Duration: 55m 38s
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From the 3-day, intensive training, Transforming Legacy Burdens to Legacy Gifts, comes this conversation with Resmaa Menakem. The summit examined and broadened cultural awareness of systemic racism, the historical wounds underneath divisive behavior, and effective methods of healing internalized oppression, which moves beyond conventional dialogic approaches. In this conversation, Resmaa explores the core principles of white Body Supremacy, what are the necessary healing practices for bodies of culture, and the wisdom of clean pain.
Resmaa Menakem is a psychotherapist, educator, and author specializing in the effects of trauma on the human body and the relationship between trauma, white body supremacy, and racism in America.
He is the author of My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies and The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning. He is the founder of Somatic Abolitionism and the Cultural Somatics Institute.
