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The Adaptagen Podcast

The Adaptagen Podcast

di Nadia Chaney

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037 Rhys Thorvald Hansen

Rhys-Thorvald Hansen (they/them) is a queer folk artist and facilitator of Welsh and Norwegian descent living on the coast of the Salish Sea in the US exclave of Point Roberts, Washington. Raised and rooted in rural communities, Rhys brings a queer ecological lens to both their creative practice and community work. You can find their multimedia fiber art on instagram @rhys.earth, and connect with them about their facilitation work at www.parallax49.com. I am so excited to share this podcast with the esteemed and inimitable Rhys~! We are new friends, though I think we have been circling each other for some time. As an artist and a creative facilitator Rhys is formidable: deep, intellectual, creative, subtle and magical. They work primarily in food systems sovereignty but also beyond and have started a wonderful integrated arts space in their home town. I find all their efforts quite inspiring and I imagine you will, too.

036 Elioa Steffen

I’m excited to bring you this podcast with one of my dearest friends and collaborators, Elioa Steffen. Elioa was an essential part of the Time Zone Research Lab, but our friendship goes back many years before that all the way to the early days of facilitating Power of Hope youth camps. At the Time Zone Elioa’s nickname was the obsidian blade because she is so sharply insightful. You will hear that sharp intelligence shining through this interview, balanced with a truly heart-felt sense of inclusion and a tender and poignant personal experience. In this podcast she is talking about a book she co-authored called A Queer Feedback Handbook, Experiments in Otherwise Arts Education. It really is a handbook, full of useful frames and activities. To learn more about her work, or to buy the handbook, visit https://www.elisteffen.com. Elioa Steffen (She/They, USA/NL) is an artist and researcher working in the fields of performance, writing, and social practice. Her work focuses on the intersection of communal narratives, cultural norms, and systemic violence. In 2021, Elioa co-founded In Pursuit of Otherwise Possibilities, Queer Performance Pedagogy and Feedback (IPOP) an educational, artistic research platform exploring pedagogical strategies for supporting queer artists. She is also an Associate Researcher at ATD Lectorate and works in several collaborative constellations exploring trans-feminine voice in religious ecstasy and the pedagogical possibilities of madness. Elioa’s performances commissioned and produced by The Warp, DOOResidency, (Amsterdam) Gay City, On the Boards, Studio Current, (Seattle), Risk/Reward (Portland), Dixon Place (New York), and Vashon Center for the Arts (Vashon Island) among others. For more www.elisteffen.com

035 Jace Malz

I found this podcast with the brilliant Jace Malz very moving. Over the course of the Adaptagen interviews I’ve certainly learned that “outsider” is a common theme amongst facilitators, and maybe even a super power. This is true in Jace’s story, but it is also a story of self-respect, reclamation and an authentic rebounding of the spirit that is truly inspiring. Jace is the founder of Inbo, a powerful creative learning lab. He runs an advanced facilitator training called “Holding Space” and an open group coaching series called “Misfits.” To learn more visit Inbo at https://www.inbo.ca.

034 Arindita Gogoi

Arin and I have been circling each other for many years, all the way back to the PYE Third Thursday Assemblies if you happen to recall those! We had a lovely first in person encounter at Madhu Shukla's storytelling event in 2018. But it was only in connecting preparing for this podcast that I realized what truly kindred spirits we are! A true facilitation geek; who flowed into her career one lily pad at a time; an artist and a lover of complexity and depth... this is one of the longest podcasts and to be honest it coukd have been three times as long! As you'll hear, Arindita has made some very important innovations in education, experiential ed and community arts. I learned a ton from this podcast, and Im sure you will, too.

033 Kavya Yoganathan: Storytelling as Facilitation Superpower

Kavya's Bio Kavya is a media artist and activist with a background in journalism, documentary film, and a BA in Gender and Women's Studies. She is the Founder of Agitate Productions, a media arts collective that focuses on community youth engagement and activism by creating space for stories told through art. She has worked on a variety of projects centered around community engagement and activism the latest of which has been as an artist facilitator for a community mural project with Art Not Shame and director for the Moving Histories documentary project about stories from her neighbourhood of West Willow Woods in Guelph. She was also a digital storytelling facilitator with the Re•Vision Center for Art and Social Justice at the University of Guelph. She began the Leaders of Today (LOT) program because of her fundamental belief that young people have meaningful stories to share and the capacity to create change through those stories. Growing up as an immigrant child at 85 Willow Road in Guelph she was raised by her community. They taught her what community responsibility was and that she always had the capacity to create change for and in her community. She hopes through the LOT program to offer this same sense of community to the young people in our city today and support them in sharing their stories and helping them to create the change they wish to see in their world. Note from Nadia Kavya Yogananthan is one of the most inspiring youth facilitators I know. I’ve been hearingabout her work with Leaders of Today since we started facilitating together in 2021, and I havebeen absolutely blown away by her ability to create vibrant, intense, deep and joyous spaces foryoung people to express themselves through the arts. Kavya and I run a yearly programtogether for Art Not Shame, called Rest and Resilience, and it’s there that I’ve experienced hergenerous, hilarious and gentle style of facilitation. In this podcast you’ll hear her story, and herincredible storytelling ability, draw all the threads together that led to the inspiration for Leadersof Today.She is currently recording a series of videos for Toolsi that will articulate the methodology forLeaders of Today, for the very first time. I know you’ll find this podcast as riveting and inspiringas I did! The Adaptagen Podcast is part of the Toolsi facilitation training platform hosted by Nadia Chaney. Go tohttps://facilitate.toolsi.ca

032 Jonathon Reed: Facilitating Complexity in Youth Work

Jonathon (BA, BEd, MEd) sustains NGM’s reputation for reliable and high-quality program delivery within the field of gender justice, and contributes to NGM’s expertise on boys and masculinity through ongoing research, knowledge translation, and advocacy. He started out as a teacher before realizing that he was uniquely passionate about supporting boys’ well-being and challenging gender-based violence. In 2017, Jake, Jermal and Jason helped him launch the Breaking the Boy Code podcast—now part of the NGM Podcast Network—and a year later, hired him to take the lead on NGM’s youth programming. The rest, as they say, is history. Jonathon also loves adventure sports and is currently most excited about leading Next Gen Men’s Rite of Passage Expeditions Project, taking masculine-identifying youth on wilderness-based transformative journeys through the waterways of Ontario and the Rocky Mountains. Contact: jonathon@nextgenmen.ca Note from Nadia for Johnathon Reed This podcast with Johnathon is intelligent, insightful and vulnerable. Johnathon’s brilliant and innovative youth work comes from “I know how that felt.” A career built on empathy and a poignant insight into the shadows of gender relations. I’ve mostly known Johnathon in the context of his attendance at trainings I’m running, and I have consistently been blown away by how much I learn from him. Johnathon has a gift for seeing beyond the surface of things (tools, methods, conversations) to the heart of meaning and truly inspired application. With Next Gen Men Johnathon is part of a trailblazing effort to create facilitated online youth communities (discord, podcast, and more) where young people can both be themselves and be inspired to reach beyond the toxicities of online communication. This podcast is generously narrative and full of very practical tips about youth work. For example, how do you create entry points for teenage boys to want to talk masculinity? It’s brilliant, it’s touching and Johnathon talks with the rhythm of a poet. I know you’ll enjoy this one. The Adaptagen Podcast is part of the Toolsi facilitation training platform hosted by Nadia Chaney. Go to https://facilitate.toolsi.ca

031 Dona Nham

BIO: Dona is a multidisciplinary facilitator, community organiser, spoken word artist, and cultural worker. Her practice and methodologies are inspired by regenerative patterns within nature, stories of resilience and diaspora, and the expansive and evolving work of what it means to decolonise, to heal, to love, and to seek truth, even in the darkest of places. You can learn more at her website www.donanham.com NOTE FROM NADIA: Dona Nham is one of my dearest friends. She is an exemplary community facilitator and in theearly days of our friendship, about ten years ago, she inspired me deeply with her work withSisters-in-Motion, a women’s arts collective in Montreal that she co-founded with Malek Yaloui.Her work is co-arising and co-informed by her active and dedicated gardening practice, herdeep understanding of permaculture and her unfailing focus on justice and equity in communitywork. As an artist she is experimental and generous; in this podcast she will talk about her latestand longest work, a story collecting project about her own ancestors.

030 Rehana Tejpar II: Soul and Intuition in Leadership Coaching

Rehana Tejpar, M.ED is a facilitator, leadership coach, mediator & movement artist, supporting leaders and organizations seeking to deepen in connection with their authentic leadership, wholeness, vision and intuition in a holistic way. She brings over 15 years of experience midwifing transformative journeys with individuals and organizations, in their evolutionary movements, and is a founder at Bloom Consulting, strengthening the creative and collaborative brilliance of leaders and teams to move forward wisely and inclusively, together. She is a practitioner of Transformative Coaching, InterPlay, Mindfulness, Authentic Movement, Theatre of the Oppressed, Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter, Sacred Clowning & Dialogue for Peaceful Change. She lives in Montreal with her daughter and husband and collectively stewards land with a collective of humans who are learning how to rewild and heal with nature in Ontario, Canada. A Note from Nadia: Rehana Tejpar is a dear friend, and the co-founder and leader of Bloom. Her way of workingcomes from a deeply spiritual and community-minded approach not only to work, but to her whole life. Her personal practices are rigorous and constantly deepening. She carries her bigcommunity and family responsibilities with a dancer’s grace and a childlike sweetness, but alsowith the edge and sharpness of a visionary change-maker (and she’s trained as a clown, sothere’s often a surreal edge lurking beneath!). Rehana has made my life easier and lighter in somany ways, I’m endlessly grateful for her example and her friendship

029 Claudia Pineda

Claudia Pineda Reyes is a Mexican, queer, and neurodivergent social artist based in Washington, U.S. She has been practicing facilitation for 15 years across a variety of settings with the thematic purpose of advancing healing and liberation. Her family immigrated from Michoacan, Mexico to Chicago, Illinois where Claudia was born and raised. She is a Master in Social Work practitioner and has been trained as a facilitator in restorative justice Community Group Conferencing, the Creative Empowerment Model, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and in leading trainings about social equity. For 8 years, as a direct service practitioner, she provided counseling services for youth and families with a focus on working with people from the global majority, including people who have immigrated to the United States. For 7 years, Claudia has been working with the local government where she is designing and managing a program that works with community organizations to influence government practices and policies. Summary Claudia Pineda Reyes has a gift for working with complexity, discomfort and conflict in group process. In this podcast she shares intimately how she developed these capacities as well as a number of concrete tools and techniques that can be used by facilitators. She asks and answers the question, how do you bring the elephant in the room into the light, and what do you do with it once it is there?

028 Melanie Schambach

BIO: Melanie is a Latinx social artist, community-based creator, artivist, and arts facilitation trainer. Her work aims to reflect concepts of humanism, sociology, and identity through participatory visual arts methods. She has been orchestrating social art projects for two decades cross-pollinating sectors, ages, and cultures. She believes innovative methods of connecting people, radical collaborating, and courageous processes that uplift the spirit through integration are some ways to contribute to co-create hopeful futures. NOTE FROM NADIA In this podcast with my dear friend Melanie Schambach you will learn about her incredible technique for large scale group paintings and murals, her unique approach to community arts and her important investigations into questions of integrity in community facilitstion, especially when it comes to questions of money, value and exchange. Melanie is a gentle tsunami. It has been my pleasure to cofacilitate with her a number of times, including three rounds of the 15 day Heart of Facilitation training. She's a master and a true gift to this field and I'm so excited to share some of her wisdom through this podcast with you.

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