Season 2, Episode 2: Be the Adult You Wished You Had as a Teen Ft. Jamil Stamschror-Lott

For our second episode of Rewriting the Rules® Season 2, we focused on Creating a Community That Wraps Its Arms Around Our Youth. Our host, Dr. Tracine Asberry, Executive Director of St. Paul Youth Services (SPYS), spoke with one of her former SPYS’ Behavior Intervention Program Specialists, longtime community leader, and current licensed social worker, Jamil Stamschror-Lott. This episode is for everyone who remembers their middle school and high school experience and is grateful for the adults who got it right and want more adults to do the same. Listen to Jamil's wisdom to be the adults our teens deserve. 

About Jamil Stamschror-Lott, LICSW:  

Jamil Stamschror-Lott owns Creative Kuponya in Minneapolis, providing mental health care to those that society has pushed to the margins. In 2020, Creative Kuponya’s office was set ablaze in the unrest after the murder of George Floyd, igniting an even deeper passion for justice within Jamil. That summer, Jamil did what he does best - he began providing Transformative Healing Sessions and Keynote Addresses in parks and community spaces to educate on the intersection for mental health, diversity, equity and inclusion. Jamil has spoken for major universities, health care companies, law firms and corporations such as Caribou and TC Diversity in Practice. Jamil and his work has been featured in publications such as USA Today, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. 

Find Jamil: 

• Website: Creative Kuponya 

• LinkedIn: Jamil Stamschror-Lott 

• Instagram: @creativekuponya 

• Facebook: Creative Kuponya 

*The music you hear on the podcast is provided by Blue Dot Sessions and is used here under a Creative Commons License.

References:   

• St. Paul Youth Services: spys.org 

• SPYS’ Behavior Intervention Program 

• Amplifying Youth Voice in Public Policy 

• Rewriting the Rules℠ Season 1 Episode 8: What We Got Wrong ft. Youth Leader, Kyra Hughes-Bester 

• Definition of Kuponya: Healing 

• Historical New York Times article about ‘Murderapolis’ 

• Historical Los Angeles Times article about Drive-By-Shooting Drills 

• Definition of Microaggression: “commonplace verbal, behavioral or environmental slights, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative attitudes toward stigmatized or culturally marginalized groups.” Source: Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation 

• What exactly is a microaggression? 

• Definition of Somatic Psychology: Somatic psychology is a form of body-oriented therapy that uses techniques and holistic approaches to help people gain awareness of the body and to heal themselves. Somatic psychology practitioners make their patients conscious of the mind-body connection through exercises such as breathwork. Source: Meridian University. 

• Race and The Body: Why Somatic Practices Are Essential for Racial Justice 

• Definition of Epigenetics The study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work. Source: CDC 

• What is Epigenetics? 

• Protective factors associated with positive mental health in traditional and nontraditional Black students. 

• The history of the Rondo neighborhood at I-94 

• The Strange History and Career of Drapetomania: The Mania That Caused Enslaved Blacks to Escape and the Man Behind It 

• Rewriting the Rules℠ Season 2, Episode 1: Be the Next Teacher of the Year with Dr. Lee-Ann Stephens 

• In-School Behavior Intervention Program Specialists 

Further Reading:  

• After a Traumatizing Year, Black People Turn to Therapy 

• Married Minneapolis therapists hope to heal communal pain: 'Let's try to build a bridge' 

• How This Minneapolis Man Is Healing Collective Trauma Through Creative Counseling and Mentoring 

• Though office burned in Minneapolis protests, ex-basketball player is committed to helping community heal 

• Addressing Microaggressions in the Classroom 

• A Black-focused therapy practice in Minneapolis sees ‘trauma, trauma, trauma.’ Here’s how they’re helping people to heal. 

• Stanford scholar explores the impact of racial stress on Black youth 

• “Listen when I come to the table”: Reimagining education with and for Black elementary-aged youth and their mothers