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
18 Practice: Holding a Healing Justice Practice Space with Healing By Choice (Marcia Lee, Violeta Donawa, & Adela Nieves Martinez)
18 Collective Healing -- Healing By Choice (Adela Nieves Martinez, Violeta Donawa, & Marcia Lee)
17 Notes from the Field with Kate Werning
16 Practice: Leading Movement Songs with Intention with IfNotNow (Ilana Lerman & Helen Bennett)
16 Building Liberatory Movement Cultures -- IfNotNow (Helen Bennett, Michal David, & Ilana Lerman)
15 Practice: Releasing to Pachamama with Fhatima Paulino
15 Decolonization & the Long View of History -- Carlos Saavedra & Fhatima Paulino
14 Practice: Ancestral Connection for White Folks with Jardana Peacock & Kelly Germaine-Strickland
14 Ancestral Healing for Anti-Racist White Folks -- Jardana Peacock & Kelly Germaine-Strickland
13 Practice: Reflection on Belonging with Prentis Hemphill
13 Blackness & Belonging -- Prentis Hemphill
12 Practice: Somatic Centering with Sumitra Rajkumar
12 Somatics & Politics -- Sumitra Rajkumar
11 Practice: Naming Our Medicine
11 Voices from Liberation School
10 New Years Practice: Cast a Spell with adrienne maree brown
10 Imagination & Critical Connection -- adrienne maree brown
09 Transparency Talk: a check-in chat with Kate
07 Practice: Emotional Freedom Technique with Geleni Fontaine of Third Root Community Health Center
07 De-spa-ifying Healing & Accessibility -- Third Root Community Health Center
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