what we've been doing is this work for 25 years and this healing is the belief that we are responsible, one is responsible for weiss thoughts and feelings that if anything happens to us or reengage in any type of activity we are responsible for the outcome of what happens, this is something that people have said we are our own enemy and friend . >> okay . >> we are our own enemy and friend has much as to finger- pointing brain somebody as for example, we are driving and texting and were on the phone and then we want to blame the people that designed the iphone that's just an example . >>. creativity, we work to

empower individuals to be self- aware and inspired through the arts so we use drumming, fashion design as well as visual arts as a medium for healing and bringing healing to the community. so, it's for individuals and groups and organizations currently working with all kinds of hospitals during their wellness breaks for their staff, where their staff come to the center and they drum for an hour to as a means of focusing on creating healing. we also use arts, visual arts and again people come together and they design murals and they work with artists that they implement and put up the murals to beautify the community . >> we will hear more of the drumming later but tell us about the schools, you also work with schools, right?

>> we do side-by-side learning as well as afterschool programming and, we don't just do art for art's sake, it's around equity and justice and we also use art as a means of helping young people to that they have the power to choose how they can change their lives, they can choose to cut one very important program is a selfless superhero where young people a reinvent themselves as a superhero to sell problems in their neighborhood and there's a curriculum that they are has used california state standards for education, it's embedded in the curriculum and then the young people use arts and visual arts as well as fashion design, as tools for learning math, reading, there's a reading component to it but also people learn skills .

>> this is a great introduction and we will learn more about it in the next segment but as an introduction this is been great and thank you for being with us . >> continue to join us in the next segment with healing connection.

[ drums playing ] >> that's called mindful drumming, i call it ecstatic drumming, it's exciting. tell us about the drubbing the best drumming . >> yes, gave it the name of your interpretation of what i was doing is actually calling and evoking the spirits that came before us to come and bless us today. so, it's a part of mindful drumming and mindful drumming comes from wisdom tradition, which means that mindful drumming is science because it creates community comes together and builds community

and also it helps people with mental trauma issues. so, it's also doubleã >> so for 14 years you would started off with that for martin luther king junior ceremonies and once every fourth friday of the last friday of the month you have mindful drumming. tell us for that is located again. 3278 w. street in oakland california, the zip code is 94608 and, about 10 years ago i wrote of called mindful drumming, haitian wisdom and what it is is that it truly assist people to build community. and, 25 years ago when we started the center in oakland, we were offering workshops on

diversity and today, as we speak, people are dying because we looked different or somebody looks different and a recent issue is when a police officer killed this young man and ferguson and so, i created mindful drumming for people to come together . >> can anyone drum? you don't have to have a talent ? >> yes, you don't have to have rhythm or be a musician . >> at great . >> yes, it's amazing. we have more women come to do this than men and sometimes they drive very fast, 60 or 70 miles to come and drum . >> that's fantastic . >> aisha, tell us about the beyond fear book that you wrote . >> we wrote beyond fear in 1998 , there was a tool that we felt

that as americans we really wanted to begin to see that we were all human beings has so, we spent a lot of time looking at the 12 principles of healing , the essence of our being is love, so, the essence of our being, all of us is love, why do we fight each other or why do we want to kill each other because i don't look like you are i don't speak like you are have the same religion that you have? a so, the whole focus of beyond fear is to look at ways that we can begin to move beyond fear so that we can begin to understand that as human beings we all have the same issues and we all breathe and we all believe, everybody's blood is red . >> the scriptures say that love casts out fear. >> that's the focus of beyond fear. the boisle website and you will find this

book as well as the selfless soup hero as well is mindful drumming so that you can begin to look at tools and begin to heal. beyond fear is so important, it's just as important now as it was in 1998 as it was in 1898 . >> i looked at the book again and it's great quotations, yes, great quotations and also exercises that the person can use to begin to heal oneself and to begin to see who you are and what you have and who you think you are, it's no different than what someone else . >> the international organization is about 40 years old . >> yes, we are 25 years old, we are member centered to a lot of other international centers around the world and this was founded about 40 years ago, working with children who are life threatened. we use violence, fear, and they

are life-threatening diseases that impact all of our lives, so the whole idea around looking at the principles and make sure they are practically scott healing is letting go of fear and they want to share with us that fear is the cheapest room in the house. it's where we go to and it's the cheapest way to deal with issues . >> we talk about the 25th anniversary that's coming up at scott's, that's next month.. coming up next, more with aisha and kokomo on.

[ drums playing ] kokomon was ecstatic that i called this mindful drumming . >> drumming is an ancient technology, when i wrote my book on mindful drumming and i was doing my research, i was very struck for two reasons that i discovered and observed and one is that there is a drumming in every culture all over the world, every country has a drummer. and every culture uses the drum for the same reason cover ritual cover ceremony, and also there's a place called dinosaur ridge in morrison, colorado.

and there's a mile high church and i went there with my ishare, and they invited us to come and took us to morrison, colorado to see dinosaur ridge, footprints of dinosaurs that led the planet 100 million years ago. and, it was very powerful, the dinosaur footprints they work in music that's the way we work in common time, that's we as humans got one, two, three, four, one, so, the reason why drumming is truly important is thatbeev becau all crye to our r her eat that

for example, if someone is traumatized, for whatever reason , right away they can put they can put their hand on their chest to feel the heartbeat. it's also important for them to close their eyes to feel their heart beat, the inner drum and to make the connection and to make the connection with the inner drum, and if they do it correctly, they will be connected with the spirit and god and the mind and that's why it's mindful . >> that's right, that's why like that . >> so, this is why, drumming is more important and people think mindful drumming is a very unique way of drumming, for

example, we talked about emperor penguins. when they consummate relationships, they get into synchronized dance, to really check one another out there to really make sure that the relationship douglas they're going to be in this relationship for a long time, so, that's the wisdom of mindful drumming, so drumming is really important. i encourage everyone to have a drummer in your house even if they don't play the drum. and because all drums fall under the same principle, wind goes into the drum and sound comes out of it and the march of the penguins is people come

because they also have this movie called winged migration, from brazil and they're going to do that because they all fly in synchrony . >> i like that, let's not leave out the 25th . >> yes, we are getting ready for the 25th anniversary. you know they envision a peaceful world, world where everyone is safe, and so, for 25 years we focused on loving our communities and using love as a metaphor for bringing people together. so, the 25th anniversary we will be at scott's pavilion in jacqueline square, we will have a wonderful jazz band and you will get to view the videos, some young people who grew up in the organization, mindful drumming, and we will also have

young people and you get to see some of the things that they've been doing, were gonna have shout outs from many friends who can't come like marianne williamson, so, matthew fox, were going to do some shout outs from him and were also asking jerry brown because he acknowledged good works we are doing and it's time to celebrate, 25 years is a long time to spend creating avenues where young people can learn . >> with the schools in the city . yes, all of those things . >> and the fact that were looking at bringing people together. our focus is collective impact, that no one person or one

person, or religion to really solve the problem that we have in our world, it's gonna take all of us coming together and having a collective impact. if we could just learn i am because we are and we can learn that we are all working together at all times, and that's really great . >> so we want to invite everybody, this is a website and you can sign up online at www. ãahc. .oakland.org. >> we have another segment, we will come back and wrap it up . >> great, thank you for being here . >> i hope you've been with us.

welcome back to mosaic, not only grateful for my guests here but what i'm wearing is a gift from them that they brought to me from ghana some years ago. so now they have to go back and give another one. but, kokomon and aisha , the guests are saying work we get these drums? >> if someone is interested in having their own drum . >> tell us the address . >> 3278 w. street, oaand lifo 96608, so wee thdrreak, reverend, that, in today's

modern world, with all the division and all the diversity to the best strategy for teambuilding is true mindful drumming . >> collaborations, organizations, small businesses that do have diverse staff. if they want to have increased productivity that we can do this through mindfulness and practice mindful drumming. for example, last year we were invited by a big company in mountain view, we did mindful drumming teambuilding for 16 engineers, 14 men and two women , it was very powerful for three hours, and so, people can go on the website, for inquiries

or call 510-652-5530 if they have questions . >> great drum i will have to have that iphone 6 . >> yes, communication. >> it's interesting that you said that because that is one way also to say, we first wrote a book on the hidden spirituality . >> in their he talks about the father communicating and talking and dialing up and technology that was created or developed 125,000 years ago, but now i see young people sitting in facing one another the so, my prediction, maybe in the next 50 years we will all stop talking to because can now evidenin courdato

yoprove the truth is that i said something to you now, i didn't say but you can show on your phone that i sent you the test and it can be used as evidence in court. so, drumming is very important . >> we have just one minute left, aisha, anything else? >> i want to let people know that they can always come and visit us cover the last friday of every month we hold mindful drumming in the last wednesday we hold racial healing dialogue . >> oh, excellent. and also if you want our services you just have to call us, we do workshops on attitude and healing and leadership work and we currently have a leadership course that we focus with low income families to work about their own personal tting them registered to vote

in all of these wonderful things . >> we are glad that you've been here and i'm glad you're my friends and i can't wait until you go to gonna again . >> thank you so much . >> 25th anniversary, november 15 at scott's, what time ? >> six. 6:00-10:30 . >> let's go out with a little drumming for our heart and for life and for world thank you for joining us.

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