The emotional labor inherent in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts is real, deep and highly complex. For many, the hope of making lasting, sustainable change, evaporates into hopelessness and often burnout, even with the best of intentions and under the best of conditions. But resilience isn’t matter- it’s a lived experience. By engaging our bodies, more specifically, our sensing selves or “somas”, we learn to live with stamina and aligned with what we care about which makes social change both possible and tangible.

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• What is meant by somatic intelligence and its relevance to resilience in the diversity, equity and inclusion movement
• The importance of curiosity as a gateway to connection and interdependence
• How honing one’s attention and attuning to intuition creates mutuality