E147| Feminine Violence | Adriana Forte, Pamela von Sabljar & Valeria Ferreira

On the challenging and shadowed topic of feminine violence; seeking pathways toward understanding and healing for men and women. Welcoming three thinkers, practitioners, and leaders in dialogue Adriana Forte, Pamela von Sabljar, and Valeria Ferreira, in conversation at the Voicecraft Network. Learn more in the show notes.

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  Threads Explored

  • Whether "violence" means physical force or anything that diminishes another's subjectivity

  • The etymology of violence and the difference between feeling violated and being violated

  • Whether intention is what makes an act violent

  • The feminine as psychological principle vs. female embodiment

  • Te Fiti / the lava monster as an image of feminine rage and the stolen heart

  • Manipulation and the relationship itself used as a power tool

  • Emasculation, hyper-independence, and the collapse of polarity

  • Worship and adoration in the tantric framing of masculine/feminine

  • The feminist movement thirty years on, and living out its shadows

  • The pendulum swing: trad wives, boss bitches, and what might emerge instead

  • Aggression as something to integrate rather than suppress — sacred, healthy, life-serving

  • "Sneaky betas": a generation of men with a dormant force

  • Aboriginal men's business and women's business vs. the neutrality fallacy of modernity

  • Sexual power in young women, and the resentment that follows its loss

  • Postmenopausal visibility and the hurt of invisibility

  • Translating between men and women in couples work

  • Where feminism took a wrong turn: men vs. women as a zero-sum game

  • Yin and yang in their native Chinese sense; the implicit and the enacted

  • The violence done to the feminine: lost lineage, devalued embodiment

  • Mothering, and not knowing how to be with our daughters

  • Becoming a doula for your own daughter; rites of passage into motherhood

  • Putting motherhood back at the centre of a generative culture

  • A mother's near-inability to see the abuse of her own child

  • Silence as one of the largest expressions of feminine violence

  • Podcasting as a modern, hybrid form of women's business

  • Ridicule of men among "conscious" women, and the cost of interrupting it

  • Victimhood as a source of feminine violence

  Keywords

  feminine violence, gender dynamics, healing, shadow work, trust, collective wisdom, empowerment, cultural change

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  Pamela von Sabljar

  Pamela von Sabljar is a new breed of speaker, facilitator, and mentor working at the evolutionary edge. She practices dialoguing, sensing, creating, and leading from this ever-emergent edge. She calls this Living from Eros.

  Pamela has 25 years experience in leadership, personal development, and behavioral science. She has worked with businesses, public sectors, and private individuals specializing in personal, group, and organizational development. In addition, she has founded several systemic change projects and leadership programs in advanced self-awareness and self-leadership.

  Find out how to contact and work with her @ https://www.pamelavonsabljar.com/

  Adriana Forte

  Adriana is a cultural architect, philosopher, and writer dedicated to bringing the cyclical nature of women’s minds into collective awareness. Through dialogue, writing, workshops, retreats, online group work, and one-on-one mentoring, she aims to create spaces for provocative thinking, reflection and transformation. 

  Above all, she’s a mother to two amazing girls, a partner to an awesome guy, and an apprentice gardener living off-grid in a community in Australia.

  She has a substack where she posts articles, reflections and holds occasional group conversations: https://theclab.substack.com/

  Check out C-lab's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thec-lab/videos

  Valeria Ferreira

  Valeria is a member and contributor to the Voicecraft Network, based in Berlin.

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