Embodied Healing and Social Justice

Duration: 1h 0m 39s

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In this powerful conversation, Staci outlines how we can understand the connection between personal and systemic transformation as interdependent, yet distinct processes. She talks about how each can empower the other through collective empathy. Join Staci and Janina to learn more.

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.

Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor, Harvard Medical  School.  An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is the founder of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment  (TIST) and an Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation. Dr. Fisher is the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017), Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022). She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based and somatic interventions into trauma treatment.