The Beautiful Emergence Podcast: Recent Episodes

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Keith Cross will definitely be back on the podcast - he is such a deep well of creativity, reflection and inspiration - so think of this episode as an introduction to one of our thought partners along the way of our journeys together exploring "emergence".

We explore Keith's origins and thoughts on the role of poets, scholars & artists in these times through a conversation interspersed with various hip-hop tracks from his albums "The King's Lessons vol. 1" and "The King's Lessons vol. 4".

The Beautiful Emergence Radio Show airs every Saturday from 6-9am HST on 90.1 FM KTUH Honolulu / livestreaming at ktuh.org. Find archives of the show at https://www.mixcloud.com/djkamakani/

Special thanks to Mothers Out Front for their support of this podcast! Mothers Out Front is a movement of over 35,000 mothers in the United States, working to protect their children and communities from the impacts of climate change. Learn more at https://www.mothersoutfront.org/

RESOURCES:

• "The King's Lessons vol. 1"
• "The King's Lessons vol. 4"
• UH Mānoa Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Center
• Doctabarz website.

CREDITS:

• Music: "Emergence" by Invincible+Waajeed courtesy of EmergenceMedia.org
• Music: "Good Enough" by Doctabarz courtesy of Zenbu Records
• Music: "The Job" by Doctabarz courtesy of Zenbu Records
• Music: "The Elders Ch.4" by Doctabarz courtesy of Zenbu Records
• Music: "Ink & Bone" by Doctabarz courtesy of Zenbu Records
• Music: "Paele's Passage" by Doctabarz courtesy of Zenbu Records
• Music: "Black Prevailage" by Doctabarz courtesy of Doctabarz
• Music: "In The End" by Lucie & The Perfect Wave, courtesy of #lucielynchmusic
• Sound Engineering & Production by: Daniel Gilad, DG Sound Creations
• Published by: Beautiful Emergence Records

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IDEAS EXPLORED INCLUDE:

• The answers to climate crises held in Hawaiian Culture.
• Racism, settler colonialism, and the erasure of indigenous people as root causes of climate change and other crises.
• How we might close the gap between different value systems and world views (the word "Sustainability" is inadequate for what is called for in this time).
• Connecting the dots between the "isms": capitalism, racism, settler colonialism, etc.
• Experiences of being multi-racial in Australia and Hawaiʻi.
• Creating a future in which everyone in Hawaiʻi knew how to live into Hawaiian concepts whether they were Hawaiian or not.
• Envisioning a future university in which anyone, regardless of their backgrounds, know how to aloha ʻāīna together (be in deep, loving relationship and reciprocity with our environments).
• Responding to Climate Change by working to change hearts & minds.
• Dynamic fluidity of positionality based on proximity to knowledge earned through lived experience: when to defer, when to invite?
• Moʻokūauhau, Kaikana, Kaikuaʻana and Kuleana: how Hawaiian perspectives help us to understand that you are always in relationship with something.
• Healing ourselves through recognizing our common humanity, and the value of the non-human world.
• Willingness, discipline and humility as preconditions for healing.
• Enhancing sensemaking capacity & distributed cognition within a team by equipping team members with tools to recognize our roles & responsibilities to each other.
• (K)new ways of being can call forth ways of being that used to flourish in this place which are sorely needed in this time.
• Exploring our stories to understand our entanglement in complex & unhealthy systems.
• Fractals, and why they are useful for this work.
• Create conditions for transformation to occur.
• Universal principles lend themselves to infinite means of expression; when the expression of a principle is not fit to context, there are consequences.
• Connecting restoration of the natural world to healing ourselves: Love land, serve people. Love people, serve land.
• We cannot fight something that we created: if we are going to heal our planet, we need to heal ourselves.

RESOUCES:

• Video of this conversation.
• Erik Assadourian (Punihei's friend who talks about climate change)
• Punihei's research "How Do We Transform the University of Hawai‘i at Mänoa into a Hawaiian Place of Learning?"
• Hōkūleʻa Worldwide Voyage
• "Beyond Sustainability: The Story of a Reformed Capitalist" TEDxHonolulu
• APHA TRHT Presentation "Racial Healing For Ourselves, Our Communities and Our Future"
• Civil Beat Article by Punihei's Dad
• "Emergent Strategy", adrienne marie brown
• Nalani Minton
• Manulani Aluli Meyer

CREDITS:

• Image: via Canva.
• Music: "Emergence" by Invincible+Waajeed courtesy of EmergenceMedia.org
• Music: "Good Enough" by Doctabarz courtesy of Zenbu Records
• Music: "In The End" by Lucie & The Perfect Wave, courtesy of #lucielynchmusic
• Produced by: Daniel Gilad, DG Sound Creations
• Published by: Beautiful Emergence Records

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Other topics discussed include:

• Navigating climate grief.

• Understanding root causes to understand paradigms & paradigm shift.

• Fractals and our roles as catalysts for transformative change.

• Teaching climate change at the university.

• Patterns we can perceive in the rise & fall of empires.

• 2k years of European History and the links between colonialism, capitalism BLM, mass incarceration + climate change.

• Why we need to focused on healing from our intergenerational traumas rather than “fighting climate change”

• How centering around a practice of exploring how we are caring for Hawaii and her peoples supports us to bring together different ways of being, thinking and doing in beautiful & complementary ways.

• The human species as adolescents acting out unresolved traumas.

Read Krista's reflections about this conversation here.

CREDITS:

• Image: Stefan Keller, Pixabay
• Music: "Emergence" by Invincible+Waajeed courtesy of EmergenceMedia.org
• Music: "Good Enough" by Doctabarz courtesy of Zenbu Records
• Music: "In The End" by Lucie & The Perfect Wave, courtesy of #lucielynchmusic
• Produced by: Daniel Gilad, DG Sound Creations
• Published by: Beautiful Emergence Records