41 episodes
The Unmasking Unschool Podcast SOLA Systems // Louisa Shaeri
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4.9 • 7 Ratings
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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:
Sign up to the mailing list at solasystems.xyz -
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
Great resource for late-diagnosed individuals!
I especially loved the episode about scripting—mind blown! I feel that I have been given a useful framework adjustment :-)
My only critique: I found the “self esteem” and “other people’s thoughts” duo of episodes quite emotionally difficult to finish, because they make the point that other people’s opinions don’t/shouldn’t have real bearing on one’s life and self image. I get where the host is coming from, and idealistically, I agree… but in my practical everyday experience as a mostly-“passing” autistic adult woman… people just say mean things all the time, and you can’t avoid it if you need to work and interact in the outside world.
Maybe I’m just stuck on my own rejection trauma, but I wish the host would do an episode about dealing with the fact that people will have really awful negative reactions, and treat you worse than others, no matter what you do to try and prevent it. It’s a hard pill to swallow.
💜 love to my fellow autists, life’s rough out there
Soothing Support, Solid Solutions
As a late-identified, self-identified neurodivergent, I found Sensory Siblings podcast helps me unwind the years of internalized abelism and neurotypical standards I've been judging myself by. Louisa's voice and thoughts are a comforting guide along the path of unmasking and understanding some of the traps I've laid for myself and fallen into! I especially love the episode on other people's thoughts. This podcast is both meditative and constructively helpful!
I’m Hopeful
I’ve only listened to the first episode but I’m hopeful about this podcast. I’ve been looking for more in depth guidance on autism as I’ve only just discovered I’m autistic in my 30s and part of that is learning to understand the parts I always labeled as “broken”; this podcast looks to be a helpful guide to finding out who I really am and explore my constant but often hidden desire to be creative.