End of Life considerations, planning, and support is available through The Doula Guild and its members. Join the guild and Wren Ribeiro as she interviews one member about her work as a doula. What insights does she have? What trends are she noticing? What films and books are available to help us expand our perspective about planning for end of life? Watch this interview on the InnerFortune channel .
Curious why we wear black after a loved one dies -- especially on Tuesdays? Join Wren Ribeiro and Mujéres Co-Labor for Peace guest Kate Mollison of On Tuesdays We Wear Black as we jump right on into the subject of grief. This intimate conversation about peaceful dying holds great joy as a requirement to healthy grieving as well as insights about bereavement leave and the costs of not being well in the workplace due to grief and other struggles we all experience. Ever been to a seasons grieving g...
There are options for us in the process of dying. We can have a peaceful, soft and quiet experience at home surrounded by loved ones. Grief tender Minda Sanchez, co-founder of the Village Doulas and the Doula Guild shares her work as a doula planning for and celebrating the lives of two women who engaged her services for their dying process. Mujéres Co-Labor for Peace host Wren Ribeiro shares intimate details about her mom's passing and affirms the heart moments that not only support the person ...
Following the Namu Myoho Renge Kyo chanting for peace, Sister Clare and Wren Ribeiro explore what a Peace Pagoda is and the practice of being peaceful with the land -- the pure land -- we all get to appreciate each day. This episode touches on the practices of honoring our ancestors, one that Wren got to experience at the Peace Pagoda in August, where prayers and offerings are shared in celebration and healing for our deceased relatives -- bringing peace to them across time and space. Sister Cla...
If you've ever wanted to dabble with writing a prayer you can embody as you recite it, here is one you might like to try out. Wren Ribeiro and Sister Clare Carter share in this call and response prayer as a way to prepare for and give thanks for the opportunity to talk together about peaceful actions to heal the souls of those who did not pass peacefully. Watch the video on the InnerFortune channel .
Chanting, particularly this chant, is an immensely powerful peace action one can take individually or in community. Namu Myoho Renge Kyo has a translation of: "Devotion (or Glory) to the Mystic Law (or Dharma) of the Lotus Sutra" and can be further described as a choice to surrender reason in gratitude for the infinite unknowable mystery bringing an ebb and flow of learning experiences in life. Sister Clare Carter leads Wren Ribeiro in a learning of this chant. Enjoy! Watch the video on the Inne...
End of life conversations are important and can be some of the hardest to have with family members. Deborah Ekstrom is a doula who has decades of experience in difficult health care spaces. As a former CEO of Community Healthlink and a trained political scientist, Deborah explains some of the big picture end of life health care challenges in the United States along with very practical considerations for providing your loved ones with their dying wishes. Join Mujéres Co-Labor for Peace host Wren ...
What is a Death Doula and what advice does one expert have for planning a peaceful death regardless of age or illness? What is a health care proxy and why is it critical? Hear stories of end of life by End-of-Life expert Patti Muldoon as she shares examples of what often goes wrong and what goes well. Watch this important interview on the InnerFortune channel .
Peaceful Dying - the theme of season 2 of Mujéres Co-Labor for Peace (MC4P) with host Wren Ribeiro. What are some cultural traditions that honor ancestors with celebration? What are some women saying about the need to plan for dying? Or at least talk about it! Tune in and find out with InnerFortune/MC4P. Watch this season intro on the InnerFortune channel .
Peaceful Dying -- let's talk about it. With a layered focus on interviews with death doulas and other professionals co-laboring for peace at the end of life, interviews with those actively preparing for a "good" death, and episodes spotlighting insights and other women making a difference, this season will support a more peaceful living as it informs about death and dying.
This is a sweet recap of 21 episodes in MC4P's first season highlighting show guests and their important peacemaking collaborations, along with a tribute to Jane McAlevey, music of BCUC that inspired the writing of Wren's womanifesto that led her to produce Mujéres Co-Labor for Peace, and a number of gleanings from that document. Watch this season recap video on the InnerFortune channel .
We've got inspiration in abundance for you in this two-part Mujéres Co-Labor for Peace episode. Imagine walking 4000 miles with a heavy backpack. That's what Susan Raffo is doing right now! In this first part we hear how inspired conversation brings grace to life's challenges -- even when someone (me) get 9 ticks in one day! We drop in to the experience of bodywork for our children along with little known appropriated history of cranio-sacral therapy, and, especially, ways to hold one another wi...
Being concrete with words in order to not override emotions like fear. Talking about injustice or harm directly about real people and real situations -- not vaguely -- so that language doesn't perpetuate more fear. Words are magic and deserve to be alive -- in us and in between us. Join Mujéres Co-Labor for Peace for the second half of this dive into how language connects or disconnects, Susan's experience co-laboring on the Healing Histories Project and their beyond impressive 500 plus year tim...
Yes, it has been centuries of inequity for women. But Cassidy Sugimoto brings equity for women in science with ALL the numbers to quiet any naysayers or antagonists! Dr. Sugimoto shares her hopes for expanding spheres of influence, for leaders like Jess Wade and Kaye Husbands Fealing, and for lasting behavioral changes to dismantle the systemic barriers to advancement for women — in science and beyond. Watch this episode for all the visual details on the InnerFortune channel ....
Join in with Mujéres Co-Labor for Peace for an intimate conversation with Bitsy Joy Bentley, a clay artist, climate activist, leader in democratic process, and facilitator of embodiment practice toward cultural harm reduction and respect. Hear stories of very slow relationship building between members of the Prairie Island Indian Community and Wasicu (white settlers) on Mdewakanton Dakota territory in and around Red Wing Minnesota. Watch this video interview on the InnerFortune channel ....
Watch (or listen to) an activist who lives as if activism were her rent for living on this beautiful planet. A healer of misogyny, capitalism, and climate change through decades of peace vigils and advocacy for housing and food sovereignty, and making spaces for intergenerational lesbian connection and celebration -- including in an upcoming pride parade, Mary McClintock knows activism. Her stories inspire shifts in perspective about capitalism and choice. Her sheros are many. And this intimate ...
You've heard the phrase "hurt people hurt people" -- the flip side is also true insomuch as healed and healing people can help others heal. Join in for an intimate MC4P conversation between host Wren Ribeiro and guest Darnell Adams as she reflects on preparations for publishing articles about food sovereignty and facilitating high stakes conversations. Watch this video interview on the InnerFortune channel .
This episode includes an educational segment for students grappling with the intersectionality of climate change, capitalism, and misogyny that is balanced with heart centeredness, discussion of how to take action, how to cultivate motivation, and the trustworthy wisdom keepers holding the weight of these realities. Dive in to the history of the electric car and why fossil fuels overtook what Thomas Edison called the superior technology. Features MaMuse, Linda Hogan, Elizabeth Kolbert, Robin Wal...
This is a great episode for you if taking that first step toward healing feels hard. Allison Luke shares a number of frameworks for understanding psychological safety along with examples for what to look out for. Wren explains the difference between static trauma and dynamic trauma and together she and Allison inspire courage to accept brokenness as a true part of being human along the journey to wholeness. Watch this interview on the InnerFortune channel ....
What are the differences between a cooperative and a corporation? Find out a few in this episode with Allison Luke and host Wren Ribeiro on Mujéres Co-Labor for Peace. Psychological safety is explained with a few key insights and inspirations. Watch this lively interview on the InnerFortune channel .
Learn from a science teacher and farmer about the stardust in our blood and the origins of oxygen in an intimate conversation with Wren Ribeiro. Guest Renee Toll DuBois returns in ceremony to inspire healing at the root levels of day to day life. Mentions of Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Hurricane Katrina on Mujéres Co-Labor for Peace. Watch this video interview on the InnerFortune channel .
Saint Brigid has made a comeback after 1500 years! Join Wren Ribeiro and Guest Renee Toll-DuBois in ceremony as this intimate conversation meanders through time and place with reverence for water, love in action, and the work to heal ourselves, each other, and our plant and animal kin. Watch this video interview on the InnerFortune channel .
Join us for emotional PhD level explorations to heal systemic injustices still creating poverty conditions for 140 million Americans and upheld by the prison industrial complex. Black Capitalism and Greenwood are highlighted alongside the Poor People's Campaign and Black Lives Matter. Spotlighted are Patrisse Khan Cullers and Mehrsa Baradaran and REP the Relationships Evolving Possibilities on MC4P sponsored by InnerFortune.com. Watch this episode on the InnerFortune video channel ....
Mujéres Co-Labor for Peace returning guests, Emily Kawano from Wellspring Cooperative and the Massachusetts Solidarity Economy Network and Sarah Assefa from the Coalition of Worker Ownership & Power and the Dorchester Food Cooperative, explore alliance building and the complexities of housing development, the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act, and the Food Cooperative Initiative with host Wren Ribeiro. Watch this sequel on the InnerFortune channel ....
Mujéres Co-Labor for Peace Guests Emily Kawano and Sarah Assefa weigh in about their deep experience in the cooperative movement — topics from food and workplace sovereignty, democratic control over the important aspects of our lives, bringing cooperative decision making to new spaces, and we end in the big question about the possibilities in building alliances between worker owned cooperatives and labor unions. Watch this double interview on the InnerFortune channel ....
This episode features the works of Ellen Brown of the Public Banking Institute and author of Web of Debt, Marjorie Kelley author of Owning Our Future, and Naomi Klein author of The Shock Doctrine, along with stories of emerging into one's story of capitalism and taking steps to co-labor for social responsibility. Watch What is Your Capitalism Story on the InnerFortune channel .
A Dear Karen letter from the book, Beyond Karen: Emerging from the depths of an epic epithet is read in an episode of MC4P reflecting on ways Karens racist and self centered behaviors may have been a capitalist's idea of distracting mainstream white folks from centering the importance of Black lives. Watch this Beyond Karen episode on the InnerFortune channel .
We can fortify ourselves by women's labors in waves of feminism, labor justice, and writings on equanimity in this episode of MC4P. Featured women include Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Sonora Jha, Andrea Dworkin, Silvia Federici, and Christina Feldman. Watch this video on the InnerFortune channel
How do we unburden our ancestors and descendants from the effects of misogyny? This episode digs into emotional processing techniques including dream incubation with ancestral support and explores the works of White Awake, Inner Fortune, Kate Manne, The Atlantic, Phobe Lou Adams, Karen DeCrowe, Sophie Gilbert, Internal Family Systems, Legacy Burden, Roxanne Gay, and the notion of inner gaslighting. Watch this important video on the InnerFortune channel ....
How might matrilineal primate societies, TREES, Embodiment and Biomimicry support our healing? People featured include Melissa Emery Thompson, Audre Lorde, Angela Saini, Rianne Eisler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Creators & Guests Wren Ribeiro - Host Watch this rich video on the InnerFortune channel .
