iChange Justice Season 5

Podcast host Joy Gilfilen interviews Dr Sarah Larsen, a medical doctor turned spiritual healer. We talk about justice as she experienced it - 1st growing up in Pakistan within a culture of prearranged marriage at the age of 14. Her family learned about America from the movies and emigrated. Her story is about culture, structure, behaviors and how systems of domination permeate our beliefs...and wh...

#135-ichange Justice Podcast "Healing Our Hearts" with Host Joy Gilfilen and Intuitive Life Coach and Clinical Hypnotherapist Anne Fernandez affiliated with the Center for Spiritual Living as well as a leader in the Institute for Noetic Sciences "IONS". This episode reflects on developing our personal emotional resilience and our trust in the inner nature of life.

#134-iChange Justice Podcast with Joy Gilfilen and Paul Levy, the author of "Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus that Plagues Our World " and how this contagious psycho-spirtual disease of the soul, is a parasite of the mind. Host Joy Gilfilen, as the Executive Director of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition, dives deeper into the subject to understand how the behavior of leaders in the incar...

Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice and Karen Ball discuss the nature of life in the indigenous world with guest speaker Eveimai Lotori, who is multi-cultural and lives across Canada, the US and Mexico doing sacred ceremonies in different locations. . We discuss specifically what happened when rites of passage for young people, tied to natural cycles of life were turned into events to display yo...

ichangejusticeHost Joy Gilfilen talks about Galtung's Conflict, Trauma, and Violence Triangles with Karen Ball and Kurt Krueger. How do his original concepts offer new ways to understand the complexity of contradictions that permeate our current world? It is at the point where human, business and government systems collide. They discuss how the original constitutional idea of having a triad ba...

Host Joy Gilfilen interviews James White about "Ableism: From Disenfranchised and Excluded, To Empowered and Included". We discuss the interesting dimension of how we in social situations are often marginalized, excluded, put down or dominated - often comes with lack of knowledge, exposure, ignorance and underneath it all is fear of being different. We then include Mel Hoover, who brings...

Joy Gilfilen interviews Ryan Bowman about creating the Sanitary Assistance Corps (SAC) program to combat homelessness, poverty and mental health challenges. As an empowerment program for life skills training through community involvement, it could be followed by the Gleaning Assistance Corps, and the Environmental Assistance Corps. Ryan's strategies are inspired by historical projects like the...

Host Joy Gilfilen talks with Phreddie Xwenang Lane about how justice connects with the indigenous people of the Salish Sea, and The Gathering of the Eagles events happening in May in the San Juan Islands. Specifically on May 25, the Coast Salish Tribal Canoe Journey will bring four tribal canoes ashore to do sacred ceremonies at WayPoint Park on the banks of Whatcom Creek in downtown Bellingham! P...

Host Joy Gilfilen engages in a Civic Cafe discussion with Irene Morgan about the cultural, socioeconomic, and emotional impacts of the past few years of global upheaval. The upheaval resulted in high levels of fear due to military control implemented "for public safety." This control created ripple effects across countries, cultures, and entire industries. It caused disruptions on so man...

Join Joy Gilfilen, host, as she discusses the Solar eclipse of 2024 with Eric from last week about how the planets revolving through space will change the future inevitably. It's wisdom seen over time. It's physics as we record patterns of predictable reality when we pay attention. If we are not watching, we do not see. So, sages watch and track. We know that human behaviors change when ti...

Join Joy Gilfilen, host, as she talks about justice and how it relates to our local and global history, the earth, the moon, physics, and the waters of the world. The Eclipse of April 8, 2024, is a significant topic for many civic scientists, physicists, farmers, 1st responders, healers, original nations people, and sages from all faiths. Why? They study the past to anticipate the future and know...

Host Joy Gilfilen interviews Eduard Muller of the University for International Collaboration about "Regenerative Economics!" This is another Civic Cafe Conversation in which Eduard discusses regenerative agriculture, regenerative farming, and greenways! Ironically, we can save our economy, food, forests, and fisheries, put people to work doing regenerative and restorative work, help us h...

#124 -iChange Justice Podcast- "The Betrayal - Origin Story"-Patricia Anne Davis, a Navajo elder. Joy Gilfilen interviews Patricia Anne Davis, a Navajo elder, about her reflections about the business of justice as it relates directly to her study of the Origin and Betrayal Stories of her culture and their language. Her basic analysis of violence, monetary systems, and the jail and justic...

"The power of Art, Expression and Leadership as it relates to the “Business of Justice”with Host Joy Gilfilen, Irene Morgan and Shawn Gallaway" “Singing for Peace and Justice”Shawn Gallaway, a Singer-Songwriter speaks with host Joy Gilfilen and Irene Morgan about the power of art, expression and leadership as it relates to the business of justice. As many of us know, music often paves th...

Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice, has been hosting civic cafe style talks in her community about "Dome Homes and Intentional Villages". The question eventually boils down to discussing public will and how we can team up to solve the complex and compound challenges of homelessness, the high costs of living, disaster, emergency and climate crisis issues while also building functional...

Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice Podcast, interviews Marc Santos of NobleGoldman.com about how "Regenerative Economics" is the next step in transforming the business of injustice. It is all about learning how to value humans inside an economic system that includes rebuilding our communities. At this point, the economy is enrolled in a degenerative pattern of exclusion for the be...

Host Joy Gilfilen discusses "Gaps & Needs for Financial and Life Skills Training" with Christi Carey, the founder of Teens, Training and Taxes, a non-profit foundation working with people who have been displaced by family crisis, poverty, homelessness, or an arrest and incarceration. - all situations where lives are thrown into upheaval. Christi has professional degrees and direct li...

Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice asks Irene Morgan to talk about her lived experience of helping people reenter society and the job market after doing time in the incarceration system, then being released. Irene speaks from over 18 years of helping people reorient to a changed world where they have to rebuild their lives, clean up their records so they can get jobs, rent, and face a digit wor...

Our conversation explored the evolving landscape of the justice system, drawing on his unique perspective as a former federal prisoner and his past work across different jails and prisons nationwide. He shared his experiences assisting inmates, jail commanders, and other officials in achieving personal empowerment and driving systemic reform. Our conversations started with personal accountability,...

"Providing Hands-Up Support in Tiny Dome Villages." Host Joy Gilfilen discusses how education, mentoring and building tiny dome homes in intentional communities is a vision of Maryam Sharifi, founder of the Global Enlightenment Academy. Standing up for justice has been a part of her life since growing up in Persia, in a culture where arranged teen marriages were common. Maryam started le...

Joy Gilfilen, Karen Ball and Debbie David discuss the gaps in communication, the habit pattern of creating dualistic conflict, and then getting stuck. we have the opportunity to do restorative justice. restorative circles, peace circles and other methods of increasing understanding of the complex challenges we have today. The the level of complexity from local problems to state, national and globa...

Hear three professional mothers from very different fields discuss de-escalation skills. What have they learned about how to use emotional intelligence when handling violence and crisis situations when people are triggered, traumtized and escalating emotionally. This is not about emergency response like in a physical emergency. Hear their stories of learning on the front lines of life. They compar...

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice podcast interviews Debbie David about discovering the Trauma-Informed Workplace Toolkit. Then she highlights the deep research of Gabor Mate as a medical doctor and author of many books related to traumed informed healing from addiction, understanding ADD, the ripple effects of intergenerational and historical trauma on families. People in the crisis industrie...

Joy gilfillan host of iChange Justice Podcast interviews Dr. Christine Habercorn about the "Business of Justice" as it relates to economic development and non-profit operations as we emerge from the shock of the past few years, when entire companies businesses livelihoods and family lives shifted as the economy and the world around us was turned upside down. As a creative artist and huma...

With special thanks to our Local Broadcast Host, KOYS-LPFM - Bellingham Listen on Thursdays at Noon on KOYS-LPFM for our Season 3 podcasts and then everywhere you get your podcasts nationwide. Host Joy Gilfilen, interviews Irene Morgan, Founder of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition about what it's been like over the past 17 years doing the work with reentry services and the criminal legal sys...