Looking For The Cracks with Dr. Bayo Akomolafe

The Trauma Therapist

Guy Crawford Macpherson

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement

4.5 • 580 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is a widely celebrated international speaker, posthumanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual, essayist, and author of two books, These Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home (North Atlantic Books) and We Will Tell our Own Story: The Lions of Africa Speak.

Dr. Akomolafe is the Founder of The Emergence Network, a planet-wide initiative that seeks to convene communities in new ways in response to the critical, civilizational challenges we face as a species. He is host of the postactivist course/festival/event, ‘We Will Dance with Mountains’ and currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California. He sits on the Board of many organizations including Science and Non-Duality (US) and Ancient Futures (Australia).

In July 2022, Dr. Akomolafe was appointed the inaugural Global Senior Fellow of University of California’s (Berkeley) Othering and Belonging Institute. He is also the inaugural Special Fellow of the Schumacher Centre for New Economics, the Inaugural Scholar in Residence for the Aspen Institute, the inaugural Special Fellow for the Council of an Uncertain Human Future, as well as Visiting Scholar to Clark University, Massachusetts, USA (2024). He has been Fellow for The New Institute in Hamburg, Germany, and Visiting Critic-in-Residence for the Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (2023).

Finally Bayo is the father to Alethea Aanya and Kyah Jayden Abayomi, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother.

In This Episode

Dr. Bayo Akomolafe’s Website
Bayo’s writings
Socials:
- FB: bayoakomolafeampersand
- IG: @the_emergence_network

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1:40.9	Welcome to the Trauma Therapist podcast, a show about the incredible people dedicated to helping those have experienced trauma.
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1:55.8	Are you ready?
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2:07.9	Okay. Here we go. Five, four, three, two, and one. Our folks, welcome back to the podcast.
2:14.9	Very excited to have us my guest today, Dr. Bioakamalafei, bio, welcome. Thank you, brother.
2:35.5	You're welcome. So, bio, rooted with the Yoruba people in a more than human world, is a widely celebrated international speaker, post-humanist thinker, poet, teacher, public intellectual essayist, and author of two books, including These Wilds Beyond Our Fences, Letters to My Da daughter on humanity's search for a home.
2:48.0	He's a founder of the Emergence Network, a planet-wide initiative that seeks to convene communities in new ways in response to the critical, civilizational challenges we face as a species.
2:52.2	He's also the host of the post-activist course festival event.
2:57.7	We will dance with mountains and currently lectures at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California.
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