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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.

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.

Beth Godbee is standing in front of a bookshelf, wearing a bright orange shirt, an orange swirl necklace, and black sweater. Beth is smiling and channeling a sense of possibility.
Beth Godbee, Ph.D.
Writer, Educator, Researcher, Coach

How Do I Get Involved?

Take a look around the site, explore some recent posts, and check out upcoming courses, workshops, and retreats. Reach out if you’d like to try coaching, and subscribe via Patreon for additional content, tailored feedback, and community support.

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Heart-Head-Hands is integral to my personal growth and to living my commitments. I’ve turned here for many things, including writing groups, (re)commitment hours, and coaching. No matter the offering, I so appreciate the thoughtfulness and the research that Beth puts into each one. I especially love the resources she shares, as they allow me to learn and to explore many of my questions.” —Chloe in California

Beth is a wonderful teacher: compassionate and tough and smart, smart, smart! Most of all, she teaches from the inside. She does the work. Just the teacher and guide I have needed over time.” —Kathy in Wisconsin

Beth’s work with Heart-Head-Hands has completely transformed my relationship to writing. I met Beth at the point where I was experiencing paralyzing writer’s block. Beth’s guidance, support, and caring helped ease my way back into writing. I’ve begun to love writing again. ” —Kylie in New York

Beth not only listens deeply but also reflects back the questions you didn’t even realize that you were asking, offering them out for future discernment.” —Jen in Wisconsin

Recent Posts

This screenshot from Inside Higher Ed reads: “Career Advice. July 07, 2023. Intervening into Burnout. Beth Godbee presents a number of tangible ways that academics can build a sense of what’s possible, structurally as well as individually. By Beth Godbee.”

Intervening into Burnout, Building a Sense of What’s Possible

A new article, “Intervening into Burnout,” appears in Inside Higher Ed today. In this follow-up piece to “Honoring Ourselves and Each Other Through Burnout,” I offer examples of creative interventions into burnout. These examples are gifted to me through coaching, so I write with deep gratitude ... Read more ...

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Gratitude for Journals and Other Spaces for Self-Work

This blog post shares part of my email newsletter, which can be found in full here. This week I completed another journal and started a new one, my eighth since the start of the pandemic. So much of my recent writing has been personal, filling the pages of these journals and not ready to share ... ... Read more ...