Sounds of SAND

Recorded from a live SAND Gathering (February 2026). From Los Angeles to Minneapolis, communities are turning toward one another in a time of uncertainty, remembering that care begins close to home. Beyond public action, quieter networks of support are taking root: block-by-block relationships grounded in land, lineage, and love.

This gathering explores how spiritual practice, trauma-aware care, and neighborhood organizing are being woven together as living traditions. We ask what it looks like to shift our energy from reactive mobilization toward steady, proactive organizing that can sustain us for the long haul. Drawing from Indigenous memory, Black freedom traditions, diasporic Jewish practices of care, and contemporary grassroots work, we reflect on how mutual care—feeding one another, tending grief, protecting children, honoring the dead—can be reclaimed as daily sacred practice.

This is a conversation about blending spiritual practice and movement practice; about thinking smaller, closer, and more relational; and about learning from quiet, resilient forms of organizing that move people from isolation into coordinated courage.

This conversation invites attunement: How do we stay grounded in grief without collapsing? How do we strengthen relationships across differences? How do small, steady acts of care help communities move from fear toward shared courage?

This is an invitation to listen to the wisdom already alive in our histories, our bodies, and our neighborhoods.

Topics

00:00 Welcome and Context

02:33 Grounding Breath Practice

03:22 Why We Gather Now

05:19 Meet the Speakers

07:36 Lyila June on Collapse

09:12 Chaco Canyon Lesson

12:36 Kaira Jewel on Flow

16:39 Rejoicing and Ancestors

20:04 Rabbi Jessica in Minneapolis

24:54 Sacred Geography and Duty

29:59 Lyla June on Forgiveness

36:22 Liberation for Everyone

37:32 Grace and Sobriety Story

39:06 Jewish Wisdom and Mutual Care

41:27 Feasting Fuels Mutual Aid

45:53 Spirituality Is Not Neutral

49:11 Sacred Criticism and Fierce Love

53:49 Mycelium and Small Acts

59:51 Resources and Community Questions

01:03:30 Heart Practice for Overwhelm

01:06:17 Reweaving Interdependence

01:08:46 Warrior Love Closing

01:14:31 Final Announcements and Farewell

Decolonial Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Ethical Insights from Palestine with Dr. Samah Jabr (March 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2026 • 9:00 – 11:00am PST online with SAND)

Please consider donating to Rabbi Jessica’s GoFundMe campaign in support of students at Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis. The students are using creative arts to process the trauma of recent encounters involving ICE and U.S. Border Patrol.

In collaboration with local artists, they are developing an art installation intended to uplift and inspire both the school community and their neighbors, while continuing to advocate for justice and safety for all. This project offers a meaningful way to strengthen community bonds and foster collective healing.

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Dr. Liza J. Rankow, author of Soul Medicine for a Fractured World, explores healing justice in a time of social and ecological upheaval. She names oppositional dualism and domination as the root fracture of our world and invites a shift toward lived non-duality as the ground of lasting transformation. The conversation touches the “crucible of the in-between,” apocalypse as death and renewal, grief as medicine, and the movement from commodified self-care to soul care rooted in spirit, community, and nature. The conversation emphasized deep listening, silence, and relationship with the living world. Today’s episode closes with a simple guided breath practice for self, loved ones, and the world.

Topics

00:00 Opening

01:20 Why This Book Now

03:41 What’s Fracturing Us

07:21 Crucible of the In Between

14:52 Medicine in the Wound

20:11 Grief as Collective Wisdom

26:28 Soul Care vs Self Care

32:02 Mystic Activism and Oneness

34:57 Breath And Service

35:59 No Spiritual Bypass

37:00 Oneness With Perpetrators

39:18 Mysticism And Justice

41:08 Nature As Practice

44:23 Purpose And Gifts

47:44 Deep Listening

53:25 Silence And Reckoning

56:13 Darkness As Source

58:20 Closing Practice And Book

Resources

LizaRankow.org

Soul Medicine for a Fractured World





“Mysticism and Social Action” by Dr. Howard Thurman

Soul Work for Times of Uncertainty - SAND Podcast with Francis Weller

Engaged Contemplation - SAND Podcast with Fr. Adam Bucko

Glissando of Consciousness - SAND Podcast with Andrew Holecek

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Recorded live at a SAND Community Gathering (Feb 2026)

Dr. Samah Jabr, a Palestinian psychiatrist and author of Radiance in Pain and Resilience, joins Dr. Mays Imad (with questions from the audience chat) for a conversation about what it means to stay human when the structures meant to protect people are the ones doing the harm. Drawing on decades of clinical work inside the occupation, Dr. Jabr moves past the “sanitized” versions of trauma to speak directly to the heart of colonial harm in Palestine.

Central to this dialogue is an exploration of the deep ontological differences between Western psychiatric models and Palestinian lived experience. While Western frameworks often pathologize the individual through the lens of PTSD, Dr. Jabr introduces the concept of iptila—viewing tribulations through a framework of agency, faith, and collective endurance. She challenges the frequent romanticization of sumud (steadfastness), reframing it not as a poetic trope, but as a grueling relational practice and an ethical refusal to disappear when everything conspires toward Palestinian erasure.

In a reality where the harm never ends, memory becomes a battlefield, grief a form of testimony, bearing witness an active refusal to normalize the unacceptable, and storytelling a vital survival infrastructure against the assassination of memory.

Join Dr. Samah Jabr · March 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2026 • 9:00 – 11:00am PST
Decolonial Mental Health Practice: Clinical and Ethical Insights from Palestine
A four-part webinar presented by SAND

Topics

00:00 Welcome & Why We Need a New Framework for Trauma and Justice

02:15 “If I Must Die”: Carrying Memory, Refusing Normalization

03:13 Introducing Dr. Samah Jabr’s Work: Pain, Power, and a Counter-Narrative

07:55 A Childhood Lesson in Naming: Robinson Crusoe and Colonial Language

10:10 Clinic Stories: When Political Reality Shapes Symptoms

14:14 Beyond Western Psychiatry: Language, Resilience, and Context as the ‘Pathology’

17:19 The ‘Fear of Dogs’ Case: History, Colonial Violence, and Clinical Meaning

20:40 When Systems Collapse: Gaza’s Crushed Mental-Health Response & Organic Community Care

25:04 Collective Healing & the Kite Intervention: Building Agency and Connection

29:31 From Mobilization to Organization: Global Solidarity and Liberation

34:31 How to Keep Working: Hope, Spirituality, and Protecting Health Workers

41:58 Meaning-Making in Crisis: The Palm Tree Story and Spiritual Grounding

45:22 Spirituality as Resilience: Listening for What Helps Each Person

47:13 Scaling Mental Health Support in Palestine: Training Community Helpers

49:00 Creating “Healing Spaces”: Group Support for Journalists, Youth & Displaced Women

53:22 Reporting Gaza From Afar: Citizen Journalism, Narrative Control & Ethical Witnessing

59:44 How to Support Palestine Sustainably: Remote Mental Health, Publishing & Advocacy

01:05:37 Colonialism, Patriarchy & Horizontal Violence: When Trauma Damages the Social Fabric

01:10:03 Meaning-Making Under Protracted Trauma: Tila, Agency & Shattered Belief Systems

01:15:16 Diaspora Palestinians: From Helping Family to Leading Global Political Solidarity

01:21:55 Closing Charge: Being Human After Mass Violence + Upcoming Webinars & Films

Resources



Dr. Samah Jabr’s book

Art by Fernando Martí and Jess X. Snow, inspired by Huda Suboh’s quote:

“In the heart of Gaza, where the echoes of war reverberate through the streets… each day, glimmers of hope that dance across the sky—kites.” — Rafah, 2024

Support this conversation by donating to Sumud Network for Mental Health and Healing for Gaza



Where Olive Trees Weep (Film by SAND on Palestine (2024) with more Resources and a course on Palestine)

What if language was not a tool for naming things, but a vibration of relationship?

What if intelligence wasn’t a human asset, but an ecological rhythm?

What if consciousness is not what happens in our heads—but what happens between us, through us, with the land, with water, with wind?



Come gather for a conversation with Tiokasin Ghosthorse, Cheyenne River Lakota elder, host of First Voices Radio, master musician, and steward of relational ways of knowing. Rooted in the vibrational teachings of the old Lakota language, a language shaped by Earth and used to speak with, not about, Tiokasin invites us to unlearn the dominance of human-centered thought and listen again to Earth as consciousness.



First Voices Indigenous Radio



Butterfly Against the Wind



Topics



00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:48 Introducing Tiokasin Ghosthorse

01:28 Tiokasin's Background and Philosophy

04:36 The Concept of Land Acknowledgement

05:59 Relational Values and Indigenous Wisdom

08:02 Language and Consciousness

16:09 Mystery and Present Consciousness

27:54 Environmentalism and Connection to Earth

35:04 Understanding WIA and Innocence

36:34 The Role of Elders and Wisdom

37:58 Relational Intelligence vs. Western Education

39:14 Cultural Trauma and Language Suppression

45:41 Earth Consciousness and Modern Anxiety

50:04 The Illusion of Control and AI

58:38 Ceremony and Earth Cycles

01:03:32 Final Thoughts and Gratitude

Connect with more with Tiokasin and dozens of other speakers and elders in the SAND film Series The Eternal Song

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In this conversation, Ellen Emmet reflects on her path into Jungian analysis and how the teachings of Carl Jung continue to shape her inner life, clinical work, and spiritual inquiry. Together, we explore what it means to hold depth psychology and nondual realization in the same field—without collapsing one into the other.

The dialogue moves through questions of decolonizing therapy, the subtle dynamics of spiritual bypass, and the kind of deep listening required when working with the unconscious—both personal and collective. Ellen speaks to the body as a threshold into the psyche’s wilderness, and to the necessity of staying in relationship with what is unresolved, uncomfortable, and unfinished.

Threaded throughout is a concern for the wider world: how collective trauma, ancestral memory, and the current socio-political moment ask to be included in spiritual and therapeutic work—not bypassed. This is a conversation about remembrance, embodiment, and the slow work of integration in times of upheaval.

Ellen offers meetings and retreats through The Awakening Body, an experiential exploration rooted in nondual inquiry, Authentic Movement, and direct listening to lived experience. She also maintains a private psychotherapy practice and facilitates Authentic Movement groups.

EllenEmmet.com

Topics

00:00 Introduction and Guest Overview

01:05 Reflecting on Past Conversations

01:41 Journey into Jungian Analysis

02:50 Exploring Carl Jung's Theories

05:31 The Process of Individuation

13:17 Decolonizing Therapy

16:40 Spiritual Bypassing and Social Issues

20:48 Facing the Darkness: Confronting Fear and Avoidance

22:17 The Deadly Silence: Censorship in Spiritual Spaces

23:19 Heartbreak as a Spiritual Connection

26:09 The Power of Collective Healing

28:03 Listening with Reverence and Reverie

36:09 The Wildness of the Body: Embracing Natural Movement

39:39 Concluding Thoughts and Future Connections

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