Conversations Toward Universal Health
Wellbeing, and Community Transformation
The virtues of sight, sound and movement are therapeutic modalities essential to obtaining Universal Health, Well Being, and Community Transformation. Episode one speaks into the use of sound/music as a common bond that provides an on ramp for deeper examinations of the realities of where we experience disease. This informative conversation is part one of a series of episodes which will examine sight, sound and movement as therapeutic modalities for patients as well as those who may not perceive the health challenges they are inside of due to inequality, white supremacy, lack of trust, as well as a myriad of social challenges prevalent in today's world.
Our Conversationalists:
ANDRE ROBINSON
CEO The Robinson Group Community Development
NASAR ABADEY
Drummer, Composer, Educator
Show quotes and highlights
When you get older and you start to appreciate music on its own, you see that it’s sustaining you generationally
There used to be more of a close connection between music, education, and learning
I'm so happy to hear what you're doing to bring your students back to those essences of the music so they can get to the scholarship of it, you know, the legacy
I teach jazz history, jazz combo, and jazz percussion, and it’s been quite a reward for me to be working with young people
I prove how the rhythms that we use today are rhythms that come straight out of Africa, I prove it by standing in front of them and showing them what the rhythm is
Music is a healing force. Especially if it is coupled with the strongest force in the universe, which is love
My work primarily now focuses on community development
My experience around building galleries and revitalizing theaters, actually revitalizing neighborhoods, is that inevitable they become richer and whiter and the local community gets pushed out
We do a deeper dive by trying to get into local communities, into schools, and to neighborhood associations, and so forth and so on. It's a lot of it's a lot of groundwork, you're trying to really improve the local conditions before the contractors move in, in other words, so that folks are prepared
Why don’t we decide that we're going to invest in our communities? That means that our communities will deliver the best that it can for us, because we have hands on. That will mean that our needs and our desires will be will be dealt with
The idea of attracting wealth and attracting opportunities to grow wealth, and develop wealth, means that if you have the positive attitude, and a positive outlook about it, it will seek you out, it's an attraction
A lot of times I think our voices are not centered in the conversation because they go looking for “experts”, and those experts, unfortunately, often don't look like us
What I like to tell the young people I work with is that I’m an old dog who learned new tricks
Creative spaces are so transformative for communities because all of those, those places that we've kind of abandoned, they will almost always see the creative places or they had multiple functions
Profound Conversations Executive Producers are the Muslim Life Planning Institute, a national community building organization whose mission is to establish pathways to lifelong learning and healthy communities at the local, national and global level. MLPN.life
The Profound Conversations podcast is produced by Erika Christie www.ErikaChristie.com
