Author: laurenstauble
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Clarify
What a disorienting moment it is in education. How are you doing? Staying connected is of utmost importance right now, and we’re offering a space for us to be present with each other amidst the unknowns. Please join us this Monday, April 21, for “Holding space for fears, feeling into potential” a community gathering event.…
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Flow
The word “flow” keeps coming to both Angela Carolina and I this winter. It’s an interesting time for this word to surface since where I live the water is frozen right now, and where Angela lives it’s very dry. But in both places, there is water flowing, it’s just deep underground or it’s moving very…
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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,…