The Adaptagen Podcast

Join Nadia Chaney and Sean Harvey in a deeply hopeful conversation about courage and compassion, and a deep dive into healing the masculine. Sean makes a compelling case that healing men is the most direct path to transforming systems. Sean Harvey has spent his career going where most facilitators won't: into police departments, military units, prisons, and far-right extremist circles, and doing i...

Rhys-Thorvald Hansen (they/them) is a queer folk artist and facilitator of Welsh and Norwegian descent living on the coast of the Salish Sea in the US exclave of Point Roberts, Washington. Raised and rooted in rural communities, Rhys brings a queer ecological lens to both their creative practice and community work. You can find their multimedia fiber art on instagram @ rhys.earth , and connect wit...

I’m excited to bring you this podcast with one of my dearest friends and collaborators, Elioa Steffen. Elioa was an essential part of the Time Zone Research Lab, but our friendship goes back many years before that all the way to the early days of facilitating Power of Hope youth camps. At the Time Zone Elioa’s nickname was the obsidian blade because she is so sharply insightful. You will hear that...

I found this podcast with the brilliant Jace Malz very moving. Over the course of the Adaptagen interviews I’ve certainly learned that “outsider” is a common theme amongst facilitators, and maybe even a super power. This is true in Jace’s story, but it is also a story of self-respect, reclamation and an authentic rebounding of the spirit that is truly inspiring. Jace is the founder of Inbo, a powe...

Arin and I have been circling each other for many years, all the way back to the PYE Third Thursday Assemblies if you happen to recall those! We had a lovely first in person encounter at Madhu Shukla's storytelling event in 2018. But it was only in connecting preparing for this podcast that I realized what truly kindred spirits we are! A true facilitation geek; who flowed into her career one lily...

Kavya's Bio Kavya is a media artist and activist with a background in journalism, documentary film, and a BA in Gender and Women's Studies. She is the Founder of Agitate Productions, a media arts collective that focuses on community youth engagement and activism by creating space for stories told through art. She has worked on a variety of projects centered around community engagement and activism...

Jonathon (BA, BEd, MEd) sustains NGM’s reputation for reliable and high-quality program delivery within the field of gender justice, and contributes to NGM’s expertise on boys and masculinity through ongoing research, knowledge translation, and advocacy. He started out as a teacher before realizing that he was uniquely passionate about supporting boys’ well-being and challenging gender-based viole...

BIO: Dona is a multidisciplinary facilitator, community organiser, spoken word artist, and cultural worker. Her practice and methodologies are inspired by regenerative patterns within nature, stories of resilience and diaspora, and the expansive and evolving work of what it means to decolonise, to heal, to love, and to seek truth, even in the darkest of places. You can learn more at her website ww...

Rehana Tejpar, M.ED is a facilitator, leadership coach, mediator & movement artist, supporting leaders and organizations seeking to deepen in connection with their authentic leadership, wholeness, vision and intuition in a holistic way. She brings over 15 years of experience midwifing transformative journeys with individuals and organizations, in their evolutionary movements, and is a founder...

Claudia Pineda Reyes is a Mexican, queer, and neurodivergent social artist based in Washington, U.S. She has been practicing facilitation for 15 years across a variety of settings with the thematic purpose of advancing healing and liberation. Her family immigrated from Michoacan, Mexico to Chicago, Illinois where Claudia was born and raised. She is a Master in Social Work practitioner and has been...

BIO: Melanie is a Latinx social artist, community-based creator, artivist, and arts facilitation trainer. Her work aims to reflect concepts of humanism, sociology, and identity through participatory visual arts methods. She has been orchestrating social art projects for two decades cross-pollinating sectors, ages, and cultures. She believes innovative methods of connecting people, radical collabor...

Cindy's Bio Cindy M Charleyboy is Tsilhqot'in, Secwepemc, and Norwegian and believes strongly that the arts have the capacity to shift perception allowing for greater self-awareness, integration of knowledge and lasting positive change. Her practice includes dreaming, painting, storytelling, singing and drumming.    Cindy has a BA in First Nations Studies from UNBC and works with projects that pri...

Summary:  This podcast is about hearing the voice of guidance in your life, and how and when you follow it - or not! hazel bell kowski shares profound and moving stories about how she came to be a “roadie” for a collection of powerful silk screened flags that themselves “hold space,” literally. If you want to reflect on your destiny, your intuition, your teachers and elders, and the sacred livingn...

Summary:   In this podcast, Jeff Carolin, a lawyer, talks about his journey of moving away from the adversarial legal system towards transformative justice and conflict transformation. He shares his experiences of feeling unfulfilled and disconnected from his work in the legal system, and how he found a sense of purpose in working with restorative justice networks and connecting with organizations...

Dutch  Harry VanDerVelde  is a visual, multi-dimensional thinker. Like all of us, he tries to understand what (his) life is about. He likes to vizualize the ultimate way things should work.  Among other, he makes infographics about organisational issues. The visuals allow insight for its customers through images that reflect their situation from a refreshing out of their box point of view. He comb...

Ez Bridgman helps organizations and individuals connect to their playful vitality in their most important and challenging moments. Through collaborating, making decisions, navigating conflict, establishing priorities and communicating in an enlivening and uplifting way, he supports groups to open up doorways to liberatory organizational cultures and personal empowerment. This shift is not easy. We...

The Adaptagen Podcast is available on Spotify for all to hear, but if you listen at https://facilitate.toolsi.ca (it’s part of Toolsi Free) you can post your questions and comments and I will be sure to respond. Tai Jacob and Cat have been part of an enormous project called Justice Trans . Over sushi with Tai a couple of years ago I was fascinated to hear about the facilitated community research p...

To learn more about creative facilitation, go to https://facilitate.toolsi.ca Brigid loves co-creating spaces with a bit of magic in the air; where people are able to show up, share, challenge, connect, disagree, grow, get a bit uncomfortable and feel heard. She works in cultural programming and production, and as a strategic consultant, program designer and facilitator - she loves a little infras...

I am a community facilitator, theatre artist, life-long learner and creative soul. I have spent the last 15 years connecting and collaborating with diverse communities by co-creating learning environments that are founded upon shared values of diversity, love, respect and self-empowerment - embracing a vision of solidarity, social justice and change from the inside-out. I invite learning that enga...

facilitator | ze/hir/they/them Yami Msosa is a Black genderqueer Malawian arrivant currently living in Tkaronto who grew up as a visitor on Algonquin Territory. As a creative, strategic consultant and facilitator, they love building containers for connections to be forged, and holding space for individual, community, and systems transformation. They joined Bloom in January 2020 as a collaborator....

Francesca Allodi-Ross has spent the last 10 years pursuing parallel paths in law and facilitation. She recently left her work as a lawyer to become Executive Director of Romero House, a community of welcome for refugee claimants in Tkaronto/Toronto. Francesca loves building community, supporting social change, and dancing every day. A note from Nadia I’ve known Francesca for some years now. My exp...

Rehana, M. ED, has a passion for transformative learning, systems change and building capacity for generative dialogue across difference. She has over 15 years of experience in facilitating participatory, arts-based and equity-centered change, and is always learning & unlearning! Rehana is deeply serious and deeply playful at once, believing in the need for thoughtful strategies that center creati...

Moyo Rainos Mutamba, MSW (Social Justice and Diversity) Ph. D. (Social Justice Education) is an Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (ARDEI) consultant, leadership coach, and scholar. He finds joy and meaning in supporting organizations to achieve deep cultural shifts. He specializes in integrating ARDEI principles and practices in organizational policies and operations to create cultures...

Gwyn Wansbrough is an international facilitator, learning experience designer, and course creator. She focuses on empowering educators and team leaders with the skills to make learning more creative, engaging, and human. She specializes in ways to create learning experiences that lead to breakthroughs. Gwyn recently stepped down as Executive Director of global facilitation training organization, P...

Laura June Albert (she/her) is a researcher, cultural producer, and artist. She is a seventh generation European-Canadian settler based in unceded xʷməθkwəy̓əm ( Musqueam ), Skwxwú7mesh ( Squamish ), and Səl̓ílwətaɬ ( Tsleil- Waututh ) territories, colonially known as Vancouver. Laura June's research investigates the experiential body as a liberatory landscape for anticolonial and anticapitalist s...