In this first of two episodes exploring Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and healing:

Christopher Sonn and Ramy Barhouche engage in a deep dialogue with guests Karen Jackson (KJ), Puleng Segalo, Bangishimo, and Amy Smoke exploring Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and healing in a conversation touching on historical trauma, colonization, and the importance of cultural revitalization, sovereignty and emphasizing community-based healing

This episode challenges individualistic approaches while underscoring the power of ceremony, storytelling, and cultural practices as resistance and the guests’ insights inspire solidarity for justice, recognition, and self-determination for Indigneous people globally in a dialogue showcasing Indigenous strength in reclaiming culture and identity and urging support for just and inclusive societies driven by understanding and action.

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Welcome to our inaugural episode of Indaba. This podcast is a project of collective global love
built with our global network of scholars, activists, community practitioners, and friends rooted
in a Critical Community Psychology, and a shared goal of furthering our capacity to engage in
critical, decolonial and action-oriented research and practice in our everyday work and life.

As a co-imagined podcast there are a number of hosts and collaborators that you will hear from
through the season, and we offer this episode as our introduction to you. With partners in
Australia Chris Sonn, Roshani Jayawardana, Rama Agung-Igusti, and Sam Keast, in Canada,
Natalie Kivell, Ramy Barhouche, Marika Handfield, and Elizabeth Brunet, in Chile, Marianne
Daher, Antonia Rosati, and Maria Jose Campero, in South Africa Garth Stevens, and Rejane
Williams, and in Indonesia Monica Madyaningrum.

In this first episode, you’ll find a number of us in a park in Naples Italy at the International
Conference for Community Psychology, a moment and dialogue that we couldn’t help but
smile, laugh, and selfie our way through as we found ourselves for the first time in the same
timezone. In this ‘get to know us’ episode we invite you into our collective of resistance,
learning, and connection. We begin with Chris and Garth taking us through our podcast name:
Why ‘Indaba’ and then you’ll hear from many of us about how we see this project and podcast
taking shape, and finally we each introduce ourselves to you as listeners and transcript readers.
Consider this episode a roadmap – to who we are, of what you can expect, and with different
pathways into and through this season.

After this episode we present five pairs of episodes, each pair exploring a particular context of everyday praxis, beginning with a contextually grounded storytelling episode drawing on the experiences of our guests, and followed by a critical reflection dialogue with members of our global collective drawing insights into the local contexts of South Africa, Indonesia, Chile, Australia, Palestine, and Canada. Over this season you’ll hear from many of us as hosts, and sometimes as guests as the topics, contexts, and regions, shift through our episodes.

Hosts/Guests:
Natalie Kivell, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Ramy Barhouche, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Chris Sonn, Victoria University, Australia
Roshani Jayawardana, Victoria University, Australia
Rama Agung-Igusti, Victoria University, Australia
Sam Keast, Victoria University, Australia
Marika Handfield, University du Quebec A Montreal, Canada
Elizabeth Brunet, University du Quebec A Montreal, Canada
Marianne Daher, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Antonia Rosati, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Maria Jose Campero, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Garth Stevens, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Rejane Williams, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Monica Madyaningrum, Sanata Dharma University, Indonesia