Community Wellness and Collective Liberation with Susan Raffo
Transforming Trauma
Brad Kammer
4.4 • 131 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Susan Raffo is a cranial therapist, esteemed writer, and cultural worker, sharing her heart’s wisdom with the NARM community and the motivation behind her latest book, Liberated To The Bone. Susan’s professional approach combines NARM’s trauma-informed framework with the nuances of her ancestral lineage as both colonizer and the colonized.
In her conversation with NARM Senior Trainer Brad Kammer, Susan explores the “intersections between healing our physical bodies and healing our social relations” and working towards the end of white supremacy and settler colonialism while preserving the memory of her grandfather’s native line.Â
About Susan Raffo:Â
Susan Raffo is a writer, cultural worker, and bodyworker. She is part of the Healing Histories Project, which focuses on transforming the medical-industrial complex and confronting eugenic legacies. She works with REP: Relationship Evolving Possibilities, a Black-led community-based crisis response model grounded in the belief that we have the ability to love and protect one another without giving our agency to systems built to destroy, consume, or commodify us. Author of Queerly Classed (South End Press, 1997) and Restricted Access (Seal Press, 1999), she is published in a range of anthologies and websites. She is based in Minneapolis, MN.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Transforming Trauma podcast. |
| 0:08.3 | Transforming Trauma is presented by the NARM Training Institute. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm your host, Emily Ruth, and I'm so glad you've joined us today. |
| 0:15.9 | Hi, Transforming Trauma listeners. |
| 0:18.2 | We're so excited to share the power of healing from complex trauma with all of you. |
| 0:22.8 | It's inspiring to know that so many of you tune in to learn about how healing from complex trauma is possible. |
| 0:28.8 | Are you interested in deepening your understanding of NARM? We're excited to present the Inner Circle, |
| 0:34.4 | NARM's online learning community. Each month, members receive direct mentorship from NARM creator Dr. Lawrence Heller, NARM's online learning community. Each month, members receive direct mentorship |
| 0:38.7 | from NARM creator Dr. Lawrence Heller, NARM training director Brad Kammer, and other NARM faculty |
| 0:44.4 | as they present NARM demonstration sessions and provide extensive debriefs on applying NARM |
| 0:49.8 | with real clients. They also present live topic webinars that deconstruct the various elements of complex |
| 0:55.7 | trauma. Members also get access to archived material and other learning resources, as well as access |
| 1:01.6 | to a private Facebook group with other professionals learning NARM around the world. |
| 1:06.2 | The Inner Circle is a hub for the international NARM community where people working with complex |
| 1:10.6 | trauma come together to connect, network, and develop trauma-informed circle is a hub for the international norm community where people working with complex trauma |
| 1:10.9 | come together to connect, network, and develop trauma-informed projects to help our world. |
| 1:17.1 | You, our transforming trauma listeners, can receive a free 14-day trial with access to the |
| 1:22.3 | three-month archive by visiting www.narmtraining.com forward slash free trial. |
| 1:32.0 | And now for our interview, Susan Raffo is a body worker and cultural worker with training |
| 1:38.1 | and practice in multiple forms of craniosacral therapy, global somatics, and a wide range |
| 1:43.5 | of modalities, including NARM, somatic practice, and a wide range of modalities, including |
| 1:44.7 | NARM, somatic practice, and many other learnings from teachers who have touched her deeply. |
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