#healmetoo: insights, art & activism to change our culture by Hope Singsen
In early January, educator, facilitator and applied theater practitioner, Channie Waites, led a remarkable Hollaback! Resilience workshop to help people process the compound traumas of the Jan 6 attempted coup by White Supremacists.
The final episode of 2020 and the concluding episode of Season 3: #HealMeToo #AtHome centers the needs (and the extraordinary resilience) of young people experiencing unprecedented isolation and many forms of trauma.
In this Podcast Extra, Hollaback! Deputy Director and bystander intervention trainer, Jorge Arteaga, leads listeners in a short grounding practice called "Box Breathing." This practice is used by the military and you may find it comes in handy to help de-escalate every other type of stress too.
After a hiatus to organize and lead election activist events 7-days-a-week, we’re back!
In this episode, we changed up the format to #KeepSharingtheMic with Jovan Martinez and Cassity Yeye of the STEPS to End Family Violence Early Relationship Abuse Prevention Program, who graced the stage at a #HealMeToo Festival pop up event earlier this year, A Love Thing, recorded for Season 2 of the podcast. Jovan’s beautiful lead singing at that event also graces the opening and closing credits of each episode in Season 3, sampling The Whispers.
In such traumatic times, and especially in light of the Movement for Black Lives against systemic racism, as well as the dangers, lost lives and lost incomes in the pandemic, right now our workplaces and work relationships are pressed to become more centered in care. But how can each of us, as workers or employers, adjust our practices to do this?
Meet Jennifer Ruiz Diaz and Lorraine Correa, two amazing advocates and counselors from the Sexual Violence Project at Violence Intervention Program (VIP) in New York City, a community-based, non-profit organization partnering with Latinx and immigrant communities to end domestic, intimate partner and sexual violence.
The #HealMeToo Podcast & Festival have always offered insights, art, and activism to change our culture. And today, we’re taking a break from our usual format, to focus on that third part: activism -- what each of us can do to help change the culture and meet the urgent needs of now.
Settle in for a short chair yoga exploration with Julie Fernandez, lead trainer from Exhale to Inhale, a nonprofit that teaches trauma-informed yoga for free to survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence.
Discover the amazing Exhale to Inhale, a nonprofit that teaches trauma-informed yoga for free to survivors of domestic violence and sexual violence, now available online for free to everyone experiencing stress and trauma! Our guest is Julie Fernandez, lead trainer at Exhale to Inhale, and the primary trauma therapist with the Hope Integrative Psychiatry team.
Learn how technology is getting weaponized during the COVID-19 shutdown (and always) for people dealing with toxic relationships & intimate partner violence, as well as in the sextortion and abuse of minors and men--and most importantly, learn strategies that can help.
A very special Podcast Extra with Sherina Davis, professional trainer, ontological coach and educator with Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States. Sherina led us in a short guided meditation to explore the grounding comfort of being quiet and simply present with our bodies, and with deep and gentle breaths.
Learn about the incredible work of NYC’s Safe Horizon, the largest non-profit victim services agency in the United States. Maureen Curtis, VP of Criminal Justice & Court Programs and Sherri Papamihalis, Clinical Director at Safe Horizon’s Counseling Center, help kick off the #HealMeToo #AtHome series with an update on the spike in domestic violence and childhood sexual abuse experienced through the shutdown, the sudden recession, and the toll of racial trauma coming up in response to increasing White Supremacist violence, unrelenting police brutality, and the uprising in defense of Black Lives.
In this Podcast Extra, therapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, David Fredrickson, leads listeners in a short practice called a "Self-Compassion Break." To learn more about this practice, listen to the full conversation with David in S3 E1: The Kindness & Support of Mindful Self-Compassion. Or, watch the full episode on our new YouTube channel.
In this Podcast Extra, therapist and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, David Fredrickson, leads listeners in a short practice called "Supportive Touch." To learn more about this practice, listen to the full conversation with David in S3 E1: The Kindness & Support of Mindful Self-Compassion. Or, watch the full episode on our new YouTube channel.
In the Premiere Episode of Season 3, hear the therapist and teacher of a healing practice called Mindful Self-Compassion, David Fredrickson, and learn some techniques that may help you offer yourself loving kindness, support or even comfort right when experiencing stress, discomfort or pain.
Announcing the #HealMeToo Podcast's third season -- #HealMeToo At-Home — with insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now. Tune in on July 6 on your favorite podcasting platform or on our new #HealMeToo Podcast & Festival YouTube channel.
Sexologist Joli M. Ienuso (@jo_li_brary on IG) discusses the road to heal our intimate relationships after sexual, gender-based or intimate partner violence, including options to gradually reclaim sexual well being and even good sex. Learn more on the episode details page on our website.
Learn about the powerful work of The Angel Band Project and the unique relationship we have with own own voice—including a playful exercise you can join in from home. Guests include music therapist Katie Down, back again after her appearance in Episodes 1 & 2 of this season, and Rachel Ebeling, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Angel Band Project, as well as Amber, a survivor who just recorded her Song of Survival with Katie and Rachel, for the Angel Band Project’s upcoming cd release.
Hear dancer, choreographer, educator, playwright, and trained natural healer, Jinah Parker explore the ways and reasons that telling our story through movement can be a powerful resource for healing. Jinah is the creator of “SHE” which explores intersections of racial injustice with sexual violence, which The Root describes as “a choreoplay that fiercely tackles sexual, physical, emotional and state violence, along with self-care and healing.”
Before A LOVE THING (shared in Episodes 1&2 of Season 2), host Hope Singsen read a few Community Agreements, as we do at every #HealMeToo Festival show that includes audience conversations. Hope referred to these agreements briefly during the panel discussion in last week’s episode, and thought now would be a great time to share them in full.
Part 2 of a live recording of the first #HealMeToo Festival Popup event of 2020 -- A LOVE THING, featuring teen and young adult musicians, performers and advocates talking about ways to have more healthy relationships and handle harmful ones.
Part 1 of a live recording of the first #HealMeToo Festival Popup event of 2020 -- A LOVE THING, featuring teen and young adult musicians, performers and advocates talking about ways to have more healthy relationships and handle harmful ones.
Tune in on Valentine’s Day for the first episode of #HealMeToo Podcast’s brand new season of insights, art and activism to change our culture.
FREE! A Love Thing: Live Show & #HealMeToo Podcast Taping
We often focus--rightly--on the needs of victims and survivors. But "Secondary Survivors" are the supporters and loved ones of any victim of sexual violence, who may themselves become traumatized. In this episode, we focus on the healing needs of everyone around the victim, to recognize and understand how sexual violence impacts #FamiliesToo.
As we get ready for an exciting #HealMeToo Festival Popup Event this weekend -- the World Premiere of Tony-winner Tonya Pinkins' Truth And Reconciliation of Womyn this Saturday at 3 PM in NYC at The Tank theater, we hope enjoy these excerpts from the #HealMeToo Festival presentation last March and April, 2019 at the IRT Theater.
6 gorgeously interesectional artists share honestly (and humorously) about the beauty and challenges of working together to create art that heals our lives and culture
An audio drama extra featuring:
Two phenomenal artist-activists for social justice and the human rights of trans, nonbinary and gender nonconforming (GNC) folks, Ianne Fields Stewart and Maybe Burke, join us to talk about the pervasive experiences of sexual violence and gender oppression within their communities, and ideas that help support healing.
Artist and Chief-of-Staff at The Moth, Sarah Jane Johnson, and Patrice Miller, director, joined Hope Singsen to discuss their project, Devil In A Box, which was presented to sold out houses at The #HealMeToo Festival.
An audio drama excerpt from the solo play with music, SKIN, created and performed by Hope Singsen, the artist, survivor/activist, and founder of the #HealMeToo Festival. Director: Jessi D. Hill, Stage Manager: Yve Carruthers.
Listen to a recording of a talk Hope gave at the national conference of the Alliance for Arts in Research Universities (A2RU) in November 2018, about the ways she is using her solo play with music, SKIN, to hopefully impact and even help audiences to heal, and how she is demonstrating those impacts through audience research.
Sex educator, relationship advisor & co-founder of iOS advice app, okayso.app, Elise Schuster, and Valeria Koutmina of The Art Therapy Project use the Festival performance of Hope Singsen's solo play with music, SKIN, as a jumping off point to consider common questions about the healing process.
Artists and audiences alike describe feeling changed by visual, narrative, musical, and performance works of art. The shift can be slight, but it can be profound, too. What's happening in our minds and bodies when we engage with the arts, to allow that transformation to occur? Are there special ways art-making can help address the neurobiological effects of trauma, in particular? And might engaging with art, individually and as a culture, help inspire the changes we wish to bring about?
Part 2 continues the #TheatreToo conversation, as 5 industry leaders answer audience Q&A and:
How are theatre artists organizing to take the "whisper" out of the network? In Part 1, five knowledgable leaders discuss their work to address and prevent sexual harassment and assault within the theatre industry:
Hear 3 survivor advocates doing amazing work to help #HealMeToo in our culture:
Meet performers from the #HealMeToo Festival Opening Night, including teens from Katie Cappiello’s GoodCapp Arts Ensemble and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School’s Smash Arts Productions.
2 experts in the art of personal storytelling fielded questions from our live audience about how audience interactions with storytellers may contribute to healing -- for the audience, for the performers, and ultimately for the culture. In the process, they shared stories of encountering resistance, the value of empathy and the art of listening, and times that audience interactions could be guided toward transformational encounters.
Hear two experts in the art of personal storytelling consider how telling and listening to our stories may be healing.
Answering a question from a French audience member who followed their Mattress Performance protest throughout 2014-15, Emma shares stories about two of the most surprising, authentic and positive interactions with strangers while carrying the mattress at Columbia University.
World-famous artist and activist Emma Sulkowicz debunks misconceptions about their protest work "Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight)" in which they carried a mattress from 2014 to 2015 at Columbia University, sparking a movement against rape on campuses worldwide -- and shares personal stories and insights about the healing process they experienced while creating that work.
Subscribe now to get #HealMeToo Podcast Extras throughout Season One with longer excerpts of the plays, monologues, poems, songs and more heard at the #HealMeToo Festival. In order of appearance, this episode features the following excerpts:
Hear from the 50+ artists, experts and activists who performed in the first-ever #HealMeToo Festival or joined panels and participatory workshops to empower survivors and help inspire change.
