Healing Justice Holistic Self-Care for Change Makers

In the context of multiple forms of global economic, social, and cultural oppression, along with intergenerational trauma, burnout, and public services retrenchment, this book offers a framework and set of inquiries and practices for social workers, activists, community organizers, counselors, and other helping professionals. Healing justice, a term that has emerged in social movements in the last decade, is taught as a practice of connecting to the whole self, what many are conditioned to ignore ? the body, mind-heart, spirit, community, and natural world. Drawing from the East-West modalities of mindfulness, yoga, and Ayurveda, the author introduces six capabilities ? mindfulness and compassion

Loretta Pyles, PhD, is Professor at the School of Social Welfare at the State University of New York at Albany. She is the co-editor of Holistic Engagement: Transformative Social Work Education in the 21st Century and author of Progressive Community Organizing: Reflective Practice in a Globalizing World (2nd ed.). She is a Kripalu certified yoga instructor as well as a practitioner and teacher of mindfulness.