Resources

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“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change”

– Stephen Hawking

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Books

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• Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental Strategy to Liberate Everyone, Dr. Leticia Nieto, Liz Goodwin, Garth R. Johnson, Laurel Collier Smith and Margot F. Boyer

• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, adrienne maree brown

• All About Love: New Visions, bell hooks

• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Resmaa Menakem

• Empowered Boundaries: Speaking Truth, Setting Boundaries, and Inspiring Social Change, Cristien Storm

• Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory, Deb Dana

• Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma--An Integrative Somatic Approach, Kathy L. Kain and Stephen Terrell

• Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, John O’Donohue

• Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The Wisdom of Grief, Fear and Despair, Miriam Greenspan

• Healing Sex: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma, Staci Haines

• Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, Esther Perel

Somatic Experiencing

• Waking the Tiger: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences, Peter Levine

• In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, Peter Levine 

Essays

 

• The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance by Robin Wall Kimmerer 

• a word for white people, in two parts – adrienne maree brown
   

Websites

 

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• Deconstructing the Mental Health System Inc- a  BIPoC Therapists directory https://dmhsus.org/find-a-bipoc-therapist-or-healer/

• Decolonize Race: We envision a world where Black, Indigenous, and all People of Color (BIPOC) no longer have to defend their humanity and where white folks have healed from fear and rage.

• adrienne maree brown 

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Podcasts and Interviews

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• Finding Our Way - Prentis Hemphill 

• Breaking Patterns: Spontaneity in Anti-Oppression with Dr. Leticia 

• For the Wild

• The Emergent Strategy Podcast

• We are in a time of new suns - adrienne maree brown

• Finding the Courage for What is Redemptive - Bryan Stevenson 

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Videos

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• Unlearning Cancel Culture Panel discussion with Leticia Nieto, Ari Felix, Nichole Ossa and Lindsey T. H. Jackson

• Trauma and the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective