Stepping Into Truth: Conversations on Race, Gender, and Social Justice

The Politics of Trauma with
Author Staci K.Haines

Season 3 Episode 10

Staci K. Haines

It's 2020 and that means that there is almost no way to be living in the United States and not have experienced some sort of trauma. Lives and jobs upended and lost, our politics are out of control, systemic racism front and center, it's been a brutal year. 

Somatic practician and activist Staci K. Haines takes on this critical subject in her remarkable book, The Politics of Trauma. In our conversation Staci and I talk about the implications of power both for those without it and with it, the systemic trauma of racism and so much more.

STACI K. HAINES is the author of the newly released book, “The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice,” exploring the connections between personal and social transformation. She is the co-founder of generative somatics, a multiracial social justice organization bringing somatics to social and climate justice movements. She has been teaching and coaching in the field of Somatics for the last 25 years.

For a written transcript of this conversation click here.

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