Wendy Elisheva Somerson

Training

training

I have over twenty years of experience facilitating training in embodied healing, racial justice, and personal and collective transformation.

embodied leadership training
Does your team need to become more coordinated and effective?

I help teams become more authentic, compelling, and accountable to help grow the power of our movements.

I have facilitated embodied leadership trainings for countless organizations, including the City of Seattle, Resource Generation, Jewish Voice for Peace, and Bend The Arc, Jewish Action.

  • Embodied Leadership:  I will help you explore ways to lead through effectively coordinating together, taking action, and allying with one another toward our collective visions.
  • Embodied Social Justice:  We will explore how to embody social justice by exploring each participant’s survival strategies, default habits, and resilience that we have developed to navigate trauma, oppression, and privilege.
Somatic skills for organizers
Are your organizers and activists experiencing burnout and despair?

As a long time activist, I can offer somatic skills to help us recenter in our political visions and commitments.

In these trainings particpants:

  • Learn body-based practices to develop somatic skills to combat burnout, depression, and conflict that breaks apart organizing and community work. 
  • Practice returning to center and extending toward commitments under pressure. 
  • Practice allyship and how to show up for and with each other across differences.
  • Build their capacity to create and hold a healthy collective organizing body to gain power in our movements.