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Jonathon (BA, BEd, MEd) sustains NGM’s reputation for reliable and high-quality program delivery within the field of gender justice, and contributes to NGM’s expertise on boys and masculinity through ongoing research, knowledge translation, and advocacy.
He started out as a teacher before realizing that he was uniquely passionate about supporting boys’ well-being and challenging gender-based violence. In 2017, Jake, Jermal and Jason helped him launch the Breaking the Boy Code podcast—now part of the NGM Podcast Network—and a year later, hired him to take the lead on NGM’s youth programming. The rest, as they say, is history.
Jonathon also loves adventure sports and is currently most excited about leading Next Gen Men’s Rite of Passage Expeditions Project, taking masculine-identifying youth on wilderness-based transformative journeys through the waterways of Ontario and the Rocky Mountains.
Contact: [email protected]
Note from Nadia for Johnathon Reed
This podcast with Johnathon is intelligent, insightful and vulnerable. Johnathon’s brilliant and innovative youth work comes from “I know how that felt.” A career built on empathy and a poignant insight into the shadows of gender relations. I’ve mostly known Johnathon in the context of his attendance at trainings I’m running, and I have consistently been blown away by how much I learn from him. Johnathon has a gift for seeing beyond the surface of things (tools, methods, conversations) to the heart of meaning and truly inspired application. With Next Gen Men Johnathon is part of a trailblazing effort to create facilitated online youth communities (discord, podcast, and more) where young people can both be themselves and be inspired to reach beyond the toxicities of online communication. This podcast is generously narrative and full of very practical tips about youth work. For example, how do you create entry points for teenage boys to want to talk masculinity? It’s brilliant, it’s touching and Johnathon talks with the rhythm of a poet. I know you’ll enjoy this one.
The Adaptagen Podcast is part of the Toolsi facilitation training platform hosted by Nadia Chaney. Go to https://facilitate.toolsi.ca
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BIO:
Dona is a multidisciplinary facilitator, community organiser, spoken word artist, and cultural worker. Her practice and methodologies are inspired by regenerative patterns within nature, stories of resilience and diaspora, and the expansive and evolving work of what it means to decolonise, to heal, to love, and to seek truth, even in the darkest of places. You can learn more at her website www.donanham.com
NOTE FROM NADIA:
Dona Nham is one of my dearest friends. She is an exemplary community facilitator and in theearly days of our friendship, about ten years ago, she inspired me deeply with her work withSisters-in-Motion, a women’s arts collective in Montreal that she co-founded with Malek Yaloui.Her work is co-arising and co-informed by her active and dedicated gardening practice, herdeep understanding of permaculture and her unfailing focus on justice and equity in communitywork. As an artist she is experimental and generous; in this podcast she will talk about her latestand longest work, a story collecting project about her own ancestors.
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Rehana Tejpar, M.ED is a facilitator, leadership coach, mediator & movement artist, supporting leaders and organizations seeking to deepen in connection with their authentic leadership, wholeness, vision and intuition in a holistic way. She brings over 15 years of experience midwifing transformative journeys with individuals and organizations, in their evolutionary movements, and is a founder at Bloom Consulting, strengthening the creative and collaborative brilliance of leaders and teams to move forward wisely and inclusively, together. She is a practitioner of Transformative Coaching, InterPlay, Mindfulness, Authentic Movement, Theatre of the Oppressed, Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter, Sacred Clowning & Dialogue for Peaceful Change. She lives in Montreal with her daughter and husband and collectively stewards land with a collective of humans who are learning how to rewild and heal with nature in Ontario, Canada.
A Note from Nadia:
Rehana Tejpar is a dear friend, and the co-founder and leader of Bloom. Her way of workingcomes from a deeply spiritual and community-minded approach not only to work, but to her whole life. Her personal practices are rigorous and constantly deepening. She carries her bigcommunity and family responsibilities with a dancer’s grace and a childlike sweetness, but alsowith the edge and sharpness of a visionary change-maker (and she’s trained as a clown, sothere’s often a surreal edge lurking beneath!). Rehana has made my life easier and lighter in somany ways, I’m endlessly grateful for her example and her friendship
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Claudia Pineda Reyes is a Mexican, queer, and neurodivergent social artist based in Washington, U.S. She has been practicing facilitation for 15 years across a variety of settings with the thematic purpose of advancing healing and liberation. Her family immigrated from Michoacan, Mexico to Chicago, Illinois where Claudia was born and raised. She is a Master in Social Work practitioner and has been trained as a facilitator in restorative justice Community Group Conferencing, the Creative Empowerment Model, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and in leading trainings about social equity. For 8 years, as a direct service practitioner, she provided counseling services for youth and families with a focus on working with people from the global majority, including people who have immigrated to the United States. For 7 years, Claudia has been working with the local government where she is designing and managing a program that works with community organizations to influence government practices and policies.
Summary
Claudia Pineda Reyes has a gift for working with complexity, discomfort and conflict in group process. In this podcast she shares intimately how she developed these capacities as well as a number of concrete tools and techniques that can be used by facilitators. She asks and answers the question, how do you bring the elephant in the room into the light, and what do you do with it once it is there?
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Melanie is a Latinx social artist, community-based creator, artivist, and arts facilitation trainer. Her work aims to reflect concepts of humanism, sociology, and identity through participatory visual arts methods. She has been orchestrating social art projects for two decades cross-pollinating sectors, ages, and cultures. She believes innovative methods of connecting people, radical collaborating, and courageous processes that uplift the spirit through integration are some ways to contribute to co-create hopeful futures.NOTE FROM NADIAIn this podcast with my dear friend Melanie Schambach you will learn about her incredible technique for large scale group paintings and murals, her unique approach to community arts and her important investigations into questions of integrity in community facilitstion, especially when it comes to questions of money, value and exchange.Melanie is a gentle tsunami. It has been my pleasure to cofacilitate with her a number of times, including three rounds of the 15 day Heart of Facilitation training. She's a master and a true gift to this field and I'm so excited to share some of her wisdom through this podcast with you.
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Cindy's Bio
Cindy M Charleyboy is Tsilhqot'in, Secwepemc, and Norwegian and believes strongly that the arts have the capacity to shift perception allowing for greater self-awareness, integration of knowledge and lasting positive change. Her practice includes dreaming, painting, storytelling, singing and drumming.
Cindy has a BA in First Nations Studies from UNBC and works with projects that prioritize creativity and First Nations cultural practices, that support the work of Indigenous artists and make it more sustainable. She facilitates dreaming circles and creative art making, does cultural healing and singing, and incorporates ceremony into everything she does. Summary of podcastIn this podcast featuring the magnetic community facilitator Cindy Charleyboy, listeners gain valuable insights into her unique approach to facilitating dream workshops. Cindy shares her experiences, emphasizing the importance of authenticity and playfulness in facilitation, encouraging facilitators to embrace their true selves and create spaces for participants to engage in playful activities. She recounts a remarkable workshop where she facilitated lucid dreaming experiences, demonstrating the profound impact facilitators can have on participants' lives. Cindy also discusses her resources, such as dream reconnaissance and the environment, highlighting the role they play in her facilitation process. Community facilitators will discover new perspectives and practical wisdom to enhance their own facilitation skills through this engaging and thought-provoking podcast.
A note from Nadia
Cindy and I met many years ago at the Indigeneyez youth camps. I took one of her dream workshops, and was blown away by her unique style, her quiet confidence, her incredible sense of humour and her taste for the bizarre. I’m excited to share this Adaptagen episode, where I learned so much about where that style came from, and her vision for her facilitation and community work.
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Summary:
This podcast is about hearing the voice of guidance in your life, and how and when you follow it - or not! hazel bell kowski shares profound and moving stories about how she came to be a “roadie” for a collection of powerful silk screened flags that themselves “hold space,” literally. If you want to reflect on your destiny, your intuition, your teachers and elders, and the sacred livingness of the object world, listen to this brilliant, humble artist whose “first language is colour.”
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hazel lives at the edge of the wild pacific northwest woods, with fresh water streaming past, the prints of bear and dog on the ground, the sounds of ravens and eagles overhead; a place which has helped bring her artistic impetus - awe & reverence of the created world - into a sharp focus. The Joy and Ease which comes with seeing and celebrating life naturally uses her training and experience to create expressions of colourful love.
Beginning with a BFA from Ryerson University, hazel has maintained an inter-arts practice for over twenty-five years, weaving inter-generational storytelling and art-making circles into healing community work, all supported by her unique perspective on connection. She has partnered with groups as disparate as the Toronto District School Board and the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Grassy Narrows First Nation and the Wild Salmon Caravan. She has had the great fortune of training and working with IndigenEYEZ, which has offered her the opportunity to witness the transformative nature of stencilled flags, both in the making of them and in the hanging of them to shape sacred spaces.
Her art has at its heart the intention of creating kinship among all the creatures of our world.
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Summary:
In this podcast, Jeff Carolin, a lawyer, talks about his journey of moving away from the adversarial legal system towards transformative justice and conflict transformation. He shares his experiences of feeling unfulfilled and disconnected from his work in the legal system, and how he found a sense of purpose in working with restorative justice networks and connecting with organizations like Bloom. Overall, Jeff's story highlights the importance of empathy, emotional vulnerability, and restoration in conflict resolution.
A little note, Jeff acknowledges that he got confused at one point in the podcast when he tried to attribute an MLK quote to Lilla Watson (whose name he had forgotten). Both of these inspirational leaders share(d) a vision for our collective liberation."
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Jeff is fascinated by human relationships and the systems they are embedded in. During 10 years of practice as a criminal defence lawyer for some of the most marginalized people in our society, he has seen up close the harm to relationships that systemic inequality can give rise to, and the further harm that our adversarial system can cause to all involved as it attempts to dispense "justice". He has also supported mediation and transformative justice processes that prove that another path is possible -- that healing and hope can emerge from the darkest of moments. These experiences have inspired him both to evolve his practice towards conflict mediation & transformative justice facilitation, as well as to deepen the work he has been doing upstream of conflict & harm for 15 years by supporting groups of people transform the way they relate to themselves and each other in the context of inequitable systems. For more, check out jeffcarolin.ca.
Adaptagen host, Nadia Chaney, is a seasoned facilitator and the founder of Toolsi, an on-demand facilitation training program. For more information go to www.nadiachaney.com
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Dutch Harry VanDerVelde is a visual, multi-dimensional thinker. Like all of us, he tries to understand what (his) life is about. He likes to vizualize the ultimate way things should work. Among other, he makes infographics about organisational issues. The visuals allow insight for its customers through images that reflect their situation from a refreshing out of their box point of view. He combines his analytical and graphic skills to make things professionally clear. Specifically, abstract and /or complex situations and organisations. His approach is to draw any given situation of problem. A sound concept is a mental image by its nature, so in principle it can be represented by a clear picture of it. So drawing out any situation quickly reveals its flaws. Aspects that are not clearly defined stay blurred and impossible to represent. Also the blank spots become visible. The impact of the work is still surprisingly impactful.
Since 1976 Harry has pioneered the field of graphic facilitation and visual thinking. He worked for profit, non-profit and governmental organisations. Ranging from one person enterprises to large multi national corporations. Currently he focusses on scaling collaboration and on the grammar behind visual thinking.
A note from Nadia:
Harry is a pioneer in visual facilitation. His method was developed through a combination of instinct, attraction, and logic. While designing workflows for factory floors, call centers, and businesses, he created a highly effective method. Today, he is more focused on existential and community questions, but his visual analysis still fuels his visionary practice. I am grateful to have learned his brilliant technique and excited to share it with you all!
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Ez Bridgman helps organizations and individuals connect to their playful vitality in their most important and challenging moments.
Through collaborating, making decisions, navigating conflict, establishing priorities and communicating in an enlivening and uplifting way, he supports groups to open up doorways to liberatory organizational cultures and personal empowerment.
This shift is not easy. We are taught to be ashamed of our true selves, to constantly seek approval & validation from others, to stay within the status quo, and to fear judgment. Within our organizations, we are taught that creativity is for a select few.
He says, when we open ourselves up to working, learning, connecting and being in an embodied, playful & creative way, every moment becomes a delightful opportunity to explore and grow.
For more info about Ez, you can visit his website at: www.ezbridgman.com
A note from Nadia:
Ez is one of my dearest friends. We actually recorded this podcast right after the one I did for his amazing podcast, Shadow Playground. The flow was so smooth I haven’t had to cut or change a single moment of the recording. Ez is one of the deepest listeners, and most curious and playful people I know. His work is full of joy and yet he can help groups achieve incredibly profound transformation.
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The Adaptagen Podcast is available on Spotify for all to hear, but if you listen at https://facilitate.toolsi.ca (it’s part of Toolsi Free) you can post your questions and comments and I will be sure to respond.
Tai Jacob and Cat have been part of an enormous project called Justice Trans. Over sushi with Tai a couple of years ago I was fascinated to hear about the facilitated community research process they were designing. It’s a very specific use of facilitated space, and one that comes with its own challenges and constraints. This podcast is brimming over with insight and tips into how to do community research in a way that is respectful, radical, and defensible.
This is the first time I’ve interviewed two people at once for the Adaptagen Podcast! I met Tai Jacob quite a few years ago, and just met Cat as we began this interview. It was a wonderful experience, not only to learn about the work they’ve dedicated themselves to, but also to experience the dynamic between them as colleagues and co-facilitators. Humble, quirky, self-possessed, brilliant and funny, they were both an absolute delight to interview. I can’t wait to hear what you think.
Cat is an emerging academic and artist weirdo, and established non-profit leader based in Regina, Treaty 4 territory, who strives to bring her dyke politics to work. Cat was previously the Development Director at JusticeTrans, the Programs and Operations Manager at UR Pride—a 2SLGBTQ+ non-profit in Regina, and was the Chair of TransSask—a non-profit organization with a mandate to provide supports for Two Spirit, trans and non-binary people in Saskatchewan. Cat is also a founding member of the Saskatchewan Trans Health Coalition, and a member of the Capacitor Advisory Council, which oversees a universal basic income pilot program for Two Spirit, trans, non-binary and gender diverse artists and digital creators in Saskatchewan. Outside her work, Cat enjoys painting portraits of people she is in community with and creating Super-8 films documenting her queer family and life.
Tai Jacob is currently a law student at Osgoode Hall Law School. They are a Board Director at Mazon Canada, the national Jewish response to hunger that supports initiatives that educate Canadians and foster effective solutions to end hunger. Prior to this, they were the Executive Director at JusticeTrans, a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to justice for Two Spirit and trans people across Canada. Tai received her MA in Geography from McGill University in 2020, where she did research with trans and gender nonconforming refugees about their experiences with the Immigration and Refugee Board. He has over five years of experience working in advocacy for refugee and migrant justice, trans and queer liberation, anti-poverty work, and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion efforts at various organizations, companies, universities, and grassroots groups.
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To learn more about creative facilitation, go to https://facilitate.toolsi.ca
Brigid loves co-creating spaces with a bit of magic in the air; where people are able to show up, share, challenge, connect, disagree, grow, get a bit uncomfortable and feel heard.
She works in cultural programming and production, and as a strategic consultant, program designer and facilitator - she loves a little infrastructure to foster connection and make the complex accessible.
Note from Nadia:
This is the end of the first part of the Bloom Series, where I’m interviewing all the members of a Montreal-based boutique consulting firm (www.bloomworld.org). There have been some new hires since I started...so we’ll get back to Bloom soon. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing and working with Brigid for many years, in three cities and with at least four different orgs. Her facilitation is courageous, sensitive, honest and loving. In this podcast, I think you’ll hear all of these qualities quite unmistakably. This is a podcast about being true, being yourself, being direct. Brigid has this rare leadership quality. She says, “I aspire to tell you the truth because I love you and I want to stay connected to you, and I can see something is going on. The work is figuring out how to say it, so it can be heard and received.” Brigid shares a lot of specific tips on how to actually achieve the beautiful balance between agency and boundaries. Near the end, Brigid breaks down the panic/stretch zone framework in an incredibly generous and intelligent manner that really inspired me.
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I am a community facilitator, theatre artist, life-long learner and creative soul. I have spent the last 15 years connecting and collaborating with diverse communities by co-creating learning environments that are founded upon shared values of diversity, love, respect and self-empowerment - embracing a vision of solidarity, social justice and change from the inside-out. I invite learning that engages the mind, body, heart and soul, drawing on our personal and collective experiences and inner wisdom for the purpose of community connection, clarity and capacity building. Through the blending of participatory, creative and embodied practices, I am able to support groups in creating space for each other - to reflect, share, learn and heal alongside one another for personal, collective and organizational change.
I support grassroots movements, social justice organizations and government sectors through processes of equity, inclusion & diversity; peacebuilding & conflict transformation; community healing and participatory leadership.
I am a freelance consultant as Weaving Connections (Toronto, Nova Scotia & Egypt) and currently collaborate with Bloom Consulting (Toronto), Branch Out Theatre (Toronto), Interplay (Oakland, CA). I have a MEd in Adult Education and Community Development at OISE. In my spare time I can be found in one of three homes - dancing ecstatically in Toronto, playing in the waters of rural Nova Scotia or connecting with my ancestral roots in Egypt.
NOTE from NADIA
Naty and I have not yet had a chance to facilitate together, but the very first time we met we started making plans! A kindred spirit, most certainly, and a powerful and potent presence in so many ways. This podcast episode follows the journey of a very seasoned facilitator, who is asking humble and subtle questions.
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Yami Msosa is a Black genderqueer Malawian arrivant currently living in Tkaronto who grew up as a visitor on Algonquin Territory. As a creative, strategic consultant and facilitator, they love building containers for connections to be forged, and holding space for individual, community, and systems transformation. They joined Bloom in January 2020 as a collaborator. You can find out more about them at yamimsosa.com
Note from Nadia
Meeting Yami was such a wonderful surprise. We’re both part of the Bloom team, but we have never had a one on one before this podcast. I was so happy to discover some of the shared resonance, especially the tarot! And that we both grew up in Ottawa. This podcast gets underneath the work of facilitating equity from a place of authenticity and self-knowing. It’s charming and inspiring, critical and hopeful…I can’t wait to hear what you think.
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Francesca Allodi-Ross has spent the last 10 years pursuing parallel paths in law and facilitation. She recently left her work as a lawyer to become Executive Director of Romero House, a community of welcome for refugee claimants in Tkaronto/Toronto. Francesca loves building community, supporting social change, and dancing every day.
A note from Nadia
I’ve known Francesca for some years now. My experience of her is of someone sensitive and thoughtful, very tuned in to a group’s ripples, and always willing to support people and processes! Francesca’s journey to facilitation is an incredibly inspiring story about how a vision that is born out of necessity can come to life. Francesca first saw the need for facilitation and mediation in a group home and took a long journey to find the tools she needed. Also, Francesca’s background as a workplace dispute litigator gives her a very piercing insight into the need for holistic management of group dynamics. This podcast is incisive and inspiring. Can’t wait to hear what you think!
Show notes:
Romero House is a community of welcome for refugee claimants:
https://romerohouse.org/YES Jams bring together 30 outstanding changemakers for a week of networking, skills sharing and community building:
https://yesworld.org/We Shall Be Known, a song by MaMuse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX11MEtbkXIShilbee Dhalla-Kim, passion coach:
https://www.shilbee.com/Centre for Courage and Renewal (Parker Palmer, Circles of Trust):
https://couragerenewal.org/wpccr/AORTA (Anti-oppression resource & training alliance):
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Rehana, M. ED, has a passion for transformative learning, systems change and building capacity for generative dialogue across difference. She has over 15 years of experience in facilitating participatory, arts-based and equity-centered change, and is always learning & unlearning! Rehana is deeply serious and deeply playful at once, believing in the need for thoughtful strategies that center creativity, play, embodiment and the imagination to open up fields of transformation and jump into the practice both personally and collectively. She practices Art of Hosting, Theatre of the Oppressed and InterPlay, and holds a Masters in Sociology and Equity Studies in Education. She served as National Facilitator for Righting Relations, a heart-centred, national network of adult educators, community organizers and Indigenous Peoples of the world working for radical social change through decolonization and popular education.
A Note from Nadia
If you’re interested in collaborative leadership, this is a very special series. I have interviewed all of the Bloom Consultancy (except myself haha). I’m excited to share these with you for a few reasons: 1) Bloom’s method is flexible, responsive and emergent. The courage and presence required to facilitate like this is something very special. 2) The collaborative team work in a hierarchical for-profit organization is also quite rare and 3) The practice of living the work internally so that is ripples out to the clients is so authentic and disciplined, I’m absolutely thrilled to be part of this team and wanted to share it with all of you!
Rehana Tejpar is a dear friend, and the co-founder and leader of Bloom. Her way of working comes from a deeply spiritual and community-minded approach not only to work, but to her whole life. Her personal practices are rigorous and constantly deepening. She carries her big community and family responsibilities with a dancer’s grace and a childlike sweetness, but also with the edge and sharpness of a visionary change-maker (and she’s trained as a clown, so there’s often a surreal edge lurking beneath!). Rehana has made my life easier and lighter in so many ways, I’m endlessly grateful for her example and her friendship.
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Moyo Rainos Mutamba, MSW (Social Justice and Diversity) Ph.D. (Social Justice Education) is an Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ARDEI) consultant, leadership coach, and scholar. He finds joy and meaning in supporting organizations to achieve deep cultural shifts. He specializes in integrating ARDEI principles and practices in organizational policies and operations to create cultures of belonging. Additionally, Moyo facilitates in university classrooms as a lecturer of social work (diversity, equity, inclusion, leadership, mental health) at the University of Waterloo and Community Development at the University of Toronto.
A Note from Nadia
Moyo is a new collaborator for me, and by both first impression and reputation I am so honoured and excited to work together! This interview is full of gems, in particular his theory of conflict as an essential aspect of the human experience, and his view on knowledge-practices, as opposed to knowledge as an object. Hearing Moyo’s story and knowing about the incredible change work he has done and will do inspires me to dig deeper and be more diligent in self-reflection and systems shift.
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Gwyn Wansbrough is an international facilitator, learning experience designer, and course creator. She focuses on empowering educators and team leaders with the skills to make learning more creative, engaging, and human. She specializes in ways to create learning experiences that lead to breakthroughs. Gwyn recently stepped down as Executive Director of global facilitation training organization, Partners for Youth Empowerment, scaling programs to over 15k educators and team leaders in 15 countries. She has collaborated with organizations and schools around the world including the Ashoka Foundation, WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education), private foundations, departments of education, and universities. She publishes a weekly newsletter on creativity, facilitation, and learning called The Quest, and she launched an online cohort-based course in October called Breakthrough Facilitation for professionals who lead virtual groups.
She lives in Barcelona, Spain. She loves spending time by the sea, experimenting with watercolors, and playing cards with her family.
A Note from Nadia
Working closely with Gwyn Wansbrough for a little over a decade at Partners for Youth was an up-close education for me in people skills. As a director and manager she was unfailingly supportive and generous without holding back the feedback I needed to keep growing in my work. She was able to manage and handle the details and personalities of many projects around the world simultaneously. She was so good humoured, so loving and wise, it was an honour to work under her guidance and I would absolutely do it again, anytime.
Now that Gwyn is developing her own online facilitation method, I see all these skills at work again. I can’t possibly recommend The Quest newsletter or the Breakthrough Facilitation cohort-based course more highly. This podcast is full of tips, but I hope what you hear even more deeply is the amazing courage of a woman hearing a call and stepping up to follow it. If you don’t already know Gwyn, I’m excited for you to meet her! If you do, you’ll know that this is a podcast worth listening to. Pearls of wisdom, a gentle nature and a razor intelligence; can’t wait to hear what you think.
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Personal Website: www.gwynwansbrough.com
The Quest Newsletter: https://www.gwynwansbrough.com/newsletter
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gwynwansbrough/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/home
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gwynwans/
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Other resources Gwyn mentions in the podcast:
https://coursecreatorlab.co
https://writeofpassage.school
https://www.ship30for30.com
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Laura June Albert (she/her) is a researcher, cultural producer, and artist. She is a seventh generation European-Canadian settler based in unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh) territories, colonially known as Vancouver.
Laura June's research investigates the experiential body as a liberatory landscape for anticolonial and anticapitalist self-determination and liveness. She is deeply interested in intersections in pedagogy and embodiment: learning through the body about body-based ways of knowing. Consent and access are core values in her work. Laura June holds an MA in Contemporary Arts Studies from SFU, and has worked as a performer, instructor, and lecturer in over ten cities.
A NOTE FROM NADIA
I’m thrilled to interview a very dear friend and colleague Laura June Albert. We met many moons ago, creating an inter-arts performance for the fondly remembered Sista’hood Festival in Vancouver, Canada. Laura June’s movement pedagogy has taught me so much about facilitation and leadership. This is a pedagogy that questions the reaching of the eyes, the dominance of the head, the doing of the hands…and returns with the body as a wise and living place with its own authority and with gravity as its partner. This podcast is an invocation of “authenticity” that is profound and constant. While Laura June’s research is particular to dance and movement, I believe any facilitator will find these questions deeply relevant and stimulating. I can’t wait to hear what you think. Laura June has generously offered Toolsi six instructional videos, so you will also be able to move and play with this extraordinary practice.
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Aida Gadallah is a creative facilitator, a trainer, designer and developer of content at Funtasia Egypt.
“I studied Geological Sciences and after the despair of not being able to achieve my scientific dream at this time, I returned to my teenage passion towards psychology. I took several courses in human development until I participated in a train-the-trainers group where I discovered my skills as a trainer. When I participated in PYE’s Creative Facilitation training at Funtasia Egypt, I became sure that this is what I wanted to be my career. I participated in the deeper levels of facilitation training, then I volunteered for a period of time with Funtasia until I became one of their great team. I kept learning about psychological health, counseling and art therapy to deepen my work with groups.
Now I enjoy being part of a process which helps young people and youth to be more connected and understanding of themselves and able to use their potential to create their lives and be who they are.”
A note from Nadia
I’m so excited to introduce you to the mind and heart of Aida Gadallah. This is a facilitation style that rises up from the deeps of introspection and illumination. In this sparkling podcast, she gives some very useful tips on how to create and facilitate visualizations, and also a series of tips for new facilitators. The tips are all gems! Aida facilitates the inner self, and has an incredible theory of presence and its effect on group behaviour. Her clarity, her attention to detail and her commitment to working from integrity have taught me so much. I absolutely loved my time in Luxor, Egypt with the amazing Funtasia team and meeting Aida Gadallah was a big part of that!
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