The Violence of Marginalization

The Allender Center Podcast

The Allender Center

Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Christianity, Trauma, Health & Fitness, Theology

4.6 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

“Marginalization is profoundly violent,” states Linda Royster in this week’s conversation with Dan Allender. Linda is the Strategic Alliances Manager, Lead Instructor, and Co-Facilitator of the Story Workshop for Racial Trauma and Healing at The Allender Center.

From the very beginning, this conversation challenges the use of the term “marginalized.” As we engage topics such as race, gender, and cultural norms, this conversation sets the stage and reminds us to enter the conversation with the desire to listen - really listen - to voices that are often dismissed or diminished.

Linda reminds us that listening well “requires a willingness to mature, to go beyond being the center of your own world and to actually take into consideration that there is value outside of yourself.”

Transcript

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Allender Center podcast.
0:06.7	I'm Dr. Dan Allender.
0:08.7	And I'm Rachel Clinton-Centen.
0:10.5	We're fiercely committed to providing hope and healing to a fragmented world.
0:14.7	And restoration for the heart.
0:17.2	Thank you for joining us.
0:18.5	Let's get this conversation started.
0:28.1	Thank you for joining us. Let's get this conversation started. Well, it's fall. It's fall. And we're in it. And, you know, there is a sense in which the fall is the opportunity. For someone like me, who's kind of an academic,
0:40.5	you know, the new year doesn't begin January 1st. It's September, Roche Hashanah, often around
0:49.9	the 14th of September, the Jewish New Year. So, again, we just want to welcome you to the fall
0:56.6	and to what we're going to be doing for a number of weeks. And that's engaging. Well, I'm going to
1:04.2	introduce my co-host first and then tell you a little bit about Linda Royster. Welcome again to the podcast.
1:13.0	Linda is a therapist in the lovely state of North Carolina.
1:19.8	And she is also a significant leader at the Alender Center.
1:37.6	Hi, Linda. Hi, hi. It's a privilege and so much joy in joining you for the conversation today. My new title is Strategic Alliance's Manager, but I'm also still lead teacher, have kind of
1:47.8	stepped back from facilitation this year.
1:49.9	So very excited about building relationships and alliances over the course of the next year.
1:57.9	Yeah.
1:58.2	So thank you for returning me to the title.
2:03.6	But the bottom line is you are both a brilliant therapist and a brilliant teacher, but also a
2:11.1	woman who loves to make connections between worlds, between people, and between communities.
2:18.0	And that's, in some sense, what we're going to begin today.
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