Today, Jean and her good friend/colleague Charleen unpack the part A episode that features Natalie, an incredible social worker working with people over the age of 65 in the mental health sector, and our podcast crew member Juliette. Charleen is a Cook Islander and Maori woman working for a non-profit community health organisation. She brings many aspects of creativity to her work through story-telling, performing arts and critical practice. Charleen explains how she uses her social work knowledge, skills, and interests to navigate the ‘stickiness’ of neoliberalism and social conditioning to work in the best interests of the people she works with. Charleen helps Jean to understand a really engaging perspective of deep listening using the concept of putting on your taringas, and they discuss discourses of resistance and deservingness in the community mental health space. Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WUmBCbBv38A5-pnW8jUhwEXUe6Dtn5cS/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104391506849562986537&rtpof=true&sd=true References: Taringas definition: (verb) to be deaf, unhearing, indifferent, unresponsive - often in the phrase taringa turi. Nondeliberative practices: https://fass.nus.edu.sg/nai/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2021/06/Day-3.pdf Keywords: Taringas-deep listening; cultural understanding; community mental health; shared understanding; empathy; resistance; creative practice; performing arts; neoliberalism; capitalism; social conditioning; critical practice; conversations; lived experience; critical thinking and reflection; reflexivity; discretionary space Music by Boe Towah Follow us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/criticalconversations4sw/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CriticalConversations4S