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First Nations Radio will be talking about a new technique called Somatic Experiencing that proposes that racism is a physiological phenomena, not a psychological one.

Both Woon and Lee work with helping stressed, traumatized caregivers and change agents who want to recover their humanity so they can resume caring and activism from a position of joy and personal well-being.

Tommy has taught classes and provided individual counseling for several years at the Stanford and Dartmouth Medical Schools, promoting physician self-care, emotional literacy, and cultural competency as three foundations for building humanity and care-giving. He also has over 25 years of experience in counseling to promote social change.

Their special interest is in applying Somatic Experiencing to healing racism in the body to help individuals, groups, and organizations to understand the ways a dysregulated physiology fuels racism and internalized racism.

They believe strongly in looking at the big picture of collective and historical identity, and relational traumas as a backdrop that complicates individual trauma experiences. As one healer has noted: "When you heal your traumas, you heal your ancestors."

To contact Tommy and Thea write to us at firstnationsradio@yahoo.com

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