Resources

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​Healing Justice / Sustainability

• Sustainable Activism & Avoiding Burnout (PDF handout)

• Activist Trauma Support - Collection of resource links & PDF info sheets

• Activist Trauma & Recovery (PDF handout)

• Black Lives Matter | Healing Justice

• BOLD - Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity

• generative somatics - somatic transformation & social justice

• Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective

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​Spiritually-Rooted Activism

• Faith Matters Network

• Spirit in Action

• Veterans of Hope Project

• SpiritHouse Project 

• The Revolutionary Love Project

• Ayni Institute

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Some Relevant Books from My Shelves

• What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World - Prentis Hemphill (2024)

• Healing Justice Lineages - Cara Page & Erica Woodland (2023)

• Leading with Joy: Practices for Uncertain Times - Akaya Windwood & Rajasvini Bhansali (2023)

• We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth - Dahr Jamail & Stan Rushworth, editors (2023)

• The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reinagining Ourselves - Shawn Ginwright (2022)

• Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto - Tricia Hersey (2022)

• Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village - Barbara A. Holmes (2021)

• Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm - Kazu Haga (2020)

• See No Stranger: A Memoir & Manifesto of Revolutionary Love - Valarie Kaur (2020)

• The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation - Fania Davis (2019)

• Healing Justice: Holistic Self-Care for Change Makers - Loretta Pyles (2018)

• Sustaining Spirit: Self-care for Social Justice - Naomi Ortiz (2018)

• Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Spirit-Based Change - Sherri Mitchell (2018)

• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds - adrienne maree brown (2017)

• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem (2017)

• Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation - Rev angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah (2016)

• Real World Mindfulness for Beginners - Brenda Salgado, editor (2016)

• The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear - William J. Barber III (2016)

• The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality & Gender - Zenju Earthlyn Manuel (2015)

• Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism & Mothering - Rosemarie Freeney Harding & Rachel Harding (2015)

• Light in the Dark / Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality - Gloria E. Anzaldua, edited by AnaLouise Keating (2015)

• The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind & Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel Van Der Kolk (2014)

• The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century - Grace Lee Boggs (2011)

• Justice as Healing - Indigenous Ways: Writings on Community Peacemaking and Restorative Justice from the Native Law Centre - Wanda D. McCaslin, editor (2005)

• The Spiritual Activist: Practices to Transform Your Life, Your Work & Your World - Claudia Horwitz (2002)