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Amidst political instability, humanitarian and ecologies crises and social fragmentation, where do we begin to create space for designing our freedom dreams for ourselves and our communities? How do we give ourselves permission to dream of a liberated future within creatively restrictive systems? 

In this first episode of 2025, we bring onto the show Dr Michelle Pledger, the founder of Living for Liberation, an organisation that supports liberation of self, systems and society, and academic focusing her research on cultivating culturally responsive teaching and classroom management for culturally and linguistically diverse students.

Michelle is committed to disrupting inequity in education and cultivating a community of practitioners who honour the lived experiences of all their students and educators. Her book, LIBERATE! Pocket-Sized Paradigms for Liberatory Learning is a must read for any educator who aspires to design educational experiences that are responsive to culturally and linguistically diverse young people. Whether it is through the vehicle of project-based learning, culturally responsive-sustaining pedagogy, or freedom facilitation, her hope is to develop educators and students who think critically, act empathetically, and live a life of liberation.

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Take a pause and ask yourself - have you tuned into your senses today? Have you been able to take a moment to tap into the senses that help regulate and make meaning of our inner landscapes as portals to the ever-changing outer worlds?

As we begin to come to the end of the year, we hold space in this reflection episode for the sacredness of the places of our bodies in helping us navigate and make sense of these challenging and constantly changing times. By weaving together sensuous experiences throughout the episode, our host Agrita Dandriyal grounds the body as the primary place we make sense of our inner and outer landscapes in a call for deep remembering of our roles and responsibilities as current stewards and future ancestors of the land.

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How can the emulation of nature’s processes of regeneration seed hopeful inspiration into new beginnings? In what ways can we tap into the regenerative capacities and energies of our material bodies to engage in reparative changemaking that feeds imaginations of a reality that break cycles of internalised scarcity and overconsumption to nurture cultures of care, mutuality and rest?

In our first episode of 2024, we are joined by the host Agrita Dandriyal to explore the ways in which we engage in the complex regeneration of our material and non-material capacities with the beginning of each new year. Being deeply inspired by the microcosms of her family’s gardens and the political space of her body, Agrita calls for a remembering of the eco-cultural roots of regeneration in values of reciprocal care and resilience so that we can reclaim the reparative power of the age-old concept and materialise our dreams of equitable and restful realities.

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How can we deepen our understanding of the ways of being of our more-than-human kin through the art of heart-led communication and embodiment practice? In what ways can decentering the human experience equip both our animal companions and ourselves with the necessary energy healing tools for smoother life transitions?

For our final episode of the year, we welcome onto the show Maribeth Decker, an intuitive animal communicator, medical intuitive, and energy healer, is the founder of SacredGrove.com, where People and Pets Heal and Connect.

She works with people to help their animal companions move gracefully through transitions - into the family, into a new family, or onto the next life. A retired Navy officer, Maribeth’s rich personal life experiences have enabled her to bring a wealth of heart-centered wisdom to her work with each client, and her unyielding intention is to consistently bring forth the maximum benefit for all concerned in the most benevolent manner possible.

In this heart-felt and deeply emotional conversation, Maribeth walks us through her beautiful journey of animal communication and energy healing, and how her gift of telepathically connecting to any beloved more-than-human, as well as wildlife, has equipped both carers and their animal companions with tools to understand each other on a deeper spiritual and emotional level and move through more difficult phases in life, particularly as more-than-human kin transition to the spirit world.

Maribeth envisions her work inspiring a shift in consciousness in homes and families where people ‘see’ their animal companions, and other more-than-human beings, as having experiences, standpoints and decision-making abilities that are indeed ‘more-than-human’, and she hopes this will induce greater consciousness-level shifts at the macro-scale.

Connect with Maribeth and find out more about her work at SacredGrove.com.

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How can the intimacies of human relationships with the more-than-human help inform and reshape environmental and development policy at the global scale? What power does awakening a collective ecological consciousness have in remediating our moral and political systems which have grossly failed in building and sustaining unity and integrity in wider community?

Today we are joined by Rebekah Shaman, a plant medicine shaman inspiring conscious change in the urban jungle by bringing nature and humanity back into balance through working intimately with the Master Plant medicines Ayahuasca, Cacao and Cannabis over the past 25 years. Through her work, Rebekah has inspired and urban dwellers to live shamanically by reconnecting to the rhythms of life through the Master Plant ceremonies she offers under the guidance of indigenous shamans in the Amazon. Rebekah is the managing director of the British Hemp Alliance which promotes hemp as an environmental tool to reaching Net Zero, and she also CEO of Ritual Cacao, one of the largest suppliers of ceremonial grade cacao in the UK.

In this episode, Rebekah guides us through the wonderfully complex and deeply inspiring stories of the Peruvian Amazon, and how the teachings of the rainforest enriched her journey as a plant medicine shaman working for radical system change in the urban jungle. Challenging the divide between bottom-up and top-down approaches to addressing our ecological crises, Rebekah particularly emphasises on the need for consciousness shifts at the individual and community level to feed and stabilise decision-making at the macro-level, which requires the integration of indigenous, local and more-than-human knowledges into policy which have been successful in preserving cultures of care and stewardship.

Connect with Rebekah at rebekahshaman.com and Instagram (@rebekahshaman_).

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How can we mainstream relational and care-based environmental policy paradigms as a way to radically transform and heal our moral and political systems which control environmental decision-making in overly legalistic and abstract ways? What power does using the care-informed gift economic framing to conceptualise volunteer-led citizen science hold for locals, who have deeply intimate and often generational relationships with the land, for bringing them to the centre of decision-making for their environment?

Today we are joined by the host Agrita Dandriyal to explore the wonderful research she got to conduct over the summer on the gift in volunteer-led citizen science as part of her MSc in Environment, Politics and Society. By using the moral framing of the gift economy and a case study example of a London wildlife group, Agrita demonstrates to us how the embodied experiences, situated biographies and moral responsibilities of stewardship of volunteers intermesh to form the fabric of environmental caregiving that provides the space for bottom-up initiatives to thrive and empower local knowledge and agency, for both the human and more-than-human.

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How can immigrants, or children of immigrants, resist the colonial tendency to homogenise their identities into quantifiable and qualifiable categories? What power does repoliticising languages having histories of linguistic and cultural genocide hold for communities working to preserve the sacrality of their ancestral tongue within a dominant culture which centers Eurowestern language ideologies?

Today we reunite with Chesline Pierre-Paul to continue on the conversation from the previous episode on decolonising our relationship with money as a means to build multidirectional wealth, specifically focusing on the liberatory practices of repoliticising language and identity. In this intricately layered episode, Ches beautifully walks us through their journey of reclamation and rematriation of their Haitian identity as a child of political refugees. By embedding their life experiences, Ches guides us through the anti-colonial practices of retranslation and decentering western language ideologies as we mindfully honour the stories, cultures and identities of our ancestors who pre-dated the dominant languages in concern.

Ches is a multi-award-winning DEI expert and global thought leader. Their mission is to help the most disenfranchised humans on Earth go from generational debt and poverty to multi-generational wealth and healing. They run © Chesline Inc., the most innovative and transformational DEI consulting firm and digital global edtech company in the world, and they use low-cost online education to help Queer, BIPOC, Gen Z, and Millennial college and university dropouts live amazing 6-figure lives and careers without ever going back to school. Ches shows them how to thrive, not survive, in a White man's world without selling out, giving up, or settling.

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How can we begin to decolonise our relationship to money as a means to heal intergenerational poverty that perpetuates cycles of survivorship and struggle for disenfranchised peoples? In what ways can we use our privilege to transform capitalist and colonial economic paradigms to ones which promote the multidirectional use of money as an instrument to true freedom?

In today’s episode, we are joined Chesline Pierre-Paul, an multi-award-winning DEI expert and global thought leader. Their mission is to help the most disenfranchised humans on Earth go from generational debt and poverty to multi-generational wealth and healing. They run © Chesline Inc., the most innovative and transformational DEI consulting firm and digital global edtech company in the world, and they use low-cost online education to help Queer, BIPOC, Gen Z, and Millennial college and university dropouts live amazing 6-figure lives and careers without ever going back to school. Ches shows them how to thrive, not survive, in a White man's world without selling out, giving up, or settling.

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Why is it important that we integrate relational work in environmental conservation and restoration work to shift away from colonial and anthropocentric practices of managing the land to move to a more regenerative and caring paradigm which serve the emotional and spiritual needs of all? What power does decentering and deprivileging the human experience hold in building meaningful relationships with the more-than-human when the conservation community has internalised self-centrism and extractivism?

On today's episode, we reshare the conversation Agrita got to be a part of as a guest on the wonderful Ximena Garcia’s podcast Traditional Medicine with Shamaflora. In this episode, Ximena provides her the space to share her story and journey into grounding healing in her work within environmental science and policy and the ways in which embodied, lived experiences have guided her in creating space for deep healing work in social and environmental fields through the Mind Full of Everything podcast.

NOTE: The structure of the episode has been kept the same as how Ximena’s podcast team has produced it so there has been no editing involved in this release, which also means the breathing exercise is not included so please feel free to pause the recording now to do it now. 

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In what ways can the Enneagram reveal the inherent paradoxes and contradictions within each personality type? How can this open up pathways to exit trap cycles and opportunities for our deepest developments as individuals and as part of the wider community, whilst also challenging tendencies to oversimplify paradox work?

We welcome back the lovely Samantha Mackay to the podcast to build on  the previous episode on the Enneagram and personality mapping, focusing on a very complex but integral part of the tool - paradoxes. In this deeply inspiring and wonderfully detailed episode, Samantha guides us through the process of identifying and breaking down contradictions for each of the nine Enneagram types by giving practical examples of trap cycles for each and some of ways we can begin to transform our internalised patterns by allowing ourselves permission to change.

Samantha is a personal development coach at Individuo, incorporating the Enneagram into her integrative approach to inner work. She came to this work through a journey of recovering from chronic pain, illness and anxiety and discovering that in order to shift her pain she needed to master a range of skills that strengthened her inner resilience.  On her multi-year journey of recovery, Samantha has learnt that some treatments act like a short term bandaids and others provided more permanent healing. She incorporates the Enneagram into her work for this very reason; it helps us invest our time, energy and resources into inner work that provides true relief. 

For a more comprehensive insight into the Enneagram, listen to the previous episode before tuning into this one.

Connect to Samantha at individuo.life.

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