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#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 E11: Practicing Anti-racism & ResilienceIn early January, educator, facilitator and applied theater practitioner, Channie Waites, led a remarkable Hollaback! Resilience workshop to help people process the compound traumas of the Jan 6 attempted coup by White Supremacists. Hear Channie share generously of her own wisdom about our nation’s illness of racism and the necessity of truth telling, reconciliation and joy. She unpacks many steps toward healing, drawing on her years of work in Rwanda, as well as personal experiences of grief, racial trauma, and resilience. In this bonus episode to conclude Season 3 of our #HealMeToo #AtHome series, Channie dives deepl...2021-02-221h 10
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 E10: Supporting Teens & Kids Through This TimeThe final episode of 2020 and the concluding episode of Season 3: #HealMeToo #AtHome centers the needs (and the extraordinary resilience) of young people experiencing unprecedented isolation and many forms of trauma. As we enter a new year, with many young people resuming remote learning, we're sharing an interview recorded in early fall, with insights, guidance and practical tips from Ashleigh Anderson, a Relationship Abuse Prevention Program coordinator at NYC's Edward R. Murrow High School, working with Day One, a nonprofit that partners with youth to end dating abuse and domestic violence through...2020-12-3144 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 Xtra 5: "Box Breathing" MeditationIn this Podcast Extra, Hollaback! Deputy Director and bystander intervention trainer, Jorge Arteaga, leads listeners in a short grounding practice called "Box Breathing." This practice is used by the military and you may find it comes in handy to help de-escalate every other type of stress too. Learn more about using Box Breathing to keep steady when witnessing and intervening in harassment and other harmful situations during the full interview with Jorge in S3 E9: Bystander Intervention for Racism, Police Violence & Ending Harassment in All Its Forms. Or, watch the Video Podcast on our YouTube channel2020-12-2103 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 E9: Bystander Intervention for Racism, Police Violence & Ending Harassment in All Its FormsAfter a hiatus to organize and lead election activist events 7-days-a-week, we’re back! Our guest this week: Jorge Arteaga, the Director of Operations for Hollaback!—an incredible FREE bystander intervention training org whose mission began with stopping street sexual harassment and has expanded, to stop harassment in all its forms.Jorge is also the originator of their training in Bystander Intervention to Stop Police Sponsored Violence and Anti-Black Racist Harassment, which he previews during our interview. In this episode:Hear Jorge’s powerful personal storyLearn techniqu...2020-12-0651 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 E8: #KeepSharingTheMic--"We Need to Listen to Black Women"In this episode, we changed up the format to #KeepSharingtheMic with Jovan Martinez and Cassity Yeye of the STEPS to End Family Violence Early Relationship Abuse Prevention Program, who graced the stage at a #HealMeToo Festival pop up event earlier this year, A Love Thing, recorded for Season 2 of the podcast. Jovan’s beautiful lead singing at that event also graces the opening and closing credits of each episode in Season 3, sampling The Whispers.We're so grateful that Jovan and Cassity returned to the platform to have a conversation ab...2020-09-0856 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 E7: Creating a "Culture of Care" in Our Work SpacesIn such traumatic times, and especially in light of the Movement for Black Lives against systemic racism, as well as the dangers, lost lives and lost incomes in the pandemic, right now our workplaces and work relationships are pressed to become more centered in care. But how can each of us, as workers or employers, adjust our practices to do this?Akia Squitieri is an award-winning Producer, Director, Arts Administrator, and Anti-Harassment Advocate. She is the Founding Artistic Director of Rising Sun Performance Company and Co-Executive Director for the Innovative Theatre Foundation & New York Innovative...2020-08-2549 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 E6: Latinx Survivor Activism & Healing in 2020Meet Jennifer Ruiz Diaz and Lorraine Correa, two amazing advocates and counselors from the Sexual Violence Project at Violence Intervention Program (VIP) in New York City, a community-based, non-profit organization partnering with Latinx and immigrant communities to end domestic, intimate partner and sexual violence. Jennifer and Lorraine share an update on how Latinx survivors are doing, who VIP Executive Director, Margarita Guzmán, recently described as hunted by abusive partners, abusive governments, and now by this deadly virus. You'll hear ways we all can step up to support Latinx c...2020-08-1054 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 E5: #HealMeToo Call to Action -- How We #WinEverything in Under 100 DaysThe #HealMeToo Podcast & Festival have always offered insights, art, and activism to change our culture. And today, we’re taking a break from our usual format, to focus on that third part: activism -- what each of us can do to help change the culture and meet the urgent needs of now. As you may have heard before from #HealMeToo Podcast host, Hope Singsen, she's led an electoral activist group since early 2017 called Swing Left Target 2020 NYC. You can learn more about that group at bit.ly/slt20.Last week, we recorded their full group mee...2020-08-0554 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 Xtra 4: 20-minute Chair Yoga PracticeSettle in for a short chair yoga exploration with Julie Fernandez, lead trainer from Exhale to Inhale, a nonprofit that teaches trauma-informed yoga for free to survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence.(And don't miss Julie's full episode: #HealMeToo Podcast S3 E4)Learn more about Julie and find links to Exhale to Inhale's free online classes and more on our episode page.Subscribe now and join us throughout the summer for new #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as here, on our new YouTube channel...2020-07-2927 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 E4: Why Yoga & Movement Help You Feel BetterDiscover the amazing Exhale to Inhale, a nonprofit that teaches trauma-informed yoga for free to survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence, now available online for free to everyone experiencing stress and trauma! Our guest is Julie Fernandez, lead trainer at Exhale to Inhale, and the primary trauma therapist with the Hope Integrative Psychiatry team. (You can also experience Julie's beautiful 15-minute chair yoga as #HealMeToo Podcast S3 Xtra 4!)In this Season 3 Episode 4, you’ll hear about:Julie’s personal story of regaining comfort with her body and brea...2020-07-2538 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 E3: What to Do About Tech Abuse in a Virtual AgeLearn how technology is getting weaponized during the COVID-19 shutdown (and always) for people dealing with toxic relationships & intimate partner violence, as well as in the sextortion and abuse of minors and men--and most importantly, learn strategies that can help.Guests Carrie Goldberg of Victims’ Rights law firm, C. A. Goldberg and #HealMeToo Podcast returning guest, Maisie Breit of the NYC Mayor’s Office to End Gender Based and Domestic Violence (ENDGBV) share a wealth of insights and resources that illuminate:The uses of technology in sexual, gender-based and intimate partner harassment & abus...2020-07-1951 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 Xtra 3: "Breath & Body" Guided MeditationA very special Podcast Extra with Sherina Davis, professional trainer, ontological coach and educator with Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States. Sherina led us in a short guided meditation to explore the grounding comfort of being quiet and simply present with our bodies, and with deep and gentle breaths.Sherri Papamihalis, Clinical Director at Safe Horizon’s Counseling Center, and Maureen Curtis, VP of Criminal Justice & Court Programs, joined us for the meditation, and share about the experience afterward.Learn more about our guests and fi...2020-07-1529 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 E2: A Safe Horizon for Survivors Throughout 2020Learn about the incredible work of NYC’s Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States. Maureen Curtis, VP of Criminal Justice & Court Programs and Sherri Papamihalis, Clinical Director at Safe Horizon’s Counseling Center, help kick off the #HealMeToo #AtHome series with an update on the spike in domestic violence and childhood sexual abuse experienced through the shutdown, the sudden recession, and the toll of racial trauma coming up in response to increasing White Supremacist violence, unrelenting police brutality, and the uprising in defense of Black Lives. ...2020-07-1349 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 Xtra 1: "Supportive Touch" Guided MeditationIn this Podcast Extra, therapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, David Fredrickson, leads listeners in a short practice called "Supportive Touch." To learn more about this practice, listen to the full conversation with David in S3 E1: The Kindness & Support of Mindful Self-Compassion. Or, watch the full episode on our new YouTube channel. Join us throughout the summer for new episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on YouTube as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.Between episodes, you'll find us on all social media 2020-07-0804 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 Xtra 2: "Self-Compassion Break" Guided MeditationIn this Podcast Extra, therapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, David Fredrickson, leads listeners in a short practice called a "Self-Compassion Break." To learn more about this practice, listen to the full conversation with David in S3 E1: The Kindness & Support of Mindful Self-Compassion. Or, watch the full episode on our new YouTube channel. Join us throughout the summer for new episodes on all the usual podcast platforms as well as on YouTube as we continue Season 3: #HealMeToo At-Home--focused on the needs of now.Between episodes, you'll find us on all social...2020-07-0807 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS3 E1: The Kindness & Support of Mindful Self-CompassionIn the Premiere Episode of Season 3, hear the therapist and teacher of a healing practice called Mindful Self-Compassion, David Fredrickson, and learn some techniques that may help you offer yourself loving kindness, support or even comfort right when experiencing stress, discomfort or pain. Throughout the #HealMeToo #AtHome series, we'll explore tools that may help with the many forms of trauma that survivors and our communities are encountering in these times of hate violence and the Uprising in Defense of Black Lives, ongoing state violence against immigrants, and the losses, confinement, and economic stress of the C...2020-07-0656 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureSeason 3 Preview: #HealMeToo #AtHome Premieres 7/6!Announcing the #HealMeToo Podcast's third season -- #HealMeToo At-Home — with insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Tune in on July 6 on your favorite podcasting platform or on our new #HealMeToo Podcast & Festival YouTube channel.It’s never been more urgent to change our culture. It’s also never been clearer that all forms of violence intersect, and impact some communities more brutally than others. Throughout the #HealMeToo At Home series, we’ll highlight ways listeners can take action. And we’ll keep centering the intersecting harms that so many survivors and communitie...2020-07-0107 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS2 E5: Our Relationships, Sex & Intimacy--Joli IenusoSexologist Joli M. Ienuso (@jo_li_brary on IG) discusses the road to heal our intimate relationships after sexual, gender-based or intimate partner violence, including options to gradually reclaim sexual well being and even good sex. Learn more on the episode details page on our website.In Season 2, we've explored ways survivors and our allies can experience healthier relationships -- in our dating relationships, within our own voice and body, and now, in our sexual practice, too. The pandemic and shutdown interrupted our plans for Season 2, and this episode...2020-06-2750 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS2 E4: The Relationship with Our Own Voice—The Angel Band ProjectLearn about the powerful work of The Angel Band Project and the unique relationship we have with own own voice—including a playful exercise you can join in from home. Guests include music therapist Katie Down, back again after her appearance in Episodes 1 & 2 of this season, and Rachel Ebeling, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Angel Band Project, as well as Amber, a survivor who just recorded her Song of Survival with Katie and Rachel, for the Angel Band Project’s upcoming cd release. In this episode you’l...2020-03-0946 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS2 E3: The Relationship with Our Body & Movement--Jinah ParkerHear dancer, choreographer, educator, playwright, and trained natural healer, Jinah Parker explore the ways and reasons that telling our story through movement can be a powerful resource for healing. Jinah is the creator of “SHE” which explores intersections of racial injustice with sexual violence, which The Root describes as “a choreoplay that fiercely tackles sexual, physical, emotional and state violence, along with self-care and healing.” Throughout the episode, Jinah shares insights and creative healing tools that we can use from home to sit with whatever we’re feeling, connect with those around us, foster dynamic conversatio...2020-03-0147 min#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS2 Xtra 1: Our Community Agreements LanguageBefore A LOVE THING (shared in Episodes 1&2 of Season 2), host Hope Singsen read a few Community Agreements, as we do at every #HealMeToo Festival show that includes audience conversations. Hope referred to these agreements briefly during the panel discussion in last week’s episode, and thought now would be a great time to share them in full.Our language is largely based on the Community Agreements used at the Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York. You can read the text of the agreements used at #HealMeToo Festival events here or at healmetoopodcast.co...2020-03-0105 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS2 E2: A Love Thing, Part 2: Live Event RecordingPart 2 of a live recording of the first #HealMeToo Festival Popup event of 2020 -- A LOVE THING, featuring teen and young adult musicians, performers and advocates talking about ways to have more healthy relationships and handle harmful ones. A LOVE THING was co sponsored by The NYC Mayor’s Office to ENDGBV, The Angel Band Project, and The Tank theater. Artists and advocates heard in this episode include:A panel discussion led by host Hope Singsen with Daniella Love Misyuk & Maisie Bre...2020-02-2139 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS2 E1: A Love Thing, Part 1: Live Event RecordingPart 1 of a live recording of the first #HealMeToo Festival Popup event of 2020 -- A LOVE THING, featuring teen and young adult musicians, performers and advocates talking about ways to have more healthy relationships and handle harmful ones. A LOVE THING was co sponsored by The NYC Mayor’s Office to ENDGBV, The Angel Band Project, and The Tank theater. Artists heard in this episode include:Singer/songwriter Vanessa Marie sharing work created with The Angel Band Project, accompanied by Katie Down and...2020-02-1439 min#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureSeason 2 Premieres on Valentine's DayTune in on Valentine’s Day for the first episode of #HealMeToo Podcast’s brand new season of insights, art and activism to change our culture. You’ll hear the live recording of the first #HealMeToo Festival Popup event of 2020 -- A LOVE THING, featuring teen and young adult musicians, performers and advocates talking about ways to have healthier relationships and handle harmful ones. A LOVE THING was co sponsored by The NYC Mayor’s Office to ENDGBV, The Angel Band Project, and The Tank theater...2020-02-0901 min#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CulturePssst--Free Live #HealMeToo Taping on Feb 5!FREE! A Love Thing: Live Show & #HealMeToo Podcast TapingEnjoy music, performance and conversation about some ways teens -- and we all -- can create healthier relationships & get out of harmful ones.One night only. FREE. 85 minutes. Appropriate for ages 16+. Reserve seats now.Featuring inspiring performances, original songs and a choral improvisation led by Music Therapist Katie Down of The Angel Band Project (angelbandproject.org). At the heart of this unique event in honor of Teen Dating Violence Prevention Month...2020-02-0102 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E11: Healing #FamiliesToo--Broadway's Shona Tucker & Therapist Fiona True on the Impacts for "Secondary Survivors"We often focus--rightly--on the needs of victims and survivors. But "Secondary Survivors" are the supporters and loved ones of any victim of sexual violence, who may themselves become traumatized. In this episode, we focus on the healing needs of everyone around the victim, to recognize and understand how sexual violence impacts #FamiliesToo. #HealMeToo Festival hit show Growing Wild, created and performed by Broadway's Shona Tucker, tells the story of a family's inter-generational quest to heal from the trauma of a mysterious sex crime. Hear Shona share in-depth with expert family therapist Fiona True o...2019-10-1050 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 Xtra 7: Tony Award-Winner Tonya Pinkins' "Truth & Reconciliation" Performance ExcerptsAs we get ready for an exciting #HealMeToo Festival Popup Event this weekend -- the World Premiere of Tony-winner Tonya Pinkins' Truth And Reconciliation of Womyn this Saturday at 3 PM in NYC at The Tank theater, we hope enjoy these excerpts from the #HealMeToo Festival presentation last March and April, 2019 at the IRT Theater. Then join us if you're in town! You can get $20 tickets to the Saturday matinee (or any of their performances) at https://thetanknyc.org/tonyapinkinstr.In this #HealMeToo Podcast Extra, you'll hear selections from the following plays and songs (in order...2019-10-0110 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E10: Festival Artists on Working Intersectionally to Speak Out, Create Change, Dance Blind & Heal6 gorgeously interesectional artists share honestly (and humorously) about the beauty and challenges of working together to create art that heals our lives and cultureThese artists (together with about 6 more who couldn't join us!) helped make the #HealMeToo Festival's Self/Worth Variety Show a moving, sumptuous and transformative event: Raquel Almazan, Maybe Burke, Yvette Heyliger, Micaela Mamede & Krishna Christine Washburn.Reviewing the list of keywords for this episode tells the whole story:Intersectional, Immigrant, Undocumented, Racial Justice, Race, Disability, Blindness, Gender, Transgender, GNC, Nonbinary, Whiteness, Privilege, Sex Work, Stripper Shoes, Healing, MeToo...2019-09-251h 05#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 Xtra 6: Performances by Maybe Burke & Ianne Fields StewartAn audio drama extra featuring: "Do You Want Me To Stop?" from Love Letters to Nobody by Maybe Burke, as presented on thefemaleplaywrightproject.com with sound design by Natalie Johnsonius Neubert. An excerpt of Ianne Fields Stewart's live performance of their original work "On the Train to Nowhere in Particpular" and Other Poems, recorded at the Musical Theater Factory.Content warning: frank descriptions of sexuality and sexual assault.You can also watch videos of both excerpts on the Episode Details Page. You can also hear #HealMeToo Podcast Episode 9, where Ianne and Maybe discuss transgender, GNC an...2019-09-1012 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E09: Ianne Fields Stewart & Maybe Burke--Transgender & GNC Perspectives on Healing & #MeTooTwo phenomenal artist-activists for social justice and the human rights of trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming (GNC) folks, Ianne Fields Stewart and Maybe Burke, join us to talk about the pervasive experiences of sexual violence and gender oppression within their communities, and ideas that help support healing. Ianne Fields Stewart is a Black queer nonbinary transfeminine New York-based storyteller working at the intersection of theatre and activism. Their work and she are dedicated to interrupting the exclusivity of luxury by making things like entertainment, nourishment, and self care accessible to the most marginalized in their...2019-09-0555 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E08: Sarah Jane Johnson & Patrice Miller on Devil In A Box, Collaborative Magic & Learning to HealArtist and Chief-of-Staff at The Moth, Sarah Jane Johnson, and Patrice Miller, director, joined Hope Singsen to discuss their project, Devil In A Box, which was presented to sold out houses at The #HealMeToo Festival.Equal parts poetic theater and feminist stand-up, Devil in a Box follows the journey of a young American woman from sexual assault, through the French justice system and into life after trauma. A frightening yet joyous tale, Sarah Jane chronicles the complexities of it all with disarming honesty, beaucoup d’humour, and a 24 oz. can of Miller Lite.By...2019-08-1453 min#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 Xtra 5: Solo play with music, SKIN, by Hope Singsen--Festival Performance ExcerptAn audio drama excerpt from the solo play with music, SKIN, created and performed by Hope Singsen, the artist, survivor/activist, and founder of the #HealMeToo Festival. Director: Jessi D. Hill, Stage Manager: Yve Carruthers.In SKIN, two things threaten a grad student’s dissertation on Virginia Woolf: her hot new girlfriend and her own dark past. Frank and funny, this queer love story with music explores some of the ways art helps us heal, tracking a woman’s road back toward intimacy and wholeness after sexual violence. Racing to write herself into a happier futu...2019-08-0914 min#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 Xtra 4: How Live Arts Impact Audiences--A Talk by Hope Singsen to the Alliance for the Arts in Research UniversitiesListen to a recording of a talk Hope gave at the national conference of the Alliance for Arts in Research Universities (A2RU) in November 2018, about the ways she is using her solo play with music, SKIN, to hopefully impact and even help audiences to heal, and how she is demonstrating those impacts through audience research.Watch a video excerpt from SKIN on the Episode Details page on our website healmetoopodcast.com. You can also read the text of Hope's talk at the A2RU conference on Hope's Blog. While you're there, join our email list to...2019-08-0121 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E07: The Healing Process--Why It's Confusing & Ideas That Help. Elise Schuster & Val Koutmina unpack questions raised by Hope Singsen's play SKINSex educator, relationship advisor & co-founder of iOS advice app, okayso.app, Elise Schuster, and Valeria Koutmina of The Art Therapy Project use the Festival performance of Hope Singsen's solo play with music, SKIN, as a jumping off point to consider common questions about the healing process.Along the way, Elise and Val share professional perspectives as Hope offers examples from personal life as well as within her play, SKIN, to illuminate: Why it takes so dang long to recover from impacts of sexual violenceWhy it can be confusing to recognize these impacts Why it's often hard to...2019-07-2353 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E06: Tony-winner Tonya Pinkins & Art Therapist Lindsay Lederman on Neuroscience & Healing Through ArtArtists and audiences alike describe feeling changed by visual, narrative, musical, and performance works of art. The shift can be slight, but it can be profound, too. What's happening in our minds and bodies when we engage with the arts, to allow that transformation to occur? Are there special ways art-making can help address the neurobiological effects of trauma, in particular? And might engaging with art, individually and as a culture, help inspire the changes we wish to bring about?Hear Tony-winning performer & playwright Tonya Pinkins and Lindsay Lederman, the Clinical Director of The Art T...2019-07-1546 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E05: #TheatreToo Panel Part 2--Personal Stories, Cultural Forces & Audience Q&APart 2 continues the #TheatreToo conversation, as 5 industry leaders answer audience Q&A and:Recount their personal stories of empowerment through whisper networksDescribe ways LIT, ART/NY and even the Calisto app are working to organize the information in offline "whisper" networks and increase accountabilityShare a story of trauma getting triggered during the creative process, and finding support through sharing stories Explore some of the obstacles that prevent people from taking advantage of complaint processes Address ways economic exploitation of labor in theatre dovetails with harassmentOffer resources to help artists and arts organizations create culture change in their rehearsal roo...2019-07-0739 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E04: #TheatreToo Panel Part 1--Ways to Effect Change in a Freelance Creative IndustryHow are theatre artists organizing to take the "whisper" out of the network? In Part 1, five knowledgable leaders discuss their work to address and prevent sexual harassment and assault within the theatre industry:Programs that support independent artists to shift our culture and practices, especially in freelance and nonunion contextsThe advantages and disadvantages of a whisper network compared to traditional HR channels, and new ways of bringing our "whispers" forwardUpstander/bystander techniques that bring issues into the open in productive and transformative ways to help create safer spacesThe tiny yet impactful culture shifts we all can create in...2019-06-2537 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E03: Advocates on Bystander Intervention, Restorative Justice & Healthy MasculinityHear 3 survivor advocates doing amazing work to help #HealMeToo in our culture:Offering bystander training with surprisingly simple techniques to intervene and deescalate harmful situations in the earliest stages.Working with men and boys to cultivate healthy masculinity.Illuminating the ways unconscious bias defines "who is worthy of help," leading to harm. Ways to support people as they process allegations of harassment and assault. Strategies to center trans and gender nonconforming people and concerns within single-sex identity groups.How Restorative Justice practices can offer communities a path to healing without going through the courts, while engaging all parties in...2019-06-1859 min#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 Xtra 3: Festival Opening Night with Katie Cappiello's GoodCapp Arts & JKO High SchoolMeet performers from the #HealMeToo Festival Opening Night, including teens from Katie Cappiello’s GoodCapp Arts Ensemble and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School’s Smash Arts Productions. On this Podcast Extra, you'll hear:Excerpts from a movement storytelling piece, titled Through the I’s, which was devised and performed by JKO's Smash Arts students under the direction of their teacher Elisa De Gregorio as part of a Roundabout Theatre Company residency with Teaching Artists Jason Jacobs, theater, and Nick Moore, sound design. Their text is from the transcript of survivor Emily Doe’s testimony in the Brock Tur...2019-06-1412 min#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 Xtra 2: Q&A with Sarah Austin Jenness & Katie Cappiello2 experts in the art of personal storytelling fielded questions from our live audience about how audience interactions with storytellers may contribute to healing -- for the audience, for the performers, and ultimately for the culture. In the process, they shared stories of encountering resistance, the value of empathy and the art of listening, and times that audience interactions could be guided toward transformational encounters.Sarah Austin Jenness, Executive Producer of The Moth -- a 21 year old arts organization and home of The Moth Radio Hour, The Moth Podcast, and over 600 live storytelling events worldwide each year, andPlaywright Katie...2019-06-1117 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E02: The Moth's Sarah Austin Jenness & Netflix "Grand Army" Series Creator Katie Cappiello on Personal StorytellingHear two experts in the art of personal storytelling consider how telling and listening to our stories may be healing.With a live audience at the #HealMeToo Festival, Founder and Artistic Director Hope Singsen interviewed: Sarah Austin Jenness, Executive Producer of The Moth -- a 21 year old arts organization and home of The Moth Radio Hour, The Moth Podcast, and over 600 live storytelling events worldwide each year, andPlaywright Katie Cappiello, whose plays about teen sexuality, based on their own first-hand accounts, have been widely toured and praised.Together, Jenness and Cappiello have decades of experience w...2019-06-1039 min#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 Xtra 1: Q&A with Emma SulkowiczAnswering a question from a French audience member who followed their Mattress Performance protest throughout 2014-15, Emma shares stories about two of the most surprising, authentic and positive interactions with strangers while carrying the mattress at Columbia University. Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.Listen and subscribe to the #HealMeToo Podcast on Apple Podcasts at bit.ly/hm2pod. Or visit healmetoopodcast.com to find links to other platforms. On our site, you can find detailed episode notes, including Emma's bio and video of Emma accepting the first...2019-05-3106 min
#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureS1 E01: Emma Sulkowicz on Healing Through ActivismWorld-famous artist and activist Emma Sulkowicz debunks misconceptions about their protest work "Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)" in which they carried a mattress from 2014 to 2015 at Columbia University, sparking a movement against rape on campuses worldwide -- and shares personal stories and insights about the healing process they experienced while creating that work. The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted by Hope Singsen--the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival in NYC this Spring. Subscribe now. Let's talk about how we can #HealMeToo.F...2019-05-3144 min#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureTrailer 2: Performances from the #HealMeToo FestivalSubscribe now to get #HealMeToo Podcast Extras throughout Season One with longer excerpts of the plays, monologues, poems, songs and more heard at the #HealMeToo Festival. In order of appearance, this episode features the following excerpts: ****Scaffolding, with music by Thomas Jacobsen and lyrics by Dana Aber, from the soloshow Dana Aber’s Baggage at the Door, presented in the variety show Self / Worth, curated by Hope Singsen. ****Through the I's, devised and performed by the students of Smash Arts Productions at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School, based on th...2019-05-2903 min#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our CultureTrailer 1: #HealMeToo Podcast Starts June 3Hear from the 50+ artists, experts and activists who performed in the first-ever #HealMeToo Festival or joined panels and participatory workshops to empower survivors and help inspire change. In this preview of the Podcast, you'll hear (in order of appearance): -Tony-winning actor, playwright, producer & activist Tonya Pinkins. -Lindsay Lederman, Clinical Director of The Art Therapy Project. -The Moth's Executive Producer Sarah Austin Jenness. -Celebrated playwright Katie Cappiello of the highly-acclaimed teen shows "Slut" and "Now That We're Men." -Survivor advocate and prevention educator ...2019-05-2702 min
Feminist Wednesday's BeaverTalk#HealMeToo FestivalHappy Feminist Wednesday, Bettys! Hope Singsen and Carmen LoBue join Diana to talk about the upcoming #HealMeToo Festival, which uses theater, live discussion, and podcasts to continue the conversation around #MeToo. They discuss how empathy can be a powerful source for healing and the importance of creating intersectional spaces to further cultural change. If you’re […]2019-03-0600 min
Feminist Wednesday's BeaverTalk#HealMeToo FestivalHappy Feminist Wednesday, Bettys! Hope Singsen and Carmen LoBue join Diana to talk about the upcoming #HealMeToo Festival, which uses theater, live discussion, and podcasts to continue the conversation around #MeToo. They discuss how empathy can be a powerful source for healing and the importance of creating intersectional spaces to further cultural change. If you’re […]2019-03-0634 min