Black Creative Healing

Black Creative Healing

A space for radical conversation, mindful collaboration and holistic envisioning centering Black communities. Learn more and access additional resources at www.BlackCreativeHealing.com!

  1. HJ in MT (Part 4): Dissonance, Identity & Ritual

    05/18/2023

    HJ in MT (Part 4): Dissonance, Identity & Ritual

    We are excited to share the conclusion of our healing justice in music therapy conversation that was held March 30th, 2023 between your hosts (Natasha & Adenike), Marisol Norris and Nsamu Moonga, Black music therapists. We deepen the exploration from previous excerpts of this conversation on healing happening in community to look specifically into the profession of music therapy. Marisol kicks us off by diving directly into this discussion of dissonance, and the profession of music therapy's difficulty with that construct. Listeners are invited to consider how you hold dissonance, how you hold conflict in your body, how you view it in your mind, and how it comes out in your actions and choices, whether or not you're part of the music therapy community! If these questions move you towards exploring this topic deeper in community, consider joining us for the dissonance ritual that'll be happening in August! You can learn more via our Eventbrite, which will be getting loaded up with several more events (including some informal informational sessions!) over the summer in preparation for that ritual. One more thing to be aware of: after this episode we're probably gonna have one or two more reflections from Natasha & Adenike, and then the podcast is going to take a little break for the summer. We're going to shift our focus to the events that we've been holding in our community spaces, as well as a few drop-in events that will be open to the public. So stay tuned for all of that, to our bio-links on social media, as well as our website: www.blackcreativehealing.com! You can find the interactive transcript for this week's podcast episode here: https://share.descript.com/view/yfrxF5dcr3o

    34 min
  2. HJ in MT (Part 2): Pathologizing the Black Body + Healing in the Now

    04/26/2023

    HJ in MT (Part 2): Pathologizing the Black Body + Healing in the Now

    Hello and welcome to the continuation of our Healing Justice in music therapy conversation featuring Nsamu Moonga and Marisol Norris! In this continuation of the conversation, we're gonna dive deeper into uncovering what some of the impact of White Supremacy is on our bodies, and why it matters to sit with those memories and sensations. CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains surface level discussion of white supremacist violence. You will hear a brief moment of us naming a particular type of violence, then inviting folks to sit with the realities of that naming for a moment of silence in our bodies. This section of the episode lasts no longer than 30 seconds. Later in the episode, we hear Nsamu and Adenike in particular talk about the value of doing that kind of work and really just sitting with the complexities, then in future excerpts from this conversation we'll dive further into some of the dreaming and the sort of wonderful things that can come after you sit with those complexities. A very special shoutout this episode to @prof_jas on Instagram, whose infographics on Self-Definition are mentioned in this conversation. As discussed in previous episodes, the full entirety of this recorded conversation lives in our community spaces, in the Patreon, in the Discord, and those will continue to be the places to go if you wanna really go into some deep, deep work on these topics! Visit our website (blackcreativehealing.com) to access links to all of our community spaces, as well as the link to subscribe to our Eventbrite page for the upcoming Dissonance Ritual (which we highly recommend!) so you can get up to the minute details on events and other opportunities for deep work from Black Creative Healing. The interactive transcript for this episode can be accessed here: https://share.descript.com/view/cjVD9EAT8zM

    20 min

Ratings & Reviews

5
out of 5
11 Ratings

About

A space for radical conversation, mindful collaboration and holistic envisioning centering Black communities. Learn more and access additional resources at www.BlackCreativeHealing.com!