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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Training for Teaching Embodied Anti-Racism
Proposal abstract :
In My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Resmaa Menakem emphasizes the importance of a living embodied anti-racism practice of settling your body and engaging in compassionate self-care. He writes, “If you can settle your body, you are more likely to be calm, alert, and fully present, no matter what is going on around you. A settled body enables you to harmonize and connect with other bodies around you, while encouraging those bodies to settle as well.” (2017, p. 151) This small grant would enable me to become certified in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), which Resmaa Menakem identifies as a secular meditation practice that supports the health, healing, and settling of your body. (Ibid, p. 159) By integrating MBSR into my courses, I can facilitate the settling of my students’ bodies so that they can fruitfully engage in embodied anti-racist learning.
In My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Resmaa Menakem emphasizes the importance of a living embodied anti-racism practice of settling your body and engaging in compassionate self-care. He writes, “If you can settle your body, you are more likely to be calm, alert, and fully present, no matter what is going on around you. A settled body enables you to harmonize and connect with other bodies around you, while encouraging those bodies to settle as well.” (2017, p. 151) This small grant would enable me to become certified in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), which Resmaa Menakem identifies as a secular meditation practice that supports the health, healing, and settling of your body. (Ibid, p. 159) By integrating MBSR into my courses, I can facilitate the settling of my students’ bodies so that they can fruitfully engage in embodied anti-racist learning.