Wellness Break

All too often, in organizing and academic spaces alike, we overlook ways we can be in community to help each other decompress and recharge. Providing such spaces has become even more difficult in the time of Covid-19, when more events are being held virtually. Our conference planning committee carved out a Wellness Break each day so that we can each have the time to engage with ourselves and/or our temporary virtual community in ways that support us. We invite conference attendees to reach out to connect with those they’ve met throughout the day or in previous days to have community time or to take the time to log off and practice your own care practices.

Here are some resources recommended by members of the organizing committee:

Books, videos, websites, and handouts

• Videos

  • Transforming Harm: Experiments in Accountability from Project Nia

  • Afropunk presents Radical Self Care with Angela Davis

  • Malebo Sephodi, “Self care as a tool of liberation”

  • Accepting Emotions from ACT

  • Bilateral Stimulation

• Handouts

  • Link to a few handouts in our IDC Drive

  • Community Healing Network Family­Care, Community­Care and Self­Care Tool Kit: Healing in the Face of Cultural Trauma (from this website)

  • Fireweed Collective’s Navigating Crisis handout

• Websites

  • Generative Somatics

  • Mindful: “Disrupting Systemic Whiteness in the Mindfulness Movement” with Dr. Angela Rose Black

• Books

  • My Grandmother’s Hands

  • Ruth Forman, Renaissance

  • Kazu Haga, Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm

• Healers/Therapists

  • Introspective Counseling

  • The Nap Ministry: Rest is Resistance

  • Inclusive Therapists

• Podcasts

  • Fortification: Abolition in Covid Times a conversation between Cara Page, Caitlin Breedlove, Anjali Taneja, Shira Hassan, Mia Mingus and Sonali Sadeque

  • Coffee and Books: Radical Belonging Marc Lamont Hill hosts Lindo Bacon

  • Irresistible: “The Perfect Nap” with Tricia Hersey (a.k.a. The Nap Bishop)