Francesca Maximé – ReRooted – Ep. 10 – Hope and Healing with Shawn Ginwr...

My latest #ReRooted podcast on Be Here Now Network with Shawn Ginwright, PhD

https://beherenownetwork.com/francesca-maxime-rerooted-ep-10-hope-and-healing-with-shawn-ginwright/

Author, professor and activist Shawn Ginwright visits Francesca Maxime on the ReRooted Podcast for a conversation about bringing hope and healing to the youth of urban America.

Shawn Ginwright is a leading national expert on African American youth, youth activism, and youth development. He is an Associate Professor of Education in the Africana Studies Department and Senior Research Associate for the Cesar Chavez Institute for Public Policy at San Francisco State University. Dr. Ginwright is the founder of Leadership Excellence Inc. an innovative youth development agency located in Oakland, California and the Research Collaborative on Youth Activism. Learn more at shawnginwright.com.

Healing Centered Engagement

Shawn speaks about his early work as an educator and sociologist working with young men raised in challenging urban environments. He shares how working with these young men inspired him to move away from the trauma-informed method of care that he was trained in. Gravitating to an approach that focuses on engaging the full individual – not just a piece of them.  Francesca and Shawn explore the importance of this paradigm shift from trauma-informed care to healing-centered engagement.

“What does it mean to provide young men with an opportunity to be fully human, even in the context of their trauma? I don’t think we should abandon trauma-informed care, it is just an incomplete process.” – Shawn Ginwright

Building Opportunities (17:40)

How do Shawn’s background and history factor into his approach as an activist? Shawn shares how the traumas and opportunities that he experienced early in life has informed the direction of his work.

Hope and Healing (24:00)

Francesca and Shawn discuss the impact that self-work and regulation have on those who hold roles as leaders, caregivers, and educators. Shawn talks about his own practice and looks at how a personal practice allows for a deeper connection between individuals fulfilling leadership roles and those that they serve.

“There is a lack of contemplative spaces and opportunities for adults who are working with young people, particularly in schools. Teachers, principals, educational leaders simply do not have the space to sit and reflect and be centered.” – Shawn Ginwright

http://www.shawnginwright.com/

https://flourishagenda.com/our-team/#our-staff

Francesca Maximé – ReRooted – Ep. 10 – Hope and Healing with Shawn Ginwr...

 My latest #ReRooted podcast on Be Here Now Network with Shawn Ginwright, PhD



https://beherenownetwork.com/francesca-maxime-rerooted-ep-10-hope-and-healing-with-shawn-ginwright/



Author, professor and activist Shawn Ginwright visits Francesca Maxime on the ReRooted Podcast for a conversation about bringing hope and healing to the youth of urban America.

Shawn Ginwright is a leading national expert on African American youth, youth activism, and youth development. He is an Associate Professor of Education in the Africana Studies Department and Senior Research Associate for the Cesar Chavez Institute for Public Policy at San Francisco State University. Dr. Ginwright is the founder of Leadership Excellence Inc. an innovative youth development agency located in Oakland, California and the Research Collaborative on Youth Activism. Learn more at shawnginwright.com.



Healing Centered Engagement

Shawn speaks about his early work as an educator and sociologist working with young men raised in challenging urban environments. He shares how working with these young men inspired him to move away from the trauma-informed method of care that he was trained in. Gravitating to an approach that focuses on engaging the full individual – not just a piece of them.  Francesca and Shawn explore the importance of this paradigm shift from trauma-informed care to healing-centered engagement.



“What does it mean to provide young men with an opportunity to be fully human, even in the context of their trauma? I don’t think we should abandon trauma-informed care, it is just an incomplete process.” – Shawn Ginwright



Building Opportunities (17:40)

How do Shawn’s background and history factor into his approach as an activist? Shawn shares how the traumas and opportunities that he experienced early in life has informed the direction of his work.



Hope and Healing (24:00)

Francesca and Shawn discuss the impact that self-work and regulation have on those who hold roles as leaders, caregivers, and educators. Shawn talks about his own practice and looks at how a personal practice allows for a deeper connection between individuals fulfilling leadership roles and those that they serve.



“There is a lack of contemplative spaces and opportunities for adults who are working with young people, particularly in schools. Teachers, principals, educational leaders simply do not have the space to sit and reflect and be centered.” – Shawn Ginwright



http://www.shawnginwright.com/

https://flourishagenda.com/our-team/#our-staff

Francesca Maximé – ReRooted – Ep. 7 – Waking Up to Racism with Patti Digh

#ReRooted: Implicit Bias

My latest #ReRooted podcast on Implicit Bias on the Be Here Now Network with Bigotry From The Outside-In 's Kate Lingren and Percy Ray Ballard and how mindfulness and Internal Family Systems/IFS can help

https://beherenownetwork.com/francesca-maxime-rerooted-ep-9-implicit-bias-with-percy-ballard-and-kate-lingren/

https://youtu.be/UpE3OsR5HWU

https://www.implicitbiasoutsidein.com/

Kate Lingren and Percy Ballard visit the ReRooted Podcast for a conversation about how understanding implicit bias can allow us to operate in the world with greater awareness and compassion. 

Kate Lingren, LICSW is a clinical social worker in private practice and an activist working against bigotry in all its forms: racism, homophobia, heterosexism, transphobia, sexism, and classism among others. For the past 15 years, Kate has worked in full-time private practice and now teaches couple therapy using Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) around the country and in Europe.

Percy Ballard is an Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) psychotherapist practicing full time in Belmont MA. He and Kate lead workshops on implicit bias that help people to find, understand and address subconscious forms of bias (ie sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.). Learn more about Percy’s practice at percyballardmd.com.

Working with Implicit Bias

What is implicit bias? Percy and Kate discuss the biases we carry unknown to ourselves. Together they look at how implicit bias training can bring awareness to our biases and how they manifest in the world.

“Implicit biases are the little ideas and associations that we have which we are unaware of. The idea that we associate with the concept of being female with rearing a family and the concept of male with having a career. Those are associations that we have from a young age that are in us. We did not put them there. Our environments, the media and people we have been around, have put that in us. We are biologically wired to have these associations.” – Percy Ballard

An Offensive Defense (16:40)

The group looks at why implicit bias exists in the first place. They look at how the mind uses bias as a safety mechanism, as well as how the mind reacts when our implicit bias is called out. How can mindfulness allow us to work with implicit bias?

“To have a biased belief often means to us that we are bad people. So many of us hold that. Those protections keep it out of our awareness or the risk is that we see ourselves as bad.” – Kate Lingren

Calling Out Bias (28:35)

Percy and Kate do roleplay that offers real-world examples of the complexities of confronting implicit bias. This practice uncovers the social dynamics and behaviors that surface when we are encountering implicit bias in ourselves and in others. What are some of the ways we can mindfully avoid derailing a constructive conversation into an unconstructive argument?

Francesca Maximé – ReRooted – Ep. 2 – Why Does Patriarchy Persist? w/ Ca...

This week on the ReRooted Podcast, Francesca is joined by psychologist Carol Gilligan for a conversation around how our identity, development, and relationships are impacted by systematic inequality.

Carol Gilligan is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics. She is a professor at New York University and a visiting professor at the University of Cambridge. She is teaching as a visiting professor at New York University, Abu Dhabi. Carol is best known for her 1982 work, In a Different Voice, and has been credited with inspiring the passage of the 1994 Gender Equity in Education Act.

Why Does Patriarchy Persist?

Carol shares the inspiration for her most recent book, Why Does Patriarchy Persist? – which explores the persistence of patriarchal societies with her co-author, Naomi Snider. Carol and Francesca explore the impact of patriarchal systems on the men and women that they suppress.

“Patriarchy is a hierarchy, democracy is equal voice. You have to have an equal voice if you are going to deal with conflicts in relationships. Whether it is your personal relationships or it is a democracy, it depends on everyone having a voice. Patriarchy elevates the voices of fathers. So it elevates the voices of some men over other men and all men over women.” – Carol Gilligan 

In A Different Voice (14:30)

Francesca and Carol explore Carol’s famous early work, “In A Different Voice.” Carol speaks about the deep traumas and issues that develop when we suppress aspects of our humanity by labeling them masculine and feminine.

“I wrote the essay ‘In A Different Voice’ in the 1970s. Between then and now, there has been a growing consensus that as humans we are relational responsive beings. Increasingly, across the human sciences, scientists are saying that is who we are as human. That was key to the survival as a species – our capacity to cooperate, care and be empathic. What is so interesting is, when did that get gendered feminine? That is where the word patriarchy comes in because this taking of human capacity and saying that, ‘reason is masculine and emotion is feminine,’ or ‘The self is masculine men because men are supposed to be autonomous and self-sufficient. Women are supposed to relational and emotional and responsive to other people – that we don’t really have a voice of our own.” – Carol Gilligan

What Do We Do Now? (35:50)

Carol looks at what everyone, across the gender spectrum, can do to sustain and further the current push back at the American patriarchy. She and Francesca talk about what those who have adopted the patriarchy have to benefit by shifting to a system centered around equality.

# 14 "Be Mindful Now" RESET with Francesca Maxime'

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Mindful Teacher and Podcaster Francesca Maxime' digs in with insights to reduce suffering and increase well-being. You'll dig it , too!

#WiseGirl: Trauma Expert Dr: Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Kee...

In today's #WiseGirl video podcast, I speak with trauma expert Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps The Score. He talks about the physiology behind what transforms trauma in the brain and body, how modalities like yoga can help transform trauma, self-awareness and curiosity about noticing what we're experiencing, how oppressive, systemic societal structures influence the degree of trauma people experience, how systems (housing, healthcare) that support greater wellbeing can help prevent trauma, and we also address who often does -- and doesn't -- have access to the kinds modalities often helpful for trauma healing.

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http://besselvanderkolk.net/index.html

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​Bessel van der Kolk MD has spent his career studying how children and adults adapt to traumatic experiences, and has translated emerging findings from neuroscience and attachment research to develop and study a range of potentially effective treatments for traumatic stress in children and adults.

In 1984, he set up one of the first clinical/research centers in the US dedicated to study and treatment of traumatic stress in civilian populations, which has trained numerous researchers and clinicians specializing in the study and treatment of traumatic stress, and which has been continually funded to research the impact of traumatic stress and effective treatment interventions. He did the first studies on the effects of SSRIs on PTSD; was a member of the first neuroimaging team to investigate how trauma changes brain processes, and did the first research linking BPD and deliberate self-injury to trauma and neglect in early childhood.

Much of his research has focused on how trauma has a different impact at different stages of development, and that disruptions in care-giving systems have additional deleterious effects that need to be addressed for effective intervention. In order to promote a deeper understanding of the impact of childhood trauma and to foster the development and execution of effective treatment interventions, he initiated the process that led to the establishment of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), a Congressionally mandated initiative that now funds approximately 150 centers specializing in developing effective treatment interventions, and implementing them in a wide array of settings, from juvenile detention centers to tribal agencies, nationwide.

He has focused on studying treatments that stabilize physiology, increase executive functioning and help traumatized individuals to feel fully alert to the present. This has included an NIMH funded study on EMDR and NCCAM funded study of yoga, and, in recent years, the study of neurofeedback to investigate whether attentional and perceptual systems (and the neural tracks responsible for them) can be altered by changing EEG patterns.

​His efforts resulted in the establishment of Trauma Center that consist  of a well-trained clinical team specializing in the treatment of children and adults with histories of child maltreatment, that applies treatment models that are widely taught and implemented nationwide, a research lab that studies the effects of neurofeedback and MDMA on behavior, mood, and executive functioning, and numerous trainings nationwide to a variety of mental health professional, educators, parent groups, policy makers, and law enforcement personnel. 

 

#WiseGirl: Ken Page, LCSW, author of Deeper Dating, on Dating Mindfully

In today's #WiseGirl podcast, I sit down with psychotherapist and dating and relationship expert Ken Page to discuss Mindful Dating. He walks us through a process of self-discovery of our "core gifts" and how opening to the very things about which we feel most vulnerable can lead to true connection and lasting love. Enjoy and Happy Valentine's Day!

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www.deeperdating.com

www.deeperdatingpodcast.com

KEN PAGE, LCSW, is a renowned psychotherapist, leading Psychology Today blogger, Huffington Post blogger and author of the bestseller Deeper Dating: How to Drop the Games of Seduction and Discover the Power of Intimacy. He has been featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Fox News, WPIX-TV News and more. Page has led hundreds of workshops on intimacy and spirituality for thousands of participants. He has taught at Columbia University, the Omega Institute and the Garrison Institute. Before writing his book, Page founded Deeper Dating in 2004; an event in which trained facilitators shared the insights of Deeper Dating and then led participants in a series of fun and enriching exercises. The live events he led provided an alternative to the bar scene and superficial dating events and drew thousands of men and women of all ages, backgrounds and sexual orientations. His work has been highly acclaimed by numerous top thought leaders, including Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt, Arielle Ford, Edward Hallowell, MD, Chip Conley, and Judith Orloff, MD. Katherine Woodward Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Calling in The One and Conscious Uncoupling says, “Ken Page is my new relationship guru!”

Simulation #254 Francesca Maximé - Trauma, Development,

#WiseGirl, Dr. Judith Herman: Psychiatrist, Author, Incest & Trauma Expert

In today's #WiseGirl podcast, I have the privilege of interviewing psychiatrist Dr. Judith Herman, incest and trauma expert.

During our wide-ranging interview, Dr. Herman discusses how she first came to studying incest and trauma (believing her patients), Freud and psychiatry's history regarding women and incest, statistics around childhood sexual abuse, the importance of (survivors) being and feeling safe,  what justice would ideally look like from the survivor/victim's perspective, and more. 

What's more, we talk about individual and collective trauma, the #MeToo and #TimesUp, feminism, and the culture of silence and what bystanders -- especially men who want to be allies -- can do to help.

Dr. Herman is the author of Father-Daughter Incest; Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror; as well as her recent contribution to The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, released in 2017. 

More on Dr. Herman's work can be found here https://www.challiance.org/cha-services/victims-of-violence

Dr. Herman's books on group work with survivors, can be found here: https://www.guilford.com/author/Judith-Lewis-Herman

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Dr. Herman's partial bio, excerpted from Wikipedia, is here: Judith Lewis Herman (born 1942) is an American psychiatrist, researcher, teacher, and author who has focused on the understanding and treatment of incestand traumatic stress.

Herman is Professor of clinical psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School and Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program in the Department of Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a founding member of the Women's Mental Health Collective.

#WiseGirl, w/ Francesca Maxime, meditation teacher, poet, journalist

In today's #WiseGirl video podcast, I talk with Dr. Ann Weiser Cornell about what exactly IS Focusing and the felt sense, the "something in you" that you can say hello to, how Focusing can help get to the core of addictions and relationship issues, and how this is a practice we can not only explore, but cultivate.

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Dr. Cornell is an American author, educator, and worldwide authority on Focusing, the self-inquiry psychotherapeutic technique developed by Eugene Gendlin.

She has written several definitive books on Focusing, including The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing, The Focusing Student's and Companion's Manual, and Focusing in Clinical Practice. 

Cornell received a PhD in Linguistics in 1975 at the University of Chicago. While still a graduate student there, she met psychologist Eugene Gendlin, and learned the psychotherapeutic technique he had discovered and developed, called Focusing.

Cornell has taught Focusing around the world since 1980, and has developed a system and technique called Inner Relationship Focusing.

More about Ann and her work can be found at Focusing Resources, on the web at https://focusingresources.com/

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To learn more about Dr. Eugene Gendlin and Focusing, you can go to: http://focusing.org/ and https://focusinginternational.org/

#WiseGirl, w/ Francesca Maxime, meditation teacher, poet, journalist

In today's #WiseGirl video podcast, I talk with Dr. Ann Weiser Cornell about what exactly IS Focusing and the felt sense, the "something in you" that you can say hello to, how Focusing can help get to the core of addictions and relationship issues, and how this is a practice we can not only explore, but cultivate.

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Dr. Cornell is an American author, educator, and worldwide authority on Focusing, the self-inquiry psychotherapeutic technique developed by Eugene Gendlin.

She has written several definitive books on Focusing, including The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing, The Focusing Student's and Companion's Manual, and Focusing in Clinical Practice. 

Cornell received a PhD in Linguistics in 1975 at the University of Chicago. While still a graduate student there, she met psychologist Eugene Gendlin, and learned the psychotherapeutic technique he had discovered and developed, called Focusing.

Cornell has taught Focusing around the world since 1980, and has developed a system and technique called Inner Relationship Focusing.

More about Ann and her work can be found at Focusing Resources, on the web at https://focusingresources.com/

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To learn more about Dr. Eugene Gendlin and Focusing, you can go to: http://focusing.org/ and https://focusinginternational.org/