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Welcome to "The Activate Change Podcast," where transformation is just a conversation away. Join Gabrielli LaChiara, renowned healer and creator of the LaChiara Method, as she guides individuals through powerful healing sessions. Alongside her, Chloë Faith Urban breaks down the frameworks and tools Gabrielli uses to bring deeper understanding to the profound process of healing. The episodes that are healing sessions offer an intimate front-row seat to authentic, raw, and real personal breakthroughs, spiritual healing, and emotional support, allowing you to see yourself in the journeys of others. Experience the power and magic of the LaChiara Method, learn practical tools for self-growth, and unlock your potential to activate change in your own life.
With the LaChiara Method’s deep commitment to collaboration and perpetual learning, some episodes will highlight conversations with other thought leaders, healers, and activists on the path to bringing healing, liberation and true equality to the world.
Whether you're seeking healing, inspiration, or a deeper understanding of yourself, this podcast is your gateway to a more rooted, resilient and radiant YOU.
To experience or learn more about the method go to: https://lachiaramethod.com
Chloe Urban (00:00)
Welcome to the Activate Change podcast, where transformation is just a conversation away. This is Chloe Faith Urban. the co -director and lead trainer of the La Quijara Method, which is a trauma -informed, oppression -aware healing modality. I'm also the co -host of this podcast. I'm here with Gabriele La Quijara, who's the founder and creator of the La Quijara Method, and also my amazing co -director,
and co -hosts of this podcast. Hi Gabriele.
Chloe Urban (00:35)
We wanted to share with you a bit about the history of this modality and also about the vision behind the format of this podcast. So let's start with you, Gabrielle. Can you share a little bit about where this all began and how it's birthed into what it is today?
Gabrielli LaChiara (00:33)
Hi, Globi.
Sure, I'd love to. The energy inside of this podcast and the work that I'm doing in it really was formed early in my life when I knew even as a young child that I wanted to help somehow. Like I wanted to be a part of caring for people on this earth. Started out by wanting to care for younger people and animals and it burst all the way into the choices I made around which college I went to and my decision to go to college for
psychology and social work. I went from college straight into a career as a clinical social worker for a decade. And wow, that was hard. I was working at the front lines of some of the most intense family dynamics and children's issues and teenagers' issues. And it was meaningful and good. And in some ways I loved it, and in other ways I really...
Chloe Urban (01:33)
Mm -hmm.
Gabrielli LaChiara (01:49)
could feel that I was being traumatized by those settings too, and sometimes feeling ineffective. When I got pregnant and birthed my child was the real first turning point for me of like, wait a minute here, there's more than just being immersed inside the systems of social work for me personally. I wanted something different. I wanted a better world for my child. I wanted to take that drive to help others and see how far it could go.
So that was like a big turning point for me. The next turning point for me was, let's say, when I was diagnosed with cancer. And I was already immersed in working with others, Mother Woman was an organization I had helped to birth. That was a nonprofit for mothers. I kind of was doing a lot of private work with people.
But something really shifted. There was this pivot inside of me where I felt like my intuition was the reason I'm alive and that there was something so deep in my intuitive senses and my knowing. And the more I unleashed myself to trust those parts of myself, the more I wanted to unleash that in others. And so that was a real pivotal moment of, wait a minute, what am I doing anyway? And that began a real life -changing journey to my healer self.
Yeah. It was in 2004 with the inspiration of Laurie Friedman, who is the co -founder of the original, um, La Cara Method work, which was called the infinity practice at that time, or probably something else even before that. Uh, and she's the one who said, let's do this thing. Let's make trainings. Let's come on. You can create more, not just do individual sessions, but let's help others learn what you have as your gift and, let's see if it's teachable. And, um, and so that became the real foundation
Chloe Urban (03:27)
Mm -hmm.
Gabrielli LaChiara (03:42)
teaching trainings on this approach, which is now called the Lakera Method.
Chloe Urban (03:48)
Mm -hmm. Yeah. Yeah.
Gabrielli LaChiara (03:49)
Hmm. The podcast is kind of like, after what, how many years have we been trying to figure out how you help someone to understand what we do? Well, it's hard. It's so hard for people to understand what I'm doing. I mean, even though we've been teaching it and training it, a lot of how people learn is through first hand experience. And so this podcast for me is so vulnerable and, and exciting to just put what I do or a piece of what I do.
Chloe Urban (03:58)
Right.
Gabrielli LaChiara (04:18)
right on your lap here so that you can go through the arc of a session with me and people can listen, feel, hear what's happening in real time.
Chloe Urban (04:30)
Yeah, and that's really, as you're speaking, that's the vision of this podcast. We're giving you a window into these incredible sessions that Gabriella has been leading for many, many, many, many years with people, and that I've had just such profound privilege and honor to be listening and experiencing myself too. And we really found that in
in the trainings and as people actually watched and experienced you in that incredible healer gift that you have, things really started to change and shift for the people listening. Yes, they were learning from you, but also just the transformation that was coming from actually just witnessing, listening, feeling into what was happening in those sessions was really like the big.
inspiration for this podcast, because we wanted to give you that experience as the listener of what it is to be in these healing sessions, listening in and feeling what's possible and sort of the quirkiness of it all because it is just different, right Gabrielle? Yeah.
Gabrielli LaChiara (05:40)
Right, right, right. Yeah, it took me a lot to be in my work and not try to perfect something, but learn the art of the imperfect, you know, to learn the art of dancing that edge of not knowing and then feeling for an intuitive sense or asking really awkward question or facilitating through a body -centric somatic experience for the client.
Chloe Urban (06:09)
Mm -hmm.
Gabrielli LaChiara (06:09)
These were very different than how I was taught as a clinical social worker and what I love about the work.
Chloe Urban (06:14)
Right, right.
Totally. And it's really what to me makes it just radical, different, sort of revolutionary in its own way because you're in it and we teach people how to do this. And I do this too of just what is it to be willing to kind of break the molds, let's say, or the rules around what therapy or coaching or social work might be and actually be willing to sit in the discomfort with people.
to challenge in different ways, to ask questions that make no damn sense in the logical brain, but actually go under and get to the unconscious patternings of people. And that's, to me, what's just so different about your work, our work, and what we teach, and is so exciting to be a part of because it really does start to shift the brain, shift the body into like, whoa,
there's like a whole different way of living here. And there's a whole different way of showing up in life and a whole lot more consciousness that, you for me, I realized like, whoa, I'm capable of being that much more aware, conscious of really untangling and untethering, you know, different things that might have blocked me from showing up as fully as I.
Gabrielli LaChiara (07:18)
Mm -hmm.
Chloe Urban (07:42)
can in the world. And of course, it's an ever unfolding journey, but it's just been such profound work. yeah, and yes, of course. really, to what has been so amazing and remarkable to me that, you I can experience you doing this totally out of the box work that feels like I could never learn that, right?
Gabrielli LaChiara (07:49)
Right, Thank
Chloe Urban (08:08)
And then to actually see over the last 11 years like, oh, wait, this is actually teachable. Like people are learning this. And yes, it starts with like, you know, the foundations that we teach in this, you know, in our current latest venture of the 200 hour radical life coach training. But, you know, over the last years and the last four years of us working together, we've been
Gabrielli LaChiara (08:15)
Mm -hmm.
Chloe Urban (08:35)
really in deep curiosity about like, okay, what's the next level? How do we really, really teach this in a way that's learnable? And what's been incredible over this last, you know, rendition of the training is to really witness people like awakening into their healer selves, embodying compassion and presence and like learning how to ignite
Gabrielli LaChiara (08:55)
Mm -hmm.
Chloe Urban (09:02)
that deep intuitive self that I think we all have. And it's just been amazing to watch,
Gabrielli LaChiara (09:08)
I've been, I was, as you said, that we all have, I just kept turning in my head to say, it's natural. Intuition is natural. Healing is natural. It's not some thing we're teaching that our bodies don't know how to do. We do know and we've been untrained to, away from those senses. And so it has been really true. These last radical life coach trainings show us that in 12 weeks, people have life -changing experiences of what it means
Chloe Urban (09:16)
Exactly.
Right.
Gabrielli LaChiara (09:37)
hold space for one another, to be present, to facilitate, to have hard conversations if nothing else. Like how to have a hard conversation and show up for it, how to include paying attention to what energy is in a session and how it moves. Like it's just been unbelievable to witness. I have to say myself too, I just love it.
Chloe Urban (10:00)
Yeah, I know. It's been so amazing. So as we, you know, invite you into this experience and this podcast, like we really just invite you to have an open mind and a curious heart and, you know, let it just shake you up and, and potentially stir you into like, wow, what else is possible for me and my own healing and what might
Gabrielli LaChiara (10:20)
Mm -hmm.
Chloe Urban (10:28)
possible for me just in relationship to other as well and really just inviting you to be in the experience and to really let the the healing wash over you. So we're pretty excited.
Gabrielli LaChiara (10:38)
Mm -hmm. Yeah. I just, can I do a last minute shout out here that the Radical Life Coach training has also is a peer support training. So for people who want to be coaches, have a business, have a practice, great. But what happened naturally is that we also have people who just want to learn the method to peer to peer support and have this community of others who help each other for free all the time to show up and facilitate one another in sessions.
Chloe Urban (10:43)
yeah!
Gabrielli LaChiara (11:08)
I love that about the work too, that it breeds like a lateral community building support in it. so it's just so lovely that you can, if you learn this level of life coaching, you can use it anywhere. Anywhere you're having a conversation.
Chloe Urban (11:22)
Right, right, right. Exactly, exactly. And it's just been, as you said, the natural thing that has happened in our community over these years is just people come and we support each other and people pair up and support each other on the weekly, you know, like all these different ways of supporting each other. then also, yes, building their own businesses if they want. But it's been incredible
Gabrielli LaChiara (11:39)
Yeah. Right.
Chloe Urban (11:49)
We're just so thrilled to have this opportunity to invite you in and to give you a sense of what is possible in healing when you show up with intuition, with a willingness to get uncomfortable, shake it all up, and we really hope you enjoy the experience. So let's dive