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TRANSFORMING RACE CONVERSATIONS

Eugene Ellis

A Healing Guide for Us All

A guide to supporting our emergence from the tight grip of race discomfort.

If we are to address the injustice of racism, we need to have the "race conversation." All too often, however, attempts at this conversation are met with silence, denial, anger, or hate. This is largely because the construct of race resides not only in our minds, but principally in the body. In order to have productive conversations about race and racism, a paradigm shift is neededone which will empower us to remain present and embodied, rather than constricted with fear, regardless of our racial identities. Here, psychotherapist Eugene Ellis explores what is needed for this bodily shift to occur as he unpacks the visceral experience of the race conversation. He offers a trauma-informed, neurophysiological approach that emphasizes resourcing, body awareness, mindfulness, and healing. Transforming Race Conversations is essential reading for therapy practitioners as well as anyone looking to engage more effectively in the ongoing dialogue around race. Eugene Ellis is an integrative arts psychotherapist and founder of the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network (BAATN), the UK's largest independent organization that specializes in working with Black and Asian clients. He lives in London, UK.

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Book Published 2024-07-30 by Norton Professional Books

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In this comprehensive text, Eugene Ellis describes a pathway to racial understanding, speaking to both the history of racism and the psychology of race relations, interwoven with a mindfulness-based, somatically-informed model for addressing the effects of this history on all of us. He leaves us with much to converse about!

This book is a comprehensive guide to promoting a greater understanding of the complexities of race and our society's endless struggles to come to terms with it. Ellis offers a wealth of helpful insights and suggestions for not only how we can talk more effectively about race, but how we can transform and transcend it as well. Transforming Race Conversations is a must-read for those with lingering questions about race and race relationships, those who struggle to talk about it, and those with a passionate commitment to changing the prevailing racial order and need guidance on how to do it. This book offers answers and should be required reading for all of us!

This book has been written to help us take an honest look at who we really are. It is here to help us dig deep. It is here to heal the nation. I'm no psychotherapist, but I get it. After years of experience on the frontline helping people like me, Eugene has written a book that I believe can change the way we relate to each other, and the way we relate to ourselves.

Eugene Ellis has powerfully captured the nuances and fractures of trauma, where our minds and bodies have been dehumanised for far too long, and takes us towards reclaiming our sanity and positive growth. This is a 'must have' book for all therapists working with people of African and Asian diaspora heritage who want to understand the impact of historical and modern-day racism on the Black British psyche.

This timely, moving book captures in an accessible and practical way the essence and depth of the trauma and psychodynamics of race. Over eight chapters the book maps the construction of race through the centuries, the language and social constructivism around race, the nature of embodied trauma and how it manifests in the here and now.

Eugene Ellis's Transforming Race Conversations offers a profound perspective on dismantling racism. Confronting the inherent discomfort in these discussions, Ellis emphasizes finding one's voice to challenge racial paradigms. Delving into embodied cognition and advocating for internal decolonization, Ellis guides readers through a transformative process. Grounded in neuroscience, psychology, and personal narratives, this book is a compelling call to engage in meaningful conversations, providing a roadmap for personal and societal change.