BLACK OCTOPUS SOCIETY

Course

FOUNDATIONS IN EMBODIED SOMATIC ABOLITIONISM (FESA)

Racialized Trauma and The Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Session

Bodies of Culture (Visibly Melanated)

Date

Day One
January 11th, 2025

10am - 6pm Central

Day Two

January 12th, 2025

10am - 2:00am Central

Day Three

January 16th, 2025

7pm - 8:30pm Central

Guide

Resmaa Menakem

About

Black Bodies, Indigenous Bodies, and other Bodies of Culture have been confronting, resisting, suffering and dying from the cult and systems of White Body Supremacy. The enduring nature of racialized trauma and our experiences with White Body Supremacy is withering and complex. Liberation is aided by resource and there is a powerful path to tending and flourishing, not just surviving.

Embodied Somatic Abolitionism is a living, embodied anti-racist practice and culture building—a way of being in the world. Embodied Somatic Abolitionism can help Bodies of Culture recognize how racialized trauma has taken root in the body and how to shift out of trauma into living.

LEARN

In this course you will:

  • Learn what Embodied Somatic Abolitionism 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 you 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

January 11th

Bodies of culture will come together from 10am – 6pm CST to begin engaging with FESA concepts, practices and principles.

January 12th

From 10am – 2:00pm CST.

January 16th

From 7pm – 8:30pm CST.

Bodies of Culture

$ 395
  • Livestream credentials
  • Online discussions
  • Discounted video library subscription

INDIVIDUAL CONSULTATION

Individual consultation sessions with Resmaa are available as an add-on for $475 per hour.
These can be added after you first select a registration option above.

QUESTIONS

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