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Practicing Freedom as Strategy | Shawna Wakefield
School of Radical Imagination Podcast by School of Radical Imagination
S1 · E12
Sep 10, 2026
35:50
Episode notes

What if freedom isn't something we have to achieve—but something we can practice?

In this conversation, social justice and embodiment facilitator Shawna Wakefield invites us to rethink what freedom feels like—not just intellectually or politically, but in our bodies, relationships, communities, and everyday choices.

Drawing on nearly 30 years of work across movement building, international development, philanthropy, community organizing, and education, Shawna shares what she has learned about the relationship between inner transformation and systems change. We explore why humility and courage need each other, how our smallest ways of relating can reproduce—or disrupt—the systems we're trying to change, and what becomes possible when we orient ourselves toward what we're for, rather than only  ...