Podcast appearances and mentions of teresa pasquale mateus

This episode is the final installment of a three-part series of live recordings from the Prophetic Resistance Summit.  The Summit was held in Indianapolis in late October 2017. Our diverse panel of guests - including Rev. Sharon Avril, Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp, Fr. Tom Smith, Hajj Reza Nekumanesh, Teresa Pasquale Mateus, Pastor Matt Prinz  - wrestled with questions about providing Sanctuary for targeted communities, including immigrants, living into a vision for multi-faith leadership and what it means to be Prophets of the Resistance. Show Notes: Rabbi Miriam Terlinchamp of Cincinnati, OHRabbi Miriam Terlinchamp is the spiritual leader of Temple Sholom and she serves as the president of of the board of The Amos Project, a PICO federation. Learn more at http://templesholom.net/ Fr. Tom Smith of Las Cruces, NMFather Tom Smith, OFM Conv. is the director of the Holy Cross Retreat Center near Las Cruces, New Mexico.  Since May, the Center has been offering sanctuary to Jorge Taborda. Learn more about Jorge’s story at https://thinkprogress.org/holy-cross-retreat-center-franciscan-hospitality-9c2aa2491536/ Hajj Reza Nekumanesh of Fresno, CAHajj Reza Nekumanesh is the Executive Director of the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno. He serves on the Board of Directors for Faith in the Valley, a PICO federation and he is the chair of the Fresno Clergy Caucus. Read the Fresno Bee coverage of his Sancuary work: http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article156216584.html Teresa Pasquale Mateus of Chicago, ILTeresa Pasquale Mateus is the Executive Director of the Mystic Soul Project which aims to create spaces that center the voices, teaching, practices, and wisdom of People of Color at the intersections of mysticism and activism. Learn more about The Mystic Soul Project, https://www.mysticsoulproject.com/ Pastor Matt Prinz of Oakland, CAPastor Matt Prinz  pastors and preaches at Ygnacio Valley Presbyterian Church in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a member of the Bay Area Clergy Cohort and serves on the Board of Directors of Oakland Community Organizations, a PICO federation. Learn more about Ygnacio Valley Presbyterian Church: http://www.yvchurch.org/ Rev. Sharon Avril of Fresno, CARev. Sharon Avril  is the pastor of Carter Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church in Fresno, California and a clergy leader in the Fresno Chapter of Faith in the Valley. Read the Fresno Bee coverage of Rev. Avril’s Sancuary work: http://www.fresnobee.com/living/religion/article136634213.html  

My guest today is Teresa Pasquale Mateus, a trauma specialist, contemplative practice teacher, author and co-founder of Mystic Soul Project, an organization that engages in a People of Color (POC)  - Centered Approach to Action/Activism and Contemplation/Mysticism. Teresa has written two books, Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing from Spiritual Trauma and Mending Broken: A Personal Journey Through the Stages of Trauma & Recovery. We cover a lot of ground in our conversation. Teresa shares how the discovery of contemplative practices were integral to her healing process, the significance of language on the spiritual path, her work as a trauma specialist with combat veterans, at Standing Rock and Charlottesville. And lastly, something that I particularly thrilled about, Teresa shares with us about her latest endeavor, Mystic Soul Project and the buzz around the Mystic Soul Conference, a POC-Centered gathering of voices, practices and dialogue on contemplation, action and healing.

  Join us for a simple 5-min practice: listening to the reading of a poem. Just a short one this week to get us into the rhythm of conversing & practicing together! (full poem text below)   Check out episode 2 for the corresponding conversation with Teresa Pasquale Mateus and Shawna Wakefield titled "Conversations in Healing Justice."   As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now!     BREATHE, a poem by Lynn Ungar Breathe, said the wind.   How can I breathe at a time like this, when the air is full of the smoke of burning tires, burning lives? Just breathe, the wind insisted. Easy for you to say, if the weight of injustice is not wrapped around your throat, cutting off all air. I need you to breathe. I need you to breathe. Don’t tell me to be calm when there are so many reasons to be angry, so much cause for despair! I didn’t say to be calm, said the wind, I said to breathe. We’re going to need a lot of air to make this hurricane together.   JOIN THE COMMUNITY Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook page We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien Thank you to Sullivan Oakley for voicing the poem reading.

In the second episode of Healing Justice Podcast, host Kate Werning is joined by collaborators Shawna Wakefield and Teresa Pasquale Mateus for a conversation about what healing justice means to us and our aspirations for this virtual practice space. We talk spirituality, trauma and resilience, some of the history of this work, gender justice, international work, Standing Rock, self care / collective care / community care, personal stories and struggles in our activism and organizing, sustainability and more. Check out the incredible guests and topics we'll be featuring coming up and sign up for the email list to hear when new episodes drop at www.healingjustice.org As a brand new podcast, we need you to subscribe, give a 5-star rating, and share a positive review to help us continue. Join us in the sustainability and viability of this project and subscribe, rate, & review now! MEET OUR GUESTS Shawna Wakefield is a gender justice advocate, mother of two girls, practitioner of living life wholly and helping other changemakers to do the same. She is bi-racial (African American/white Canadian), grew up in NY and VT, and has lived and worked in Cambodia and Afghanistan. She organized with immigrant and refugee women of color in the 90s, worked with the UN, and was Oxfam International’s Senior Gender Justice Lead for 7 years. She is currently an organizational development and leadership consultant with Gender at Work, and co-facilitates Brown Sugar Yoga for Folks of Color and workshops on collective wellbeing and resilience, including Resilience for Changemakers. Teresa Pasquale Mateus is a trauma therapist, trauma-conscious yoga and embodied care provider, and executive director/co-founder of The Mystic Soul Project - a people of color centered approach to contemplation, activism, and healing. She is author of Mending Broken: A Personal Journey Through the Stages of Trauma & Recovery and Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing from Spiritual Trauma. Teresa is a collaborator in leading Resilience for Changemakers workshops and is co-developing resources to correlate cycles of personal and trauma and resilience with the ups and downs of the phases of social change. More about Teresa here: www.teresapasqualemateus.com   REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE “Healing justice is the how of our movements – it’s the texture, the experience and the vision that guides us. It’s our effort towards transforming ourselves, our ways of building relationship and our institutions to support and sustain Black aliveness that has carried us forward.” - Prentis Hemphill, Director of Healing Justice for Black Lives Matter Network, from this article in the Huffington Post More on the 2010 US Social Forum healing justice work in this article by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Cara Page & the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective Icarus Project Black Lives Matter Healing Justice Toolkit UndocuBlack Mental Wellness Initiative UndocuHealth Project from United We Dream UndocuHealing Project from José Arreola-Torres Liberation School Movement Strategy Center reporting on the role of love and power in organizing Gender at Work   PRACTICE  Download the next episode for a brief practice - the reading of a poem. It’s simple and quick -- just getting us into the rhythm of both conversing and practicing together!    JOIN THE COMMUNITY Follow us on Instagram @healingjustice & like our Facebook page We pay for all costs out-of-pocket and this podcast is 100% volunteer-run. Help us cover our costs by becoming a sponsor at patreon.com/healingjustice   THANK YOU Mixed and produced by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien

We talk about how spirituality feeds activism and vice versa, but so many of our paradigms of both spirituality and activism are rooted in or interpreted through the lens of white culture. How can we re-center POC and indigenous perspectives in our spiritual and activist spaces? We talk to Teresa Pasquale Mateus, a trauma therapist, yoga teacher, contemplative, and co-founder of The Mystic Soul Project, a non-profit organization that “seeks to bring forward a People of Color (POC) - Centered Approach to Action/Activism and Contemplation/Mysticism.” She is also the author of the book “Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing From Spiritual Trauma.” Visit www.listentotherising.com for show links and more info.

Teresa Pasquale Mateus is a trauma therapist, contemplative action advocate, and contemplative practice teacher. She is the co-founder and executive director of The Mystic Soul Project which centers people of color voices and work at the intersections of action, contemplation, and healing. She is author of the books, "Mending Broken: A Personal Journey through the Stages of Trauma & Recovery" and "Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing From Spiritual Trauma" - books that center on trauma, spirituality and healing. You can learn more about Teresa at www.teresapasqualemateus.com and www.mysticsoulproject.com. Mystic Soul's first conference is this January 11-13th in Chicago. Check out the website for more details and to apply to join! If you don't have time now to listen to everything, feel free to to skip ahead to where the meditation begins at 36:00 and then come back later for the conversation. Don't forget the pocket practice version of this meditation coming next week. Troy Bronsink is the founder and director of The Hive - A Center for Contemplation, Art & Action. The Hive is a nonprofit located in the Northside neighborhood of Cincinnati. Our secret sauce is outfitting people to take up daily practice through 6-8 week peer to peer groups and through events with luminaries in the Arts, Yoga, Community, Spirituality, and more. Check out our website at cincyhive.org for more info on how to get involved. If you have any recommendations or are interested in advertising on the podcast, please send emails to troy@cincyhive.org. The music is by Troy Bronsink. From the Hive is produced by Joey Taylor.

Teresa Pasquale Mateus lives in Chicago, IL where she is a student at Chicago Theological Seminary. She is a a trauma specialist, a contemplative, a speaker, hails from Bogotá, Columbia, and is the author the books Sacred Wounds and Mending Broken. Her third book is forthcoming with the working title, Going Naked: The Art of Spiritual Shedding. Teresa Pasquale Mateus is a trauma specialist, integrative psychotherapist, contemplative practice and contemplative action educator, and a writer. She is a graduate of NYU's School of Clinical Social Work and The Living School at the Center for Action and Contemplation. She is also a trained yoga teacher through the Sivananda tradition and a provider of equine-facilitated psychotherapy. She teaches, speaks, leads workshops and retreats in the areas of trauma, spirituality and justice - often at the intersection points between those areas and paths to healing. As a trauma survivor herself, Teresa is fascinated with the resiliency of the soul. It is no surprise, therefore, that her full book titles are: Sacred Wounds: A Path To Healing From Spiritual Trauma, Mending Broken: A Personal Journey Through the Stages of Trauma + Recovery, and Going Naked: The Art of Spiritual Shedding (working title). Teresa Pasquale Mateus' birthday is October 15th, which is the feast day of St. Teresa of Ávila. While much less exciting, this episode is being published on - wait for it - Teresa's half birthday (and, therefore, the half feast day of St. Teresa)! Happy halves, to both Teresa's. To my own (poor) recollection, Teresa and I were not introduced prior to the podcast even though I believe we had been at the Wild Goose Festival together, probably more than once. She is familiar to me from her leadership roles there. I do my best to take in the wonderful and wide-ranging teachers and leaders at the Wild Goose Festival but, as one might imagine, it is an impossible task. Fortunately it was enough of an introduction to rightly convince me to follow up with her and ask if she'd talk with us here. I've been grateful for her roles at the Goose and now I know a fair bit more to appreciate. Thank you, Teresa, for the courage to heal, share that journey, and just fully be you. It's inspiring and permission-giving. Links: Sponsor: United Faith Leaders Sponsor: United Church of Christ (UCC) Sacred Wounds: A Path To Healing From Spiritual Trauma Mending Broken: A Personal Journey Through the Stages of Trauma + Recovery Going Naked: The Art of Spiritual Shedding (working title) by Teresa Pasquale Mateus The Grey Nuns Chicago Theological Seminary NYU's School of Clinical Social Work The Living School at the Center for Action and Contemplation The Way with Martin Sheen Camp Hanover Wild Goose Festival

In this discussion with Teresa Pasquale Mateus, Shane and Tony talk about the wounds we receive in life and in the church, and how those wounds can be healing for us and others.