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Dear BCST Community:

We are all holding such heartbreak but also hope for deep change with these ongoing racial issues which plague the very basic human rights we hold dear. We want to help turn this time of heartsick, pain and outrage into an opportunity for healing and true transformation at the deepest level of possibility for a true shift in consciousness.

As we try to understand the multi layered conditional forces here, we look to the Inherent Treatment Plan to bring us all towards Healing. We are in the seeking and reorganizing phase. Our work is needed more than ever.

The words of Martin Luther King Jr. continue to inspire and give us strength and courage. He is still deeply informing our movement forward, 52 years after his assassination.

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“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our dear colleague Christina Morrow has written a lovely letter below with wonderful resources to help educate and inform ourselves and support one another to move towards healing these heartbreaking wounds.

Also included here is a list of action items/places to donate.

Be Safe, Be Well, Be of Service.

With appreciation and Deep Gratitude,

Clara Favale

Dear Students and Teachers,

As practitioners and students, we are also teachers. As teachers, we are also students. I wanted to encourage everyone to dive into some of the education that is here right now. I am providing a reading and study list to support you on this journey of towards Racial Justice. I do so with huge humility as I have so much to uncover, unpack and learn myself. As BCST Practitioners, it is our responsibility to do our absolute best in this process as we have the privilege of being with diverse people in deep ways.

It has been so long in the making and just like in the Women's Movement, Racial Equality is clearly being galvanized. Together we can educate ourselves and our clients with our speech and by our example. It is very difficult if we don't personally explore the very unconscious ways that we perpetuate racism and gender issues.

We are all busy with Zoom right now, but I would encourage reaching out and finding a small group to explore these difficult topics together. The curriculum offered by Spirit Rock has a wonderful template for 2 or 3 people to follow.

At the end of this letter is a list for self-study. It was prepared by the Somatic experiencing Working Group for Social Justice. I believe elections, and education are powerful ways we will find our way to change. Please use all of the important tools you have learned in the Foundation Training to take care of yourselves. These changes will not be happen overnight, and it will take stamina, but look how far Women have come in a few short years after the Me Too Movement took off.

If the list seems overwhelming, just start with the podcast "Seeing White". It is excellent.

I am here if anyone wants to discuss this further or explore forming groups within our community.

With love, support, and humility,

Christina Morrow

Essential Reading List compiled by the Somatic Experiencing Working Group for Social Justice

Podcasts

Articles, Courses & More

Places to Donate/Action Items (modeled after The Strategist’s compilation)

Bail Funds

Community Justice Exchange (Directory of Community Bail Funds)

Megafunds (single donations will be split between multiple organizations, with the ability to adjust what goes where)

Community restoration organizations & funds

Community enrichment organizations

Food justice

Youth-oriented community organizations

Policy Reform Organizations/Action Calender

Political organizations

Police reform organizations

Incarceration reform organizations

Legal defense funds & organizations

Black LGBTQ funds

Black LGBTQ organizations

Black & brown media organizations

Mental health organizations

Health-care funds & organizations