Why do you encourage people doing community and social justice work to train in Somatics and Trauma?
While it might not be a purposefully therapeutic setting, people working in social justice and community activism are interfacing with individual and systemic trauma all of the time. Often people in this work are not trained in the impact of and normal reactions to trauma, while they usually have a deep understanding of the social oppression and social norms causing harm. Training in somatics and the psycho-biological impact of trauma can help people in this work to better leverage individual and community resilience, design programs that address their constituencies’ experiences with trauma and support healing, and develop campaigns and action that take into account the typical community responses to trauma.
