How do we build sustainable, just economies? This is a question that seems to call for big, systemic solutions. But those can feel out of reach and beyond our scale to affect. The activist and educator Jane Paul says that there is another option: while fighting for larger change, we can build small-scale solutions in our communities. From worker-owned cooperatives to land trusts and mutual aid societies, we can start building a more equitable economy right where we are, and right now. 

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Visit Antioch’s website to learn more about the Undergraduate Studies program at our Los Angeles campus that Jane teaches in. Learn more about Jane’s work at this link.

Links mentioned in the interview: LA Co-op Lab, Los Angeles Eco-Village, Cooperation Jackson, Hope in the Dark, and Beautiful Solutions.

This episode was recorded October 27, 2022 via Riverside.fm and released December 1, 2022. 

The Seed Field Podcast is produced by Antioch University

Host: Jasper Nighthawk

Editor: Johanna Case

Digital Design: Mira Mead

Web Content Coordination: Jen Mont

Work-Study Intern: Sierra-Nicole E. DeBinion

A special thanks to Karen Hamilton, Amelia Bryan, and Melinda Garland

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So many of us seek to meaningfully improve our communities and world—but it’s not always clear how we can combine that work with our careers. Seeking answers, we talked to three Antioch alumni who have grappled with this question in their own lives and work. Deb Moy is empowering transit workers in the Bay Area. Max Golding founded a tenant union in Santa Barbara. Isaias Narvaez connects you with resources in Los Angeles. In this conversation, they offer insights and an inspiring look at how three people have made activism an important part of their work.

Visit Antioch’s website to learn more about the MA in Clinical Psychology program at our Los Angeles campus that Isaias attended, the MA in Clinical Psychology program at our Santa Barbara campus that Max attended, and the online Doctor of Education program in which Deb is currently studying.

To learn more about Deb’s work in transit activism and watch videos that she produced, visit California Transit Works. Here is the link to the Santa Barbara Tenants’ Union that Max helped found. 

The Seed Field Podcast is produced by Antioch University

Host: Jasper Nighthawk

Editor: Johanna Case

Digital Design: Mira Mead

Web Content Coordination: Jen Mont

Work-Study Intern: Sierra-Nicole E. DeBinion

Recording Help: Lauren Instenes

A special thanks to Karen Hamilton, Amelia Bryan, and Melinda Garland

This episode was recorded July 7, July 9, and July 13, 2022 via Riverside.fm and released November 11, 2022. 

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It’s vital that communities support LGBTQ youth—but for clinical psychologists seeking to provide affirming care, this treatment can be a minefield. Especially in cases when there is not parental support, how do therapists and psychologists provide necessary care for their LGBTQ clients? To answer these questions, guest host Gina Pasquale sits down with Dr. Tenika Jackson, the new chair of the MA in Clinical Psychology programs at Antioch Los Angeles. Tenika has years of experience working with LGBTQ youth and their families, and in this episode she shares her insights into how best to go about this work in our current political climate.

Visit Antioch University’s website to learn more about the Traditional MA in Clinical Psychology at Antioch Los Angeles, the Low-Residency MA in Clinical Psychology based at Antioch Los Angeles, and the PsyD in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England.

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This episode was recorded September 2, 2022 via Riverside.fm and released October 26, 2022. 

The Seed Field Podcast is produced by Antioch University.

Guest Host: Gina Pasquale. 

Host: Jasper Nighthawk. 

Editors: Lauren Instenes and Johanna Case. 

Digital Design: Mira Mead. 

Web Content Coordination: Jen Mont. 

Work-Study Intern: Sierra-Nicole E. DeBinion

A special thanks to Karen Hamilton and Melinda Garland.

Guest Bio:

Dr. Tenika Jackson is the chair of the traditional and low-residency MA in Clinical Psychology programs at Antioch Los Angeles, where she also directs the specialization in LGBT-Affirmative Psychology. She has years of experience as a clinical psychologist, counseling LGBTQIA+ youth and their families. She holds a PsyD from the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University with a Multicultural Community Proficiency.

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Living a healthy life is more than just eating the “right” foods and doing the “right” exercises, especially because these things may look different depending on your culture. Health Psychology is a way of looking at wellness in a whole new way that involves fulfilling the needs of both the mind and body. The faculty coordinator for Antioch’s BA Health Counseling and Psychology, Lynn Dhanak, joins us for a conversation about how understanding health psychology and focusing on strength-based approaches could have a profound impact on how we view wellness in our society.

To learn more about the BA in Health Counseling & Psychology that Lynn teaches in visit our website antioch.edu.

This episode was recorded August 31, 2022 via Riverside.fm and released October 12, 2022. 

The Seed Field Podcast is produced by Antioch University.

The Seed Field Podcast’s host is Jasper Nighthawk, and its editor is Lauren Instenes. Special thanks for this episode goes to Sierra Nicole DeBinion, Karen Hamilton and Melinda Garland for their contributions.

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Addiction is widespread in our society, yet there is still so much stigma about the disease and treatment. How can we destigmatize addiction and best treat it as individuals, mental health professionals, and as a society? What is addiction, and how are mental health professionals working to treat it? How are therapists serving their clients, and what are they hopeful about in the field of addiction treatments? Join us in a conversation with mental health professionals, Misty Grant and Wendy Harris, to discuss how they are trying to address these questions in their practice and teaching. 

To learn more about the  Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program at Antioch New England that Misty teaches in, and the Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology at Antioch Los Angeles visit our website.

This episode was recorded August 4, 2022 via Riverside.fm and released September 28th, 2022. 

The Seed Field Podcast is produced by Antioch University.

The Seed Field Podcast’s host is Jasper Nighthawk, and its editor is Lauren Instenes. Special thanks for this episode goes to Sierra Nicole DeBinion, Karen Hamilton and Melinda Garland for their contributions.

To access a full transcript and find more information about this and other episodes, visit theseedfield.org. To get updates and be notified about future episodes, follow Antioch University on Facebook.

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When we experience trauma, it affects our minds and bodies in ways we may not even be aware of. Somatic therapy is a way for us to begin to understand the ways in which our bodies react to traumatic events so that we can process, heal, and move forward. This week’s guest Rachele Moskowitz specializes in this form of therapy and in this conversation she urges listeners to think about trauma and healing as a full body experience. 

To learn more about the concentration in Somatic Therapy in the Masters of Art in Clinical Psychology at Antioch Santa Barbara here.

This episode was recorded July 28, 2022 via Riverside.fm and released September 14th, 2022. 

The Seed Field Podcast is produced by Antioch University.

The Seed Field Podcast’s host is Jasper Nighthawk, and its editor is Lauren Instenes. Special thanks for this episode goes to Sierra Nicole DeBinion, Karen Hamilton and Melinda Garland for their contributions.

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This is the first episode of Season Four of the Seed Field Podcast! To start a great season, we are bringing you a very special conversation with two leaders in higher education: Antioch University’s Chancellor Bill Groves and the President of Otterbein University, John Comerford. A little over a month ago, a plan was announced for the two universities to affiliate with each other, to build a new private, nonprofit university system. In this interview, listeners can learn about both our universities’ histories and their new path forward directly from the two leaders most responsible for making this happen. We also delve into the plans to expand this system beyond these two founding schools, fulfilling this vision that has been boiled down to the phrase: collaboration, not competition. Here’s to the new shared chapter between these two venerable institutions!

To learn more about this affiliation visit antioch.edu/system. 

This episode was recorded August 16, 2022 via Riverside.fm and released August 31, 2022. 

The Seed Field Podcast is produced by Antioch University.

The Seed Field Podcast’s host is Jasper Nighthawk, and its editor is Lauren Instenes. Special thanks for this episode goes to Sierra Nicole DeBinion, Karen Hamilton and Melinda Garland for their contributions.

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We’re getting ready to launch Season Four of the Seed Field Podcast and we’re putting together two mini-episodes that revisit interviews from Season Three and pull out the themes that consistently run through them. 

If there's hope in anything, there is hope in children as educators. As our school systems focus on producing certain test scores, checking boxes, and sometimes treating students as products rather than people, we have education experts like the three guests from this mini series on “literacy” who challenge teachers to take an individualized approach, to meet students where they are, and encourage their curiosity. In this episode we share clips from interviews with Heather Hebard, Laura Thomas, and Gopal Krishnamurthy to revisit their suggestions on redefining what we think of as literacy, supporting social-emotional learning, and encouraging scientific exploration.

The episodes mentioned in this recap are: 

• Expanding Our Definition of Literacy is Necessary for Justice with Heather Hebard
• To Grow Emotional Literacy, a Classroom Must Become a Community with Laura Thomas
• Developing Math and Science Literacy Means Moving Beyond the “Right” Answer with Gopal Krishnamurthy

This episode was recorded August 18, 2022 via Riverside.fm and released August 30, 2022. 

The Seed Field Podcast is produced by Antioch University.

The Seed Field Podcast’s host is Jasper Nighthawk, and its editor is Lauren Instenes. Special thanks for this episode goes to Sierra-Nicole E. DeBinion, Karen Hamilton and Melinda Garland for their contributions.

To access a full transcript and find more information about this and other episodes, visit theseedfield.org. To get updates and be notified about future episodes, follow Antioch University on Facebook.

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We’re getting ready to launch Season Four of the Seed Field Podcast and to cap off a great season, we’re putting together two mini-episodes that revisit interviews from this season and pull out the themes that consistently run through them.

When discussing sexuality, sex therapy, and sex education there is the only thing we can count on- variation. When we allow individuals to know that variation is the only “normative” part of sexuality, then we get to live with less shame and more joy. In this bonus mini-episode, we revisit interviews with Dr. Markie LC Twist, Dr. Theodore Burns, and Fiona O’Farrel. Recapping these interviews, this is a conversation that emphasizes consent, destigmatizing sex therapy for adults, the harm of “abstinence-only education”, erotophobia in mental health treatment, and treating ourselves and others in our communities in a compassionate and socially just way.

The episodes mentioned in this recap are: 

• Beyond ‘The Talk’—Supporting Young People As They Explore Sexuality and Gender with Dr. Markie L.C. Twist
• In Place of Fear and Shame, We Need Sex-Positive Education with Dr. Theodore Burnes
• The Tools of Sex Therapy Can Nurture Healthier Relationships with Fiona O’Farrell

This episode was recorded August 18, 2022 via Riverside.fm and released August 30, 2022. 

The Seed Field Podcast is produced by Antioch University.

The Seed Field Podcast’s host is Jasper Nighthawk, and its editor is Lauren Instenes. Special thanks for this episode goes to Sierra Nicole Debinion, Karen Hamilton and Melinda Garland for their contributions.

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When using the “Scientific Method,” we ask questions, observe the world, and interpret what we find. Sometimes this leads us to change our initial ideas—but no matter what, we lead with curiosity. So why is it that science education today so often focuses on memorizing facts and solving tidy problems with right and wrong answers? In this interview with Dr. Gopal Krishnamurthy we ask these questions. Topics covered include foul-smelling childhood experiments, an engagement with non-standard mathematical notation, and the ways that today, “despite the best efforts of our teachers, learning is critically endangered.”

Visit Antioch’s website to learn more about the MS in Environmental Studies, Science Teaching that Gopal is the director of.

Learn more about Gopal in his faculty bio and his personal website. 

Gopal’s article “Taking ‘Mistakes’: A Mathematical Tragicomedy” can be accessed online (requires a subscription). 

This episode was recorded May 9, 2022 via Riverside.fm and released May 25, 2022. 

The Seed Field Podcast is produced by Antioch University.

The Seed Field Podcast’s host is Jasper Nighthawk, and its editor is Lauren Instenes. Special thanks for this episode goes to Karen Hamilton and Melinda Garland for their contributions.

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