Course
FOUNDATIONS IN EMBODIED SOMATIC ABOLITIONISM (FESA)
Racialized Trauma and The Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Session
All Bodies
Date
Day One
September 6, 2026
White Bodies: 10am - 2pm Central
Black Bodies, Indigenous Bodies, Bodies of Culture 2pm - 5pm Central
Day Two
September 7, 2026
All Bodies 10am - 6pm Central
Day Three
September 11, 2026
Retention Space: 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.
- Work closely with two other people in an assigned triad to practice and reflect on the essentials of Embodied Somatic Abolitionism.
SCHEDULE
September 6th
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
September 7th
All bodies will come together 10 a.m. – 6p.m CST to begin engaging with FESA concepts, practices and principles.
September 11th
Retention space from 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. CST
Black Bodies
$
395
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Livestream credentials
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Online discussions
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Two week access to the class video vault
Bodies of Culture
$
395
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Livestream credentials
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Online discussions
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Two week access to the class video vault
White Bodies
$
650
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Livestream credentials
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Online discussions
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Two week access to the class video vault