Anyka Barber is founder, director and curator of Betti Ono gallery in Oakland, California.

We reached out to Anyka in response to Betti Ono's fundraiser to power arts, culture, and community resilience. Contribute at https://bettiono.com/donate/.

Betti Ono is an experimentally minded space for art + culture + community. They are 100% Black women led and operated, dedicated to amplifying the work and voices of under-represented artists. Their vision and creative practice embody the bold, curious and unapologetic spirit of the gallery's name-sakes Betti Mabry Davis and Yoko Ono. At Betti Ono, making art is a function of activism, community transformation, and cultural resilience.

Bio:

Born and raised in Oakland, California Anyka Barber is a mother, an artist/activist, curator and entrepreneur. In 2010 Anyka founded Betti Ono, a creative social enterprise and center for arts, culture, and community committed to the cultural, social, political and economic emancipation and development of low-income, immigrant, and LGBTQ communities of color. In her role as director and curator of Betti Ono, she has curated and produced more than 60 exhibitions and public programs, as well as designed and integrated art, enterprise and social impact strategy to leverage creative capital, cultural products, and networks for good. She was most recently Director of Engagement and the Center for Audience and Civic Engagement at the Oakland Museum leading the museum’s signature education and public programs teams. She was Program Officer and Fellow at The San Francisco Foundation working with the Anchoring Communities/Place team to activate more than $10M in investments to preserve the racial and cultural identity of the Bay Area, prevent the displacement of low-income and communities of color and bring greater racial and economic equity to the region.

In this episode we interview Joshua Fields about Consciousness Hacking's upcoming conference: Awakened Futures Summit, May 18-19 2019 in San Francisco.

Joshua is a graduate student in Philosophy and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and in a previous life, an Oxford economist, Morgan Stanley analyst and Scottish amateur boxer. After a series of transformational personal events, he turned his focus away from finance and has since dedicated his life to understanding the ideas and techniques that lead to human flourishing.

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This episode is with Robin Gunkel, Bloom Baltimore organizer, poet, and academic advisor. We talk about her experience this past summer with a training and retreat organized by CoRenewal, called the New Moon Mycology Summit. Robin also shares about this year's Mushroom City Art Festival and a bioremediation project that she and fellow organizers are doing in Johnston Square in Baltimore.

This quote sums up the vibe of the interview:

"I'm seeing regenerative culture as part of grandmother culture.... seeing an interconnected thread and seeing how the work we're doing is intergenerational. That we're processing trauma that has been passed down to us, and we're also building a world for future generations. Recognizing the larger mycelial tapestry that we occupy together."

I hope you enjoy this beautiful mesh of an interview.

If you would like to support Robin and the civic mushroom festival she organizes, Mushroom City Art Festival, please make a donation at http://mushroomcityartfestival.org/ - the donation link is in the footer at the bottom right.

Here are links to projects Robin refers to:

Do any of you know of a resource online for learning about mycroremediation and oil spills? We'd love to include information on this in the Bloom wiki that will go live in January. Here is one article that gives more details if you would like to nerd out about it.

Mush love,

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This episode is with Daniel Christian Wahl, author of Designing Regenerative Cultures. Daniel lives on Majorca, and works locally and internationally as a consultant, educator and activist.

In this episode we discuss:

++ tips for getting started with contributing to regenerative culture where you live

Bio: Daniel Christian Wahl was born in Munich in 1971 and grew up in Germany. By the time he was 28 he had travelled in 35 different countries on six continents. His early career was as a marine biologist and scuba diving instructor, before he decided to focus on sustainability and sustainable communities in 1998. Originally trained as a biologist and zoologist at the University of Edinburgh and the University of California, Santa Cruz, Daniel also holds an MSc in Holistic Science (Schumacher College, 2002) and a PhD in Natural Design (University of Dundee, 2006).

Daniel has taught capacity building workshops on a wide range of sustainability issues to local authorities and businesses through the UN-affiliated training centre CIFAL Scotland. Among his consultancy clients have been the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR), the British Government’s UK Foresight (with Decision Integrity Ltd.), LEAD International, CLEAR Village, and companies like Camper, Ecover (with Forum for the Future), Lush and the tourism innovation cluster Balears, as well as various universities and charities.

In 2016 he published his first book, Designing Regenerative Cultures. Daniel lives on Majorca, and works locally and internationally as a consultant, educator and activist.

Keep up to date with Daniel's work on Medium - https://medium.com/@designforsustainability

His book can be ordered at https://www.triarchypress.net/drc.html

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Bloom Podcast cover illustration by Jessica Perlstein

About the Bloom Podcast:

Our intention for the Bloom Podcast is for it to become a networking and community building vessel. Tune in to what guests share, and if you're inspired to to get involved with related activities, seek them out where you live. Getting involved in regenerative actions is a way to keep your spirits up and to secure health for your community as the extractive systems start to wind themselves down. I'm here if you have questions, and the Bloom team is in the process of setting up communication systems so the global network can more easily share peer support and networking.

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Bio:

Kim Haxton is a multifaceted, multidimensional educator, rooted in knowledge and steeped in community. She is Potowatami from Wasauksing, currently based in Vancouver BC. She has worked across Turtle Island and abroad in various capacities, always emphasizing local leadership development toward genuine healing. In her work with Indigeneyez, a creative arts based organization she co-founded, Kim works with Indigenous communities toward decolonization and liberation. Grounded in the arts and the natural world for embodied awareness and facilitated rites of passage, Kim develops de-escalation skills and diversity and anti-oppression education. Kim currently leads Peace and Conflict Resolution programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, cultivating local leadership in Congolese women who have been affected by civil war, poverty and sexual violence. Kim has developed and facilitated programs in over 8 countries, and has been working in land-based education and leadership for the past 20 years. She also free lances with different organizations doing environmental leadership, decolonization and reflection of the patterns that stop us from being authentic leaders. Kim offers consultation, healing ceremony, Group Facilitation and Leadership Development trainings world-wide.

Indigenize: http://indigeneyez.com

The video Kim mentions early on in the interview can be found here:

In this interview, we touch on:

Music Credits:

Bloom Podcast cover illustration by Jessica Perlstein

About the Bloom Podcast:

Our intention for the Bloom Podcast is for it to become a networking and community building vessel. Tune in to what guests share, and if you're inspired to to get involved with related activities, seek them out where you live. Getting involved in regenerative actions is a way to keep your spirits up and to secure health for your community as the extractive systems start to wind themselves down. I'm here if you have questions, and the Bloom team is in the process of setting up communication systems so the global network can more easily share peer support and networking.

If there’s a topic you want us to cover or someone you’d like to hear on the show, please get in touch. If you’d like to support this podcast, you can donate at http://bloomnetwork.org/members

-Magenta Ceiba,

For more show notes visit http://www.bloomnetwork.org/bloompodcast/disrupting-the-mainstream-narrative-of-leadership-with-kim-haxton