Description:

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. In this workshop, participants will learn ways to center their bodily awareness as well as evidence-informed practices for sustaining personal and collective efforts towards racial justice both inside and outside of the classroom. 

This workshop will be presented via Zoom and it is 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.