Ways of Being
By Oro Anike
Ways of BeingMay 13, 2022
Ways of Competing
The last episode of season three is all about competition. What does it mean to be competitive? Why can it feel sometimes that self-esteem is so heavily influenced by encounters with competition? What does healthy competition look like? We’re going to explore possible answers to these questions.
Ways of Confronting
This episode is all about confrontation. What does it mean to be confrontational? Are there ways to approach confrontational experiences in a less strained way? We’re going to explore these questions in the process of unpacking the word.
Ways of Caring
This episode is all about caring. What does it mean to care? Are there ways that care of self can also complement care of the collective. We’re going to explore these questions by reflecting on what it means to be of service.
Ways of Seeing
This episode is all about seeing. What does it mean to see and be seen? How are we seeing each other and our natural surroundings? Has the appeal of macro ways of seeing affected our ability to appreciate seeing each other at micro levels? We’re going to explore these questions and relate them to life experiences.
Ways of Speaking
The first episode of season 3 explores languages. What does it mean to speak a language? What exists behind words used? This episode explores how language can be used as a tool to support healthier connections and co-existence between people and natural surroundings.
Àforítì: Basking in the vision
The final episode of this 3-part conversation series is all about engaging with the process of basking in the vision. That sweet spot when the transition feels easeful, and you feel that you are embodying the change you hoped to see. What’s that like? How do you keep showing up to expand the vision and resist complacency? We’re going to explore these questions in conversation with Dr Oluwatumininu Johnson, a raw-vegan medical doctor, dancer and poet.
*For anyone curious, Àforítì is a Yoruba word for resilience.
Connect with Tumi
Àforítì: Maintaining the vision
The second of a 3-part conversation series reflecting on resilience. This episode is all about maintaining the vision – a middle passage of sorts where you’re so invested in a vision that returning to what you left does not resonate at all yet navigating challenges to keep the momentum going can also seem tricky and overwhelming at times. How do you keep staying in communication with truth and keep at it? We’re going to explore this in conversation with Adiam Yemane, an Ethiopian Eritrean visual artist and storyteller.
*For anyone curious, Àforítì is a Yoruba word for resilience.
Connect with Adiam
Àforítì: Moving towards the vision
The first of a 3-part conversation series reflecting on resilience. This episode is all about engaging with the process of taking the first steps and walking towards a vision. What happens after you feel inspired from an experience? How do you manage the call to do something and bring a vision to life? We’re going to explore these questions in conversation with Giselle Richelieu, the co-founder of Black Girls Bloom – an intentional space cultivated by and for Black women and girls to radically re-imagine their futures and co-create community based on deep, critical and authentic connections, celebrating the idea that we are each other’s medicine.
*For anyone curious, Àforítì is a Yoruba word for resilience.
Connect with Giselle
Instagram: @blackgirlsbloom
Ways of learning
How are you learning? This episode explores what it means to be educated, featuring a conversation with Daniel Oduntan, an interdisciplinary artist from London, on perceptions about education and the importance of embracing your own path in the process of learning.
Connect with Daniel
https://instagram.com/DanielOduntan
https://danieloduntan.com/
Resources
Of Water and Spirit – Malidoma Some
What is Education? – Sophie Oluwole - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH1bM4Rl9Ig
Home From Home: Innovation through disruption – Daniel Oduntan - https://www.pejuoshin.com/writing/home-from-home-innovation-through-disruption-daniel-oduntan
Critical encounters
This episode explores the concept of criticism, something that can be very helpful and also quite destructive depending on delivery – how are you critiquing?
Resources
Minna Salami on Sensuous Knowledge, Beauty And Integrity - E110 - https://www.thefutureisbeautiful.co/2020/10/29/e110-minna-salami-on-sensuous-knowledge-beauty-and-integrity-the-language-of-our-rivers/
Aiye Tuntun (2017)
Peep Show (2003)
Stay hydrated
This episode explores the presence of water, reflecting on the symbolisms attached to water and the lessons that can be taken from such a process to assist us humans in life as we co-exist with our natural surroundings.
Resources
The Secret of Water - http://secretofwaterthemovie.com/
Speaking to the Water with Pat McCabe - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeeAMNxuqio
Money matters
What does it actually mean to secure the bag? This episode is all about money, that word that can be the focus of many yet hardly discussed. References are made to aspects of Yoruba culture in the process of unpicking the concept of wealth.
Resources
Earth being the trading (morket) place – Omoagbametala https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9V5QtagSMw
Watch this BEFORE you QUIT YOUR JOB to take a "break" – Evelyn from the Internets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9CSU9CKJ9M
Rich dad, poor dad – Robert Kiyosaki
Mental states
This episode explores perceptions of mental health and the different approaches taken to understanding and approaching matters of the brain. We explore the role that ancestry and culture plays in such a process and lessons that can be applied to personal and collective living to facilitate better understanding of the self and each other.
Resources
Professor Rab Houston – Podcast series on the history of psychiatry - https://soundcloud.com/user-516743905/colonial-psychiatry-2-colonial-psychiatry-over-time-and-space
Interplay project
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI7fqt2POIk
Interview with Femi Oyebode - https://www.oroanike.com/conversations/2019/1/23/in-conversation-with-femi-oyebode-on-cultural-practices-and-the-human-experience
Binary Living
This episode explores the work of Sophie Oluwole, who was a professor of African philosophy, specifically unpicking the idea of Binary Complementarity a concept of hers which at its core emphasises the importance of being open to different ways of living rather than following a one-size fits all approach. We’re going to explore how this concept translates to everyday life and the lessons it can provide for healthy co-existence.
Resources
Socrates and Orunmila: Two patron saints of Philosophy – Sophie Oluwole
Micropia - https://www.micropia.nl/en/discover/stories/microworld/
Sophie Oluwole interview - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3r6zLkIiSs
Andre 3000 interview - https://brokenrecordpodcast.com/popular-episodes#/episode-30-andre-3000-and-rick-rubin-in-conversation/