Resources
Healing the Roots learns from and is connected to a whole ecosystem of folks working for collective liberation. This page offers some resources —
books, podcasts, websites, poems and other medium.
The Big Picture
Resources that have inspired and deepened our thinking
on why we do this work.
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Media
Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
A Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
A Way Of Being by Carl Rogers
Assata by Assata Shakur
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay
What Is Social Ecology by Murray Bookchin
"Native Land podcast" by Tiffany Cross
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Dignity: of Earth and Sky (statue)
I’m here from Cynthia Erivo
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Readings / Podcasts
Robin Wall Kimmerer:Aster and Goldenrod from Braiding Sweetgrass
Thich Nhat Hanh: Interbeing
“I Got Saved by the Beauty of the World”: “On Being” with Mary Oliver
“Ecological Hope and Spiritual Evolution”: “On Being” with Christina Figueres
“Othering and Belonging”: “For the Wild” with Udi Raz, Yasmeen Daher, Cecilie Surasky
Other
Book:How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong
An InterdependencePlaylist we made!
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Media
Writing / reading / media about Abundance:
“We are the great turning” Podcast with Joanna Macy and Jessica Serrante
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
How To Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
The Overstory by Richard Powers
This is the only moment by adrienne maree brown
Healing Justice Lineages by Cara Page and Erica Woodland
How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong
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Book:
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems by Richard Schwartz
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Enneagram 2.0 Podcast by Beatrice Chestnut and Urania Paes
CP Enneagram Academy website
The Enneagram for Black Liberation by Chichi Agorom
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Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Oren Jay Sofer
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Practice: Pema Chodron’sTonglen
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Regular practice is key to reshaping how we move.
What time is it on the The Clock of the World? By Grace Lee Boggs
White Supremacy Culture website by Tema Okun
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Poetry: The Passage “The Clearing” from Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Podcast: “Earthly Reads” adrienne maree brown on Loving Corrections
Podcast: “Let’s be politically promiscuous” on Movement Memos
Book: What It Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill
Elements of Wholeness
Universal Human Dignity, Interdependence, and true Abundance/Trust in the Flow of Life are core values that lead us back to our wholeness.
Influences
Lineages and approaches that inform how we practice healing.