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Welcome to Heart-Head-Hands: Everyday Living for Justice

You’ll find here an educational space focused on feeling, thinking, and doing (that is, everyday living) for justice.

Through blog posts and research writing, through e-courses and writing groups, through coaching and speaking, there are many ways to learn, create, and connect.

Statement to Affirm Black Lives Matter

The work of everyday living for justice is always and unequivocally intended to affirm that Black lives matter, to dismantle whiteness and white supremacy, and to work against anti-Black racism and structural violence.
 
As I attempt to discern what’s called of me at this moment (summer 2020), I’m thinking again (and always, as everyday practice) about my role as a white educator, facilitator, writer, and researcher. I do harm, while striving toward racial justice. Accountability is important, and I’m in this work long haul. This means that I’m grateful for feedback. I don’t expect you to reach out, but I’m also open and listening.
This head-shot shows Beth (a white woman with brown hair, wearing a floppy hiking hat) smiling, seated by the ocean as the sun sets.
Beth Godbee, Ph.D. | Educator and Writer

Why Heart, Head, and Hands?

As an educator, I take, as a starting point, that our fully embodied selves matter in the world. We can’t just think our way out of the incredible injustices, dehumanization, violence, and wrongdoing that characterize everyday life. We must feel and act, too.

We need our heart, head, and hands for envisioning and enacting a more just world. We need deep commitments to justice and an attitude of “try-try again” for striving to live out these commitments—both in everyday moments and for the long haul.

This vision guides the work you’ll find here, but don’t let BIG thinking fool you. There’s lots of attention to small matters, too. Weaving the mundane and material with deeply relational, ideological, and spiritual matters, this is a space for you. A messy, imperfect, human space. A space for making commitments, striving, learning, and unlearning.

How to Get Involved?

Take a look around the site, explore some recent posts, and check out an e-course or two. Reach out if you’d like to try coaching, and consider subscribing via Patreon for additional content, tailored feedback, and community support.

Recent Posts

This screenshot shows the online article “Forum Theatre: Using Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed to Build Receptive Competence by Rasha Diab, Ph.D. and Beth Godbee, Ph.D.,” part of the website Contemplative Practices for Anti-Oppression Pedagogy. It shows a paragraph of text against a blue background and the black, red, and white book cover of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed.

Invitation to Join Upcoming Theatre of the Oppressed Workshops

This fall, as part of the 40-Day Practice: Strengthening Emotional Stamina to Counter White Fragility, I’m facilitating two workshops using theatre of the oppressed. I invite you to join one or both of these workshops, if you’d like to experience Augusto Boal’s powerful approach, rehearse interventions into everyday racism, and connect with others ... Read more ...