ECU101: "Embodying Racial Justice: Trauma-informed Equity and Inclusion Work for your Classroom, Institution and Life"

Zoom workshops hosted by Anita Chari and Angelica Singh

Tuesdays, March 12th + March 19th, 11:30AM to 12:30PM
Please email Ece Arslan to register for the Zoom room.

Racism and colonization are not limited to individual attitudes, biases and prejudices. They are structurally anchored in the forms of denial, disembodiment, and historical erasure that permeate most of our institutions--educational, socio-political, and economic. Our bodies are a crucial site for working with this disease of forgetting that we see in our society, because the body is where we hold racialized trauma, both individually and collectively. Embodied practices are key to cultivating anti-racist and anti-oppressive environments and will support participants to work with dynamics of historical and contemporary intersectional oppression at a personal and professional level.

This training empowers participants with a trauma-informed approach to equity and inclusion as it applies to decolonizing the classroom space in your work as educators and scholars, as well as in the realm of embodied leadership within institutions.

Anita Chari and Angelica Singh are co-Founders of Embodying Your Curriculum, an organization that teaches embodied and trauma-informed practices to educators, leaders, health care workers, and social justice organizations.

Angelica Singh is a somatic educator, trauma therapist, and thought leader whose pathbreaking healing paradigm, The Embodiment Process™ has been featured in "O, The Oprah Magazine" and offered at the UCLA Medical Center. With over 20 years of facilitating individuals, groups, and institutions in embodiment, trauma resolution, and mindfulness work, she has been a leader in bringing trauma-informed paradigms to the fields of health care, wellness, and academia through her work as Co-Founder of the organization Embodying Your Practice™ and Embodying Your Curriculum.™

Anita Chari, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon, is a political theorist and somatic educator, and has won multiple teaching awards for her innovative work to bring embodied, trauma-informed, social justice paradigms into higher education. She has taught for over a decade as a faculty member in the Inside-Out prison education project, where she developed a pedagogical approach that facilitates embodied and trauma-informed learning in the context of the learning environment of a correctional institution. She is the author of A Political Economy of the Senses (Columbia University Press, 2015) and A User’s Manual to Claire Fontaine (Forthcoming with Lenz Press, 2024).

For more information, please visit Embodying Your Curriculum