In this episode we talk with one of our teachers in the healing centered education world, Dr. Kia Darling-Hammond. Dr. Kia is a psychologist, researcher, educator, and coach, as well as creator of the Bridge to Thriving Framework©, co-author of The Civil Rights Road to Deeper Learning: Five Essentials for Equity, and co-editor of T* Is for Thriving: Blueprints for Affirming Trans* and Gender Creative Lives and Learning in Schools.

As CEO of Wise Chipmunk LLC, a research and education firm, she leverages over 25 years of experience in organizational leadership, education, and youth development to offer research, advising, coaching, and public speaking, as well as designs for professional learning, curriculum development, and organizational

Growth.

Dr. Kia’s work emphasizes the importance of combining the science of learning and development with healing- and transformative justice to promote an evolution toward true thriving for all. This approach is grounded in the knowledge that innovation driven by the wisdom of those furthest from power is key to improving

everyone’s lives.

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In this episode we talk with Dr. Sanayi Beckles-Canton, Executive Director Chloe Day School & Wellness Center, former Pastor at Emanuel AME Tuckahoe Church, and fellow healing-centered educator. The Chloe Day School and Wellness Center is a Reggio Emilia-inspired progressive, inclusive, trauma-informed preschool and community wellness space that embraces families and individuals from all backgrounds. Their preschool and wellness space takes a progressive, trauma-informed – approach to learning, child development, healing, and family empowerment. They believe that children are intrinsically curious and can make meaningful discoveries when given opportunities to explore, play, and experience their environment.

Their Wellness Center, the Healing Space, is a wellness collective aimed at helping the Harlem community find healing from trauma and intergenerational trauma. By supporting people in being intentional about their healing and wellness, they take a person-centered approach to their work.

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In this episode we talk with sister Solana Booth. Solana is aspiring to open her own "Recover me in Wellness Center '', with a focus on "Mother's Breath" otherwise known as plant medicines, First Foods, Breastfeeding, Canoe and Storytelling.

She recently incorporated a Washington State Non-Profit and is also working towards incorporating a 501-C3, called Advocates of Sacred (AOS). “Advocates of Sacred's mission is to champion, integrate and cultivate Indigenous Healing Modalities' '. As a Historical Trauma Expert and principal consultant, she’ll induce our Ancestral strengths and knowings. She employs pre-perinatal psychology, somatic archeology, generational brain spotting, traditional ceremonies, first foods, Mother's Breath ceremony (entheogenic plant), modern media, and traditional story- telling or First Narratives, and is a lactation educator, birth worker trainer, Traditional Canoe society family skipper and owner. She currently facilitates diversity, equity and inclusion convenings for leadership and trains adult leadership health care professionals in Historical Trauma and Family recovery intensives.….

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