Sidewalk Talk

Listening and Cultural Repair with Lana Jelenev

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Listening and Cultural Repair

Lana Jelenjev is a community alchemist and cultural repair expert who is aware of the importance of creating courageous spaces for deep human connection. Lana shares her journey from the Philippines to the Netherlands and how her cultural background shapes her work. They discuss neurodiversity, cultural wounds, and the concepts of salutogenesis and post-traumatic growth. Lana highlights the need for recognizing and celebrating our strengths, as well as the importance of understanding our historical and familial contexts.

Episode Timeline

00:00 Introduction to Sidewalk Talk

01:07 Meet Lana Gelinjev

01:50 The Importance of Regulated Nervous Systems

02:35 Lana's Journey and Achievements

05:38 Creating Brave Spaces for Cultural Repair

18:22 Understanding Cultural and Family Histories

23:52 Navigating Cultural Guilt and Pride

28:47 Discovering Ancestral Roots

29:45 Embracing Ancestral Strengths

30:26 Salutogenic Approach to Healing

34:07 Positive Experiences and Wellness

43:05 Redefining Power and Anger

48:17 Celebrating Wholeness and Identity

51:06 Final Reflections and Gratitude

Resources Mentioned

Lana’s Substack (Substack)

Lana’s Personal Website (Website)

Neurodiversity Academy (Website)

Refugia (Website)

Standout Quotes
  • It really got me thinking of how much of our history and our culture has so many wounds [and so many] identities attached to it that we often neglect.  (Lana)
  • We often think of personal development as individual. And yet, you know, what we bring in as humans, as individuals, is very much cultural.  So how can we also peel into these layers and understand what needs to be healed and what needs to be expressed and what needs to be acknowledged? And for that to happen, we need to be open to sharing all this and being in these conversations in the first place, which, I can imagine for a lot of people, can be really triggering. (Lana)
  • For me, one of the things that I go back to is my own regulated state, I often refer to as yes, hurt people, hurt people, and settled bodies, settled bodies. So for me going into this type of conversation, I need to take agency in terms of how am I showing up? (Lana)
  •  What is our lens around productivity?  For me I can say for us Filipinos, our lens around productivity has been so tied up with our colonial history.  Being told countless times as Filipinos that we were lazy, and we were branded by the Spaniards as lazy, and there were stories created about Filipinos being lazy. (Lana)
  • …we've had so many founders, um, talk to us about, Ooh, it's so difficult to show up and be visible because, you know, I don't think I'm worthy or I don't feel that I'm enough. So this concept around being enough, is something to unpack, you know, like where did this start and how did this start and how far can you trace it back? (Lana)
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