EMBODIED ACTIVISM
In conversation with Dr. Rae Johnson
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June 30th, 2023 from 3pm - 4pm ET (U.S. Eastern Time)
About Embodied Activism with Dr. Rae Johnson
Join Dr. Rae Johnson in an intimate conversation about their new book, Embodied Activism and discover how to engage the body to cultivate liberation, justice, and authentic connection.
How do ordinary people with busy lives leverage their actions in support of liberation, justice, and authentic connection?
How can activists and social change-makers avoid burning out?
How does the body factor into what our social movements miss?
In this conversation, Rae will explore what inspired them to write Embodied Activism. They’ll unpack the idea of microactivism and how can it help us reframe how social change works, plus they’ll discuss the five elements of embodied activism and how can we practice them.
We’ll also explore the idea of somatic bandwidth and how can it help us navigate difficult interactions across social differences
If you’re an embodiment professional, community organizer, or someone looking for new tools and perspectives for changing the world, one body at a time…don’t miss this free online conversation.
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June 30th, 2023 from 3pm - 4pm ET (U.S. Eastern Time)
ABOUT THE BOOK
Engaging the body to cultivate liberation, justice, and authentic connection–a practical guide for transformative social change
How do ordinary people with busy lives leverage our actions in support of liberation, justice, and authentic connection?
How can activists and social change-makers avoid burning out?
How does the body factor into what our social movements miss?
Instead of thinking about social justice as a process that starts with changing people’s minds, Embodied Activism understands our bodies–how we feel in them and relate to others through them–as key to our personal and collective transformation. Drawing on the somatic arts, trauma-informed psychology, and social justice work, this book helps us explore and transform the political realities of our everyday lives in a new way: by harnessing the felt experience of our bodies as the ground of our activism.
Rae Johnson teaches us to listen to our body language and question body image norms. They show us how to reconnect to our sensual capacities, which we can lose sight of in a non-stop, nervous-system-hijacking world. They give us tools and exercises to nourish ourselves and protect our bodies, minds, and spirits from the toll that activism can take. And they teach us about nonverbal communication styles and how to connect with each other in joyful, authentic community.
Embodied Activism is written for embodiment professionals, community organizers, and all readers looking for new tools and perspectives for changing the world, one body at a time.
“Rae Johnson integrates decades of work in embodiment and social justice and makes the living of this accessible. While individual actions alone don’t create wide-spread social change, practicing deep embodied development can make our organizing for systemic change more powerful, more liberatory, and more possible. Rae's invitation to embodied activism offers me a wide and pragmatic hope.”
— STACI K. HAINES, PHD, author of The Politics of Trauma and cofounder of generative somatics
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“Accessible and deeply engaging, Embodied Activism weaves Dr. Johnson’s personal experience and scholarship with the stories of community members, healing practitioners, and activists to show how knowing, working with, and radically loving our bodies is absolutely vital to the work of social justice.”
— KAI CHENG THOM, MSW, MSc, author of I Hope We Choose Love
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rae Johnson Phd, RSW, RSMT
Rae Johnson PhD, RSW, RSMT (they/them) is a social worker, somatic movement therapist, and scholar/activist working at the intersections of embodiment and social justice. Rae’s approach to embodied activism is informed by decades of frontline work with homeless youth, women in addiction recovery, psychiatric survivors, and members of the queer community. Prior to their current appointment as a professor in the Somatic Psychology doctoral program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Rae served as the co-chair of the Community, Liberation, Indigenous, and Eco-psychologies program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Rae is the author of several books, including Embodied Social Justice (Routledge, 2018) and Embodied Activism (North Atlantic Books).