Emergent Liberation Collective: Recent Episodes
Emergent Liberation Collective
The ELC is a podcast about embodiment as a primary vehicle for personal healing, liberation from oppression, and ancestral trauma. Hosted by T. Aisha Edwards, Kaila June, and Chris Morita Clancy, all somatic educators and healers with backgrounds ranging from mental health to movement science. These three explore trauma healing, guide vulnerable conversations with thought leaders and social justice activists, offer stories and poetry, lead embodiment practices and so much more. In these troubling times, Emergent Liberation Collective guides us toward a radical future centered in hope.
Join T. Aisha Edwards and Kaila June Keliikuli in this special release and the closing episode of Season 3. Season 3 is a year long exploration with the experience and force of forgiveness. In this conversation, we talk about rhythm changes, fractals of the Mother Wound, what it means to be a good ancestor, forgiveness over lifetimes and how ELC slow podcasting is becoming a breathing space. The episode includes a listener contribution from Lady J who is an autistic, queer, non-binary artist, activist and parent. They offer a story, poem and somatic practice collectively called: A Journey & Arrival to Sharing Somatic Self-Pleasure.
Episode Links:
ELC Patreon Page https://www.patreon.com/emergentliberationcollective
T. Aisha Edwards https://campsite.bio/full_flight_wellness
Kaila June Keliikuli https://www.kailajune.com/
Dare Carasquillo and Death Practice Group https://www.animistarts.art/the-death-practice-group
Amy Richards and the SquarePeg Podcast https://squarepeg.community/podcast/
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On https://youtu.be/0SFRvnC7hnk
Lady Justice Love https://wildladymouth.com/
Lady J’s links:
Sex Positive Event https://www.dancenakedcreative.com/
Tricia Hersey (aka the Nap Bishop) Rest is Resistance https://thenapministry.com/
Tara Brach, Learning to Respond Not React https://youtu.be/ymPF0q7U5oM
Vedim Zeland's Transurfing https://chengeer.medium.com/transurfing-of-reality-in-a-nutshell-a73b162fff85
Late-diagnosed Autism community https://www.autastic.com/
The Emerald podcast, The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized https://open.spotify.com/episode/3e5bkfY8mCsdhb9H39dHmy?si=9c642dab757d4df7&nd=1
Clarissa Pinkola Estés & Caroline Myss, Intuition and the Mystical Life https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S152C811625
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Crone Series: Seeing in the Dark https://www.clarissapinkolaestes.com/bio.htm
bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27091.Teaching_to_Transgress
Audre Lorde, The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38598541-the-master-s-tools-will-never-dismantle-the-master-s-house
Stephanie Foo, What My Bones Know https://www.stephaniefoo.me/
Aisha and Kaila expand on the discussion about neurodivergence begun in episode 3. We discuss neurodivergent diagnosis, affirmation, trauma healing, disability justice and cultural inclusion. Aisha also intimately explores the impact of autism in xer own family.
Topics
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Kaila and Aisha give a life update
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Aisha gives more information about the DSM diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder and how it differs for AFAB, gender variant and BIPOC folks
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Aisha gives information about the Spectrum Circle as a affirming diagnostic tool
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What is masking? How does it relate to belonging and trauma?
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Why it is important to differentiate between trauma and neurodivergence
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Interaction of perfectionism, social justice and neurodivergence and non-inclusion in movement spaces
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Aisha and Kaila discuss the article Neurodivergence is Dead, Now What? They explore lack of inclusion on the neurodiversity movement
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Aisha talks about the ADDRESSING model to explore intersectional identity and exploring marginal vs privileged identities
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Aisha talks about xer brother’s battle with autism
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Aisha shares references for people questioning if they are on the spectrum
Links
ELC Patreon Page
https://www.patreon.com/emergentliberationcollective
- Aisha Edwards
https://campsite.bio/full_flight_wellness
Kaila June
https://www.kailajune.com/
Amy Richards and the SquarePeg Podcast
https://squarepeg.community/podcast/
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
https://psychiatry.org/psychiatrists/practice/dsm
Masking
https://www.healthline.com/health/autism/autism-masking
Twilah Hiari Article - Neurodiversity is Dead, Now What?
https://www.madinamerica.com/2018/04/neurodiversity-dead-now-what/
ADDRESSING Model
https://www.unthsc.edu/students/wp-content/uploads/sites/26/Addressing-Framework-and-Overview.pdf
Aisha’s Emergence Community Coaching Space
https://www.fullflightwellness.com/emergence-login
Autastic Online Community for later in life diagnosed folks on the Spectrum
https://www.autastic.com/
Dr. Nick Walker - Neurodivergent Somatic Experiencing Provider
https://neuroqueer.com/
In this special episode, ELC partners with the SquarePeg Podcast, hosted by Amy Richards. Square Peg gives autistic adults the opportunity to hear the lives and stories of other autistic adults. In her conversations, she explores life, love, work, health and relationships with later in life diagnosed folks identifying as femme, trans or nonbinary. Aisha and Amy explore Aisha’s own story of being diagnosed autistic and exploring how this has shaped xer own experiences of rupture and repair.
TOPICS: Aisha talks about the process of xer diagnostic experience
The moving of grief post diagnosis
Masking, meltdowns, OCD and aloneness
Double Empathy Problem
Neurodivergent masking friendships
The embodiment of neurodivergence
Intergenerational neurodivergence and childhood trauma
Healing as an autist
Energy management over time management - melt downs at work
Self employment and authenticity
Self care practices for energy management
Rupture and repair in friendships
Trauma embodiment in neurodivergent identity trauma
Unmasking and authenticity in relationships
The unmet needs of the undiagnosed
The invitation of messy - unwinding OCD
LINKS: Squarepeg podcast: https://squarepeg.community/podcast/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/squarepeg.community/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/squarepegautism
Coaching and Design Business site: https://amyrichards.wales/
Amy Richards -Creating the Foundations Workshop Series!!
This is my live workshop series - 6 weeks of group Zoom workshops for late diagnosed autistic adults. Come with me on a journey of self discovery around work, fulfillment and figuring out what you want, what you actually need as an autistic adult, and where to start.
https://squarepeg.community/thrive/
ELC Patreon Page
https://www.patreon.com/emergentliberationcollective
Aisha Edwards
https://campsite.bio/full_flight_wellness
Kaila June
https://www.kailajune.com/
This brief episode is a follow up for episode one. In it, Aisha shares a poem inspire by an encounter with a hummingbird and offers a somatic practice for working with the activation of rupture.
LINKS: ELC Patreon Page
https://www.patreon.com/emergentliberationcollective
- Aisha Edwards
https://campsite.bio/full_flight_wellness
Kaila June
https://somakineseschool.pages.ontraport.net/aboutSKS
Kaila and Aisha return for another season of ELC, sharing ELC’s changes over the hiatus. introduce the seasonal theme for 2022 Forgiveness. Together the two somatic educators explore the anatomy of forgiveness, foreshadowing the topics addressed throughout Season three.
- Return after a long hiatus and continuing slow podcast
- Goodbye to Chris
- Introduction of the theme of forgiveness and why
- Presence in the multiplicity of right now
- Surprise! Aisha is autistic!! What does that mean?
- Kaila’s architecture shift
- Anatomy of forgiveness - Rupture and repair, process, belonging, resistance or withdrawal
- Tracking the energetic field
- Of course, forgiveness is an emergence
- Questions for the community
www.autastic.com - affirming resources for folks who are diagnosed with or suspected of being on the spectrum later in life; QT/BIPOC resources available
ELC Patreon Page
https://www.patreon.com/emergentliberationcollective
Aisha Edwards
https://campsite.bio/full_flight_wellness
Kaila June
https://www.kailajune.com/
In part two of Healing Traditions Devan Williams, a proud indigenous woman of the Squamish Nation, shares cultural and traditional history and the impact of residential school for the indigenous people of Canada. She asks us to learn the true history of Canada as a first step to creating positive change for the next generations. You are doing just that by listening to ELC's episodes Healing Traditions parts one and two. Thank you.
If you are so inspired, please take yet another step, by sharing these episodes with others and/or by learning more. You’ll find links for learning and resources in our show notes below and on the ELC Patreon supporters page.
More from Devan:
Ha7lh Skwayel (Good day)
Devan Williams kwi en snas (My name is Devan Williams)
Tina7 chen tl’a Skwxwu7mesh uxwumixw (I am from the Squamish village)
Skwxwu7mesh-ulh (Squamish Nation)
An wenaxws en skwawlen (I am proud of who I am [where I come from)
I was told to always remember who I am, where I come from; to be a steward of the land and protect Mother Earth.
I am honoured to have the opportunity to use my voice and share our Indigenous culture, history and stories. I love giving back to my community and I am always looking for new ways to help create positive change for the next generations.
My previous leadership initiatives that I was a part of as a Indigenous Ambassador include working and volunteering with the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Bid, the Vancouver 2010 Olympics Opening Ceremonies and Reconciliation Canada. As well, I also volunteered on the Squamish Nation Budget and Finance Committee as the Deputy Chair, the Cutting Barriers to Employment and Training Association (CBETA) as a Board Directory, SPIP Suicide Prevention Intervention Post-intervention Committee Member, and the Native Indian Football Association Board Member and Alumni. One of my other passions that I have been involved in is with Minerva BC Learning to Lead where I volunteer as a Den Mother, Mentor and Coach for young girls helping them build and tap into their leadership skills.
I7xw ten sekwitl’ (All my relations)
Chen kwen men tumiyap (Thank you all)
TOPICS:
- Calling on cultural traditions for healing and peace for the lost children and residential school survivors.
- Today’s youth
- Residential schools in Canada
- The Indian Act
- Saving and sharing cultural traditions
- Hope for the future
LINKS:
“Icy water swims a cool trip for many in Squamish” Squamish Chief Article by Jennifer Thuncher
Nature Entwined Film
Truth and Reconciliations Calls to Action
Indigenous Canada Online Course
ELC Patreon Page
Aisha Edwards
Kaila June
Chris Morita Clancy
In part one of this two part episode Devan Williams, a proud indigenous woman of the Squamish Nation, talks with Chris about her family’s resistence & resilience in post confederaion Canada. She tells of the healing and hope that they bring in keeping cultural traditions of the Squamish nation alive. Next full doula and body based trauma treatment specialist, Amy Hoare Nassare joins the ELC murmations as our first contributer. Amy shares lessons from flowers about impermance, resilience and the container that allows fruition.
This episode was was recorded just weeks before before the first discovery of the umarked graves at former residential schools in Canada. Be sure to join us for episode 6 and “Healing Traditions: Part Two” as Devan speaks about how traditional practices have come to the fore as people of the Squamish and other indigenous nations face these recent events.
TOPICS:
Interview with Devan Williams
- Shukw’um, spiritual bathing and traditions of the Squamish Nation and how they were passed on in Devan’s family
- Residential school
- Canoe pulling
- The continuum of desire
- Desire and the femme body
- Scarcity, belonging and safety
- Reclaiming desire from a sexuality-only construct
- Reconnecting after COVID
- Desire practices
Amy Hoare Nassar, Contributor
- Lessons from Flowers
LINKS:
Amy Hoare Nassar
www.itsyoubaby.ca
ELC Patreon Page
https://www.patreon.com/emergentliberationcollective
Aisha Edwards
https://campsite.bio/full_flight_wellness
Kaila June
https://somakineseschool.pages.ontraport.net/aboutSKS
Chris Morita Clancy
https://www.embodiedbiotensegrity.ca
“Icy water swims a cool trip for many in Squamish” Squamish Chief Article by Jennifer Thuncher
https://www.squamishchief.com/in-the-community/icy-water-swims-a-cool-trip-for-many-in-squamish-3352360
She Summits
https://www.shesummits.org/post/nature-entwined
https://vimeo.com/483651712
https://whistlerfilmfestival.com/films/film/?id=5fb5724bcdeda9003703f69f
Truth and Reconciliations calls to action
https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/british-columbians-our-governments/indigenous-people/aboriginal-peoples-documents/calls_to_action_english2.pdf
Indigenous Canada MOOC
https://www.coursera.org/learn/indigenous-canada?utm_source=gg&utm_medium=sem&campaignid=13440968592&utm_campaign=12-Indigenous-Canada-Alberta-CA&utm_content=12-Indigenous-Canada-Alberta-CA&adgroupid=130160700424&device=c&keyword=university%20of%20alberta%20indigenous%20canada&matchtype=b&network=g&devicemodel=&adpostion=&creativeid=526589477720&hide_mobile_promo&gclid=Cj0KCQjw-NaJBhDsARIsAAja6dMlz4qDMWKiQnc6FdzYF2qmi0HxtGlQbquxS5QJLLoUXYFwXW0FiA4aAik2EALw_wcB
In this conversation, Aisha explores following embodied pleasure as the rhythm that agitates for wider social change with YaliniDream and Adaku Utah, two brown queer justice-focused, body-centered transformers of community.
TOPICS
- Defining desire from the body - its connotations, dualities and realms of existence
- How we become separated from embodied desire and the returning to body intimacy
- Desire in a queer body, brown body, first generation body
- Discerning desire from compulsion
- Moratorium on the damage narrative: Complexity of desire at a community level - balancing accountability for harm with safety, resilience and the abundance of belonging
- Unwinding generations of colonial harm from the body to discover pleasure
- Practices of cultivating pleasure, play and desire
ELC Patreon Page https://www.patreon.com/emergentliberationcollective
Aisha Edwards https://campsite.bio/full_flight_wellness
Kaila June https://somakineseschool.pages.ontraport.net/aboutSKS
Chris Morita Clancy https://www.embodiedbiotensegrity.ca
Adaku Utah http://www.adakuutah.com IG: @solarbliss
YaliniDream http://www.yalinidream.com
IG: @yalinidream
Rae Johnson
https://raejohnsonsomatic.com/
UN Climate Report
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/reports
Eve Tuck
http://www.evetuck.com/
Tamil Sovereignty
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_nationalism
Allison Schieler - Contortionist
http://www.allisonschieler.com/
Kinesiology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinesiology
adrienne maree brown - Pleasure Activism https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html
Aisha reads from xer blog essay, The Orgasmic Organismic Yes. The essay explores the nuances of a blended YES-NO, the state when our sense of embodied pleasure becomes disorganized by obligation and pain. Xe explores how to cultivate unblending the two, supporting the possibility of embodied pleasure again. After the reading, Kaila guides a somatic practice to discover the felt-sense of pleasure and embodied yes.
TOPICS: * Gestalt Therapy Theory * Trauma physiology and the disembodiment of embodied YES * Safety as the baseline for a clear YES and a clear NO * Blended YES-NO patterns * Follow the sparkles * The value of “I Don’t Know” * Explore your embodied yes
LINKS:
- Original Essay
- Gestalt Therapy
- Jaak Panksepp
- Janina Fisher
- Pat Ogden
- Peter Levine
- Rae Johnson Embodied Social Justice
- Resmaa Menakem My Grandmother’s Hands
- adrienne maree brown
- ELC Patreon Page
- Aisha Edwards
- Kaila June
- Chris Morita Clancy
Summer 2021 theme on ELC is Desire. We weave this somatic concept throughout each conversation, practice and exploration for this season. In this conversation, Aisha, Kaila and Chris attempt to reclaim desire as a concept associated with hedonism and mindless sexuality as western culture defines it. Together, we create a new working somatic definition for desire with range and nuance that invites the plurality of its light and shadow aspects.
Topics: How cultural norms shape how we understand desire
Desire as generative creation
The continuum of desire
Desire and the femme body
Scarcity, belonging and safety
Reclaiming desire from a sexuality-only construct
Reconnecting after COVID
Desire practices
Links: ELC Patreon Page
https://www.patreon.com/emergentliberationcollective
Aisha Edwards
https://campsite.bio/full_flight_wellness
Kaila June
https://somakineseschool.pages.ontraport.net/aboutSKS
Chris Morita Clancy
https://www.embodiedbiotensegrity.ca
Jaak Panksepp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65e2qScV_K8
In this conversation between Kaila June and Aisha Edwards, we explore concepts of ease and slow as precursors for creativity and are inspired by the pace of nature. We introduce Emergent Liberation Collective as a “slow podcast” and talk about the changes we’ve experienced since putting out our first season. As a practice for cultivating generative rest, Kaila guides a Somatic Groundwork™ practice on yielding and tuning into the support of Earth.
TOPICS:
- Slow podcasting as a focus for ongoing seasons at ELC
- Changes since our first season
- Lessons from the land about time
- Micro vs Macro Rest
- Ritual as a tool for macro rest
- Somatic practice in yielding
LINKS:
ELC Patreon Page
Join our email list
Aisha Edwards
Kaila June
Chris Morita Clancy
Malidoma Patrice Some, Ph.D - Dagara Elder and Scholar
- www.ancestralevents.com
- https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/explorations/teachers/malidoma-patrice-some/books
“Ancestral liberation is the process of helping our unresolved ancestors to heal the patterns on the level of lineage that keep them stuck, allow them to become true well luminous ancestors and deepen our ability to engage and connect with them as positive forces in our lives so we can transform what has been a burden for us into a powerful blessing.” - Langston Kahn
Aisha and Langston discuss:
- What is ancestral reverence, healing and lineage repair
- BIPOC-specific needs for ancestral healing
- What if you’re a child of colonization? Lineage repair for those with lineages in conflict
- How ancestral repair brings peace, belonging and intimacy in your own life
Extended Patreon Interview
- Finding your ancestral purpose through ancestor reverence and healing
- Working with troubled spirits in your lineage
- Energy boundary practices for daily living!!
- Insight about destructive energies/entities
- Initiations into growth
Links and Contacts
Connect with Langston
- Langston’s Recent Offerings: Energy Body Mastery Course
- www.langstonkahn.com
- Instagram @LangstonKahn
- Twitter @LangstonKahn
- Facebook Lanston.Kahn
Buy Langston’s book!
- Deep Liberation: Shamanic Teachings for Reclaiming Wholeness in a Culture of Trauma
More
- Last Mask Center
- ELC Patreon Page
- T. Aisha Edwards
- Kaila June
- Magdalena Weinstein
- Chris Morita Clancy
Contributors
- Holland Andrews music
A story and a somatic grounding practice as invitations to enter into your body for support and intuitive guidance.
CONTENT
- Story: Chris explores trust as an embodied sparkle that, if followed, leads one right where they need to be.
- Enquiry: The language of your body: What are your sign posts?
- Somatic Grounding Practice: Magda offers a practice to connect our body with the earth.
LINKS:
- ELC Patreon Page
- T. Aisha Edwards
- Kaila June
- Magdalena Weinstein
- Chris Morita Clancy
CONTRIBUTORS
- Holland Andrews music
Welcome to the Emergent Liberation Collective and our premier episode in this winter season February 2021. Every story has a beginning, this is ours. Follow our journey that began the week of George Floyd’s killing in May of 2020, and unfolded through the seasons of the global pandemic inside a vulnerable process of discovering trust. How do we move and create together at the pace of trust? How do we welcome generative conflict? How do we trust in our ancestors? What is our language of self knowing? Trust is required of all the fragments to live into the whole, to live into the promise of emergence. And we are learning.
TOPICS:
- Finding a pathway to healing racialized trauma with a somatic imagining
- Discovering our tensegrity in Adrienne Marie Brown’s Emergent Strategy
- Systems theory and the emergent property
- Murmuration and following the sparkles
- Our vision of the somatic way
LINKS:
- ELC Patreon Page
- T. Aisha Edwards
- Kaila June
- Magdalena Weinstein
- Chris Morita Clancy
- Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Marie Brown
- My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
CONTRIBUTORS
- Holland Andrews music