Staci K. Haines

Staci K Haines is a senior teacher in the field of Somatics and leads programs in Embodied Leadership, Somatics and Trauma, and Somatics and Social Justice - supporting psychologists, social change leaders, and other practitioners to effectively transform the impact of individual and social trauma and violence. She is the co-founder of generative somatics, a multiracial social justice organization bringing somatics to social and environmental justice leaders, organizations, and alliances. She has a somatic coaching practice that primarily serves social movement leaders and trauma and violence survivors and has been working and teaching in the field of Somatics since 1995. Staci is the author of The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice (North Atlantic Press 2019) and Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma (Cleis 1999, 2007). Healing Sex has been nationally recognized and translated into German, Japanese and Spanish. Recent articles by Staci include: https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2020/09/30/nourish-resilience-trauma-somatics/ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/politics-trauma/