#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our Culture

#HealMeToo: Insights, Art & Activism to Change Our Culture

The #HealMeToo Podcast went on “pause” with the shutdown, but for our third season, we’re excited to announce a special series and a new YouTube channel for #HealMeToo At-Home—with insights, art, and activism to meet the needs of now. Survivors and our communities are experiencing many forms of trauma in this time of confinement, illness, uprising, and economic stress—not to mention the urgency of November’s elections. So we’ve retooled the #HealMeToo platform to feature video as well as audio interviews, with ideas and tools that may help in the midst of crisis. You can watch each new episode and podcast extra our new YouTube channel at bit.ly/hm2youtube. Binge Season One to hear excerpts and conversations from the first-ever #HealMeToo Festival last spring, and don't miss the live events and deep conversations about ways to have healthier relationships in all aspects of our lives, in Season Two. Follow @healmetoofest on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to join the conversation, and sign up for our mailing list at www.healmetoopodcast.com to get alerts when episodes drop, hosted by Hope Singsen, the artist, activist, survivor, and Founding Artistic Director of the #HealMeToo Festival.

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S3 E11: Practicing Anti-racism & Resilience

S3 E11: Practicing Anti-racism & Resilience

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. Hear Channie share generously of her own wisdom about our nation’s illness of racism and the necessity of truth telling, reconciliation and joy. She unpacks many steps toward healing, drawing on her years of work in Rwanda, as well as personal experienc...

22 Feb 20211h 10min

S3 E10: Supporting Teens & Kids Through This Time

S3 E10: Supporting Teens & Kids Through This Time

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. As we enter a new year, with many young people resuming remote learning, we're sharing an interview recorded in early fall, with insights, guidance and practical tips from Ashleigh Anderson, a Relationship Abuse Prevention Program coordinator at NYC's Edward R. Murrow High School...

31 Des 202044min

S3 Xtra 5: "Box Breathing" Meditation

S3 Xtra 5: "Box Breathing" Meditation

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. Learn more about using Box Breathing to keep steady when witnessing and intervening in harassment and other harmful situations during the full interview with Jorge in S3 E9: Bystander Intervention for ...

20 Des 20203min

S3 E9: Bystander Intervention for Racism, Police Violence & Ending Harassment in All Its Forms

S3 E9: Bystander Intervention for Racism, Police Violence & Ending Harassment in All Its Forms

After a hiatus to organize and lead election activist events 7-days-a-week, we’re back! Our guest this week: Jorge Arteaga, the Director of Operations for Hollaback!—an incredible FREE bystander intervention training org whose mission began with stopping street sexual harassment and has expanded, to stop harassment in all its forms.Jorge is also the originator of their training in Bystander Intervention to Stop Police Sponsored Violence and Anti-Black Racist Harassment, which he previews...

6 Des 202051min

S3 E8: #KeepSharingTheMic--"We Need to Listen to Black Women"

S3 E8: #KeepSharingTheMic--"We Need to Listen to Black Women"

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.We're so grateful that Jovan and Cassity retu...

8 Sep 202056min

S3 E7: Creating a "Culture of Care" in Our Work Spaces

S3 E7: Creating a "Culture of Care" in Our Work Spaces

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?Akia Squitieri is an award-winning Producer, Director, Arts Administrator, and Anti-Harassment Advocate. She is the Founding Artistic Director of Ri...

25 Aug 202049min

S3 E6: Latinx Survivor Activism & Healing in 2020

S3 E6: Latinx Survivor Activism & Healing in 2020

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. Jennifer and Lorraine share an update on how Latinx survivors are doing, who VIP Executive Director, Margarita Guzmán, recently described as hunted by abusive partners, abusive g...

10 Aug 202054min

S3 E5: #HealMeToo Call to Action -- How We #WinEverything in Under 100 Days

S3 E5: #HealMeToo Call to Action -- How We #WinEverything in Under 100 Days

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. As you may have heard before from #HealMeToo Podcast host, Hope Singsen, she's led an electoral activist group since early 2017 called Swing Left Target 2020 NYC. You can learn more about that group at ...

5 Aug 202054min