Kazu Haga: Fierce Vulnerability

Baltimore Peace Builders Presents:

Kazu Haga: Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse

A Conversation with the Author Wednesday, April 23 @ 7 PM ET

In-Person: Homewood Friends Meeting, 3107 N. Charles Street, Baltimore 21218 AND Via Zoom

PLEASE REGISTER HERE  (for both in-person and Zoom participation)

In times of collapse, we need a movement that recognizes injustice as a reflection of collective trauma and embraces its role as a catalyst for collective healing through transformative action. We are living in a world where the depths of division, violence, and destruction can no longer be ignored. From political polarization leading to the erosion of the democratic process to the climate crisis continuing to perpetuate racial inequity, we need changes that heal harms at the personal and systemic levels.

Escalated forms of harm require an equally escalated response. Yet social movements often use tactics that have a tendency to escalate an  “us vs. them,” “right vs. wrong” worldview not conducive to healing.

In Fierce Vulnerability, activist and author Kazu Haga argues this binary worldview is at the heart of what is destroying our relationships and our planet and offers a new way to create healing by combining the time-honored lineage of nonviolent action with the sciences of trauma healing and the promises of spiritual practice. Fierce Vulnerability realizes we can’t “shut down” injustice any more than we can “shut down” trauma; if healing is our goal, we need social movements that center relationship.

About Kazu Haga

Kazu Haga is a trainer and practitioner of nonviolence and restorative justice, a core member of Building Belonging, the Ahimsa Collective and the Fierce Vulnerability Network, is a Jam facilitator and author of Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm.

Consider reading the book before-hand.  

It is available for pre-order (coming out March 25th) at Parallax Press or from Snug Books or bookseller of your choice.