Welcome to Setting the Stage for Thriving. It's a work of heart from many of us to put this together for you. Whether you're watching this in real time in Feb 2023 or sometime in the future, you'll soon get all the details and resources for you to dive in. I'm honored that you're joining us. I hope this illuminates your way forward. Do me a quick favor and share this with someone who might benefit from this set of resources. Thanks again and welcome!
Oskar Marchock - How QiGong Prepares & Conditions Us to Thrive
Oskar Marchock is a trans nonbinary person of colour based in the UK. They have been studying qigong and meditation for the last 20 years. Oskar has been teaching Tai Chi Shibashi Set 1 for the last few years in the hopes that it can provide some support and benefit to others looking for a practice that can support in their quality of life.
In this video, Oskar Marchock(he/they), QiGong Teacher, shares about QiGong Prepares and Conditions Us to Thrive. You can find out more about them here.
Highlights: 2:14 - What is QiGong? 5:01 - How does capitalism play into our need for a practice like QiGong? 8:16 - Ego plays into the pursuit of mastery. 13:25 - The importance of noticing the sensations in our bodies. 16:00 - How might this practice prepare us to thrive?
Katherine Crook - Rebuilding Your Connection to Your Body
Katherine Creighton Crook (She/her) is a trauma-informed intuitive healing facilitator and body connector, helping leaders and world changers get their bodies on board with their life mission. With a background in clinical massage therapy, which grew to include visceral manipulation, she started noticing that there was often an emotional or energetic component to the pain or issues her clients were experiencing with their bodies, especially if those issues weren't responding to more traditional intervention.
She's developed a unique approach to connecting with the body, so it can show you where you're carrying things you can let go of or so you can release the energy of what you may have already processed mentally / intellectually.Combining an understanding of posture, the musculoskeletal system and biomechanics with an ability to guide a deep connection to your own body, she helps clients develop a different relationship with their body, so it can be the partner it was always meant to be. Instead of the body being a necessary inconvenience, it's meant to support you in your life's work.
In this video, Katherine Creighton Crook speaks about Rebuilding Your Connection to Your Body. Find out more about her here.
Highlights: 2:45 - How can we start to partner with our bodies? 6:09 - How can we cultivate a sense of safety in the world? 12:26 - Your body wants you to achieve but it also wants to keep you alive. 18:12 - The duality of mind and body. 20:20 - Working with your body around chronic pain or illness.
Amanda Rekunyk - Try Hypnosis for Personal Breakthroughs
Amanda is from the Tsl Kaz Koh and Kawakatoose nations and is a guest on unceded Mi'kmaq territory. Amanda's pronouns are he/him and she/her and he is a Two-Spirit single parent and home educator with a private practice as a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Child and Youth counsellor. He has particular expertise in attachment-based behaviour intervention, and is a teacher of Heart Resonance. A community organizer, public speaker, mutual aid facilitator and astrology nerd, Amanda's practice is anti-capitalist and responsive to the needs of the queer, Two-Spirit and BIPOC communities. See her website for more info and testimonials from a few of the many people who have benefited from his work.
Amanda Rekuynk(he/him & she/her) speaks about Hypnosis and Your Personal Breakthrough. Find out more about his work here.
Highlights: 2:51 - What is hypnosis and how does it work? 10:59 - How hypnosis helps with sleep. 15:35 - When is a good time to try hypnosis? 16:37 - Find a good practitioner for you. 18:18 - The importance of prioritizing ourselves and building community.Here are the timestaps for this discussion's talking points.
Maya Gobara - Reimagining Life with Archetypes
Maya Gobara is a spiritual advisor, teacher, mentor, and coach. She creates content for those that want to live lives that feel authentic to them. She brings clarity, compassion, and honesty to those she works with. Her work involves but isn’t limited to energy work, counseling as an ordained minister, tarot, and teaching. She’s neurodiverse with autoimmune illnesses and that fuels how she engages with clients. She believes that people need more love and grace.
Maya Gobara, Spiritual Advisor, teacher, mentor, and coach, speaks about Re-Imagining Life with Archetypes. Find out more about Maya here.
Highlights: 1:48 - What is an archetype and how can we use it? 6:37 - How do we access the child, the caregiver, or the elder inside us? 8:28 - The innocence of the child. 13:12 - Self-abandonment and being a caregiver to ourselves. 19:14 - The wisdom and giver of zero fucks of the elder archetype.
Miranda Wildman - Everyday Expressive Art Play
As an artist I am exploring the ways in which capitalism is at play in our daily lives, in history and in the future. Within the system of capitalism art and art making has been known in the past to be only for the elite. I am here to continue, as many artists have, to break through that binary. In my work as a creative guide and visual artist I believe that art and art making are for everyone. Using items we might already have in our home, we can create unique pieces of art. And with a little imagination we don't have to spend a lot of money on art supplies or have a huge studio. Making art together can be a way of connecting to each other and connecting back to ourselves and the earth… Let us play!
Miranda Wildman, Artist and Teacher, speaks about Everyday Expressive Art Play. Find out more about her work here.
Highlights: 3:54 - Making art can help us ground ourselves. 8:42 - How can making art help us set the stage for thriving? 14:07 - Art-making can help us in many different ways. 18:22 - When capitalism threatens art-making. 20:31 - Remember to play.
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Christy Farr - Real Talk about Productivity with Unruly Brains
Christy Diane Farr (She/her) is an executive coach for unconventional people. She's a compassionate interrogator, story healer, and custom-solution provider with 14 years of coaching, teaching, and writing experience. Her book"Is Home Your Happy Place? The Unruly Woman's Approach to Space Healing" offers a gentle, real-life compatible way to step back from the chaotic ledge of modern life. Christy loves untangling brains, emotional firefighting, and helping people who love each other understand each other. She is also currently studying herbalism in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she lives a 2023 Golden Girls life with her wife, niece, and elderly mother.
Christy Diane Farr, Executive Coach for unconventional people, speaks about Real Talk About Projects and Productivity. Find out more about her here.
Highlights: 2:19 - What are some of the signs that you need help? 3:33 - We need to pause and recognize what’s not working. 6:58 - Recognizing neurodivergence later in life and how to pick up the pieces. 12:19 - Neurodivergence, small business owners/entrepreneurs, and queerness. 15:13 - What to do if you feel overwhelmed.
Anuradha Kowtha - How I Set the Stage for My Own Thriving
Anuradha is a neurodivergent, queer, Indian diasporic person who currently lives in greater London with their family. Anuradha owns and runs The Kowtha Constellation where we help small business owners build ethical, accessible, and inclusive practices into their systems so they can sustainably grow your bottom line, do your work with more boldness, and improve customer and team retention. When Anuradha's not working, Anuradha loves to write, listening to & telling stories, create art, watch live performance art, and spend time with friends.
Our host, Anuradha Kowtha(Anuradha/they/them), Business Liberation Strategist will be sharing about How I Set the Stage for My Own Thriving.
Highlights: 1:28 - Our priorities and how to get what matters most. 6:30 - How do I go beyond just surviving myself and do what I want to do in the world? 9:55 - What if I don’t have the extra funds to be distributing money? 12:25 - Pivoting business to treat myself more ethically. 17:52 - What is a simple next step to make our lives or businesses more ethical?
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