Cultivating Safe Spaces: Recent Episodes

Jen Green

Jen Green hosts a decolonial podcast based on the Traditional Knowledge weaved throughout Elaine Alec’s debut book, Calling My Spirit Back. Each episode is packed with spiritual growth as we use Indigenous values to co-create Knowlege and learn to Cultivate Safe Spaces for ourselves and the world around us.

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In this episode of The Cultivating Safe Spaces Podcast, Jen Green and Lisa Dutchak discuss how they met Elaine Alec, found Cultivating Safe Spaces and became facilitators. They talk about Perspectives and which demographic Lisa plans to facilitate for through her consulting company, Lisa Dutchak Consulting. Listeners will also hear conversations surrounding allyship and decolonizing the way we move through the world.

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Cultivating Safe Spaces Facilitators List

Episode 4 Resources:

www.cultivatingsafespaces.com/thecultivatingsafespacespodcast/finding-your-voice-as-a-facilitator-ft-lisa-dutchak —

Where to Find Lisa

https://www.lisadutchak.com/

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Where to Find Jen and more CSS content

The Calling My Spirit Back Blog

The Go Smudge Yourself Podcast

Buy Me a Coffee Community (free resources)

buymeacoffee.com/smudgeyourself

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Jen @among.sleeping.giants

Elaine @elainealec_

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In this episode of the Cultivating Safe Spaces Podcast, Jen gives an overview of the Four Protocols of Cultivating Safe Spaces. These protocols are a crucial part of working from a position of love and of working in love-based practices. Listeners will learn not only each of the Four protocols of CSS but also the corresponding fear-based colonial practice that they counter.

Episode 4 Resources:

https://www.cultivatingsafespaces.com/thecultivatingsafespacespodcast/episode-4-the-four-perspectives —

Where to Find Jen and more CSS content

The Calling My Spirit Back Blog

The Go Smudge Yourself Podcast

Buy Me a Coffee Community (free resources)

Follow us on Instagram

Jen @among.sleeping.giants

Elaine @elainealec_

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In this episode of the Cultivating Safe Spaces Podcast, Jen discusses how perfectionism is a colonial tool that upholds White supremacy and how perfectionism shows up in our behaviours and thought patterns. She also explains how perfectionism differs from excellence and teaches listeners how to cultivate their own standard of excellence.

The link for the new trainers is pending.

If you want to train with me, send me an email at jengreen.business@gmail.com

Episode 3 Resources

Where to Find Jen and more CSS content

The Calling My Spirit Back Blog

The Go Smudge Yourself Podcast

Buy Me a Coffee Community (free resources)

Follow us on Instagram

Jen @among.sleeping.giants

Elaine @elainealec_

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In this episode of the Cultivating Safe Spaces Podcast, Jen explains the why we need to cultivate safe spaces. Often times we might question if changing the way we do things is even really necessary, so in this episode, we discuss who most spaces are currently made safe for as a default, what a safe space actually is, and what some of the benefits of cultivating safe spaces are.

Episode 2 Resources:

https://www.cultivatingsafespaces.com/thecultivatingsafespacespodcast/why-do-we-need-to-cultivate-safe-spaces Where to Find Jen and more CSS content

The Calling My Spirit Back Blog

The Go Smudge Yourself Podcast

Buy Me a Coffee Community (free resources)

Follow us on Instagram

Jen @among.sleeping.giants

Elaine @elainealec_

CSS @cultivatingsafespaces

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In this episode of the Cultivating Safe Spaces Podcast, Jen explains the 4 Perspectives of En'owkinwixw used in Cultivating Safe Spaces, Tradition, Relationship, Innovation and Action. She breaks down the communication style of each perspective, their problem-solving approach and what each perspective needs to feel safe. She also discusses how perspectives work together and how colonialism has impacted those working styles. This episode is the perfect introduction to perspective work to prepare you for our upcoming En'owkinwixw episode.

Episode 1 Resources:

https://www.cultivatingsafespaces.com/thecultivatingsafespacespodcast/blog-post-title-one-f7zmy

Where to Find Jen and more CSS content

The Calling My Spirit Back Blog

The Go Smudge Yourself Podcast

Buy Me a Coffee Community (free resources)

Follow us on Instagram

Jen @among.sleeping.giants

Elaine @elainealec_

CSS @cultivatingsafespaces