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#HealMeToo Podcast S3 E11:

Practicing Anti-racism & Resilience—Channie Waites

 

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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. 

In this bonus episode to conclude Season 3 of our #HealMeToo #AtHome series, you’ll 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 experiences of grief, racial trauma, and resilience. 

Channie dives deeply into:

  • The nature of racism

  • The ways trauma and resilience can take shape within us

  • The imperative of facing “what is” and then telling our stories

  • How inhabiting our bodies and our power of choice help build resilience

  • Why joy belongs at the heart of every step, even in grief or other painful feelings

  • Why our culture cannot heal until we tell all the truths of White Supremacy, facing and feeling the ways racism infects us, and impairs our connections

  • A joyful movement practice to shake it all out, inspire the giggles, and help shift stuckness in the body

  • And so much more

About Hollaback!

If you don't know  Hollaback! you'll love this org and their excellent trainings, which offer ways each one of us, whatever our identities, can show up as allies for others in trouble. Hollaback! has dedicated training modules to help intervene to stop workplace sexual harassment, LGBTQ+ harassment, street sexual harassment, online trolling, COVID-related Asian/American and xenophobic harassment and this fall they added a training in stopping voter intimidation at the polls!

Hollaback! also offers advanced techniques for conflict de-escalation, a training to help examine and shift our implicit biases, and a beautiful training to strengthen our resilience to start healing from all 2020 has entailed.

Find all 11 #HealMeToo #AtHome episodes from Season 3 on Apple and all the usual podcast platforms as well as our YouTube channel—for insights, art and activism to meet the needs of now.

Listener Resources:

Learn about the Poor People’s Campaign Channie organizes with

Get Trained in Anti-harassment with Hollaback!

Trauma Processing Resources compiled by the Swell Collective  

Find a variety of guides for all folk experiencing harassment here: https://www.ihollaback.org/resources/


The #HealMeToo Podcast is hosted and edited by Hope Singsen, the artist, creativity researcher and survivor-activist who founded the #HealMeToo Festival and Podcast in NYC in the Spring of 2019. 

Music Credits:
Lead vocal: Jovan Martinez, sampling "It's a Love Thing" by The Whispers, in a Choral Improvisation recorded live at a #HealMeToo Festival & Podcast event, led by: Katie Down, Bonita Oliver, Jessica Lurie & Vanessa Marie.

Guest Bio

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Channie Waites is an applied theater practitioner, performing and voice-over artist, educator, facilitator, and program consultant. Her practice is guided by her passion, knowledge, values and commitment to undoing racism and positively contributing to humanity. She has worked and collaborated with youth, senior citizens and social justice leadership programs in the United States, Rwanda and South Africa. She has facilitated workshops within schools, hospital care facilities, supportive housing communities and corrections facilities. Channie has toured and performed professionally within the United States and abroad. Channie has a M.A. in Applied Theatre from the School of Professional Studies-City University of New York and has a B.A. in Theatre with minors in Anthropology and Dance from The Pennsylvania State University.