Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging through Collapse

In times of collapse, we need a movement that sees injustice as a symptom of collective trauma—and embraces its role as a catalyst for healing through transformative action.

Division, violence, and destruction have reached a breaking point. As political polarization erodes democracy and the climate crisis deepens racial inequity, we need solutions that heal at both personal and systemic levels.

As harm intensifies, our response must evolve—toward healing, not division. Yet too often, social movements reinforce an “us vs. them” mentality, deepening the very fractures they seek to mend. This binary thinking fuels destruction, driving us further apart when what we need is connection.

The old ways of activism are failing to create lasting change. Fierce Vulnerability offers a new path forward—one that merges the time-honored lineage of nonviolent action with the sciences of trauma healing and the promises of spiritual practice. We can’t “shut down” injustice any more than we can “shut down” trauma; if healing is our goal, we must center relationships in our movements.

Rooted in Kazu Haga’s book “Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging Through Collapse,” this interactive workshop provides the tools to build movements that transform, rather than perpetuate, cycles of harm.

This course runs from September 8 - 29, 2025, with live classes held on Mondays 10 - 11:30 a.m. PT via Zoom. Recordings will be available for registrants who are unable to attend a session.