Rae Johnson

Johnson, Rae

Johnson, Rae

Social worker, somatic movement therapist, and scholar/activist working, The Intersection of embodiment and social justice
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Social worker, somatic movement therapist, and scholar/activist working, The Intersection of embodiment and social justice

Rae Johnson, PhD, RSW, RSMT, BCC is a social worker, somatic movement therapist, board-certified coach, and scholar/activist working at the intersection of embodiment and social justice. They chair the doctoral program in Somatic Studies in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California and teach internationally on embodied activism and nonverbal expressions of implicit bias.

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Accessing the Untapped Resource of Humankind through Critical Cultural Action & Embodied Arts Praxis
Julene Siddique
Rae Johnson
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract To powerfully access humankind around the world to act systemically, we must engage an authentic critical praxis, reflecting on direct experience in connection with strategic action. Only by understanding power can we transform it. Through the development of critical cultural action, everyday people learn to understand power; how its structures are embedded in society; and, then, have the knowledge to take effective local action. Creative, somatic and sensory...