The Eyed Entity Podcast
The Eyed Entity Podcast
Podcast Description
Based on a one year long project called "The Eyed Entity Project", the experience of identity in the face of profound grief and loss brought forth questions: who am I when I am not who I was in relationship before? What is most important? How do we uncover our preferences? How do we follow them? How impactful are others in each chapter of our own individual identity? This process emerged in the face of grief and the role of identity in that experience, but evolved into what matters most in life.Join your host, Kimberly, an LMFT and creative in the exploration of themes around mental health, grief, relationship, creativity and the arts, how we find community, self-empowerment, and related psychological and sociological topics in coming episodes.
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Content Themes
The podcast delves into topics surrounding mental health, personal identity, grief, and the influence of creativity in fostering self-empowerment. Examples of episode themes include the journey through personal loss and community finding, and an exploration of creativity's role in identity, highlighted in the episode featuring musician Craig Klonowski discussing his career and artistic process.
Based on a one year long project called “The Eyed Entity Project”, the experience of identity in the face of profound grief and loss brought forth questions: who am I when I am not who I was in relationship before? What is most important? How do we uncover our preferences? How do we follow them? How impactful are others in each chapter of our own individual identity? This process emerged in the face of grief and the role of identity in that experience, but evolved into what matters most in life.
Join your host, Kimberly, an LMFT and creative in the exploration of themes around mental health, grief, relationship, creativity and the arts, how we find community, self-empowerment, and related psychological and sociological topics in coming episodes.
This podcast is without guest, as Kimberly Koljat presents the full exploration of a paper written to graduate from Institute West, the San Francisco Institute for Developmental Transformations. This discussion covers a paper written in three parts: early grief, a one year project created to help re-acclimate after profound loss, and the questions, queries, and interests that emerged from and after the project completed. Consider this the director's cut of a one year long project with fake DVD commentary.
Kimberly unpacks the Eyed Entity Project, a one-year experiment built from Developmental Transformations (DVT) components, self-revelatory performance principles, grief work inspired by Megan Devine, and Sherry Turkle's work on our relationship with technology. You’ll hear how the recursive cycle of noticing, feeling, animating, and expressing changes after significant loss, why platitudes add pain, and why “we need tools to withstand grief” lands harder than any advice to heal or move on. She also shares a working idea she calls the absent other, the experience that remains when someone is gone, and how creativity and embodiment can help us stay with what we experience.
Primarily, Kimberly focus most of the discussion on how she translated DVT group stages into daily life: sound and movement as music, dance, and learning guitar; defining as themes that surfaced around identity and cultural expectations; defining and personification stages as the deliberate ways she carried her loved ones forward through symbols, playlists, and choice points, and re-integrating back into relationship following a pandemic and profound loss in attempts to build relationship again. Along the way, she wrestles with a very current question: can the internet act as a compassionate witness, or does online culture distort the very stories we most need held?
If any part of this resonates, subscribe for part two, share the episode with someone navigating loss, and leave a review so more listeners can find the show. What role did grief change for you, and what would “do it anyway” look like this week?
Please note: This episode contains a video component of a slide presentation with further information than what is verbally spoken. For best experience, viewing the video contains the most information.
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