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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 photo from the 2014 Watson Conference shows the two of us—Beth Godbee (left) and Rasha Diab (right)—standing side-by-side; wearing a mix of blue, black, and green; in front of a brick wall.

Q&A with Rasha Diab: Pursuing Peace as Everyday Practice

Since starting this series of interviews, I’ve wanted to highlight Rasha Diab, because she’s one of the most important people in my life. More than a co-author and friend, Rasha is truly an accountability partner: the first person I turn to process experiences, to understand emotions, to grow into new understandings, to repair harm I’ve done, and ... Read more ...

This photo shows Beth Godbee, Ph.D. -- sitting on a rock surrounded by reflective water, leaves, and rocks. Photo taken at White Oaks Canyon in Shenandoah National Park (in the Appalachian Mountains).

Writing a Commitment Statement

What commitments (deep dedications and priorities) drive everyday living? This question feels essential for everyday living for justice. Too often, though, it remains unanswered or even unarticulated. Without knowing what matters to us deeply—so deeply that it mobilizes, energizes, and guides decision-making—it’s too easy to be on autopilot and to ... Read more ...