An Integrate: Mind-Body Practice for Working Through Trauma Session
**This Session**
Join us for an engaging experience that explores how personal and societal conditions shape our bodies over time. Through guided practices, we will reconnect with our physical selves, sensations, and presence while embracing contradictions and staying connected to our center. This session is especially valuable in today’s polarized environment, promoting personal understanding.
Everyone is welcome to participate in this journey of self-discovery and connection.
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**The Recording**
**The Presenter**
Prentis Hemphill is a writer, an embodiment facilitator, political organizer and therapist. They are the Founder and Director of The Embodiment Institute and The Black Embodiment Initiative, and host of the podcast “Becoming the People.”
For the last ten years, Prentis has practiced and taught somatics in social movement organizations and offered embodied practice during moments of social unrest and organizational upheaval. They have taught embodied leadership with Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity and generative somatics and served as the Healing Justice Director of Black Lives Matter Global Network from 2016 to 2018. Their work and writing have appeared in the New York Times, the Huffington Post. They are a contributor to “You are Your Best Thing”, edited by Tarana Burke and Brene Brown, “Holding Change” by adrienne maree brown, and “The Politics of Trauma” by Staci Haines. They live on a small farm in North Carolina with their partner, child, and two dogs. Their debut book, “What it Takes to Heal,” was published in June 2024 through Penguin Random House.
Website: prentishemphill.com
LI: linkedin.com/in/prentishemphill
IG: @prentishemphill
Podcast: Becoming The People Podcast is everywhere you find podcasts
Book: What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill
**The Organization**
The Embodiment Institute (TEI) is a training institute, research entity, and culture change engine that strategically develops people and organizations to be agents of transformation in families, social movements and the environment.
Website: theembodimentinstitue.org
IG: @theembodimentinstitute
