We Are Untold Stories

About We Are Untold Stories

An avant podcast ushering in an era of the benevolent revolutionary where we playfully invite in the unseen, forgotten, intimate, and seemingly impossible on the meandering path to liberation. In a unique guest-led format, we'll get lost in the wild to become a little more found in a powerful emergence with intellectuals, spirituals, artists, activists, healers, visionaries, keepers of wisdom, and unsettlers of the settled.

Publisher

Elizabeth Raynor

Category

health & fitness · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Oct 2024

Latest episode

12 Feb 2025

Latest episodes

3 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Feb 2025

   Cultivating Creativity as a Gateway to Inner Truth: Rabbi Adina Allen on Possibility, Embracing Chaos and Void, and Reclaiming Personal Power and Imagination

   Rabbi Adina Allen and Elizabeth explore the profound connection between art, creativity, and inner truth in this conversation. They discuss how Adina's upbringing in an art therapy environment shaped her understanding of creativity as a means to access deeper truths within ourselves. The conversation delves into societal disconnection from inner knowing, the importance of reconnecting with creativity, and the need to embrace chaos and discomfort in the creative process. It emphasizes the need for a collective journey towards reclaiming personal power and imagination, integrating dualities, and holding space for new truths to emerge. The importance of collective perspectives, the creative process, and the unseen connections that bind us are examined. They discuss the five pathways of creativity derived from Jewish texts, emphasizing the need for self-discovery and the power of community. The dialogue highlights the significance of grief, authenticity, and the potential for transformation in times of chaos and uncertainty. More about Adina Allen (https://adina-allen.com/) Rabbi Adina Allen is a spiritual leader, writer, and educator who grew up in an art studio where she learned firsthand the power of creativity for connecting to self and to the Sacred. She is cofounder and creative director of Jewish Studio Project (https://www.jewishstudioproject.org/) (JSP), an organization that is seeding a future in which every person is connected to their creativity as a force for spiritual connection and social transformation. Based on the work of her mother, renowned art therapist Pat B. Allen, Adina developed the Jewish Studio Process, a methodology for unlocking creativity, which she has brought to thousands of organizational and community leaders, educators, artists, and clergy across the country. A national media contributor, popular speaker, and workshop leader, Adina is published in scholarly as well as mainstream publications and is the author of The Place of All Possibility: Cultivating Creativity Through Ancient Jewish Wisdom (https://adina-allen.com/) (Ayin, 2024). We hope you enjoy the conversation!

2. 

   12 Dec 2024

   Hope and Humility in Metamorphic Times: Curtis Ogden on Energy Systems, Indigenous Wisdom, System Change, and the Power of Tapping into Compassion, Care, and Love to Regenerate

   Curtis Ogden, a seasoned network weaver and energy systems scientist, shares insights on navigating societal fractures, cultivating compassion, and tapping into collective wisdom for regenerative change.

3. 

   10 Oct 2024

   Beautifully Flawed Becoming: Bayo Akomolafe on The Co-Creation of New Worlds, Investigating Our Lostness, The Driving Motivation of Wonder, and The One Who Is Never Not Broken

   [BEAUTIFULLY FLAWED] BECOMING The process of coming to be something or of passing into a state. [Oxford English Dictionary] Dr. Bayo Akomolafe is one of the prominent visionaries of our time. Rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, Akomolafe is Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi's father, the grateful life partner to Ije, and a son and brother. A widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home (https://www.amazon.com/s?k=these+wilds+beyond+our+fences+by+bayo+akomolafe&amp;crid=8RERLOUJSAEC&amp;sprefix=these+wild%2Caps%2C182&amp;ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-doa-p_1_10)and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak (https://wewilltellourownstory:TheLionsofAfricaSpeak/). Our debut conversation explores Bayo's perspective on the vital role of our individual and collective untold stories, our current position at the end of the world as we know it, the emerging co-creation of new worlds, our exploration of lostness, and, in the spirit of a true poet, the profound role of wonder as a driving motivation. Bayo shares otherworldly examples illustrating our interconnectedness, the significance of queer spaces, the crucial necessity of navigating "cracks" within systems, the beauty of the unknowable, and the potential for co-creating life-affirming realities amidst chaos. The episode culminates in reflections on the journey of becoming, inviting anyone interested to embrace their innate wildness on the path to reclamation and liberation. Thanks for opening to new ways of being - enjoy! About Bayo: Bayo Akomolafe is the Founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide initiative that seeks to convene communities in new ways in response to the critical, civilizational challenges we face as a species. He is host of the postactivist course/festival/event, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’. He currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California. He sits on the Board of many organizations including Science and Non-Duality (US) and Ancient Futures (Australia). In July 2022, Dr. Akomolafe was appointed the inaugural Global Senior Fellow of University of California’s (Berkeley) Othering and Belonging Institute. He is also the inaugural Special Fellow of the Schumacher Centre for New Economics, the Inaugural Scholar in Residence for the Aspen Institute, the inaugural Special Fellow for the Council of an Uncertain Human Future, as well as Visiting Scholar to Clark University, Massachusetts, USA (2024). He has been Fellow for The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany, and Visiting Critic-in-Residence for the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (2023). He is the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and has been Commencement Speaker in two universities convocation events. He is also the recipient of the New Thought Leadership Award 2021 and the Excellence in Ethnocultural Psychotherapy Award by the African Mental Health Summit 2022. In a ceremony in July 2023, the City of Portland (Maine, USA) awarded Dr. Akomolafe with the symbolic ‘Key to the City’ in recognition of his planet-wide work and achievements. Dr. Akomolafe is a Member of the Club of Rome, a Fellow for the Royal Society of Arts in the UK, and an Ambassador for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. Connect with Bayo (https://www.bayoakomolafe.net) and The Emergence Network (https://www.emergencenetwork.org)(including joining the five-day festival, <a...

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