The ReMembering and ReEnchanting Podcast Sara Jolena Wolcott

In the 1st episode of the 2nd season of The ReMembering and ReEnchanting podcast, hostess Sara Jolena Wolcott gives us her reflection on Equinox and balance and change. Plus, Sara gives us some glimpses of the exciting things that are coming this season.
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Matariki takes us on a journey of ReMembering the enchanted forests and rivers of Aotearoa, known on most maps as New Zealand, and the continuing journey of the Maori peoples and the pakeha (settlers) who colonized and have enacted grave violence on their land and their people. Her narration of the history becomes a narration of the history of a movement and a set of legislation that has inspired people the world over: recognizing the inherent sovereignty and personhood of forests and rivers. Often known as part of the Rights of Nature Movement, this narration lightly touches on rights-based language, stemming instead from the complex and often immensely challenging relationship between the Maori and the New Zealand government; sovereignty, freedom, and finding ways to be a part of an animate, living world. This episode infuses poetry and fable, legal constructions and historical struggle, contemporary learnings, and the complex endeavors of some hard-core innovation between two vastly different cosmovisions. Listen to a story by one whose family and whose life is shaped by and for it: Matariki uses her training and expertise as a lawyer to be in service to her forest.

Timestamps:

5:05 - Remembering, ReEnchanting, and coming back to life in Aotearoa New Zealand

12:04 - Treaty of Waitangi (Settlements negotiation and settlement process) legislation

14:50 - The Crown - what is this government, anyways? 

18:10 - “Settlement” process: the journey of understanding colonial pasts differently

30:49 - How do you shift away from a national park?

42:00 - What does it feel like to stand before the Forest as your mother?

46:20 - The great law of peace, Sara's ancestors and working with democracy differently

1:02:15 - From the Ocean

1:11:24 - Some of Matariki’s current work and artistic journey

We all do belong to earth.

Matariki's bio:

Erin Matariki Carr: (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa). Matariki was raised in Whakatāne and currently lives in her home rohe of Tāneatua, just north of Te Urewera rainforest. She completed her studies at Victoria University of Wellington with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Spanish. Matariki’s work has been in the Māori law arena, including a focus on post-Settlement iwi governance and structuring at Chapman Tripp and policy writing for Te Urewera legal personhood at Te Uru Taumatua. She is now an independent contractor providing legal research, management and wānanga facilitation services. Matariki is co-lead of RIVER Aotearoa Charitable Trust, a Research Fellow for Associate Professor Claire Charters at the University of Auckland, co-director of Te Kuaka NZA Incorporated Society, and a facilitator with Tūmanako Consultants with a focus on helping to bridge worlds in Aotearoa, so we can build a society which actively enables both Te Ao Māori and Te Ao Pākehā to thrive.

References:
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This conversation starts with ritual and craft. Then we move into Katherine's background in The New Thought Movement, a movement behind the philosophy "your thought can change your reality."  We delve into some of the history of the New Thought Movement and its ramifications on a society that emphasizes that "you can become anything" while at the same time ignoring societal injustice, systemic injustice, the gifts of sickness and suffering, and various forms of limits to growth.  Interwoven in our conversation, Katherine shares pieces of her spiritual journey away from focusing on "manifesting" and towards become a witchy person living in an already enchanted world.   

This podcast is recorded in Autumn of 2022.

Beginnings - first offerings; rituals as embodied practice
6:57 - The New Thought Movement: the backdrop of 'manifesting'
13:00 - "Vibrating at the frequency of health" - New Thought Moves across the country
15:00 - Prosperity Gospel
20:00 - Acknowledging the power of the New Thought Movement and the limitations and 5-step affirmative prayer
23:30 - Relationship between New Thought and New Age
29:00 - Incompleteness and challenges of "manifest your vision" philosophies
33:00 - The importance of knowing where we come from and how this shifts our visions
41:38 - Initial restating of some of the main insights that have arisen in our conversation
44:00 - Learning with and alongside suffering
48:00: The importance of engaging with anger; a ritual for anger
55:00 - Mars in Retrograde, and the firey parts of ourselves
Ending with appreciation, remembering, the importance of going into the depth of who we are


Further links:
Katherine works with individuals, teams, and organizations. She is highly responsive to people reaching out to her! You can learn more about her work crafting rituals at www.katherinenewell.com.

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I was wearing masks to make other people feel comfortable around me, and all of a sudden, it was like it, well, that's gonna go out the window, now it's not available anymore."
-Gladys Garcia Neroda

In this episode of the ReMembering and ReEnchanting podcast, consultant and integral coach GG talks about her journey with the rosary, praying to the divine, and the feeling of entering the field of a deity or a particular energy and more.


1:33 - Introduction
2:38 - What are you ReMembering these days?
6:52 - The journey with the Rosary 
18:23 - Yelling at and praying to the Divine
19:50 - Coming unhinged after a mystical experience
20:30 - "I cannot deny it": getting the tattoo of the witch and the virgin
33:50 - What makes an object a sacred object?
38:00 - Making rosaries for other people... being willing to enter the field
44:16 - Chaos, growing edges, and negotiating with the Divine
46:01 - What does it feel like to enter the field of a deity or a particular energy?
52:30 - Embracing the non-inspirational

When not making rosaries, she is involved in consulting for technology as well as Diversity, Equity and Inclusion projects.   She is currently based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Bio:
Gladys Garcia Neroda is the owner and principal consultant at GlaGar Coaching & Consulting. She is a certified Integral Coach® and an organizational consultant. Her focus is working with individuals and organizations to create courageous and meaningful change. She does this by offering individual coaching, facilitating organizational culture/DEI engagements, and leading complex project management adventures.


For almost 20 years, GG worked in the non-profit and social services sectors. I have held several non-profit executive roles where she managed teams, organizational DEI initiatives, and strategic planning processes. Additionally, she has experience with technology design/implementation, talent management, program evaluation, workforce development, and media relations.
 

Here is GG's etsy shop: PaganRosaries.com
IG: @PaganRosaries
Learn more about Gladys Garcia Neroda's other/ professional work: www.glagar.com
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Ben Yosua-Davis, Director of Applied Research, The BTS Center, sat down with hostess Sara Jolena Wolcott to talk about some of the learnings from their learning community, which is asking questions from a spiritual lens towards a climate changed world.  We start with death, which is a critical element of any kind of ecological and spiritual framework, and move into some of the different aspects of learning that the BTS learning community, representing seven different organizations in the northeast, is exploring and finding.

00:45 - Ben's introduction, What is the BTS Center; the BTS center as a parable
4:21 - The question of endings as the beginning of theological education
7:03 - What does it mean for an organization to die well?
10:54 - The role of applied research in the BTS center
14:00 - The danger of the (ongoing) "savior" mentality
18:38 - The word "Apocalypse" and the various unveilings of our times
20:52 - The critical importance of creating space in organizations
21:38 - What have you been learning in the co-learning community?
31:33 - The importance of rest for organizations, as well as individuals
42:00 - Organizations are not machines but are living ecologies needing tending
55:24 - What are you ReMembering?

BTS Center offers a variety of (mostly free) programming and various offerings to spiritual leaders engaging with a climate-changed world.  Check out their Climate Changed Podcast, which Ben hosts. 


Ben Yosua-Davis serves on The BTS Center staff team as Director of Applied Research. For five seasons, Ben produced and hosted a podcast called “Reports from the Spiritual Frontier" which chronicled the day-to-day lives of leaders innovating new forms of spiritual community. Previously, he lived in Haverhill, MA, where he co-planted a new church called The Vine, one of the earliest mainline missional church expressions, which gathered in homes and coffee shops. Ben is a Maine native and now lives on Chebeague Island, Maine, with his family. When not spending time with his family, he directs the community chorus and delivers tins of cookies to unsuspecting neighbors.

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Listen to Climate Changed podcast hosted by Nicole Diroff and Ben Yosua-Davis.
Learn more about The BTS center by checking out their website.
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How do we move from 'cycles of suffering' to 'cycles of resilience' in ways that intertwine the personal and the collective dynamics?  Anjuli Sherin, LMFT, shares with us her insights as a therapist and a person who has experienced and is witness to these intersections in her clients' lives.  We discuss uncurling, polyvagal theory, activism, how individual and collective healing are intertwined, and engaging joy and laughter amidst adversity and suffering.

1:34 - Introductions and starting with practices of Joy

6:01 - Moving out of the silo of individual healing in the context of a hurting society (Your problems are not just about your parents)

17:03 - Explaining the Cycle of Suffering (developed by Sherin)

24:50 - Social and institutional aspects of neglect, criticism, and vulnerability

30:07 - The cycle of resilience - How do you change the cycle of suffering

36:02 -  Looking at the inner and the social critic

47:55 - What has your work taught you about what it means to build a more resilient society?

1:00:28 - Returning to joy


Learn more about Anjuli Sherin and her work at www.anjulisherinmft.com
Get a copy of her book: Joyous Resilience: A Path to Individual Healing and Collective Thriving in an Inequitable World
Follow Anjuli on Instagram and facebook at @AnjuliSherinMFT
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