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Q&A with Tamika Carey: “Gestures Are Easy. Reckoning Is Hard.” On Prioritizing Wellness and Liberation

Filed Under: Everyday Feminism, Interviews, Racial Justice By Beth Godbee October 23, 2020 Leave a Comment

This photo shows Tamika Carey, Ph.D. smiling, wearing a pink blouse, and standing outdoors (surrounded by green leaves and a building blurred in the distance).

I’m particularly excited about this Q&A blog post with Tamika Carey, Ph.D., an interdisciplinary scholar whose work is not only shaping the fields of cultural rhetorics, African American rhetorics, and feminist rhetorics but also deeply impactful for literacy studies, cultural studies, and women’s and gender studies. Tamika Carey is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, an award-winning author, and a committed educator. I came to know ... Read more ...

Invitation to Join Upcoming Theatre of the Oppressed Workshops

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Emotional Literacies, Everyday Feminism, Racial Justice By Beth Godbee October 13, 2020 Leave a Comment

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.

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 engaged in this work. Here are the workshop dates and description: Friday, October 16th 2-5pm EasternFriday, November 6th ... Read more ...

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

Filed Under: Everyday Feminism, Higher Education, Interviews, Racial Justice By Beth Godbee August 11, 2020 Leave a Comment

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.

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 much more, including to laugh and cry and rage. Rasha has a way of holding potential—visualizing the best self—while staying ... Read more ...

Writing a Commitment Statement

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Everyday Feminism, Racial Justice By Beth Godbee July 31, 2020 Leave a Comment

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).

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 feed the status quo, even when it undermines professed beliefs. To interrupt the autopilot conditioning that preserves ... Read more ...

Career Discernment for Academics: An Interview with Self-Compassionate Professor

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Everyday Feminism, Higher Education By Beth Godbee July 14, 2020 Leave a Comment

This screenshot shares the Self-Compassionate Professor podcast page with a grey and brown color scheme. In addition to sharing the podcast’s name, creator, and theme—“helping academics and former academics find wellness, meaning, purpose, and freedom”—it shares episode 19: “Career discernment with Dr. Beth Godbee,” along with a photo of Beth wearing black and pressing against a grey rock formation.

I’m grateful to Danielle De La Mare of the Self-Compassionate Professor for inviting me to do an interview that’s become “Episode 19: Career Discernment with Dr. Beth Godbee.” This interview relates both my career discernment story and how I understand career discernment as a lifelong, ongoing process of finding and following the “strong yes.” Here’s what Danielle says about the interview: “Former professor, Dr. Beth Godbee, joins me for the first episode of Season 2! ... Read more ...

Heart-Head-Hands: A Journal Prompt for These Times

Filed Under: Contemplative Practices, Emotional Literacies, Everyday Feminism By Beth Godbee March 31, 2020 2 Comments

This feature for Agnes Scott College’s #EachForEqual campaign includes logos, the hashtags #IWD2020 and #EachForEqual, and with two images of Beth Godbee wearing orange in nature. The feature has a purple background and includes the following quote: “We can’t just think our way out of incredible injustices … we must feel and act, too. We need our heart, head, and hands for envisioning and enacting a more just world.”

On this last day of March, I’m reflecting on what times we’re in. Truly: what times we’re in! I’ve written this sentence no fewer than 30 or 40 times in the past few weeks, but I’m still writing it, as I find myself at a loss for words. We’re certainly in times that are asking a LOT of us: from recognizing structural violence and witnessing wrongdoing to grieving through a full range of emotions and caring for ourselves and others in deep and sustained ways. My ... Read more ...

What Matters to You Most? Career Discernment for YOUR Career Path

Filed Under: Higher Education By Beth Godbee March 13, 2020 Leave a Comment

This image (taken from the Eventbrite page) shows a colorfully tiled V (like an arrow pointing down) next to workshop information: “What Matters to You Most? Career Discernment for YOUR Career Path” by the Graduate School. Free. Mar. 17.”

Welcome to this page of handouts and resources for the workshop, “What Matters to You Most? Career Discernment for YOUR Career Path,” facilitated by Beth Godbee, Ph.D. (consultant and founder of Heart-Head-Hands.com). This workshop is sponsored by the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota and offers graduate students tools for ongoing career discernment. Workshop Information Tuesday, March 17, 2020 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM CDT Meeting via Zoom (Link Shared with ... Read more ...

The Coach as Ideas Editor: How Coaching Facilitates Transformation

Filed Under: Everyday Feminism, Higher Education, Racial Justice By Beth Godbee February 29, 2020 Leave a Comment

A curved row of colored pencils point toward a colorful lightbulb. Lines shaping the lightbulb reach out up the pencils, linking ideas, creativity, and colorful expression.

This week, a dear friend stopped me mid-sentence and exclaimed: “Beth, you’re an ideas editor!” That’s language (a description for coaching) that I’d never considered. But my friend slowly explained that what I do isn’t just saying back what I hear and isn’t just asking a series of questions. Instead, it’s combining what I’ve learned in writing centers, through Reiki, and from years of mentoring writers and researchers. That is, coaching is holding up a mirror and ... Read more ...

3 Reasons to Participate in the 40-Day Practice on Strengthening Emotional Literacies to Counter White Fragility

Filed Under: Emotional Literacies, Racial Justice By Beth Godbee November 20, 2019 Leave a Comment

Referral from Mel (participant from Pennsylvania): “The experience taught me a lot about what it takes to actively practice anti-racism.”

Starting on November 22nd and running for the final 40 days of 2019, I’m offering the “40-Day Practice: Strengthening Emotional Literacies to Counter White Fragility.” Every time I offer this practice (this will be my third and second online), I get a lot of questions, including what this work involves, why it asks for a commitment of 40 days, and why it focuses on emotions. Though I hope the course description answers many of these questions—and I’m happy to answer ... Read more ...

Q&A with Alexa Eason: Intern with Heart Head Hands

Filed Under: Higher Education, Interviews, Racial Justice By Beth Godbee October 26, 2019 Leave a Comment

Photo of Alexa Eason standing against a mural on the Civil Rights Trail in Montgomery, Alabama.

This post introduces Alexa Eason, Georgetown senior and intern with Heart Head Hands, as she talks about her internship projects, semester goals, and commitments. This post also introduces a new series of interviews aimed at sharing projects related to social, racial, and environmental justice *and* asking others the question that runs through this blog: “How do you strive toward everyday living for justice?” In future Q&A posts, we’ll learn about embodied healing ... Read more ...

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I'm grateful that my partner Jonathan and I decide I'm grateful that my partner Jonathan and I decided to leave DC last week. (It was a complicated decision during the pandemic, but we’re grateful for car camping supplies, including a portable toilet and the capacity to plan + pack food for the week.) 

Time near the ocean and in marshlands provided a real respite. Here are a few of my favorite photos -- with deep gratitude again (and always) for the earth.

Photo 3: Here I am teetering (what life feels like these days): holding onto ropes, balancing on tree logs, and crossing a swampy area of marshlands.

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I'm grateful that my partner Jonathan and I decide I'm grateful that my partner Jonathan and I decided to leave DC last week. (It was a complicated decision during the pandemic, but we’re grateful for car camping supplies, including a portable toilet and the capacity to plan + pack food for the week.) 

Time near the ocean and in marshlands provided a real respite. Here are a few of my favorite photos -- with deep gratitude again (and always) for the earth.

Photo 2: Tree trunks branching in multiple directions -- horizontal and vertical -- in a brown and green forest setting.

#Nature #Hiking #Trees #LearningFromNature #Respite #Restore #Refuel #Recommit
I'm grateful that my partner Jonathan and I decide I'm grateful that my partner Jonathan and I decided to leave DC last week. (It was a complicated decision during the pandemic, but we’re grateful for car camping supplies, including a portable toilet and the capacity to plan + pack food for the week.) 

Time near the ocean and in marshlands provided a real respite. Here are a few of my favorite photos -- with deep gratitude again (and always) for the earth.

Photo 1: Beach photo with brilliant blue-green water, blue sky, puffy white-grey clouds, and sandy beach.

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I'm an educator and former college professor who believes 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. [Pronouns: she/her.] Read more ...

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