Conveyance of Culture Through Education with Elanne Kresser
05/26/21 • 80 min
Ep. #30
In today's episode, Mallika invites her friend, Elanne Kresser, to share a deep exploration of cultural healing and the hope for education that teaches our children to live within and honor the beautiful space we occupy, birthing a new paradigm of partnership, of tending and of caring for all beings.
Mallika and Elanne have been friends since 2013 and have been in conversation with each other about many topics, from conscious parenting and healthy relating styles, to the current paradigm of "compulsory schooling" and examining or shifting cultural constructs.
Elanne Kresser is devoted to the labor of birthing a world in which all voices, both human and otherwise, are honored. She has practiced in the Ordinary Mind School of Zen for two decades and directed The Dharma School for children for eight years, and her adult life has been dedicated to community-based, culturally-generative, earth-honoring education. She is a practitioner of ancestral and cultural healing and loves supporting others to reclaim their self-worth, life purpose, and sense of belonging. Her people hail from Bavaria, Bohemia, Jämtland, Sweden and England.
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Peter Grey
John Taylor Gatto
"Weapons of Mass Instruction" By John Taylor Gatto
Things we touch on in this episode:
- Feeling belonging with place
- Personal wellness = "how able am I to meet the changing conditions of life"
- Wellness is relational
- Animism, at it's foundation, is relationship
- How teaching in today's system that is devoid of meaningful work
- The ancestors are who hands us our culture
- Depth of cultural healing available through getting right with our ancestors
- Tending ancestral connection through education
- A new paradigm of relating and tending and caring
- The natural friction when shifting from an old to a new paradigm
- Distinguishing between education and compulsory schooling and the values at the base of the current schooling structure
- Ways that we can each play a role in starting this shift
- The possibility that we re-imagine schooling is here
- Homeschooling, free-schooling, unschooling, democratic schooling, and the movement for self-directed education
- What practical ways can this be implemented in a schooling setting
- The clarity that can come from ancestral involvement in these projects
Quotes from Elanne:
Wellness requires relationally (12 min)
The ancestors are who hands us our culture (24)
Education is ultimately the transmission of culture (25)
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Ep. #30
In today's episode, Mallika invites her friend, Elanne Kresser, to share a deep exploration of cultural healing and the hope for education that teaches our children to live within and honor the beautiful space we occupy, birthing a new paradigm of partnership, of tending and of caring for all beings.
Mallika and Elanne have been friends since 2013 and have been in conversation with each other about many topics, from conscious parenting and healthy relating styles, to the current paradigm of "compulsory schooling" and examining or shifting cultural constructs.
Elanne Kresser is devoted to the labor of birthing a world in which all voices, both human and otherwise, are honored. She has practiced in the Ordinary Mind School of Zen for two decades and directed The Dharma School for children for eight years, and her adult life has been dedicated to community-based, culturally-generative, earth-honoring education. She is a practitioner of ancestral and cultural healing and loves supporting others to reclaim their self-worth, life purpose, and sense of belonging. Her people hail from Bavaria, Bohemia, Jämtland, Sweden and England.
Elanne Kresser's Website
Peter Grey
John Taylor Gatto
"Weapons of Mass Instruction" By John Taylor Gatto
Things we touch on in this episode:
- Feeling belonging with place
- Personal wellness = "how able am I to meet the changing conditions of life"
- Wellness is relational
- Animism, at it's foundation, is relationship
- How teaching in today's system that is devoid of meaningful work
- The ancestors are who hands us our culture
- Depth of cultural healing available through getting right with our ancestors
- Tending ancestral connection through education
- A new paradigm of relating and tending and caring
- The natural friction when shifting from an old to a new paradigm
- Distinguishing between education and compulsory schooling and the values at the base of the current schooling structure
- Ways that we can each play a role in starting this shift
- The possibility that we re-imagine schooling is here
- Homeschooling, free-schooling, unschooling, democratic schooling, and the movement for self-directed education
- What practical ways can this be implemented in a schooling setting
- The clarity that can come from ancestral involvement in these projects
Quotes from Elanne:
Wellness requires relationally (12 min)
The ancestors are who hands us our culture (24)
Education is ultimately the transmission of culture (25)
Mallika's Instagram
Mallika's Website
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Weaving Together Internal and External Cycles - SOLO EPISODE
ep. #29
Mallika explores and deepens into the framework of syncing our lives up with the phases of our menstrual cycles. She explains each of the 4 phases of the menstrual cycle and how they are mirrored by cycles in the natural world.
Topics touched on:
- Frames for cyclical living
- Tuning into phases of the moon
- Menstrual cycles mirrored in the natural world
- Micro and Macro lens of this framework
- Acknowledging for ourselves allows us to communicate to others
- Embracing the wisdom and the
- How to help folx who don't have this biology understand the wisdom of listening to these cycles
- Practical tips for working your schedule in accord with our cycles
Spring/Follicular phase is a time for: Tending, watering, listening to your desires, brainstorming what's possible, loving and trusting with a young heart, feeling the energy of creation, acknowledging fruits of your labor that are starting to form.
Summer/Ovulatory phase for: Taking action, finding support, inviting and collaborating, selling your boss (or yourself) on the new business plan, being with old conflict in a new way, enjoying yourself and following your pleasure.
Autumn/Luteal phase: honoring what came to fruition, softening back into yourself, enjoying the bounty of your efforts, taking stalk of what didn't work, beginning to prepare for winter by recognizing where you need to conserve your energy or plan for more nourishment.
Winter/bleed phase is a time for: resting, nourishment, releasing what needs to go, going within, writing down your dreams, letting go of attachments, healing, being.
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Next Episode
Illness as a Rite of Passage with Lara Veleda Vesta
ep. #31
This conversation and episode is truly one of Mallika's favorite of all time. Lara Veleda Vesta is an author and illistrator, exploring dís-ability, rites of passage, ancestral mythology, folklore and the sacred creative. She lives with Myalgic Encephalomeylitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, a disease caused by viruses and inflammation with an infectious trigger. Prior to her illness, Lara was a university professor teaching classes in English and writing and a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion.
Lara's deep work and knowledge of integrating difficult initiatory experiences, expanded by her use of ritual, research and linguistics, help her blend a beautiful weaving of return to old ways, old knowing and the deep peace that is available to us all.
Explored in this episode:
- Why narrative is so important to healing
- Stages of initiation and rite of passage
- Finding the joy available in healing
- Reorienting our job/to-dos to come from spirit and ancestors
- Sacred life is available to any one of us
- Collective rite of passage this past year
- Redefining our values and letting things go
- How do we know when we are on a "return"
- Ritualizing every aspect of the passage
- Grief is part of the return and integration of the passage
- Silence is integral for sacred work
- The potency of being together in a ceremonial frame
- Illness and disability were hallmarks of initiation in historic stories
- The opportunity and communication that comes through as symptoms of illness
- How to stay out of resistance to pain and other difficult symptoms
- The power and potential of the millions of people who are ill or living with disability
- What is your super power?
Quotes from Lara:
"We need each other's stories so we can know what's survivable."
"What I have found useful is ritualizing every aspect of the process."
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