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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 22h

this is just magical

Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 6d

When real-life headlines read like they come out of nightmares, it's a lifeline to have your dreams sift through the barrage of daily images and offer up one that's informative, helpful, insightful -- and then have a community of people just talk about it together.

Our brains are trying to help us.

Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 7d

Anyway - PLENTY of seats open -

and I try to reserve four free seats for every group I facilitate - the rest are "pay-whatever-you-can-afford" by donation.

This system actually consistently takes care of me!

So please feel free to join if you are interested!

Dream Workshop — What A Shrink Thinks

Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and community-building practice

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 7d

Ok: sorry for all the boosting but its fall and life is revving up again:

Listening to your dreams is necessary praxis in a time of collective crisis.

Bees may dream of their own assignments but they are also attuned to the balance/imbalance of the hive

Four free seats.
Or pay what you can

Dream Workshop — What A Shrink Thinks

Exploring dreams as a creative, contemplative, and community-building practice

www.whatashrinkthinks.com

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 7d

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 8d

corners are so welcoming

Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 12d

This is why when I had a dog I narrated my goings-on out loud in the third person using my first name. I wanted her to know, so that when we were in group settings and someone used my name she could follow the conversation. 😂

🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 12d

Do you ever think about how your cat doesn't know your name? You use their name but what do they call you in their heads? How do they think about you? Are you a voice? A scent? Is there some kind of designation for that in their mind?

Skeet brought to you by random procrastination thoughts

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 13d

@craignewmark.bsky.social

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 13d

We are in our last few days to raise $4,800 in support of Spanish-language theater for kids and families in the East Bay, and we're about halfway to our goal! Want to give families some good memories? YOU CAN.

youtube.com/shorts/toKOr...

connect.clickandpledge.com/w/Form/57f74...

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 13d

If the below evens sell out, and you've got Spanish-understanding kiddos who like fun, pls consider collections.humanitix.com/alicia-en-lo...

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 13d

You're the second friend I've heard say that last sentence in the past month.

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 16d

Not for nothing, but I really advocate for sitting by a campfire listening to someone tell an ancient story. This still happens in the world. It will make you feel deeply human and the feeling will linger into the next day, at least. Ask me for an invite to the next one in Oakland.

𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 @winterk.bsky.social · 17d

if you really want to stick it to Disney, and other corporate media giants, become fascinated by things they would never produce, so that they might fade into the background noise of life.

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 19d

(Also, want tix?) pineconesandportals.com/alicia2025

Entradas E Información — Pinecones And Portals Hiking Theater Co.

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 19d

Pinecones and Portals is raising $4,800 for a Spanish-language version of Alice in Wonderland so that Spanish-speaking families in and around Berkeley can have an afternoon of magical fun.

YOU CAN HELP!

www.youtube.com/shorts/ANg-x...

pineconesandportals.com/support

Alicia en Los Caminos de las Maravillas: Juliana on Language Justice

YouTube video by Pinecones and Portals Hiking Theater Company

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 19d

@craignewmark.bsky.social @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 19d

Want tickets?

pineconesandportals.com/alicia2025

Entradas E Información — Pinecones And Portals Hiking Theater Co.

pineconesandportals.com

Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 19d

A donation of $120 helps a family of 3 attend the show with $30 tickets. Would you chip in to give spanish-speaking kids and families a bit of fun these days?

Even $1 helps out!

connect.clickandpledge.com/w/Form/57f74...

Pinecones and Portals Hiking Theater Company

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 19d

I'm gonna post a lot in the upcoming days about this gem of a show, Alicia en los Caminos de las Maravillas -- a Spanish-language adaptation of Alice in Wonderland happening in Berkeley in a little over a week.

We're fundraising to keep ticket prices within reach!!

www.youtube.com/shorts/_HHzW...

"Alicia" Director Coi Coi on allowing kids to relate to each other in their native language!

YouTube video by Pinecones and Portals Hiking Theater Company

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 19d

We actually have quite a lot of ancestral knowledge about how to survive and defeat inflated tyrants:

think of giants.

The Harder They Fall — What A Shrink Thinks

mythology of giants and fairy tales, defeating autocracy and pathocracy

www.whatashrinkthinks.com

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Adrianna Tan @skinnylatte.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27d

I’ll keep posting this until I find a great person to come be my manager: the Monterey bay aquarium is looking for its next VP of Technology! […]

Original post on hachyderm.io

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 22d

Listen: one of the ways that people survive and hold on to reality in totalitarian environments is by forming sanity/reality pods - circles where we can tell each other the truths we hear and see and defend against collective delusions

You can join one of mine or I’ll help you build your own.

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Explore community groups, workshops, and trainings focused on community resilience, discernment and psycho-spiritual growth, Join our events to connect and learn.

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 24d

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 24d

(almost every one of those rainbow pebbles in my pinned thread I found with her help.)

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 24d

I want to tell you that I loved a dog and a dog loved me, and yesterday she passed. This is Elfie the Loved.

A maltipoo lies in the grass at sunset by an estuary. She’s looking over her shoulder at her human and smiling. Everything is in golden light.

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 26d

This is exactly it. They ALREADY know us. It was a big mind-wobble for me when I finally realized that I was noticing them *back.*

There was an undercurrent of horror, truth be told, that I had been so ... spaced-out? About my surroundings? Before?

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Jessica Ferris @jessicaferris.bsky.social · 26d

Genuine question: how are high school civics teachers doing? What's it feel like in the classroom? Do you know any high school civics teachers?