The Healing and Reconciliation Institute presents the Our Shared Humanity Podcast, co-hosted by Maija West and Briana Bellamy.
Welcome! We are so thankful that you have joined us today. Our show is made possible through the donations and support of our listeners. Our show amplifies and celebrates the personal stories and teachings of healing and reconciliation in order to invoke our shared humanity. Each month, we welcome a guest storyteller to our show.
More about our work: hricommunity.org
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Join our circle of Indigenous Men with gkisedtanamoogk, Mike Nadjiwon, Dwayne Tomah, Stephen Arevalo and special guest host, Andy Kull as they discuss sacred bonds, respect and support, and the sacredness of all life. “How do we empower ourselves with goodness as men? How do we move from our heart in this current reality?" #IndigenousVoices #MensCircle #SacredMasculine #SacredFeminine #SacredBonds #Respect #Support #Empowerment #Love #MotherEarth #Responsibility
11 Mar 2022
Episode 13 - Michelle McCrary
We invite you to sit with HRI facilitator Michelle McCrary as she speaks on connections to the land and first harms. Michelle's perspective on bridging between people Indigenous to Turtle Island (United States) and Indigenous African Peoples who were removed from their homelands to these shores, is potent and rich with her gift of storytelling. The episode is an invitation for all of us to interrogate our own family histories and "center the story of stolen land in the story of stolen people."
27 Jan 2022
Episode 12 - Excerpts from Intergenerational Healing & Resilience Panel
Atarangi Muru (Māori) of the Māori healers joins the conversation, continued from October’s episode 10 with Henrietta Gomez (Taos Pueblo) and Pat McCabe (Diné). These three beautiful humans discuss Intergenerational Healing and Resilience and share their particular and potent worldviews with each other, and us all. What does Intergenerational Healing & Resilience look like for you? What would it feel like? How would you like to create it for yourself and the world?
3 Dec 2021
Episode 11 - Miakoda
Miakoda is the founder and lead steward of Fierce Allies where they work in food justice, Indigenous lifeways, immigrant rights, education, criminal justice, public health, and child and family services. Their conversation with Briana addresses Centering Justice: Decolonizing & Rematriating Indigenous Land & Lifeways, an initiative stewarding the return of ways, lands, and sovereignty stolen from Indigenous peoples. How can we birth a relationship-affirming future from within the current life-desecrating structures of capitalism? And how do we welcome the blessed disorientation required for this new realm to be birthed? Listen in for an episode of living into these questions.
https://www.fierceallies.com/ (https://www.fierceallies.com/)
https://www.fierceallies.com/practice-of-change (https://www.fierceallies.com/practice-of-change)
27 Oct 2021
Episode 10: Excerpts from Intergenerational Healing & Resilience panel
Our Shared Humanity’s 10th episode with Henrietta Gomez (Taos Pueblo). Today’s episode includes excerpts from our recent online gathering and panel on Intergenerational Healing & Resilience. HRI’s treasured Indigenous advisors share their stories of healing, resilience, trauma, care, and hope in the past, present, and future. Stay tuned for the next rounds with Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining) (Diné) and Atarangi Muru (Māori).
27 Sept 2021
Episode 9 - Malea Powell and Kendall Ramirez
September's episode is live with Malea Powell and Kendall Ramirez. They speak candidly about their processes and practices of being good guests as well as the HRI Facilitator Training. The conversation is so beautiful! The episode is live today. How do you consider and practice being a good guest: in a friend's kitchen, on Native lands, and in your visit this round with Mother Earth?
30 Aug 2021
Episode 8 - Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining) and Lyla June Johnston
Episode 8 is live and so full of love. Our Shared Humanity is delighted to share our latest podcast episode with HRI Storytellers and Diné women, Pat McCabe (Woman Stands Shining) and her daughter Lyla June Johnston. The conversation is ripe with the intimacy of Mothers and Daughters, surrender to the great mystery, identity and selflessness, and following sacred instruction. Pat and Lyla speak to the roots of our shared humanity as they practice radical bridging in the world, and in their own family history. It’s awesome.
https://www.patmccabe.net (https://www.patmccabe.net/)
www.lylajune.com (http://www.lylajune.com/)
Lyla June’s latest: North Star music video, featuring Quincy Davis
https://youtu.be/doN6L-5Bmxs (https://youtu.be/doN6L-5Bmxs)
27 Jul 2021
Episode 7 - Norma Johnson
Our HRI storyteller of the month is Norma Johnson. Norma is a healer, poet, storyteller, teacher, racial justice advocate and facilitator in Boulder, CO. Norma incorporates poetry and performance art into her racial justice work. Her deeply moving poem, “For My White Friends” and her stunning play “Inheritance” are both two of her many creative contributions to the space of experiential racial justice learning. And, check out the podcast she is co-creating- “Well, that went sideways!” Follow us now to keep learning about inspiring leaders and healers every month, or find us on your preferred podcast provider.
28 Jun 2021
Episode 6 - Gina Perez-Baron MD
Dr Gina Perez-Baron talks with Maija about facing the trauma behind addiction and that “there is a part inside each of us that remains pure and untouched”
1 Jun 2021
Episode 5 - Dwayne Tomah
Eli PaintedCrow and Cari Herthel, our special co-hosts, welcome Dwayne Tomah (Passamaquoddy) to reflect on getting ancestral land back, aerial smudging, the importance of language, and why "our story hasn't changed, but we're changing our story".
4 May 2021
Episode 4 - The Three Sisters Collective
Maija and Briana talk with the Three Sisters Collective's Autumn and Christina about their work to heal, rematriate, and create community in New Mexico.
29 Mar 2021
Episode 3 - Alexis Bunten
Maija and Brina talk with Alexis Bunten about her powerful work in promoting the rights of nature, a breakthrough and inherently indigenous legal concept.
23 Feb 2021
Episode 2- Eli PaintedCrow
“The truth will set you free… but not before it pisses you off”
- Eli PaintedCrow
25 Jan 2021
Episode 1 - Tanja Roos
Maija talks with Tanja Roos about life lessons, her work at the Esalen Institute, and the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol.
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