{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"EP 239: The Image of the Wound \u2013 Emergent Teaching, Art as Alchemy, and Living Between Languages with Dr. Chanti Tacoronte-Perez","description":"In this episode, Kimberly speaks with Dr. Chanti Tacoronte-Perez, an artist, educator, and depth psychologist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the designer of the cover of Kimberly\u2019s upcoming book Erotic Seasons. Part of Kimberly's Santa Fe trilogy, this conversation explores what it means to teach and live emergently: responding to what\u2019s present rather than what\u2019s planned. Chanti shares her doctoral work on the wound of homelandlessness as a Cuban American, and how she developed a practice of creating and living with the image of one\u2019s wound as a daily, evolving relationship rather than something to fix or overcome. They discuss the difference between revisiting and rumination, the ancient link between art and therapy, and why images hold meaning differently than words; allowing wounds to keep shifting rather than becoming rigid stories. The conversation also touches on the Cuban concept of resolver, what it takes to be a student of one\u2019s own creative impulse, and how imperfection and planned spontaneity become doorways to aliveness.   Bio Dr. Chanti Tacoronte-Perez is a Cuban-American artist-author, ritualist, and non-clinical depth psychologist. She believes that images speak a profound language; her life\u2019s work is a translator of the unseen and an advocate for the imaginal. She holds two master's degrees in Engaged Humanities and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. In 2023 she completed her doctoral dissertation Navegando Liminal: Rituals to Translate the Image of the Wound. Her work and teaching follows and welcomes, imagination, creativity, dreaming, and deep rest.  She teaches workshops, and collaborative training focused on creativity, yantra painting, dreaming, intuitive movement, myth, restorative yoga, and yoga nidra. Her passion and aim are to inspire all to rediscover their creative self by weaving the blessings with the wounds while honoring the land and ancestors. Dr. Chanti also works individually with clients using a transdisciplinary approach through creative therapeutics. Learn more.   What She Shares: \u2013 Chanti's doctoral work on the wound of homelandlessness \u2013 The practice of creating and living with the image of one\u2019s wound \u2013 How emergence is like an emergency\u2014the urgency of being present \u2013 The toolbox of an emergent teacher: listening, trust, and tolerance for tension \u2013 Why images hold meaning differently than words \u2013 The Cuban concept of resolver\u2014figuring things out with what you have \u2013 How she navigated a PhD program as an image-based thinker \u2013 The link between art and therapy as the oldest form of alchemy   What You\u2019ll Hear: \u2013 What emergent teaching actually requires: listening, trust, and a good ear for the pulse of the space \u2013 The tension of being the leader who says \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d \u2013 Chanti\u2019s wound of homelandlessness: ni de aqu\u00ed, ni de all\u00e1 \u2013 Growing up being told \u201cyou belong over there\u201d\u2014and arriving in Cuba as a foreigner \u2013 Creating the image of the wound and living with it as an altar \u2013 The word est\u00fapida on the image\u2014and reclaiming what was once shame \u2013 Pursuing a PhD in Jungian Archetypal Studies as an image-based thinker \u2013 The project-based dissertation: two books, one of words and one of images \u2013 Wound and blessing: the etymology of bless as bleed in French and Old English \u2013 The difference between revisiting a wound and ruminating on it \u2013 How fixed meaning stops a wound from continuing to grow and change \u2013 Choiceless choice: when creative impulses announce themselves \u2013 The incubation period\u2014how long to sit with a bubbling before it overflows \u2013 Art as something that overflows from you and becomes something else \u2013 Kimberly\u2019s experience writing her book with a co-editor through word games and play \u2013 Exhaustion, rest culture, and the shadow side of Yin \u2013 Creativity as living in the third space between social and sympathetic nervous systems \u2013 Working with dreams through images and movement \u2013 Mutual seed planting: how flamenco and imagery crossed between them \u2013 Imperfection as doorway: planned spontaneity, blindfolds, dice, and letting things fall \u2013 The layers between words and images, cultures, and belonging   Resources Website: https:\/\/www.yantrawisdom.com\/ Kimberly's Next Course: https:\/\/kimberlyannjohnson.com\/STANDUP\/ ","author_name":"Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson","author_url":"http:\/\/www.kimberlyannjohnson.com\/","html":"