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Orland Bishop
Orland Bishop is the founder and director of ShadeTree Multicultural Foundation in Los Angeles, where he has pioneered approaches to urban truces and mentoring at-risk youth that combine new ideas with traditional ways of knowledge. ShadeTree serves as an intentional community of mentors, elders, teachers, artists, healers and advocates for the healthy development of children and youth. Orland's work in healing and human development is framed by an extensive study of medicine, naturopathy, psychology and indigenous cosmologies, primarily those of South and West Africa.
Orland Bishop videos
Mutual Consent
Youth worker Orland Bishop explains how young people learn about power from adults. In the absence of elders who have cultivated wisdom in their lives and know how to transmit it to younger generations,
(5:23)
The Authentic Expression of My Voice
Orland Bishop describes the unique blend of mentoring, peacemaking, and community leadership that takes place at his L.A.-based Shade Tree Multicultural Foundation.
(2:52)
Intuition
L.A.-based community activist Orland Bishop explains that oneness is the source of intuition, which allows us to touch a common truth beyond our memory, culture and conditioned responses.
(2:11)
Sawubona
Youth worker and community leader Orland Bishop explains the meaning of the Zulu greeting Sawubona ("We see you") as an invitation to a deep witnessing and presence.
(3:46)
The Earth is a Oneness Idea
L.A.-based social activist and community leader Orland Bishop evokes primal qualities of the earth, like foundation, stability, abundance, accessibility, reconciliation, and peace
(2:12)
Oneness is Abundance
L.A.-based community activist Orland Bishop explains how the American economic system that assigns value to competition and scarcity of resources undermines oneness, which is inherently relational and abundant.
(5:15)
There's a source above the everyday thinking that can allow human beings to unite. The Source that provides intuition is oneness.
Orland Bishop
in Intuition
in Intuition