Ep. 10 - There’s a listening problem: A conversation with Aaron Johnson

We had a little technology glitch, and Shannon dropped off right at the top of this call. But the energy was already rolling and so we decided to keep going.

This week, we are joined by our teacher, mentor, and friend Aaron Johnson of Holistic Resistance. It’s a wide reaching conversation with Aaron modeling how we can disrupt our bios, introducing ourselves to one another in a deeper, more meaningful way.

We talked about the unfair questions that he’s introduced us to, and that he brings into his consulting engagements, offering the listener an opportunity to sit with one. And we talked about how our inability to listen makes it possible for racism to continue to fester in our organizations and our culture.

Links for some things mentioned in this episode:

Aaron’s public phone number: (760) 885–6740 - you can text this number with invitations for Aaron to bring workshops to your area, or to reach in general. He gets a lot of messages, so be patient with him!
Holistic Resistance - The anti-oppression training, consulting, facilitating, organizing organization that Aaron founded with his cousin Porsha Beed. They offer a wide-range of workshops, programs, and trainings. It’s worth checking out everything they do! Sign up for their newsletter on the website to stay up to date with them.
Grief to Action - the non-profit that Holistic Resistance has started to create an African Heritage owned place for People of the Global Majority to grieve and move through the overwhelm of feelings related to oppression. You can support G2A through donations and sharing their work.
Disrupting our Practice Episode 3 - Sessioning: it’s changed our practice - This is the episode we did where we modeled listening sessions (what HR calls Scratch counseling).

This episode was recorded on November 29th, 2022.

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