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Update frequency:
every 41 days
Average audio length:
38 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Canada
24 episodes
since Oct. 6, 2022
episodic

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How can being together on the land and engaging in ceremonies and healing support transformational change for people who have experienced incarceration? How can we create futures that center Indigenous perspectives and experiences of health and justice? And what examples can we look to of this heal…

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How can we support healing and create wellness in urban Indigenous settings? What role do policies and the land play in seeing that healing bloom? And how can we turn to hope and keep pushing for change when faced with the reality of systemic colonial harm? In episode two, Lyana sits down with Ging…
How can organizations like the Native Courtworker and Counselling Association of British Columbia support Indigenous healing in and beyond the justice system? What makes this work so vital? And what is the story behind this essential work? In this first episode of From Ceremony Up, we welcome Hugh …
In Season 6 of On Being Ill we’ll be doing things a bit differently… This whole season will be a chance for you to explore a brand new podcast mini-series – From Ceremony Up, hosted by Lyana Patrick, our Podcaster in Residence. She'll present diverse Indigenous understandings of health and justice,…
How does the logic of speech pathology affect stutterers and non-stutterers alike? Can we deconstruct, unsettle, and bend fluency privilege in favour of embracing vocal difference? And how might one go about designing an interactive knowledge platform with this goal in mind? In this episode, Emilia…
How might one begin to transform a remote bush quarter in Northern Alberta into an off-grid organic farm and artist residency? Can citizen science help us keep track of ecological change? And why oh why must we listen to the bees? In this episode, Emilia sits down to discuss these questions and mor…
What role does noise pollution play on our embodied health and the health of the planet? How can the seemingly small act of writing poetry connect us to the biggest historical and contemporary issues? Does pain have a number? And if not, why are we still using pain scales? In this episode, Emilia s…

Season 5 Trailer

We're back for season five of On Being Ill. This time, we sat down with three writers who ask: what might be gained, for stutterers and non-stutterers alike, by interrogating fluency privilege? Can numbers or words ever really convey the feeling of pain? And what might we hear if we stop to listen …
Is there a connection between storytelling and wellbeing? How can we find beauty among lands and waters devastated by industry? And how does land-based knowledge and teaching defy disciplinary divisions and instead invite collaboration? In this episode, Emily sits down to discuss these questions an…
What projects might you find in the research portfolio of an Indigenous feminist sociologist with a penchant for labour studies? Is it possible for a 6-person team to co-author a truly cohesive book on climate change? And how do we go about restoring balance in a world based in greed and excess? In…
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