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  09/15/2021      10:00 am

Heart. Change. Consciousness. with Dr. Trish DeRocher: Inspired Activism as a Spiritual Path: Learning at the Intersections: Cultivating Intercultural Literacy Through Communities of Practice with Dr. Aziz Fatnassi

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Trish DeRocher Ph.D.


Heart. Change. Consciousness. with Dr. Trish DeRocher

Inspired Activism as a Spiritual Path

Motivation and inspiration are powerful tools that change and influence perspectives, voices, and projects that shape the world. With all the negativity in the world, it can be hard to find those rare and beautiful stories that tell of inspired spiritual activism and individual healing journeys. Walk the path with me, Dr. Trish DeRocher on the show Heart. Change. Consciousness., where we inspire listeners to take action towards a more JUST ... Read more

Heart. Change. Consciousness. with Dr. Trish DeRocher

Inspired Activism as a Spiritual Path

Motivation and inspiration are powerful tools that change and influence perspectives, voices, and projects that shape the world. With all the negativity in the world, it can be hard to find those rare and beautiful stories that tell of inspired spiritual activism and individual healing journeys. Walk the path with me, Dr. Trish DeRocher on the show Heart. Change. Consciousness., where we inspire listeners to take action towards a more JUST world. We’ll hear from authors, change-makers, influencers, activists, poets, filmmakers, and cultural workers who practice inspired spiritual activism and transform vulnerabilities, into sources of strength.

Heart. Change. Consciousness. allows us to understand the world from different perspectives and highlights what is possible when we are fearless and open ourselves to our soul purpose and engage each other across boundaries. So, let’s self-heal and open the path to self-sovereignty.

 

About Trish -

Trish is a 200-hour Bhakti certified yoga instructor, Inner Alignment Coach, certified Biofield Tuner, Reiki II practitioner, social justice advocate, author, former professor, and owner of Transformative Consciousness Coaching and Consulting. Trish works across healing modalities to offer a comprehensive mind, body, spirit approach and understands individual transformation as the gateway to collective social healing. A forever student, Trish recently completed a community herbalism apprenticeship and is currently completing their 200-hour Ayurveda Immersion Training through The Mahatma School of Ayurveda in Vermont.

In this lifetime, Trish finds expression as a white, non-binary, queer, anti-racist writer, educator, and spiritual activist. Trish currently resides with their family in rural VT where they are becoming quieter and relearning how to listen to nature’s wisdom and rhythms.

Trish grew up in a lower middle class, Irish Catholic family in a conservative, working-class town in Upstate New York. Trish first went to college for Music Therapy, but sensing that the timing wasn’t quite right, rerouted to a community college. Trish went on to receive a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Gender Studies from Saint Michael's College, an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Vermont, and later a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Trish served as an Assistant Professor of English Literature at SUNY Adirondack and an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Champlain College before leaving academia in 2019. Trish’s book, Transnational Testimonios: The Politics of Collective Knowledge Production, was published in 2018 through the Decolonizing Feminisms Series at the University of Washington Press.

Trish is a firm believer that more equitable futures are possible only when we are each committed to realizing, and to helping each other become our own best selves; when we transform sources of vulnerability into sources of strength; and when we plant the seeds of a more just world through our daily actions and relationships.

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Testimonials

  • "First, I want to thank you for your show. These past few months have been tough and your show has pulled me through quite a few bad days. Almost every time I turn the show on, your topic is relevant to my current dilemma. Today was no exception!"
    Keri-Listener

  • "Hey, it's so great to be on. You are my first radio show mentor and I'm so glad we had a great run with the empowered living radio show. We ran it for years. That radio show put me in contact with the guru of the gurus. I mean all the gurus and the New York Time's Best Selling Authors and the masters of this and the manifesters of that and the spiritual this. With some of the best sellers whose books touched me and inspired me and after all these years the person I talk to is the realest. The woman, the empowered incredible woman that you all get to listen to, Dr. Pat Baccili because she was the most real. She didn't tell me about any sort of magic. She said, "Just be yourself" and that wisdom and integrity behind those words and honesty behind those words is something that still sticks with me. And the few radio interviews that I do ever, I'm so happy to say are often conversations with you."
    Steve Maraboli-Host

  • "Excellent question Pat! Not one that I get asked very often so thanks for asking. What have my a-ha moments been? There have been so many. I mean I am a totally different person than I was when I started studying this 10 years ago. My first a-ha moment was the a-ha that someone needs to study this. If we're trying to win the war on cancer why are we ignoring the people who've won? We should be talking to them. We should be studying them. So that was the first coin that dropped for me was just something like do this, study this, don't be afraid. It didn't scare me. It actually excited me. My dear friend died when we were 16 of stomach cancer so to be across from someone like him was told they were going to die and yet 25 years later that does not scare me. That gives me incredible hope and for a potential cure for cancer down the road."
    Dr. Kelly Turner

  • "Dr. Pat, thank you so much and really thank you for blazing the trail for women in talk radio. And just being such an inspiration to me and so many other people. What you’re doing is so awesome and without people like you there to really step out of the box and go for it, with the psychology background, I don’t know if someone like me would have ever ended up here but I’m so happy to be here and I want to thank you for everything you’re doing. You’re one of my major inspirations."
    Dr. Kelly Neff

  • "I love you so much and I always loved being here." Dee Wallace
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