Sign-up to join Coffee, Pastries and a Book for the 24-25 AY
UCLA Ed&IS Office of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and the IS Library and Media Preservation Lab co-present "Coffee, Pastries and a Book", a book club that meets both in-person and online during the 2024-2025 academic year.

“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?”
- Prentis Hemphill

This year, we will meeting in-person and online be reading Prentis Hemphill's new book, What It Takes To Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World. 

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 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. 

Prentis Hemphill is a writer and cartographer of emotions, an embodiment facilitator, political organizer and therapist. They are the Founder and Director of The Embodiment Institute and The Black Embodiment Initiative, and the host of the acclaimed podcast, Finding Our Way. 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.

*It's not required to join all meetings to participate, but we encourage you to come to as many as you can* :) 

Fall Quarter Meet Ups

Virtual Welcome: Wednesday, November 6th - 12PM - 1PM
Casual virtual welcome with discussion of overarching themes we anticipate in the book. Join even in you haven't started! We will have breakout rooms for folks who have started and who have yet to dive in.

In-person Coffee, Pastries, and a Book Fall Gathering: Wednesday, November 20th, 12PM-1:30PM
Meet in the IS Library, SEIS Building, Room 102
Join us for homemade pastries and treats! We will be bringing the autumn vibes and discussing the first three chapters: 
  1. Vision
  2. Heal
  3. Feeling and the Body

Virtual Book Club Meetup: Wednesday, December 4th, 12PM-1PM
Meetup to continue discussion of first 3 chapters of the book, time for breakout groups and optional somatic experiencing guided meditation and practice. 



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