INSPIRATION

DESCRIPTION:
In June 2018, generative somatics (gs) created a podcast with Spenta Kandawalla, Prentis Hemphill and Staci K. Haines, hosted by adrienne maree brown. We had a conversation about trauma, oppression, healing and organizing for structural change. We dug into the connections between personal, collective and structural transformation, and between healing and building collective power. We also explored the term Healing Justice. What does embodied healing have to do with creating liberation? 

HOST:
adrienne maree brown is 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, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit. She is on the teaching bodies of generative somatics and Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity.

GUESTS:
Prentis Hemphill  is healer, Somatics practitioner, teacher, writer and organizer who works at the intersections of healing and justice. As the former Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter, Prentis committed to supporting and nurturing the brilliant strategies of organizers and healers to address trauma, move through conflict and center wholeness in the BLM network and in the broader movement for Black freedom and liberation. Prentis continues their ongoing work as a teacher of somatics and personal transformation with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD), a training program for Black organizers throughout the US, and with generative somatics, which is focused on bringing a politicized Somatics practice to movement building organizations. Prentis has worked for years with communities developing transformative responses to violence and envisioning new ways of being together, including work with generationFIVE and Communities United Against Violence. Prentis is committed to transformation on the cellular level and the belief that who we are and how we are in our most intimate spaces is vital for our collective liberation.

Spenta Kandawalla is a co-founder of generative somatics (gs).  She is an auntie, acupuncturist and herbalist, generative somatics teacher, and member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). Over the past 13 years, Spenta has been studying, teaching, and growing generative somatics work for organizers, movement builders and healers across the country. She is committed to helping move and expand work at the intersection of healing and organizing toward more freedom and possibility for all of us.

Staci K. Haines is a co-founder and the Executive Director of generative somatics. She integrates trauma and healing and a systemic analysis of power, into this unique and powerful work. Staci is committed to the interdependence of personal, collective and systemic transformation: “We are shaped by our deeply personal experiences and our social conditions. Through embodied transformation and collective action we can move ourselves, communities and society toward what is life­ affirming. The focus of gs is to bring the transformative power of somatics to serve social and environmental justice movements.” Staci is also a founder of generationFIVE, which has the mission to end the sexual abuse of children within 5 generations. She is the author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (Cleis 1999, 2007).  

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Music: Oakland-based collective Mass Bass.

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Trauma, Healing & Collective Power

Listen to the full episode here:
http://www.deida.live/podcast/your-problems-create-your-gifts/

From the album: “Stages and Revelations“
Length: 12mins 05secs
Format: mp3 download



Your Problems Create Your Gifts

Description:

This free track is taken from David Deida’s new album “Stages and Revelations“.

Listen in to Track 12 – “Your Problems Create Your Gifts“ as David shares essential teachings for men and women:


• Your gift is developed through your problems
• Consciousness was born to emerge through your body
• The universe is giving you perfect growth
• Apply consciousness to your immediate experience
• Stay with your actual feelings without resistance
• Trust your feminine response
• Orient to consciousness or suffer
• 1st stage: Feel your problems
• 2nd stage: Communicating your problems
• 3rd stage: Orienting to consciousness and responding
• The obstacle is the way
• Love this moment
• Relax with whatever is happening
• Experience everything fully

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Your Problems Create Your Gifts

TEXT: https://truthout.org/articles/as-the-climate-collapses-we-ask-how-then-shall-we-live/
This series by Dahr Jamail and Barbara Cecil is the best of the best re being in heartful action in the face of radical acceptance of overshoot and impending collapse on multiple fronts. I consider these essays to be the heart and soul of, what I'm calling, "The Human Redemption Project" -- i.e., how we can participate in the "redemption" of our species within the body of Life, whether we have 5 years, 500 years, or 5 million years left before we go extinct and pass the baton onto another of God's beloved species.

Jamail, Cecil (1) As The Climate Collapses, We Ask - How Then Shall We Live?

TEXT: https://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf ALSO SEE: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-03-17/deep-adaptation-post-sustainability-and-the-possibility-of-societal-collapse/ AS WELL AS: http://www.scientistswarning.org/deep-adaptation-a-map-for-navigating-climate-tragedy/
My recording of Jem Bendell's "must read" or "must listen to" paper, DEEP ADAPTATION: A MAP FOR NAVIGATING CLIMATE TRAGEDY.

Deep Adaptation, Jem Bendell (Dowd narration) - A Map For Navigating Climate Tragedy

TEXT: http://www.approachingthelimits.com/LadderOfAwareness.html
Here I have narrated my favorite posts from Paul Chefurka's site Approaching the Limits. (The first few I mispronounced his last name. :-)

Paul Chefurka - Climbing The Ladder Of Awareness

TEXT: https://truthout.org/articles/standing-in-the-fire-with-young-climate-activists/
This EXCELLENT essay is the third installment in a "must read or listen to" series by Barbara Cecil and Dahr Jamail. See here for text versions of all three (and where you can find the next ones, too, posted once a month): https://truthout.org/authors/barbara-cecil/
This "RIP Homo colossus" playlist includes my audio recording of each of them, plus other essays from other writers along similar heart-centered lines: https://soundcloud.com/michael-dowd-grace-limits/sets/rip-homo-colossus

Cecil, Jamail (3) Standing In The Fire With Young Climate Activists

Sustainability scholar Jem Bendell looks to deep adaptation in the face of inevitable climate-induced social collapse - as the global system of carbon capitalism pushes life on this planet towards disaster, only a profound shift in the way we relate to the natural world, each other, and our own mortality can prepare us for the world that lies closer than we'd ever imagined.

Jem is author of the paper Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy: http://www.lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf

How do we want to die? On climate collapse, omnicide and deep adaptation.

TEXT: https://medium.com/@seamusohailin/pontoon-archipelago-e53f28fa6fae

James Allen - Pontoon Archipelago Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Collapse

TEXT: https://truthout.org/articles/what-would-it-mean-to-deeply-accept-that-were-in-planetary-crisis/

Jamail, Cecil (5) What Would It Mean To Deeply Accept That We’re In Planetary Crisis?

Indie-journalist and author of "The End of Ice" covers the climate threats and how to cope - with host Alex Smith.  From the Arctic to the Amazon to middle America we globe-trot through the latest science and what it means for our common future.  Don't miss this.

Climate Shake-Out with Dahr Jamail

TEXT: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/no-happy-ending-on-bill-mckibbens-falter-and-david-wallace-wellss-the-uninhabitable-earth

Roy Scranton - No Happy Ending - Review of David Wallace-Wells and Bill McKibben

Jem - Don’t Police Our Emotions – Climate Despair Is Inviting People Back To Life

(photo of Prentis Hemphill)
Staci K. Haines, the founder of “Generative Somatics,” has integrated her extensive experience in both transforming individual and social trauma and in grassroots movements into uniquely powerful work that has proven to be incredibly helpful to a wide range of social justice activists, many of whom have been deeply hurt by oppression or violence. In this panel, leaders from a range of cutting-edge groups, including Prentis Hemphill of Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD), and Raquel Lavina from the National Domestic Workers Alliance, share how they have been able to successfully integrate embodied transformation into their social change work.

Somatics, Trauma, Healing And Social Change

TEXT: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/08/15/climate-change-burning-down-house/

A really excellent review of David Wallace-Well's book, "The Uninhabitable Earth" and Bill McKibben's book, "Falter".

Alan Weisman - Burning Down The House - review of Wallace-Wells and McKibben

TEXT (The New Yorker): https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/what-if-we-stopped-pretending

Jonathan Franzen - What If We Stopped Pretending?

In this episode, I speak with Barbara Cecil and Dahr Jamail, co-authors of the How Then Shall We Live? series published at Truthout.

// Episode notes + transcript: https://www.lastborninthewilderness.com/episodes/cecil-jamail

// Sustain + support: https://www.patreon.com/lastborninthewilderness 

// Donate: https://www.paypal.me/lastbornpodcast

215 / Transitions / Barbara Cecil + Dahr Jamail

TEXT: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-11-14/gathering-in-groups-as-society-falls-apart/
ALSO: https://jembendell.com/2019/11/08/gathering-in-groups-as-society-falls-apart-by-vicki-robin/

Vicki Robin - Gathering In Groups As Society Falls Apart

TEXT: https://medium.com/@thubtenzhiwa/the-plague-of-eco-anxiety-ae0095b36120

Zhiwa Woodbury - The Plague Of Eco - Anxiety

MAHB - Megan Seibert - Planet Of The Humans Review - Shining A Light On The Energy Black Box

A modular piece that I couldn't unpatch for about five days because I liked it too much.

Storm over Hisingen, Summer 2020

Transforming Organizations and Relationships in the Face of Humanity's Greatest Challenge.

INSPIRATION

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