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Conscious Conversations with Mmabatho Montse

Conscious Conversations with Mmabatho Montse

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 Season 4 of Conscious Conversations unfolds as a living, transdisciplinary curriculum, weaving Africana Womanist eco-metaphysics, mythological studies, Black feminist geographies, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Futures Literacy. Each dialogue is a portal into learning as becoming—an initiation into memory, healing, and self-knowledge. We begin with Prof. Monica Mody, whose work in decolonial and Indigenous epistemologies reframes education as initiation, where myth, dreams, and cycles of birth–death–rebirth act as sacred technologies of transformation. With Atava Garcia Swiecicki, we deepen this arc through Earth-rooted teachings, honouring plants, ancestral medicine, and ecological consciousness as archives of cultural and cellular repair. In conversation with Malikeya Khantrece, we confront law, coloniality, and historical amnesia, reimagining reparations as spiritual and ancestral reckoning. Dr. Christy Garrison-Harrison traces how violence is inscribed onto the Black body and how ancestral work becomes resistance and reconstitution. With Mthuthu Ndebele, we turn to music as ancestral offering, and with Chad Zibelman, to frameworks of co-learning and relational accountability. The season closes with Riel Miller on Futures Literacy, resonant with ponelopele—the Sotho-Tswana ethic of ethical foresight. Rather than prediction, it is a forward gaze rooted in ancestral wisdom, guiding us to live into uncertainty with clarity and presence.Solid Gold Podcasts and Audiobooks スピリチュアリティ 社会科学
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  • Self Knowledge as Life's Teacher

    Self Knowledge as Life's Teacher
    2025/10/31
    In this episode of Conscious Conversations, Mmabatho Montse is joined by educator, Mafole Sematlane for a rich dialogue on the role of education in restoring African identity, healing colonial trauma, and reweaving cultural wholeness. Drawing from his journey in Lesotho and over a decade of work in social transformation, Mafole introduces Afro-symbiosity, a paradigm rooted in Basotho values such as botho, khotso, and nala—as a framework for conflict resolution, leadership, and communal regeneration. Together, they explore how colonisation instilled a psychic captivity of fear and fragmentation, and how African communities can recover their sense of self through education as a practice of self-knowledge. They speak to the interdependence of land, body, and mind; the need for de-fragmented, transdisciplinary education; and the everyday manifestations of inherited trauma in postcolonial African life.

    Mafole reflects on figures such as Morena Moshoeshoe I and the healer Morena Mohlomi, whose stories illuminate a pathway for personal and collective transformation grounded in humility, listening, and ancestral wisdom. The conversation is both critical and hopeful, inviting listeners to move from discourse to practice, from despair to reclamation, and from disconnection to Ubuntu. Visit our website · Follow on Instagram · YouTube Channel · Patreon
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    1 時間 2 分
  • Community Empowerment, a tool for social education

    Community Empowerment, a tool for social education
    2025/10/20
    In this episode of Conscious Conversations, Mmabatho Montse speaks with Chad Zibelman, CEO of The Sonder Project, to explore how community empowerment can serve as a powerful vehicle for social education and global equity. With years of experience in international development, Chad brings grounded insight into the practicalities and ethical complexities of working across cultural and geographic boundaries. Together, they reflect on the significance of trust, collaboration, and dignity in development work, challenging extractive aid models in favor of community-led transformation. Chad shares stories from his time as a Peace Corps volunteer in Namibia, his years with buildOn organizing school-building treks across the Global South, and his current leadership with The Sonder Project, particularly their water, education, and food security programs in Burkina Faso. The conversation considers how education—both formal and experiential, can be a relational act of solidarity and listening. It also surfaces tensions between Western-based NGOs and the communities they serve, asking what it truly means to stand with, rather than speak for, others. Throughout, Chad’s reflections highlight humility, intercultural learning, and long-term partnership as central to social impact. Chad Zibelman earned his degree in Education from Temple University and has spent much of his life working to advance equitable access to opportunity through education, infrastructure, and local empowerment. His leadership at The Sonder Project builds on nearly two decades of experience and a deep commitment to honoring the agency, resilience, and visions of the communities he works alongside. This episode invites listeners to think critically about development as a pedagogy, where transformation is mutual, and education becomes an act of co-creation rooted in justice and care. thesonderproject.org Visit our website · Follow on Instagram · YouTube Channel · Patreon
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    1 時間 6 分
  • Celebrating Culture through Music and Art

    Celebrating Culture through Music and Art
    2025/10/13
    In this deeply resonant episode of Conscious Conversations, African folk musician and cultural practitioner Mthuthu Ndebele joins Mmabatho Montse for a dialogue on ancestral memory, creative embodiment, and the sacred labour of artistic becoming. Rooted in personal experience and spiritual conviction, Mthuthu reflects on his journey from Ulundi’s cultural heartbeat to becoming a vessel for intergenerational wisdom through sound.Their conversation explores how music functions not merely as artistic expression but as a living archive of ancestral presence—transmitting ecological consciousness, cosmological ethics, and historical remembrance. Together, they interrogate the tensions of navigating a creative calling in a world structured by materialist expectations, while honouring the responsibilities of being a spiritual conduit. Weaving themes of identity, humility, and communal healing, Mthuthu shares how his musical practice is deeply intertwined with his personal journey of acceptance, self-knowledge, and alignment with ancestral guidance. The discussion delves into the complexities of balancing human desires with the demands of calling, and how African artists must reclaim creative spaces that honour indigenous modes of knowing and being. At its heart, this episode invites listeners to reflect on how ancestral continuity is not a relic of the past, but a dynamic, evolving practice that demands presence, ethical attunement, and relational creativity. Visit our website · Follow on Instagram · YouTube Channel · Patreon
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    1 時間 15 分
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