An online reading and somatic practice group working with “My Grandmother’s Hands” by Resmaa Menakem with community interested in anti-racist ancestral healing for white folks. This group is facilitated by Samwise Raridon (Teacher + Facilitator). Our goal is to do this somatic and emotional learning work so that we may show up more authentically for racial and economic justice. Participants will get to practice the somatic exercise outlined in the book with the support of community. This group meets for 9 Mondays starting Monday March 27th at 7 - 8:30 PM EST (4 - 5:30 PM PST).
This group is offered as part of the Ancestral Healing for White Folks Class, and will be structured to include everyone including those who are not participating in the class. We will be reading the book at a healthy pace in order to finish it in 10 weeks. Here is the reading schedule:
Monday March 27th: Introduce ourselves, Community Guidelines and Intention Setting
Monday April 3rd: introductions through Chapter 3
Monday April 10th: Chapter 4 - 6
Monday April 17th: Chapters 7 - 9
Monday April 24th: Chapters 10 - 12
Monday May 1st: Chapters 13 - 15
Monday May 8th: Chapters 16 - 18
Monday May 15th: Chapters 19 - 21
Monday May 22nd: Chapters 22 - Five Opportunities for Healing and Making Room for Growth, Wrap up group and next steps
This group is offered freely with the option of giving a gift for facilitation at the end of the group.
Samwise Raridon (they/them) is a nonbinary trans community herbalist, teacher, folklorist, writer and practitioner of magic. They carry germanic, celtic and lebanense lineages and they live as a descendent of settlers on Ofo, Mesopelia, (Adena, Hopewell), Shawnee, Osage land. It is their life’s work to support other white folks in unlearning white supremacy and to connect to the earth and the humanness in ourselves and our lineages.