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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 instructors who are teaching How the Word is Passed, or similar identity-focused topics, to engage in contemplative, mind-body practices and to explore trauma-informed pedagogical perspectives that can restore bandwidth and empower learning. Participants will learn ways to center your bodily awareness as well as evidence-informed practices for sustaining personal and collective efforts towards racial justice both inside and outside of the classroom. 

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