Revillaging
By Adele Jarrett-Kerr
RevillagingMay 15, 2022
The kindness of strangers – Connecting online with Lucy AitkenRead
Lucy AitkenRead is an unschooling thought leader, living in New Zealand. Through her online community Disco Circle, she offers unschooling support for parents looking for more information and connection around the radical decision to protect their children's freedom in education.
In this episode Lucy Aitkenread and I talk about:
The need for support in radical living
The kindness of strangers on the internet
The validity of internet support
Doomscrolling!
Connecting with people through rage
The risks involved in taking conversations online
Talking and listening as a way of learning to trust ourselves
Embodied online practices – leaning into the body as guide
Important links:
Disco Circle
Lucy’s YouTube
Lucy’s Instagram
Adele Jarrett-Kerr’s Patreon (for journal prompts and access to the virtual fireside chat on Sunday 29th May at 7pm BST, and to support the podcast)
The systems we uphold – Ravideep Kaur
In this episode of Revillaging, Adele Jarrett-Kerr chats with Ravideep Kaur, a presence coach and anti-oppression consultant who lives in Scotland and invites others to mindful activism. Her special focus is on decolonisation and reclaiming power and her approach is underpinned by her Sikh spirituality.
They talk about activism and activation as the still, ordinary and contemplative actions that change the world through authentic connection with the people around us, like our children. The idea that big equates effective is colonial.
Conversation touch points include:
- Listening to the body’s wisdom
- Questioning why we’re in a rush and why we’re being rushed
- The challenges of discussing complex topics on social media
- Our need to be “the best in class”
- The invitation to be vulnerable
- The role of spirituality in our activation
Ancestral muscle memory with Jonie Broecker
Adele Jarrett-Kerr chats with artist, musician, bodyworker and unschooling mother Jonie Broecker about meditation practice, ancestral reconnection and embodied spiritual healing.
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Trust Yourself – Essie Richards on unschooling
In this episode Essie Richards talks with Adele Jarrett-Kerr about how deconditioning from religion and deschooling has supported her self-trust. Essie is an unschooling parent of two, an intersectional environmental activist and founder of a project that provides food for people experiencing food poverty. This is a conversation about shame, finding our way of being in the world, how we learn to heal and to deal with conflict, and about meeting our own needs. Essie’s story is such a gift, whether or not you’re a parent or whatever education path you and your people are taking.
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God is a Black Woman – Christena Cleveland on decolonising spirituality
Episode 7 of Revillaging features social psychologist, author, activist and public theologian Dr Christena Cleveland, chatting about decolonising our spirituality.
This episode is a reflection on community and how it is distorted by the colonial imagination and white patriarchy. We need to ask why we might show up in communities and feel no belonging. The conversation is also about becoming more self-directed in our spirituality and practising to discern and meeting our own needs, which includes asking, what divinity do we need?
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Feel together, think separately - Ian Cunningham
Menstrual cycle awareness with Victoria Dufour
Can I trust you? - Rethinking the workplace with Sohail Coelho
Vulnerability attracts - Naomi Stadlen on mothers
I once was a nun - shifting communities with Alison Finch
