The Joyful Practice Podcast

Jennifer Berney, Sarah Tavis
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Join us for conversations about analog play, creative process, and healing. We offer this podcast as an antidote to grind culture and digital imperialism. We hope it helps you to reclaim your time, your joy, your rage, and find refuge in creative practice. scrapheap.substack.com

  1. 1d ago

    What do you know about gentle touch?

    this week’s episode This week, we’re revisiting Jenn’s’s essay, a child dreams of sovereignty: an ode to Jon Klassen’s The Skull In this conversation, we talk about what we most want from children’s literature, why grown-ups suck (JK), and the difference between autonomy and sovereignty. links & resources * The Scrap Heap essay: Reboot #4: a weary child, a skull. what do they know about safety and independence? * The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale by Jon Klassen . Here’s a reading of the book from The Kansas State Univ. Dept. of English. * Looking at Picture Books is Jon Klassen & Mac Barnett’s Substack about the show At the end of 2024, Jenn and Sarah decided to design the workshop we needed for our own creative growth. Together, we wanted to build a creative community centered around play and exploration. We called it Joyful Practice for Dark Times. As we continued to lead workshops, we tracked the ideas and values that guided our work and assembled a set of (ever-evolving) principles: the emergent philosophy of Joyful Practice. Those principles are the vertebrae of all of our work, incuding this podcast. We offer this podcast as an antidote to grind culture and digital imperialism. We hope it helps you to reclaim your time, your joy, your rage, and find refuge in creative practice. You can learn more about our work and order a copy of our book, The Joyful Practice Handbook: analog play for dark times, at our website: JoyfulPracticeCommunity.com If you would like to support They Joyful Practice Podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify how to find us * Website & Shop: JoyfulPracticeCommunity.com * Substack: The Scrap Heap * Apple Podcasts: The Joyful Practice Podcast * Spotify: The Joyful Practice Podcast * Instagram: @joyfulpracticeanalog Thank you for joining us. Tell your friends & visit us in the comments. Get full access to The Scrap Heap at scrapheap.substack.com/subscribe

  2. 6d ago

    Trick-or-treating on the Gap Edge

    this week’s episode This week, we’re revisiting Sarah’s essay, Estuaries, Borders, & Gap Edges: The Necessity of Creative Disruption The veil is thin, and we wound up talking about tricks—specifically the tricks required to stay sane in a cruel world, and to believe in the connection we feel to the spirits and animals who surround us. links & resources * The Scrap Heap essay: Reboot #3: Convergence, Creative Disruption, and a joyful middle finger * The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Here’s the original essay about the serviceberry that Kimmerer wrote for Emergence Magazine. * Las Cafeteras is the band Sarah references. Here is the gorgeous short film for their song “La Llorona.” about the show At the end of 2024, Jenn and Sarah decided to design the workshop we needed for our own creative growth. Together, we wanted to build a creative community centered around play and exploration. We called it Joyful Practice for Dark Times. As we continued to lead workshops, we tracked the ideas and values that guided our work and assembled a set of (ever-evolving) principles: the emergent philosophy of Joyful Practice. Those principles are the vertebrae of all of our work, incuding this podcast. We offer this podcast as an antidote to grind culture and digital imperialism. We hope it helps you to reclaim your time, your joy, your rage, and find refuge in creative practice. You can learn more about our work and order a copy of our book, The Joyful Practice Handbook: analog play for dark times, at our website: JoyfulPracticeCommunity.com If you would like to support They Joyful Practice Podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify how to find us * Website & Shop: JoyfulPracticeCommunity.com * Substack: The Scrap Heap * Apple Podcasts: The Joyful Practice Podcast * Spotify: The Joyful Practice Podcast * Instagram: @joyfulpracticeanalog Thank you for joining us. Tell your friends & visit us in the comments. Get full access to The Scrap Heap at scrapheap.substack.com/subscribe

  3. Oct 23

    You have permission to molt

    this week’s episode: What happens when two writing professors start a conversation about dread? We talk about grading papers, time management, and productive procrastination! This week, we’re revisiting Jenn’s essay, “The Claw and the four-year-old, in winter.” In this episode, we discuss molting chickens & equinoxes, the desire for hibernation, procrastination as motivation for making art, anxiety and dread ( i.e. “the claw”), and re-connecting to joy (i.e. “the four-year-old”). links & resources * The Scrap Heap essay: Re-Boot #2:“The Claw” & discovering the SHIFT FREEDOM key * Community Print (printmaking studio & creative space in Olympia, WA) & the link to registration for our 10/29 Joyful Practice workshop, Letters to the Lost * Public Domain Image Archive about the show At the end of 2024, Jenn and Sarah decided to design the workshop we needed for our own creative growth. Together, we wanted to build a creative community centered around play and exploration. We called it Joyful Practice for Dark Times. As we continued to lead workshops, we tracked the ideas and values that guided our work and assembled a set of (ever-evolving) principles: the emergent philosophy of Joyful Practice. Those principles are the vertebrae of all of our work, incuding this podcast. We offer this podcast as an antidote to grind culture and digital imperialism. We hope it helps you to reclaim your time, your joy, your rage, and find refuge in creative practice. You can learn more about our work and order a copy of our book, The Joyful Practice Handbook: analog play for dark times, at our website: JoyfulPracticeCommunity.com If you would like to support They Joyful Practice Podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify how to find us * Website & Shop: JoyfulPracticeCommunity.com * Substack: The Scrap Heap * Apple Podcasts: The Joyful Practice Podcast * Spotify: The Joyful Practice Podcast * Instagram: @joyfulpracticeanalog Thank you for joining us. Tell your friends & visit us in the comments. Get full access to The Scrap Heap at scrapheap.substack.com/subscribe

  4. Oct 16

    We need darkness (and time, and rest)

    this week’s episode: We discuss the story of Cerridwen & Gwion, who inspire us to ask: What is transformation? Is it Making Something Happen? Or is it attuning to reality and allowing it to change you? In this episode, we discuss time, darkness, and repetition as elements of the creative process. links & resources * The Scrap Heap essay: Transformation as Terror: Revisiting Cerridwen for Halloween Season * The Prompt Portal: Message in a Bottle: an invocation & invitation for incubating the tender foundations of the future * Celtic Goddess of Inspiration: Cerridwen by Kristoffer Hughes (here’s a book review). It’s Hughes version of Cerridwen’s story that inspired Sarah’s version of Cerridwen and her cauldron. * Radical Healership: How to build a values-driven healing practice in a profit-driven world by Laura Mae Northrup about the show At the end of 2024, Jenn and Sarah decided to design the workshop we needed for our own creative growth. Together, we wanted to build a creative community centered around play and exploration. We called it Joyful Practice for Dark Times. As we continued to lead workshops, we tracked the ideas and values that guided our work and assembled a set of (ever-evolving) principles: the emergent philosophy of Joyful Practice. Those principles are the vertebrae of all of our work, incuding this podcast. We offer this podcast as an antidote to grind culture and digital imperialism. We hope it helps you to reclaim your time, your joy, your rage, and find refuge in creative practice. You can learn more about our work and order a copy of our book, The Joyful Practice Handbook: analog play for dark times, at our website: JoyfulPracticeCommunity.com If you would like to support They Joyful Practice Podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify how to find us * Website & Shop: JoyfulPracticeCommunity.com * Substack: The Scrap Heap * Apple Podcasts: The Joyful Practice Podcast * Spotify: The Joyful Practice Podcast * Instagram: @joyfulpracticeanalog Thank you for joining us. Tell your friends & visit us in the comments. Get full access to The Scrap Heap at scrapheap.substack.com/subscribe

  5. Oct 11

    Message in a Bottle

    This Week’s Prompt an invocation: and an invitation: message in a bottle: an invocation and invitation for incubating the tender foundations of the future an invocation: in this time of harvest, may you gather seeds of inspiration: ideas, insights, creative experiments. colors, textures, words & sounds. the voices of elders & children. the wild. may you follow the threads that pull you towards the thrumming pulse of transformation. and an invitation: create your own message in a bottle— in this season where the critters & soil are preparing to rest, what seeds are you gathering, & what transformations incubate inside of them? what is the message you want to share? what form will it take, & who do you want to share it with? Get full access to The Scrap Heap at scrapheap.substack.com/subscribe

  6. Oct 4

    The Brain is an Organ in the Body

    We were busy preparing for Olympia ArtsWalk this week and so we thought we’d try an experimental format. In this episode, we discuss one of our shared principles:the Brain is an Organ in the Body What do we mean by that? It’s one of the few principles we’ve never discussed. (music by Andriig) Get full access to The Scrap Heap at scrapheap.substack.com/subscribe

  7. Sep 24

    Equinox Launch Party

    an equinox prompt Darkness is good. light is good. Darkness holds us. Today we stand on the in-between, a quarter point, a balance. Tomorrow each day is a step towards dark. towards the rainy season, the gray season, the cold season Slow down. (how?) Rest is creative. (but how?) What if it IS that easy? What if you learn to rest by resting. Today is a day of balance. Autumn is the season of in-between, Sarah can remind me (us) about the thinning of the veil. I see it as a morning mist I see the leaves turning whil the flowers still bloom. The prompt today is: xx What images in your world are equinox? What balance do you seek? Get full access to The Scrap Heap at scrapheap.substack.com/subscribe

  8. Sep 6

    There Must Be a Harder Way

    These are show notes for the podcast + a tour of the images that Sarah and I discuss, all of them drafts of our book cover for The Joyful Practice Handbook: analog play for dark times. A note about audio: Sorry for the background feedback on my audio this week. I’m learning. It was a mistake to record with a window open—one that I couldn’t fully correct with editing tools. The above images were our first attempts at moving our analog elements into the digital world. We were designing these to represent our book on Kickstarter, but eventually realized that this was how we’d do our cover. Here we are messing around with what goes where and how… Get full access to The Scrap Heap at scrapheap.substack.com/subscribe

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Join us for conversations about analog play, creative process, and healing. We offer this podcast as an antidote to grind culture and digital imperialism. We hope it helps you to reclaim your time, your joy, your rage, and find refuge in creative practice. scrapheap.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Jennifer Berney, Sarah Tavis
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    20
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Jennifer Berney
  • Show Website
    The Joyful Practice Podcast