Course
FOUNDATIONS IN EMBODIED SOMATIC ABOLITIONISM (FESA)
Racialized Trauma and The Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Session
White and White Passing Bodies
Date
January 17th, 2025
10am - 6pm Central
Day Two
January 18th, 2025
10am - 2:00pm Central
Guide
Resmaa Menakem
About
Liberalism, DEI, and “just be kind” all propose different ways to be “anti-racist” or at least, “not racist.” As Guanté wrote, “White supremacy is not the shark; it’s the water.” Embodied Somatic Abolitionism is embodied anti-racism, with a box of “toys” and a system of reps for settling the white body when confronted with new, challenging, or unpleasant realities, moral injury, or trauma responses.
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 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.
- Confront the ways in which people in your culture absorb, uphold, and deploy white-body supremacy.
- Examine your 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 17th
White bodies will come together from 10am – 6pm CST to begin engaging with FESA concepts, practices and principles.
January 18th
From 10am – 2:00pm CST.
January 23rd
From 7pm – 8:30pm CST.
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