Inclusive Activism

Michelle and I were interviewed by Revealing our Stories America a local nonprofit we are working with to help educators teach REAL history from the lens of the racalized groups who experienced that history. ROSAmerica strives to deliver training and resources to help educators bring these vital stories to the classroom with sensitivity and respect.

Most men I think are just at a loss of what to do or how to help - them men good enough to want to at least. So this episode is a man talking to men about what to do and how to be better. So for all the non-men in the audience if you need help calling your male-identifying friends in this episode is for you!

The major reason for this interview was to get some insights into the June 2nd Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 and to learn more about Native Peoples and Indigenous ways. But of COURSE we went WAY deeper into that with talking about the idea of Indigeneity (one of my favorite topics) Please enjoy this insight into how companies might use core concepts of Inclusive Activism in both their daily lives as humans and as institutions which seek to spread belonging and a culture of inclusion for both their companies as well as other companies benefits!

In today's podcast, we start to unpack the idea of Speciesism and how social hierarchies hurt not just all living beings but also tacitly endorses the suffering of human beings lower on the social caste. What is Speciesism - is a term used in philosophy regarding the treatment of individuals of different species.

We will talk about what Attraction is and how it works. What it is and what it isn't. The three major components are: Like Attracts Like, Nature Abhors a Vacuum, and Present is Preferred. We elaborate a bit more on what it is and what it isn't.

Martin has spent the last ten years advocating for Black lives, addressing the systemic issues that affect Black and marginalized groups through both conventional and unconventional avenues. Using his background as a mental health counselor, Martin is able to add nuance and clarity to the way we support the livelihood of Black people. Through seminars, community events, rallies, and curriculum development, Martin has worked with thousands of people around prison abolition, the fight against white supremacy, and lifting up Black communities. Martin has worked extensively with the Black Lives Matter Boston chapter, and is also a restorative justice coach working with various institutions in and around Boston.

In the podcast, we learn we must be value and principle-centered in universal valued and honest all serving value-centered. Everything else is to build your sense of identity in an idea or slice of who you are - rather than in you!

We will look at many different ways we can start to define Gratitude - 10 different definitions in fact. Then we start to better understand what Gratitude and invoke within us - Catharsis and Reciprocity. We see how Gratitude can begin to rewire our brains and help us with 9 wonderful amazing outcomes. We then unlock 4 Gratitude Practices what will help us strengthen our Gratitude - Journaling, Expressing, Celebrating Small Wins, And Meditation. Once we really can get our arms around - Gratitude we being to attract Abundance! We then look at 10 ways we can better see and develop our Abundance Mindset!

This podcast is on the concept of Being in Proper Relations with all things. It relates to inclusive activism by understanding proper relations of mutual reciprocity is where the chance to stop othering one another lies. We will look at and examine what are the costs of being in proper relations look like? What things are needed to engage in proper ongoing relational maintenance? Is this even possible!?

Todays Podcast will look at how our family and how our background shapes how we look for and seek out intimacy in others. We need to be mindful of how our trauma from the past informs and repeats possible patterns of traumatization in the future. We will talk about the patter of High and Low […]

Well HELLO! It has been a moment – I took a bit of a summer sabbatical but I am back now. New News – going forward the podcast will update and publish monthly now to give a bit more life balance for me as your one and only in this effort. Today we talk about […]

In this podcast we learn about the work happening in Fall 21 with a series of virtual workshops on how to implement more indigenous practices in the spaces and places we work!

We look at the need for an accurate self concept - we have to own really who we are right now and stop pretending to be what we are not putting effort into being or becoming. We look at the need for self awareness - the more self aware we are the more accurate we can be with our self as we stand today, This give us the knowledge of where we are and what gaps are keeping us for who we want to be! Then and only then can we have a positive self esteem. We cannot have a positive self esteem from pretending to be something - because WE know we are not that thing - which makes us have to acknowledge at some dark moment we are NOT that thing. Then we need to keep practicing self awareness to understand - we are in the process of "becoming" our best self - and the process is NEVER finished - we just get better and better with time!

Today we unpack the concept of perspective. For it is only through the lens of our own perspective that we have the ability or capacity to experience the world. We will look at the FACT that for YOU or someone else - your perspective IS your experience of reality. That is it - its all of it you cannot experience something outside your perspective. So in effect your perspective IS your TRUTH.

In today's podcast we welcome Anti-Racism expert Daryl Davis. Mr Davis has made as a part of his life goal to prove you cannot hate someone you do know know. To this end Mr Davis has befriended many current and former self avowed white supremacists (KKK members or Neo-Nazis). And to that end he has also been gifted 20+ former Klan members robes as due those friendships they have turned from their former thinking.

In today's podcast we will look at how to set and enforce personal and relational boundaries with others. We all know about the concept of "house rules" the guides and expectations that help us get a sense what we should and should not do in a space. Boundaries work the same way with people! For this podcast is was guided and inspired by an article by Psych Central on 10 ways to set and enforce boundaries https://psychcentral.com/lib/10-way-to-build-and-preserve-better-boundaries#1 1. Name your limits.2. Tune into your feelings.3. Be direct. 4. Give yourself permission.5. Practice self-awareness.6. Consider your past and present.7. Make self-care a priority.8. Seek support.9. Be assertive.10. Start small. and I added 11. At First your boundaries are not going to be popular with anyone, don't focus on the RIGHT NOW - focus on the why this matters later!

In this episode we will examine the idea that we literally “pay” to things with our focus, with our listening, and with our attention. This attention and our sense of focus is vied for with millions to billions of dollars as our time and attention is SO precious and valuable. We look at the hard […]

In this podcast we will look at the idea that we need to own the responsibility to be our best self. In our Heart first, then in changing what we think and believe, then speaking that belief (or Be-life) into being.

This week we have yet another interview with our good friends at the Inclusive AF podcast Jackye Claton and Katee Van Horn. Both are Diveristy Inclusion and Equity Experts! This roundtable discussion will touch on the highlights and low lights of what is is like to “do the work” day in and day out. We […]

We will talk about Indigenization, What is it? (systems of nonviolence, no harm, non-marginalization, and non-exploitation). How each of us has been helped by Indigenization and Indigenous Thinking. This podcast attempts to help us unpack what I feel the antithesis of so many issues of racism, sexism, classism, patriarchy, white supremacy, oligarchy come from and why and how they eliminate these problems.

We will talk about Colonization, What is it? (systems of violence, harm, marginalization, and exploitation). How oppressed groups have been hurt by Colonization. How each of us has been poisoned by Colonization and Colonial Thinking. This podcast attempts to help us unpack what I feel the root of so many issues of racism, sexism, classism, patriarchy, white supremacy, oligarchy come from and why and how they repeat. Warning the S word is used in this podcast which is a very derogatory term for native women. This words rough literal translation is the very harmful curse word (the C word). I chose not to bleep it out because I wanted you to hear the pain in Souta's voice to better understand the pain associated with it for Native Women. We are not calling anyone this word but rather talk about its harmful effects much as will do at time with slurs like the N word, or in our community the R word to better understand the impact of these harmful patterns of pain.

Todays podcast looks deeply at the idea of what is the enemy. Is enemy the best word to use when working against others for the acknowledgement of humanity? Is opponent better or does that still imply the person is the problem. Does opposition work better to focus on the forces not the people.

In recognition of International Kindness Day. We look at the true earth shaking Power In Kindness. We talk about how Kindness needs some reframing as it gets a bad rap for being weak or naive. It is very strong and a powerful force for change! We talk about the vitality of Kindness due to our mirror neurons and oxytocin boost which can later lead to dopamine release when we do good for others. And lastly we talk about how Kindness is a higher goal and aspiration than Niceness as Kindness does the heaving lifting niceness won't always engage in and with.

Election Day 2020 is almost here. In this podcast I share a few thoughts on our local election. I talk about the need to get some food, and resources together in the next few days - just in case things get wonky. I talk about the need to get your ballot physically to the ballot box or vote in person (most vote my mail is not assured to get in by now!) And I talk about what is a coup, how do coups work, and how regular people have stopped coups in the past.

Deep canvassing stems from a simple idea; you can change minds through conversations. Canvassers use this method to engage voters in a conversation and get them to a mutual understanding by providing alternative perspectives. It is a two-way conversation between canvassers and voters where voters are asked to share their personal experiences around the issue being discussed. The strategy lays out Share your experience and get the conversation started Listen to voters, get them thinking and sharing Highlight common humanity We will talk about what it is, how to use it, when it goes well and when it doesn't.

The secret is we will in a society that honestly values life very little. And due to the normalization of death and that some lives matter and other lives don't means that people are subconsciously aware their life doesn't account for much in our society. We will look for these messages analysis them and then see why this statement is "seen" as provocative.

In this podcast we breakdown another parable idea on what lessons are embedded in boats, and airplanes. How can we look at the idea of difference in consideration of an items intended purpose and see its inherent value in its differences? We will look at how the pressures of a situation keep us afloat. We will look at how movement and pressure can uplift us. We need to understand we are different. We also must embrace we each have a different purpose. These parable are lessons on learning to love ourselves and will help us see the inherent value of our differences.

We will go over - white racial privilege does exists We will also talk about what is "assumed" as parts of being a white person in society - that really is not always the true experience We will talk about how if you are not doing what is assumed in all parts of whiteness - how you as that white person are put down.

Imagine a world where everyone had your back and best interest at heart. Imagine a world where everyone believed there was more than enough for everyone. Imagine a world where we recognized our siblings and relations with the water, the soil, the wind, the sun, the rain and the plants.

In this podcast I welcome special guest Dr. Kelly Fitzsimmons Burton Philosophy Faculty at Paradise Valley Community College on to talk about these notions and ideas. Is truth dead? Or is it still alive and unavoidable - lets find out!

Calvin and Rowdy give you a retrospective out their lives to give you a sense of the humans behind the process. Many times either Calvin or Rowdy have been a bit too deified or seen as more than the simple humans they are - this podcast puts that notion to bed with times we made mistakes. How we learned and grow. And the simple steps we take daily to become the humans we are today - and who we hope to grow into being tomorrow.

As it so happens there have been and email here and there. A DM here and there, and lots of comments as feedback. And silly me didn't consider podcasting them all as I thought they were all just to me rather than the seeds of a dialog that are beginning to emerge from Inclusive Activism and Emerging Evolution.

Counsel Culture is more transformational than Cancel Culture. In this episode we will look at how I should have been canceled in the past with SEVERAL examples BUT we will learn how Counsel Culture made me redeemable! We examine the problematics of Cancel Culture and deconstruct it as a tool of whiteness and colonial thinking special thanks to Michelle Dew for this thought! We also look at the idea of Counsel Culture as anti-ist in nature and a form of indigenized thought (not decolonized thought thank you to Charissa Sundust) to fight for equity. We look at the notion of Counsel Culture, and why we need it, as well as how to engage in it to separate ideas from the person from with we are in counsel. We talk about steps to take to engage with Counsel Culture – we recognize that it is in fact VERY HARD. But we also see when we learn more about Counsel Culture we learn more how toxic ideas infect and hurt others and how to heal others into wholeness together with us.

Too often it appears we get caught up in the either or paradigm. It is very important to note no one on either side of a issue is actually completely right. AND too often no one on either side is really truly on the side of us as the people. And no one is really […]

In this story for today we look at some of the macro systems we are seeing with the pandemic and attempt to make a parable – a fable – an indigenous tale out of what we are seeing with the current pandemic. When I envisioned this I was trying to do a form of sense-making […]

Simply put the stories we tell and choose to add the power of our belief in create our worlds. This is why we must be clear and show where we want to go and what we want to do when we tell our stories. Think about our words Believe is so much like BE-LIVE, same […]

For today’s podcast Calvin the Drapetomanic and Rowdy the Inclusive Activist look at the Numbing Trap. Right now life is VERY hard. And it is so easy to just reach for a stiff drink or smoke up and check out. But Numbing is a lot wider than that too – its over-eating or eating food […]

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Today we look at our different viewpoints or frame around constant pain. We look at others Pain from a bewildered standpoint. We look at the pain of those we have grown numb to over time. And we look at our own choice to remain in the Pain of the Same – rather than engage in […]

In this podcast - Calvin the Drapotmaniac and Rowdy the Inclusive Activist start to break down the idea of Thinking Seven Generations back and Seven Generations Forward. What does it mean to think in a more timeless frame? How can we better appreciate all of the work done for us and the shoulders of greatness we stand upon to live the lives we do?

In this podcast – Calvin the Drapotmaniac and Rowdy the Inclusive Activist start to break down the idea of Thinking Seven Generations back and Seven Generations Forward. What does it mean to think in a more timeless frame? How can we better appreciate all of the work done for us and the shoulders of greatness […]

For todays Inclusive Activism Podcast we look at the concepts of Spectrums of things. And the idea that to get where you want to go - we must embrace starting and being at the place we want to be the least first. But it is also a crucial and integral part of getting to the places we want to be the most.

Today on the Emerging Evolution Podcast Rowdy the Inclusive Activist and Calvin the Drapetomanic continue our deep dive into the impacts of Historical Trauma and look at how it effects Perpetrators! We will break up the historical trauma series looking at the Affected, the Perpetrators, and the Bystanders for this three part series. Since this […]

Today on the Emerging Evolution Podcast Rowdy the Inclusive Activist and Calvin the Drapetomanic continue our deep dive into the impacts of Historical Trauma and look at how it effects Bystanders! We will break up the historical trauma series looking at the Affected, the Perpetrators, and the Bystanders for this three part series. Since this […]

This episode examines the idea of Self Concept, Self Esteem, and the idea of the Looking Glass Self. Once we understand these ideas we can better form who we are and how we can see ourselves more accurately. Since this is a new podcast please rate us and review us to make sure we can […]

In this podcast Rowdy and Calvin look at Historical Trauma and those most afflicted and affected by the trauma. We will break up the historical trauma series looking at the Affected, the Perpetrators, and the Bystanders for this three part series.

Todays podcast attempts to look forward at the new decade of 2020 what are some predictions. How can we best prepare ourselves to be the best Inclusive Activists we can be? Hint it is going to take some radical compassion to make the world different! Please share this podcast if you enjoyed it or learned […]

Welcome to a new series of podcasts which will examine what we can do to become more of a social centric and eco-centric society. Today's podcast will look at what how we need to orient our thinking to create new possibilities of understanding, acting, and being. This podcast features Calvin Terrell - the Draptomanic, and Rowdy the Inclusive Activist. Right now the play is to post monthly podcasts as time and opportunity allow the two busy hosts to connect!

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In todays podcast we talk about the challenge of being and indigenous person on Thanksgiving. We talk about the true history of the holiday the one time celebration and the remembering of the massacre. We talk about my current struggles to how the Native History Appreciation Month ends with this day. We talk about how I currently choose to navigate the day and at times my true feelings of being stuck at times. And how I am using the pain of this day to transform my life into one of Gratitude.

Today on the podcast we talk about the importance need and role of friends. How we need some who are net adds to our life, how we need those we pour into and how to find peers. We talk about how to find better friends, and how to strike up conversations. Please share this podcast […]