Resmaa Menaken — Resources — Trinity Primrose United Church

Why Healing Racism Begins With the Body, Resmaa Menakem

Trauma therapist and author of My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem talks honestly and directly about the historical and current traumatic impacts of racism in the U.S., and the necessity for us all to recognize this trauma, metabolize it, work through it, and grow up out of it. Only in this way will we at last heal our bodies, our families, and the social body of our nation. Though he speaks from an American viewpoint, his observations and solutions are not confined to any country but have world wide applications.

Somatic Abolitionism is not a human invention. It is the resourcing of energies that are always present in your body, in the collective body, and in the world. Somatic Abolitionism is an emergent process.

Anti-RacismCandice BistMarch 8, 2021Resmaa Menaken, Podcast, somatic abolitionism, listening

Racialized Trauma Course, Resmaa Menakem

It has become clear that in regards to anti-racism, the best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near where we want to go. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.” Resmaa Menakem’s practices offer us the beginning to change at a cellular level. He offers free of charge a course you can take to learn these practices.

Anti-RacismCandice BistMarch 8, 2021Resmaa Menaken, Course, engaging

Robin DiAngelo and Resmaa Menakem In Conversation

Krista Tippett begins - “The show we released with Minneapolis trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem in the weeks after George Floyd’s killing has touched listeners, and galvanized searching, with an extraordinary reach. So I said yes when he proposed that he join me in conversation again, this time together with Robin DiAngelo. She is perhaps the foremost voice in our civilizational grappling with whiteness; her book, White Fragility, is one of the most widely read books in the world right now. Hearing the two of them together is electric — the deepest of dives into the calling of our lifetimes.”

Four Articles on Somatic Abolitionism, Resmaa Manakem

Resmaa Menakem is a healer, therapist, trainer, and speaker, and the author of the New York Times bestseller My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Healing Our Hearts and Bodies. Here are four blogs he has written for Psychology today concerning Somatic Abolitionism, how it affects our bodies and the way we think.

Anti-RacismCandice BistFebruary 22, 2021Resmaa Menaken, Articles, White Privilege, Reading

Somatic Abolitionism as Anti-Body to the White-Body Supremacy Virus, Resmaa Menakem

Resmaa Menakem describes Somatic Abolitionism as a living, embodied anti-racist practice and cultural building —a way of being in the world. It is a return to the age-old wisdom of human bodies respecting, honoring, and resonating with other human bodies. It is not a exclusively a goal, an attitude, a belief, an idea, a strategy, a movement, a plan, a system, a political position, or a step forward.

Somatic Abolitionism is not a human invention. It is the resourcing of energies that are always present in your body, in the collective body, and in the world. Somatic Abolitionism is an emergent process.

Anti-RacismCandice BistFebruary 22, 2021Articles, Resmaa Menaken, Podcast, somatic abolitionism, White Privilege, Reading

Notice the Rage, Notice the Silence, Resmaa Menakem with Krista Tippet

It has become clear that in regards to anti-racism, the best laws and diversity training have not gotten us anywhere near where we want to go. Therapist and trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem is working with old wisdom and very new science about our bodies and nervous systems, and all we condense into the word “race.” Krista Tippet, The On Being Project, sat down with him in Minneapolis, where they both live and work, before the pandemic lockdown began. In this heartbreaking moment, after the killing of George Floyd and the history it carries, Resmaa Menakem’s practices offer us the beginning to change at a cellular level.

Anti-RacismCandice BistFebruary 22, 2021Resmaa Menaken, Podcast, listening, On Being

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