227. I CALL YOU LEGENDARY (live keynote excerpt).
In honor of Social Work Appreciation Month, I am honored to share with you this live recording of me reciting my poem I Call You Legendary, from my book, Legendary: A Tribute to Those Who Honorably Serve Devalued Children. The eBook is available exclusively at jaiyajohn.com. This reading is excerpted from Reclaiming Our Sacred Ways, a live, abridged keynote message by Dr. Jaiya John at the January 24, 2018 Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Conference, hosted by Antelope Valley Partners for Health. Lancaster, California. LENGTH 60:00. Available exclusively in the Audio Library at jaiyajohn.com.In the full recording, Jaiya shares a hopeful message on our need to reclaim ancestral, communal, humanistic ways of nurturing, supporting, and responding to crisis within children, families, and communities. In addition to reciting his classic spoken word piece, I Call You Legendary, from his book Legendary, Jaiya addresses a wide range of issues with soulful truthfulness, including:The cultural origins of our current social systemsOur need to reassess the culture of our systemsOur need to rebalance and heal our social worldReckoning with our cultural supremacies and caste systemsEvolving our definition and understanding of child abuseWhat it means to be a healerHonoring and repairing fatherhood and motherhoodThe harm caused by soulless professionalismThe persistence and endurance of Mother TeresaThe critical relationship between wellness and the work of serving livesThe power of hopefulness and gratitudeA path for ending generational suffering and traumaOur need to soulfully celebrate compassionate servitude The medicine of self care, mutual care, and story gardeningThis full recording is a valuable resource for MSW programs, new staff orientation, professional and leadership development, staff meetings, staff retreats, in-service trainings, and culture change initiatives. It is available exclusively in the Audio Library at jaiyajohn.com...Support the show