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Anti-Racism: Adults: Spiritual Practices & Personal Healing

books, videos, online resources for individual and group study/discussion on racism, antiracism and white supremacy culture

Books

     Hardcover The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World Book     The Antiracist Heart     Been in the Struggle          Bipolar Faith: A Black Woman's Journey with Depression and Faith     Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley     Body Becoming: A Path to Our Liberation     A Bowl of Perfect Light: Stories of Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Repairing the World Orbis Books     Breathe     Chingona: Owning Your Inner Badass for Healing and Justice      Confronting Whiteness: A Spiritual Journey of Reflection, Conversation, and Transformation     Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village          Picture of The Dreaming Path     The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry               Healing the Soul Wound 9780807761397     Hood Wellness: Tales of Communal Care from People Who Drowned on Dry Land (PB) (2024)     How We Heal bookcover     Hurting Kids     Imagine Freedom: Transforming Pain Into Political and Spiritual Power     Injustice and the Care of Souls, Second Edition: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care     Ladder to the Light: An Indigenous Elder's Meditations on Hope and Courage     A Lamp Unto Yourself               Liberation and the Cosmos: Conversations with the Elders, Revised Edition     Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day:  Curtice, Kaitlin B.: 9781587435713: Amazon.com: Books          Mother Emanuel by Kevin Sack     BL_MyDivineNaturalHair_Cover_9781506494012c          BL_TheRiseOfRage_Cover     Sensual Faith // The Art of Coming Home to Your Body     Spirit Wheel: Meditations from an Indigenous Elder               Trauma and Race: A Path to Wellbeing     Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa     Voices of Lament | Baker Publishing Group          BL_WhatMakesYouBloom_Cover_9781506493589c     The Wild Land Within: Cultivating Wholeness through Spiritual Practice     The Wounds Are the Witness: Black Faith Weaving Memory into Justice and Healing

Podcasts, Blogs & Articles

Abundant CommunityWe Hold Medicine for Each Other – A Conversation about Race

By Quanita RobersonTenneson Woolf

In this podcast, Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf explore the dimensions of race, including how the wounds of colonization live on in all of us, how to own your work while compassionately allowing others to do theirs, and the promise that this deeper path can hold for true freedom.

The Cosmic We podcast goes beyond race and racism to consider relatedness as the organizing principle of the universe, exploring our shared cosmic origins though a cultural lens that fuses science, mysticism, spirituality, and the creative arts. Together with prominent cosmologists, shamans, biblical scholars, poets and activists, CAC core teacher Barbara Holmes and co-host Donny Bryant unveil the “we” of us beyond color, continent, country, or kinship to conjure unseen futures in exploration of the mystery of Divine connection.

You can listen and subscribe to The Cosmic We with Barbara Holmes through Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify or any podcast player of your preference.

The Feminist Press - Advancing Women's Rights & Feminist Perspectives -  Durland Alternatives Library

Audre Lorde's The Uses of Anger (Women's Studies Quarterly) is essential reading.

And see: Contemplating Anger by Dr. Barbara Holmes

Racial Equity as Spiritual Healing

by Naaima Khan; Owner and Principal of Create Good, a consultancy that helps organizations more effectively pursue anti-racism work with a special focus on using keen insights from data and evaluation.

Reconciling relationships with natureIn a video released by United Methodist Global Ministries, Rev. Tyler Sit, an EarthKeeper who serves New City Church in Minneapolis, shares the importance of connecting with the Earth and how leading a program that provides nature-based therapy in support of people of color is impacting his community.  Watch video

Video

Organization & Websites

 

is not only a fantastic book, the trailer, in and of itself, is a beautiful contemplative practice - great for prayer-time!

Kairos Blanket Exercise 

KAIROS Blanket Exercise is a 2 to 3-hour interactive and experiential teaching workshop developed in collaboration with Indigenous Elders, Knowledge Keepers and educators that explores the historic and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in the land we now know as Canada and the Northern US.

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Coaching

Somatic Coaching + Embodied Antiracism

Rachel Svanoe Moynihan (she/her), SEP student

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is an approach to supporting shifts in how trauma, or stuck protective responses, is held in our nervous systems. As we support stuck patterns to resolve, we free up more space for our life force to come through, allowing us to move through the world with greater presence, resilience, flexibility and a sense of being more fully alive!

Learn what a Somatic Coaching and/or Embodied Antiracism session with Rachel might be.

In Our Library

The Antiracist Heart by Roxy Manning and Sarah Peyton          How to Have Antiracist Conversations by Roxy Manning          Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day:  Curtice, Kaitlin B.: 9781587435713: Amazon.com: Books                    The Racial Healing Handbook