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Kazu Haga discusses the connection between social transformation and inner healing in the context of collective trauma.

What becomes possible when we understand social and political harm not only as injustice, but as expressions of collective trauma? In this conversation, Kazu Haga—activist, trainer, and author of Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging Through Collapse—joins host Serena Bian to explore why healing is so essential to radically reimagining the worlds we wish to build in the midst of collapse. This conversation explores the possibility that the work of social transformation cannot be separated from the work of inner transformation. Rather than reinforcing the familiar patterns of opposition of “us and them,” “right and wrong," Kazu invites us to consider pathways of change that are rooted in relationship, spiritual practice, and the long arc of healing. Drawing from decades of work in nonviolence, restorative justice, and Buddhist practice, Kazu reflects on the limitations of movement strategies that mirror the very dynamics they seek to transform. What might it mean to respond to harm in ways that do not escalate division, but instead create the conditions for healing, within ourselves, our communities, and the larger body politic? *** The New School is Commonweal’s…

People in this episode

Host: Serena Bian

Guest: Kazu Haga

Topics covered

• collective trauma
• social transformation
• inner transformation
• nonviolence
• restorative justice
• healing

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Books & works: Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging Through Collapse

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