WE CAN’T HELP OURSELVES EVEN BEGIN TO HEAL RACIALIZED TRAUMA IF WE DON’T ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT EVEN EXISTS. Our society needs to break down systems and institutions that perpetuate the concept of white body supremacy and recognize how the myth of race and historical trauma is deeply ingrained into our culture.
Through a somatic-body approach that negotiates the common historical and perpetual myths that Black bodies, Native bodies, and other bodies of color are inherently deviant and that the white body is the standard of humaness, Resmaa helps build an understanding of racialized trauma so that we can move from our racialized lens to a cultural lens – and move further to a resourced energy lens of healing. Learn how to recognize trauma in the body, how to build a cultural container to heal and how to begin practicing resourced resilience. These tools can help us recognize body trauma born out of racism and white body supremacy in our own body and our communities and to start to heal.
Who should takes the course
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Psychiatrists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- other Behavioral Health Professionals
Learning Objectives:
- Assess the stress signs and symptoms of racialized trauma.
- Integrate the basics of the HIPP theory (historical, inter-generational, persistent institutional, personal) of racialized trauma into your clinical practice.
- Demonstrate one resourcing technique to use with trauma clients.
- Theorize the dimensions associated with how the body carries racialized trauma.
Course Modules / Outline
- Racialized Trauma
- Myth of race
- Historical trauma
- White body supremacy
- HIPP theory (historical, inter-generational, persistent institutional, personal)
- How the body carries racialized trauma
- Recognizing trauma in the body
- Resilience and community in healing
- Building a container
- Repetition, Consistency, Practice
- Strategies for healing
Why Take This Course?
Because healing racialized trauma begins in the body — not just the mind.
If you’re a mental health professional, community leader, or someone committed to anti-racism and healing justice, this course gives you the language, tools, and somatic practices to recognize and respond to the effects of racialized trauma — both in yourself and the people you serve.
In a world where systems still operate from white body supremacy, it’s not enough to be aware — we must embody the change. Resmaa Menakem guides you through a powerful process of learning, feeling, and practicing how trauma lives in the body and how to build resourced resilience through consistent, embodied work.
You’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of:
How the myth of race creates harm at personal, historical, and institutional levels
How trauma is stored and expressed in the body
How to build healing containers for yourself and your community
Practical techniques grounded in Somatic Abolitionism
This isn’t just a course — it’s a call to action for those ready to step into healing and liberation from the inside out.
Meet the Course Expert:
Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP, is an author, agent of change, therapist, and licensed clinical worker specializing in racialized trauma, communal healing, and cultural first aid based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. As the originator and leading proponent of Somatic Abolitionism, an embodied antiracist practice for living and culture building, Resmaa is the founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and the Cultural Somatics Institute and is an educator and coach. Working at the intersections of anti-racism, communal healing, and embodied purpose, Resmaa Menakem is the challenging yet compassionate coach we all need in this time of racial reckoning and near-global dysregulation.
Resmaa is known as the author of The New York Times bestseller My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning, Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy – And What You Can Do About It, and The Stories from My Grandmother’s Hands, a children’s picture book with actor T. Mychael Rambo and illustrator Leroy Campbell.
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