Overview
The Embodied Equity & Relational Inclusion Committee supports USABP’s commitment to fostering meaningful inclusion and equitable access across our community and the broader field of somatic practice.
We focus on how awareness of culture, identity, and power is not only understood—but expressed through how we show up, relate, and respond to one another in real time. By strengthening practitioners’ capacity for self-awareness, regulation, and relational attunement, we support more responsive, effective care and more inclusive professional environments.
Below you will find resources for addressing this goal. You can also reach out to our member organizations as well. Please email us with any of your suggestions.
The Embodied Equity & Relational Inclusion Committee supports USABP’s commitment to fostering meaningful inclusion and equitable access across our community and the broader field of somatic practice.
We focus on how awareness of culture, identity, and power is not only understood—but expressed through how we show up, relate, and respond to one another in real time. By strengthening practitioners’ capacity for self-awareness, regulation, and relational attunement, we support more responsive, effective care and more inclusive professional environments.
Below you will find resources for addressing this goal. You can also reach out to our member organizations as well. Please email us with any of your suggestions.
USABP EDUCATOR MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS
Member Organizations often include webinars, workshops or specialize in training activity to address social justice, anti-racism, diversity, systemic racism, implicit bias, polarization and more.
See a list of our organizations and the ways in which they assist in this issue through Somatic Psychology, Body Psychotherapy and other Somatic-based Therapy Practices
See a list of our organizations and the ways in which they assist in this issue through Somatic Psychology, Body Psychotherapy and other Somatic-based Therapy Practices
A List of Member Organizations' Helpful Resources
Radical Aliveness Institute is a USABP Official Training School addressing somatic and systemic issues world wide from US to Central and South America to Africa and the Middle East.
Radical Aliveness Institute is a USABP Official Training School addressing somatic and systemic issues world wide from US to Central and South America to Africa and the Middle East.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Solidarity and Action for Justice:
Here you will find: Scholarship, Addressing racism and implicit bias on a personal level and in psychotherapy practice (book chapter excerpt), Addressing White Privilege in a Session (Video), Getting context for sociocultural perspectives and much more.
Here you will find: Scholarship, Addressing racism and implicit bias on a personal level and in psychotherapy practice (book chapter excerpt), Addressing White Privilege in a Session (Video), Getting context for sociocultural perspectives and much more.
USABP CONTINUING EDUCATION TRAINING WEBINARS:
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Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychology with Underserved Populations
Presented by Rebecca Lincoln, LPC-S, Certified Hakomi Teacher
Presented by Rebecca Lincoln, LPC-S, Certified Hakomi Teacher
USABP VIEWPOINTS ARTICLES
Privileges and Perils of Power
By Dr. Cedar Barstow, M.Ed., C.H.T., D.P.I.
Power, simply the ability to have an effect or to have influence, is a magnetic, addictive, and corrupting force. Research shows that taking on higher role power or having higher rank power inevitably changes you. You are given gifts, actually privileges, from the outside world that change how you see yourself, how you see and relate to others, and how they see and relate to you. The greater the power difference the greater the effect. These privileges change you whether your intentions are for service or for selfish gain.
By Dr. Cedar Barstow, M.Ed., C.H.T., D.P.I.
Power, simply the ability to have an effect or to have influence, is a magnetic, addictive, and corrupting force. Research shows that taking on higher role power or having higher rank power inevitably changes you. You are given gifts, actually privileges, from the outside world that change how you see yourself, how you see and relate to others, and how they see and relate to you. The greater the power difference the greater the effect. These privileges change you whether your intentions are for service or for selfish gain.
Hakomi Mindfulness Exploration Concerning Marginalization
Presented by Rebecca Lincoln, LPC-S, Certified Hakomi Teacher
Are you a therapist in a setting working with underserved populations? Use this mindfulness exercise and contemplation for exploring marginalization and your and others' relationship to it.
Presented by Rebecca Lincoln, LPC-S, Certified Hakomi Teacher
Are you a therapist in a setting working with underserved populations? Use this mindfulness exercise and contemplation for exploring marginalization and your and others' relationship to it.
FIND A SOMATIC THERAPIST
USABP MEMBER ACTION RESOURCES
Directory, Organizations, Books, Trainings, Downloads and more
Dr. Rae Johnson
Embodied Social Justice introduces a body-centered approach to working with oppression, designed for social workers, counselors, educators, and other human service professionals. Grounded in current research, this integrative approach to social justice works directly with the implicit knowledge of our bodies to address imbalances in social power.
Embodied Social Justice introduces a body-centered approach to working with oppression, designed for social workers, counselors, educators, and other human service professionals. Grounded in current research, this integrative approach to social justice works directly with the implicit knowledge of our bodies to address imbalances in social power.
USABP Member Nola Butler-Byrd
Nola Butler Byrd, Ph.D., LPCC is a Certified Radix Practitioner and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. She is also an Associate Professor and Director of the Community-Based Block Multicultural Counseling and Social Justice Education Program
USABP Member Zeshan Mustafa, CCEP, JD, RYT
Specialties with Somatic Support:
BIPOC, Anti-Racist Activists, and Codependents.
Author of:
"When Helping Is Not Helping: a Somatic Approach to Working with Clients of Color." Read More & Buy
USABP Member Sean S. Baker provided resources
Sean Baker MFT, SEP is co-owner and CEO at The New Beginnings Center for Somatic Mental Health in Camarillo, California. He and his center, The New Beginnings Center, provide resources for standing against racial injustice including:
Anti-Racism Resources Document to Share with Family and Friends
This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.
Nola Butler Byrd, Ph.D., LPCC is a Certified Radix Practitioner and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. She is also an Associate Professor and Director of the Community-Based Block Multicultural Counseling and Social Justice Education Program
USABP Member Zeshan Mustafa, CCEP, JD, RYT
Specialties with Somatic Support:
BIPOC, Anti-Racist Activists, and Codependents.
Author of:
"When Helping Is Not Helping: a Somatic Approach to Working with Clients of Color." Read More & Buy
USABP Member Sean S. Baker provided resources
Sean Baker MFT, SEP is co-owner and CEO at The New Beginnings Center for Somatic Mental Health in Camarillo, California. He and his center, The New Beginnings Center, provide resources for standing against racial injustice including:
Anti-Racism Resources Document to Share with Family and Friends
This document is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work. If you haven’t engaged in anti-racism work in the past, start now. Feel free to circulate this document on social media and with your friends, family, and colleagues.
Me and White Supremacy: A 28-Day Challenge to Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
by Layla Saad
Thousands of people from around the world were galvanized by the #meandwhitesupremacy challenge, examining and owning responsibility for the ways in which they uphold white supremacy. Over 80,000 people downloaded her guide to the movement, Me and White Supremacy Workbook in the space of just six months. And now, that guide is a published book. LEARN MORE
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin J. DiAngelo
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. LEARN MORE
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
An insightful article on the Medium platform which outlines helpful steps that each person can take to steer our lives and our world toward racial justice.
by Layla Saad
Thousands of people from around the world were galvanized by the #meandwhitesupremacy challenge, examining and owning responsibility for the ways in which they uphold white supremacy. Over 80,000 people downloaded her guide to the movement, Me and White Supremacy Workbook in the space of just six months. And now, that guide is a published book. LEARN MORE
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
by Robin J. DiAngelo
The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. LEARN MORE
75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice
An insightful article on the Medium platform which outlines helpful steps that each person can take to steer our lives and our world toward racial justice.
Showing Up for Racial Justice: Reflections and Resources for this moment with Nicolette Walker & Jonathan Horton
An introduction to the organization, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), sharing of resources for anyone new to social justice work and addressing “white supremacy culture.”
An introduction to the organization, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), sharing of resources for anyone new to social justice work and addressing “white supremacy culture.”
ADDITIONAL NON-USABP RESOURCES
Right Use of Power Institute
White Supremacy and Me by Layla F Saad
National Association of Social Workers Anti-Racism Resources
Blindspot by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
Center for Partnership Studies, founded by Dr. Riane Eisler
White Supremacy and Me by Layla F Saad
National Association of Social Workers Anti-Racism Resources
Blindspot by Mahzarin Banaji and Anthony Greenwald
Center for Partnership Studies, founded by Dr. Riane Eisler
Google Drive link to comprehensive educational reading, tools, exercises and organizations to help explore this topic from many sources.
Engaged Citizenry
Andrew Goodman Foundation
Research
BU Center for Anti-racism Research
Featured Body Psychotherapists, Speakers, Authors and Trainers
Resmaa Menakem
Coins the phrase White "Body" Supremacy and has exercises for one to work through to embodying trauma and work with issues around race and trauma. "We can't help ourselves to heal racialized trauma if we don't acknowledge that it even exists."
Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP, has appeared on both The Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on conflict and violence.
He has served as director of counseling services for the Tubman Family Alliance; as behavioral health director for African American Family Services in Minneapolis; as a domestic violence counselor for Wilder Foundation; as a certified Military and Family Life Consultant for the U.S. Armed Forces; as a trauma consultant for the Minneapolis Public Schools; and as a Cultural Somatics consultant for the Minneapolis Police Department.
Andrew Goodman Foundation
Research
BU Center for Anti-racism Research
Featured Body Psychotherapists, Speakers, Authors and Trainers
Resmaa Menakem
Coins the phrase White "Body" Supremacy and has exercises for one to work through to embodying trauma and work with issues around race and trauma. "We can't help ourselves to heal racialized trauma if we don't acknowledge that it even exists."
Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP, has appeared on both The Oprah Winfrey Show and Dr. Phil as an expert on conflict and violence.
He has served as director of counseling services for the Tubman Family Alliance; as behavioral health director for African American Family Services in Minneapolis; as a domestic violence counselor for Wilder Foundation; as a certified Military and Family Life Consultant for the U.S. Armed Forces; as a trauma consultant for the Minneapolis Public Schools; and as a Cultural Somatics consultant for the Minneapolis Police Department.
UPCOMING EVENTS
INTERNATIONAL BODY PSYCHOTHERAPY JOURNAL
Our Vision
We see the Journal as a focal point for our field—an important tool for cross-pollination, bringing together colleagues from around the world, and creating a foundation from which the vital contributions of somatic and body-inclusive therapies can take their place on the world stage.
Our Mission
The Journal supports the growing scientific recognition of somatic psychology and body psychotherapy. We cover the spectrum of academic developments, evolving clinical practices, and interdisciplinary viewpoints within the field of somatic psychology and body psychotherapy. We promote, and stimulate the exchange of ideas, scholarship, and research, and encourage an interdisciplinary exchange with related fields of clinical theory and practice.
We see the Journal as a focal point for our field—an important tool for cross-pollination, bringing together colleagues from around the world, and creating a foundation from which the vital contributions of somatic and body-inclusive therapies can take their place on the world stage.
Our Mission
The Journal supports the growing scientific recognition of somatic psychology and body psychotherapy. We cover the spectrum of academic developments, evolving clinical practices, and interdisciplinary viewpoints within the field of somatic psychology and body psychotherapy. We promote, and stimulate the exchange of ideas, scholarship, and research, and encourage an interdisciplinary exchange with related fields of clinical theory and practice.
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Published by the European and United States Associations for Body Psychotherapy and Somatic Psychology
The Art and Science of Somatic Praxis A Peer-Reviewed International Journal Published twice a year, the International Body Psychotherapy Journal (IBPJ) is the voice of somatic psychology and body psychotherapy around the world. The Journal is the collaborative publication of two sister organizations:
The combined USABP and EABP membership spans over twenty-nine countries, reaching beyond the United States and Europe to Canada, South America, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia. |