Justice Podcast, Katie Loncke of Buddhist Peace Fellowship joins host Kate Werning for a conversation about wisdom, activism, organizing, meditation, striving and non-striving, Buddhism, direct action, the role of spirituality in working for change, movement ecology and multiple strategies, and her own origin story as a changemaker. Download the next episode for a non-striving meditation practice specifically for activists. (We are trying something new this...
04 Practice: Real Gratitude with Rusia Mohiuddin
November 21, 2017 00:26 - 8 minutes - 12 MBJoin us for a gratitude practice that keeps it real with guest teacher Rusia Mohiuddin. (It’s our only practice so far that we had to mark “explicit” for cussing! Ha.) You’ll need a way to jot a few things down… notebook and pen, notes app on your phone, whatever works best for you. You can do this practice via drawing, writing, typing, audio recording, video selfie… whatever works best for you. Rusia encourages us to identify 3 things we are grateful for and record them - with 1 of them bei...
04 Vomiting Rage: Self-Responsibility and Self-Care in the Movement -- Rusia Mohiuddin
November 21, 2017 00:19 - 1 hour - 85.8 MBIn this fourth episode of Healing Justice Podcast, Rusia Mohiuddin joins host Kate Werning for a conversation about vomiting rage, being in a constant state of trigger, movement beef, taking out our pain by attacking one another in our movements for social justice, social media slander, survival strategies, and the trauma of oppression. We’ll talk about self care and self responsibility, and what it looks like to develop practices that generate a real sustainable self care protocol. ** As a...
03 Practice: Journaling Our Identity with Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza
November 14, 2017 05:05 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MBJoin us for a simple but profound journaling practice with Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza. Grab a notebook or something to write on, your favorite writing implement, and get ready to be led through some reflection on your identity. Inspired by Thomas Aquinas, Robyn puts their own spin on a classic question: “Who am I, and how do I know?” Check out episode 3 for the corresponding conversation with Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza titled "Healing at the Borderlands: Honoring Trans Day of Remembran...
03 Honoring Trans Day of Remembrance & Healing at the Borderlands -- Dr. Robyn Henderson-Epinoza
November 14, 2017 05:00 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MBIn this third episode of Healing Justice Podcast, Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza joins host Kate Werning for a conversation about activist theology in the streets, honoring Trans Day of Remembrance (November 20), how to be human with one another, the politics of radical difference, and loving Trans folks well. As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and ...
02 Practice: Listen to a Poem
November 08, 2017 16:32 - 4 minutes - 6.6 MBJoin us for a simple 5-min practice: listening to the reading of a poem. Just a short one this week to get us into the rhythm of conversing & practicing together! (full poem text below) Check out episode 2 for the corresponding conversation with Teresa Pasquale Mateus and Shawna Wakefield titled "Conversations in Healing Justice." As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability a...
02 Conversations in Healing Justice -- Shawna Wakefield & Teresa Pasquale Mateus
November 08, 2017 16:23 - 54 minutes - 75.1 MBIn the second episode of Healing Justice Podcast, host Kate Werning is joined by collaborators Shawna Wakefield and Teresa Pasquale Mateus for a conversation about what healing justice means to us and our aspirations for this virtual practice space. We talk spirituality, trauma and resilience, some of the history of this work, gender justice, international work, Standing Rock, self care / collective care / community care, personal stories and struggles in our activism and organizing, sustain...
01 Welcome to our virtual practice space -- what to expect from Healing Justice Podcast
November 05, 2017 15:18 - 27 minutes - 37.1 MBOn this first episode of Healing Justice Podcast, creator and host Kate Werning talks us through the vision, the story behind the podcast, why this why now, and invites you to join in the journey. Whether you are grappling with questions about social justice, community organizing, social movements, self care / collective care / community care, trauma and resilience, wellness and healing, activism, sustianability or more... we hope you will gather around the campfire with us and share your sto...
Healing Justice Podcast [Trailer]
November 05, 2017 13:58 - 44 seconds - 1.02 MBThis is HEALING JUSTICE PODCAST: bridging conversations at the intersections of collective healing & social change. Each week we share a conversation with a powerful leader, and an accompanying audio practice to help resource you in your leadership and the wellbeing of you and your people as we work together for social justice. Welcome to our virtual practice space! Learn more and sign up for new episode alerts at www.healingjustice.org