Formerly known as Healing Justice Podcast, Irresistible is a virtual practice space at the intersection of collective healing & social change. Host Kate Werning & collaborators share conversations with powerful social justice leaders, and accompanying audio practices to help resource you in your lea… read more
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Within the constant violence of the systems of oppression that structure our lives, there are infinite reasons for us to be enraged. As we recorded …
EXCITING NEWS! Irresistible is welcoming its first-ever Co-Director, the inimitable BJSTAR. We are so excited for you to get to know them in this episode & beyond!
BJ joins Co-Director Kate Werning for a …
In participation with the week of action In Defense of Black Lives, we’re republishing a practice that was shared under our previous name, Healing Justice, in April 2018.
Kandace Montgomery and Miski Noor of Black …
In participation with the week of action In Defense of Black Lives, we’re republishing a critical conversation that was shared under our previous name, Healing Justice, in April 2018.
Kandace Montgomery and Miski Noor …
In a time when many of our biggest visions for 2020 feel turned upside down, we're hungry for some inspiration. Enter youth voices Athina Amanor, Daniel Cook, Sary Barrios, & Theo Cooksey.
In this episode, we hear …
Emergencies like the COVID-19 pandemic create the conditions for accelerated political realignments. This creates an enormous threat for bold moves …
This week we are diving into the grief, loss, intimacy, and possibility available in the unknown - all the time, and especially now in this moment of pandemic forcing great transition. How may we engage with this time …
Stimulus checks from the US government are starting to hit bank accounts for qualifying citizens this week. What is going on with those checks, and …
The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing real and significant disruptions to our lives, our communities, and our organizing.
The scale of this shift in our social fabric is new, but these are challenges that disability justice …
Kazu Haga of East Point Peace Academy leads us through a Metta Meditation, as part of our spiritual training for nonviolent discipline.
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Organizing trainers & practitioners Kazu Haga (East Point Peace Academy) and Carlos Saavedra (Ayni Institute) join us to talk about Kingian …
How you holding up?
We're joined by facilitator & circle keeper BJ Star to check in about the ways we can support each other in community during …
It's here - our new name for Healing Justice Podcast!
We are Irresistible -- a community of practice in collective healing and social change. In this …
It's here - our new name for Healing Justice Podcast!
We are Irresistible -- a community of practice in collective healing and social change.
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Should we be cancelling our events and travel due to COVID-19?
In this mini bonus feature, we expand upon our previous episode "Coronavirus: Wisdom …
In this bonus episode, we bring you timely medical information, invocations, grounding practices and reflections from the March 7, 2020 webinar: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Preparation for People Living with Chronic …
Freedom Inc. staff Kabzuag Vaj, Bianca Gomez, and Zon Moua join us for a conversation about the complexities of building a multi-generational, …
In this practice episode, Carolyn Nguyen and Emily Wong of Chinese Progressive Association’s Youth MOJO (Movement of Justice and Organizing) offer us …
Lai Wa Wu, Emily Wong, Angela Zhou (also known as Zhou Rui Fang), and interpreter Adrian Leong of Chinese Progressive Association & Youth MOJO (Movement of Justice and Organizing) in San Francisco join series host …
Youth organizers are leading the way in integrating transformative practices into their power-building work, and informing the way funders think about resourcing movements. Joining us are series guest host Taj James …
Join us in talking to disability activist and media maker Alice Wong about building media that values accessibility, disability as a political and …
In this practice episode, Bea Anderson shares a practice for feeling the strength and medicine of your own voice. It can be done privately or in a group, and you don't need any special materials to join in.
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Join us in talking to sound healer and community organizer Bea Anderson about liberating our voices to speak up, overcome silence, heal what needs to be healed in our lineages, and balance and harmonize our voices …
In this practice episode, Eroc Arroyo-Montano offers a practice from Mijente Ancestral Resistance Zine for transforming grief. He shares an approach to creating your own cleansing shower ritual to open up sacred space …
Join us in talking to cultural organizer Ernesto "Eroc" Arroyo-Montano about patriarchy, accountability, transformation, queerness, and tender …
Nora Samaran and Serena Lukas Bhandar, authors of "Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture," offer us a practice for …
This week, we’re talking to Nora Samaran and contributing writer Serena Lukas Bhandar about Nora’s new book, "Turn This World Inside Out: The …
In this practice, Joanne and Idelisse offer a writing exercise called "The Do-Over" to help process experiences of bias and discrimination, and to …
This week we’re talking Aging in the Movement with Idelisse Malavé and Joanne Sandler, extraordinary women leaders for global justice and co-hosts of the podcast Two Old Bitches. They tell us about the secrets of …
What is your WHY? This is an amazing practice for creating a Purpose Statement that discerns and names your inner DESIRE, for the sake of clarifying your work and essence.
Samia Abou-Samra and Ije Ude of Turtle Tank …
Samia Abou-Samra and Ije Ude of Turtle Tank join us this week to talk about SACRED WORK. They teach us how desire is core to finding the work that …
In this practice episode Tricia Hersey, aka the "Nap Bishop" and founder of The Nap Ministry, sets us up with a soothing recording to prepare us for THE PERFECT NAP. We hope you enjoy the profoundness of her principles …
This week we're joined by Tricia Hersey, aka the "Nap Bishop" and founder of The Nap Ministry, to be schooled in all things anti-capitalism and rest. …
Host Kate Werning describes some of the 'why' behind our name transition that will happen this November (fuller exploration will be shared this …
This week Jonel Beauvais of the Akwesasne people in Mohawk territory offers us a practice from her people. It's a ritual for condolence, inspired by …
This week we're joined by Jonel Beauvais and Aida Cuadrado Bozzo from the Womens Fellowship at Community Change, which exists to hone the organizing …
Healing Justice Podcast is hiring for two part-time positions: a Digital Organizer & a Podcast Producer. Job descriptions & how to apply at http://www.healingjustice.org/work
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This is a practice offered by host Kate Werning based on our conversation with Phillip Agnew in the prior episode. It leads us through reflecting on the Dream Defenders' Freedom Papers and how we can contemplate and …
Phillip Agnew, former Executive Director of the Dream Defenders and leader in the Movement for Black Lives, joins us to talk about his recent …
This practice is a Somatic Check-In to feel one another's pulse and breath, and experience the possibility for awareness of co-regulation of our …
This week we are talk Relational Somatics with Lucién Demaris of Relational Uprising. I love listening to how Lucién perceives and understands the …
Welcome to BOOK CLUB: a new gathering place for our listener community to learn, explore, and practice together. We'll share must-read titles (with 3 months time for you to read the book), a quarterly selection, and …
This practice from adrienne maree brown is for liberating the language of desire and cultivating consent. These skills are central for us to access …
Today we're talking with adrienne maree brown and Amita Swadhin about adrienne’s new book, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. Get your …
In this practice, Rhiana Anthony of The Icarus Project offers us a concrete tool called "Mad Maps" to help us develop a plan to support our own …
For our first full episode back with Season 2, we talk with Agustina Vidal and Rhiana Anthony of The Icarus Project about everything mental health: …
Welcome to Season 2 of Healing Justice Podcast!
This season's theme might just be action-while-incomplete. Or change-in-motion.
Hear host Kate Werning and incoming Board member Kirin Kanakkannatt talk about all the ways …
Welcome to our LIVE SHOW from Little Haiti Cultural Center in Miami, Florida! We are joined by Uprooted & Rising leaders Estefanía Narváez and …
Resilience is deeply necessary for us to survive and thrive, but it can often be imposed, distorted, or misunderstood. So we wanted to hear from our …
Welcome to our first-ever LIVE SHOW, coming at you from our first birthday party! We are joined by Kate Werning, Jillian White, Sumitra Rajkumar (of episode 12), Alexis Francisco (of episode 33), The Peace Poets (of …
You're invited to our first birthday party & live show!
More info and tickets here: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjparty
Sliding scale tickets and sponsorships available.
Did we mention there will be cake?
If you can't …
We made it through to November 7th! Come get through your midterm election adrenaline/terror hangover with us. The world is drowning in spin and …
Welcome to our CANDIDATES TELL ALL episode, powered by Black women! Running for office is an incredibly strenuous experience. Why do candidates do it, and how do they keep themselves grounded along the way?
Esteemed …
Campaign Workers Guild (CWG) is organizing the movement to unionize political and issue-based campaign workers nationwide. CWG Vice President Meg …
Women campaign managers are transforming the old boys club of transactional campaign culture. We’re joined first by Nancy Leeds of the infamous …
It’s a battle of strategy, values, and culture: should we be building social movements for the long-term that embody all of what we deserve; OR …
With our first podcast season complete and the 2018 US midterm elections upon us, Healing Justice Podcast brings you the SURVIVING ELECTIONS …
A 5-minute practice to show gratitude for yourself and others on the path to liberation.
The only way that feels appropriate to end this first, long season of Healing Justice Podcast, is with GRATITUDE.
Thank you to …
Welcome to part 3 of our 3-part Season One reflection series. You're joining host Kate Werning, practitioner Marcia Lee of Healing by Choice (episode 18), and our sound designer Zach Meyer. We reflect on this year, …
Welcome to part 2 of our 3-part season 1 reflection series. We are excited to share our reflections on practice with you from the past year, and also invite in your voice and practice stories here: …
We're BACK... just in time to bring you a 3-part season 1 reflection series and take a seasonal production break. (And inviting in your voice: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjpsurvey !!!)
This reflection series took a long …
This week, we’re listening in as a brilliant crew from generative somatics has a powerful conversation about trauma, oppression, healing and …
In this practice, you’re joining Alexis Francisco and Cicia Lee for the meditative experience of Centering Prayer. They describe it as a constant …
Welcome to part 3 of a 3-part collaborative series between the Mystic Soul Project and Healing Justice Podcast!
This week, Cicia Lee, Alexis …
Join Cedar Landsman of Relational Uprising in learning how to inquire appreciatively into what we may be inclined to judge, reject, exclude, dismiss, or devalue about another’s experience. We see what new information …
This week, we’re talking with Lucién Demaris & Cedar Landsman of Relational Uprising about individualism as a system of oppression; “heroic” …
Join Teo Drake in this incredibly simple embodied exercise to practice privileging your heart above your head.
The questions Teo asks in this …
This week, we’re talking with Teo Drake about the relationship between intention and impact, what it means to be right-sized, the rage of coming of age during the AIDS epidemic, Being Trans and HIV+ poster child, …
Join Resistance Revival Chorus Musical Director Abena Koomson Davis in a meditative singing and listening practice you can do alone or in a group. …
This week, we’re talking with Resistance Revival Chorus members Sarah Sophie Flicker and Meah Pace. You’ll hear their performances of protest songs …
In this practice, you’re joining AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez of the Mystic Soul Project to learn how to facilitate a Name Reclamation group activity.
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Welcome to part 2 of a 3-part collaborative series between the Mystic Soul Project and Healing Justice Podcast!
This week, AnaYelsi Velasco-Sanchez, …
Join Dori Midnight to learn how to make an essence, a people’s medicine, of your own. These are incredible instructions and so fun to follow - the …
This week, we’re talking with radical herbalist, healer, and witch Dori Midnight. You’ll hear us talk about her hilarious story of queer witchy magic from a young age, plants as allies, how activists can better care for …
Join us for a personal practice from Je Naé Taylor about compartmentalizing in a healthy way. How do we organize our thoughts and emotions around conflict so we can do what we need to do in the moment, and carve out …
Welcome to part 2 of a 2-part conversation with Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100). This week, Healing and Safety Council members JeNaè Taylor & Kai M Green join us to talk about interventional healing and …
In this practice, you’re joining (P) Ife Williams & Chris Roberts of BYP100 Healing and Safety Council in a guided collective exercise to explore …
Welcome to part 1 of a 2-part conversation with Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100). This week, Healing and Safety Council members Pascale Ife Williams (Ife) and Chris Roberts join us to share about preventative healing …
In this practice, you’re joining Teresa P Mateus of Mystic Soul Project for a grounded breathing exercise. It’s so simple, and so powerful. All you …
Welcome to part 1 of a 3-part collaborative series between the Mystic Soul Project and Healing Justice Podcast!
This week, Mystic Soul co-founders …
In this practice, you’re joining Jacoby Ballard for a guided meditation for forgiving ourselves and others. All you need is a space where you can focus. Jacoby will invite you to stand, sit, or lay down.
Here are the …
We’re talking with Jacoby Ballard about all things allyship, accompliceship, and solidarity. You’ll hear some captivating stories about navigating …
In this practice, you’re joining Peace Poets Lu Aya and The Last Emcee in a guided exercise for sacred writing. You’ll hear Frankie 4 perform “Lightwork,” and be led through a series of prompts to write your own poetry.
This week, we’re talking with the Peace Poets: Lu Aya, The Last Emcee, Frankie 4, and A-B-E (and RAM 3 in spirit). We talk about the power and meaning of language, writing for healing and connection, the cypher as a …
In this practice, you’ll hear stories, examples, and important questions to ask ourselves to incorporate healing and wellbeing into the preparation for action, during direct action itself, and aftercare.
You can also …
This week, we’re talking with Kandace Montgomery and Miski Noor of Black Lives Matter Global Network and Black Visions Collective in the Twin Cities. …
Esta semana, Francisca nos guia en un rezo diario de gratitud en español. Se puede escucharlo y participar de cualquier lugar - solo, o en comunidad… …
In this practice, you’ll experience a daily gratitude prayer with Francisca Porchas Coronado in English. It can be listened to from a quiet and still place, or on the go - wherever you can dedicate your heart and …
This week we’re talking with Francisca Porchas Coronado. We talk about healing traditions in immigrant Latinx communities, the resilience of …
In this practice, you’ll learn an exercise called “Sharing Resonance” from psychotherapist Mark Fairfield. It is a framework for building relational …
This week we’re talking with psychotherapist Mark Fairfield about the central role of connection in our lives and lethal individualism. We learn …
In this practice, you’ll learn how to facilitate a group game called the SINGDOWN. This exercise is designed by Jonny 5 & Brer Rabbit of Flobots …
This week we’re singing and learning with Jonny 5 and Brer Rabbit of the band Flobots. We talk about the role of artists in leadership, their late …
In this practice, you’ll learn the basics of holding a Healing Justice Practice Space. It’s more of a training to lead a practice yourself, so the …
This week we’re sharing and laughing with Healing By Choice collective members Violeta Donawa, Marcia Lee, and Adela Nieves Martinez. We talk about …
In this practice, you’ll learn techniques to hone your skill in leading group song - including honoring lineage, guarding against appropriation, skilled coordination of group teaching and singing, and WHY songs are …
This week we’re talking with IfNotNow leaders Ilana Lerman, Helen Bennett, and Michal David. We talk culture design as a key component of movement …
In this practice, “Releasing to Pachamama,” Fhatima Paulino guides you through a simple earth reconnection practice. You’ll need a quiet place, …
This week we’re talking with Fhatima Paulino and Carlos Saavedra from the Ayni Institute. We’re learning about the critical perspective of a long and …
This practice with Jardana Peacock and Kelly Germaine-Strickland leads you through ancestral healing work that is focused on white ancestry, but can …
Today we’re talking with Kelly Germaine-Strickland & Jardana Peacock about white ancestral healing as anti-racist practice, faith and spirituality, white fragility, the complexity of ancestry and white supremacy, …
This practice with Prentis Hemphill, former Healing Justice Director of Black Lives Matter, leads you to cultivate a sense of belonging within …
Today we’re talking with Prentis Hemphill, former Healing Justice Director of the Black Lives Matter Network. We talk about the ways anti-Blackness …
This week's practice is a Somatic Centering practice that can be done anywhere, alone or in a group… and is one of the most fundamental building …
Today we’re talking with Sumitra Rajkumar. We discuss what somatics is, the meaning (and common misinterpretation and misuse) of the concepts of …
Join us for a simple tapping practice called Emotional Freedom Technique with Geleni Fontaine of Third Root Community Health Center. This utilizes …
Ever get disoriented in a conflict? This group conflict dynamics mapping practice is meant for supporting feelings of overwhelm with a clear tool for …
Celia Kutz of Training for Change joins host Kate Werning for a conversation about conflict as a generative place that can offer groups deeper clarity and insight. She speaks of strong emotions, mental health, and …
Join us for a meditation practice focused on non-striving for activists with guest teacher Katie Loncke of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship. You’ll need 20 uninterrupted minutes, and a place you can sit, stand, or lie down …
In this fifth episode of Healing Justice Podcast, Katie Loncke of Buddhist Peace Fellowship joins host Kate Werning for a conversation about wisdom, activism, organizing, meditation, striving and non-striving, Buddhism, …
Join us for a simple but profound journaling practice with Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza. Grab a notebook or something to write on, your favorite writing implement, and get ready to be led through some reflection on your …
In this third episode of Healing Justice Podcast, Dr. Robyn Henderson-Espinoza joins host Kate Werning for a conversation about activist theology in …
Join us for a simple 5-min practice: listening to the reading of a poem. Just a short one this week to get us into the rhythm of conversing & …
In the second episode of Healing Justice Podcast, host Kate Werning is joined by collaborators Shawna Wakefield and Teresa Pasquale Mateus for a …
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