Social Movement Appreciation Project
In our rapidly destabilising world, it's clear that nothing will get better without large numbers of people working together. But social movements remain mysterious and under-studied creatures: the Social Movement Appreciation Project aims to shine a warm and loving light on today's many efforts at collective agency and system transformation.
Social Movement Appreciation Project
Reflections: somatic workshop
In which I reflect on Henna-Elise’s workshop: The Body as Ally: Building Collective Power and Resilience in Climate Justice Work.
I try to cast a bit more light on what somatic practices can look like, why they work, and how this success is reaching beyond the traditional 'hippy' constituency.
If you're interested in learning more about somatic practice try:
An online workshop on collective healing from Arowah Cleaver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAmzlO893yk
Or really anything written by Staci Haines, adrienne maree brown, or Prentis Hemphill.
I’m also personally a big fan of Hemphill’s podcast Becoming the People https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/becoming-the-people-podcast-with-prentis-hemphill/id1519965068
Follow me on Bluesky @douglasrogers.bsky.social or Twitter at @writingDouglas if you're into that kind of thing