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
July 13th, 2024
10am - 6pm Central
Day Two
July 27th, 2024
10am - 2pm Central
Guide
Resmaa Menakem
About
Non-Black bodies of culture have a unique dynamic in the United States. Perhaps your ancestors came here to escape trauma from their home country. Perhaps your parents came here to give you a better life. Whatever the case, your experience with White Body Supremacy is complex, and different from the experience of Black and Indigenous Bodies.
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
July 13th
Bodies of culture will come together from 10am – 6pm CST to begin engaging with FESA concepts, practices and principles.
July 27th
From 10am – 2pm CST.
Bodies of Culture
$
395
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Livestream credentials
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Online discussions
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Discounted video library subscription