Black Creative Healing

We're excited to be bringing you the continuation of our conversation with Nsamu Moonga, Zambian Music Therapist, exploring the concept of healing justice. This week we talk about the constructs of work and imagination, and how the two can intersect and impact each other.

To access the interactive transcript for this episode, click here: https://share.descript.com/view/hqeS0pCKnzM

To dive deeper into these concepts, check out our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/blackcreativehealing

If you're a music therapist interested in our continuing education course on this topic, visit our community partner's website: https://blackmtnetwork.org

And for up to the minute updates on events like our upcoming LIVE conversation with Nsamu Moonga and Marisol Norris, visit our website: https://blackcreativehealing.com!

In this episode, Natasha reflects on the book Healing Justice Lineages, by Cara Page and Erica Woodland. She gives a brief overview of the content of the book, how it relates to the Healing Justice Bytes conversations we're having with Nsamu Moonga and other colleagues, and then shares some of what the book is motivating her to do, including the creation of a new playlist and related prompts for your own creative exploration of this topic!

You can purchase the Healing Justice Lineages book here: https://carapage.co/healing-justice-anthology/

Access the interactive Transcript for this episode here: https://share.descript.com/view/iDuXAJ1pRoK

Access the playlist Natasha referenced as part of her process here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Fmqe5HNOVLiHJRPlx3jNL?si=9e18fd2a90864239

View our updated website, with options to join our Patreon or one of our FREE community spaces here: www.blackcreativehealing.com

Welcome to another episode of Black Creative Healing! A space for radical conversation, mindful collaboration, & holistic visioning centering Black Communities.

This week, Adenike & Natasha start a new short series titled "Healing Justice Bytes," featuring conversations with colleagues relating to the construct of Healing Justice in the context of the Music Therapy profession, as well as our world at large. We welcome back Episode 104 guest Nsamu Moonga, who provides a brief assessment of "what's up in the world" in relation to the construct of healing, the concept of "slowing down time," and what the process of embracing that which is "within the reach of every human soul" could bring to our world.

Access the interactive transcript for this episode HERE: https://share.descript.com/view/MC5qAHeC3li

Visit our website for more in depth content relating to this and other episodes, including links to register for our FREE Black Community Spaces, the Continuing Education course mentioned in this episode, or our Subscription-tiered Patreon space! https://www.blackcreativehealing.com 

Welcome welcome welcome to the conclusion of our conversation at the joint conference between the American and Canadian Academies of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry! We're excited to share with you our third episode of February 2023 (and our third in this new experiment of dropping weekly content)!

We began in Part 1 with an arts-based grounding meditation, and last episode (Part 2) you got to hear us process a little bit more of what it means to be creative, even if you don't necessarily consider yourself a creative!

This week we talk through two more arts based experiences, first listening to the amazing retreat soundscape that was created for us by Christian Patterson (@theGentlemanBoss on Instagram). Following that we talk through a movement experience that was conducted for session attendees, with a special sneak peek at a video that will be a subscriber exclusive on our new Patreon, starting at just $5 a month! That video joins a blog post from Adenike and an earlier downloadable version of the arts based grounding from part one of the BCH Live conversation. We're very excited to be sharing even MORE specialized content for folks in the coming days/weeks/months/however long we can sustain it :-) at patreon.com/blackcreativehealing.

Two quick shout-outs this episode to Episode 304 guest Breanna Davis, who is mentioned in this episode, and to Jennifer Hicks, our first Patreon subscriber! We continue to be SO grateful for the support of the creative arts therapy community as we continue to grow and deepen our work.

The Interactive Transcript for this Episode can be accessed here: https://share.descript.com/view/d0TOxNLD9Ex

Stay tuned for the next arts based sharing from Black Creative Healing as we prepare to close out Black History month!

Welcome listeners to part two of our conversation at the joint conference between the American and Canadian Academies of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry! You're getting a new episode every week now from Black Creative Healing, and we're excited to share with you this week, the continuation of our conversation that was started last week with an arts-based grounding meditation.

That arts-based grounding is accessible now via our Patreon, where you can get a downloadable version of that meditation starting at just $5 a month! Along with a blog post from Adenike that's now up, there will be more specialized content coming soon for folks at patreon.com/blackcreativehealing. 

In this week's portion of BCH Live, we break down our tagline and what the words "Black Creative Healing" even mean, as well as what BCH as an organization is trying to do, now that we're growing beyond "just a podcast" into more tangible spaces and active spaces. So you're going to hear a little bit more from the folks in the room with us at the conference that was held, and then in part three, you're going to hear us process a little bit more of what it means to be creative, even if you don't necessarily consider yourself a creative!

Special shout-outs this episode to BCH Season 1 guests Vilissa Thompson & Nsamu Moonga, whose episodes get mentioned in this conversation, as well as the Community Care graphic that was popularized in a Twitter thread that you can access via the link in all our social media bios!

Access the interactive transcript of our conversation here: https://share.descript.com/view/f77ZCzG59bS 

And stay tuned for Part 3 to come next week!

We are beyond excited to share 2023's first episode of the BCH Podcast, which we've titled Black Creative Healing Live!

This episode was recorded at the joint conferences of the American and Canadian Academies of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and will be getting released weekly throughout the month of February.

You can access the interactive transcript for this episode by clicking here: https://share.descript.com/view/kedJqnFP7iJ

Part 1 includes an arts-based grounding meditation, which subscribers to our NEW BCH PATREON (starting at just $5/month!) will able to download as this month's Patron Perk! We look forward to sharing more exclusive content for our Patrons in the very near future. Here's the kind of thing folks there can expect:

So, until our next post, we hope you enjoy the grounding, and we look forward to sharing more with you very soon!!

In this episode we continue the recap of the June 2022 BCH Retreat. Shout out to kei slaughter (@keislaughter on Insta,@kei_slaughter on Twitter), Zelda Lockhart (@zelda.lockhart on Insta, @zeldalockhart on Twitter), and Hakeem Leonard (@musicallman across platforms), our retreat team for joining us for this conversation, and to Ben Great (@bengreat513 across platforms) for the remastering of our theme song!

This time, we go deeper into each retreat session, and share about our experiences with the amazing facilitators we had working with us! We close with what we will carry with us from this time together and what we hope to build in the future. If you've ever been curious about the nitty gritties of planning a retreat, or are looking for Black Creatives to work with and learn from, this little series is for you!

To follow and learn more about/from our amazing retreat facilitators, check out their Instagram handles below!

@itsjianjones

@zelda.lockhart

@wendimooreoneal

@keislaughter

@musicallman

@thegentlemanboss

@therealjoebaileyjr

Access the Transcript for this episode here! https://share.descript.com/view/943mDzfgIeH

In this episode we do a recap of the June 2022 BCH Retreat as part of documenting our process, both just for our own reflection and processing, as well as to help paint a general picture of what the retreat was, and the space that is still being held for our Black Community going forward! Shout out to kei slaughter, Zelda Lockhart, and Hakeem Leonard, our retreat team for joining us for this conversation, and to Ben Great for the remastering of our themesong! 

Stay tuned for part 2, where we go deeper into each retreat session, and share a little more about the amazing facilitators we had working with us! If you've ever been curious about the nitty gritties of planning a retreat, or are looking for Black Creatives to work with and learn from, this little series is for you!

Access a transcript of this episode HERE: https://share.descript.com/view/K06A8I0UXKT

Natasha & Adenike sit down with BCH Students Kalysta Bryant and Breanah Williams to reflect on a previously recorded conversation with our Retreat Planning Team members: kei slaughter, Zelda Lockhart and Hakeem Leonard. We share the Date for the retreat (June 3-5, 2022!) as well as other details around our process and progress.

Past Collaborators have already been invited to see inside the Sutra Space that we discuss here, but coming soon our general Black Community will also have an opportunity to see inside the space we’ll be using for our retreat, thanks to grant funds from the Pollination Project!

Ultimately our purpose with this episode is to provide insight into our progress and process, particularly the setting of intentions and the sacredness with which we are holding the space. These are elements we believe are valuable for anyone interested in cultivating care centered spaces!

Link to the interactive transcript for this episode: https://share.descript.com/view/3KrWpIPfkWR

Link to the NEW BCH Website: https://www.blackcreativehealing.com

Link to the BCH Retreat Registration: COMING SOON! Stay tuned to our Socials & the Website for more information!

Follow us on Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/BlackCreativeHG

Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackcreativehealing/

Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blackcreativehealing/