Author: laurenstauble
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How are your ancestors with you today?
At this time of year in the northern hemisphere many cultures experience the veil between life and death to be at its thinnest. Día de los Muertos, Halloween, All Saint’s Day, and Samhain – while they are very different traditions – are just a few examples of this. For me this raises the question, How…
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S2 Episode 6
In this episode we talk with one of our teachers in the healing centered education world, Dr. Kia Darling-Hammond. Dr. Kia is a psychologist, researcher, educator, and coach, as well as creator of the Bridge to Thriving Framework©, co-author of The Civil Rights Road to Deeper Learning: Five Essentials for Equity, and co-editor of T*…
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Death
As the seasons change and the leaves begin to fall off the trees, death has made her presence known by consistently reminding me that things must come to an end in order to make space for the new. For a long time I believed that everything-all the time-could be possible if we systemized our lives…
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S2 Episode 5
In this episode we talk with Dr. Sanayi Beckles-Canton, Executive Director Chloe Day School & Wellness Center, former Pastor at Emanuel AME Tuckahoe Church, and fellow healing-centered educator. The Chloe Day School and Wellness Center is a Reggio Emilia-inspired progressive, inclusive, trauma-informed preschool and community wellness space that embraces families and individuals from all backgrounds.…
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Epizoochory
First of all, Happy Labor Day everyone! I’m feeling gratitude for the ancestors who fought for child labor to become outlawed and for legal rights to safe working conditions for all workers. Mary Harris ”Mother” Jones, an activist for children’s and women’s rights in the mid-1800’s was one of these ancestors and she was known…
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Episode 4
In this episode we talk with sister Solana Booth. Solana is aspiring to open her own “Recover me in Wellness Center”, with a focus on “Mother’s Breath” otherwise known as plant medicines, First Foods, Breastfeeding, Canoe and Storytelling. She recently incorporated a Washington State Non-Profit and is also working towards incorporating a 501-C3, called Advocates…
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Episode 3
In this episode we talk with Dr. Michele Coleman, PhD, LMFT. Dr. Coleman is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and founder of The Attachment Healing Center, a division of Inner Guidance, LC, a community mental health agency in New Mexico. Through outpatient treatment and trainings her agency focuses on helping parents and professionals meet…
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Waves
Back in November we wrote: “Healing centered approaches are surfacing in little pockets, and in different places. As we connect with others we find there’s both inspiration and disequilibrium about what the next steps in the movement should be for each of us. How do we change a non-functioning system, or build a new one,…
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S2 Episode 2
In this episode we talk with Lauren’s teacher! Patty Townsend is the founder of Embodyoga®, an inclusive and fully embodied approach to yoga developed out of over 50 years of dedicated practice, study, and teaching. Patty’s breath and awareness centered approach incorporates a deep understanding of how Awake-Alive-Intelligence expresses through the body-mind shaping our perceptions…
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Peri-Culmination
As educators (or those who are education-adjacent) many of us are coming together around a culmination of some kind right now. Last week I had the opportunity to see some of my students walk across the stage in cap and gown. Some of them were on the dean’s list, some of them had to retake…