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Transformative Pedagogy in Times of Crisis:

Education for Healing, Love & Liberation

Presentations

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Somatics and the Nervous System: A Primer (27 min)

A short video to introduce the ideas of the nervous system and how it affects our students/classes, prepared by Michal for TPTC faculty when we were all still in lockdown. (Nov 2020)

Transformative Pedagogy in Times of Crisis (12 min)

Basic Description and some demonstrations  of the whole project, presented at Reimagining Education Conference, April 29, 2023.

Embodying Your Curriculum: A short workshop on trauma informed pedagogy (1 h 6 min)

Anita Chari and Angelica Singh, co-founders of Embodying your Curriculum, present to TPTC March 26, 2021.

Teaching with Tenderness: A workshop with Becky Thompson

May 12 2021. Becky Thompson – scholar, human rights and antiracism activist, cross-cultural trainer, writer, poet and yoga teacher – led UNC faculty in a very enjoyable workshop, demonstrating many wonderful tools for creating more awareness and embodiment into out classes.  This was based on her book Teaching with Tenderness

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Anti-Oppression Pedagogy in Uncertain Times: Resourcing Ourselves and Our Students A Workshop with Beth Berila

Nov 12, 2021. Beth Berila Director, Gender & Women’s Studies Program & Professor, Ethnic, Gender & Women’s Studies Department, at St. Cloud State University, both a  scholar and mindfulness- teacher, and author of one of the only books about the link between ANTI-OPPRESSION PEDAGOGY & CONTEMPLATIVE PRACTICES, Integrating mindfulness into anti-oppression pedagogy : social justice in higher education, Routledge 2016). Led UNC faculty in a workshop to help resource ourselves.

Yoga, the Body and Transformative Pedagogy:Bringing practice and justice together, a workshop with Michelle Johnson

April 8, 2022. Author, activist, anti-racism consultant and trainer, yoga teacher and practitioner, Michelle Johnson led small group of faculty and community members (Hybrid in-person and Zoom) in some body practices (suitable for all levels, no experience required) and some discussion about the intersection of embodied practice, skillful action and transformative pedagogy. Skill in Action: Radicalizing your yoga practice to create a just world, While we are not all yoga practitioners, her insights have a lot to offer those of us interested in transformative anti-racist pedagogy, both in the classroom and in our daily lives.

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North Carolina is home to the Occhaneechi, Lumbee, Coharie, Haliwa-Saponi, Eastern Band of Cherokee, Meherrin, Tuscarora, Sappony and Waccamaw-Siouan Nations, along with many other indigenous peoples living in both tribal homeland and urban settings.

It is also important to acknowledge and honor the crucial role of enslaved people in the early days of this campus. Enslaved people were sold as escheated property to help fund the establishment of UNC, and the labor of enslaved people built UNC-Chapel Hill and undergirded its operations until Emancipation.