Radical Emergence Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dr. Sally Adnams Jones & Dr. Jen Peer Rich
Radical Emergence Podcast is a project consisting of 26 episodes exploring transformation on all levels of reality— personal, social, and ecological.
In this final episode of the podcast, Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen take a look back at this project and talk about some of the big takeaways.
In this episode, Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen deep dive into possibilities for the future of transformation.
In this episode, Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen explore Integral Taoism and how to cultivate more flow, ease and gentleness in our lives. They talk about why this is important to our journey of transformation.
In this episode, Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen curate some ways to measure transformation: personal, social, ecological, cosmological and ethical.
In this episode, Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen reimagine what enlightenment looks like in 2024, as well as the transformative nature of paradox.
In this episode, Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen take the long view of the life journey, and how we can show up as the hero of our own life.
In this episode, Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen look at ethics, values and morals, and how they influence our development of empathy and impact the journey of transformation.
In this episode, Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen explore working with our unconscious minds and how that impacts our journey of transformation.
In this episode, Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen take a look at peak experiences and how they influence our journey of transformation.
In this episode, Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen take a look at the benefits and limitations of developmental models, theories and maps.
In this episode Dr. Sally Adnams Jones and Dr. Jen Peer Rich explore these opportunities that arise out the meaning crisis.
In this episode Dr. Sally Adnams Jones and Dr. Jen Peer Rich explore 3 ways to transform our wounds: Story, No-Story and Re-Story.
In this episode, Dr. Sally Adnams Jones and Dr. Jen Peer Rich explore the relationship between trauma and Transformation.
0:18 Sally says both she and Jen came to studies of transformation because of trauma in their lives, and needed to figure out how to heal it. They both learned as much as they could. Both are here to help alleviate people's suffering. Episode 14 will be about turning the trauma wound into the gift. Episode 13 focuses on a couple of definitions, including Adverse Childhood Experiences, (ACE’s), how adults carry that trauma, and how to heal trauma. Their ideas are drawn from experts like Gabor Mate, Peter Levine, Steven Porges, and Bessel van der Kolk. One of the definitions of trauma is an injury to the nervous system, either from chronic exposure over time, or from a sudden, dramatic incident. If it's early chronic exposure, trauma can affect brain development, as well as the nervous system. If it happens as an adult, you've probably already done a major part of your brain development, but trauma can still damage memory, and also how we experience time. The limbic system, or the emotions, can be split off from the prefrontal cortex, in other words, from our thinking. And so trauma can block transformation, and prevent us over time, from reaching our full potential. We may have some distorted parts to our nervous system, and feeling, thinking and relationships can be negatively affected. Some self development teachers are not interested in your past or your story, and suggest just opening to the present moment. Some people can do that, but most people cannot, because the injury to the nervous system will prevent them from being present. Some gurus continue to act out from shadow that they refuse to look at and that's dangerous. The prefrontal cortex can continue to be brilliant, while the limbic system has an injury. Sally then takes a deeper dive into the ACE’S. She describes these, and explains how they prevent us from being in the present moment, and the long term effects of that.
16:48 Jen agrees that trauma is an injury to the nervous system. Trauma impedes transformation. Episode 12 talked about what prohibits transformation. And episode 13 goes deeper into one impediment to transformation. It can alter brain development and neuro-chemistry. The good news is that we can also reverse a lot of that damage, and heal ourselves. The podcast takes a developmental view. If you can identify where you're at, on a developmental trajectory through your healing, you can identify the strategies and supports that you need. Thinkers, writers and researchers on trauma believe that the root of the wounding caused by trauma is the loss of safety. Jen discusses how that happens in childhood, and how many of us experience negative behaviours later in life because of that childhood loss of safety. There's a fractal relationship between our inner world and our outer world. She cites Bessel Van der Kolk. She suggests body based techniques to help you feel what's happening in the body, so its a deep inside job.
In this episode Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen delve into what hinders, blocks or oppresses the momentum of transformation.
In this episode, Dr. Sally & Dr. Jen explore the intersection of creativity and transformation.
In this episode Dr. Sally Adnams Jones and Dr. Jen Peer Rich explore transformation through the lenses of merging and emerging , and transcending and including.
In this episode Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen explore our shifting identity structures and healing the subject-object split.
In this episode Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen explore modes and practices of transformation.
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In this episode Dr. Sally and Dr. Jen explore the fractal nature of identity and transformation in a wide-ranging discussion.
In this episode Dr. Sally & Dr. Jen explore the concept of transformation from many different lenses including personal, social and ecological.
In this episode Dr Jen and Dr Sally introduce themselves through stories that illustrate how they came to this work of understanding transformation. Both experienced periods of great suffering, and needed to understand what was happening to them, and how they could heal themselves. Both share personal stories of how they were driven to find both conceptual information and practices that they could then apply to their own inarticulate pain. Both then experienced profound healing from these different practices, and were then curious to know how this change occurred. Both went on to study the actual mechanisms of transformation, and experience much deeper integration, and equanimity. They understand that with powerful tools suffering can disappear, despite pain and pleasure remaining, in all sentient bodies. With combined academic studies in the arts, creativity studies, transformative education, transpersonal psychology, ecopsychology, spirituality, and feminism, this podcast will explore the many ways we all resist, block, induce, facilitate or co-operate with change. They draw on many disciplines (multi-perspectival thinking) to look at the phenomenon of fractal transformation - of self, other, world and universe.