As 2021 completes, looking back

As an organization, over the past 2 years, gs has confronted unprecedented challenges that ultimately are moving us toward more alignment with our commitments to racial justice and collective power. We wrote this update about it.
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Celebrating BIPOC Embodied Leadership

We are excited to share a celebratory update about our BIPOC Embodied Leadership course that launched in September.
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Embodied Leadership for Funders & Donors (online)

In spring 2022, we will be running this eight week introductory embodied leadership program for leaders in the funding world who are committed to redistributing wealth to social and climate justice movements, BIPOC communities, and poor and working class communities. ELFD will support participants to vision new possibilities, align actions with vision, and transform toward our longings for freedom and liberation. Apply by January 31st.
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Daily Practice Space (online)

We transform through embodying new practices over time and it is much easier to stay in practice within community. This 30 minute daily practice space is for movement leaders in this time of ongoing change and loss. This space is open to anyone who has already practiced politicized somatics with gs or organizations who practice with gs methodology. This space is free of charge.
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gs Practitioners Network

The gs Practitioners Network is an organized network of politicized somatic coaches, therapists, and healing practitioners who have built somatic competence through gs programs.
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As 2021 completes, looking back

As an organization, over the past 2 years, gs has confronted unprecedented challenges that ultimately are moving us toward more alignment with our commitments to racial justice and collective power. We wrote this update about it.

Read Here.

Embodied Leadership for Funders & Donors

In spring 2022, we will be running eight week introductory embodied leadership program for leaders in the funding world who are committed to redistributing wealth to social and climate justice movements, BIPOC communities, and poor and working class communities. ELFD will support participants to vision new possibilities, align actions with vision, and transform toward our longings for freedom and liberation. Application due January 31, 2022.

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We are excited to share a celebratory update about our BIPOC Embodied Leadership course that launched in September.

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Daily Practice Space (online). Starting this Fall.

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We bring a deep, pragmatic, and actionable approach to embodied transformation for movement leaders and formations.

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Is somatics relevant for the movement?

From 2009 to 2010, gs gathered national movement leaders to answer this question. We received a resounding ‘yes,’ to somatics as an approach to transformation for movements. generative somatics engages a mind/body methodology that builds embodied leadership to align our personal and collective practices with our principles and to heal from trauma and internalized oppression. Over the past ten years, we have received the same message from leaders, members, healers, and organizations. We are clear that somatics with a social analysis is relevant, useful, and needed in social and environmental justice movements

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Find a practitioner for you within our organized network of gs-trained coaches, therapists, and healing practitioners. Learn more about becoming a gs practitioner and joining the gs Practitioners Network.

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Our Movement Partners

We have worked with hundreds of movement leaders and their organizations through Movement Partnerships. We began these partnerships in 2011 with the National Domestic Worker Alliance (NDWA). We share vision and values with Movement Partnerships, an understanding of somatics as a holistic approach, and a commitment to have a significant impact. Through these partnerships, we work with teams, membership, organizations, and alliances.

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gs Stories

“When I entered Somatics and Trauma in 2014 I was organizing in New York, winning campaigns, but not able to feel the impact of my work. I felt stuck and disconnected. Somatics gave me the ability to feel more, to connect to those around me, and to be a more impactful organizer in the movement. Since 2014 I’ve seen gs transform entire organizations, offering tools for organizers to deepen their ability to heal with both love and rigor.” - Che Johnson-Long, Community Engagement Specialist, Reimagine ACDC
"Over the last five years my personal and professional life has been transformed through the courses, coaching, mentorship, and community of generative somatics. I credit so much of my learning and growth as an organizer to generative somatics. In this political moment, gs is needed more than ever.” - Ileana Mendez-Penate, Communities United for Police Reform staff
“Being able to identify and communicate what I’m feeling opens up a world of possibilities. A lot of people look at me and the work I’ve done and think ‘he’s cool, he’s got this.’ They could assume that I don’t need support, but that’s not true. Now, I can say, ‘I am really afraid and I need you to hold this, I can’t keep holding everything and being at the center’. That’s completely new for me to have the awareness to say—‘this is what I’m feeling, this is what’s happening’. It opens up a door to say—I can be competent, and also afraid. I can lead, and also need support.” - Nate Mullen, Director of People in Education
"Somatics has opened to me a community and a methodology for integrating personal healing and transformation into political leadership. And as I've transformed, I've had more access to my own creativity and power. Today I'm designing more creative and impactful campaigns and I'm successfully cultivating new leaders who find this work liberating rather than demoralizing and draining." - Sendolo Diaminah, Carolina Federation Co-Director
"gs has allowed me to believe in the power of my self worth, renew my commitment to social justice work, and reclaim my dignity in profound and life altering ways. gs has taught me how to tap into the infinite power I have within myself, my histories, and my futures to better serve social and ecological justice movements across the world in ways that honor the inherent dignity and worth of land and people." - Sam Jung, gs teacher
"gs is the most powerful source of that healing I have ever come across. It is a rare space for personal inquiry and change that is actually grounded in the radical anti-colonial, anti-racist, feminist, queer politics that we love and need. It is the first place I ever felt like I did not have to set aside my politics, or swallow a harmful environment, in order to access group practice toward personal transformation." - Dean Spade, gs student

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