Podcast appearances and mentions of joanna bull

Joanna Bull was a student of Shunryu Suzuki became a psychoanalyst and, as a result of having Gilda Radner as a client, went on to be a founder of Gilda's Club and the Cancer Support Community. She's got a neat ghost story too which led to her coming to the Zen Center.

Evan Newman is the Managing Director of Outside Music. Outside Music is an independent record label roster that includes a number of award-winning artists. It's one of the leading independent distributers in Canada. Some of the artists Outside Music has worked with include Jill Barber, The Weather Station, Rose Cousins, Aidan Knight, and Justin Rutledge. In 2019, Outside Music launched Next Door Records, a new label designed to provide equitable support and creative freedom to their songwriting community. I spoke with Evan about Next Door's mandate, and what it means for fostering work that engages with the politics of our climate emergency. In a condition of crisis, what can musicians do, beyond what they're doing: writing songs? Can they use what Evan describes as their "stature" to not only move audiences, but also encourage movement at the policy level to respond to carbon-intensive human activities, like how folks get to shows, how they get their music, and whether they're producing all kinds of plastic waste at those shows? Evan runs Outside Music with the passion of a fan. In this conversation he talks about how the rationale for who they work with does come down to who they're inspired by, the music they feel really needs to be heard. Part of this is also built on the faith that, as he says here, "music can enact change." If it's true that--and I agree with him on this point--the overwhelming deluge of information from news and other sources isn't necessarily communicating the urgency of eco-catastrophe, then music might need to not only move people, but move into a place of mobilizing people. The way it does that it through communicating a language of feeling: speaking to peoples' anger, anxiety, their stress and even their solipsism; letting them into the conversation about what climate politics should look like. As an educator in the music business program at the Nova Scotia Community College, he says he's working with young people who are attuned to the reality of the climate crisis, and curious about how to craft a way of working with artists that is environmentally ethical. He clearly derives some hope from knowing that these folks are working to figure out ways of changing an industry that, in his words, is still necessarily "tethered to capitalism." The mere fact that a new generation is entering the conversation about how music and climate change, arts and commerce, the environment and consumerism, means that transformation could become easier to imagine. I'll be discussing these issues with Evan, along with Shannon Miedema, Kim Fry, Joanna Bull, Waye Mason and Braden Lam this Wednesday, April 26th at Halifax's Central Library. The free event is titled "Changing the Tune on Climate," and will feature a number of performances by artists like Akuakultre, T. Thomason, The Gilberts, and Kristen Martell. We hope you'll attend... it will be a celebration of music, and an interesting discussion of environmental justice. Changing the Tune event info: https://halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/6418a052b4a2bc5b7ac1bbb9

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People around the planet have been recognising Earth Day on April 22nd since 1970. The goal in the beginning was to demonstrate support for environmental protection. And over the years, we have seen more focus on the natural world around us and the attention to issues like global warming. But what difference can one individual make? And how do you keep working at effecting change on something that can seem so overwhelming? Joanna Bull is the Community Engagement Manager with the Ecology Action Centre based in Nova Scotia. She offers her thoughts on staying positive and realistic and shares ways we can make a difference for the planet by thinking globally and acting locally.

ONedMentors host, Noa Daniel, is joined tonight by Joanna Bull, Jen Giffen, Rola Tibshirani and Derek Tangredi to offer their perspective on the power and possibilities of design thinking in schools. Whether you're just starting to think about using a design thinking approach, or you've been immersed in it for some time now, this conversation will capture your attention and imagination

In Episode 16 of Outside The Bubble, Joanna Bull talks Neurobics the scientific reason for doing The Bird Box Challenge. Joanna gives 10 practical applications of neurobics in the classroom that increase brain activity aiding in the developing of critical thinking and problem solving skills. Research for this episode comes from the book: Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises to help memory and increase mental fitness by Lawrence C. Katz, Ph.D. and Manning Rubin.

In Episode 14 Joanna Bull interviews Stephanie Zito, a business coach, guiding [female] entrepreneurs toward living their passion with prosperity. Joanna learns about Stephanie's humbling experience as a volunteer teacher trainer in Uganda. Joanna is reminded of her time in Africa and connects with Stephanie’s image “imagine a teacher with 1 piece of chalk...we are so privileged with what we have at our fingertips.” Joanna learns about the world of Wilderness Therapy and the stick with-it-ness and resiliency troubled teens learn in order to literally make a fire in order to eat cooked food. Stephaine is offering a free strategy session for listeners and can connect here: Coaching: www.stephaniezito.com Email: stephzitocoach@gmail.com Safer skincare on a mission: www.beautycounter.com/stephaniezito   A Few of Joanna’s Favourite Quotes That lit my heart on fire. I had to gain trust and respect from the communities. These kids didn’t have birthday cake, they didn’t have candles, there was just no frame of reference. Let’s just start with getting electricity in the school We were grateful for markers, but where does the trash go? It was on me to get the motivation to do my work. There’s something to be said for stepping back and listening to the landscape and hearing people. We all want to be heard. It’s 100% helping someone solve a problem. Go under the surface of the iceberg. We can be the anger, be the emotion or we can process it. They didn’t get to be part of the group; they sat on the outside of the circle...I don’t have to be anything or do anything for anybody - it took the pressure off.  

All societal problems are wicked problems. I episode 11 Joanna shares her learning from the first I-Think Practicum session around wicked problems and problem framing. 

What is disruptive tech and why do we as educators need to, not only care about it but help our students understand and navigate the ever-changing landscape? In Episode 10 Joanna Bull speaks with Candice Faktor about the importance of curiosity and how technology is changing the employment and skills landscape. Joanna learns that we need to start small and slow down in order to scale up and ultimately see exponential growth. Candice challenges Joanna to think about how students are using technology, and Joanna learns that the tools to create a spaceship to travel to space or literally cure cancer are available to anyone (including herself) if you know where to look and how to utilize them. Favorite quotes from this episode: You can literally crowdfund from people sitting across the world   I’m very concerned we’re wasting so much of our time on meaningless things The barriers to creation have been demonetized Anybody can create literally create the cure for cancer right now We are living in an attention economy You don’t need to choose what you want to do - you need to start Attention is our greatest capital Get real curious about how we solve problems in the world In school, we are focused on executing not asking

When it comes to environmental justice, are environmental organizations listening? Are we willing to change in the ways that we are being asked? Environmental justice movements define our environment more broadly than the mainstream environmental movement, recognizing the interconnectedness of the social and ecological crises we are facing. Centring the voices of Black, Indigenous and people of colour, environmental justice works to resist and reshape the ways that race, space and power intersect. These grassroots advocates have also repeatedly called on mainstream environmental organizations to address environmental racism, elitism in the movement, and lack of diverse representation on their staffs and boards. As questions around diversity, decolonization, and justice begin to gain more traction in mainstream social movements, environmental organizations are beginning to respond. But the path is messy and uncertain. As Ecology Action Centre‘s Joanna Bull describes: “We don’t actually even see what were being asked to do yet, I don’t think. We being the environmental movement. I don’t think we fully understand what is seen as problematic about the way we are now. And I think a lot of those things that are problematic are really deeply entrenched with the structure of how we exist.” In this episode we’re going to explore some of the ways that the environmental movement has responded to the challenges presented by environmental justice, including some stories of Ecology Action Centre’s own journey here in unceded Mi’kmaq territory. We’ll be asking some uncomfortable questions as part of this work to explore our complicity with the oppressive systems we are fighting. We’ll be practicing listening to environmental perspectives from outside of our bubble. And we’ll be wondering about our own roles and responsibilities when it comes to a just future here in Mi’kma’ki and beyond. We don’t have any answers, but we want to share the questions we have been asking so far, in the hopes that more of us can begin to share this messy work of shifting from good intentions to good practice. As Dr. Carolyn Finney suggests, these questions are just the beginning: “Maybe what we need to do is to be asking different questions. Maybe what we need to do is to restructure the way we’re in relationship to one another across difference. And that is a lot more work. It might change everything we’re doing.” We hope you’ll tune into this Shades of Green podcast episode, “Listen Up: On Building Relationships Across Difference in the Environmental Movement.” Stay curious with us as we dig into some juicy questions that challenge us to step up to the work of building a just future together. Featured Voices: Joanna Bull Eriel Deranger Dr. Carolyn Finney Barbara Low Randolph Haluza-Delay Lynn Jones Stephen Thomas Dr. Ingrid Waldron Quotes have been condensed here for clarity and brevity. Huge thanks to every one of the ears and voices that made this episode possible. Further thanks to Joanna Brenchley, Erica Butler, Cintia Gillam, Jen Graham and Peter Lane. Our theme was composed by the incredible Nick Durado. We are also grateful for permission from Ansley Simpson to excerpt from her lovely song A Mixture of Frailties. This project has been supported by Ecology Action Centre and the Community Conservation Research Network Subscribe on iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, or Feedburner. And follow us on Twitter! Further Reading: https://shadesofgreenweb.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/listen-up-building-relationships-across-difference-in-the-environmental-movement/

The 4th interview in a series from the YRDSB EdCamp. This time I interview Joanna Bull and we discuss the idea of Improvisational PD. A great concept and easily something to get people our of their seats and participating in their own learning.

Joanna Bull — A journey of healing from California to the Hilltowns, Aug. 10, 2017 by The Altamont Enterprise & Albany County Post See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joanna Bull: Using the tools in the tool box by Derek Rhodenizer