Fare Of The Free Child

This week on #fofcpod we are closing the Māori Mother Wisdom series about liberation-centered parenting and living. We've had the pleasure of connecting with Māori stories from Mea Rapata, Angella Smith, Moana Reihana, and Tina Talaić. These are select excerpts from our feel trip (live group meetups about our episodes), where Akilah and our series co-producer, Ieishah Clelland-Lang, vibed with Mea, Angella, and some of our Village family. We reflect on the importance of the trustworthiness of feelings, and the levels of connection that live inside active listening, and non-verbal language, as well as other kinds of human technology like collaboration, echolocation, identity and community-building.Who we innately are - The Energy of Feelingshow aspects of Māori spaces have been compromised by colonialismthe significance of going back into a knowledge space that recognizes connection to land, ancestors and relationshipsan intrinsic feeling and connection to their original epistemologies.“We don't have