iChange Justice

Joy Gilfilen interviews Ryan Bowman about creating the Sanitary Assistance Corps (SAC) program to combat homelessness, poverty and mental health challenges. As an empowerment program for life skills training through community involvement, it could be followed by the Gleaning Assistance Corps, and the Environmental Assistance Corps. Ryan's strategies are inspired by historical projects like the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) which was a Depression-era program that put young men to work in rural areas and parks throughout the country to help conservation efforts. Today it could work similarly for all ages and sexes, people who have been marginalized and displaced by civic challenges to help them stabilize and rebuild their lives. Ryan is also the host of "Ryes Up" on Spotify, tune in for stimulating innovative thinking.

Host Joy Gilfilen talks with Phreddie Xwenang Lane about how justice connects with the indigenous people of the Salish Sea, and The Gathering of the Eagles events happening in May in the San Juan Islands. Specifically on May 25, the Coast Salish Tribal Canoe Journey will bring four tribal canoes ashore to do sacred ceremonies at WayPoint Park on the banks of Whatcom Creek in downtown Bellingham! People are invited to join the celebrations, the fair and the historical gathering! This is an international potlatch style event as part of the Memorial Day weekend celebrations associated with the Mt. Baker Ski to Sea International Race competition. Freddie talks about his own history as part of the native Coast Salish people being taken from their lands, sent to boarding schools in Oregon, then returned decades later to the land reservations created by the government called the Lummi Nation and the Nooksack Reservation. How does it all work today with different jurisdictions in charge?

Host Joy Gilfilen engages in a Civic Cafe discussion with Irene Morgan about the cultural, socioeconomic, and emotional impacts of the past few years of global upheaval. The upheaval resulted in high levels of fear due to military control implemented "for public safety." This control created ripple effects across countries, cultures, and entire industries. It caused disruptions on so many levels that it's difficult to see the long-term domino effects of shutdowns, lockdowns, and the trauma inflicted on people from different backgrounds. The discussion delves into the economic dark side of fear and how living in family units and on farms can provide a buffer against it. They also explore how media distortion of information for fear-mongering generates profit but harms people. The conversation highlights how mass media can promote mass domination and mass incarceration. Ultimately, they emphasize the importance of shifting focus towards caring for people and healing trauma.

Join Joy Gilfilen, host, as she discusses the Solar eclipse of 2024 with Eric from last week about how the planets revolving through space will change the future inevitably. It's wisdom seen over time. It's physics as we record patterns of predictable reality when we pay attention. If we are not watching, we do not see. So, sages watch and track. We know that human behaviors change when tides change. We feel it. Much is to be learned from how the planets are positioned when the sun shines and time passes over thousands of years. What comes next? Listen to Eric Thompson discuss what he has learned from studying the movement of planets through thousands of years of history and how this will affect our beliefs about slavery, freedom, culture, and society. Listen to the full episode locally at noon on Thursdays on KOYS-LPFM 94.1-Bellingham or on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio, or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X, and Linkedin.

Join Joy Gilfilen, host, as she talks about justice and how it relates to our local and global history, the earth, the moon, physics, and the waters of the world. The Eclipse of April 8, 2024, is a significant topic for many civic scientists, physicists, farmers, 1st responders, healers, original nations people, and sages from all faiths. Why? They study the past to anticipate the future and know that human behaviors change when tides change, which has social, civic, and economic impacts. They know that when planets change positions in the universe, tides change, changing the emotional status of everything that everyone is doing around the world. Listen to Eric Thompson discuss what he has learned from studying the movement of planets through thousands of years of history and how this is affecting our beliefs about slavery, freedom, culture, and society.

Host Joy Gilfilen interviews Eduard Muller of the University for International Collaboration about "Regenerative Economics!" This is another Civic Cafe Conversation in which Eduard discusses regenerative agriculture, regenerative farming, and greenways! Ironically, we can save our economy, food, forests, and fisheries, put people to work doing regenerative and restorative work, help us heal our ecosystems, and provide a future for humankind! This is a fresh way to look at economic development! Find us on Spotify and everywhere you get your podcasts. Thank you, our local radio station KOYS-LPFM 94.1-Bellingham, for airing our show every Thursday at Noon.

#124-iChange Justice Podcast- "The Betrayal - Origin Story"-Patricia Anne Davis, a Navajo elder. Joy Gilfilen interviews Patricia Anne Davis, a Navajo elder, about her reflections about the business of justice as it relates directly to her study of the Origin and Betrayal Stories of her culture and their language. Her basic analysis of violence, monetary systems, and the jail and justice industries reveals patterns that permeate our worlds. Her research has allowed her to get to the roots of it all so she can tell the stories in a way that enables us all to understand the problems and how we can change the outcomes. Find us on Spotify and everywhere you get your podcasts. Thank you, our local radio station KOYS-LPFM 94.1-Bellingham, for airing our show every Thursday at Noon.

"The power of Art, Expression and Leadership as it relates to the “Business of Justice”with Host Joy Gilfilen, Irene Morgan and Shawn Gallaway" “Singing for Peace and Justice”Shawn Gallaway, a Singer-Songwriter speaks with host Joy Gilfilen and Irene Morgan about the power of art, expression and leadership as it relates to the business of justice. As many of us know, music often paves the way for change. When the world is under great stress, often it is the music of love in action, that can make a difference. We all know that we are at "ChoicePoint" in the world today to take compassionate action, so listening to many of his original songs online may inspire, uplift and bring joy to many. Shawn talks about his journeys towards peace and why he recently recorded his original solo "I Choose Love" song (after 9/11) to become "WE Choose Love" performed by four singers more recently! It reflects the importance of including more voices in the vision of bringing hope, compassion, and freedom to a world desiring facing fear and conflict. The desire of peace, vitality and love can help us flip the switch! Listen to the full episode locally at noon on Thursdays on KOYS-LPFM 94.1-Bellingham or on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X and LinkedIn.

Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice, has been hosting civic cafe style talks in her community about "Dome Homes and Intentional Villages". The question eventually boils down to discussing public will and how we can team up to solve the complex and compound challenges of homelessness, the high costs of living, disaster, emergency and climate crisis issues while also building functional cities and towns. This excerpt features an AfterChat with Marc Santos and Maryam Sharifi. They advocate for building highly effective and functional Geodesic Dome Homes and tiny home intentional villages as a bridge to the future. Together, we discuss the opportunities in small groups to pilot, test and resolve some of the most snarly issues about public acceptance. Big Shout out to HomesNow in Bellingham for their "Focus in Action to address homelessness in Bellingham in partnership with the City of Bellingham and the County. Thank you, our local radio station KOYS-LPFM 94.1-Bellingham for airing our show every Thursday at Noon

Joy Gilfilen, Host of the iChange Justice Podcast, interviews Marc Santos of NobleGoldman.com about how "Regenerative Economics" is the next step in transforming the business of injustice. It is all about learning how to value humans inside an economic system that includes rebuilding our communities. At this point, the economy is enrolled in a degenerative pattern of exclusion for the benefit of the privileged interests that control the system. To understand the complexity of the problem, we do a flashback into history. Marc explains how changes in monetary policies going back to the 70s and the Friedman Doctrine changed the balance of power in our economies in the 80s and 90s, which is even more extreme today. It created a serious imbalance in favor of "shareholder supremacy," which has been deeply misrepresented and convoluted throughout our discussions in the civic square. This has led to extreme conflicts in so many ways that it is riddled with doublespeak, greed, and extreme civic trauma. The negative impact is felt at every societal level - yet in the middle is a thread of common sense that we can use to heal the heartbreak as we reknit our society using restorative economic tools. Find iChange Justice Podcast everywhere you get your Podcasts. Thank you to our local station, KOYS-LPFM 94. for airing our show every Thursday at Noon. This episode is a Rewind to an earlier interview with Marc Santos.

Host Joy Gilfilen discusses "Gaps & Needs for Financial and Life Skills Training" with Christi Carey, the founder of Teens, Training and Taxes, a non-profit foundation working with people who have been displaced by family crisis, poverty, homelessness, or an arrest and incarceration. - all situations where lives are thrown into upheaval. Christi has professional degrees and direct lived experience in CA, AZ and WA as a mental health counselor, in-home counselor in foster homes, substitute teacher in juvenile detention and in the adult jail in AZ. She has taught at alternative high schools, community colleges, at tribal schools. A new online program will debut this year at TheRestorativeCommunity.org.

Joy Gilfilen, Host of iChange Justice asks Irene Morgan to talk about her lived experience of helping people reenter society and the job market after doing time in the incarceration system, then being released. Irene speaks from over 18 years of helping people reorient to a changed world where they have to rebuild their lives, clean up their records so they can get jobs, rent, and face a digit workplace, get credentials or even their driver's license. Find iChange Justice Podcast everywhere you get your Podcasts. Thank you, our local radio station KOYS-LPFM 94.1-Bellingham for airing our show every Thursday at Noon

Our conversation explored the evolving landscape of the justice system, drawing on his unique perspective as a former federal prisoner and his past work across different jails and prisons nationwide. He shared his experiences assisting inmates, jail commanders, and other officials in achieving personal empowerment and driving systemic reform. Our conversations started with personal accountability, and illustrated how the single actions of one person can ripple through the lives of others personally, in family lives, and transform the systems. They are indelibly interconnected. We discussed how the proof is in the pudding as they say, and we talk about touring the new Justice Center in Yavapai County AZ. We discussed how this facility has embraced, enlarged upon and then implemented the ideas that were originally sparked by Irene Morgan working with Don over 16 years ago related to new reentry, restorative justice, and direct services that focus on rehabilitation. The results are remarkable. Thank you to our local broadcast partner KOYS LPFM 94.1 Bellingham. Find us on Spotify and everywhere you get your podcasts.

"Providing Hands-Up Support in Tiny Dome Villages." Host Joy Gilfilen discusses how education, mentoring and building tiny dome homes in intentional communities is a vision of Maryam Sharifi, founder of the Global Enlightenment Academy. Standing up for justice has been a part of her life since growing up in Persia, in a culture where arranged teen marriages were common. Maryam started learning about self-value, building emotional strength in the face of adversity, and began studying peace, how to envision a new future, and studied business. She moved to the US, started building a new life, in a world she discovered had many injustices, and began designing new futures. Today after learning how to thrive in the business world through determination and emotional resilience, she is determined to help provide affordable living and an opportunity for others who could benefit with a hand-up is her passion. She shares how it can be done so communities can see the opportunity to house and support those who have the passion to learn, grow and be independent as they gain a new lease on life! Thank you to our local broadcast partner KOYS LPFM 94.1 Bellingham. Find us on Spotify and everywhere you get your podcasts.

Joy Gilfilen, Karen Ball and Debbie David discuss the gaps in communication, the habit pattern of creating dualistic conflict, and then getting stuck. we have the opportunity to do restorative justice. restorative circles, peace circles and other methods of increasing understanding of the complex challenges we have today. The the level of complexity from local problems to state, national and global requires the ability of people to perceive things and learn to communicate in a way that allows people to listen to the challenges that others are facing. In this episode we discuss conflict we discuss how to bridge gaps and how the opportunity to find new Solutions really exist in the 21st century. The fact that when we are dualistic and polarized, it sets up the argument when we think about working in triangles or triads or the triality of the next best idea that might fit. Its about group collaboration and conflict resolution in a complex world. Big Thank you to our local broadcast partner KOYS LPFM 94.1 Bellingham. Find us on Spotify and everywhere you get your podcasts.

Hear three professional mothers from very different fields discuss de-escalation skills. What have they learned about how to use emotional intelligence when handling violence and crisis situations when people are triggered, traumtized and escalating emotionally. This is not about emergency response like in a physical emergency. Hear their stories of learning on the front lines of life. They compare stories about learning to handle our own stress under duress. How can we be the person who helps to intercede when people are emotionally triggered, scared, traumatized and need calming down. It is all about learning how we are all HUMANS 1st. The practical key is learning to STOP. LOOK. LISTEN. ASSESS. PIVOT. Please find us today locally at noon on Thursdays on KOYS-LPFM 94.1-Bellingham and at 1:PM where you get your podcasts.

Host of iChange Justice, Joy Gilfilen talks with Miranda Clendening about the community change game Peace2030.earth. It is the newest 2024 global mentoring and support platform online that helps thousands of people around the globe to unite with visions and strategies, then to learn from each other how to do local neighborhood and group projects in our own farms and cities. Miranda shares how she worked in Crestone, Colorado on multiple food sovereignty, and homelessness projects that have really made a huge difference in that community, and we discussed the history of how the peace flame was carried around the world and launched this global project. Our Restorative CommUnity Coalition and our Mighty Networks Collaboratium will be teaming people together to inspire action both locally in our Salish Sea Bioregion and across our cities, towns, tribal communities and around our nation. https://peace2030.earth/

Joy Gilfilen, host of iChange Justice podcast interviews Debbie David about discovering the Trauma-Informed Workplace Toolkit. Then she highlights the deep research of Gabor Mate as a medical doctor and author of many books related to traumed informed healing from addiction, understanding ADD, the ripple effects of intergenerational and historical trauma on families. People in the crisis industries, first responders, law enforcement, mental health providers and caregivers are often so busy with the urgency of what happens that they do not take the time for person care. Emotional trauma is often misunderstood and ignored as a root cause of dysfunction in relationships. Encouraging compassion in the workplace, in the courtrooms and in the space between work and home is essential for mental and emotional health.

Joy gilfillan host of iChange Justice Podcast interviews Dr. Christine Habercorn about the "Business of Justice" as it relates to economic development and non-profit operations as we emerge from the shock of the past few years, when entire companies businesses livelihoods and family lives shifted as the economy and the world around us was turned upside down. As a creative artist and human behavior specialist Dr. Habercorn weaves stories and shares the reality of issues from civil rights to activism to compassionate growth. As a grandmother who's worked with the rest of us grandmothers, we've learned that working within community and collaborating in community at grassroot levels is necessary for honest economic development from the ground up. It just makes sense and it works because it strenthens and builds communities rather than pulling them further apart.

With special thanks to our Local Broadcast Host, KOYS-LPFM - Bellingham Listen on Thursdays at Noon on KOYS-LPFM for our Season 3 podcasts and then everywhere you get your podcasts nationwide. Host Joy Gilfilen, interviews Irene Morgan, Founder of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition about what it's been like over the past 17 years doing the work with reentry services and the criminal legal system. Irene shares how the Coalition started out believing that the working with the people releasing from prison was the key to reducing recidivism, and then how the learning curve changed. She started with the RestoreALife Center vision, and soon involved learning about court navigation, the court systems, the bond and insurance surety industry. The issues of mental health, caused the Coalition to learn about the politics of incarceration, and that led to revelations that the hidden business of the justice system was riddled with economic domination issues. The way the system works for the system" keeps people recycling through their system, costing taxpayers millions of dollars in taxes. The bottomine, however, is that today our research shows that there are many solutions, many people throughout the community who are dedicated to making changes that will transform our communities for the better.