Welcome!
This is a leadership group for people who are in roles that require them to foster inclusion, support others, and inspire trust. Our goal is to enhance our capacity to do this without burnout by relying on methods from meditation and psychology, neuroscience, macro-social work, and transformative justice studies.
Dates and Link
All of our meetings are virtual, 60 minutes, and every Friday at 10 PT from October 11-November 1.
On Zoom
Session 1
October 11th
Resources
Session 3
October 25th
Resources
Quote:
"[People can] reenact (or precipitate) situations similar to the ones that caused their trauma. … When this happens repeatedly over time, the trauma response can look like part of the person’s personality. As years and decades pass, reflexive traumatic responses can lose context. A person may forget that something happened to him or her—and then internalize the trauma responses. These responses are typically viewed by others, and often by the person, as a personality defect. When this same strategy gets internalized and passed down over generations within a particular group, it can start to look like culture."
Resmaa Menakem, author of My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies
Session 4
November 1st
Resources
Please review as you like the grounding and resourcing exercises in the video here.
If you’d like to go deeper, you will also find many free guided meditations at tarabrach.com, who is a meditation teacher and psychologist.
Lastly, please enjoy this more extensive list of resources compiled by Lesley and Alex Rose, our macro social work colleague.
Grounding at: 5:13
Resourcing at: 20:30
Sample Reading List
Our approach blends a variety of disciplines. All of these books have influenced us in some capacity along the way. We hope they feel inspiring to you, too.
Books
All About Love, bell hooks
Monsters in Love, Resmaa Menakem
Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach
Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree brown
No Bad Parts, Richard Schwartz
Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
"A great longing is upon us, to live again in a world made of gifts." - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Agreements
Sagely agrees to keep all information you share confidential.
Sagely uses visualizations, meditations, and case studies that are specifically designed for our groups. They build off of each other and require some instruction before use. We ask that you not share these materials. If you feel that a particular item might be of use in your organization, please contact us about adapting it for your setting.
Sagely keeps recordings of sessions on this password-protected site. We ask that you do not share recordings with anyone outside the group. We ask that you keep all information that your group members share confidential. Thank you.