The Joyous Justice Podcast
The Joyous Justice Podcast
Ep 131: What does resilience serve?
Resilience has gotten a bad rap recently. The ability to “bounce back” has been conflated with the requirement to bounce back into oppressive dynamics. But it’s those oppressive dynamics, not the bouncing back, that’s ultimately the problem.
In this episode, April explores the difference between the gift of resilience and the ways in which it has been weaponized by capitalist and neo-colonialist contexts, and previews the work she’ll be leading in the Redefining Resilience workshop next week.
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Discussion and reflection questions:
- What in this episode is new for you? What have you learned and how does it land?
- What is resonating? What is sticking with you and why?
- What feels hard? What is challenging or on the edge for you?
- What feelings and sensations are arising and where in your body do you feel them?
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April Baskin: You're listening
to the joyous justice podcast, a
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weekly show hosted by April
Baskin with Tracie Guy-Decker in
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a complex world in which systemic oppression causes us to deny others
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and our own humanity, let's dedicate ourselves
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to the pursuit and embodiment of wholeness, love, and thriving.
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in the world and in our own lives.
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It's time to heal and flourish our way
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to a more joyously just future
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My friend, in recent days and
years, as political analysis has
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continued to evolve in the
direction of collective
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liberation, as movements are
making a lot of progress, which
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is why all this blowback and
repression and efforts to harm
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our movements are happening is
because our work, our movement
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work, is working. And in the
midst of all of this, as
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collective consciousness has
continued to advance and evolve
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certain wonderful concepts are
getting a bad rap, and one of
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them is resilience. And so I
just want to take a few minutes
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with you today, to reclaim
resilience. Sidenote, I would
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also love to do similar work
around self care around co
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creation or law of attraction,
various themes that are or
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characteristics or practices
that are centrally part of the
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lived human experience that have
been a part of humanity for a
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long time. I want to invite
folks, I want to invite you, if
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you haven't already, to bring in
some additional nuance and
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precision. And are we actually
is is it resilience that needs
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to be attacked. Because from
where I sit, resilience is
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incredibly important. Resilience
has made the difference in my
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family achieving their dreams or
not, and my family surviving or
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not, and me and my loved ones
thriving or not thriving. And
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the thing I want to say is, is
that I don't think there's
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anything wrong with resilience.
What's wrong is the context and
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the that is placed within. And
the ways it is leveraged to what
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end to what end, right. So if we
look it up on the internet, or
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in a book, a number of
dictionaries say that resilience
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is the capacity to bounce back,
right, which, on its face seems
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pretty neutral and positive. The
problem comes when people have
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been conditioned to in terms of
what the norm are, what we are
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bouncing back to is and feel a
rigidity and disempowerment and
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a stuckness that bouncing back
means bouncing back to an
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oppressive norm. Right. And so,
I wanted to give you a bit of a
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preview of some of the amazing
work we're going to do in my
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free live workshop. And that we
do in my paid programs, around
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reclaiming a bunch of really
fundamental tools and
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perspectives and practices that
are pivotally and critically
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important to have in our
toolkit. But my resilience and
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my self care, and by law, law of
attraction or co creation, as I
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like to think of it as the same
as mainstream
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Unknown: or capitalistic self
care resilience in the context
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of Neo colonialism, right? For
me, part of why I decided to
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shift the name of my free live
workshop and also shift some of
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the content of it in the coming
week to be framed around
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redefining resilience is because
I want to invite you to redefine
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resilience. And the thing is, is
that I'm not actually going to
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be redefining resilience itself.
What we will be redefining is
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what resilience is in service
of. So I just want to make this
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as short and pithy and quick
episode here, in part as a form
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of encouragement in the time
that you would otherwise be
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listening to head to the show
notes or head to Joyce
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justice.com and sign up to join
me in this next week's upcoming
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redefining resilience live
workshop with me and a host of
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other really phenomenal,
eclectic endeavor. joules from
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all over the world from multiple
different career paths and areas
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of activism to be in
conversation around, what are
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the different key components of
profound resilience and, and
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starting out on day zero on
Monday with on the first day of
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spring
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April Baskin: with redefining
resilience and redefining, not
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actually redefining resilience
itself, but redefining our
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understanding of the purpose of
resilience, and what and whom
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and what it's in service of.
Right, because a lot of the
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critique about resilience is
largely from my perspective,
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actually, about people
perceiving that resilience is
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meant to is is designed to bring
people back into oppressive
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contexts. Ah, resilience is
whatever we decide, particularly
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in community, particularly in
partnership, is whatever we
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decide that it is. And in my
afro indigenous Jewish family,
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resilience has consistently at
least with my immediate family,
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and a number of descendants, and
a number of ancestors from whom
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I from whom I descend,
resilience is in service of our
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dreams and our highest values
and aspirations. And it is
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revered and respected, and that
grit. And that willingness to
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snap back not to the crappy
norm, but to be pulled back by
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certain things, nourish and
resource ourselves help one
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another, and use that as a
launchpad to further clarify our
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strategy and what we want. And
at least continue, if not
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expedite our path in certain
ways cut what is cut or off or
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release different patterns,
dynamics relationships that are
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no longer serving us that might
have contributed to some of
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those challenges, and then snap
back onto the path of being in
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alignment with being loving,
courageous warriors working in
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the direction of collective
liberation, working in the
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direction of our dreams, working
in the direction of collective
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love and joy. If you are
interested in hearing more about
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this, and then learning about
the nuts and bolts of having a
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more robust, comprehensive,
holistic approach and analysis
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and strategy that is super
customizable, for your specific
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needs at any given moment, and
also is adaptive and can be is
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agile and adaptive and is
flexible, as different
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circumstances or scenarios
change what is a core framework
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and set of principles, and a
diversity of practices that can
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support you in being
consistently resilient in
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service of your dreams in
service of collective
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liberation, in service of
individual and collective well
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being. That's how I understand
resilience. So I am team
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resilience all day every day,
because I come from parents and
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ancestors, who both have learned
skills around navigating in the
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world as it is and also don't
let the oppressor define our
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purpose in life. Don't let the
oppressor define what key words
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that our ancestors helps to
develop over time, to not let
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them co opt our understanding of
words and concepts and tools
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that are medicine, that are
essential medicine during this
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time of great flux and shifting
and turning. It's all the more
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important that we understand
that resilience is key, and
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learning a form of resilience
and learning forms of resilience
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that weave in understandings of
our animal nature understandings
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of our neurology understandings
of the dynamics of collective
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and individual harm, and having
a trauma informed analysis. That
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not just leads to a hustling and
barreling through. But a nuanced
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strategy that helps us suss out
what really is truly needed
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here. And do I actually need a
break in this moment? And
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looking at the long game, and
figuring out what are key short
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term wins that are leveraged?
How do I take time to heal? How
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do I work in collaboration with
other folks? How do I have this
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whole improv jazz style approach
that I am embodying along with a
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coalition and a movement of
other kindred spirits? That is
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As I've said a couple times now
in service of what we want, we
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get to set those terms. And, as
per usual, a number of us nearly
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all of us have conditioning that
contradicts that. But we can
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take time to heal from that. And
bolster our internal and shared
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clarity around these principles,
and begin moving. Like engaging
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in that healing, and begin
moving from strength to
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strength. And part of what
enables us to consistently
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resiliently move from strength
to strength is by weaving in
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that spirituality, weaving in
trauma, informed awareness and
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healing, weaving in that radical
imagination and joy and starting
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to feel into the solution. And
the liberation that we seek and
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start to embody it now. So that
it's not some far off thing. But
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we begin living it now. And that
is what we're going to be doing
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a deep dive in next week, in
concise little one hour,
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potentially two hour for those
of some folks want to hang back
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and ask different questions. And
if I have the energy for it,
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maybe an hour and a half, an
extra half an hour of some q&a,
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and coaching and additional
sharing out in interaction. But
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officially an hour each day over
the course of nine days, we'll
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take off for Shabbat. And we're
going to walk through day zero
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through day six or seven, of
moving through what are
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different key insights, and
learning together and giving you
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time to start to let this
percolate through and then think
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about it. And then you'll have
an opportunity to also consider
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Do you want to join an
incubator, a playground, a
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leadership for liberation
Laboratory, which is what I've
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considered renaming this
program. And that's the banner
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of all of our offerings. It's
kind of the banner title of all
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of the joys just as offerings at
this time, right? And engage in
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tinkering and experimentation
for you around in certain
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moments. How brave can you be in
certain moments? What are the
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best ways you can deeply and
unapologetically nourish
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yourself? That's what resilience
looks like. For me. It is
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dynamic, and brave and alive and
aligned with all that we hold
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most dear about the movement
elders and leaders and people in
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our family who weren't, quote,
unquote, in the movement
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officially, but were in the
sense that they were champions
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of love and healing and justice
in micro and macro ways. That is
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resilience. Not some contrived,
crappy pressure to be constantly
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pushed into a corporate mill.
That doesn't give a crap about
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us. Nope, no.
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Unknown: Resilience is aligned
with emergent strategy. I want
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us to have resilience like our
elders and like us when we were
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young, before we got hurt in
different ways. That is like
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dandelions and trees that can
navigate droughts and also
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flourish and bloom in summer
times.
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April Baskin: Right that it that
this that there are signs of
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gorgeous, robust, powerful
resilience that is in the
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service of resilience and well
being and gorgeous poetic
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interconnectedness all around
us. And we get to reclaim that
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and weave it more deeply into
let it percolate and love that
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concept of percolation. Let it
weave and percolate through the
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different facets of our living.
So that's it for today, friend,
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and again, as always, please
feel free to be in touch. If
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this episode resonated please
help spread the word and share
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these ideas and this love with
other folks. And also please
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feel free to join us Joyce just
to stop comm slash resilience
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sign up. You will be invited to
join me for free for a week of
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deep nourishment and education,
you'll receive a workbook that
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yes has some notes pages. But
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Unknown: unlike a lot of
different, lackluster mediocre
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or just bad workbooks I've
received in the last couple of
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years. This workbook has
valuable content and really
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thought well thought out
reflection questions that
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complement and support that will
complement and support your
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journey over this week and a
half ish experience together. So
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I invite you to join also, all
of the sessions will be
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recorded. Part of why it's also
long is to really give people a
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mini quick, digestible deep dive
into the profound and
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transformative content And that
I teach in my longer term
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containers. And also, I've set
it up over multiple days so that
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if you can't make certain days
or even most, during each of the
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days, we do a quick recap of the
prior content. So just feel free
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to come as you are able to you
can come to most or all of the
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experience, you will be that
much better for it. That will be
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wonderful for you, you will be
so deeply nourished, you might
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also want to make sure you're
staying hydrated, which I will
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remind you to do and nourish
yourself and take it a step at a
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time because we're going to be
covering some phenomenal
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content. And if uncertain days,
you need to take a break during
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that period each day, I will be
sending out the replays. So you
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can stay up to date, there's
also a Facebook group to support
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all of us to say,
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April Baskin: I've done my best
in collaboration with my team,
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and various partners to create a
really wonderful, nourishing,
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abundant experience, and even
just the experience itself for
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you to get a taste of what I
mean by resilience here what to
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me ideally, and in practice,
what leadership, what effective
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leadership for collective
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Unknown: liberation can look
like when we align it with
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principles of joyous justice. So
I hope that you will join me, I
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hope that you will invite
friends, it's a lot of work.
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It's a tremendous amount of work
that I do. And it's a profound
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labor of love. So the more the
merrier. And also to if there's
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someone I invite you to think
about specifically, if there's a
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broader network, you want to
send this to a team or committee
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you're on, that's great. And
also what might be even more
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beneficial for some of you. And
for you specifically, is if
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you're navigating something
right now in particular, where
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you think some of these
principles will be especially
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helpful to help up level your
impact and or your well being
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whichever or both is live for
you in this moment. If there are
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just one or two people with whom
you would love to think this
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through with together and go
through this experience, and
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then continue to think about and
apply these principles, perhaps
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invite that or those special
people and kindred spirits. And
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that more refined discernment is
exciting for me to think about
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in terms of the kinds of souls I
will have the pleasure of, of CO
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creating with over the course of
the next week and and helping to
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guide and facilitate their
experience. And there's already
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some really remarkable people in
the space. So I can guarantee
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you, y'all will be met. You will
be a an incredibly good company.
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And when I say y'all, I mean you
and whoever you invite. And I've
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had a few people say in previous
workshops that they kept feeling
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like they were getting lucky
when they were in paired or
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breakout groups. And then they
started noticing like, oh, no,
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like, everybody in this space is
just incredibly thoughtful and
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wonderful. And it's and it's
really true. So hopefully you
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will join us and
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April Baskin: my Kavanaugh, my
wish my prayer for you is that
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in the coming days and weeks
ahead, you start noticing
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affirmations, signs
synchronicities in your
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consciousness that are arising
spontaneously or in the world
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around you that affirm your
dreams, and your values. And the
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ones that are quiet right now
that don't want to be quiet
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anymore, but haven't quite found
their rooting and they're still
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just below the surface of the
soil of your consciousness or
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your public expression. My hope
is whatever is wanting or is in
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the process of unfurling in your
life, that either in big ways it
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ideally in big ways and if not
in big ways that you get just
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enough affirmation and
encouragement and resonance
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around you to buoy you and
support you in deepening your
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belief that it is possible to
live life on more liberatory
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terms and on more joyous terms,
and that you don't have to do it
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alone but you are never alone,
and that we are deeply and
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profoundly in this together. Can
you hear us own may this be the
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divine as well and wishing you
much love in the meantime, bye
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for now. Thanks for tuning in.
To learn more about joyous
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justice LLC our team and how you
can get involved with our
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community. Check out the info in
our show notes, or find us at
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joyous justice.com If you
enjoyed this episode show us
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some love. Subscribe wherever
you're listening. Tell your
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people share what you're
learning and how your leadership
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is evolving. Stay humble, but
not too humble
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Unknown: and keep going
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April Baskin: because the future
is ours to co create