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How'd You Get So Sweet?!Joy as Resistance: The Power of Collective Care w/Almetta PittsIn this enriching episode of "How'd You Get So Sweet," host Rakita Lillard-Brown, Founder and CEO of Holistree, engages in a heartfelt conversation with Almetta Pitts, Founder and Principal Consultant of Attemla Consulting. Attemla Consulting is a community health and systems change firm that empowers individuals and organizations to reimagine impact through dreaming, collective care, and practice. (https://www.attemlaconsulting.com/about)Together, they delve into the transformative power of collective care and explore how joy serves as an act of resistance. Through a playful exercise envisioning what it means to live a sweet life, Rakita a...
2025-03-1449 min
Learning Matters: a Bridge to Practice#38 Learning Matters with Almetta PittsLearning Matters series on convening methodologies for holding space for hope, healing and restoration.Today we have with us Almetta Pitts discussing “interrupting the ouch” and somatic abolitionism – embodied anti-racist practice and cultural building one brave space at a time.Almetta supports individuals, communities, organizations and companies who seek to interrupt the “status quo” of workplace wellness. She facilitates brave spaces that cultivate tough conversations around diversity, equity and belonging founded within coined methodology of somatic wellness and anti-racist practices (SWAP). She has significant experience of co-curating somatic impact experiential learning experiences via the collaborat...
2021-01-2951 min
Our Social ImpactEp#028, Disrupting the Cradle-to-Prison PipelineListen in as Almetta Pitts, Founder of Attemla Consulting and TeamChild board member, joins Dirk van Velzen, CEO at the Prison Scholar Fund, to discuss interrupting the school-to-prison pipeline. Almetta brings her insight to undoing institutional racism, addressing implicit bias, and viewing the prison system through a human lens. Learn about Almetta’s path from teaching in South Korea to her work promoting diversity, equity, and belonging here in the United States.
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2020-12-1541 min
Zen'n'ish®COVID-19: If you Can't Go Outside, Go Inside.Text Us Your Thoughts!In this time when many find themselves spending inordinate amounts of time inside because of being quarantined, sheltered in place, self- isolating or social distancing, it is the perfect time to learn how to go mentally and spiritually within in order to remain resilient and keep your peace. This is an excellent conversation about how our feelings and emotions about COVID-19 and other current events in our world can manifest negatively in our mind, body and spirit if we do not find productive ways of releasing and discharging these thoughts, feelings and e...
2020-03-3141 min