Popular trainer, speaker, and bestselling author Resmaa Menakem has managed military counseling services for more than 50 bases in war-torn Afghanistan, consulted on healing and trauma for large school districts and police departments, and trained with top trauma and somatic experts to refine his method of “Somatic Abolitionism.”

In this moderated conversation, he’ll discuss how racial trauma lives not only in the mind, but in the body. He’ll explore intergenerational and ancestral trauma, offering a road map for learning how to discern historical from personal pain—and attend to our unwitting role in keeping the effects of racism alive in our bodies.