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Somatic Abolitionism Livestream Workshops and Intensives
Register for a workshop or intensive and learn how to begin to build resilience, discernment, and the ability to tolerate discomfort that comes with confronting the brutality of race.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS AND INTENSIVES
NEWS
Open Hands: Rise in the Alignment of Truth
Somatic Abolitionism requires action and repeated individual and communal practice. On this platform, we collectively build resilience, discernment, and the ability to tolerate discomfort that comes with confronting the brutality of race.
Here are important happenings:
What's About to Happen:
October 11, 2024
6:00 - 7:30
Book signing with Resmaa
Come to Sister’s Uptown Bookstore located at:
1942 Amsterdam Ave
New York NY 10032.
October 12, 2024
11am - 4pm
Mental Wealth Expo Featuring Dr. Resmaa Menakem
Join Resmaa on October 12th, 2024 at the Mental Wealth Expo in Times Square, NY, hosted by Charlamagne tha God and the Mental Wealth Alliance. This FREE event is all about mental health education, healing, and building resilience. Together, we’ll explore themes like navigating fame, breaking toxic cycles, and building generational wellness.
October
Listen to Dr. Resmaa Menakem on The Breakfast Club with Charlamagne tha God
What happened recently:
NEWS
The Stories From My Grandmother's Hands hits a #1 category new release on Amazon
October 11, 2024
Dr. Resmaa appears on The Breakfast Club
Catch the conversation on The Breakfast Club! T. Mychael Rambo and Resmaa sat down to discuss their new children’s book The Stories from Our Grandmothers’ Hands and how it helps families heal from racialized trauma.
They dive deep into the importance of intergenerational healing, honoring our grandmothers’ wisdom, and how this book blends storytelling, music, and art to guide both adults and kids on their healing journey.
September 7-10, 2024
Resmaa teams up with teacher Rev. angel Kyodo williams in “Being Black, Healing Black"
Buddhist teacher Rev. angel Kyodo williams describes her “final project,” titled “Healing Race Portal,” which will begin with an inaugural experiential event, “Being Black, Healing Black”. It will take place at The Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, offering a “powerful, immersive journey through America’s history of racial injustice.”
July 1, 2024
Resmaa was featured on the We Can Do Hard Things podcast
The Embodied Path to Healing Trauma
Dr. Resmaa Menakem discusses the concepts of somatic abolitionism, and the importance of embodied anti-racist practices. Discover:
- The difference between clean and dirty pain;
- What white people need to do in order to help create an anti-racist society; and
- Why we should shift from looking at the personal to looking at the historical to heal our traumas.
August 14, 2024
In Ghana, a Gathering for Black Joy, Pain, and Reconnection
In the clearing of the garden of the Nubuke Foundation in Accra, Ghana, Resmaa Menakem, Bayo Akomolafe, and Orland Bishop settled their bodies into plush, wide chairs, their faces slick with anticipation and evening sweat. The subtitle for their gathering was “trauma, ritual and the promise of the monstrous,” and their audience, spread out on mats and chairs in a semicircle around them, was about to find out what that meant. Trays of pork and beef skewers and samosas were passed around, and cups were topped off with pineapple-ginger juice. As the sky darkened and the birds quieted, the moon began to peek down through the canopy of leaves above us….
August 14, 2024
Bayo Akomolafe on How to Make Sanctuary in Times of Loss
For the most part, we were silent on the long bus ride back to our hotel. There wasn’t much to be said. There wasn’t much that could be said. In the silence, we seemed to have left the business of saying things to the vast, undulating fields that frolicked and yawned and stretched outside our windows. To the elderly buildings, curious glances, and inexplicably garlanded red-black poles that dotted the roadside of the Cape Coast. To the jarring and busy traffic noises that marked the beginnings of the sweltering city of Accra. To the dancing spirits of memory that accompanied us along the journey, stitching their tunes to the white of our clothes, playing their drums, urging us never to forget the White of the Cape Coast Castle and the Black of the bodies she ate and spat out from her dungeons…
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