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This reading guide is a collection of suggested pairings between the anthology and workbook as well as additional notes and discussion questions for readers. The purpose is to be used in a community-based embodied book club, which may include embodying the practices and discussing your thoughts together after or while reading the anthology chapters. However, these ideas and practices can also be embodied in any manner that feels right or suits the needs and assets of you, your community, and/or your organizations.

We created this reading guide from the perspective of two college students and therefore, our suggestions might not represent your experiences or what you are aiming to learn and gain from these books. Our biases and experiences have impacted our understanding of these books and we encourage you to consider that and change our suggestions to accomodate for your own.

Before beginning this embodied book club, creating a community agreement may be an important step to understanding the experiences, feelings, expectations, and boundaries of the community members. The Community Agreement practice in the workbook provides further guidance and may be used as an introductory collective practice.

This preparation stage may also lead to a facilitation plan which may be supported by the Effective Facilitation practice in the workbook.

Pair the Introduction of the anthology with these from the workbook:

• Introduction

• Orienting Practice

• Seated or Standing Grounding

• Concentric Circle (as an icebreaker)

Pair Know Justice, Know Peace: Insights from a Transformation and Justice Community Collective by Tessa Hicks Peterson, Keely Nguyen, Claudia Vanessa Reyes, Dalia Paris-Saper, and Therese Julia Uy with these workbook practices:

• Organizational Wholeness

• Organizational Resilience

• Practicing Generative Conflict

• Critical Reflection on Radical Healing of Self and Community

• Active Listening

• Embodied Listening

• Collective Visioning Art Project

Read this chapter for:

• Healing justice suggestions for employees

• List of questions to cultivate community care

Pair The Traumas of Injustice: Understanding Trauma and Fostering Healing in Movement Work by Hala Khouri with these workbook practices:

• Body Scan (Interoception)

• Tapping

• Shake it Out

• Grounding Energy Healing Exercise

• Body Map

• Stress Goal Curve

• Critical Reflection on Radical Healing of Self and Community

• Collective Visioning Art Project

Read this chapter for:

• Trauma informed healing in organizations with examples of healing practices

Pair Micro to Macro: Embodied Trauma- and Resilience-Informed Systems Change by Nkem Ndefo with these workbook practices:

• Body Scan

• Locate Yourself

• Critical Reflection on Self-Identity and Social Location

• Embodying Liberation

• Body Map

Read this section for:

• Trauma informed care

• A resilience toolkit for the workplace

• Internal safety

• Imagining new worlds

Pair From Detox to Recovery: How to Heal in a Toxic World by Kerri Kelly with these workbook practices:

• Body Scan (Interoception)

• Tapping

• Shake It Out

• Locate Yourself

• Critical Reflection on Self-Identity and Social Location

• Critical Reflection on Radical Healing of Self and Community

• Practicing Change

• Embodied Listening

• Active Listening

Read this section for:

• Thinking about socialization and social location

• Culture of care in personal life and institutions

Discussion Questions:

• How do we disrupt cycles of harm and repair the wounds of our past?

• How do we work across lines of difference with understanding that we are impacted and implicated in different and dispropor tionate ways?

• How do our social locations inform how we show up in relation ship and collaboration?

• What is our unique role and responsibility from where we stand in dynamic systems of oppression?

• How do we create the cultural conditions where accountability is practiced and repair is possible?

• How can we practice in real-time the future we are moving toward?

Pair Accountability, Forgiveness, and Moving Toward One Another by Jacoby Ballard with these workbook practices:

• Forgiveness in Fellowship

• Mudita for the Movement

• Equanimity for Equity

Read this section for:

• Calling out vs. calling in

• Forgiveness as a movement tool

• Accountability

• Social change through relationships

Pair Tending to a Broken and Bruised World: Centering Compassion, Lovingkindness, Joy, and Equanimity by Leslie Booker with these workbook practices:

• Preparing the Body for Meditation Practice

• Preparing the Nervous System for Meditation Practice

• Mudita for Movement

• Forgiveness in Fellowship

• Equanimity for Equity

Pair breath fugitivity wild horses: Black Feminist Strategies for Healing in a Predatory Empire by Valorie Thomas with these workbook practices:

• Body Scan (Interoception)

• Mountain Pose Practice

• Grounding Energy Healing Exercise

• Breathing and Moving as a Collective

• What Is and What Could Be

• What Is Your Shared Vision

Pair Healing by Practicing Loving-Awareness-in-Action by Sará King and Davion Ziere with these workbook practices:

• Human Sculpture

• Mobius Living Agreements

• Collective Visioning Art Project

• Building Community

• What/When/Why/Where/Who Exercise

Pair Building Transformative Movements: For Deep Democracy and Beloved Community by Taj James and Beloved Communities Network with these workbook practices:

• Mountain Pose Practice

• Breathing and Moving as a Collective

• What Is and What Could Be

• Four Elements at the Core of Transformative Movement Building

• Building Community

• What Is Your Shared Vision?

• What/When/Why/Where/Who Exercise