CSL Home Office is running a 5-week (2 chapters per week) online Zoom study group for this book, at 5pm MT on Wednesday evenings. You’ll have the opportunity to participate with people from different Centers around the country.
Offered at no cost to everyone. When you register, you’ll receive a confirmation from the CSL Shop with a PDF attached that includes all the details you’ll need.
Are you ready to break down the doors of disconnection and take the necessary risks to reshape our world toward justice? Registration is now open for the free public book study on “What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World.”
Zoom book study: 90 minutes on Wednesdays, September 25 and October 2, 9, 16 and 23
Time: 5:00-6:30pm MT
Zoom Meeting ID: 946 7752 4138, Passcode: 091902 — or join us at CSLGJ to watch together.
Led by CSL Executive Director Rev. Michelle Arellano, CSL Spiritual Leader Dr. Soni Cantrell-Smith and CSL Field Services Director Rev. Julie Lobato, the book study will cover two chapters each week. Here’s our agenda:
Wednesday, September 25 – Chapters 1 and 2
Wednesday, October 2 – Chapters 3 and 4
Wednesday, October 9 – Chapters 5 and 6
Wednesday, October 16 – Chapters 7 and 8
Wednesday, October 23 – Chapters 9 and 10
In this national bestseller from Prentis Hemphill, one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation, comes a groundbreaking new way to heal on a personal and a collective level. “The book is a tool to help those searching for a ‘healing home,’” says Hemphill, “a place where communal infrastructure can be rebuilt and or fortified to sustain us on our journey toward self-acceptance, accountability, joy and freedom in all the ways we’ve yet to experience it.”
As we emerge from the past few years of collective upheaval, are we ready to face the complexities of our time with joy, authenticity and connection? Now more than ever, we must learn to heal ourselves, connect with one another and embody our values. In this revolutionary book, Hemphill shows us how.
“What It Takes to Heal” asserts that the principles of embodiment — the recognition of our body’s sensations and habits, and the beliefs that inform them — are critical to lasting healing and change. Hemphill, an expert embodiment practitioner, therapist and activist who has partnered with Brené Brown, Tarana Burke and Esther Perel, among others, shows us that we don’t have to carry our emotional burdens alone.
Hemphill demonstrates a future in which healing is done in community, weaving together stories from their own experience as a trauma survivor with clinical accounts and lessons learned from their time as a social movement architect. They ask, “What would it do to movements, to our society and culture, to have the principles of healing at the very center? And what does it do to have healing at the center of every structure and everything we create?”
In this life-affirming framework for the way forward, Hemphill shows us how to heal our bodies, minds and souls — to develop the interpersonal skills necessary to break down the doors of disconnection and take the necessary risks to reshape our world toward justice.
