Anti-Racism: Adults: Mindfulness & Personal Healing

We Hold Medicine for Each Other – A Conversation about Race

By Quanita Roberson; Tenneson 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 Indigenous Collective Using Tattoos to Rise Above Colonialism

by Mary Annette Pember

Healing Generational Trauma

byJasmin Joseph

The MN Annual Conference UMC's Rev. Dana Neuhauser offers this list of Books That Can Build Empathy for BIPOC Communities.

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.

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

Responding to Microaggressions by Beth Godbee

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.

Fr. Richard Rohr amplifies [Thomas] Merton's Call for Racial Justice.

Contemplating Anger by Dr. Barbara Holmes

The Spiritual Work of Overcoming Racism: A Video Series by Upper Room 

Tricia Hersey shares Resources from “A Space to Rest’ Virtual Experience with Wa Na Wari, Central District Forum Ideas and Langston

Reconciling relationships with nature: In 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

Race & Healing from OnBeing

The Pause Blog featuring Resmaa Menakem

The Work of the People's Selected Films that lead to Reconciling and Wholeness

Focuses on Mental Health Issues Facing the Black Community

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

Abolitionist Teaching Network's mission is: develop and support educators to fight injustice within their schools and communities. Utilizing the intellectual work and direct action of Abolitionists in many forms, they organize and take action for educational freedom. Among other amazing opportunities, you can:

• listen to their Teaching to Thrive podcast;
• engage their Guide for Racial Justice and Abolitionist Social Emotional Learning;
• check out out their extensive resource list;
• or invite one of their excellent speakers to join your congregation for worship, small group discussion or youth event for inspiring speaking and facilitated discussion.

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.

Somatic Coaching + Embodied Antiracism

Rachel Svanoe Moynihan (she/her), SEP student

Contact: 

612.239.1599

racheljoy333@gmail.com