Transforming Race Conversations: A Healing Guide for Us All

Author(s) : Eugene Ellis

Book Details

Publisher : W.W.Norton
Published : July 2024
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 336
Category :
Individual Psychotherapy
Catalogue No : 97843
ISBN 13 : 9781324053897
ISBN 10 : 1324053895

Also by Eugene Ellis

The Race Conversation: An Essential Guide to Creating...

Price £15.29

save £1.70

Paperback

£17.99

Usually despatched within 4-5 working days
Free UK Delivery over £25

There are currently no reviews
Be the first to review

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 needed-one 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 emphasises 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.

Reviews & Endorsements
About the Author(s)
Customer Reviews

Reviews and Endorsements

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!
Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD, author of Racial Trauma: Healing Invisible Wounds and editor of The Enduring, Invisible, and Ubiquitous Centrality of Whiteness

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.
Linda Thai, LMSW, trauma therapist and educator

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!
Janina Fisher, PhD, author of Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma and Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

About the Author(s)

Eugene Ellis is the Director and founder of the Black, African and Asian Therapy Network, the UK's largest independent organisation to specialise in working therapeutically with Black, Africa, Caribbean and South Asian people. He is also a psychotherapist with a special interest in body-orientated therapies and facilitating a dialogue around race and mental wellbeing through articles, podcasts and blog posts as well as within organisations and psychotherapy trainings.

More titles by Eugene Ellis