Return to Presence: A Liberatory Workbook in Mind-Body Healing for Changemakers in Human Service Professions

A WORKBOOK FOR HUMAN SERVICE PROFESSIONALS READY TO LIBERATE THEIR MIND, BODY AND SOUL: THIS IS THE WORK TO GET CENTERED EMOTIONALLY AND SPIRITUALLY SO YOU CAN FINALLY HOLD SPACE FOR TRUE COLLECTIVE TRANSFORMATION.

You took the training to be trauma-informed and it was not enough! Too many of us are on the brink of burnout. Our people are dying and we feel the pain in our bones. Our work requires authenticity and embodiment. Our work must honor ancestral and present day truths of Native, Indigenous and African people across the globe. The human service sector has been working to perpetuate harm; everything has been transactional instead of transformational. In order to sustain in the movement, human service professionals must accept the responsibility to both disrupt the status quo AND engage in collective care. Over the past several years, Shawna Murray-Browne, LCSW-C has shown social workers, therapists, administrators, educators, activists and health professionals that healing themselves is bound to serving others. This book is an extension of those spaces and is designed to serve as a container for your journey. The Return to Presence Workbook features: Insight on mind-body healing, liberation and its relevance to the human service sector; worksheets with activities to commune with your truest self through embodiment exercises, drawing, generational reflection, breath work, imagery, forgiveness and movement; blank journal pages for you to reflect deeply; and more!