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2024 Spring Updates 

Read our updates on what we have been up to so far this year and ways to engage.
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gs’ Best of 2023 and Sneak Peek into 2024

As we take stock of our year and gear up for our 2024 plans, we’d like to share our successes, learnings, and future plans with you.
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Daily Practice Space (online).

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 the methodology developed by gs. This space is free of charge.

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Resources

gs Practitioners Network (gsPN)

The gsPN is an organized network of politicized somatic coaches, therapists, and healing practitioners who have built somatic competence through gs programs. Below is a list of gs practitioners who work with organizers, member leaders, and others in social and environmental justice movements who are seeking this kind of healing and support either one-on-one or in healing groups.

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Reports and Research


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Resources in support of the Movement for Black Lives’ demands to #DefundThePolice & #DefendBlackLife (2020)
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coronavirus/COVID-19 resources gathered by gs (2020)
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2018-2022 Strategic Priorities summary
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2019 gs Overview
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2018 gs Snapshot

Other Reports and Research

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2017 Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) Report
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Ending Child Sexual Abuse, A Transformative Justice Handbook (generationFive)
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Love With Power: Practicing Transformation for Social Justice (Movement Strategy Center)
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Transforming Lives, Transforming Movement Building: Lessons from the National Domestic Workers Alliance Strategy – Organizing – Leadership (SOL) Initiative (2014, PERE)
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USSF People’s Movement Assembly on Transformation (2010)
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Towards Transformative Justice (generationFIVE)

“One of the reasons the generative somatics approach works for me is that it is concerned about somatics as a collective way of understanding trauma and pain. It isn’t about going away from the community to heal, which was the main way I had experienced healing work prior to somatics. It isn’t about being a special “healer” who is apart from community. generative somatics feels into how, in a collective or group, patterns of pain can indicate the mass, or intergenerational, trauma people are surviving. And how each of us has the power to help each feel more, heal, and move toward our longings for liberation and justice together.”

– adrienne maree brown, ‘Feeling From Within: A Life of Somatics’ Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, gs teacher

Essays and Articles

gs Articles

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Reclaiming Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Time: Embodiment for Black Liberation (Alta Starr)
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What is politicized somatics?
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Transformative Power of Practice
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Why Somatics for Social Justice and a Transformative Movement?
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Personal & Social Transformation

Other Articles

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Interview with gs teacher Sumitra Rajkumar Part 1 (2019, Psychology Today)
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Interview with gs teacher Sumitra Rajkumar Part 2 (2019, Psychology Today)
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What Your Body Has to Do With Social Change (2019, adrienne maree brown, Yes! Magazine)

Webinars and Videos

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Beauty and possibility in times of crisis and collapse (2023)
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An online discussion and practice gathering: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice in the time of coronavirus (2020)
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2019 Year-End Video
Webinar
Pleasure Activism: what’s somatics got to do with it? (2019)
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2018 Year-End Video
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Get to know gs: Year in Review (2018)
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2017 Year-End Video
Webinar
Somatics In the Time of Trump: A National Conversation & Practice Group (2017)
Webinar
Why Somatics: Conversation and Practice with Movement Leaders (2017)
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2016 Year-End Video

Podcasts

Podcast
Trauma, Healing, and Collective Power (2018)
Podcast
Somatics, Trauma Healing and Social Change (2018, Bioneers)

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