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**EVENT UPDATE: Postponed**

We been monitoring our RSVPs closely. We know that concerns about COVID-19 are ongoing and that it there are many competing demands on our schedules. We have decided to postpone until November 2, 2022, which was the scheduled date of what would have been Part Two of the series. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.  We will combine the material to create one highly interactive session with many valuable takeaways. Thank you!

Processing the visceral content and reverberating implications of NU’s common read, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning of Slavery Across America, can be challenging on psychosomatic levels. We invite racial justice educators to come together as a community to engage in contemplative mind-body practices and to explore trauma-informed pedagogical perspectives that can restore bandwidth and empower learning. This two-part workshop series will center bodily awareness, evidence-informed practices, and social connection, which are powerful tools for sustaining our personal and collective efforts towards racial justice both inside and outside of the classroom. 

Facilitated by Veronica Womack, Associate Director of Inclusive Learning Communities, and Jennifer Keys, Senior Director, at the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching and inspired by Resmaa Menakem’s (2021) My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.