Course
FOUNDATIONS IN EMBODIED SOMATIC ABOLITIONISM (FESA)
Racialized Trauma and The Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Session
All Bodies
Dates
Day One
May 9, 2025
White/White Passing Bodies:
10am - 2pm Central
Bodies of Culture / Visibly Melanated Bodies
2pm - 5pm Central
Day Two
May 10, 2025
All Bodies:
10am - 6pm Central
Day Three
May 15, 2025
All Bodies:
7pm - 8:30pm Central
Guides
Dr. Resmaa Menakem
MSW, LICSW, SEP
Jennifer-Lee Koble MSW, RSW
Métis/Cree From Treaty 6
About
Racialized trauma has taken root in ALL bodies, whether through experiencing racism, witnessing racism, or enacting racism. Embodied Somatic Abolitionism is a living, embodied anti-racist practice and cultural building—a way of being in the world. It is a return to the age-old wisdom of human bodies respecting, honouring, and resonating with other human bodies. It is not exclusively a goal, an attitude, a belief, an idea, a strategy, a movement, a government, a plan, a system, a political belief, or a step forward.
LEARN
In this course you will:
- Learn what Embodied Somatic Abolition is and isn’t (hint: It’s not a way to escape or bypass your body).
- Learn about trauma, how it resides in the body, and how that unresolved trauma keeps us stuck at best and dangerous at worst.
- Learn about your body’s six intelligences or VIMBASIs.
- Use “toys” and reps to settle and resource the body when trauma arises
- Consider the ways in which people in your culture both suffer from and benefit from white-body supremacy.
- Examine your own inherited biases of anti-Blackness and Indigenous invisibility.
- Learn ways to heal trauma in the self, in the community, and maybe the world.
- Receive access to the workshop videos for one week after the final session.
SCHEDULE
May 9th
White bodies will meet on the first day from 10 a.m. – 2p.m. CST to prep for being in the room, and
Black bodies, Indigenous bodies, and Bodies of Culture will meet from 2:00p.m. – 5p.m. CST
May 10th
All bodies will come together 10 a.m. – 6p.m CST to begin engaging with FESA concepts, practices and principles.
May 15th
Retention space from 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. CST