Lostness, Trauma and Stories of Transformation with Bayo Akomolafe
Transforming Trauma
Brad Kammer
4.4 • 131 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Bayo starts off by sharing a proverb from his Yoruba people: “In order to find your way, you must become lost”. This leads to an invitation to being in the world in a different way.
He offers an alternative, non-pathologizing way to think about trauma and our adaptations to it. Instead of pathologizing what we are afraid of, he invites us to “lean into the cracks, the failures… and maybe by performing your way through those cracks, you may find other ways of being in the world.” Throughout this episode, Bayo offers a possible new vision through stories of transformation.
About Bayo: Bayo Akomolafe (Ph.D.), rooted with the Yoruba people in a more-than-human world, is the father to Alethea and Kyah, the grateful life-partner to Ije, son and brother. 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, Bayo Akomolafe is the Chief Curator of The Emergence Network and host of the online post-activist course, ‘We Will dance with Mountains’.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Transforming Trauma podcast. |
| 0:08.3 | Transforming Trauma is presented by the NARM Training Institute. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm your host, Emily Ruth, and I'm so glad you've joined us today. |
| 0:15.7 | Hi, Transforming Trauma listeners. |
| 0:17.9 | We're excited to share with you that we have two upcoming Level |
| 0:21.7 | 2 NARM Therapist trainings beginning in May and in June. If you're a licensed mental health |
| 0:27.2 | practitioner, we invite you to join us for either of these NARM therapists trainings. One training will |
| 0:32.7 | take place in Austin, Texas, and the other training will take place live and online. This Level 2 training is designed to support mental health professionals who work with clients or populations |
| 0:43.3 | dealing with complex trauma. Being trained in NARM, one of the first clinical models specifically designed to address ACEs and CPTSD, |
| 0:52.3 | supports therapists to learn how to address the long-term |
| 0:55.7 | impacts of adverse childhood experiences and complex post-traumatic stress disorder. |
| 1:00.8 | If you're interested in this training, we encourage you to register now to reserve your spot. |
| 1:04.8 | For more information about both upcoming trainings, please visit narmtraining.com forward |
| 1:10.5 | slash level two. We look forward to |
| 1:13.2 | to you joining our growing international NARM community and are inspired to work with you to bring |
| 1:18.6 | NARM to your clients and communities in order to transform trauma. And now for our interview, |
| 1:25.9 | Bioacamolafay was first trained as a clinical psychologist. |
| 1:30.1 | These days, he identifies more as an author, professor, researcher, and a proud diaper changer. |
| 1:36.1 | He has recognized worldwide for his thoughtful and unconventional take on global crisis, |
| 1:41.8 | social change, and trauma. |
| 1:43.7 | Bio considers his most sacred work to be learning how to be with his daughter and son, |
| 1:48.6 | Alethea, Anaya, and Kaya Jaden, and their mother, his wife and life nectar, Ijioma. |
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