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How to Survive the End of the WorldCoronavirus: Wisdom from a Social Justice LensIn this bonus episode from Healing Justice Podcast, we bring you advice about how to adapt your travel and gatherings, timely medical information, invocations, grounding practices and reflections from the March 7, 2020 webinar: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Preparation for People Living with Chronic Illnesses in the United States.
Unlike much of what we’re seeing in the media and public discussion, this virtual gathering centered the wisdom and life experiences of people who live with chronic illnesses and disability.
The voices you'll hear are:
- Kate Werning, Director, Healing Justice Podcast
- Maryse Mitchell-Brody
- JD Davids, strategist and storyteller, The Cranky Queer
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????Resilience is Ours: Voices from the Allied Media ConferenceResilience is deeply necessary for us to survive and thrive, but it can often be imposed, distorted, or misunderstood. So we wanted to hear from our people what it means to them, and how they cultivate it for themselves.
This past June, our podcast volunteer team from all over the country took a trip to Detroit together for the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference (AMC), and hosted a workshop called Healing Justice Podcast Story Lab. We set up recording booths and asked participants to share the experiences, practices, and relationships that sustained them in their justice journey on the mics. I...2019-03-0629 min????New Years Practice: Cast a Spell with adrienne maree brownWelcome 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 us from 2018 to 2019. You'll need 30-90 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. **
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THE REMIX
This practice was originally posted last year, so some of you have already done this with u...2018-12-2747 min????LIVE from our 1st Birthday Party (with Jillian White, Alexis Francisco, Sumitra Rajkumar, & The Peace Poets)Welcome to our first-ever LIVE SHOW, coming at you from our first birthday party! We are joined by Kate Werning, Jillian White, Sumitra Rajkumar (of episode 12), Alexis Francisco (of episode 33), The Peace Poets (of episode 23) with Dr. Drum, and 150 of our celebrating friends in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
We enjoyed powerful music with The Peace Poets and Dr. Drum, talked about how healing is moving for us in our organizing work, and celebrated the amazing things this broader community has moved in the world this past year.
We also talked about our dreams to continue this powerful project, including Jillian joining...2018-12-131h 22????You're invited to our Birthday Party!You're invited to our first birthday party & live show!
More info and tickets here: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjparty
Sliding scale tickets and sponsorships available.
Did we mention there will be cake?
If you can't be in Brooklyn on December 11th, join us via livestream on our Instagram (@healingjustice) or Facebook page (Healing Justice Podcast).
Thank you to Kirin Kanakkanatt, Jillian White, Kate Werning, and Zach Meyer for creating this episode.2018-11-2104 min????Making Meaning of Victory & Loss with Maurice Mitchell (Working Families Party), Barbara Dudley (lifelong activis...We made it through to November 7th! Come get through your midterm election adrenaline/terror hangover with us. The world is drowning in spin and hot-takes, so we're holding a different kind of vulnerable, real-talk space to process the results and work to understand what comes next for our movements as we take stock of both our wins and our losses.
Let's hear about how fun Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory party was *and* recommit ourselves to the long-game work of building a multiracial populist movement for liberation.
We're joined today by Working Families Party National Director Maurice Mitchell, longtime organizer Barbara D...2018-11-071h 11????Inside the Candidate Experience with Stacey Abrams, Ashlee Marie Preston, & Nelini StampWelcome to our CANDIDATES TELL ALL episode, powered by Black women! Running for office is an incredibly strenuous experience. Why do candidates do it, and how do they keep themselves grounded along the way?
Esteemed guests join us today to dish about candidacy and all that it entails: Stacey Abrams (Democratic candidate for Governor of Georgia) tells us how she stays energized on the campaign trail and what her favorite TV shows are, Ashlee Marie Preston (the first transgender candidate to run for state office in California) tells us about what she learned when taking on the establishment from the...2018-10-311h 00????Campaign Workers, Unite! There is Power in a Union (with Meg Reilly of Campaign Workers Guild & Shanequa Charles)Campaign Workers Guild (CWG) is organizing the movement to unionize political and issue-based campaign workers nationwide. CWG Vice President Meg Reilly joins us to talk about why transforming the working conditions of campaigns is necessary for our end goals, how building worker power impacts strategy and what’s possible, and gives us a play-by-play of where to start if you want to start a union. Host Kate Werning and organizer Shanequa Charles share some of their experience and learnings from recently participating in the unionization process on the Cynthia Nixon campaign. Stay tuned all the way til the end for a s...2018-10-241h 20????Building Transformative Campaign Culture with Nancy Leeds (CampaignSick) and Becca Rast (Jess King for Congress)Women campaign managers are transforming the old boys club of transactional campaign culture. We’re joined first by Nancy Leeds of the infamous CampaignSick Tumblr, home of the memes that make us laugh til we cry… and then just keep on crying. Then Becca Rast shares about her transformative work as a campaign manager on the Jess King Congressional race in Pennsylvania, and how a long-term perspective can build healthy campaign culture and leave powerful organizing infrastructure behind after election day.
With the 2018 US midterm elections upon us, Healing Justice Podcast brings you the SURVIVING ELECTIONS miniseries to help us all...2018-10-171h 02????Elections vs. Movements: a strategy showdown with Sunrise (Varshini Prakash & Will Lawrence)It’s a battle of strategy, values, and culture: should we be building social movements for the long-term that embody all of what we deserve; OR engaging in the current reality of the political cycle to win what we can, while we still can? Varshini Prakash and Will Lawrence of Sunrise Movement join us to blow up the binary and explain how their work makes sense of the rhythms of elections and movement vision.
With the 2018 US midterm elections upon us, Healing Justice Podcast brings you the SURVIVING ELECTIONS miniseries to help us all survive this political cycle together. Learn mo...2018-10-101h 02
Inner Truth with David NewellKate Werning: Healing + Social Justice (Spotlight)If you’re in the social justice space you may already know Kate Werning for she is the host of the incredibly powerful and successful Healing Justice Podcast which helps connect people in the space with practices and resources that help nourish and revitalise in these challenging times we’re in. The thing I love about Kate is she is just 100% at service. Whether its in her yoga teaching, providing the Healing Justice platform or her consulting work for major political and social justice campaigns, she is in it to help out constantly. She’s also won...2018-10-0945 min????Surviving Elections: a new miniseries on midterms, movements, & staying humanWith our first podcast season complete and the 2018 US midterm elections upon us, Healing Justice Podcast brings you the SURVIVING ELECTIONS miniseries to help us all survive this political cycle together.
Whether you’re a despairing or disenfranchised voter, a campaign worker, a movement organizer who’s given up on our broken democracy, or watching with horror from outside the United States, we’ve got something for you here. Learn more & check out the upcoming episode list at www.healingjustice.org/elections
This trailer features questions from Michael Strom, Jillian White, Andrew Smith, Adin Buchanan, and Jess Pace (thank you!).
Th...2018-10-0204 min????Practice: Radical Gratitude Spell (by adrienne maree brown, read by Fhatima Paulino)A 5-minute practice to show gratitude for yourself and others on the path to liberation.
The only way that feels appropriate to end this first, long season of Healing Justice Podcast, is with GRATITUDE.
Thank you to adrienne maree brown for granting us permission to read this powerful spell, and thank you to Fhatima Paulino (of epsiode 15) for reading it with such kindness and sending us out with a blessing.
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radical gratitude spell
by adrienne maree brown
read aloud with permission
a spell to cast upon meeting a stranger, comrade or friend working for social and/or environmental justice...2018-08-2605 min????Season 1 Reflection, pt 3: Visioning the Future (Marcia Lee, Zach Meyer & Kate Werning)Welcome to part 3 of our 3-part Season One reflection series. You're joining host Kate Werning, practitioner Marcia Lee of Healing by Choice (episode 18), and our sound designer Zach Meyer. We reflect on this year, explore accountability and hope, and ask big questions followed by quizzical "duck face" (you'll have to listen to Marcia explain what that is herself!).
You also will hear us invite you into a meaningful opportunity to share your voice and help us shape the future. You can do that here: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjpsurvey
Tune in to parts 1 & 2 of our reflection series to explore vulnera...2018-08-2152 min????Season 1 Reflection, pt 2: The Power of Practice (Justin Campbell & Kate Werning)Welcome to part 2 of our 3-part season 1 reflection series. We are excited to share our reflections on practice with you from the past year, and also invite in your voice and practice stories here: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjpsurvey
Join host Kate Werning & friend of the podcast Justin Campbell for a conversation about navigating this growing library of practices, and committing to personal practice in your life.
Tune in to part 1 and part 3 of our reflection series, too: exploring vulnerability and voice (part 1 with Jacoby Ballard), and further reflection on accountability, relationship, and a preview of what's next for us (par...2018-08-1637 min????35 Season 1 Reflection, pt 1: Vulnerability & VoiceWe're BACK... just in time to bring you a 3-part season 1 reflection series and take a seasonal production break. (And inviting in your voice: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjpsurvey !!!)
This reflection series took a long time to record and produce -- mostly because reflection and distillation of wisdom just feels so incomplete. It hasn't been the right time, and our learnings aren't codified -- they are in process, changing daily, and so recording a final reflection is a somewhat impossible task.
But -- we are committed to being incomplete and in process publicly together. Join host Kate Werning & friend J...2018-08-0954 min????34 Trauma, Healing, & Collective Power with generative somatics (Spenta Kandawalla, adrienne maree brown, Prentis...This week, we’re listening in as a brilliant crew from generative somatics has a powerful conversation about trauma, oppression, healing and organizing for structural change. They dig into the connections between personal, collective and structural transformation, and between healing and building collective power. They also explore the term Healing Justice and ask: what does embodied healing have to do with creating liberation?
For this week’s practice, we recommend you dive back into the Healing Justice Podcast archives and listen to Practice 12: Somatic Centering with Sumitra Rajkumar. Sumitra is also part of the teaching body for generative somatics, and the...2018-07-0549 min????33 Practice: Centering Prayer with Mystic Soul (Alexis Francisco & Cicia Lee)In this practice, you’re joining Alexis Francisco and Cicia Lee for the meditative experience of Centering Prayer. They describe it as a constant practice of letting go of factors we can’t control in order to get our egos out of the way and be able to show up well to our lives and our work.
Origin: Centering Prayer practice is said to be created by Trappist monks in fairly recent history, and draws on a rich lineage in Christian mysticism, particularly in the catholic tradition in Europe through St. John of the Cross, and Teresa of Avila. Primary amon...2018-06-2823 min????33 Contemplative Activism — Cicia Lee, Alexis Francisco, & Teresa P Mateus of Mystic SoulWelcome to part 3 of a 3-part collaborative series between the Mystic Soul Project and Healing Justice Podcast!
This week, Cicia Lee, Alexis Francisco, and Teresa P Mateus join us to talk about the role of contemplation in activism, queerness in spiritual community, what POC-centered contemplation can look like, lamentation and grief, and how attending to the internal and breaking through illusion *is* a form of action.
Download the corresponding practice episode to practice Centering Prayer with Alexis and Cicia. Practice episodes always publish on Thursdays.
To hear the rest of the series, download episode 26 to hear from Mystic Soul about...2018-06-261h 06????32 Practice: Relational Inclusion with Cedar Landsman of Relational UprisingJoin Cedar Landsman of Relational Uprising in learning how to inquire appreciatively into what we may be inclined to judge, reject, exclude, dismiss, or devalue about another’s experience. We see what new information this brings to us, helping us to see beyond our own entrenched perspective.
This activity is meant to be done in conjunction with a relational storytelling and resonance practice, which creates the necessary support to do this activity well. (To learn Resonance Practice, see Healing Justice Podcast Episode 20 with Mark Fairfield.)
Follow along with this worksheet to really dig in to some supported reflection and also revi...2018-06-2118 min????32 Bridging Complexity Collectively — Relational Uprising (Lucién Demaris & Cedar Landsman)This week, we’re talking with Lucién Demaris & Cedar Landsman of Relational Uprising about individualism as a system of oppression; “heroic” cultures of organizing; indigenous traditions of healing in Ecuador; repairing rupture, suspicion, and judgment; and bridging as a form of increasing our ability to hold complexity in our movements.
Recommended listening that this episode builds upon: Episode 20: Relational Culture with Mark Fairfield.
Download the corresponding practice (32 Practice: Relational Inclusion) to join Cedar in learning how to inquire appreciatively into what we may be inclined to judge, reject, exclude, dismiss, or devalue about another’s experience. We see what new...2018-06-191h 03????31 Practice: Heart Over Head with Teo DrakeJoin Teo Drake in this incredibly simple embodied exercise to practice privileging your heart above your head.
The questions Teo asks in this practice are:
To whom do I belong?
Who holds me?
Who am I in love with?
Who do I carry with me at my heart center?
What can my heart come home to?
There are lots of reasons that different versions of the yoga pose Balasana (Child’s Pose) that Teo offers might not work in your body. Here’s one option of an instructional video offering various options: https://bodypositiveyoga.com/modifications-for-childs-pose-balasana/ And please, be empowered to fi...2018-06-1409 min
The Riverside Church NYCBelonging Together (Kate Werning)Your work for social justice is important and you belong in the greater movement for social change.
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This episode was written and recorded by Kate Werning, the creator and host of the Healing Justice podcast. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat, the Associate Minister of Digital Strategy and Online Engagement at The Riverside Church.
Find out more about Be Still and Go at www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo.
Find out more about the Healing Justice podcast at www.healingjustice.org.2018-02-2809 min
Be Still and GoBelonging Together (Kate Werning)Your work for social justice is important and you belong in the greater movement for social change.//This episode was written and recorded by Kate Werning, the creator and host of the Healing Justice podcast. It was produced by Rev. Jim Keat, the Associate Minister of Digital Strategy and Online Engagement at The Riverside Church.Find out more about Be Still and Go at www.trcnyc.org/BeStillAndGo.Find out more about the Healing Justice podcast at www.healingjustice.org.2018-02-2809 min
SoulFeed with Shannon AlgeoHealing Justice: A New Podcast with Kate WerningHow are social justice and healing work so powerfully connected? In this podcast, learn how healers and activists can work together, the definition of trauma, why Soul Warriors are waking up to social justice issues, and how to cope with the trauma of seeing global suffering on a daily basis. Our Guest: Kate Werning is the creator and host of Healing Justice Podcast. A decade-long community organizer and social movement trainer, Kate sought out yoga, somatics, meditation, and other healing modalities to sustain her activism and integrate the pursuit of internal and external...2017-12-111h 04SoulFeed with Shannon AlgeoPractice Mindful Politics This ElectionIs it even possible to bring our mindfulness practice into divisive political moments Our Guest: Kate Werning runs Organizing + Field at CTZNWELL, mobilizing communities of wellbeing to take action to make possible the conditions of wellbeing for all. She is also a Hatha yoga instructor residing in Brooklyn, NY and with deep roots in her hometown of Milwaukee, WI. Kate practices the critical connection of personal wellbeing work with a deep commitment to collective liberation through social change every day. http://www.katewerning.com CTZNWELL’s theory of change begins with people. Through pe...2016-10-0551 min