Change Is Possible: A Body Based Approach to Healing Racialized Trauma
& Cocreating Anti-Racist Culture
Group for BIPOC Folks
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BIPOC Facilitator: Kalé Camara
Tuesdays 6:30-8:30pm Starts Oct 21, 2025 9 Weeks Series *Childcare may be available. Please inquire with Abbi at abbi.jaffe (at) gmail.com Location: North Branch Nature Center, Montpelier VT, Indoors Cost: free. donation is optional.
Absentee policy:
Covid-19 Expectations:
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REGISTER
Pre-registration required. Questions? Please contact Kalé Camara at Kale.Camara50 (at) gmail.com HOMEWORK for first group meeting: Read through page 36 in My Grandmother’s Hands. Please also listen to this podcast of Resmaa Menakem. |
Info About Purchasing the Book:
- Check the author's website.
- Order from your local bookstore
- Look for the book on INDIE BOUND
- Find the book on Amazon.
Meet Your Facilitator:
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Kalé Camara (all pronouns)(mixed raced, mixed class, nonbinary, neurodiverse human living on the unceded Abenaki territory)
Kalé is a community organizer, educator, gardener, and cook working at the intersections of food sovereignty, empowering youth, political education, and healing trauma. They began their own journey to heal their racialized trauma by taking Politicized Somatics with Eliana Rubin, coming out of the generative somatics lineage. They then were trained to facilitate anti-racism workshops with the Peace and Justice Center where they now sit on the board. As a mixed-race, Guinean and Danish American raised in a predominantly white community, Kalé has had a lot of healing to do around race. As she continues this journey, she now wants to use her skills and experience to hold space for others, as she was held and supported by her community and teachers. Including and especially, Sister Sankofa who was her collaborator and mentor and a founder of Paij’s Garden. Currently Kalé stewards the Paij Wadley-Bailey Community Garden, a food sovereignty garden by and for BIPOC communities in Vermont that creates space for Black and Brown Vermonters to heal and learn to be reciprocity with the land. He also works in the Montpelier School system to support and empower BIPOC youth to access belonging and agency. Kalé went to Dartmouth College where they organized against ICE deportations in the Upper Valley with an incredible group of intergenerational and multicultural students and community members. They graduated in 2022 with a Bachelor's Degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. |
In Honor, Memory and Dedication to Sister Sankofa
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This offering, in its depth of heart, was spearheaded by Sister Sankofa in 2019. She co-organized these groups and invited people in. She is now of loving memory and we will continue our dedication to collective embodied liberation in her honor. We love you Sister Sankofa.
“Through my faith in possibility and love for humanity, I aim to build bridges for people to embrace change through the power of healing racialized trauma, one person at a time. Through my journey healing from racialized trauma and white supremacy culture, I have become more confident and conscious of how to construct my own empowering narrative and collaborate with others working towards transformative justice.“ ~ Sister Sankofa Learn more about Sister Sankofa here. |
