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?