Irresistible (fka Healing Justice Podcast)
Society & Culture
This week, we’re listening in as a brilliant crew from generative somatics has a powerful conversation about trauma, oppression, healing and organizing for structural change. They dig into the connections between personal, collective and structural transformation, and between healing and building collective power. They also explore the term Healing Justice and ask: what does embodied healing have to do with creating liberation?
For this week’s practice, we recommend you dive back into the Healing Justice Podcast archives and listen to Practice 12: Somatic Centering with Sumitra Rajkumar. Sumitra is also part of the teaching body for generative somatics, and the practice she shares is one of the core practices in gs methodology.
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FURTHER RESOURCES FROM GS:
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ABOUT OUR GUESTS
adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a writer, social justice facilitator, pleasure activist, healer and doula living in Detroit. She is on the teaching bodies of generative somatics and Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity. adrienne can also be heard on episode 10 of Healing Justice Podcast.
Prentis Hemphill is a healer, Somatics practitioner, teacher, writer and organizer who works at the intersections of healing and justice. As the former Healing Justice Director at Black Lives Matter, Prentis committed to supporting and nurturing the brilliant strategies of organizers and healers to address trauma, move through conflict and center wholeness in the BLM network and in the broader movement for Black freedom and liberation. Prentis can also be heard on episode 13 of Healing Justice Podcast.
Spenta Kandawalla is a co-founder of generative somatics (gs). She is an auntie, acupuncturist and herbalist, generative somatics teacher, and member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC). Over the past 13 years, Spenta has been studying, teaching, and growing generative somatics work for organizers, movement builders and healers across the country.
Staci K. Haines is a co-founder and the Executive Director of generative somatics, where she integrates trauma and healing and a systemic analysis of power. Staci is also a founder of generationFIVE, which has the mission to end the sexual abuse of children within 5 generations, and is the author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (Cleis 1999, 2007).
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THANK YOU to all our production volunteers:
Producer: Janvieve Williams Comrie
Music: Oakland-based collective Mass Bass
Mixing by Zach Meyer at the COALROOM
Intro and Closing music gifted by Danny O’Brien
Coordination & communications by Danielle Feris
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Sharing Leadership: Welcoming BJSTAR, our new Co-Director!
Practice: Healing in Direct Action with Miski Noor & Kandace Montgomery
Sustaining Ourselves When Confronting Violence with Miski Noor & Kandace Montgomery
Youth Voices: Our Wildest Dreams
Adapting Strategy & Building Power in Crisis -- Ejeris Dixon & Dove Kent
Grief in a Time of Not Knowing with Roshi Joan Halifax
#ShareMyCheck: Redistributing Stimulus Money for Justice & Mutual Aid (with Resource Generation & Movimiento Cosecha)
Organizing in a Pandemic: Disability Justice Wisdom
Metta Meditation with Kazu Haga
Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm (Kazu Haga & Carlos Saavedra)
You're invited to a Care Circle (feat. Circle Keeper BJ Star)
Becoming Irresistible: the story & sources behind Healing Justice Podcast's new name
We Are Irresistible (formerly known as Healing Justice Podcast)
"Should we cancel?" Coronavirus, travel & organizing
Coronavirus: Wisdom from a Social Justice Lens
Coming soon...
2020 Visioning: a New Years Practice with Alicia Garza
Going Internal: an update from Healing Justice Podcast
Follow the Ones Who Know the Way: a love poem for young leaders by Taj James
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