Course
FOUNDATIONS IN EMBODIED SOMATIC ABOLITIONISM (FESA)
Session
Bodies of Culture and Visibly Melanated Bodies
Date
Day One
June 7th, 2025
10am - 6pm Central
Day Two
June 8th, 2025
10am - 2:00am Central
Day Three
June 12th, 2025
7pm - 8:30pm Central
Guide
Resmaa Menakem
About
Black Bodies, Indigenous Bodies, and other Bodies of Culture/Visibly Melanated Bodies 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.
- Receive access to the workshop videos for one week after the final session.
SCHEDULE
June 7th
Bodies of culture will come together from 10am – 6pm CST to begin engaging with FESA concepts, practices and principles.
June 8th
From 10am – 2:00pm CST.
June 19th
From 7pm – 8:30pm CST.
Bodies of Culture and Visibly Melanated Bodies
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Livestream credentials
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Online discussions