Podcast appearances and mentions of mariam issa

Nerita Waight looks at Victoria's broken bail laws, and Mariam Issa shares her journey from trauma to empowerment.Nerita Waight is the CEO of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service.Mariam is a storyteller, life coach and author.

As a child, Mariam Issa dreamed of traveling to faraway places but she did not imagine having to flee Somalia's civil war on a leaky over- crowded boat to Kenya – pregnant and holding her two young sons for dear life. Nor did she dream of the horrors of genital mutilation, bombings or her close-knit family being torn apart and spread across six countries, including Australia, where she now resides. Through all the darkness and desperation, Mariam has come out the other side a compassionate, kind, generous and highly motivated person, dedicated to making the world (or her part of it) a more loving, connected and tolerant place. This was a fascinating conversation with a fascinating person. Enjoy.

Mariam Issa is a registered nurse here in Columbus Ohio. We talked about how Covid 19 impacted her life and the lives of her patients. I hope you like it. Please enjoy it. Thanks,

Mariam's refugee journey from Somalia to Kenya, and ultimately to Australia, was filled with many challenges. As a child, Mariam Issa dreamt of travelling to faraway places. She did not dream she would need to flee Somalia's civil war on a leaky over-crowded boat to Kenya – pregnant and holding her two young sons for dear life. Neither did she dream that 21 years later she would become the heartbeat of her Australian community by pulling down her back fence and creating a community garden built from love, hope and connection.Music : Mylee GraceEngineering and Production: Tiff Richmond

In this episode of Sense-making in a Changing World, I speak with, Mariam Issa, story-teller, author, speaker, community gardener, community-builder, human rights activist and ambassador for the Refugee Council of Australia. A few years ago I met Mariam at an Australasian Permaculture Conference where she was a keynote speaker. We've been dear friends ever since. She has come to stay with me here in the ecovillage and I have visited her at the RAW Garden - a community garden in her suburban backyard in Melbourne.Mariam arrived in Australia as a refugee over 20 years ago from Somalia, via Kenya. We speak together in the middle of Refugee Week here in Australia 14-20 June.Mariam talks of how, through permaculture she found a way to belong in her new home, to connect, to contribute and help others. In her backyard, Mariam created a community garden where people come to grow, harvest and share delicious lovingly-prepared food right there in the garden. There are regular cooking classes led by people from all different cultures, regular gardening days and story-telling circles.Her inspirational way of storytelling uplifts and transforms. She awakens the storyteller in each of us, and shows how, through connecting this way, we are able to make sense.Links to Mariam's workA Resilient Life is Mariam’s book about her refugee journey from Somalia to Australia. Mariam and I also have chapters in the book Reclaiming the Urban Commons Mariam is featured here in Dumbo Feather Watch this clip about Mariam's GardenTranscriptCheck the transcript tabSubscribe & ShareThanks for tuning into my podcast today, SENSE-MAKING IN A CHANGING WORLD. It has been a pleasure to have your company. I invite you to subscribe (via your favourite podcast app like iTunes) and receive notification of each new weekly episode. Please also feel free to share.Each Wednesday I will share more wonderful stories, ideas, inspiration and common sense for living and working regeneratively. Positive permaculture thinking, design and action is so needed in this changing world. What is permaculture?Take a look at my free 4 part permaculture series or Our Permaculture Life Youtube and my permaculture blog too. For an introduction to permaculture online course, I recommend The Incredible Edible Garden course.Please support our permaculture work with refugee children, the Permayouth, by donating to our registered permaculture charity The Ethos Foundation. Every dollar goes directly to support these young people.Warm regards,Morag GambleFounder, Permaculture Education InstituteI acknowledge and pay respects to the Traditional owners of the land from which I am broadcasting, the Gubbi Gubbi people.Thank you to Kim Kirkman (Harp) and Mick Thatcher (Guitar) for donating this piece from their album album Spirit Rider. Thank you to Evan Raymond (my husband) for sound editing.

Siyaalo kala duwan ayay dadku u maareeyaan waqtiga badan ee guryaha lagu jiro. Mariam Issa waxay leedahay beer guriga ku taal ay ka baxaan qudaaro iyo dhir badan, halkaas ayayna waqti badan galisaa oo ku nasataa.

Landing as a refugee in the upperclass Victorian suburb of Brighton from war-torn Somalia, Mariam Issa shares her thoughts on life, love, community and resilience. Take a moment over coffee to see your world through the eyes of an outsider. You may well be surprised at how the trivial becomes pivotal and conversely, how what we see as critical, can be rendered somewhat absurd. Mariam interrogates the narratives we tell ourselves and questions who authors our story? She emphasises the tools we need to take back the mastery of our own identity. In looking at the plot lines of the developed world's women, versus the narrative of the developing world's women, Mariam wonders about the destruction of Western culture, veiled behind accumulation of material possessions. She suggests the less apparent truth - the loss of communal culture. At a time where harnessing the collective holds great value for workplaces, political movements and community wellbeing, Mariam's lessons of individual contribution are a rare find. While Western culture can be quick to dismiss traditions and rituals from abroad, Mariam argues that each of us must improve our listening skills and retain a childlike curiosity. She argues this place of wonder is what activates our ability to tell stories, and therefore to connect humanity. Mariam says, “If you can host someone in your heart, you can host them in your home.” She believes it is the act of listening that gives the power to the story teller. So activate your ear(pod)s, open up your willingness to learn and enjoy a raw CoffeePod from a phenomenal story-teller. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mariam Issa iyo gabadheeda Sumaya Yusuf oo ka waramaya daraasad lagu sheegay in arday badan ay takoor kala kulmaan iskuulada Australia - Mariam Issa iyo gabadheeda Sumaya Yusuf oo ka waramaya daraasad lagu sheegay in arday badan ay takoor kala kulmaan iskuulada Australia

Episode two features Mariam Issa, a Somalian refugee whose struggle to gain a foothold in this land was aided by Igniting Change, who supported her dream of a healing garden in her backyard, and building a community of strong, empowered women.

Getting good things done needs collaboration, collaboration needs communication and communication needs connectivity. That’s why connectivity is the theme of this year’s Australasian Permaculture Convergence. Between 15 – 19 April 2018 we met in southern NSW to improve our connectivity. Community Radio 2XX 98.3FM's Behind the Lines was there and recorded what it could of the talks and workshops for your listening pleasure! These works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. To give attribution for this work, include the URL of this page, and permacultureaustralia.org.au/

Pip editor Robyn Rosenfeldt talks in depth to Mariam Issa of RAW garden in Melbourne (Resilient Aspiring Women), recorded live at the Australian Permaculture Convergence 2018.

Mariam Issa arrived in Australia from her home land of Somalia in 1998 with her husband and children. She is the co-founder of RAW (Resilient Aspiring Women), a community garden in the backyard of her Melbourne home, which supports women through gardening, cooking and storytelling.  You can learn more about Mariam's incredible work and life at mariamissa.com.au, her RAW garden at raw-australia.org.au and on Facebook at @rawaustralia12.

Mariam Issa is the womanly embodiment of resilience, courage and survival.  Arriving in Australia as a refugee with nothing more than a desire to be safe, together with her family, she has thrived to become a leader in not just her own community but for all women throughout Australia and beyond.  She is humble, deeply wise and outstandingly committed to ensuring women's voices are held and nurtured in nature through her RAW Garden.  Mariam is an inspiration to me and I know many others and the sharing of her life and spirit on The Priestess Podcast today will renew your faith in...everything.  

Mariam Issa shares how she not only integrated within, but contributed significantly to, a community that she initially felt segregated by.  Mariam also tells of how one night under the stars in a refugee boat at sea, she experienced profound connection with a divine energy. We discuss the practices for continual growth, discovering and then establishing personal invincibility, acknowledging and so dissipating our fears, taking responsibility for what we are, and enjoying the playfulness of our evolution.Mariam Issa is a glowing, divine, powerful women, who against great odds has triumphed using her connection with spirit, to become an incredible person, and nurturing mother of all people.

On Thursday the 23rd of June, I went to see Melbourne Playback perform 'On Ours Shores' at the Footscray Arts Centre. The troupe are a many things, or rather, become many different things over the course of one night, being one of Melbourne's leading improvisation theatre companies. The team consists of actors, organisers and musicians, with the roles interchangeable between the variously skilled artists. As with improv, you can expect that an evening with Melbourne Playback will direct the spotlight from the stage and into the audience at times. However, the theatre group conspires to engage audience participation to a degree I have never before experienced. You might encounter any selection of their actors on a given night. On Thursday, Ernie Gruner and Karen Berger provided a two piece band. Throughout the show they accompanied the actors with violin, percussion and xylophone. The core cast consisted of Alex Sangster, Allen Laverty, Diana Nguyen, Mike Mc Kevoy, Michelle Hussey and Ananth Gopal, who all conducted themselves with the wit, foresight and perfect timing of improvisation-veterans. You could expect the duration of the performance to be around two hours. But it is not time for the actors yet. The evening began with four fifteen minute talks by guest speakers tackling a major issue effecting contemporary Australia, the refugee crisis, and our speakers were refugee and author Mariam Issa, CEO of Asylum Seekers Resource Center Kon Karappanyotiddis, refugee and advocate Mohammed Ali Baqiri, and representative from the Refugee Action Collective and St Albans teacher, Lucy Honin. They were each eloquent, compelling, brave and shared some painful things while displaying a hope for the future that had survived the incredible test of their pasts. I encourage every listener to go and give them a google - they are an excellent source of highly educated information on the topic of the refugee. In the greater plot of the evening, their function was to grab the absolute attention of the audience and force them, both with kindness and a certain emotional brutality, to engage not only their intellect to the issue at hand, but their senses, memories, emotions - essentially, bringing deeper parts of our humanity to bear on the refugee crisis. As the final speaker finished their speech, the audience left the theatre for intermission. We staggered around like shell shocked soldiers, surprised at how emotionally exhausted we had become. I had been turning over in my mind refugee or immigrant children I had known in primary school and high school, having grown in the course of an hour closer to understanding the magnitude of their experiences than I had ever had before. But - it wasn't over yet. Returning to the theatre, we were met by five actors dressed in black and shoeless, arranged in a single horizontal rank, seated on milk crates, were occupying the space in which the speakers had been. There was nothing else on stage. As the final audience members took their seats, the MC jogged energetically to the crowd and asked for people to call out a word the summarised how they were feeling after hearing the speeches. After a brief self-conscious pause, he was answered. 'Tearful', 'ashamed', 'sad', 'empowered' came the calls from the crowd. The MC bounded up the stairs to a woman. 'Tell me' he said into the mic, 'what makes you feel tearful, and why?' The woman attempted to explain herself, to explain a feeling that was obviously more complex than a single word. After a minute or so of interview, the MC turned to the actors who were still seated silently on stage and asked them to perform a song based on what the woman had just said. The lights dimmed. A green spotlight switched on, hitting the middle of the stage. One of the actresses danced into the middle of the spotlight and began to sing, joined gradually by the rest, which compounded into a symphony of voices. The cast had picked up on a few key phrases: 'open heart', 'clear mind', 'come here', which they sung layered over each other, creating a tumult of straining voices or calm voices, differing in cadence and strength. It lasted perhaps three minutes. I was initially confused and embarrassed by the performance, until I realised that they had hit upon something in the audience members words. It wasn't just her words they were examining, it was her tone, her confusion, her sadness. They had interpreted this as best they could, and were reflecting it back to her and the rest of us through performance, creating it again outside her and in a way that was different but the same, to understand again in a new way. Over the course of the evening, the audience was asked for their feelings, stories and thoughts, inspired by the initial speakers or by their own history with the refugee issue. With this deeply personal information, they made us at times giddy with amusement, then angry, then euphoric, then quiet with sadness. Song and music were not the only weapons of expression they deployed, utilising dance, mime, language and light to perform the things which the audience conveyed. Each act was around 3 to 10 minutes long. We left the theatre that night having examined and gained insight into some human parts of ourselves and our fellow audience members that are not so often brought into the public or the conscious eye. Melbourne Playback's next show deals with climate change and will be in August this year. Tickets and dates are not yet announced, but head over to melbourneplayback.com.au for more information. Review written by Jim ThomasSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On Thursday the 23rd of June, I went to see Melbourne Playback perform 'On Ours Shores' at the Footscray Arts Centre. The troupe are a many things, or rather, become many different things over the course of one night, being one of Melbourne's leading improvisation theatre companies. The team consists of actors, organisers and musicians, with the roles interchangeable between the variously skilled artists. As with improv, you can expect that an evening with Melbourne Playback will direct the spotlight from the stage and into the audience at times. However, the theatre group conspires to engage audience participation to a degree I have never before experienced. You might encounter any selection of their actors on a given night. On Thursday, Ernie Gruner and Karen Berger provided a two piece band. Throughout the show they accompanied the actors with violin, percussion and xylophone. The core cast consisted of Alex Sangster, Allen Laverty, Diana Nguyen, Mike Mc Kevoy, Michelle Hussey and Ananth Gopal, who all conducted themselves with the wit, foresight and perfect timing of improvisation-veterans. You could expect the duration of the performance to be around two hours. But it is not time for the actors yet. The evening began with four fifteen minute talks by guest speakers tackling a major issue effecting contemporary Australia, the refugee crisis, and our speakers were refugee and author Mariam Issa, CEO of Asylum Seekers Resource Center Kon Karappanyotiddis, refugee and advocate Mohammed Ali Baqiri, and representative from the Refugee Action Collective and St Albans teacher, Lucy Honin. They were each eloquent, compelling, brave and shared some painful things while displaying a hope for the future that had survived the incredible test of their pasts. I encourage every listener to go and give them a google - they are an excellent source of highly educated information on the topic of the refugee. In the greater plot of the evening, their function was to grab the absolute attention of the audience and force them, both with kindness and a certain emotional brutality, to engage not only their intellect to the issue at hand, but their senses, memories, emotions - essentially, bringing deeper parts of our humanity to bear on the refugee crisis. As the final speaker finished their speech, the audience left the theatre for intermission. We staggered around like shell shocked soldiers, surprised at how emotionally exhausted we had become. I had been turning over in my mind refugee or immigrant children I had known in primary school and high school, having grown in the course of an hour closer to understanding the magnitude of their experiences than I had ever had before. But - it wasn't over yet. Returning to the theatre, we were met by five actors dressed in black and shoeless, arranged in a single horizontal rank, seated on milk crates, were occupying the space in which the speakers had been. There was nothing else on stage. As the final audience members took their seats, the MC jogged energetically to the crowd and asked for people to call out a word the summarised how they were feeling after hearing the speeches. After a brief self-conscious pause, he was answered. 'Tearful', 'ashamed', 'sad', 'empowered' came the calls from the crowd. The MC bounded up the stairs to a woman. 'Tell me' he said into the mic, 'what makes you feel tearful, and why?' The woman attempted to explain herself, to explain a feeling that was obviously more complex than a single word. After a minute or so of interview, the MC turned to the actors who were still seated silently on stage and asked them to perform a song based on what the woman had just said. The lights dimmed. A green spotlight switched on, hitting the middle of the stage. One of the actresses danced into the middle of the spotlight and began to sing, joined gradually by the rest, which compounded into a symphony of voices. The cast had picked up on a few key phrases: 'open heart', 'clear mind', 'come here', which they sung layered over each other, creating a tumult of straining voices or calm voices, differing in cadence and strength. It lasted perhaps three minutes. I was initially confused and embarrassed by the performance, until I realised that they had hit upon something in the audience members words. It wasn't just her words they were examining, it was her tone, her confusion, her sadness. They had interpreted this as best they could, and were reflecting it back to her and the rest of us through performance, creating it again outside her and in a way that was different but the same, to understand again in a new way. Over the course of the evening, the audience was asked for their feelings, stories and thoughts, inspired by the initial speakers or by their own history with the refugee issue. With this deeply personal information, they made us at times giddy with amusement, then angry, then euphoric, then quiet with sadness. Song and music were not the only weapons of expression they deployed, utilising dance, mime, language and light to perform the things which the audience conveyed. Each act was around 3 to 10 minutes long. We left the theatre that night having examined and gained insight into some human parts of ourselves and our fellow audience members that are not so often brought into the public or the conscious eye. Melbourne Playback's next show deals with climate change and will be in August this year. Tickets and dates are not yet announced, but head over to melbourneplayback.com.au for more information. Review written by Jim Thomas

This evenings guest is Mariam Issa, a woman who carries many arrows in her quiver, including author, story teller and public speaker, community building cook and gardener, advocate for cultural diversity, social justice and equality. She also shares her life with her husband and 5 children. Her bio says: "Mariam speaks English, Somali, Swahili and & Arabic, and in all languages she speaks her mind."See: www.mariamissa.com.au, www.raw-australia.org.au