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Build a world
beyond whiteness.

For organizers feeling fear, struggling with conflict and coordinating collective action.

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Uncertainty and chaos are exhausting. Threats to individual and community safety bring up habitual survival and stress management strategies. Infighting is everywhere.

Time off helps, but burnout is still lurking. A new therapist or setting boundaries didn’t solve all the problems either.

To really navigate today’s demands, organizers need:

A North Star goal specific to your challenges and longings.
A supportive, antiracist network of peers who have your back.
Regular practices-like physical movement or song-to support actions aligned with your values.

At Embodying Racial Justice, we are ready to help.

We are teachers, facilitators and coaches focused on developing your leadership. Our offerings support you in engaging in social change with a clear vision, an antiracist community, and strategy designed to build social movements.

Collectively, we have decades of experience in movement work. We studied with Strozzi Institute and generative somatics. We have additional training from Coaching for Transformation, Leadership that Works. We've also studied with Resmaa Menekam, Susan Raffo and many others. Our experience fuels the ERJ offerings that serve hundreds of organizers around the country. We begin with the body.

We care because healing, growth and learning are essential components of collective action. Fighting racism and white supremacy requires love, rigor and community. We know our individual and collective bodies have so much to offer our liberation movements.

Learn about us

Programs include:

Courses
Retreats
Supervision & Practice Groups
Coaching & Bodywork
Workshops

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Virtual Workshops

Six-month embodied supervision group to support and grow you in community to bring somatic practices and frameworks out into the world.

Virtual Practice Spaces

Drop-in practice space to practice with a teacher, be in community, and get coaching to support you in your social justice work

Practice & Coaching Groups

Small group that provides you with a community of practice and support for your personal and political work through six months of practice

One-Day Introductory Courses: Embodied Action

An in-person somatic skills intensive for movement workers

Four-Day Intensive Courses: Embodied Leadership

In-person somatic retreat especially for organizers and movement workers to build resilience to fuel your ongoing work

Yearlong Course: Opening to Freedom

In-person and online training program for white racial justice organizers and movement workers to build community, capacity and courage to fuel your ongoing work.

Six-month embodied supervision group to support and grow you in community to bring somatic practices and frameworks out into the world.

Virtual Supervision Groups

Four immersive days to offer and receive bodywork to develop somatic awareness, a greater presence, and deepen transformational practice.

Intermediate Courses: Bodywork

Advanced Courses: ERJ Reunion

The first-ever ERJ reunion. Come for the community, the practice, the songs and to make meaning of this political moment and how we can turn and face it together.

In-Person Regional Practice Groups

Ongoing, local, small groups that grow your community of practice

Coaching & Bodywork

One-to-one coaching or bodywork to support you to move towards your longings.

Course & Group Details

"ERJ left me with more support and greater skills as a long-time activist. I’m connecting with people, making choices that are more aligned with my values, & finding ways to stay in even when it’s challenged. If you’re looking for support to stay engaged & inspired in your antiracist practice- this is it!"

—Alix, Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizer
"ERJ retreats have been transformative for my work & my relationships. They have helped me move through numbness around global crises as well as stuckness around my place in the movement. And there’s song, spirit & space for grief and rage to move-- which all feels like needed culture-building i white anti-racist spaces."

–Jojo, Healer and Organizer
"Making the commitment of time and money to this new course is an investment in myself and an investment in my own embodied facilitation skills. It’s a big commitment of time and money. I was nervous about the commitment, but in a way it’s also an investment in me AND my community."

–Ren, Executive Director
"If you’re a white man who has struggled to find acceptance in racial justice movements despite your sincerity, I strongly recommend ERJ."

—Adam, Community Organizer