Racial Healing Affinity Groups
for Educators
An anti-racist collective healing journey for pre-K-12 educators
Because trauma can get stuck in the body, The Teaching Well and trauma experts believe that it can also be moved through the body with intentional, consistent somatic healing, as well as mental health therapy when deemed necessary.
The Teaching Well’s Racial Healing Affinity Groups convene 15-50 educators virtually in race-alike spaces to support participants with co-regulatory and healing-centered strategies to build resilience in the face of a racialized trigger.
The healing is real, but don’t take our word for it. Check out what our participants have to say…
“I often feel a grand emotional release after I attend our meetings. My cup is not only full but overflowing. I cry heartily after our meetings , often tears for my students and our people that I have been holding in or holding onto and I feel lighter the next day and I continue to support my own black babies and my students.”
Black Participant
“The body awareness practices have made an impact on how i show up in meetings with my colleagues. I’m now more aware of what’s going on with the parts of my body and how they’re reacting to certain situations. And I also now have some tools to self-talk and think through those reactions and what they might mean, especially in situations where characteristics of white supremacy culture may be at play.”
AANHPI Participant
Session: Resourcing Cultural Roots
“This feels like such a topic that is under explored in racial healing spaces and it was incredibly healing. The program deeply helped me unpack my own internalized white supremacy in a sacred community.”
WHITE Participant
“Understanding the regulation techniques and the ways that trauma and race-based trauma can show up somatically was really useful. I can see using this awareness to my personal and professional life.”
Latinx participant
Lessons Learned From the Field
Want to know more about lessons learned and best practices used in forming Racial Healing Affinity groups? Download our Knowledge Product report.
This program is made possible by generous funding of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
