Unpacked Podcast

Connor Sarazin is the Partnership and Communications Coordinator, KAIROS Blanket Exercise with KAIROS Canada. Connor lives in Ontario, is First Nations and an artist. The Unpacked team chats with Connor about the KAIROS Blanket Exercise and how the 2-3 hour workshop engages participants to use blankets representing land and explores the historic and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in the land we now know as Canada. Connor shares his life and stories from growing up as First Nations and his passion for art.

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Links
-KARIOS Blanket Exercise
-Connor's Art - Kiniw Studio
-KARIOS Canada 

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

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Dr. Mitch is a Registered Psychologist and founder of Hexagon Psychology. He has a  Ph.D. in  Applied Child Psychology from the University of Calgary. Dr. Mitch has graduate training and research primarily focused on how individuals build resiliency and effectively navigate large challenges in life. The Unpacked team chats with Dr. Mitch about his observations around the increase in children and teen mental health issues since the pandemic. Dr. Mitch shares advice for parents who are navigating concern and fear around their children during a pandemic and how to know when to seek help.   

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Links
-Hexagon Psychology (@hexagonpsychology)
-Follow @mitch.colp on instagram
-Anxiety Canada
Kids Help Phone / Text
-Call 211 (in Alberta)

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

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Jeremy Allen (Death Ed) is a funeral director and embalmer in Provost Alberta, husband, father and works to normalize the conversation around grief and loss. Jeremy works alongside individuals, professionals and communities to enter into the loss and help navigate the grief process. He chats with the Unpacked team about the winding road to becoming a funeral director and how he has learned to care for himself in the heavy stories he carries. Jeremy started the platform Death Ed to educate and share how it is possible to remove the fear from grief and loss without eliminating emotion in adults and children.  

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Links
-Death Ed Website
-Follow @deathed.ca on instagram

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

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This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Jessica Geffrard, administrator, wife, mama and former leader of the Petite Anse Kids Feeding Project in Haut Limbe, Haiti. The Unpacked Team met Jessica several years ago when travelling to Haiti with  the Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada. Jessica shares about her life growing up in Haiti as the daughter of a single parent and the oldest in her household she was responsible for taking care of her sibling and the household while her mom worked hard to ensure they had what they needed (education, clothes and food). Jessica shares what she hopes Canadians can learn about her culture and we discuss the immense joy of Haitians in the midst of really challenging situations including economic and political unrest.  Jessica is a passionate leader who worked tirelessly to empower the children in Petite Anse and continues to put that energy into everything she does. 

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Links
-Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada
-Here4Haiti Campaign (support the Petite Anse Feeding Project)
-Petite Anse Feeding Project Video (featuring Jessica)
-More on Haiti: Dr. Manno's Episode part 1 and part 2 

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

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This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Heather Roy. Heather is an advocate medical mama for paediatric cancer and a force of nature. She is the founder of Team Evelyn Foundation, a wife, mama, and soon to be social worker. The Unpacked team chats with Heather about her daughter and family's journey with cancer and grief. She shares about Evelyn, receiving the diagnosis, lessons she has learned about grief and love and how they are carrying out Evelyn's legacy or caring for people. Heather documented their family story on instagram and we discuss the decision to share and what gifts it has given. 

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Links
-Team Evelyn Foundation
-Heather's Instagram
-Donate a parking pass to families 

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

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This week on Unpacked Evan and Tara chat about the growth and transformation through the lens of the enneagram triads (head, heart and body). We chat about how we are all made to grow mentally, physically and spiritually. Growth and transformation can be messy and we all take it at different speeds depending on our personal capacities. Tara and Evan explain the three triads (head, heart and body) and how one if often the place you start but we have all three in us and need to access all to transform. We share the ways these are connected to the enneagram and give real life examples of the emotions and practices connected for each triad. Knowing your enneagram core type can be helpful, but you don't need it to identify your starting place. 

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Links
-Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron & Suzanne Stabile
-The Complete Enneagram by Beatrice Chestnut
-The Enneagram Journey Podcast with Suzanne Stabile
-Typology Podcast with Ian Morgan Cron
-Enneagram Test (Wagner Enneagram Style Scales)

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Instagram:@theunpackedpod
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This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Christy Morgan. Christy, Director of Indigenous Initiatives with Trellis Foundation. The Unpacked team chats with Christy about her life and story growing up as an indigenous woman. She shares about her culture, the pain and trauma that was and continues to be inflicted. She talks with us about the ways she cares for herself when she experiences racism and gives her thoughts on practical ways to be an ally and a part of the healing work toward reconciliation and inclusion in our neighbourhood, city and world.
 
Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Links
-Trellis Foundation
-Charlotte McLeod Unpacked Episode on Reconciliation
-Summary of the Truth & Reconciliation Report
-Truth & Reconciliation Calls to Action
-My Name is Shield Woman by Ruth Scalplock
-History of Residential Schools in Canada

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

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This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Jeff working in the Middle East and North Africa. Jeff is a pastor, former mentor and long-time friend to Evan. We chat with Jeff about life as a former leader of pastors and his current role with his wife Darlene as Canadian Leaders for the Middle East and North Africa. Jeff shares stories of the incredible people he has learned from and partnered with and where his passion for this place in the world began. Plus a whole lot of laughter in the episode with two enneagram 7’s. 

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

LINKS
-MENA Newsletter (get involved with Jeff & Darlene)
-Support Jeff & Darlene’s work in the Middle East & North Africa
-Jerusalem Post
-The Land of Christ: A Palestinian Cry by Yohanna Katanacho

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

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This week on Unpacked we are chatting with Joel Fournie Captain with Chestermere Fire Department, dad, husband and entrepreneur. We chat with Joel about life as a fire fighter, self care as a first responder and the necessary work he and his team do in order to cope and manage stressful environments daily. He shares vulnerable moments as a husband and parent, the hard lessons it's his turn to learn, and dispels misconceptions as a fire fighter. 

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

LINKS
-Imago Therapy
-Chestermere Fire Department 

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

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This week on Unpacked Evan and Tara chat about the 3 basic human instincts and the enneagram. We chat about how the instincts are essential for human experience and how often unconscious they direct our way of being in relationships, decisions, work and parenting. Tara and Evan explain the three basic instincts of self-preservation, social and one to one and how one is often dominant yet we have all three in us. We share about the ways these merge with the enneagram to give more depth to your type (although you don’t have to know the enneagram to identify you dominant instinct!).  

Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Links
 -Art of Growth Enneagram Panels - Ep. Instincts & Subtypes
-Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron & Suzanne Stabile
-The Complete Enneagram by Beatrice Chestnut
-The Enneagram Journey Podcast with Suzanne Stabile
-Typology Podcast with Ian Morgan Cron
-Enneagram Test (Wagner Enneagram Style Scales)

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Unpacked is a podcast exploring life as messy people. It’s conversations with counsellors, leaders, and storytellers discussing the experiences of being human. We talk about the strength that comes from big messy failures and vulnerable moments so we can learn to live more authentically. Subscribe and leave us a review!

Instagram:@theunpackedpod
Facebook: @theunpackedpod
unpackedpod.ca

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*music by Bensound