The Unmasking Unschool Podcast SOLA Systems // Louisa Shaeri
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The Unmasking Unschool Podcast is for autistic visionaries, creatives and change-makers. Who are seeking to exit the burnout cycles, pathology paradigms, masks and self-negations of the past that keep you stuck, and want to realise the self-reinventions, life pivots and culture-shifting projects to become your boldest most authentic self.
Hosted by Louisa Shaeri, artist, coach, cultural activator, founder of SOLA Systems.
Learn more at http://solasystems.xyz
Episode transcripts: https://www.solasystems.xyz/podcast
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S2 Ep3: Beyond performance, with Jem Dobie
This episode is an interview with Jem Dobie (they/them). Jem is a 'sensory sibling' who has been through the Unmasking Unschool journey, and you're going to hear them talk in generous and vulnerable detail about what it's been like to transform their experience of their life, their sense of self, their relationships and the work they're doing in the world.
More about Jem:
The Feel Good Circus:
Jem Dobie & Rowan Berry
thefeelgoodcircus@gmail.com
On instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.feel.good.circus/
On facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thefeelgoodcircus
Mentioned:
Access Intimacy, by Mia Mingus:
https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/access-intimacy-the-missing-link/
Jem's favourite resource on boundaries, by Prentis Hemphill:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/65HYFdou7s7vR8LDQpjVAV?si=T3NN1_M8QOearLu-O22cPA
The 'Finding our way' series is also a really important resource for Jem, and this episode, in which Prentis Hemphill interviews Kazu Haga, is where Jem first heard ‘slow is smooth, smooth is fast’:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5oPiPY4iB7GbbLSq3oOOEr?si=wNnzzGPqQTy_m537SX-nXw
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TRANSCRIPT
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The Unmasking Unschool Podcast is for autistic visionaries, creatives and change-makers. Who are seeking to exit the burnout cycles, pathology paradigms, masks and self-negations of the past that keep you stuck, and want to realise the self-reinventions, life pivots and culture-shifting projects to become your boldest most authentic self.
Hosted by Louisa Shaeri, artist, coach, cultural activator, founder of SOLA Systems.
Learn more at solasystems.xyz
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OPEN FOR ENROLMENT:
Unmasking Unschool, the groundbreaking 6 month coaching program, for ambitious, kind-hearted, visionary #autistic folks seeking to enact the life pivots, self-reinventions and creative innovations to become your boldest, most authentic self, is open for enrolment:
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S2 Ep2: Metaskills: Autistic information saturation, and what comes next
In this episode I talk about what comes after the deep dives into all things autistic stop being satisfying; when information stops being transformative, and you need actual change. I introduce another frame for this series: the 'metaskills' of becoming yourself .
TRANSCRIPT
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The Unmasking Unschool Podcast is for autistic visionaries, creatives and change-makers. Who are seeking to exit the burnout cycles, pathology paradigms, masks and self-negations of the past that keep you stuck, and want to realise the self-reinventions, life pivots and culture-shifting projects to become your boldest most authentic self.
Hosted by Louisa Shaeri, artist, coach, cultural activator, founder of SOLA Systems.
Learn more at solasystems.xyz -
S2 Ep1: Autistic Affordances: design thinking for self-emergence
This episode introduces the concepts of 'affordances', 'disaffordances', and 'dysaffordances'; concepts from design thinking that have a lot to offer the project of reframing the value and importance of recognising and embracing what our bodyminds afford us to do, experience, understand.
TRANSCRIPT
This episode mentions:
A designer's approach: how can autistic adults with learning disabilities be involved in the design process?, By Katie Gaudion
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/43099267.pdf
Activist Affordances: how disabled people improvise more habitable worlds
By Arseli Dokumaci
Design Justice: commuity-led practices to build the worlds we need, by Sasha Constranza-Chock
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The Unmasking Unschool Podcast is for autistic visionaries, creatives and change-makers. Who are seeking to exit the burnout cycles, pathology paradigms, masks and self-negations of the past that keep you stuck, and want to realise the self-reinventions, life pivots and culture-shifting projects to become your boldest most authentic self.
Hosted by Louisa Shaeri, artist, coach, cultural activator, founder of SOLA Systems.
Learn more at solasystems.xyz -
S1 Ep38: PART TWO: My interview with Opal Turner for Rebel with a Cause
In this week's episode, I'm sharing with you an interview I did with the gorgeous, generous, visionary soul that is Opal Turner. I featured on their podcast Rebel with a Cause. This was my first time being a guest on someone else's podcast and it's going to be hard to beat! Opal asked some really juicy questions. We cried. We laughed, and I felt truly held and seen. And I believe it was mutual. And my hope is that you also feel seen as you listen in enjoy.
This is PART TWO.
The Original podcast was hosted by MediaCat
Mentioned on the podcast:
Jem's The Feel Good Circus creates a space that is not about getting it right.
Visit Laurie’s neuro-queer network.
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Transcript:
www.solasystems.xyz/blog/038
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The Unmasking Unschool Podcast (formerly: sensory siblings) is brought to you by Louisa Shaeri, beaming from The SOLA System; the liberatory framework and unmasking unschool for late identified autistic+ folks seeking a new way to see, know and be yourself, beyond the paradigm of pathology, and the fiction of 'normal'.
Unmask, unravel the false ideas of who you are, build a life that works, and emerge from systemic invisibility into the confidence to realise culture shifting projects in the world:
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S1 Ep37: 37. PART ONE: My interview with Opal Turner on Rebel with a Cause
In this week's episode, I'm sharing with you an interview I did with the gorgeous, generous, visionary soul that is Opal Turner. I featured on their podcast Rebel with a Cause. This was my first time being a guest on someone else's podcast and it's going to be hard to beat! Opal asked some really juicy questions. We cried. We laughed, and I felt truly held and seen. And I believe it was mutual. And my hope is that you also feel seen as you listen in enjoy.
This is PART ONE of two.
The Original podcast was hosted by MediaCat
Mentioned on the podcast:
Jem's The Feel Good Circus
Laurie’s neuro-queer network.
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Transcript:
www.solasystems.xyz/blog/037
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The Unmasking Unschool Podcast (formerly: sensory siblings) is brought to you by Louisa Shaeri, beaming from The SOLA System; the liberatory framework and unmasking unschool for late identified autistic+ folks seeking a new way to see, know and be yourself, beyond the paradigm of pathology, and the fiction of 'normal'.
Unmask, unravel the false ideas of who you are, build a life that works, and emerge from systemic invisibility into the confidence to realise culture shifting projects in the world:
Sign up to the mailing list at solasystems.xyz -
S1 Ep36: 36. When the fear of being "too much" is stopping you
When what you want to CREATE or BECOME
isn’t just new or unknown, but ALSO involves being more of the parts of you that have in the past been actively discouraged,
the fear of being “too much/not good enough” can stop you expanding and moving forward into your most fervently coveted dreams and goals.
In this episode I share the solution...
Customer Reviews
Conscious shifting and affirming – an auditory life jacket if lost at sea
I found this podcast to be an essential step in refinding myself after years of becoming increasingly lost and despondent. Louisa (aka Sola Flare!) is an empathetic host, speaking to issues from lived-experience, and I take / have taken a lot of comfort from listening.
There is no distance between the host and the listener. There is recognition of our shared humanity and challenges, and understanding of their nuances — especially when one has lacked context and appropriate support, the lack of which can exacerbate the challenges.
I highly recommend this podcast for anyone who is neurodivergent and wants to hear their experiences reflected back to them in a supportive, constructive, but not prescriptive way. But I also feel people who would not consider themselves neurodivergent could find comfort and interest in what’s shared here. Or, those interested in better understanding the challenges others with differently wired minds experience.
This is not a ‘us against them’ podcast. For me it’s one that deeply wants to support people to thrive, to realise the life they want for them, and ultimately change society for the better; more inclusive, more accessible, and more able to recognise the value of the different ways we experience and process life.
Highly recommended
Emancipatory, empowering, life affirming and joyful. Louisa’s perspectives on autism and neurodivergence are essential listening.