Love, Healing and Social Justice
This class can be attended live or via the on-demand recordings. All class times are posted in Eastern Time / New York time zone.
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ABOUT THIS MASTER CLASS
The body learns on “yes” – meaning we practice and change toward what we want, not solely away from what we don’t want. What do you long for, who do you love, and how do you want to leverage your courage? Somatics helps us to discover our answers to these, and then transform toward them.
We are built for safety, belonging, and dignity. Yet, our social conditions do not grant these to all peoples. Often our lived experiences leave us with traumas instead, and embodying our social conditions, even when we don’t agree with them. We have automatic adaptations and survival strategies to navigate all of this. Yet often, these survival strategies outlive their usefulness, and are at odds with our vision and values. In this master class, we’ll explore our love, callings, and courage, and how to cultivate these into choices and actions. We’ll learn about embodied survival strategies and how to transform those that no longer serve us. This healing opens choice, allowing us to act toward what we care about, rather than be caught in reaction. We’ll practice to embody our values, visions, boldness, and change-ability.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
Staci K. Haines
Staci K. Haines is a national leader in the field of Somatics, specializing in intersecting personal and social change. Staci is the co-founder of Generative Somatics (GS), a multiracial social justice organization bringing somatics to social and climate justice leaders and organizations. She leads programs in somatics, trauma and resilience, and embodied leadership for healers, social change leaders, and innovators. She is also a senior teacher at Strozzi Institute and a Certified Master Somatic Coach. Her latest book The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice (North Atlantic Press 2019) is based on her work to transform the impact of individual and social trauma and violence, and strengthen the interdependence of personal and social change. Staci is also co-author of Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (Cleis 1999, 2007), and is the founder of generationFIVE, a community based organization whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations.