Lifelong Learning

Lifelong Learning

Welcome to the Lifelong Learning podcast with your hosts Mama Kaiya and Mama Nika from The Tribe Learning Co-op, an evolving village that supports families finding their tribe through sharing resources and responsibilities. Journey with us as we explore what and how we learn with each other, our children and ourselves. We and our guests will contribute to conversations around wellness, through self directed learning, parenting, sustainability and community. If you’ve landed here, it’s not a coincidence. What you’re seeking is always seeking you too. We are so grateful for your presence energizing The Tribe. Peace and Welcome.

Episodes

March 15, 2023 125 mins
In our final episode of season 1 we were joined by Racquel Washington, a reproductive justice birth worker, pre-homesteader, herbalist, and mama. Mama Nika and Racquel covered a lot of ground discussing the role of the village for parents (especially solo parents), children, partners, and every generation. Racquel mentions the book, The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient Teachings in the Ways of Relationships by Sobonfu Some. It's one of ...
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Mama Kaiya and Mama Nika have a few things to say in response to a newish ABC show, The Parent Test, that chronicles 12 different families navigating curated challenges through 12 different parenting styles. While the show is centered around a competition aimed at finding the BEST parenting style, this conversation is brought to the Tribe in order to provide social commentary that is contextualized in history,race, class, and dream...
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You're listening to the Lifelong Learning Podcasts with your hosts Mama Kaiya and Mama Nika.

In this week's episode, we are trying something new for the kiddos!

Indigo reads one of her favorite stories Lola Plants a Garden by Anna McQuinn.

We hope you enjoy!
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February 22, 2023 38 mins
Mama Nika shares a trusted and true pleasure practice for deepening connection, facilitating healing, and remembering your birthright of being well anytime, at every stage and age. Sometimes we wait for the perfect circumstances, like a ton of free time, extra spending money, an hour-long movement practice, a trending diet or cleanse to access our wellness when really we have everything we need in every single moment to be well. We...
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Hey there, we decided to try something new this episode!

Mama Kaiya reads a children's bedtime story featuring animal sounds that are sure to capture your child's attention right before slumber.

Take a listen as she reads "Hush a Thai Lullaby" by Mingfong Ho.

Let us know what you think!
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February 8, 2023 87 mins
It deserves to be said that perfect is not the same as perfectionism. "Perfect" can be a repeatedly-attainable outcome in situations that have little nuance and meet certain specifications. Think about a puzzle and how every piece fits in exactly one correct spot in order to recreate the image.



Connecting a piece to another might have us considering this a perfect fit. It almost seems impossible, though, to keep this same line of l...
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Mama Nika and Mama Kaiya take a vulnerable dive into their views about body literacy, consent and body boundaries.

This episode was adapted from a live Tribe Chat conversation around boundaries around nudity in family structures but we started getting at the roots and ended up covering SO much more. We suggested that this conversation might be repurposed at a later time. Surprise, surprise! It turned into this episode of Lifelong Le...
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In this episode Mama Kaiya and Mama Nika discuss their personal journeys of discovering their own learning styles. As they reminisce on their diverse upbringing and the impact their learning environments had on their childhood education, they ascertain their evolution from then to now.

Learning styles are dynamic and as parents of little humans we explore being in a pliable state of mind and environment to guide our children in dis...
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Vulnerability is a form of nakedness that allows us to birth and be birthed--one transformation after the next. In this episode we discuss the irony of needing prerequisites to accessing vulnerability as it is human nature and our birthright. History, trauma, fatigued nervous systems and other variables contribute to the need to have some foundational practices and prerequisites to remembering vulnerability as a pathway to deeper c...
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Mama Kaiya and Mama Nika explore the nervous system journey of supporting children through difficult moments. They delve into what it feels like to be triggered and activated while parenting as well as moving through those feelings in order to facilitate their children in doing the same. They also reflect on how parenting journeys vary from person to person with considerations of racial trauma, safety, and childhood wounds.
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December 17, 2022 80 mins
Mama Kaiya and Mama Nika explore newness in the virtual realm by actualizing the Lifelong Learning podcast while parenting in different locations. While this is the third episode, it was the first one born from an intention to create an ongoing series of conversations that otherwise were held in the monthly Tribe Chats. In this episode they discuss learning, parenting, divesting from perfectionism, fundraising for the Tribe, enteri...
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Mama Jessica and Mama Kaiya chop it up with one of the fathers in the Tribe at the lake. The conversation took a vulnerable dive into expectations and roles within cisgendered and heteronormative relationships.
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December 17, 2022 62 mins
Mama Jessica, Mama Nika, and Mama Kaiya have an authentic and free flowing conversation about wellness and how it relates to life, parenting, learning and unlearning. This conversation took place in the summer of 2020 as the Tribe Learning Cooperative was being reimagined.
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