Creating a Bridge into Social Action (When You Care, But Don’t Know What to Do)

Duration: 45m 49s

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It can feel difficult to find a clear direction and take action, without feeling overwhelmed by the problems facing us today. In this exchange, Staci K. Haines and Michelle Mascarenhas provide actionable suggestions for how to move towards a collectivized We by engaging in our local communities.

Michelle Mascarenhas is a champion of climate justice and community-led change. She is the Sierra Club’s National Director of Campaigns and co-founder of the Reclaim Our Power Utility Justice Campaign. Michelle also supported the formation of the Climate Justice Alliance as a co-director of Movement Generation. Michelle continues to work at the intersection of racial and climate justice as she has for the past two decades.

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 is also a senior teacher at Strozzi Institute and a Certified Master Somatic Coach. Staci is the author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice and Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma and is the founder of generationFIVE, a community-based organization whose mission is to end the sexual abuse of children within five generations.