ChangeMaking Connections

About ChangeMaking Connections

ChangeMaking Connections is a monthly podcast exploring the journeys of change leaders striving for deep societal transformations. Hosted by Beth Berila, this show delves into the intricacies of sparking change, from personal evolutions to communal shifts. Here, we celebrate the challenges, triumphs, strategies, and possibilities that spring from a life dedicated to social justice. Join us in connecting with experts across various fields as we unpack the mechanisms of initiating meaningful change in our lives, communities, and the world.

Publisher

Beth Berila

Category

education · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

11 Sept 2023

Latest episode

10 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   10 Jun 2026

   Centering: A Return to Choicefulness with Anela Seliskar Barboza

   Anela Barboza Seliskar offers a centering somatic practice to help us reconnect to our embodied wisdom and realign with what we care about. It’s a spacious and beautiful grounding practice that we can use in live time to show up with more choice. We can build our capacity to be with WHAT IS while cultivating the ability to stay connected with what matters to us so we show up how we want to show up. Anela Barboza Seliskar Anela Barboza Seliskar (she/her/ʻoia/they), mixed Kanaka Maoli/Asian, cis-female, comes from a land-based worldview that holds connection, relationship, and responsibility as integral between land, body, and spirit. Since 2014, she has been in the study and practice of how Somatics can serve as a method to deepen and facilitate transformation in healing.She is deeply committed to folx navigating the confluence of identity, sites of oppression and shaping, longings, and relationship to home/ʻāina as a means of personal and collective healing, co-creating power, and liberation. She is a Coach, Mentor, Teacher, Writer, Bodyworker, and Facilitator. Born into the Hawaiian diaspora, she made her way back and resides full-time on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi in Keaʻau near her ʻohana with her two dogs. She is a novice paddler, waterman, weaver, builder, craftsman, community/family member, connector, mischief maker, and moʻo. You can find out more about Anela by visiting anelabarboza.com (http://anelabarboza.com/) Connect with Anela Instagram: @ulele_coaching Website (https://www.anelabarboza.com/) Transcript

2. 

   19 May 2026

   Joy Is Also Wisdom: A Practice with Dr. Monika L. Son

   In these turbulent times, many of us are feeling burned out, overwhelmed, and focused on what needs to be done. Dr. Monika Son reminds us that joy is a critical practice for our wellbeing, for sustainability, and for liberation. Joy is our birthright. Not just the big joys, but the everyday ones. In this episode, Dr. Son offers a heart-felt practice to help us (re)connect with everyday joy. Dr. Monika Son (she/her/ella) is an educator, consultant, trauma-informed facilitator and sacred guide and space holder, with over two decades of experience at the intersection of psychology, education, and social justice. She is also a longtime student in the Soto Zen Buddhist lineage, and a graduate of the Upaya Zen Center’s Buddhist Chaplaincy program, where she serves as a mentor for current students. A trained psychologist and expert facilitator, Dr. Son works to create spaces that are values-centered, prioritize relational care and respect for the inherent dignity of all beings. Her spiritual care focuses on stewarding resilience, compassion, and meeting the truth of suffering in these times, including cultivating healing from systemic oppression, fostering collective accountability, joy, and vision. As a native New Yorker, daughter of Dominican immigrants, and mother of two mixed-race sons, Monika embodies a deep commitment to belonging and lineage. Connect with Monika Monika’s website (https://www.serenterowholebeingcoaching.com/) Monika's Substack (Monika) Transcript (https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wwoh5jnj5ng0jym0g66ho/Transcript-Joy-is-also-wisdom-with-Dr.-Monika-L.-Son.docx?rlkey=z5sitpvbmb6lwjlal2wpf3b8y&st=lkzous46&dl=0)

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   9 Apr 2026

   Grounding Ourselves, Welcoming What Is With Sage Hayes

   Sage Hayes, a skilled healing arts practitioner committed to collective liberation, offers us embodied practices to ground ourselves. Acknowledging that many of us are carrying trauma, both generational and ongoing in the face of current events, Sage offers us practices to meet what is with compassion. We can look for resonance and understand our bracing as the protective mechanism that it is. We aren't trying to fix or change what is, but simply to be with it. We are simply practicing being with in a more embodied way. Often that opens pathways to more choice. In this deeply compassionate and invitational episode, Sage offers us ways of understanding what we might be experiencing and working with it. May it be of support for you. A video version of this episode is available here (https://vimeo.com/1177706971?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci). SAGE HAYES (www.embodiedliberation.com) For over 25 years, Sage has cultivated a unique, integrated approach to therapeutic change and transformation—one that honors the intelligence of body, lineage, and relationship. Sage Hayes (she/he/they) is a devoted healing arts practitioner who believes deeply in both individual and collective liberation. Their work weaves together the exploration of lineage, embodied presence, and emergent relational care—threads braided into a practice that supports people in reconnecting with themselves, their histories, and the living systems around them. A Somatic Experiencing practitioner for over two decades, Sage also brings a rich background in bodywork, including massage and biodynamic craniosacral therapy. Their practice expands beyond the therapy room into the realms of movement and community as an ecstatic dance DJ and a facilitator of family and systemic constellations. Nestled off the coast of Maine on Peaks Island, Sage stays attuned to tidal and seasonal rhythms—walking the pine-needle paths and granite shores with their dog, Thelma Jean. Links for Sage: Website: www.embodiedliberation.com (www.embodiedliberation.com) Instagram handle: @sagehayes

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

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5.0 / 5

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Podcast Authority Score: 22 / 100

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