49 episodes
The Unmasking Unschool Podcast SOLA Systems // Louisa Shaeri
-
- Society & Culture
-
-
4.9 • 7 Ratings
-
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
-
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
___________
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 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
___________
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 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
___________
TRANSCRIPT
___________
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
___________
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. Learn more:
https://www.solasystems.xyz/ -
S2 Ep4: The Seven 'C's of Change: Riding the Waves
In this episode I talk through seven 'C' words;
CHOICE
CLARITY
COMPETENCE
CAPACITY
CADENCE
COACHING
and I also reference The Social Change Ecosystem Map:
https://buildingmovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Ecosystem-Guide-April-2022.pdf
and invite you to consider what 'C' or 'season' are you in?
I also mention that I am sharing some behind the scenes of the creation of the 'final evolved form' of The SOLA System on my mailing list
Subscribe HERE
___________
TRANSCRIPT
___________
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 Ep5: Autistic affordances: 'Distinction Depth' and related strengths
In this episode, I speak to the importance of knowing and centring in your strengths, to create more energy. And offering a new term as a way to think about some of those strengths, called 'Distinction Depth'. When an environment or activity affords and rewards distinction depth: you excel!
Subscribe to the mailing list HERE
___________
TRANSCRIPT
___________
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 Ep6: Make your dreams real by Skills Stacking for monotropism + distinction depth
Like many late-identified autistic / AuDHD / ADHD folks,
a foggy, porous, unstructured sense of self;
illusions, fantasies, pipe dreams...
was my predominant experience of myself,
until I learned to take EFFECTIVE, STRUCTURED ACTION.
That action has to be structured a certain way
for it to be effective.
I couldn't do things the way other people did them
nor follow their ideals, without losing myself.
"falling into holes"
In finding what has worked for me, I've adapted a concept that makes a strength out of my need to go deep; my monotropic tendencies; my need for distinction depth;
A way of structuring ACTION, called 'skills stacking'.
And this week's podcast episode is about why this works.
Focusing on the next skill / system / sensorial groove
until it is established, STACKING them one by one,
has given me the material experience
of my own agency, boundaries, and effectiveness
(the antidote to a porous self)
and helped me to build belief, clarity and unconscious competence
for my big impossible dreams
at speed.
I hope it serves you too.
Subscribe to the mailing list HERE
___________
TRANSCRIPT
___________
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
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.
Top Podcasts In Society & Culture