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Building Culture through Somatic Abolitionism 
 
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Somatic Abolitionism is living, embodied anti-racist practice and cultural building; it's a way of being in the world. It is a return to the age-old wisdom of human bodies respecting, honoring, and resonating with other human bodies.
-Resmaa Menakem
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CCBB 2022

COMMUNAL CONSULTATIONS IN SOMATIC ABOLITIONISM FOR BLACK BODIES

with Resmaa Menakem, co-facilitated by Erin Trent Johnson

 

** A 6 month communal journey of healing and practice for Black Bodies **

With Resmaa Menakem
Co-Facilitators Karine Bell & Erin Trent Johnson

2022 REGISTRATION IS CLOSED!

Countering white body supremacy and the restoration of wholeness for Black, Indigenous and all other bodies of culture requires an embodied approach. Cognition is ineffective in dealing with white body supremacy because the brain will always be part of the body. Any project, strategy, scheme or idea that is not embodied will be tossed into the cultural bonfire of “Curing Race-ism.” The roots of white body supremacy run deep and are often implicit to our experience. It’s from our embodied experience, therefore, that our work begins…
 

Our time together will introduce students to a critical understanding of how personal, collective, cultural and historical trauma have impacted our individual and communal bodies. We will work with how and where trauma shapes our experience with one another, as well as our capacity to heal and return to our birthright state of embodied wisdom, connection, and wholeness. YOU ARE NOT DEFECTIVE, and you deserve to know that in your bones.

We use this time to build a cultural container through which our intrinsic value can be cultivated and held, and the energies of structural value can be contended with and metabolized. During this journey, there may be a need to slow down and work with a therapist or somatic practitioner in order to respond to what may be overwhelming. There is no shame in this. As ancestor Nelson Mandela stated: We don’t lose, we either win or we learn.

Resmaa Menakem, Karine Bell, & Erin Trent Johnson will meet once a month with the consultation group for Black Bodies.

Communal Consultations for Black Bodies (CCBB) are open to anyone who identifies as a Black body. This group is open to women, queer, trans, men, and non-binary Black bodies. We intend for this to be an inclusive space and wish for all bodies to feel welcome and nourished.

 

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED FOR 2022
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