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Karla Kerr is a holistic funeral director and death doula whose mission is to reclaim death care and bring it back into the community. She focuses on creating safe spaces for open and honest conversations about end of life options with less euphemism and more clarity. Karla is passionate about sharing the knowledge and experience she has gained from working in traditional funeral homes and does so with a healthy dose of levity and humour. Website: https://karlakerr.ca/ -EPISODE SUMMARY- PRACTICES:
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Facilitation in organizations is a field full of opportunities for play as well as obstacles to connection. To navigate an organizational field, a deep curiosity and nuanced approach are needed. In this episode Rehana Tejpar, founder of Bloom Consulting, lifts the curtain on the practices and philosophies underlying her work helping organizations become more human and free.
-GUEST BIOGRAPHY- Rehana Tejpar is a facilitator, mediator and coach working with leaders and organizational ecosystems to support culture change towards equity, collaboration, organizational health and creativity. Since 2005, she has been playing with play-based learning and transformation through Theatre of the Oppressed, InterPlay, and more recently sacred clowning. She is deeply serious and deeply playful at once, believing in the need for strategies that include creativity & play as ways to open up the fields of possible transformations, and reconnecting our mind, body, heart and spirit. She is based in Tio:tia’ke/Montreal, on the shores of the Iroquois River and works with Bloom Consulting -EPISODE SUMMARY- PRACTICES:
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Instead of getting stuck in existing relational molds, we can become the architects of our relationships. The potential rewards are exciting, but there are many traps and unhealthy dynamics to overcome to get there. In this episode, Jessica Fern offers invaluable wisdom and guidelines to help us shine bright in our relationships, no matter how we choose to design them.
-GUEST BIOGRAPHY- Jessica Fern is a Psychotherapist, Coach, and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. Jessica is the author of Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Nonmonogamy and The Polysecure Workbook: Healing Your Attachment and Creating Security in Loving Relationships. In her international private practice, Jessica works with individuals, couples, and people in multiple-partner relationships who no longer want to be limited by their reactive patterns, cultural conditioning, insecure attachment styles, and past traumas, helping them to embody new possibilities in life and love. Learn more at JessicaFern.com. -EPISODE SUMMARY- PRACTICES:
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It can be easy to get stuck in a narrative loop about how we never have enough time to do everything and that our value stems from our productivity. Becca Rich is a holistic time coach that helps people step off of this endless hamster wheel and create an abundant and expansive relationship to time.
-GUEST BIOGRAPHY- Becca Rich (she/her) is an engineer turned certified holistic time coach and educator. Her work is to coach and teach people how to approach time management as a whole, human being so that they can make the most of their time. She believes that collaborating with time is essential for self-care, experiencing presence and joy, and living an impactful and fulfilling life. More about Becca: https://www.theholistictimecoach.com/ -EPISODE SUMMARY- PRACTICES:
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Kai Cheng Thom is a cultural worker, mediator, facilitator, pleasure activist & writer. She has incorporated skills grown from crisis intervention, trauma-informed activism, community mental health practice, and somatics in order to develop a facilitation style that is gentle, boundaried, accessible, and fiercely compassionate. She is the author of the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir, the essay collection I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes at the End of the World, and the poetry collection a place called No Homeland. More about Kai Cheng: -EPISODE SUMMARY- PRACTICES:
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Jovana Milović aka Soror Mystica soared high in the academy before crashing beautifully and painfully into the fullness of existence. She has since traveled the world, studying modalities of life and helping people reconnect to their full existence. Her words ring with wisdom and intellect, and she offers invitations for a bold and enlivened future for all of us.
-GUEST BIOGRAPHY- I am a mystic, mentor & ritualist. My practice weaves together Sexual Shamanism, Neo-Tantra, Animism, Shadow Alchemy, Somatics, Womb Wisdom, and Temple Arts. My work is my prayer and my prayer is this: Let us reclaim the wisdom of our bodies, harness the raw life-force of our sexuality and show up with true agency in the world. Let us decolonize our minds, bodies and spirits and activate the wild genius of our primordial nature. And let us find the way forward oriented by love, not fear. More about Jovana: -EPISODE SUMMARY- PRACTICES:
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Do we dare take up space in public, creating beautiful moments of social connection even at the risk of annoying people or being rejected by doing so ? Jacques W. Martiquet does exactly this, doing the social reps to bring joy to the planet while navigating the complexity of disruption, party science, consent, and the latent potential in every group.
-GUEST BIOGRAPHY- Jacques W. Martiquet is on a mission to end the rise of loneliness and depression. Known as the International Party Scientist, he has been interviewed by VICE, CTV, Global News and Elle. After completing his degree in Pharmacology, he traveled to 13 countries igniting hundreds of sober parties in public spaces. He's on Earth to equip innovative leaders with science-based human connection tools for their company events, so that their wellness & culture budget translates into lasting results. More about Jacques: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thepartyscientist/ https://thepartyscientist.com/ -EPISODE SUMMARY- PRACTICES:
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Nadia Chaney is a master arts facilitator, a talented artist, and a beautiful friend. In this conversation, she offers pathways to break free from a search for constant productivity and to gently orient ourselves in the direction of play and uselessness.
-GUEST BIOGRAPHY- Nadia is a multi-disciplinary artist, community arts facilitator and facilitation trainer. She is known for her ability to clarify and simplify complex concepts, to work joyfully with participant resistance and challenging dynamics, to engage powerful diversity and inclusion practices, and for her creative and bold arts-based group process design. She is the founder of The Time Zone Research Lab (community arts-based research into the nature of Time) and Toolsi (on demand facilitation training). More about Nadia Chaney: www.nadiachaney.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadia-chaney-59637021/ https://www.instagram.com/eternalflux_/ Link to Toolsi: https://facilitate.toolsi.ca/ -EPISODE SUMMARY- PRACTICES:
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What does it take to be true, to be anchored in our hearts and to let our light shine out, even as the going gets tough ? Juanita Giraldo Bueno does all these things with strength and vulnerability as part of her life centering practices, both as an individual and in intentional community.
-GUEST BIOGRAPHY- It is with her radiant joy and contagious enthusiasm that Juanita accompanies beings to connect with their own powerful inner confidence, to realize their true nature and manifest their dearest aspirations. With her unconditional love for life, passages and transformation, she guides those that seek through the process of liberation. Her work is supported by deep workshops and rituals based on the traditional and timeless teachings she received from Tibetan Buddhism, Yogic traditions and Indigenous and Shamanic lineages. Her unique, effective and authentic approach offers everyone a unique chance to transcend the futile towards a life of expansion and sublime ecstasy. -EPISODE SUMMARY- PRACTICES
IDEAS Aligning with the voice of the heart
Conflict
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Navigating a world that shuts down our authentic selves means that navigating spaces of play and creativity can be terrifying. In this enlightening conversation, Parneet breaks down why shame is so toxic, and pathways to bring our shadows to the light.
-GUEST BIOGRAPHY- Parneet is a human being inspired by the resilience and healing abilities of the human heart, mind and body. Her life is oriented towards the liberation and wholeness of all beings including herself. Parneet works as a counsellor and somatic experiencing practitioner in private practice, as well as a mindfulness and authentic relating facilitator. PRACTICES
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Shame
Intersectionality & play
Conflict
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Monica Paraghamian (she/her/elle) is an educator, artist and entrepreneur. When she isn’t singing gospel or working on the second edition of her children’s book on mindfulness, she’s designing and facilitating learning experiences for youth and adults. Monica believes that every person is chalk-full of talents, and that much of life is about the unfolding and exploration of these.
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Cleo da Fonseca is a theater artist, educator and puppeteer who lives in Tiohtià:ke, also known as Montreal. She co-runs a theater company for young audiences called “Théâtre de la flamme” with Carolina Chmielewski; the focus of their productions are the “protagonism” of youth in each story. Cleo also works as a nature school educator with kids and teens where she finds deep connection with the natural world.
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IDEAS Emotions
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