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Mindful Race Talk: Building literacy, fluency and agility
‘Mindful Race Talk’ is an eloquent, compassionate, and practical guide to the challenges of understanding the issues of race, power, and inequity embedded in our society. Using ancient wisdom traditions from the mindfulness world, Dr. Edmond guides readers through the inner journey it requires to become antiracist in our souls and in our bones. A ‘must read’ book! ~ Janina Fisher, Ph.D., author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors and Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma
Mindful Race Talk invites you into deep self-reflection about racial conditioning and racial harm. The foundation of the book is that we have all been socialized as racial beings and have a role in healing the racial harm that lives inside of us and in our society. Together, we'll engage in a variety of mindfulness and embodiment practices to help you explore your racial identity and increase your capacity to talk about race, racism, microaggressions, and white body supremacy.
A guiding principle in the book is developing curiosity about your own socialization and triggers around the topic of race and moving away from inaction, shame, fear, unhealthy rage and polarization.
There are practical strategies in the book
-increasing one's window of tolerance for talking about racism
-holding contradictions and multiple truths
-doing an intersectional power analysis
-building cross racial solidarity
-increasing interpersonal effectiveness for different stages of racial identity development
-making repairs when needed
-building an antiracist life
-moving from 'not racist' or occasional allyship to being a disruptor or an accomplice to support antiracist outcomes
-working towards individual and collective liberation
About the
Dr. Nathalie Edmond, is a licensed clinical psychologist, mindfulness and yoga teacher, with over twenty years of experience as a trauma therapist integrating mind, body and spirit. She has led hundreds of hours of racial literacy and antiracism workshops. She believes that racial justice is a spiritual practice. She has been a director of a women's trauma program, director of college counseling center, adjunct faculty, and JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion) consultant. This book integrates intersectional black feminism and black liberation paradigms, trauma informed approaches, DBT skills, somatic approaches, and mindfulness.
Mindful Race Talk invites you into deep self-reflection about racial conditioning and racial harm. The foundation of the book is that we have all been socialized as racial beings and have a role in healing the racial harm that lives inside of us and in our society. Together, we'll engage in a variety of mindfulness and embodiment practices to help you explore your racial identity and increase your capacity to talk about race, racism, microaggressions, and white body supremacy.
A guiding principle in the book is developing curiosity about your own socialization and triggers around the topic of race and moving away from inaction, shame, fear, unhealthy rage and polarization.
There are practical strategies in the book
-increasing one's window of tolerance for talking about racism
-holding contradictions and multiple truths
-doing an intersectional power analysis
-building cross racial solidarity
-increasing interpersonal effectiveness for different stages of racial identity development
-making repairs when needed
-building an antiracist life
-moving from 'not racist' or occasional allyship to being a disruptor or an accomplice to support antiracist outcomes
-working towards individual and collective liberation
About the
Dr. Nathalie Edmond, is a licensed clinical psychologist, mindfulness and yoga teacher, with over twenty years of experience as a trauma therapist integrating mind, body and spirit. She has led hundreds of hours of racial literacy and antiracism workshops. She believes that racial justice is a spiritual practice. She has been a director of a women's trauma program, director of college counseling center, adjunct faculty, and JEDI (justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion) consultant. This book integrates intersectional black feminism and black liberation paradigms, trauma informed approaches, DBT skills, somatic approaches, and mindfulness.
225 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 1, 2024
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December 9, 2024
Mindful Race Talk presents several insights that I find valuable. Most valuable, I believe, is the book's emphasis on using meditation techniques to calm one's body and mind before (and during) race discussions, to help limit the emotional overreactions one is likely to feel.
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