Irresistible (fka Healing Justice Podcast)
Society & Culture
This week we’re talking with psychotherapist Mark Fairfield about the central role of connection in our lives and lethal individualism. We learn about relational culture, factors for resilience, his work supporting caregivers in the AIDS movement, how bullying is a euphemism, and failure.
Download the corresponding practice (“Sharing Resonance”) to learn an amazing exercise to help build connection in your life and your community.
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AFFIRMATIONS
Each week we feature community voices uplifting people, organizations, and communities that embody the values of healing justice. Submit your own personal shout-out to spread love on the airwaves here: https://healingjustice.typeform.com/to/YjvuU2
This week’s AFFIRMATIONS come from:
Mary Ann thanking the Women in Power Community in the UK & the FRIDA Young Feminist Fund, and Marcia uplifting Siwatu-salama Ra in Detroit (email freesiwatu@gmail.com to join Siwatu’s Freedom Team). Thank you both for sharing your commitment to your communities.
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ABOUT OUR GUEST: MARK FAIRFIELD
Mark was the Founder and Executive Director of The Relational Center, a nonprofit community organization that exists to rescue and preserve the important social ties humans depend on for health and well being. He is a leadership coach, consultant, and psychotherapist. His experience in ACT UP helped him understand how movements with strong emphasis on collaborative action and wider-thinking, can catalyze vitality and wellbeing by supplying a social infrastructure that encourages people to look after one another.More about Mark at http://www.markfairfieldlcsw.com/ , learn about The Relational Center in LA at www.relationalcenter.org , & learn more about Relational Uprising training for organizers at http://relationaluprising.org/
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Editing by Yoshi Fields
Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM
Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien
All visuals contributed by Josiah Werning
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Practice: Radical Gratitude Spell (by adrienne maree brown, read by Fhatima Paulino)
Season 1 Reflection, pt 3: Visioning the Future (Marcia Lee, Zach Meyer & Kate Werning)
Season 1 Reflection, pt 2: The Power of Practice (Justin Campbell & Kate Werning)
Season 1 Reflection, pt 1: Vulnerability & Voice (Jacoby Ballard & Kate Werning)
34 Trauma, Healing, & Collective Power with generative somatics (Spenta Kandawalla, adrienne maree brown, Prentis Hemphill, & Staci K. Haines)
33 Practice: Centering Prayer with Mystic Soul (Alexis Francisco & Cicia Lee)
33 Contemplative Activism -- Cicia Lee, Alexis Francisco, & Teresa P Mateus of Mystic Soul
32 Practice: Relational Inclusion with Cedar Landsman of Relational Uprising
32 Bridging Complexity Collectively -- Relational Uprising (Lucién Demaris & Cedar Landsman)
31 Practice: Heart Over Head with Teo Drake
31 Intention & Impact: Showing Up Right-Sized -- Teo Drake
30 Practice: Sing for Freedom with Resistance Revival Chorus' Abena Koomson Davis
30 Joy as an Act of Resistance -- Resistance Revival Chorus (Sarah Sophie Flicker & Meah Pace)
29 Practice: Reclaiming Our Names with AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez of Mystic Soul
29 Indigenous Reclamation -- Mystic Soul (AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez, Ra Mendoza, & Teresa P Mateus)
28 Practice: Essences for Everybody... Making Your Own Medicine with Dori Midnight
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