Mind Full of Everything

Rebekah Shaman on the healing politics of unity consciousness

How can the intimacies of human relationships with the more-than-human help inform and reshape environmental and development policy at the global scale? What power does awakening a collective ecological consciousness have in remediating our moral and political systems which have grossly failed in building and sustaining unity and integrity in wider community?

Today we are joined by Rebekah Shaman, a plant medicine shaman inspiring conscious change in the urban jungle by bringing nature and humanity back into balance through working intimately with the Master Plant medicines Ayahuasca, Cacao and Cannabis over the past 25 years. Through her work, Rebekah has inspired and urban dwellers to live shamanically by reconnecting to the rhythms of life through the Master Plant ceremonies she offers under the guidance of indigenous shamans in the Amazon. Rebekah is the managing director of the British Hemp Alliance which promotes hemp as an environmental tool to reaching Net Zero, and she also CEO of Ritual Cacao, one of the largest suppliers of ceremonial grade cacao in the UK.

In this episode, Rebekah guides us through the wonderfully complex and deeply inspiring stories of the Peruvian Amazon, and how the teachings of the rainforest enriched her journey as a plant medicine shaman working for radical system change in the urban jungle. Challenging the divide between bottom-up and top-down approaches to addressing our ecological crises, Rebekah particularly emphasises on the need for consciousness shifts at the individual and community level to feed and stabilise decision-making at the macro-level, which requires the integration of indigenous, local and more-than-human knowledges into policy which have been successful in preserving cultures of care and stewardship.

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Agrita Dandriyal on the gift in community-based citizen science

How can we mainstream relational and care-based environmental policy paradigms as a way to radically transform and heal our moral and political systems which control environmental decision-making in overly legalistic and abstract ways? What power does using the care-informed gift economic framing to conceptualise volunteer-led citizen science hold for locals, who have deeply intimate and often generational relationships with the land, for bringing them to the centre of decision-making for their environment?

Today we are joined by the host Agrita Dandriyal to explore the wonderful research she got to conduct over the summer on the gift in volunteer-led citizen science as part of her MSc in Environment, Politics and Society. By using the moral framing of the gift economy and a case study example of a London wildlife group, Agrita demonstrates to us how the embodied experiences, situated biographies and moral responsibilities of stewardship of volunteers intermesh to form the fabric of environmental caregiving that provides the space for bottom-up initiatives to thrive and empower local knowledge and agency, for both the human and more-than-human.

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Chesline Pierre-Paul on repoliticising language and identity

How can immigrants, or children of immigrants, resist the colonial tendency to homogenise their identities into quantifiable and qualifiable categories? What power does repoliticising languages having histories of linguistic and cultural genocide hold for communities working to preserve the sacrality of their ancestral tongue within a dominant culture which centers Eurowestern language ideologies?

Today we reunite with Chesline Pierre-Paul to continue on the conversation from the previous episode on decolonising our relationship with money as a means to build multidirectional wealth, specifically focusing on the liberatory practices of repoliticising language and identity. In this intricately layered episode, Ches beautifully walks us through their journey of reclamation and rematriation of their Haitian identity as a child of political refugees. By embedding their life experiences, Ches guides us through the anti-colonial practices of retranslation and decentering western language ideologies as we mindfully honour the stories, cultures and identities of our ancestors who pre-dated the dominant languages in concern.

Ches is a multi-award-winning DEI expert and global thought leader. Their mission is to help the most disenfranchised humans on Earth go from generational debt and poverty to multi-generational wealth and healing. They run © Chesline Inc., the most innovative and transformational DEI consulting firm and digital global edtech company in the world, and they use low-cost online education to help Queer, BIPOC, Gen Z, and Millennial college and university dropouts live amazing 6-figure lives and careers without ever going back to school. Ches shows them how to thrive, not survive, in a White man's world without selling out, giving up, or settling.

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Chesline Pierre-Paul on decolonising our relationship with money through multidirectional wealth-building

How can we begin to decolonise our relationship to money as a means to heal intergenerational poverty that perpetuates cycles of survivorship and struggle for disenfranchised peoples? In what ways can we use our privilege to transform capitalist and colonial economic paradigms to ones which promote the multidirectional use of money as an instrument to true freedom?

In today’s episode, we are joined Chesline Pierre-Paul, an multi-award-winning DEI expert and global thought leader. Their mission is to help the most disenfranchised humans on Earth go from generational debt and poverty to multi-generational wealth and healing. They run © Chesline Inc., the most innovative and transformational DEI consulting firm and digital global edtech company in the world, and they use low-cost online education to help Queer, BIPOC, Gen Z, and Millennial college and university dropouts live amazing 6-figure lives and careers without ever going back to school. Ches shows them how to thrive, not survive, in a White man's world without selling out, giving up, or settling.

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Agrita Dandriyal on relational work in environmental science

Why is it important that we integrate relational work in environmental conservation and restoration work to shift away from colonial and anthropocentric practices of managing the land to move to a more regenerative and caring paradigm which serve the emotional and spiritual needs of all? What power does decentering and deprivileging the human experience hold in building meaningful relationships with the more-than-human when the conservation community has internalised self-centrism and extractivism?

On today's episode, we reshare the conversation Agrita got to be a part of as a guest on the wonderful Ximena Garcia’s podcast Traditional Medicine with Shamaflora. In this episode, Ximena provides her the space to share her story and journey into grounding healing in her work within environmental science and policy and the ways in which embodied, lived experiences have guided her in creating space for deep healing work in social and environmental fields through the Mind Full of Everything podcast.

NOTE: The structure of the episode has been kept the same as how Ximena’s podcast team has produced it so there has been no editing involved in this release, which also means the breathing exercise is not included so please feel free to pause the recording now to do it now. 

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Samantha Mackay on living paradoxes and breaking free from trap cycles

In what ways can the Enneagram reveal the inherent paradoxes and contradictions within each personality type? How can this open up pathways to exit trap cycles and opportunities for our deepest developments as individuals and as part of the wider community, whilst also challenging tendencies to oversimplify paradox work?

We welcome back the lovely Samantha Mackay to the podcast to build on  the previous episode on the Enneagram and personality mapping, focusing on a very complex but integral part of the tool - paradoxes. In this deeply inspiring and wonderfully detailed episode, Samantha guides us through the process of identifying and breaking down contradictions for each of the nine Enneagram types by giving practical examples of trap cycles for each and some of ways we can begin to transform our internalised patterns by allowing ourselves permission to change.

Samantha is a personal development coach at Individuo, incorporating the Enneagram into her integrative approach to inner work. She came to this work through a journey of recovering from chronic pain, illness and anxiety and discovering that in order to shift her pain she needed to master a range of skills that strengthened her inner resilience.  On her multi-year journey of recovery, Samantha has learnt that some treatments act like a short term bandaids and others provided more permanent healing. She incorporates the Enneagram into her work for this very reason; it helps us invest our time, energy and resources into inner work that provides true relief. 

For a more comprehensive insight into the Enneagram, listen to the previous episode before tuning into this one.

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Samantha Mackay on mapping our trauma and chronic illness histories as a pathway to embodied healing

How can we begin to make connections between somatic ailments and deeper ruptures in our mind, spiritual and emotional bodies as a way of tending to inter-body dissonance when dominant healthcare spaces struggle to connect the dots for us? In what ways can alternative healthcare professionals and psychotherapists help us map out our illness and trauma histories to provide specialised treatment that serves to our individual needs rather than following one-size-fits-all treatment frameworks?

Today we are joined by Samantha Mackay. Samantha is a personal development coach at Individuo, incorporating the Enneagram into her integrative approach to inner work. She came to this work through a journey of recovering from chronic pain, illness and anxiety and discovering that in order to shift her pain she needed to master a range of skills that strengthened her inner resilience. With that, she could move inwards, to find the stillness needed to stay with, and release, her most painful imprints. On her multi-year journey of recovery, Samantha has learnt that some treatments act like a short term bandaids and others provided more permanent healing. She incorporates the Enneagram into her work for this very reason; it helps us invest our time, energy and resources into inner work that provides true relief.  

In this episode, Samantha and Agrita explore the problematic internalisation of productivity culture in dominant healthcare and the ways that we as individuals can resist this cultural paradigm through allowing themselves permission to attend to signs of deeper emotional and spiritual ruptures which are emerging on their physical bodies. We do this by examining the Enneagram as a tool for adults to begin to map out their trauma and illness histories with a certified Enneagram practitioner as an alternative approach to convention psychotherapy which often requires patients to work from their traumas up to internalised patterns/behaviours. By working from measurable behavioural patterns that can be categorised into types, the Enneagram breaks away from expectations of patients knowing how to use language to describe their difficulties to working to break open cycles of internalised behaviours in order get to the root of their problems, at a pace which feels comfortable for them.

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Laura Formentini on regenerative healing, grieving cycles and Love in Action

In what ways can creative catharsis metamorphose the energy of grief into love which expands beyond our kin and beyond the material? How can we seek inspiration and guidance from nature’s abilities to heal and regenerate in order to recapacitate ourselves as we move through grieving cycles and put love in action?

Today we are joined by Laura Formentini, an author, nonprofit photographer and activist who has worked all over the world with NGOs and resilient people, and who has personally healed from the traumatic loss of her son’s suicide which began from a small act of kindness and human responsibility by a complete stranger and has now evolved into the conceptualisation of getting “unstuck” from grieving cycles as Love in Action. In this episode, Laura and Agrita explore the different pathways for healthy cathartic expression within the context of maternal grief, and how conceptualising the transformation of grief to love as Love in Action can help map out pathways to embodied healing which meet the specific needs of mothers (and others within grief cycles) but also regenerate their capacities to love, nurture and care.

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Ximena Garcia on rainforest medicine, land ceremony and more-than-human kinship

In what ways can we nurture more loving and reciprocal relationships with our more-than-human kin to outgrow capitalist and colonial conditions of extraction and human domination? How can engaging in rainforest medicinal ceremonies provide personalised pathways to embodied care which honour the needs of humans, the more-than-human and the land? 

Today we are joined by Ximena Garcia, the Center Director of Peru’s Rainforest Healing Center, soon to be named Shamanflora. She has lived around the world and experienced life in many different cultures which ultimately led her into the world of Kambo, Ayahuasca and other animal and plant forest medicines. Through practicing rainforest medicine and sharing plant wisdom with her clients, Ximena follows the path of service and healing, for her loved ones, herself and now the world.

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Damini Gallagher on embodying cultural identities as women of the diaspora

How can we overcome the false dichotomy of biculturalism as people of the diaspora so that we can reclaim the wholeness of our cultural identities and outgrow ‘either/or’ thinking? In what ways can self-expression and embodied creativity help us to become more comfortable in our bodies whilst settling on land, and living within cultures, that are so different to our homelands?

Today we are in conversation with Damini Gallagher, an intuitive coach, trained Vedic counsellor, professional Kathak dancer and mother. By working with the fundamental level of vibration to guide her clients, particularly women, Damini offers pathways in honouring creativity, individuality and material and spiritual abundance by awakening to our inner, experiential wisdom and being aligned to our multicultural identities which shape our being and the ways in which we share our gifts to the world.

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