Healing Justice Podcast

In 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 do 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.   RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Liberation School Ghosts We Carry, Healing We Practice: Medicine for Liberation by Jardana Peacock Highlander Research and Education Center Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life book by Candie & Guy CarawanWILL 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 to sell. But we need money to continue this resource - can you help? We have radical faith that we can sustain this project on a gift economy, with the generosity of our community as our fuel.   Give any amount here: patreon.com/healingjusticeJOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org  Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter -- we love to hear from you about how you are using the podcast and practices, your own struggles at the intersection of justice and healing, and what you want to hear next! We are posting inspirational quotes from our guests every day, so follow us on social media not to miss a beat of that encouragement in your day. THANK YOUThank you to the incredible voices featured here: Shayla Tumbling, Jax Gil, Sean Estelle, Luci Murphy, Pamela Gomez, Evelyn Encalada, Natalia Thompson, Judy Hatcher, Bernadette Arthur, Jardana Peacock, Will Brummett, Sara Green, Kate Werning, and Candie Carawan. Thank you to Luci Murphy and Sara Green for leading us in song, and to LuAya of the Peace Poets and Deirdre Smith for writing the Medicine song, and for the advising of Tufara Waller Muhammad. This podcast was binationally edited thanks to Natalia ThompsonMixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMAll visuals contributed by Josiah WerningIntro and closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien

Welcome 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 love to hear from you about the spell you've written to transition into the new year. Share a selfie, the full text, one line, or just your reflections on what it was like to do this practice on social media with us - let's see what our community is conjuring for 2018! Find us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter. --------- You can download the corresponding conversation called "10 Imagination & Critical Connection -- adrienne maree brown" to hear us 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. --------- MEET OUR GUEST: adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, healer/doula, and pleasure activist living in Detroit, and co-host of the podcast How to Survive the End of the World.   KEEP LEARNING WITH ADRIENNE: How to Survive the End of the World podcast adrienne’s blog Read - Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute adrienne’s column: “The Pleasure Dome” on Bitch Media   ---------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 to sell. But we need money to continue this resource. We have radical faith that we can sustain this project on a gift economy, with the generosity of our community as our fuel. Will you give $25, $15, or $5 / month to keep this work accessible to all? Give any amount here: patreon.com/healingjustice   And if you feel moved to donate but would prefer to make a sizable tax-deductible donation, email kate.werning@gmail.com and we will send you the details to go through our fiscal sponsor. Thank you! You can check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up, and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org THANK YOUThis podcast is mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMAll visuals contributed by Josiah WerningIntro and closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien --------- REFERENCE NOTES FOR THE PRACTICE: You'll need: 30 minutes, pen/pencil, journal or paper, a clear workspace, and a tarot deck if you already have one and like to use it (optional).  ///   2017 Free Write Prompts:  - Were there things in this year that felt too heavy for me to carry? - Were there things in this year that I learned about myself, about movements for justice, about how I want to be? Lessons that I want to carry forward?  /// Reflecting on the Present: - How do I feel like I am in my power and in my dignity in this present moment? - Where do I feel like I want to grow my power or dignity in this moment?  ///   Looking Forward to 2018: - What does liberation mean to me? - What can I practice in this next year to increase my liberation and the liberation of my people?  ///   Writing Your Spell: - 1st stanza: What you’re letting go of and what lessons you’re carrying forward - 2nd stanza: The power you’re standing in and what you want to lean into more - 3rd stanza: With your eyes on liberation, what are you going to practice?

In 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 yourself and your community to transition you from 2017 to 2018. You'll need 30 minutes, a clear space, something to write on, and something to write with.   MEET OUR GUEST: adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, healer/doula, and pleasure activist living in Detroit, and co-host of the podcast How to Survive the End of the World.   KEEP LEARNING WITH ADRIENNE: How to Survive the End of the World podcast adrienne’s blog Read - Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute adrienne’s column: “The Pleasure Dome” on Bitch Media   REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE: National Bail Out campaign Reflections on Mama’s Bail Out from Southerers on New Ground Intelligent Mischief 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 to sell. But we need money to continue this resource. We have radical faith that we can sustain this project on a gift economy, with the generosity of our community as our fuel. We already have 9 monthly sustainers (thank you!) and 3 one-time donors supporting the podcast -- we need 11 more sustainers before the end of the year to meet our goal. Will you give $25, $15, or $5 / month to keep this work accessible to all? Give any amount here: patreon.com/healingjustice   And if you feel moved to donate but would prefer to make a sizable tax-deductible donation, email kate.werning@gmail.com and we will send you the details to go through our fiscal sponsor. Thank you!JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org   Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter -- we love to hear from you about how you are using the podcast and practices, your own struggles at the intersection of justice and healing, and what you want to hear next! We are posting inspirational quotes from our guests every day, so follow us on social media not to miss a beat of that encouragement in your day. THANK YOUThis podcast is mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMAll visuals contributed by Josiah WerningIntro and closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien

In 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 to sell. But we need money to continue this resource. We are a commitment to keeping the podcast completely free, and not charging people or creating systems of restricted access and monetization. We have radical faith that we can sustain this project on a gift economy, with the generosity of our community as our fuel. We already have 9 monthly sustainers (thank you!) and 3 one-time donors supporting the podcast -- we need 11 more sustainers before the end of the year to meet our goal. Will you give $25, $15, or $5 / month to keep this work accessible to all? Give any amount here: patreon.com/healingjustice   And if you feel moved to donate but would prefer to make a sizable tax-deductible donation, email kate.werning@gmail.com and we will send you the details to go through our fiscal sponsor. Thank you! ** As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue -- our goal is 100 by the end of 2017 and we are almost there! Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now! **JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org   Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter -- we love to hear from you about how you are using the podcast and practices, your own struggles at the intersection of justice and healing, and what you want to hear next! We are posting inspirational quotes from our guests every day, so follow us on social media not to miss a beat of that encouragement in your day. THANK YOUThis podcast is mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMAll visuals contributed by Josiah WerningIntro and closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAdditional thank you’s to: Sergio of Movimiento Cosecha; Tomas; Shawna & Teresa; Marcia, Adela, and Violeta of Healing by Choice in Detroit; each brilliant and heartfelt guest that has been featured on the show so far; and all of our Patreon donors!

Join 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 create a space that helps you to honor ancestors? What objects embody safety for you? What allows you to feel safe in your heart, in your mind, in your body - that gives you permission to feel that no one can harm you? What object would best represent that? What allows you to feel most powerful in your body, mind, or heart? What object represents your resilience? Find something that represents desire. It could be desire for yourself to feel safe, loved, healed - a desire for family or community to be safe, loved, embraced - or it can be a desire you have for collective liberation. This object represents not just want we want to resist, but what we want to create. Gather your objects, and set them up in a place where they won’t be interrupted… someplace you can look at everyday to reground you and help you remember power, resilience, desire, and safety to keep you grounded and connected. Check out episode 8 for the corresponding conversation with Cara and Susan Raffo titled "We Moved Like We Needed Each Other: A Lineage of Healing Justice” to listen to our 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.**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 subscribe, rate, & review now!**ABOUT OUR GUEST: Cara PageCARA PAGE is the Director of Programs at the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and most recently was the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project. Over the past three decades, she has worked within movements for queer & trans liberation, reproductive justice, healing justice, and racial and economic justice. She is co-founder and former Coordinator of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective and former National Director of the Committee on Women, Population & the Environment. For her outstanding achievements in community organizing around the arts and social justice, Page has received awards and fellowships from the National Center for Human Rights & Education and The Rockefeller Foundation. As an Activist-in-Residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Page will deepen her study on historical and contemporary eugenic practices and medical experimentation to shape a public discourse on the historical and contemporary role of eugenic violence as an extension of state control and surveillance on Black & immigrant communities; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming people; people with disabilities; and Women of Color. Through creating political writings, cultural performance and communal forums on these issues she will gather a cohort of healers/health practitioners, cultural workers, organizers, scientists and service providers to transform institutional eugenic practices; and memorialize sites of eugenic practice to bear witness to these atrocities and begin to organize and heal.JOIN THE COMMUNITYSign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on TwitterWe pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjusticeTHANK YOUMixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

In 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 the next episode for instructions for a grounding practice of building an altar or sacred space, led by Cara Page. (We release a new conversation every Tuesday, and the corresponding practice on Thursday - so check back then if you don’t see it yet!)** 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 subscribe, rate, & review now! **Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org MEET OUR GUESTS: Cara Page & Susan RaffoCARA PAGE is the Director of Programs at the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, and most recently was the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project. Over the past three decades, she has worked within movements for queer & trans liberation, reproductive justice, healing justice, and racial and economic justice. She is co-founder and former Coordinator of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective and former National Director of the Committee on Women, Population & the Environment. For her outstanding achievements in community organizing around the arts and social justice, Page has received awards and fellowships from the National Center for Human Rights & Education and The Rockefeller Foundation. As an Activist-in-Residence at the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Page will deepen her study on historical and contemporary eugenic practices and medical experimentation to shape a public discourse on the historical and contemporary role of eugenic violence as an extension of state control and surveillance on Black & immigrant communities; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming people; people with disabilities; and Women of Color. Through creating political writings, cultural performance and communal forums on these issues she will gather a cohort of healers/health practitioners, cultural workers, organizers, scientists and service providers to transform institutional eugenic practices; and memorialize sites of eugenic practice to bear witness to these atrocities and begin to organize and heal.SUSAN RAFFO is of Italian, German, Irish, French-Canadian descent and Anishinabeg-descent. Her people were farmers, stonemasons, union members, and tradespeople. Across all of her family lines are histories of assimilation, passing, and disconnection from home, family, land and history.  She currently lives on Dakota land in its seventh generation of settlement. Susan began to study bodywork in 2005 and struggled to feel that this work was as politically relevant as community organizing, but in 2009 she attended the Healing Justice Practice Space at the US Social Forum in Atlanta and it changed her life. For the first time she found movement people, radical people, social justice people, who were  interested in the places where systems of power and oppression were held in the tissues of the individual body as well as within systems and communities. Susan is interested in work that refuses to separate how we individually connect with life from how we collectively claim our lives. She works towards the end of the medical industrial complex and wants to lift up practices and traditions that have been co-opted or forced into disappearance. She is trained in multiple forms of craniosacral therapy, as well as in Global Somatics (a form of Body Mind Centering). Her practice is based on deep listening and working with the body, supporting the conditions for shifting deeply held (sometimes generational and historical) patterns that show up as pain, anxiety, stress, and disconnectedness. Susan is also a writer, having published Queerly Classed in 1995 and Restricted Access in 1997. Right now she is blogging about healing justice and liberation work at https://susanraffo.blogspot.com, and is currently building out www.susanraffo.com. ​   REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE / FURTHER RESOURCES - Healing Justice at the US Social Forum: A report from Atlanta, Detroit & Beyond (the report by Susan & Cara we refer to in the conversation) - Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective needs statement & strategies - Susan’s healing justice blog - People’s Movement Center in Minneapolis, where Susan practices - More from Cara Page’s performative body of work on anti-Eugenics and the medical industrial complex: performance installations in partnership with the Asian Pacific American Institute at NYU here & here, and a video in collaboration with the disability justice performance troupe, Sins Invalid - Healing Justice Practice Spaces: A How-To Guide   JOIN THE COMMUNITYCheck out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.orgFollow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on TwitterWe pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjusticeTHANK YOUThis podcast is mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah WerningPhoto of Susan by Ryan Stopera

Join 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 _____, I love and accept myself completely.”   Check out episode 7 for the corresponding conversation with Geleni and Emily Kramer titled "De-spa-ifying Healing & Accessibility” to listen to our 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 of folks with varying capacities. (Bonus: they also sing a song!)   **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 subscribe, rate, & review now!**   ABOUT OUR GUEST: Geleni Fontaine of Third Root Community Health Center THIRD ROOT is a holistic healthcare center in Brooklyn, NY offering yoga, acupuncture, East Asian medicine, massage, herbal medicine, and wellness education. They are a multi-racial, cross-class, intergenerational community, and a worker-owner cooperative. Third Root manifests a world where we all belong, we are all healing, and we are all welcome in our wholeness. Collective members include Geleni Fontaine, Jomo Alaquais Simmons, Julia Bennett, Emily Kramer, and Nicolette Dixon. More at www.thirdroot.org GELENI FONTAINE, a collective member of Third Root, is a fat, queer, Latina/o transperson raised and thriving in Brooklyn, New York. They are a graduate of the Swedish Institute School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine where I studied Traditional and Classical Chinese Medicine with Jeffrey Yuen, 88th generation Taoist priest and healer. They’re also a registered nurse and use knowledge of Western allopathic medicine to support individuals navigating both healthcare systems. Geleni is a member of the Rock Dove Collective, a group of healers, providers, and activists coordinating a radical community health exchange in NYC; a former board member of the Audre Lorde Project, the first queer people of color center for community organizing in the U.S.; and NOLOSE, an organization dedicated to ending the oppression of fat people and creating vibrant fat queer culture. They have a 13-year history of training and teaching martial arts and have worked many years with the Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE) as a youth educator, anti-violence activist, and crisis intervention worker. This experience has lent to their understanding of healing as a mind / body / spirit construct that includes support for individuals as well as radical responses to the institutional oppression we face as communities. JOIN THE COMMUNITYCheck out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on TwitterWe pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU Edited by Yoshi FieldsMixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

In 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 of folks with varying capacities. (Bonus: they also sing a song!) PRACTICE: Download the next episode for a simple tapping practice called Emotional Freedom Technique. (We release a new conversation every Tuesday, and the corresponding practice on Thursday - so check back then if you don’t see it yet!) ** 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 subscribe, rate, & review now! ** Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org MEET OUR GUESTS: Geleni Fontaine & Emily Kramer of Third Root Community Health Center THIRD ROOT is a holistic healthcare center in Brooklyn, NY offering yoga, acupuncture, East Asian medicine, massage, herbal medicine, and wellness education. They are a multi-racial, cross-class, intergenerational community, and a worker-owner cooperative. Third Root manifests a world where we all belong, we are all healing, and we are all welcome in our wholeness. Collective members include Geleni Fontaine, Jomo Alaquais Simmons, Julia Bennett, Emily Kramer, and Nicolette Dixon. More at www.thirdroot.org GELENI FONTAINE, a collective member of Third Root, is a fat, queer, Latina/o transperson raised and thriving in Brooklyn, New York. They are a graduate of the Swedish Institute School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine where I studied Traditional and Classical Chinese Medicine with Jeffrey Yuen, 88th generation Taoist priest and healer. They’re also a registered nurse and use knowledge of Western allopathic medicine to support individuals navigating both healthcare systems. Geleni is a member of the Rock Dove Collective, a group of healers, providers, and activists coordinating a radical community health exchange in NYC; a former board member of the Audre Lorde Project, the first queer people of color center for community organizing in the U.S.; and NOLOSE, an organization dedicated to ending the oppression of fat people and creating vibrant fat queer culture. They have a 13-year history of training and teaching martial arts and have worked many years with the Center for Anti-Violence Education (CAE) as a youth educator, anti-violence activist, and crisis intervention worker. This experience has lent to their understanding of healing as a mind / body / spirit construct that includes support for individuals as well as radical responses to the institutional oppression we face as communities. EMILY J. KRAMER is a yoga teacher and collective member at Third Root, where the crossroads of her work as a movement professional, social justice activist and spiritual seeker joyfully meet. In her classes, Emily invites us to pay attention to subtleties of our sensation and alignment in order to create space internally, making way for healing and discovery. She encourages students always to honor their own bodies and beings, while valuing the community aspect of the space. She has specialized training in anatomy, backcare, anxiety/depression, addiction, trauma-sensitivity, and yoga for young people. She studied with Off the Mat, Into the World, Alison West at Yoga Union, SchoolYoga Institute, Street Yoga, Bent on Learning, Leslie Kaminoff / the Breathing Project, Jyll Hubbard-Salk, Elena Brower, Larry Yang and many inspired teachers on this path. In 2009, she created Spirit Boxing, a workshop that combines her experience as a former amateur boxer and yogini, to serve women, youth, and queer / trans community. She has also facilitated movement and outdoor education programming with young people ages 6 – 15 since 2006. She has collaborated with Girls for Gender Equity and the Center for Anti-violence Education, and has taught through Bent on Learning, Safe Horizon, Kripalu, Columbia and Cornell Universities. REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE You can see Third Root’s space access statement at bottom of their website, www.thirdroot.org Bending Toward Justice: recommended social justice training for yoga teachers   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU This podcast is mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM, and this episode was generously edited by the talented Yoshi Fields. Intro and closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

Ever 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 it out here. Check out episode 6 for the corresponding conversation with Celia Kutz  titled "Facilitating Conflict and Leading from the Feminine” to listen to our 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 positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now!    ABOUT CELIA KUTZ Celia Kutz is a playful, fierce, force of love, currently facilitating and training social justice movement groups via Training for Change. Born from Jewish women with strong emotions, her style elicits strength and vulnerability. Her approach brings together participant-centered education, body-based wisdom and her experience as an organizer. With roots in rural, white, working class Western, NY Celia has also lived in Montreal and Minneapolis where she studied the impact of settler colonialism, organized against gentrification and mobilized activists for mass protest. She is most proud of her passionate work facilitating groups in Appalachia and organizing with Jews against the Occupation. Celia now lives in Philadelphia, on the land of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape. She is a Global Somatics Practitioner, on the Advisory Board with the Ulex Project, a capacity building retreat center in Catalunya and on the Equity & Diversity Committee with iBme, running mindfulness retreats for young people. When she’s not keeping the fires burning as Co-Director at Training for Change you can find her dreaming, scheming, singing, swimming and loving up her community of friends.   JOIN THE COMMUNITYCheck out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook pageWe pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOUMixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

Celia 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 positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now! ** Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org MEET OUR GUEST: Celia Kutz Celia Kutz is a playful, fierce, force of love, currently facilitating and training social justice movement groups via Training for Change. Born from Jewish women with strong emotions, her style elicits strength and vulnerability. Her approach brings together participant-centered education, body-based wisdom and her experience as an organizer. With roots in rural, white, working class Western, NY Celia has also lived in Montreal and Minneapolis where she studied the impact of settler colonialism, organized against gentrification and mobilized activists for mass protest. She is most proud of her passionate work facilitating groups in Appalachia and organizing with Jews against the Occupation. Celia now lives in Philadelphia, on the land of the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape. She is a Global Somatics Practitioner, on the Advisory Board with the Ulex Project, a capacity building retreat center in Catalunya and on the Equity & Diversity Committee with iBme, running mindfulness retreats for young people. When she’s not keeping the fires burning as Co-Director at Training for Change you can find her dreaming, scheming, singing, swimming and loving up her community of friends.   REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE Process Work as taught by Lane Arye Book: Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown PRACTICE: Mapping Group Conflict with Celia Kutz Download the next episode for Celia’s group conflict dynamics mapping practice, 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. Download the next episode to dive in!  * Practices release on Thursdays following the Tuesday episode release *   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 subscribe, rate, & review now!   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook page We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU This podcast is mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

Join 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-striving, wisdom, activism, organizing, meditation, Buddhism, direct action, the role of spirituality in working for change, movement ecology and multiple strategies, and her own origin story as a changemaker.   **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 subscribe, rate, & review now!**   ABOUT OUR GUEST Katie Loncke (they/them or she/her) has served as a Co-Director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship since 2012. Their movement education merges many streams — including healers, historians, international perspectives, and many different communities and traditions of resistance. In recent years, Katie’s social justice journey has included helping to win a million dollar lawsuit against a police department; fighting wage theft, jail expansion, and gentrification; assisting climbers in physically blockading a Shell Oil ship to increase the costs of Arctic drilling; sending care packages in feminist solidarity; and continuously asking how to lead a life of service that can lovingly overturn the status quo. Katie says that after a childhood of “arrogant atheism,” she was fortunate to get over herself enough to begin investigating Buddhist practice, and start learning how to be free from suffering. She has now studied and practiced for nearly 10 years in a Theravada / Vipassana / Insight lineage. You can learn more about Katie’s history, her movement education and honoring of the communities she’s learned from, and the lineage of their Buddhist practice here.   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOUMixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

In 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 week and releasing the conversation on Tuesday, and the practice on Thursday. Let us know what you think!) ** 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 subscribe, rate, & review now! ** Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org MEET OUR GUEST: Katie Loncke Katie Loncke (they/them or she/her) has served as a Co-Director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship since 2012, and is honored to advance the brilliant anti-oppression work of Buddhists and friends.Katie’s movement education merges many streams — from cybermillennials to old-school Luddite bibliophiles, shop-floor organizers, politicized healers, and oral historians. Her learning and training owe a great and still-accruing debt to multiple, sometimes overlapping communities — including the revolutionary theory and action of sick and disabled, queer and trans feminists of color; Black nationalism and post-nationalism; indigenous protectors of land, life, and culture; as well as working-class socialists, ecosocialists and anarchists inside and outside the U.S.In recent years, Katie’s social justice journey has included helping to win a million dollar lawsuit against a police department; fighting wage theft, jail expansion, and gentrification; assisting climbers in physically blockading a Shell Oil ship to increase the costs of Arctic drilling; pushing to drop racist charges against the Black Friday 14; sending care packages in feminist solidarity; supporting indigenous-led decolonization efforts from Standing Rock to Sogorea Te’; and continuously asking how to lead a life of service that can lovingly overturn the status quo.After a childhood of “arrogant atheism,” Katie was fortunate to get over herself enough to begin investigating Buddhist practice, and start learning how to be free from suffering. Soon this inquiry led to chopping lots of pears and cucumbers while serving lay students at a residential dharma retreat center outside of Barcelona. Katie has since studied and practiced for nearly 10 years in a Theravada / Vipassana / Insight lineage, orbiting among S.N. Goenka centers, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and the East Bay Meditation Center, seeking affordable, multicultural, progressive and accessible practice.Katie has more questions than answers, but that’s okay since they love questions. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES + Bring BPF to You + U Mad? Wisdom for Rageful Times + 5 Big Problems With Compassion Baiting + Buddhists & the Bloc: a conversation on antifascist action PRACTICE Download the next episode for a non-striving meditation practice that helps us balance the striving we are doing to change the world. You will need a sitting, standing, or lying down position and 20 minutes to do this practice. You can try it alone or in a group.   ** 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 subscribe, rate, & review now! **   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice, like Healing Justice Podcast on Facebook, and tweet at us @hjpodcast on Twitter We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice    THANK YOU This podcast is mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

Join 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 being about ourselves. To make it a real practice, commit to yourself to do this for 7 or 30 days straight and see what shifts. Check out episode 4 for the corresponding conversation with Rusia Mohiuddin titled "Vomiting Rage: Self-Responsibilty and Self-Care in the Movement” to listen to our conversation about rage, being in a constant state of trigger, the way we take 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 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 subscribe, rate, & review now! **   ABOUT RUSIA MOHIUDDIN Rusia N. Mohiuddin, based in New York, is a trainer, facilitator, and somatic coach who pioneered the integration of somatics into an organizing framework. Rusia’s organizing career started with 8 years as a street-level community organizer, grew to leading organizations, and now training leaders and consulting with organizations.   Her current mission through her organization Universal Partnership has been developing a holistic model for social justice change work that places in its center the necessary transformation of social change agents. Rusia says: “Too often we default to compromises and sacrifices in the name of liberation, in the name of our communities, forgetting that, we too, are amongst those we seek freedom for. That, we too, are a part of the very communities we bleed for in our relentless, ceaseless fight. Too often, I must remind people that we must be alive to do this work. Alive physiologically AND spiritually. This is my calling. This is my life’s purpose.”   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook page We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU: Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

In 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 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 subscribe, rate, & review now! ** Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org MEET OUR GUEST: Rusia Mohiuddin Rusia N. Mohiuddin, based in New York, is a trainer, facilitator, & somatic coach who pioneered the integration of somatics into an organizing framework. Rusia’s organizing career started with 8 years as a street-level community organizer, grew to leading organizations, and now training leaders and consulting with organizations. Her current mission through her organization Universal Partnership has been developing a holistic model for social justice change work that places in its center the necessary transformation of social change agents. Rusia says: “Too often we default to compromises and sacrifices in the name of liberation, in the name of our communities, forgetting that, we too, are amongst those we seek freedom for. That, we too, are a part of the very communities we bleed for in our relentless, ceaseless fight. Too often, I must remind people that we must be alive to do this work. Alive physiologically AND spiritually. This is my calling. This is my life’s purpose.”REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE Article: Vomiting Rage by Rusia MohiuddinArticle: Strategies for Self Care by Rusia Mohiuddin#30daysUP: a 30-day challenge with Rusia, beginning December 1st, to support you to develop leadership superpowers that increase your self-awareness and awareness of others. This round’s theme, to heal and transition out of 2017 and into 2018, is “gratitude + joy.“ PRACTICE Download the next episode for Rusia’s gratitude practice for realists. You’ll need a way to jot a few things down… notebook and pen, notes app on your phone, whatever works best for you.   ** 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 subscribe, rate, & review now! **   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook pageWe pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice THANK YOU This podcast is mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOMIntro and closing music gifted by Danny O’BrienAll visuals contributed by Josiah Werning

Join 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 Remembrance” to listen in to their wisdom on how to be human with one another, activist theology, 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 subscribe, rate, & review now!   ABOUT DR. ROBYN HENDERSON-ESPINOZA Knowing intimately that the borderlands are a place of learning and growth, Robyn draws on their identity and heritage as a Trans queer Latinx in everything that they do. From doubt to divine and everywhere in between, their call as an activist-theologian demands the vision to disrupt hegemony and colonialist structures of multi-layered oppressions.  As an anti-oppression, anti-racist, non-binary Trans*gressive Latinx, Robyn takes seriously their call as an activist theologian and ethicist to bridge together theories and practices that result in communities responding to pressing social concerns. Robyn sees this work as a life-orienting vocation, deeply committed to translating theory to practice, and embedded in re-imagining our moral horizon to one which privileges a politics of radical difference. They currently serve as Director of Public Theology Initiatives at Faith Matters Network in Nashville, TN. Find them on their website, on Twitter as @irobyn, and on their Facebook page. On November 19, 2017, Robyn will join the 9:30 and 11:45am worship services at Middle Collegiate Church in NYC as part of the celebration of Trans Awareness Week. They will preach a sermon called “And God Hovered Over the Face of the Deep: Transgressing Gender.” Join us there if you’re in NYC, and catch the livestream if you’re elsewhere. More info here.   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook page We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning