FREE INFORMATION SESSION
Embodied Activism: Navigating the Intersections of Embodiment and Social Justice
with your co-directors Nkem Ndefo, MSN and Rae Johnson, PhD, and faculty Farzana Khan
REGISTER FOR THE FREE INFORMATION SESSION + GET THE RECORDINGS
FREE LIVE & ONLINE:
October 16th, 2022 from 3 - 4:15pm ET
ABOUT THE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Join co-directors Nkem Ndefo, MSN and Rae Johnson, PhD, and Farzana Khan for this 25-hour certificate program to explore how the body is political, how politics are embodied in our everyday experience, and how to connect the body with our activism, organizational work, and collective movements.
Drawing on somatics, neuroscience, critical social theory, and trauma-informed anti-oppressive education, participants will learn practical strategies for interrogating and transforming the political realities of our everyday lives using the felt experience of our individual and collective bodies as the ground of our social justice work.
If you’re ready to make a meaningful contribution to social change efforts in an embodied, authentic way this program is for you!
WHO IS THE COURSE FOR
This course is open to anyone interested in exploring the power of Embodied Activism to interrogate and transform the political realities of our everyday lives and for creating a more socially just world! It is especially beneficial to:
• Activists
• Aspiring Activists
• Community Organizers
• Somatic Practitioners
• Parents
• Teachers
• Educators
• Psychologists & Therapists
• Mindfulness Practitioners
• Artists
• Change Agents
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Participants in this course will learn how to:
Interrogate the problems with disembodied activism and depoliticized somatics
Strengthen the body’s capacity for difficult conversations on oppression and privilege
Appreciate the impact of spiritual bypassing in somatic processing and social justice work
Unpack the dynamics of internalized and relational appeasement
Use nonverbal communication to shift unjust power dynamics
Reclaim body image as a form of embodied activism
Notice and celebrate connection, joy, pleasure, and success in social justice work
Bring embodiment into community and organizational change work
REGISTER FOR THE FREE INFORMATION SESSION + GET THE RECORDINGS
FREE LIVE & ONLINE:
October 16th, 2022 from 3 - 4:15pm ET
ABOUT YOUR TEACHERS
Nkem Ndefo, MSN
Nkem Ndefo is the founder and president of Lumos Transforms and creator of The Resilience Toolkit, a model that promotes embodied self-awareness and self-regulation in an ecologically sensitive framework and social justice context. Licensed as a nurse midwife, Nkem also has extensive post-graduate training in complementary health modalities and emotional therapies. She brings an abundance of experience as a clinician, educator, consultant, and community strategist to innovative programs that address stress and trauma and build resilience for individuals, organizations, and communities across sectors, both in her home country (USA) and internationally. Nkem is particularly interested in working alongside people most impacted by violence and marginalization.
Rae Johnson, PhD
Rae Johnson, PhD, RSW, RSMT, BCC is a queer scholar/practitioner who chairs the Somatic Studies specialization in the Depth Psychology doctoral program at Pacifica Graduate Institute. In both professional and volunteer capacities, Rae works to support and advocate for people who experience marginalization and discrimination based on their social identifications. The communities they have served include LGBTQIA folks, psychiatric survivors, children with autism, homeless youth, women in addiction recovery, and survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The author of Embodied Social Justice, Rae teaches internationally on embodied activism, nonverbal expressions of implicit bias, and the poetic body.
Farzana Khan
Farzana (she/her) is the Executive Director and Co-founder of Healing Justice Ldn. Her practice works on building community health, anti-oppression, repair and self-transformation rooted in disability justice, survivor work and trauma-informed practice working with communities of colour and other marginalised and underrepresented groups. Farzana has over 10 years of background in Youth and Community work particularly focused on arts-based education projects both in the UK and internationally. Farzana is the former creative and strategic director at Voices that Shake, bringing together young people, artists and campaigners to develop creative responses to social injustice. She ran this working at Platform London, a climate and social justice organisation working across arts, education, research and activism. Farzana is a Fellow at the International Curatorial Forum. Farzana’s recent curatorial practice/art includes launching the Black Cultural Black Activism Map with the Stuart Hall Foundation and All Water Has Perfect Memory, writing on climate and gender justice and generational trauma & memory.